The ONLY Day That’s Also A Command! / Shrove Tuesday
Intl Pancake Day
National Poundcake Day
Meme Du Jour
Tonight…
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1791 – Vermont becomes the 14th state (the first addition since the original 13)
1801 – Jefferson is the first President inaugurated in Washington DC
1837 – The City of Chicago is incorporated1861 – President Lincoln is sworn in
1877 – Russia’s Imperial Ballet performs “Swan Lake” for the first time
1918 – The first cases reported in what we used to call the Spanish Flu pandemic
1933 – FDR is inaugurated for the first of four presidential elections he won
1975 – Queen Elizabeth II knights Charlie Chaplin
1987 – President Reagan takes full responsibility for the Iran-Contra scandal
1994 – John Candy dies (much much much too soon)
2005 – Major criminal Martha Stewart is released from prison
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– PRESIDENT TRUMP STATEMENT ON ZELENSKYY’S STATEMENT
– BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP
– DOOCY: TRUMPS WANTS A PUBLIC APOLOGY FROM ZELENSKY
– AG BONDI ON EPSTEIN DOCS – A TRUCKLOAD OF DOCUMENTS HAS BEEN DELIVERED
– FLOTUS SPEAKS ON REVENGE PORN
– SEC BURGHAM HAS SOME SOLID ADVICE FOR FIRED GOV’T EMPLOYEES
– BURGHAM ALSO BELIEVES A NEW 800 MILE PIPELINE WOULD BE A GAME CHANGER
– ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MASSIVE INVESTMENT INTO THE U.S. IS ANNOUNCED
– PRESS SEC TALKS ABOUT THE MASSIVE INVESTMENTS COMING TO AMERICA
– PRESS SEC ON WHAT TRUMP TARIFFS ON CHINA ARE SUPPOSED TO DO
– SEC OF STATE RUBIO: IF TRUMP WERE A DEMOCRAT, WE’D BE TALKING NOBEL PRIZE
– CNN’s HARRY ENTEN WITH MORE EYE-OPENING STATS ON TRUMP AND THE UKRAINE WAR
– NY REP NYDIA VELASQUEZ WANTS MUSK TO ‘GO BACK TO AFRICA’
– STUNNING NUMBERS FROM THE BORDER — DEC 2024 TO FEB 2025
– ELON MUSK TALKS WITH JOE ROGAN ABOUT THE DANGEROUS STUFF HE’S FINDING
– FOX NEWS’ JOEY JONES CALLS OUT REP SETH MOULTON LABELING THE VP A ‘POGUE’
– PAM BONDI ON LEVIN — I WAS MISLEAD ON EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS
– YOUR DAILY SCOTT JENNINGS SMACKDOWN ON CNN
– BILL NYE (THE NOT REALLY A SCIENCE GUY) DOESN’T KNOW HISTORY
– 2022: PRESIDENT BIDEN PROMISED WE WOULD BACKSTOP UKRAINE PENSIONS
– REMEMBER WHEN BILL CLINTON TALKED ABOUT HOW MUCH HE RESPECTED PUTIN?
More News From DC
– EMERSON POLLING: TRUMP APPROVAL +5, GENERIC DEMS LEAD GENERIC GOP
– THE THEME OF TONIGHT’S ADDRESS (AND WHICH DEMS ARE NOT SHOWING UP)
– ONE SIMPLE STAT EXPLAINS WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RAISING TARIFFS ON CHINA
– TARIFFS — IN ACTION? HONDA TO BUILD CARS IN THE U.S. AND NOT MEXICO
– ACTIVIST JUDGES ISSUE MORE TROs AGAINST TRUMP IN FIVE WEEKS THAN IN BIDEN’S 4 YRS
– SEC DEF RESTORES NAME OF FORT MOORE TO FORT BENNING
– TRUMP’S PICK FOR EDUCATION SECRETARY, LINDA McMAHON IS CONFIRMED
– DEPT OF ED OFFERS $25K QUITTING BONUS AHEAD OF ANTICIPATED LAYOFFS
– CANADIAN PREMIER VOWS TO TURN OFF U.S. ELECTRICITY OVER U.S. TARIFFS
– TRY NOT TO LAUGH – TIM WALZ IS CONSIDERING A RUN FOR PREZ IN 2028
– JUSTICE THOMAS UNHAPPY THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT TAKING THIS CASE
– HEAD OF NY’s FBI OFFICE HAS BEEN FORCED OUT
– EVERY SENATE DEM VOTED TO BLOCK BILL PROTECTING GIRLS’ SPORTS
General News
– THE STOCK MARKET HAS A BAD DAY, WORST DROP SINCE DECEMBER
– BOSTON’S MAYOR DOUBLES DOWN ON HER IDIOTIC STATEMENT FROM THE WEEKEND
– ICYMI – HERE’S THE IDIOTIC, INSULTING STATEMENT FROM THE MAYOR
– WOMAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING BITTEN BY A SCORPION IN BOSTON AIRPORT
– RILEY GAINES HAS A MESSAGE FOR MN GOV TIM WALZ
– DeSANTIS ESTABLISHES DOGE IN FLORIDA, CUTS COLLEGE TUITION FOR ILLEGALS
Other News Catching My Eye
– DOLLY PARTON ANNOUNCES THE PASSING OF HER HUSBAND CARL
– STILL NOTHING DEFINITIVE, MORE ON THE DEATHS AT GENE HACKMAN’S HOME
– BRIDE’S HOME BLOWS UP WHILE SHE WAS AT HER WEDDING
– 6100+ AMERICANS APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP IN THE UK (THAT’S A NEW RECORD)
– BEAUTIFUL PICS BEING SENT FROM PRIVATE MOON LANDER BLUE GHOST
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