Tuesday – July 8, 2025

National Blueberry Day

– Chocolate Milk and Almonds

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1870 – Congress enacts the Federal Trademark Act
 (yeah, Capitalism)
1886 – It rained snails in Cornwall, England

1889 – Fighter John L. Sullivan defends his title in the last sanctioned bare-knuckle heavyweight fight

1918 – Hemmingway injured driving an ambulance for the Red Cross in Italy
1946 – MLB’s minimum salary was $5000
 (isn’t that a per diem now?)
1960 – The Soviet Union charged Francis Gary Powers with espionage 
1989 – “Good Thing” from Fine Young Cannibals 
(‘memba them?) hit #1
1994 – North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung passed away – his kid, Little Rocket Man takes over
2000 – Venus Williams wins Wimbledon – the first of FIVE singles titles at this major tournament 

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– AT DINNER WITH BIBI – THE ISRAELI PM NOMINATES TRUMP FOR NOBEL PRIZE

– AMBASSADOR HUCKABEE HAD A COUPLE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT BEING FRIENDS WITH THE U.S.

– WHAT DOES TRUMP THINK ABOUT NYC’S DEM NOMINEE FOR MAYOR???

– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT HAPPY WITH PUTIN

– DOOCY PRESSES THE PRESS SEC ON THE LACK OF AN EPSTEIN LIST

– PRESS SEC SAYS TRUMP WILL VISIT TEXAS FLOOD AREA ON FRIDAY

     – SEC LEAVITT REACTS TO SHOOTING OF ICE AGENT AFTER DEM RHETORIC STAYS HOT

– STEPHEN MILLER CALLS OUT LA MAYOR FOR ‘INSPIRING DOMESTIC TERRORISM AGAINST ICE’

– BORDER CZAR HOMAN IS NOT PLEASED WITH RAMPED UP RHETORIC AGAINST ICE

– WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ARMED SHOOTER WHO TRIED TO TAKE OUT ICE AGENTS

– TOM HOMAN SAYS ARRESTING 1000 CRIMINALS A DAY IS NOT ENOUGH

– GOV DESANTIS WANTS ELON TO USE HIS POWER ($$$) FOR THE PARTY’S GOOD IDEAS

– HAKEEM JEFFRIES ON ‘THE VIEW’ – WILL HE SUPPORT DEFUNDING ICE? NO, YES, MAYBE?

– MSNBC’s JOE SCARBOROUGH DOESN’T WANT TO BLAME TRUMP BUT THEN HE DOES?

– WHITNEY CUMMINGS TELLS HER BEST KAMALA HARRIS JOKE TO BILL MAHER

More News Out of DC

– TRUMP SENT OUT A BUNCH OF TARIFF LETTERS YESTERDAY – HERE THE ONE JAPAN RECEIVED

– BIDEN’S DOCTOR DOESN’T WANT TO TALK TO CONGRESS JUST YET – REQUESTS A DELAY

– CALIFORNIA PUSHES BACK AGAINST TRUMP ADMIN’S EFFORTS TO PROTECT WOMENS’ SPORTS

– IRS SAYS CHURCHES CAN ENDORSE CANDIDATES TO THEIR CONGREGATIONS

– PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUES TRUMP ADMIN OVER YOUR MONEY

– M&Ms ARE A HOLDOUT AGAINST SEC KENNEDY’S PUSH TO DYES OUT OF OUR FOODS

General News

– SCOTT RUSKAN – AMERICAN HERO – RESCUED AN AMAZING NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN TEXAS

– FLORIDA ALSO SENT SWIFT WATER RESCUE TEAMS

– LA MAYOR BASS IS NOT PLEASED TOM HOMAN IS CLEANING UP McARTHUR PARK

– WISCONSIN STATE SENATOR PROBABLY WISHES HE DIDN’T POST HIS ANTI-GUN STANCE ON X

– SCHOOL CHOICE IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE — JOHN STOSSEL’S GOT THE DETAILS

– CALIFORNIA MADE IT OK FOR FAST FOOD JOINTS TO TAKE EBT — MICKEY D’s IS LOVING IT

– THERE’S ALSO A TOWN IN CALIFORNIA WITH A 25-YR WAIT TO OWN A CAR

– NEA’s TEACHER OF THE YEAR ADMITS HER JOB IS VERY POLITICAL

– REVIEWS FOR THE NEW ‘SUPERMAN’ ARE COMING OUT TODAY (IT’S NOT LOOKING GOOD)

     – ACTOR SEAN GUNN (DIRECTOR’S BROTHER) IS NOT HELPING

Other News Catching My Eye

– GEN Z IS CRASHING OUT (AND IT’S NOT GOOD)

– PARIS CLOSES THE SEINE TO SWIMMING JUST A DAY AFTER OPENING IT

– SCIENTISTS PREDICT ‘DEATH DATE’ FOR THE UNIVERSE (DON’T FREAK, YOU WON’T BE HERE)

– CHINA’S MAKING SEX DOLLS, LOTS OF SEX DOLLS

– SPEAKING OF SEX — WHAT DOES CELIBACY DO TO YOUR MIND AND BODY