📌Stars and Stripes exists to inform and protect our troops from people like the despicable Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who do not believe those troops — or anybody for that matter — are owed the truth. Their ongoing attack on the paper and the truth is a high-level national security threat.

The Interior Department wants to shrink public comment on new oil and gas leases on federal land from 90 days to 10, while cutting cleanup bond requirements by 95 percent. The petition asks Congress to preserve the comment window and restore real accountability for drillers.

How could I have missed this!? Historian and Professor Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social reads, and analyzes, the Declaration of Independence! Happy Independence Day‼️🇺🇸🗽⚖️🎇 www.youtube.com/live/RCsf4t2...

Celebrating America Doesn’t Have to Mean Erasing Our History www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What a read first thing the morning of July 5!

NYT-reviewed texts describe Andrew Tate anticipating Trump administration help as he sought to leave Romania, where he and his brother Tristan have been under investigation since 2022. Prosecutors later lifted travel restrictions. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/nyt-review...

DHS arrested a protester for peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights outside the MDC. This is a blatant assault on our constitutional freedoms. Peaceful assembly is a fundamental right, not a crime, and it must be protected, not silenced by state power.

Stop asking Black people to celebrate a country's Patriotism, while your family members are out in the streets doing this...

lol Random thought: White people 40 years from now will be saying they're nothing like white people alive right now. Just like white people 40 years ago said they were nothing like white people 40 years before that.

This would not surprise me. The WH Correspondents’ shooter story still has more questions than answers and no one ever mentions it. 🤔

America's 250th anniversary offers a moment to reckon with our history — & its contradictions — to determine our #democracy’s future. This #IndependenceDay, join us in using #LFJ's new resource page to imagine a more inclusive democracy for the next generation & beyond 📱: https://bit.ly/44aGh7s

The fight for justice continues. For me, it’s more than protecting the Kennedy Center — it’s about protecting our democracy.

Trump does not care if we all die from Heat exhaustion or Heat stroke! The planet continues to heat up because of ecological clean air violations - imposed by his administration! This is a lame duck president who cares only about the money lining his own pockets! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/u...

“48 of 56 Declaration of Independence Signers Profited from Slavery” #IndependenceDay theemancipator.org/2026/07/02/i...

Remembering Bill Withers today on what would have been his 88th birthday (born July 4, 1938) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/BWithersRIP

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

JFC...!

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

If you're an FBI analyst surging to Atlanta to review records, reach out to me. I'll keep you anonymous. Signal in bio. Please share this post widely.

ICE agents almost shot a man after an ICE agent dropped his gun and another yelled, “Gun.” 📍 This happened in Everett, Massachusetts. Witnesses had to shout that the detained man was unarmed. americansagainstice.org/subscribe

And there it is: With just hours remaining until deadline to release more Epstein Files under lawsuit filed by @KatiePhang — Justice Dept asks judge for two-month delay, claiming it risks revealing victims’ identities.. … (which the Trump Admin has already done)

Nas released his second studio album ‘It Was Written’ 30 years ago on July 2, 1996 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by Daryl McIntosh here: album.ink/NasIWW

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)

“This is how Trump hijacked 🇺🇸’s birthday.” @rephuffman explains Trump turned a nonpartisan 250th celebration into a way to steal hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars + take bribes from corporations & foreign governments. Endless corruption. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaTu82G...

Spot the difference

“Get your hands off her!” A MASSACHUSETTS crowd yells at a cop who grabs a 14 year-old girl speaking out about data centers

The Roberts Court is predictable. Not because it follows the law, but because it never passes an opportunity to push its ideological vision. Once you know where Roberts and his colleagues want the country to go, you can figure out how almost every relevant case will end.

Richest country on Earth—but healthcare bankrupts you, housing is out of reach, childcare costs more than rent, and we're always at war. The money's there. It's just not for you.

US history – not just nature – is at the heart of the visitor experience at most of the NPS 433 sites ‘"A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks." Stories & data visualization in @theguardian.com by @amyqin.bsky.social & Flávio Pessoa Read ⬇️

He’s afraid of the people he’s supposed to represent.

Defend this, "freedom-loving" MAGA. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Trump administration’s July 4th fireworks show will likely produce unhealthy levels of pollution at the National Mall and the surrounding area—a fitting byproduct of the president’s 250th American anniversary celebration.

If you've been following the lawsuit led by Texas + other states to undermine Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, they just submitted a filing yesterday which cited this DOJ memo. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump and Republicans had no problem cutting $1 TRILLION from healthcare to line the pockets of their wealthy donors. Their priorities are NOT with hardworking American families.

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)

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Woke mind virus? 🙃 @loworderprimate.bsky.social

As planned..... #they were bold enough to share the plan with everyone.....

Q: You had a very lucrative year. What message does that send to Americans who are struggling? Trump: “I don’t get involved.” He’s saying the quiet part out loud: he doesn’t care if you’re drowning in bills. Your pain isn’t his problem, just his profit.

www.npr.org/2026/07/01/n... Disgusting. Maybe we all need to send emails to ICE today to let them know we won't be intimidated. #USDemocracy

1/ Ask who gets richer every time we fight the culture war. It is never you. Billionaires bankroll the outrage, the base gets a permanent enemy to hate, and the donor class quietly walks off with tax cuts. gutted agencies and austerity for us. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Sister Leticia Ugboaja, a Catholic nun & registered nurse was walking to Our Lady of Sorrows church dressed in her habit, in McAllen, Texas when she was abducted by out of control #ICE officers. Q: What kind of depraved monsters would detain a nun? A: Evil, racist, Trumpster trash! #ICELawlessness