You could get away with one or the other but not both

Police unions: national security threat

Mamdani’s NY really got free childcare, Knicks in 5, & the royal wedding

In case you haven't seen this today.

@nytimes.com keeps sinking lower, and lower, and lower. Shame!

To celebrate a rebellion is to know that, from a flawed world, we can make new things. We can hold on, we can find each other, and not just imagine but create a much better America. It is a special 250th – it is ours. Video in link: snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

WTF @mayor.nyc.gov Why was NYPD taking part in this particular fascist exercise?

This is the white supremacist group Patriot Front and we condemn in the strongest possible terms their ideology and presence in our communities. We advise DC neighbors to protect the most vulnerable people around you today. We reaffirm DC’s values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

Also in this piece: A response to JD Vance's recent indictment of creedal nationalism, which got a lot of attention but gets some basic things really wrong: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... This left me with a lump in my throat. Pretty much the best and most inspirational speech about what it means to be an American I have ever read. Fie on the odious white nationalists, let us heed the true American voices like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/food-p... More evidence that many aspects of American government have structural problems that need to be addressed when the recovery effort from the current regime gets going. The need to address FDA failures and those at the EPA in prioritizing corporate interests over safety

A recommitment to the ideals of justice and liberty for all -- however long it takes us to get there. That’s the legacy that we honor this weekend. And it’s the aspiration that we honor as we fight to move our country forward, toward a real democracy, this Saturday, and every day after that.

If you’re conflicted about the weekend’s celebrations, I understand. But the truth is this: This isn’t Trump’s 250th. This is America’s 250th. And to me, that means a celebration of and recommitment to a founding ethos that we’ll never bow down to a king or accept tyranny against our neighbors.

Roy Cohen’s boy, Trump, has been calling Dems communists for years. It’s the tiredest thing this Kremlin loving wanna-be-Stalin hack could come up with.

Pope Leo XIV used America’s 250th birthday celebration to deliver a not-so-subtle reminder to Trump that immigrants helped build the United States.

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

As America marks 250 years, may we recommit to building a diverse democracy, an economy that works for the many and not just the few, and a future where every generation has the opportunity to live a dignified life. Happy 4th of July!

It sure would be nice to have a government that encourages solar power. abcnews.com/US/1-million...

Lock him up

Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” serves as a powerful reminder of our nation’s greatest contradiction—an exclusive democracy. As we mark America’s 250th we must remember: we cannot celebrate freedom while the U.S. denies it to millions.

Map for best targets for real antitrust enforcement. #Accountability2029

This is patriotic.

Proud to be an American. True patriotism is defending the Constitution, protecting our democracy, and striving for liberty and justice for all. Our country has never been perfect, but its promise is worth protecting. Happy 4th of July. ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

The Founders didn't risk the gallows because they hated America. They risked everything because they loved it enough to confront tyranny. Patriotism isn't pretending everything is fine. It's defending the republic when it isn't. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Now *this* is the way to report this story: Trump made his billion while his investors (read: his marks) lost $3.8 billion. That is theft. Gift link. Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

🇺🇸Happy Independence Day! As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding, I've been thinking about the next 250 years. I asked Central Floridians to share the future they want to build — here's what they had to say. What do you hope for the next 250? Share your vision in the comments.

For America: 🎂? #MakeAmericaNormalAgain 🇺🇸

This is literally the setup that allowed Jim Crow to be a decades long racist regime of apartheid while modern moderates lament the lost comity of the Senate. This is literally a politics of white reconciliation which we’ve already seen.

The overlap between a Venn diagram of Miller's view of nationhood & one of the Nazi's view of nationhood wd overlap 100%. Amazing the someone whose family only survived because they escaped to America, and who owes his own citizenship to birthright citizenship can be such a racist white nationalist.

forward.com/opinion/8355... This piece brought me to tears. I hope that someday Elliot Cosgrove will develop the introspection required to realize how totally wrong he is. His vision of Judaism exemplifies one of the reasons that I remain a secular Jew: His certainty of Jewish ethnic superiority,

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

At this point in the history of the United States, there is nothing any of us can do that is more patriotic or in the spirit of the founding of this country than to work to defeat Trump and MAGA. There are other very big jobs to be done. But that is job one.

I wrote about past Fourths of July on the Mall, getting beaned by a hot firework, and the visual metaphor of barricades and fences in the nation's capital growing ever closer to the concentration camps like Delaney Hall—where it's also 100 degrees this weekend, but the air conditioning is busted.

Wofsy: It’s clear that this effort on birthright citizenship was fundamentally part of the Stephen Miller agenda of reshaping the demographics of this country, turning the clock back, and making this country, more than anything else, a whiter community.

On the list for the tribunals

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity on 250th anniversary

His faith? The faith that leads him to lecture the pope on Catholicism? What an odious little creep.

Also on 2029 agenda (we hope): criminal investigations of all private companies running ICE concentration camps.

In front of fans and kids taking photos, a Dallas police officer starts shoving staff members of the Egyptian national team here for the World Cup. At one point, he even reaches for his handcuffs. The video is already being shared internationally by news outlets.

"We've heard the argument-- Trump’s a businessman. After all, he said, “My whole life I’ve been greedy. Now I want to be greedy for the US.” But his greed is still limited to just him. In 2024, his revenue was $622M. In 2025, it ballooned to $2.2B. Being the President is the business, man."

Reup, with a better picture! Democrats Describe the Wire Fraud behind the Single Ferris Wheel and the Empty Fields of Glyphosate emptywheel.net/2026/07/03/d...

This is the *real* center of American political gravity, and it's a hell of a lot closer to Mamdani than MAGA. Yet, that's not at all how the political press presents the situation. I can't be certain they even understand this situation due to their heads being up their asses.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

A new report from House Democrats alleges Trump allies cashed in on America’s 250th birthday celebration, turning a national milestone into a vehicle for access, contracts, and political self-promotion. Rep. Jared Huffman joins to discuss.