it’s monday morning

Our neighborhood committee's morning meeting has been on hiatus due to the heat this past wek, but they were back this morning!

Four alien cats and their spaceship near Catamars, Catajupiter (with 7 moons), and a cat-star.

Some of the bored children are now playing with the cockroaches

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Election fraud is just another Republican deflection.

We cannot be silent in the face of white nationalists marching in our nation’s capitol. From Massachusetts to Washington D.C. hatred and bigotry have no place here.

I don’t need an Independence Day message from Donald Trump. The day he pardoned the first J6 insurrectionist, he forfeited any claim to patriotism.

Get yer CRIMES step riighhhttt up

It’s outrageous that a government whose Constitution forbids the “establishment of religion” has been hijacked by Christofascists.

This is cool news! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

The corruption is staggering in scale and scope, it doesn’t stop, and Republicans in Congress refuse to do any oversight because, as Mike Johnson admitted this week, they serve as a protection racket to cover up the crimes of the regime.

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Trump and his sons ripped off nearly one million of their supporters and made a fortune producing nothing of value for anyone. Blood sucking leeches, using the US presidency to do it. And they couldn’t care less and their cult doesn’t seem to mind. Strange times in America.

This is the Bluesky equivalent of the Great American Novel. Gripped all the way to the end.

This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense

I love this country. It's got a lot of problems, but it's my home and I want it to be good and I think it could be good. I love my country and I want to celebrate our 250th Independence Day too And all day--ALL DAY--the administration has made it clear that they don't consider me a real American

What if I told you they are STILL GOING OFF, now, at 12:38 AM, and the smoke is so thick you can't even see them?

VERY grateful that, after several days of 100F+ temps during a severe drought, it rained 1.3 inches today, ending just in time for the last evening rays of sunlight to make a partial rainbow before darkness fell and fireworks began.

People came for Trump's "National State Fair" but instead of cotton candy and corn on the cob they're getting reenactments of at least one and I think several books of the Old Testament. Expelled by force, entrance and exit blocked, clouds gathering, actually maybe I'm thinking of Dante

Oh my fucking god

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

When you spread lies telling people that vaccines don’t work and climate change isn’t real, they are going to start doubting weather reports too.

You’d think “what if we need to evacuate” would be something they planned for

Holy shit what an ad!

Keeping this as my souvenir of the 250th.

If you’d read this in a sci-fi novel, it would be perfect. “July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the nation. The capital grounds are empty, the crumbling remains of a despot’s carnival baking under the heat and haze. The toxic air above is shifted by nothing save the passes of military jets.”

In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...

US Coast Guard yelling at them to "turn your vessel around" & pointing guns at them is quite the Independence Day look.

"Remember when you first saw those robotic dog things several years ago and immediately knew they would one day be used aggressively in some kind of militaristic or security setting? AI companies are snatching them up to protect data centers." www.vice.com/en/article/3...

taking public transit to do some fascism

It's a testament to how much we desperately need rain that I'm standing by the living room window cheering on our summer T-storm downpour and silently urging our grass to instantly turn green in response.

This has always been the issue for me. We own NONE of our digital media. We are only licensing it - meaning it can be taken away at any time. We cannot sell our copy, we are not supposed to lend or give it to a friend, we cannot donate it to a library. And…

This is a succinct and damning report on the corruption of the Great American State Fair. It also has the cleanest explanation of the split between Freedom 250 and America250 that I've seen anywhere. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-gre...

I think that we haven't talked enough about the fact that Hegseth suspended manditory flu shots and thousands of soldiers got sick (one died) and then it was just "NVM" back to the mandate.

The President ordering charges to be brought against someone to support a face-saving fiction. The US is now officially a tin-pot autocracy www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO

just shockingly hostile to the people who live in DC

Have a safe 4th.

"This is an ancient and approved custom... renewed in 1226… that when a Canon resident wishes to have books from the church he may have as many as he wills, except an outrageous number, and may keep them as long as he is in the city." Chartularly of Chichester, ed. W. D. Peckham

"The idea that the rebellion must be crushed and the country preserved entire is becoming more general. This work will be done if not under this administration the next must do it let its leader be whoever it may." -Oliver Pillsbury, 1863

Incredible

not really fourth of july content but i found thus explanation of affordable housing financing in DC very informative.

I guess PBS is unaware that this is forbidden by both the US Constitution and US law.

LWX continues Extreme Heat Warning for Washington [MD] and Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah, Warren [VA] and Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan [WV] till Jul 4, 8:00 PM EDT Link

Just a reminder that patriotism isn't holding a bible and wrapping yourself in the flag while you violate the Constitution and plunder the country. Happy 4th of July, stay cool and safe!!