Tuesday – June 16, 2020

Mike Opelka · Two Minute Drill: Don’t erase history. History belongs to all of us — even if it makes you mad.

It’s National Fudge Day AND Fresh Veggies Day

Countdown to the election – 140 days to go!

Meme du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

0455 – Rome is sacked by the Vandal army

1858 – ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ Lincoln accepted the Republican Party’s nomination and delivered that line

1910 – The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, WA 

1935 – The House of Representatives passed FDR’s New Deal

1960 – Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ premiered (it was the first film to show a toilet flushing)

2015 – Donald Trump announced his campaign for the Presidency

News and The Politics out of D.C.

EXECUTIVE ORDER ON POLICING EXPECTED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY

TRUMP: IF BOLTON RELEASES HIS BOOK, HE’S BROKEN THE LAW

PRESIDENT TRUMP THREATENS CRACKDOWN ON SEATTLE AUTONOMOUS ZONE

TRUMP CALLED SHOOTING OF RAYSHARD BROOKS ‘VERY DISTURBING’

BEN CARSON SAYS HE’LL HELP TRUMP ‘GET THERE’ ON ANTHEM KNEELERS

TRUMP CALLS FOR TROOP REDUCTIONS IN GERMANY

OBAMA TO (VIRTUALLY) JOIN BIDEN FOR FUNDRAISER

HOW MANY PEOPLE WANT TICKETS FOR TRUMP’S SATURDAY RALLY???

General News

THREE NYPD OFFICERS ‘INTENTIONALLY POISONED’ 

POLICE REFORMS ANNOUNCED IN ATLANTA AFTER RAYSHARD BROOKS KILLING

9-1-1 CALL THAT TRIGGERED ATLANTA MAN’S KILLING IS RELEASED

A NIGHT OF UNREST IN THREE STATES

DE BLASIO’S ARMY OF CONTACT TRACERS IS NOT ASKING ABOUT PROTESTS

GOV TO  NYC — DON’T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE AND LOCK YOU DOWN AGAIN

PROTESTERS PULL DOWN JEFFERSON’S STATUE AT PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL

NORTH KOREA BLOWS UP SOUTH KOREA LIASON OFFICE

HOWARD STERN RESPONDS TO TRUMP JR’s RETWEETING HIS N-WORD SKETCH

Other News Catching My Eye

UNITED AIRLINES: NO MASK, NO FLIGHT… AND, YOU’RE ON A ‘LIST’

REALLY??? A NEW FORD BRONCO IS COMING… RELEASED ON OJ’s BIRTHDAY

HEY LOOK, A HUMAN BONE ON MARS! (OH, WAIT, IT MIGHT BE A ROCK)ACTIVIST WHO WANTS STATUES REMOVED ADMITS SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHO WINSTON CHURCHILL IS — ‘I HAVEN’T MET HIM’