Happy Thursday. On this day in 1957, the U.S. Army sold the last of its homing pigeons and then spent the next five years trying to explain that to the pigeons.

A NEW BLOOMBERG POLL finds that Donald Trump has a 29 percent approval rate, which would make him the least popular major party candidate for president in the history of numbers.

BUT, ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY by Fortune magazine, he’s unusually popular with a group of Americans who have long been ignored by mainstream politicians, employers and anyone who isn’t a probation officer – online white supremacists.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, within two days Trump retweeted two Twitter accounts proudly connected to the hashtag #WhiteGenocide, which was taken by many white supremacists as the best thing that has ever happened since vanilla Oreos.

PAUL RYAN HAS A WAY of getting Republicans to latch on to his ideas, and sneak onto the GOP’s presidential ticket. And he could be at it again.

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE gave a speech on Wednesday calling for a “higher standard of decorum” as he pursues the Republican agenda of food stamp cuts and un-insuring 20 million Americans while refusing to raise the minimum wage, politely.

RYAN ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS WRONG for previously dividing America into “makers v. takers,” after perhaps recognizing that after more than 20 years of being on the government dole, he isn’t exactly Steve Jobs.

THE NEW BATMAN V. SUPERMAN MOVIE is apparently so bad it may just be an experiment to see if a film with that title could possibly flop at the box office.

“IT JUST WEARS YOU DOWN and wears you out, making you wonder if there was ever such a thing as a hero anyway,” mused Helen O’Hara of GQ UK.

FOR THE RECORD, that’s a British person applying an apt description of the demise of the global British empire to a movie about men wearing tight pajamas.

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NO, THE COLORADO ROCKIES WILL NOT BE SELLING POT BROWNIES at Coors Field. Because that would destroy wholesome, all-American beer sales.

A woman vacationing in Iceland accidentally joined a search party that was looking for her, which sounds odd except the woman said it’s happened to her three times this week.

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