Liberals in the Weather Service, liberals at the DMV, liberal doctors, their liberal mom, all denying their freedom

Parades nixed in Philly and DC. National Mall evacuated. Flyovers suspended. NYC’s fireworks display on weather watch. Parades canceled all over because of extreme heat; fireworks replaced with drone shows because of fears of wildfires. The Climate Crisis is the signature event of #America250.

W/r/t the neo-Nazi chucklefucks who marched in DC today: "Patriot Front operates less like a classic skinhead crew and more like a white nationalist media production company and pyramid scheme." open.substack.com/pub/eyesonic...

If you see thieves stealing copper and expensive equipment from A.I. data center construction sites, no you didn't.

I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.

Always the best stairwell at Museum of the City of NY

god reading the MattY substack is so funny, it's like the centrist version of the Dreher letters

Why are the Trump Account totes the EXACT SAME DESIGN as the bag I got at the Intercessors for America prayer event conference yesterday, where we (they) prayed to expel demonic communist forces from America and also for a Christian nation (Feature forthcoming for TNR in October)

Because those far right groups are the de facto curriculum directors for Trump’s Department of Education.

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

A reminder that as you see photos of those Patriot Front douchebags today, they are marching on a holiday because none of them have anywhere else to be. None of them have friends or family who want them around on a holiday. No one is missing them today. They're already with their only friends.

In case you haven't seen this today.

Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed

"You know what seemed to calm the conservatives down? Apartheid"

whenever i post in defense of birthright citizenship i get a bunch if these comments which i assume come from bots but they are still quite funny

In my day, $18 of Taco Bell was enough food to kill you.

If you truly loved your country you'd be out there getting heat stroke for her birthday. By the way we just finished building a new data center in your town without asking, so you can't run your AC anymore, or any other appliances for that matter. You're dizzy and want some water? oh sweetie

"The sum of the wreckage this has made is staggering; fixing it will take a long time, or not happen at all. This is just one of those things you have to walk around knowing. From one moment to the next, all this atavistic idiocy has delivered the results you'd expect. Nothing works or makes sense."

Starting to suspect that "closed loop water systems" for data centers are a fabrication to snow over public opposition. cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/02/c...

AI declaration like "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations—it's not just a series of bad policies, it's a systematic tapestry of tyranny. To prove this, let’s dive deeper into the data:"

"The Atlantic is republishing... JD Vance's July 4, 2016 essay in which he likened Donald Trump to heroin... the media elites can never quit him, because to do so would amount to admitting that he ran a game on them, and they fell for it." substack.com/@pnugent/not...

This would be an utter catastrophe for Seattle - and would save voters maybe a couple of dollars a year in sales tax. Just absurd stuff from Bob Kettle.

"David Ellison didn’t want Bari to destroy CBS. He wanted her to turn it into Free Press - broadcast edition. And he though that would work because he’s an out-of-touch nepo baby with zero taste." - @davekarpf.bsky.social davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/organized-...

This is an NYPD problem. Like, I get that the event is a Taylor thing, but this is unusual for any MSG event never mind a Taylor concert or appearance. The cops are doing this. Please focus on the cops figuring out that they did this for Trump going to a NBA game and now they just do it whenever

Have a safe 4th.

What no one ever considers is: What if "investing in Red America" is just politically hopeless? Can we maybe, for once, invest in blue America instead?

Tall Ship viewed from Little Island Sail4th 250

::reads the Declaration of Independence:: Wow this shit goes hard. I want to live in that country.

"...our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Happy Fourth of July, New York City

Normalization of Trump’s inanity.

You want a Netflix series that would rock? Follow Paine, from strikes in England to the American and French Revolutions to almost being guillotined to being saved by James Monroe to getting pissed at Adams and Washington and them abandoning him. Hamilton pales by comparison plot-wise.

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

the president’s biggest supporters in town for the celebration it looks like

Corny as hell and gets me every time m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciOg...

i would very much rather the national guard not be in DC but you do have to admit the photo with both creates a funny contrast between who in this country LARPs as a troop and who actually enlists

It's been fun watching I Love New York guys Adams and Cuomo scamper the fuck away to be full-time pieces of shit, proving everything everyone ever said about them 100% completely correct and making everyone who ever supported them look like the unprincipled jackasses they are

Civil officers, including the President and Vice President, are removed from office upon conviction of "Treason, —Bribery, — or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

100 years ago.

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

A lot of people don't understand a lot of things. But we have to get it across to people that the "liberal media" have been all-in Trump supporters for years and the more people hate him the more they fluff him.

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

"[The Barbara dissenters] take up the Enlightenment's weapons...and turn them against the Enlightenment's result. Consent was the principle that freed men from inherited status and gave them rights; here, it is used in an attempt to strip rights from infants." www.unpopularfront.news/p/our-revolu...

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

this whole thing is even crazier than when weirdos lost their minds over Jimmy Carter's request that people turn down the heat and wear a sweater during the gas shortage

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Watching 1776 and remembering what our America was meant to be. youtu.be/Ze9iuiinz-o?...