Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    Have those Republicans ever explained what the hell they were doing in Russia on the 4th of July? That’s just not normal.

  2. 2.

    Scout211

    Bringing back the pledge to allow non-citizens in the military to earn US citizenship is one of the many, many good things about our new President.

    Back in the Bush II years, my SIL became a US citizen while in the military.

  3. 3.

    mali muso

    It was 8 years ago today that my husband was sworn in as a new citizen in a very moving ceremony held at Monticello. The special guest speaker was Dave Matthews. Looking at the diverse group of new Americans that day gave me hope. Still trying to hold on to it today, but onward we go.

  4. 4.

    gkoutnik

    Every July 4th I listen to the folks from NPR read the Declaration of Independence.  I would recommend this; there is some very hot stuff in there.

    This particular year, I was struck by this, one of the many complaints against King George III:

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    “Formidable to tyrants only.”  As we continue to push back against voter suppression, this is a pretty good motivator, I think.

  7. 7.

    debbie

    @gkoutnik:

    Tangentially, I think this was the first year they noted the racist complaints about African Americans and Native Americans.

  9. 9.

    terraformer

    @Patricia Kayden: ​ 

    This is on the long list of questions of goings-on in the past administration. Everyone in that group has said and acted in a clearly pro-Putin manner or otherwise repeated or mirrored whatever was – and still is, particularly in the case of my Senator, Johnson – in the best interests of Putin​
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  10. 10.

    jackmac

    I waited until today to view the New York Times’ video report on the Jan. 6 insurrection. What I found was a well-produced account that was — astonishingly —  so much worse than impressions received via video clips and print reports. Hey FBI and prosecutors, you haven’t arrested nearly enough of these traitors. There’s room in jails and courts to charge several hundred more of these doughy, middle-aged white guys. There’s also room for their GOP Congressional accomplices.

  11. 11.

    J R in WV

    Happy Birthday, United States of America!

    This is one great way to recognize the proper inclusive nature of the nation, and the Rosie the Nurse artwork is pretty amazing also too.

    Anyone who objects to this ceremony can sit on the proverbial rusty farm implement and rotate. A Wonderful American ceremony for the Forth of July~!!~

  13. 13.

    zhena gogolia

    @jackmac: 
    I’ve watched about 15-20 minutes. I had seen a lot during the second impeachment, but what’s revelatory here is the way they highlight the key inciters in the crowd (Proud Boys and Oath Keepers). It takes some strategy to get an amorphous crowd to break into the Capitol building, and this film shows how it happened. Sickening.

  14. 14.

    Gin & Tonic

    When I was working, it was a custom for a bunch of co-workers to go to a local minor league baseball game on or near the 4th. There were always fireworks after the game, which was cool, but often before the game there was a citizenship swearing-in ceremony on the field. The diversity of the new Americans, and the import of the ceremony would invariably get me all verklempt.

    Now, I just hope I’m able to move under my own power by the time it’s my daughter-in-law’s turn.

  15. 15.

    Rocks

    @jackmac:&nbsp@jackmac:  Now that the FTFNYT has actually produced this, will it cause the kind of introspection that would make their editorial page less of a Title D landfill? Asking for a friend.

  16. 16.

    FelonyGovt

    I remember my mother-in-law’s citizenship ceremony about 40 years ago. It made me tear up, watching her and the other diverse new citizens. I’m glad our country seems (for the most part) to be back.

  17. 17.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    I checked the transcript. The lead-in to the complaint was a list of the complaints that were removed at the last minute, in late complaint about the slave trade. Sorry.

  23. 23.

    Mary G

    I smell another divorce in the offing:

    Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of himself on Instagram wakeboarding while holding an American flag and set to the music of the late John Denver singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”I saw it, so now you have to see it too. I’m sorry. I did not make the rules.Happy #July4th pic.twitter.com/FiA9RDP29Z— Leah McElrath ?️‍? (@leahmcelrath) July 4, 2021

  25. 25.

    Robert Sneddon

    @gkoutnik: ​
     

    one of the many complaints against King George III:

    George III had buggerall to do with control of the British colonies, the treaties signed with the French and Native American tribes, passing laws and all the other stuff the Founding Fathers were dead set against.

    Question — without looking it up does any American reading this know the name of the Prime Minister in charge in Britain at the time of the First Treasonous Slaveowners Rebellion? Hint — his first name is “Lord”.

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    zhena gogolia

    Any of you crossword fanatics out there, Evan Birnholz’s puzzle for the WaPo today is stunning.

  31. 31.

    H.E.Wolf

    Wonderful update by John Deering of Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter” image.

