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History for July 18

History for July 18 - On-This-Day.com 

Hunter S. Thompson 1937

• 1872 - The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
• 1932 - The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
• 1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
• 1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
• 1947 - U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
• 2001 - A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days. (Maryland)

Trump Admin Making Huge Change to Deportation Process - Illegal Aliens No Longer to Be Set Free: Report

Trump Admin Making Huge Change to Deportation Process - Illegal Aliens No Longer to Be Set Free: Report: 

Lyons said the departments of Homeland Security and Justice “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and decided anyone entering the U.S. illegally  “may not be released from ICE custody.”

Customs and Border Protection will also follow the policy, the Post reported.

The way we were-----1942 Battle of Dutch Harbor

What The Science Really Says About Climate Change | Lord Matthew Ridley

Where libs rule!-----$259M in tax funds spent, but Whitmer’s Mundy megasite has no buyer

The Mundy megasite near Flint, which state officials gave $259 million in taxpayer funds, is dead, Crain’s Detroit Business reported on July 16. - Scott McClallen

• The megasite spans 1,194 acres, comprising the Advanced Manufacturing District of Genesee County, which is more than 10 times the size of California's Disneyland.

State officials tried and failed to lure memory chip maker Sandisk, according to documents obtained through a records request.

• The development encountered trouble in April when the company Maple & Hill LLC, which was preparing the site, allegedly violated state wetland laws...

What could possibly go wrong??!!-----NIL means younger (and younger, and younger) athletes are building brands

Before NIL, the biggest question in youth sports used to be: “Is my kid an exceptional athlete?”
Now, it might be: “Is my kid a viable commercial product?” - Sarah Knott

Let’s be clear: The idea of “individual as brand” isn’t new...

Marcee Tidwell put it best in Jerry Maguire: “My husband has a whole plan,” she said. “He deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink.”
She was talking about an NFL player. 

• But today, that line could just as easily apply to an 11-year-old...

Undercover video: Johnson & Johnson scientist admits COVID shots lacked safety, effectiveness * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Undercover video: Johnson & Johnson scientist admits COVID shots lacked safety, effectiveness * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

"Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products [vaccines]?" Rys asked.

"I mean we basically just had a race to figure out who could solve it best … At one point, we just canned it," he added.

The Food and Drug Administration in 2022 announced it would limit who can take the J&J shots because of a serious risk of blood clots.

This has to Hurt....

Netherlands Desperately Rationing Electricity to Preserve its Green Energy Grid

Europe took Al Gore’s “Net Zero” delusions seriously. 

What did it get them? Black-outs and grid limitations. - Leslie Eastman
I was recently reminded in a brilliant X-thread that the European Union failed to recognize the importance of reliable and inexpensive energy...

In 2008, the U.S. and Eurozone economies were neck and neck.
Today, U.S. GDP per capita is nearly DOUBLE Europe’s.
They chose the climate cult, and all its stifling socialism.
We (mostly) chose freedom and growth. pic.twitter.com/fw9ElUtXob
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) July 14, 2025

The difference in prosperity is staggering.

Europe’s tech scene? SAP. ASML.
Ours? Apple. Google. Microsoft. Amazon. Meta. OpenAI. Nvidia. XAI.
Just our top 4 firms are worth more than all 402 in MSCI Europe. pic.twitter.com/KCBW7S8wZ3
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) July 14, 2025

Legal Insurrection readers will recall that in April

• days after bragging about achieving “Net Zero,” Spain was plunged into darkness after a blackout tied to its now-sensitive grid hit the Iberian peninsula.
• Now the Netherlands is rationing electricity and connections to its greenified grid...

Lunch video-----The Unpopular Truth About Electric Vehicles | Mark P. Mills

Noon-toon

 

Election integrity win! Blue city in Michigan may soon have to explain Democrat-favored polling problem | Blaze Media

Election integrity win! Blue city in Michigan may soon have to explain Democrat-favored polling problem | Blaze Media: 

Flint is not the only heavily Democratic city in Michigan to be sued for failing to hire enough Republican election inspectors. In August, the RNC sued Detroit on similar grounds. At that point, only 335 of the more than 500 precincts in Detroit had provided legally required information about polling workers. Of those 335, at least 202 "did not have any Republican election inspectors," the lawsuit said, even though the Detroit clerk had received in May a list of nearly 700 Republicans willing to serve.

Criminals!

 

How Trump, Biden’s Arms Shipments Differ: NATO Pays ‘100%’ for Ukraine

Trump will sell weapons to NATO to supply Ukraine, and if Russia does not yield in 50 days, Trump promises another 100% tariff on all Russian goods. - Philip Wegmann 

Some of Trump’s closest domestic allies are already warning that the “expanded American role in the Ukraine War” will be “quite shocking” to the America First voters who returned him to the Oval Office.
But the same president who vowed to end the war in 24 hours has lost patience with Putin after six months...

