We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street

Some people are putting it all on the line.

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Like a squirrel with tacky faux gold tchotchkes.

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!

The premise here, repeated throughout American history, is that only some kind of mental manipulation could make white people enjoy art by black people. You start acknowledging black cultural contributions as valuable it’s a slippery slope to seeing black people as people bsky.app/profile/left...

Those villains!

There was more patriotism (complimentary) in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show than in this entire American 250 celebration thing going on in DC right now.

Free speech warriors

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

FFS

excuse me the what tent

Trump's fair has been opened for 20 minutes today and there is still not a single soul there!

🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Only one thing I want

Nothing more “Trump is an adult child” than him saying “I want all the planes and all of the fireworks for my party,” which he, of course, see as his party. Again, child.

"It’s one thing to celebrate the country, its achievements and freedoms, its people and natural splendor. It’s another thing to defend the country, to protect it, to wear its cloth." @markhertling.bsky.social on July 4 in uniform:

The New York Knicks say amen.

Between April 26 & July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson had to rewrite the 13 colonies' breakup letter to King George Part 2 of our series on America's 250th bday explains how a mass murder shaped the Declaration of Independence

Part 1 of ContrabandCamp's "250 in Black" series commemorates America's Semiquincentennial with the incredible saga of one family that actually built this country.

Metaphor

The Supreme Court actually had to rule the constitution is... constitutional. #politics #constitution

Happy 250, Bitches!

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." – Patrick Henry

“All Pay the Chief.” Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich’s take on what was once unthinkable and is now common practice.

#DebbieHarry Happy Birthday 💛💝

Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.

Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering

He’s directly responsible for our current hell.

President Claudia Sheinbaum is rolling out Universal Healthcare for 120 Million Mexican residents. Now that is leadership, I’m both jealous and very happy for the people of Mexico.

FOR FUCKS SAKE

Okay but what’s in it for Substack aside from wanting to platform the widest variety of cranks possible, oh I see, that is the point, I figured it out while typing this

The Empire State Building was lit with red and white lights to celebrate Canada Day.

do these geniuses ever wonder why or have any way to rationalize the fact that no one in the republican party says "we need a strong democratic party, it's not healthy to have just a dominant republican party" or do they just blank out like a westworld robot

From 2025 but then even more unbelievable how much they’re walking the government’s dog.

oh he on DRUGS drugs

Happy Canada Day, hosers.

EXPLAINING CANADA DAY TO AMERICANS

Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day to all my Canadian friends.

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This is FALSE. ICE data showed DHS averaging 1,259 deportations/day through April 4. There is ZERO sign deportations rose by 154% since. Mullin also mixes up DHS's (also FALSE) claim that 70% arrested have any criminal record at all, and claims that 70% are felons. Wildly wrong.

i have been thinking about this a lot. my "left-wing" ideas about government reform mostly amount to trying to make the federal government conform with the vision in the constitution: a strong, active and majoritarian congress

Strong smelling salts and an amendment.

i grow tired of Metaphor