Hi everyone!
Alina Habba got her job back. Todd Blanche had a "very productive" meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell at the Tallahassee prison where she's doing hard time. Blanche is back talking to Maxwell again today and she was seen at the prison with a big box, perhaps containing Epstein docs.
Trump showed up to the job site of the Fed's new building and tell Fed Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates and get a handle on those construction cost overruns. He literally brought receipts. He can't fire Powell unless there's cause but massive mismanagement could be a reason.
Meanwhile, Chuck E. Cheese was arrested in Florida for credit card fraud. JD Vance encouraged the agricultural industry to automate so they don't have to rely on illegal immigrant labor and said the tech industry's reliance on H1-B visas to the exclusion of American workers had to come to an end. Trump signed an executive order telling cities to get homeless people off the streets.
By now, you've probably already heard that Hulk Hogan passed at the age of 71. What you might not know is that he was baptized 18 months ago and dedicated the rest of his life to Christ. That means that just like Constantine, who is said to have converted on his death bed, Hogan has a good chance to get to Heaven.
MAGA rushed in to eulogize Hogan on X, saying that he was the greatest all-time. Hogan was one of the few A-list celebs who came out and backed Trump in 2024. He even showed up to speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and ripped his shirt off live on stage to show how sincerely felt his endorsement was.
There was a good news story yesterday, with a twinge of the bizarre. A Georgia grandma who is also an Army vet stopped a passenger from storming a cockpit mid-flight. When asked about it, she said, "Nobody else was doing nothing, so I just knew I had to do something."
Andy Ngo did a deep dive into a crazy Portland story where a man who claims to be trans and took the name of a female video game character killed a man and is now serving time in a women's prison. The guy is nearly 300 pounds, he's over 6 feet tall, and now he's chilling with the ladies in an Oregon correctional facility. Andy tracked down his ex-wife, and her brother, and got the skinny on who this killer really is—a violent, leftist offender who was literally living in a van down by the river.
When I was in high school, the senior class had this Friday afternoon tradition. It was started by the man who eventually became valedictorian. In the front hall of the school where all the seniors hung out, he would begin to sing "It's the weekend! Do do do do." And whoever was around would join in and everyone would point their fingers in the air and dance around in a little circle.
It was weird, but we did it, and this Friday, if we were all here in the same place, I would begin the song myself. "It's the weekend! Do do do do." Hope it's a good one.