#NATIONAL We’re as ready for this weekend as Jack Black was ready to rip shots at Tune Inn; It’s never too early to research how to fry a turkey; 2026 World Cup being hosted somewhere hotter than Qatar; climate change = more lightning; nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin’ to say but nothin’ comes out when they move their lips just a bunch of gibberish and these mfers act like they forgot about nuclear weapons; babes in Toyland ≠ tigers in Disneyland; what it feels like to Tweet for an asteroid lander;

#DISTRICT Will Keystone pipeline be built before the Redskins have a winning season?; Secret Service likes to chat; Top secret Mook Mafia meeting tonight at Capitol Lounge; Tell Aaron Cutler congratulations on his new gig with Hogan Lovells; Chris Frates is crushing it on the tee-vee; We will never complain about how hot DC summers are again; Ask Clinton Yates what he thinks about the Wizards potential new practice facility; piece of cake; these times and the Smithsonian, they are a changing; CVC workers strike; better fence jumping reaction times here; it’s a thousand bucks to propose at Nat’l Harbor ICE; the Passenger is moving; good news for your future recess beards;

#MEDIAMOVES thanks to @StoryPartners: Lots going on over at CNN: The news network’s Digital Politics team added Maeve Reston, who will be warmest member of the team as she will be based in Los Angeles covering the intersection of Hollywood and politics, and Rebekah Metzler, who joins as the Breaking News Editor. Andrew Morse joins as GM and Meredith Artley was promoted to Editor-in-Chief and Alex Wellen was promoted to Chief Product Officer. On the cable side, CNN veteran Laura Bernardini was promoted to Director of News Coverage. Joel Waldman joins Fox News Edge’s as its Washington Correspondent. The Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe and Steven Mufson move to the White House beat and Herman Wong joins the paper on the social media team. Jonathan Salant is the Newark Star-Ledger’s new Washington Correspondent. Congrats to Fishbowl DC’s new co-editors, Brianna Ehley and Damon Marx.

#BYE Wheels up – your weekend has started.