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this soldier gave all. Veteran of Desert Shield/Storm, OIF, OEF.

[sofi🇸🇪 @sophiacabjs]

cómo mierda es que recién me entero de la existencia de esta entrevista por dios. estoy completamente enamorada de estos dos

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@DebroVali @ActuFoot_ I bet your teacher remembers you for being a dunce

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@belenperalta @KMbappe If you don’t stfu with this bs

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@_jsyknow @theMadridZone She is a despicable woman and so are you

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@SbondyNBA He is a striker you clown there was no midfielder getting the ball to him. Continue living off of your daddy name and bluffing about your basketball knowledge

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@jasonwhitlock Fat guy with no talent looking for relevance

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@TrueFactsStated Why don’t you relocate there also?

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@grizibae @MarioNawfal Living proof that your mother should have swallowed you

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@krassenstein I think you should go live in Belgium 🇧🇪 and enjoy the ruling law

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@JasonReidx We’ll go over there and stand with them and gtfo of the USA

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@jasonwhitlock You fat ass just dip into every subject looking for relevance

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@Dakbluv @David_Ornside Go shake hands with your mother and congratulate her for making a clown like you.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

On July 4, 1776, while white America celebrated its declaration of independence, approximately 500,000 enslaved Africans and their descendants remained in chains in the thirteen colonies. They made up roughly 20% of the colonial population of 2.5 million people, human beings denied the very liberty proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.

📹Press play and let the song speak truth.

For my ancestors, there was no freedom to celebrate. There was no liberty. There was no justice. There was no equality. They were bought, sold, raped, whipped, branded, exploited, and treated as property while a nation declared that “all men are created equal.”

Today, there is a determined effort to sanitize that history, to pretend slavery was merely an unfortunate chapter, that enslavers were simply “men of their time,” and that the brutality of chattel slavery should be viewed through a softer lens. No. There is nothing ordinary about owning another human being. There is nothing admirable about building wealth and a nation on stolen labor, stolen lives, and stolen futures.

We do not celebrate July 4 because we were not free. Independence Day was not independence for Black people. Our ancestors remained enslaved for nearly another century. Then came Black Codes, Jim Crow, racial terror lynchings, legalized segregation, disenfranchisement, redlining, mass incarceration, and the ongoing struggle to be recognized as fully human. Our fight for freedom did not end in 1776, or even in 1865. In many ways, it continues today.

That is why Frederick Douglass asked, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” His question still confronts America’s conscience.

So today I ask another question:

What to Black people today is the Fourth of July?

Until liberty, justice, and equality are more than promises on paper, it remains a day that reminds us not only of America’s stated founding ideals, but of America’s unfinished work to actualize them 250 years later.

#IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #America250

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Running out of metaphors

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@Aczar1Alan @highbrow_nobrow Y’all are cowards now you don’t even want to claim your own

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:

"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.

"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.

"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.

"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.

"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."

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

There’s somebody making $22,000/year in rural America going to bed right now that sincerely believes Donald Trump spent his whole day fighting for them.