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  #LizaDonnelly 9/30/2026

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  In Hamlet, North Carolina, on this day in 1926, John Coltrane was born. #JohnColtrane

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  September 15, 1963 - During Sunday School, 15 sticks of dynamite blew apart the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four children in the basement changing room, and injuring 23 others. Prime suspects were the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Nacirema (both white supremacist organizations; Nacirema is "American" spelled backwards). A week before the bombing Governor George C. Wallace had told The New York Times that to stop integration, Alabama needed a "few firs...

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  "Like This" by the dB's, released on this day in 1984. #ThedBs #LikeThis #VintageVinyl

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  #ItsTheGuns

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  Gibson Les Paul patented August 2, 1955. #Gibson #LesPaul

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  "Given the nature of Trump-speak, Waltz’s statement is in effect an admission that the U.S. military is now in deep trouble." https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-putinization-of-the-american?r=4bnvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  July 28, 1868 - Passed in the wake of the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process, equal protection of the law, and full citizenship to all males over 21, including the formerly enslaved, went into effect. #14thAmendment

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  Gillian Welch's "Hell Among the Yearlings" released this day in 1998. #GillianWelch #HellAmongTheYearlings

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  July 28, 1932 - Federal troops, under command of General Douglas MacArthur, forcibly dispersed the so-called “Bonus Expeditionary Force,” or Bonus Army. They were World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand money they had been promised but weren't scheduled to receive until 1945. Most of the marchers were unemployed veterans in desperate financial straits during the Great Depression. #BonusExpeditionaryForce #BonusArmy

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  July 29, 1970 - After a five-year strike, the United Farm Workers (UFW) signed a contract with the table grape growers in California, ending the first grape boycott. #UnitedFarmWorkers

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  "Rag Doll" by The 4 Seasons released in July 1964. #The4Seasons #RagDoll #VintageVinyl

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  #MikeLuckovich 7/29/2026

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  July 29, 1972 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty to be cruel and unusual punishment by a 5-4 vote. The Court called the wide discretion in application of capital punishment, including the appearance of racial bias against black defendants, “arbitrary and capricious” and thus in violation of due process guarantees in the 14th Amendment. #CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty

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  #NeildeGrasseTyson

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  "Toulouse Street" by The Doobie Brothers was released in July 1972. #TheDoobieBrothers #ToulouseStreet #VintageVinyl

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  "Lights Out" by Peter Wolf was released in July 1984. #PeterWolf #LightsOut #VintageVinyl

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  "From the Pages of My Mind" by Ray Charles released in July 1986. #RayCharles #FromThePagesOfMyMind #VintageVinyl

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  "Kimono My House" by Sparks released in July of 1974. #Sparks #KimonoMyHouse #VintageVinyl

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  Born this day in 1936, this guy, the last of the original blues men, Buddy Guy. #BuddyGuy

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  "The decision to leave rates on hold has spooked investors who are worried about the US economy’s ability to absorb a rise inflation, triggered by Donald Trump’s war in Iran." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/30/us-borrowing-costs-19-year-high-fed-holds-interest-rates?CMP=share_btn_url

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  "What the ongoing show trial of Fauci — which motivated this post — has really driven home, however, is that what Trump and his supporters hate most of all is reality." https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/reality-is-a-communist-plot?r=4bnvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  "Science itself is not partisan, and research is supposed to inform policymaking. Yet science funding in the U.S. has long been a political pinball." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-is-under-pressure-again-heres-what-that-means-for-young-researchers/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TIS_073026&utm_term=reports%20Pulitzer%20Prize-winning%20science%20journalist%20Deborah%20Blum&_kx=4oMxG7i_jQDv2AAzbrFAHqJ4H4cw6nu3...

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  The FITWH said on Thursday he may '“temporarily” pull the nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, but would keep him in the role in an acting capacity until two Republican senators objecting to his confirmation leave office next year – an extraordinary escalation of an intra-party fight over an agreement to create a $1.8bn slush fund and give the president tax immunity.' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/todd-blanche-attorney-general-doj-nomination-...

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  On July 30, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson made Medicare and Medicaid law by signing H.R. 6675 in Independence, Missouri. Former President Truman was issued the very first Medicare card during the ceremony. #Medicare #Medicaid

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  Some may need a reminder. Science, it's like magic except it's real. #Science

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  July 27, 1954 - The democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, after receiving 65% of the vote, was overthrown by CIA-paid and -trained mercenaries. There followed a series of military dictatorships that waged a genocidal war against the indigenous Mayan Indians and against political opponents into the '90s. Nearly 200,000 citizens died over the nearly four decades of civil war. “They have used the pretext of anti-communism. The truth is very different. The truth...

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  #MikeLuckovich 7/23/2026

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  Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the Moon at 02:56 UTC (10:56PM EDT) July 21, 1969. #Apollo11