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[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

CBS News also warning about unfolding crisis at National Weather Service ⚠️

Experts warn about botched forecasts due to combination of missing data & poorly trained staff.

https://t.co/BX8vNkHh9g

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

“Socialism is the Republican word for anything that helps the people.”

~Harry Truman

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

Since most people aren't going to read the Trump administration's new 160-page report concluding the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is anti-white and anti-Christian, here's what they want to happen next

[Edward Badgette @acrimonyand]

Stephen Dillane is Thomas Jefferson.
He was just perfect.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot larger than 1,500 square meters.

The law took effect in July 2023. Large lots over 10,000 square meters must be 50 percent covered by solar canopies by July 2026. Smaller lots have until 2028.

Exemptions exist for lots with genuine technical or environmental constraints, and for lots already shaded by trees.

France didn't just issue a mandate and walk away. The 2024 Finance Law introduced a Green Industry Tax Credit covering 25 to 40 percent of eligible solar investment costs.

Small businesses largely won't be impacted by the law. It more targets shopping centers, supermarkets, stadiums, and large commercial lots, not Le P'tit Bistrot.

Critics said businesses would just get rid of their parking lots. Carrefour, France's largest supermarket chain, is actually enthusiastically installing solar canopies across 350 stores, covering 180,000 parking spaces. It's expected to generate 450 gigawatt hours of power annually, enough to run the stores themselves, and it's using the canopies as a selling point - shaded parking makes stores more attractive to customers.

The projected energy output is expected to be up to 11 gigawatts, equivalent to roughly 10 nuclear reactors, without using a single additional acre of land.

The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces, most of them uncovered asphalt baking in direct sunlight. Should we do this too?

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who cannot be trusted, indicating that President Donald Trump may be preparing to install his own team. https://t.co/1hkhn7Gmho

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: This is the smog in Washington DC this morning after Trump’s 5th of July fireworks display.

Note that he used six times the number of shells as a typical Washington DC Independence Day show, costing taxpayers six times as much money.

This isn’t patriotism, it’s nationalistic Theatre and authoritarian pageantry

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

When bigger isn't better. Another thing Trump ruined.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”

--W.E.B. Du Bois

[Guns&Gadgets @Guns_Gadgets]

The USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides, is the world’s oldest commissioned war ship still afloat!

She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. The name “Constitution” was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March or May for the frigates that were to be constructed.

Happy Independence Day America! 🇺🇸🫡
#america250 #america #independenceday #july4th

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Still gives me chills.

Happy 4th of July, America. 🇺🇸

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[louisahaslemere @haslemere1]

The turkey is a truly noble bird. Native American. Source of sustenance of our original settlers... Incredibly brave ... who would not flinch at attacking a regiment of Englishmen 🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸

[Hanabi @Hanabi_NYC]

July 4

Astoria, American Wild Turkey in The Battery

#birdcpp

[GBH Archives @GBHArchives]

Arthur Fiedler, the legendary Boston Pops conductor, makes his way through an adoring crowd on his way to the Hatch Shell for the Fourth of July concert in the late 1970s. Arthur was the founder of the outdoor concerts on the Esplanade with the first one on July 4, 1929.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

In 1942, James Cagney was told to just walk down the stairs in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Instead, he decided to improvise a tap dance down the slick marble steps. The crew tried to stop him due to the high injury risk. He ignored them, nailed it in ONE take.

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

On July 4th every year, the Boston Pops Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with real cannons, as the composer did in 1882.

[muppet music of the week @muppetmusic03]

Stars and Stripes forever! #TheMuppets #4thofJuly

[Nicholas Burns @RNicholasBurns]

Powerful and extraordinary to recall that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died 200 years ago today—July 4, 2026–on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.