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[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

op: @nmaahc

I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.

— Langston Hughes, “I, Too,” 1926

📸 “The American Flag: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture”

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Due to a shortage of Independence the 4th of July has been moved to November 3rd!
Midterm elections!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The DOJ has decided to not release millions of files. So let’s remind people: Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein EpsteinEpstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein EpsteinEpstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein EpsteinEpstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein TRUMP LIED Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein EpsteinEpstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

Approximately 71,000 Black children and teenagers were reported missing in 2021. Children cannot consent to sex work but Black and Brown girls are often adultified, treated as older than they are, denied the innocence given to others, and too often blamed for the abuse they suffer. Instead of receiving protection and empathy, many are met with suspicion, judgment, and neglect.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

It's weird to me how trump never lets go of a grudge, he still bitches about Obama, Biden, Hillary, and even Rosie O'Donnell for some reason.

He never says a word about any of the people who supposedly tried to assassinate him.

Nothing. Weird.

[BMB Empower Network @Bmbempower]

#MAGA’s had to seek refuge in the National Museum of #AfricanAmerican #History and Culture.

There's a message there.

[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”

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1933, a white mob broke into a jail cell in South Carolina, lynched a Black man named Norris Dendy, and left his body in a churchyard.
https://t.co/0nQdC3W6Pu

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, President Obama’s message could not ring more true: There is not a red America or a blue America. There is only the United States of America.

[Covie @covie_93]

The white supremacists wear masks because they're your neighbors, teachers, doctors, plumbers, cops, electricians etc...

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

Trump stood at Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe — “Six Grandfathers,” aka Mount Rushmore — last night and told America that anyone who says it was built on stolen land is spreading “Marx’s lies about our heritage.” He said the people who “tell our children that we live on stolen land” are doing “something much worse than slandering our past” — they’re “attacking our future.” He called them “a band of thieves, radicals and lunatics.”
No, Trump. You’re wrong.
So let’s be direct about it, since you weren’t: Yes. The United States of America is stolen land. It was founded through genocide, oppression and dispossession of the people who were already here. That’s not a Marxist talking point. That’s the historical record, and here are the receipts…

Start with the ground he was standing on.
READ/SHARE MY PIECE ON INDIGENOUS INSIDER: https://t.co/Ey0IlCdLxy

[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

[ColorOfChange @ColorOfChange]

Independence Day isn’t a simple celebration. For many, it is a reminder of how long Black people have struggled, and continue to struggle, to be recognized fully as Americans.

So today, we honor OUR history. We honor the fighters. And we keep pushing forward together.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

What our ancestors were doing on 4th of July 1776.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This photograph today deserves a Pulitzer Prize.

A black girl sits in the middle of dozens of white supremacist patriot front members in Washington DC on the Fourth of July.

This is so representative of the country. We’re living in under Donald Trump right now. I want my country back.

REUTERS/Cheney Orr @orr_photo

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

This is America. 2026.

[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.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: WE LOVE IT! Pope Leo beautifully trolls MAGA racists by celebrating America's 250th birthday with a heartfelt celebration of immigrants.

Just when you thought you couldn't possibly like him even more...

"I extend my heartfelt congratulations to all Americans on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence," stated the first American Pope. "This semiquincentennial marks that defining moment in the history of the United States of America, July 4, 1776, that gave enduring voice to the ideals of liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness, justice and democratic self-government."

Tragically, those ideals are under constant assault from Donald Trump, a President who has marked this Pope as one of his primary antagonists on the world stage. Leo has dared to criticize Trump's brutal treatment of migrants as well as his illegal war against Iran. Trump has attacked him, but clearly Leo remains unbowed.

"For two and a half centuries, generations of Americans have worked together to carry these principles forward — through sacrifice, service, innovation and civic participation," the Pope continued. "This anniversary stands as an invitation not only to celebrate the nation’s remarkable journey, but also to reflect upon the responsibilities that the sons and daughters of this country bear to one another, and to the generations who will inherit the nation that is being shaped today."

He went on to celebrate America's tradition of religious freedom, another principle that's under attack from a MAGA movement that wants to install a fascist Evangelical theocracy. But it was the section on immigrants that really has Republicans incensed—

"Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes, sacrifices and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning," said Leo. "In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity and a place to belong have helped to shape the nation’s character. To receive them with compassion and generosity is not only an act of charity, but also a recognition of the dignity that belongs to every human person."

Contrast this patriotic message of inclusion with the hateful vitriol that constantly spews forth from the White House. Conservatives have been raging all week over the Supreme Court's decision to uphold birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, Trump will deliver a Fourth of July speech that will be partisan, self-aggrandizing, bigoted, and completely divorced from the eternal ideals that guided this nation's Founders.

As far as American leadership goes, Pope Leo puts Donald Trump to shame every single time.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Leo!

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Sister Leticia Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass when ICE arrested her in the street. A woman of faith simply trying to get to church. How did we get here? When a nun cannot walk to worship without fear of being detained in this country, we have to stop and ask what values are we standing on.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Let's be clear: Trump's administration is not "America First."

It is "Trump First."