Thursday – October 23, 2025

The Feast of San Juan of Capistrano (The swallows leave today.)

National Boston Cream Pie Day (It’s not a pie.)

National Canning Day

BONUS: ‘INCONVENIENT STUDY’ – THE INCREDIBLE DOCUMENTARY IS LINKED HERE 

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1819 – NY Gov Dewitt Clinton rides the first boat through the Erie Canal
1941 – Disney released ‘Dumbo’
1958 – Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for ‘Dr Zhivago’ – he later refused it
1983 – Suicide bomber kills 241 U.S. service personnel in Beirut
1993 – Toronto Blue Jays’ Joe Carter hits the first World Series walk-off homer
1998 – Netanyahu and Arafat reached a ‘land for peace’ deal
2002 – Chechen rebels take 700 hostages in a Russian theater

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CALLING THE SHUTDOWN A SHAME

– HAVE YOU HEARD? THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST BALLROOM EVER BUILT!

– TRUMP DESTROYS JEFF MASON OVER HIS TAKE ON THE WH BALLROOM PROJECT

– ANOTHER DRUG FILLED BOAT IS EVAPORATED

– RUBIO GETS IT RIGHT ON THE BLOWING UP OF NARCO-TERRORISTS

– FETTERMAN KNOWS HE’S BEING TARGETED BY HIS PARTY, HE DOESN’T CARE

– BUT WAIT, THERES MORE FROM SEN FETTERMAN

– #2 HOUSE DEM SAID SOMETHING REALLY DUMB ABOUT THE SHUTDOWN

– TREAS SEC BESSENT ON THE SANCTIONS JUST HITTING RUSSIA

– CARVILLE’S CRAZY CLIP DU JOUR – HE WANTS ALL TRUMPERS ROUNDED UP, HEADS SHAVED

– JAMES ALSO THINKS ANTIFA DOES NOT EXIST

More News From DC

– NATIONAL DEBT HITS $38 TRILLION

– THE AP WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM

– CNN IS PUSHING THE ‘WHITE HOUSE DEMOLITION’ LINE

– WHO IS DONATING TO BUILD THE NEW BALLROOM?

– GOP FLOATS FUNDING GOV’T TO DEC 2026 TO END THE SHUTDOWN

– DOES COVERING UP A NAZI TATTOO MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER? MAINE DEM THINKS SO

– TRUMP HITS RUSSIAN OIL COMPANIES WITH SANCTIONS, BRENT CRUDE PRICES JUMP

– BEYOND MEAT SURGED OVER 1000% IN FOUR DAYS

General News

– FROM THEHILL.COM – FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM THE FINAL NYC MAYORAL DEBATE

– MAMDANI IS CAPABLE OF DELIVERING A WORD SALAD

– NC GOP PASSES NEW DISTRICT MAP – SHOULD GIVE GOP ANOTHER SEAT

– SUSPECT IN DEADLY CA TRUCK CRASH APPEARS TO BE ILLEGAL (MAY HAVE BEEN DRUNK)

– MEGAMILLIONS JACKPOT HITS $680 MIL

– ELON MUSK SHUT OFF SATELLITES SERVING MYANMAR — TO BLOCK SCAMMERS

Punctuation is important.

Other News Catching My Eye

– WAIT, THERE WAS ONLY ONE CAMERA IN THE LOUVRE GALLERY WHERE THE JEWELS WERE?

– SEVEN THIEVES IN SPAIN CHARGED WITH STEALING 1000 RESTAURANT CHAIRS

– SPOOKY OR COOL? (MAYBE BOTH) VINTAGE CAR GRAVEYARD IN GERMANY