Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Is DC okay? This looks more like an attack than a fireworks show.

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

Trump wanted lots of fireworks so of course they just bought entire warehouses of the cheapest uncolored filler-grade stuff they could get, piled em up, threw a match and ran.

Democrats are communists in the same sense that Donald Trump is a Christian: They are not.

Quelle surprise…

Happy horrible air quality index day to all who celebrate

He died doing what he loved best

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

I’m sure burning witches without due process will be on the GOP 2028 platform.

There are a range of media and people who have lost their mind about Mamdani. At the time of real threats to democracy they treat him evoking the American creed they grew up with as dangerous radicalism.

What kind of fucking weirdo celebrates the 4th of July starting at 11pm?

Why do people oblige the child king so much? Have they no integrity? No spine? Did these service members join to be court jesters to entertain his whims?

Just need to note the obvious: Not a single American tax dollar should have gone into this Trump rally. This is a political event not a 4th of July event celebrating America’s 250.

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.

his entire decision-making strategy in one picture

Yep, that is smog, not fog here in Arlington.

So, you know,, sorry to the individuals who wanted a nice thing but I wanted a nice thing too and instead I got thi Maybe, when you don't celebrate the whole country, EVERYONE who belongs here and lives here, the celebration should go to shit and everyone should be miserable

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

There is exactly one thing that needs to happen on Independence Day. One tradition The only thing that absolutely had to happen was fireworks, and Trump fucked it up because he couldn't stop talking

The most important thing you need to know is that, by my watch, the fireworks began after midnight There were no fireworks in Washington DC for our 250th Independence Day

“Instead of sinking billions of pounds into nuclear power, investment should be channelled into renewable energy and other projects that tackle climate change and benefit society” www.thenational.scot/news/2625376...

Wouldn't it be funny if they walked out of there and were suddenly like this Onion bit youtu.be/lpzVc7s-_e8?...

They probably suspended it due to lack of interest The parade was cancelled for today I hope he still decides to give his 2 hr speech so I can watch him melt like the wicked witch or Rudy Giuliani I’ve never seen heatstroke before

Some of the people who don’t believe that climate change is a real thing had to suspend the Great American State Fair yesterday due to extreme heat conditions.

A couple years ago you could forgive a person for playing with AI. We didn’t understand how dangerous it was. But in 2026 we are well aware of the excessive water and electricity it takes for the dumbest most unnecessary invention in human history. There’s no excuse anymore. Stop helping AI.

I don’t understand why people knowingly and uncritically post AI videos. Not when we are seeing the harm it’s doing. Or give me AI explanations “well ChatGPT says”. Stfu. Why would you waste our resources to find out what a damn computer program thinks about a human discussion?

There's a body of knowledge and research on the challenges of building and maintaining civil society after periods of right and left authoritarian rule. There's also a reason why academia, peer reviewed research, and effective governance are being discounted. We can solve these problems.

If only a high-profile reporter would have the courage to ask Vance if his children are less American than he is.

Is Americanness an idea teachable to nearly anyone? Or is it a collection of bloodlines, without which we can't be great? It's become the most important question in our politics. Pity those who favor bloodlines; they live surrounded by counterexamples. Sometimes, they're married to them.

at the start of trump's first term, he ordered a study on the fiscal impact of the refugee program instead, it revealed that the refugee program's ROI was significantly positive, in excess of $100 billion it was made public for less than 24 hours before trump yeeted it into the sun

The best way to celebrate 250 years is to rededicate ourselves to the perpetual promise that one day we will fulfill the aspirations of the Declaration of Independence, & to remember that we can fix our broken institutions & that we in fact are obligated as citizens to do so:

Happy #IndependenceDay from FFRF! 🇺🇸🎆 Our founders were very intentional with building the wall between state and church. The word "God" is not in the Constitution, and it only mentions religion twice — both instances to exclude. Here's to 250 years of democracy, not theocracy.

Using banning teens from social media as a backdoor to getting mass internet surveillance because people will support the former but not the latter is the same playbook as banning "porn" from the children's section of a library in order to implement total censorship.

Yeah, sure, let's ban social media for under 16 but force then to use genAI in schools. Makes total sense.

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people on Friday, a White House official said, all but two of whom had been convicted of violating the Clean Air Act by modifying or disabling emissions controls on trucks.

America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F. #Climate

As I predicted. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Celebrating our independence from clean air and affordable electricity

"They're using the firm that they organized J6 with for the country's 250th birthday" is one of those facts that seems so insane that people won't believe it

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!

Happy 250 to the USA where celebrations are being canceled because of a climate change-driven heat wave and where both political parties ignore the fact that the price of continuing to subsidize fossil fuels now exceeds the price of a 100% transition to renewable energy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8GU7MhT/

Happy 250th, everybody! Reupping this piece on the Trump-MAGA betrayal of the Declaration, Obama's vision of patriotism, and Lincoln's "electric cord" speech, which is worth rereading to commemorate this moment: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Why can't they just climb the statue of liberty or something like a normal couple

shutting down a major artery into the city during a holiday weekend while the world cup is in town and there’s a historic heat wave that’s lead to energy rationing just so you can have a wedding is a real radicalizing eat the rich moment

These people are fucking idiots, and you can quote me.

What insult could you possibly direct at Trump supporters that would make them look worse than their own words?

One sense of how skewed our political reality is comes as Mamdani says anodyne things that the GOP presidential nominees from 1976-2012 would have all agreed with, like “We should rely on due process for the burning of witches,” and everyone screams, “Leftist Commie! Red Commie!”

Nobody wants to come to the school bully's birthday party.