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The network formerly known as Tiffany is now the Walmart Network May the ghosts of Murrow, Cronkite and all constantly keep the new brass awake

July 29 The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space, on July 29, 1958. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has also launched numerous earth-orbiting satellites that have been instrumental in everything from weather forecasting to navigation to global communications. NASA was created in response to the Soviet Union’s October 4, 1957 launch of its first satellite, Sputnik I. The 183-pound, basketball-sized satellite orbited the earth in 98 minutes. The Sputniklaunch caught Americans by surprise and sparked fears that the Soviets might also be capable of sending missiles with nuclear weapons from Europe to America. The United States prided itself on being at the forefront of technology, and, embarrassed, immediately began developing a response, signaling the start of the U.S.-Soviet space race.

Makes sense. I thought I saw something a while back with issues concerning the entrance plaza/customs area on the US side

I wonder how much of the delays can be attributed to shenanigans by the Moroun Family

Even as recently as the 70’s most major markets had at least 2 newspapers. The biggest difference was their political spin. Now sadly we’re lucky if one survives. Personally, with “instant analysis” newspapers are rapidly losing out to whatever passes for online news. And you can forget about to a certain extent locality. True reporters are giving way to “influencers”. That makes it easy for someone like Trump or Musk to survive since it’s all about the clicks. The same for broadcast beasts as well. There is no real money in it anymore. Unless you’re willing to sell your soul

July 28 July 28, 1868: Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Secretary of State William Seward issues a proclamation certifying the amendment.

Dave Parker wrote a poem for his HOF induction. Despite his foibles I still love the guy. Followed his career from his time in Salem, Va, the Pirates Single A Carolina League team

July 27 On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommends that America’s 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeachedand removed from office. The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be collectively known as Watergate.

Because these kids are bringing their criminal parents and friends. Right? Don’t expect to be signing any prospects from there in the near future

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Since around the first of the month we’ve been heavily immersed in Lewis and Clark Land following the Expedition along the Ohio and Missouri Rivers to the Missouri headwaters. This article showed up in my inbox yesterday https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/magazine/sacagawea-biography-history.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Children of Sanchez was a great album

They’re just following the Orban playbook. We’ll have elections but they’ll be rigged

I would suggest a literacy/basic government test similar to what current folks from foreign countries need for citizenship, but the MAGAs would complain calling it WOKE

On July 25, 1941, the American automaker Henry Ford sits down at his desk in Dearborn, Michigan and writes a letter to the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The letter effusively praises Gandhi and his campaign of civil disobedience aimed at forcing the British colonial government out of India. By July of 1941, Ford’s pacifist views led him to despair at the current global situation: Nazi Germany had invaded Poland, causing Britain and France to declare war against it. The United States, led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was firmly on the side of the Allies, but Ford was convinced that the country should remain neutral, despite mounting pressure from the government for his company to start mass-producing airplanes to help defeat the Nazis. The previous May, Ford had reluctantly bowed to this pressure, opening a massive production facility for airplane production at Willow Run, near Dearborn, to manufacture B-24E Liberator bombers for the Allied war effort.

July 25 On July 25, 1932, artist Diego Rivera began the actual painting of his frescoes in the Garden Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera had begun his research and preparation in April. The 27-panel work was entitled “Detroit Industry” was completed on March 13, 1933 and first seen by the public a couple weeks later. Source : Detroit Historical Society Facebook page On July 25, 1974—only 38 years ago—the Supreme Court in Milliken v. Bradley restricted its earlier decision about school busing, now holding that outlying districts were exempt from aiding the desegregation of inner-city school systems. Three years earlier, the Supreme Court in Swann v. Mecklenburg Board of Educationhad upheld busing programs designed to speed racial integration. By that time, it had been 17 years since the milestone Brown v. Board of Education had outlawed racial segregation in public education; the case set an important precedent for schools across the country as each went through its own desegregation process. However, in 1974, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments surrounding the desegregation of the public schools in Detroit, Michigan. Its decision would have profound effects. The NAACP sued Michigan Governor William Milliken, charging that the public school system was racially segregated as a result of a policy he had put into effect. The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a district court decision that the system was indeed segregated, and ordered the state to adopt a desegregation plan which encompassed 54 outlying school districts. The Supreme Court, however, decided 5-to-4 in favor of Milliken, holding the lower court’s order as impermissible and stating that “desegregation, in the sense of dismantling a dual school system, does not require any particular racial balance.” Source : Alison Shay, this Day in Civil Rights History, July 25, 2012.

Another one from the music of my life RIP Chuck Mangione

July 23 http://harris23.msu.domains/event/1967-detroit-race-riot-begins/

Come to Virginia. A lot of New Jersey refugees here

We’ve been on the road the past three weeks following Lewis and Clark from Kentucky to the headwaters of the Missouri. On our way back we took a detour and ran by Devils Tower. Got this before the clouds lifted