Melanie Grigsby 🟧☮️

Retired NM/MO teacher, proud auntie, lover of traveling, books, and democracy, #ChiefsKingdom, #RoyalsNation, #STLCardinals, #MODem, #VoteBlueMoreIn24

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Personally, I love hearing Steve Bannon say it. I love hearing Mike Johnson say it. I especially love hearing Stephen Miller say it.
I love it when ANY of the sociopathic Trump acolytes and ideologs allege that if they lose the midterms, every one of them will be investigated and face accountability.
THAT is EXACTLY what the majority of America NEEDS to hear. It certainly motivates the shit out of me.

[jezz @JezziiB]

On America’s 250th birthday, remember that less than 6 months ago, civilians were executed on the street in broad daylight in a U.S. city occupied by armed federal agents in masks.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

REMINDER: There are now 122 days until the Nov 3 midterm. Saying this is the most important election in our lives is an understatement. This is the most important election in the life of our Republic. If MAGA wins, they will rig the 2028 election and target the freedoms of all who oppose them!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

To the people asking what Obama did to make Republicans hate him, he's black and he won. That's it. There's no other reason. You can stop asking.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Trump ~
“Our American ancestors did not shed their blood just so that a band of thieves, radicals and lunatics could come in and loot, pillage our nation.”

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Happy Fourth of July, New York City

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Democrats wore masks so their neighbors wouldn’t get sick.

Republicans wear masks so their neighbors don’t know they are a racist.

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

Judge Sullivan should order that the files be delivered to his court for in camera inspection and release.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Today MSNOW’s Vaughn Hilliard…reports that Trump’s new Acting DNI Bill Pulte has carried out another PURGE within the intelligence community firing dozens of career officials. One official told MSNOW that the administration is targeting people who they believe are Deep State.  Remember that Bill Pulte is a 38 year old home construction nepo baby who had ZERO intelligence experience before being appointed to this role. That’s his background, everyone, he has only had the job for two weeks. But somehow he has already decided that dozens of career intelligence officials are part of the so-called Deep State and fired them. As one former official told MSNOW, and this is quite a quote: ‘This isn’t a guy who’s familiar with intelligence. It would be like me taking over a hospital and firing dozens of surgeons in a matter of days.’”😳

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

On July 4, 2026, America’s 250th birthday, Reuters photographed a young Black woman surrounded by masked white supremacists.

It felt like Trump’s America in one frame.

Masked extremists in public. Masked ICE agents at people’s doors. Immigrants hunted. Rights treated like obstacles.

Trump empowered this, uniformed it, and made it policy.

We’re fighting back with https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY.

Help fight fascism: https://t.co/Txyhf9LSil

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

DL Hughley on Clarence Thomas: “He’s literally a DEI hire. There’s nothing you could ask him to do that would hurt Black or brown people he wouldn’t do. I think Clarence Thomas, if he gets up in the middle of the night and sees a Black man in the mirror, he’ll call the police”

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Our army of volunteers was out across the entire state of Maine today.

We are still fighting for our freedoms, 250 years later.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Rep. Kean shouldn't be stigmatized for mental health crisis.
But getting 4 taxpayer PAID months off from his job & receiving best healthcare, while voting to deny paid leave & healthcare benefits to other Americans, THAT it's fair to stigmatize him for.

https://t.co/hSe44fQieO

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that Todd Blanche has refused to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang's lawsuit, should be a more significant story.
The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story.
The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and now we found out he was, should be a more significant story.
The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup should be the most significant story of all.
And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then - especially - his panicked behavior on all things Epstein, it really should be the end of his presidency.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's important for us all to acknowledge these white supremacists aren't marching with masks and sunglasses in our Nation's Capital out of personal safety.

They're masked because they're cowards. They lack conviction. They're gutless. They're timid. They're soft.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

America is a constant work in progress. Every generation must take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further—protecting what’s right, fixing what’s wrong, and making our union a little more perfect. 250 years later, that’s more important than ever.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

I’m not sure how many times we have to say the SAVE Act is a voter suppression bill, but here’s the president saying it himself.