• “I felt we had a deal about four times,” Trump admitted. “But it just kept going on and on.”...

Unlike Biden, the Trump administration will not send military aid directly to Ukraine. 

Instead, NATO allies will purchase weapons from the U.S. and then funnel them to the front lines, a development that comes in the weeks after those European nations finally agreed to meet Trump’s separate demand that they spend at least 5% of their annual GDP on defense within the next decade...

"Legalized" election theft!

 

Chicago Went WOKE, and Now Its School District Is BROKE and HUNDREDS of Staff Face Layoffs - Amy Curtis

It's incredibly sad to see Democrats and their policies ruin America's cities.

But the voters elected them -- and keep electing them -- and you get the governance you deserve.
In Chicago, voters went from Lori Lightfoot -- a terrible mayor -- to Brandon Johnson. 

Who looked at Lightfoot's tenure and said, 'Hold my beer.'

• Now Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is bankrupt.

12 year old British girl sent home from school for wearing her Union Jack dress on Heritage and Diversity Day.

Citizen Free Press on X: "12 year old British girl sent home from school for wearing her Union Jack dress on Heritage and Diversity Day. - Citizen Free Press@CitizenFreePres

#1 This day 1979-----Donna Summer ~ Bad Girls

Instapundit - Chinese property giant close to collapse.

Instapundit - China Evergrande, once the country’s second-largest real estate developer, is drowning in debt. - Ed Driscoll

• HOW IT STARTED: Chinese property giant close to collapse. China Evergrande, once the country’s second-largest real estate developer, is drowning in debt. Some 1.5 million people have put deposits on new homes that have yet to be built. A collapse could be catastrophic. - —Deutsche Welle, September 16th, 2021.
• How it’s going: “China has built 65 to 80 million vacant homes, enough to shelter the entire population of Germany, as millions struggle to find affordable housing. But the numbers only tell part of the story. Behind these ghost cities are real people who are trapped in a broken system.”

Mortgage fraud?? Isn't that a terrible crime?? I sorta remember when Trump...

 

Rand Paul to refile criminal referral of Fauci to DOJ after Biden autopen revelations | Blaze Media

Rand Paul to refile criminal referral of Fauci to DOJ after Biden autopen revelations | Blaze Media: 

Fauci, the fifth director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, specifically received a "full and unconditional" pass for possible federal crimes going back to Jan. 1, 2014 — around the time the Obama administration supposedly halted funding for dangerous gain-of-function research.

Another Anti-Trump Narrative Just Imploded

Democrats told me that the American people are against Trump’s reconciliation package that cuts taxes, kicks illegals off Medicaid, and secures the southern border. - Matt Vespa

• The media magnified the ‘unpopular’ narrative, and like clockwork, it’s wrong. 
• Seventeen of the twenty-one core tenets of the bill have popular voter support, and that’s according to the Harvard/Harris poll:

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History for July 17

History for July 17 - On-This-Day.com

James Cagney 1899

• 1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.
• 1785 - France limited the importation of goods from Britain.
• 1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.
• 1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
• 1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
• 1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.

DHS fires out scorching response to $20 million lawsuit from Mahmoud Khalil against Trump administration | Blaze Media

DHS fires out scorching response to $20 million lawsuit from Mahmoud Khalil against Trump administration | Blaze Media: 

Khalil who terrorized Jewish students on campus. He ‘branded’ himself as anti-Semite through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric," McLaughlin said.

"It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America," she added. "The Trump Administration acted well within its statutory and constitutional authority to detain Khalil, as it does with any alien who advocates for violence, glorifies and supports terrorists, harasses Jews, and damages property."

The way we were-----Six-Day War: How Israel Defeated 3 Arab Nations In Less Than A Week

One black country in the world has been independent for over 200 years...

"Reminder - WEF speaker declares farming & fishing are "ecocide"...

Camus on X: "Reminder - ...as she aims to criminalize such activities https://t.co/1Nl70usGGg" 

• Reminder - WEF speaker declares farming & fishing are "ecocide" as she aims to criminalize such activities.

Left Wing Failures Breed More Violence Before MidTerms

Wasn’t it just weeks or so ago when I warned that the left’s growing anguish over their loss of power would get worse? - John Kass

Since then it has gotten worse, much worse with leftist rioting against federal law enforcement officers. 

They’ve told the left-wing news site “Axios” that their party’s base demands more violence.

• “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.
• “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” the lawmaker said.

They got their wish. 

There has been blood. 

With more to come.
But where is it going and what does it mean?...