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[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain: Love it or leave it.

But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. It is every march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation, that we will not leave it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. 

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again-including 250 years ago-those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.

And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted-but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.

As we mark 250 years, what do we see? 

We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world— one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands —those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone —and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

She’s just another psychotic billionaire. On a holiday weekend. Amidst all this worldwide suffering, the ultra-wealthy still have no compunction. Unreal.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Republican Rep. Kean voted against 40 hours of paid medical leave for workers, then took 4 months paid leave himself.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I know this is a fairly banal observation in 2026 but it’s cool how republicans just openly lie, knowingly lie about obviously disprovable stuff. Nothing sophisticated, no slick PR, no elaborate propaganda techniques just Knowingly Lying About The Stupidest Shit On Earth

[Jeremy Kaplowitz @jeremysmiles]

how conservatives think bin laden chose to do 9/11

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Mother's in Gaza: My children have been vaporized by Israeli bombs.

Mayim Bialik: My children saw a T-shirt.

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Funny watching these guys act like birthright citizenship was proposed and implemented for the first time today.

[dan @UglyDucklingDan]

Guy who reviews pizza: yeah these politicians are soft they need to get real jobs

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

One of Trump’s many awful legacies will be convincing D-List celebrities that they understand politics.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It never ceases to be shocking how hostile the pro-Israel crowd is towards people specifically because they are Jewish. Honestly gross.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Sometimes republicans will say something like “last time you tried to protect tenants, landlords reacted violently toward everyone and burned down whole neighborhoods” as if it’s an argument in their favor.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

You have to let private landlords take more and more of your money every year for doing absolutely nothing otherwise they will engage in criminal arson

[SpideyDoesStuff @SpideyDoeStuff]

Mamdani at night

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Shocking to see this on tape

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Joseph McCarthy quite literally hated America for its freedoms and spent his life policing speech and canceling his enemies.

He then drank himself to death to try to numb the pain of his shame. Of course Matt considers him a hero.

[Channel 5 @Channel5iveNews]

“Palestine Streets” out now on YouTube

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Students were arrested for protesting this.