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Wall Street Journal's first issue was published today 1889:

On July 4th every year, the Boston Pops Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with real cannons, as the composer did in 1882.

Ages of Founding Fathers in 1776: James Monroe, 18 Aaron Burr, 20 John Marshall, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 James Madison, 25 John Jay, 30 Thomas Jefferson, 33 Thomas Paine, 39 John Adams, 40 George Washington, 44 This nation was built by brilliant young men.

🇺🇸 The deteriorating weather and STRONG wind gusts here in DC did NOT stop the USAF Thunderbirds from flying literally 14 INCHES APART over the National Mall Many people thought they were going to cancel. NOPE! WELL DONE, THUNDERBIRDS!

Friday highs... DC: 102 (record, beating 101) Dulles: 98 Baltimore/BWI: 102 Early evening heat indexes, including 113 for DC, are just wrong.

Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776:

I don’t care who you are- seeing the President of the United States escorted through North Dakota by the Rough Riders on horseback like Teddy Roosevelt back in 1883 is pretty cool 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 INCREDIBLE! DC will have over SEVEN HOURS STRAIGHT of flyovers on America’s 250th birthday, featuring COUNTLESS military aircraft, including the new Air Force One … and possibly even even the new STEALTH bomber, the B-21 👀 America is about to have an INCREDIBLE birthday! 🔥 (h/t @PenguinSix for the schedule!)

Another family LEAVING Maryland: They emailed me explaining why. Do you concur? "We are also leaving Baltimore County and heading to a Dallas, Texas suburb the last week of July. Our kids are 10 & 8 and feel the time is now or never. Cost of living, crime, public school options, and general quality of life in our area continue to negatively impact our family and we no longer feel like living here is worth it. My husband requested to change his work location to his company’s headquarters in Dallas and it was approved. Texas has no state income tax plus fees and utilities are cheaper so the savings will be significant for our future. I have a long list of reasons we have to say goodbye to this area that has grown since 2020. It is very sad what has happened to Maryland. Thanks for your reporting."

On Saturday, after nearly a century, the long-wave transmitter at Droitwich fell silent, and the two old masts at Westerglen and Burghead with it. Most people won't have noticed. But something left the country on Saturday worth marking before it slips out of memory as well as off the air: the Shipping Forecast, in the form millions have grown up with, one of the primi among British institutions, read out on long wave to the fishing fleets and the insomniacs and anyone else still awake at the rim of the day. If you've ever heard it, you know the odd power of the thing. "Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty" - a litany of sea areas most listeners will never lay eyes on, in a cadence that hasn't altered in generations, read with the calm of a voice that assumes you are out there somewhere in the dark and means to see you home. It carried far more than the weather. It was among the last things the whole of Britain still heard at the same hour: the same words, the same rhythm, meaning the same thing to a trawlerman off Rockall and a sleepless accountant in Surrey. A aesthetic paradigm of our culture; supreme utility and sublime superfluity. A country that now shares almost nothing in common still shared that. And there's a stranger fact again, one that lifts the whole business clear of nostalgia. By long-standing account, the Royal Navy's nuclear-missile submarines, hidden somewhere beneath the Atlantic with the nation's last deterrent aboard, used Radio 4 on long wave as one of their signs of life from home. If the broadcasts kept coming, Britain was still there. If they ever stopped, and stayed stopped, the commander was to open the sealed letter the Prime Minister had written out by hand, and learn what his country wished of him in a world that no longer contained it. The same mild signal that told a fisherman the wind in Dogger was, by that account, a pulse the end of the world would have been measured against. It is fitting, and bleak, that a broadcaster which has spent years forgetting who it was ever for should choose this, of all things, to switch off. The BBC never seems short of money for the things it wants to do. It decided the cost of the old signal was no longer worth bearing, and silenced the one transmission that asked nothing of anybody and reassured everybody. The fishermen, the old, the sleepless, the men under the sea - none of them were an audience it cared to keep. The forecast itself survives in other forms, on other frequencies; this is not the end of it. But the signal that carried it for a hundred years, and the idea it quietly stood for - that a nation is a thing held together by small shared rituals, faithfully kept, that ask nothing and bind everyone - that has fallen silent, and it fell without a fight. We let these things go one at a time, each too small to defend on its own, until we glance up and find there is nothing left that we all still do together. How many more will we let go? How many more will you let go?

If you own it, you should have the freedom to fix it!   President Trump just signed a new Presidential Memo protecting Americans’ freedom to fix their own vehicle if they so desire. The President’s action also combats cheap foreign aftermarket vehicle parts while also breaking up the monopoly the California Air Resources Board has had over certifying aftermarket parts. This is an idea from the top when President Trump called me one recent Saturday night saying he wants this Memo drafted, signed and implemented at Trump Speed instantly.