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[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million deal with a player option, Klutch Sports Group and Klutch CEO and Game Over show host Rich Paul tells ESPN.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

another championship.

I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team and I am so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time.  

Thank you LA. Miami I’ll forever love and Northeast Ohio will always home!

🙏🏾🫡👑

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, according to Atul Gawande, a former leading administrator at the agency. Gawande, backed by recent academic studies, believes that the death toll will likely reach seven figures. The policy is not only immeasurably cruel, he argues; it is also stupid, badly undermining what remains of American soft power and prestige. Gawande explains the human cost of DOGE’s war on U.S.A.I.D.: https://t.co/pcqDGOFqdJ

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[gavrilo princess @Savoyard_Queen]

Criminal defense attorney is one of the most virtuous professions in existence. It is admirable to shoulder the burden of unsavory aspects of the legal system in service to the higher ideal that everyone deserves and is entitled to a vigorous defense.

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

Bread and roses

[WILD SPICY🔥 @OhFuckYeahBud82]

If it was me out there #different

[David Decosimo @DavidDecosimo]

University of Chicago Law School had decided to ban *not just AI* but laptops from the first year law classroom. This is the way!

[Nat Purser @NatPurser]

it’s never too late to read langston hughes’ “let america be america again.”

250 years of people trying, failing, fighting to bring back our mighty dream again. what a miracle, to be a part of it. 🇺🇸

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

America’s greatest accomplishments at 250:
1. Jazz
2. Barbecue
3. Baseball
4. Turning right on red
5. Patti Smith
6. Constitutional Democracy (discontinued)
7. Spielberg’s 70s through 90s run
8. Seinfeld (the show, not the guy)
9. The National Parks System
10. Coca-Cola

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

My statement on America at 250 and the state of the country:

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Happy 4th of July!

[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.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"