National Empanada Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1513 – Ponce De Leon landed in Florida (The state celebrates this on April 2nd)
1820 – The statue of the Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Milos
1879 – Milk is sold in glass bottles in the U.S. for the first time
1904 – Longacre Square in NYC becomes Times Square (because the NY Times moved there)
1913 – 17th Amendment is ratified
1935 – Congress votes to approve FDR’s Works Progress Act (WPA)
1943 – FDR freezes wages, prices and won’t allow people to change jobs
1952 – President Truman seizes control of steel mills to prevent a strike
1966 – TIME Magazine published a blank cover with the question ‘Is God Dead?’
1974 – Hank Aaron hits home run number 715 breaking Babe Ruth’s record
1975 – Frank Robinson becomes the manager of the Cleveland Indians (a first for a Black man)
1994 – Kurt Cobain found dead of apparent suicide
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP WELCOMED THE DODGERS TO THE WHITE HOUSE (SOME SENATORS, NOT SO MUCH)
– PRESS SEC CALLS SCOTUS DECISION ON DEPORTATIONS, ‘MASSIVE’
– GASPARINO: WALL STREET IS FREAKED OUT, MAIN STREET IS NOT
– ISRAEL IS DROPPING TARIFF AND TRADE BARRIERS AND WANTS OTHERS TO JOIN THEM
– NETANYAHU ‘FREE TRADE HAS TO BE FAIR TRADE’
– TREASURY SEC: ‘ALMOST 70 COUNTRIES’ HAVE APPROACHED US TO NEGOTIATE
– THE EU IS READY TO NEGOTIATE ON TARIFFS
– HAKEEM JEFFRIES IS SPREADING MORE FALSE NARRATIVES ABOUT ‘MAGA EXTREMISTS’
– AND SUDDENLY, HAKEEM BELIEVES IN MERIT
– IT’S OFFICIAL, ‘THE VIEW’ HAS DECLARED CORY BOOKER TO BE THE RESISTANCE LEADER
– MARC CUBAN SAYS HE WOULD WIN THE DEM NOMINATION, BUT HE WON’T RUN
– YOUR DAILY SCOTT JENNINGS ON CNN CLIP
– STEPHEN MOORE PREDICTS HUGE MARKET SURGE AFTER TAX CUTS MADE PERMANENT
– STEEL COMPANY CEO IS THRILLED WITH TARIFFS
-1995 FLASHBACK — TRUMP ON HOW HE WOULD HAVE HANDLED THE TRADE IMBALANCE
– REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN THIS ABOUT CHINA? ‘GUESS WHAT, THEY OWN US!’
– FLASHBACK TO 2005 – CHUCK SCHUMER WAS DEMANDING TARIFFS ON CHINA
– NEVER FORGET, KAMALA AND TIM CALLED TRUMP AND VANCE ‘WEIRD’
– TRUMP SCORES A BIG WIN AT SCOTUS (BUT, IT WAS CLOSE)
– STEPHEN MILLER CLAIMS THIS WIN IS A WARNING TO THE LEFT
– JUSTICE ROBERTS WITH THE BLOCK ON THE ORDER TO RETURN ALLEGED GANG MEMBER
– CHINA SAYS IT WILL FIGHT TRUMP ON TARIFFS ‘ TO THE END’
– AT 5AM – THE DOW FUTURES WERE LOOKING POSITIVE
– ART OF THE NUKE DEAL? TRUMP. — U.S. AND IRAN TO TALK DIRECTLY THIS WEEKEND
– AOC FLEW FIRST CLASS TO BE WITH BERNIE AT THE ‘FIGHT OLIGARCHY’ RALLY
– MAYBE YOU SHOULD PICK UP THAT NEW IPHONE NOW — TARIFFS MAY SPIKE PRICES
– TRUMP TARIFFS HAVE SLOWED OR STOPPED SOME LUXURY ITEMS FROM COMING HERE
General News
NYC’s GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL SHUT DOWN BY PALESTINIAN PROTEST
FUND RAISER FOR TEXAS TRACK MEET ATTACKER RAISES OVER $140K (FOR THE STABBER)
GATORS EAT COUGARS IN NCAA FINALS THRILLER
THE NY POST MADE MEGAN MARKLE’S COOKIES — AND TASTED THEM
Other News Catching My Eye
THE FUTURE? MAN TRIED TO USE AI-GENERATED LAWYER TO ARGUE HIS CASE IN COURT
AEROSMITH’S ‘TOYS IN THE ATTIC’ TURNS 50 TOMORROW, THE STORY OF IT’S BIGGEST HIT IS CRAZY
R-I-P CLEM BURKE – BLONDIE’S DRUMMER HAS PASSED AT JUST 70
OOPS — FORMER MAYOR OF MINOT, ND MEANT TO SEND A NAKED VIDEO TO HIS GIRL