    Every July 4th I wear my T-shirt with Rockwell’s “Rosie” on it. Here she is with her overalls decorated with union badges, trampling Hitler’s verdammt book.
    https://i.etsystatic.com/17244327/r/il/b58279/3035588342/il_794xN.3035588342_tfcm.jpg

    And here’s the Michelangelo original (Isaiah). Note that he and Rosie both have haloes. :)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah​

    ETA: found a more complete version of Rockwell’s painting.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    @zhena gogolia:   Thank you.  Will check it out.

    Have been working through the older [but this iteration] New Yorker crosswords; they started the feature anew in spring 2018.  Some of them are a bit tough because perhaps millennial speak, which was current in 2018 but not heard now.  Learning a lot about pop culture.  References to Cardi B have appeared in two puzzles by now.

    They’re fun, though. 19 pages back in the crosswords section.

  33. 33.

    Comrade Colette

    @WaterGirl: I’m just guessing, but sounds like Bezos/Gates/Musk-level midlife/privilege acting out in a way that suggests – and causes – trouble at home.

    Also, fuck that guy.

  40. 40.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    @Mary G: zuckerberg & snowden are worse than seung-hui cho as yung virginians of promise.

    fuck all of them.

  43. 43.

    frosty

    @H.E.Wolf: ​
      Amazing. Deering borrowed it from Rockwell who borrowed it from Michaelangelo. If you’re going to steal, steal from the best!

  44. 44.

    Gin & Tonic

    @WaterGirl: I got the red sports car back on April, but “mid-life” is pretty far back in the rear view mirror. Plus, it’s something dear wife and I have been coveting for some time.

  46. 46.

    Mary G

    @Mary G: @Comrade Colette:

    That was my thought, many times a man of a certain age has done something to reassure himself of his masculinity, trouble brews. He is a new man and his wife is the same old, same old, yelling about socks on the floor. His ability to hold the flag while wakeboarding is more impressive to me than a red sports car, or Bezos’ yacht so big it needs a support yacht, or Bezos/Branson/Musk space ships. But he’s still an asshole and Facebook is a crime against nature.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @Gin & Tonic: ooh, sounds pretty.  For nearly a year before my niece turned 16 she must have said a million times that what she wanted for her birthday was a red porsche.

    So I dutifully went to a hobby store (do they even have those anymore?) and got a little model of a red porsche, and I had it sitting in the driveway when she got home from school on her birthday.

    It wasn’t the real thing, but it was something!

  48. 48.

    Mary G

    @Mary G: Also, too, here is a brilliant thread about billionaires in space:

    If any of you are under the impression that our billionaires might succeed in "escaping" to space, while the world burns, let me put those fears to rest with what I know from being the spouse of a NASA flight controller. ?— Sim Kern (@sim_kern) July 3, 2021

  49. 49.

    WaterGirl

    @Mary G: Even whatever he was doing on the board looked fake – it looked like it was a board on a post.  Or is that a thing?  I really need to get out more.

  50. 50.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Mary G: Zuck Fuckerberg​ with a chusty rainsaw.

    If there was ever a good excuse for defacing the American flag, ramming that one still on its pole up his pseudohuman arse and twisting hard would be it.

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    @Gin & Tonic

    Have a thing against red cars and trucks in general. In bright sunlight it can become nigh impossible for those behind one to determine when the brake lights are on.

  55. 55.

    Mary G

    @WaterGirl: It’s a thing, kids do it here, and you need a strong core, leg and arm muscles. I think it looks fake because he fell a lot and the takes are stitched together with “the best” AI, whose makers hate his guts. And the water is suspiciously smooth for a wake. Or that’s my fantasy, anyway.

  56. 56.

    James E Powell

    @Steeplejack:

    Thanks. I did it. I didn’t really think it was anything but ordinary, but maybe because I was watching TV while I’m doing it, I missed all this.

  57. 57.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @frosty: If you’re going to steal, steal from the best!

    Old expression: Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

  60. 60.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Mary G:

    Related, but I’ve totally not been being paying attention the last few years, but I guess we’re going back to the moon

    Kinda crazy it could only be a few years away and a woman/POC could walk on the moon

  61. 61.

    Spanky

    @NotMax: I got my current pickup in red because the green one I had before was apparently invisible to other drivers, even with my lights on. None of them managed to hit it, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.

    Anyway, close calls have fallen way off. Given I’m driving the same roads with pretty much the same people, I’ll cite the variable that has changed most.

  62. 62.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Mary G:

    @WaterGirl:

    What I don’t get is why he picked “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. Like, what does that have to do with July 4th? What’s so patriotic about that? It’s like Data from TNG trying to be human without the charm and all the smarm of Lore, his “brother”. Also, poor John Denver. He must be revolving in his grave

  63. 63.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @NotMax:

    A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement emailed to The Verge that it was reviewing the court’s decision, noting that the ruling was procedural, and that the company would continue to defend its position in court. “We care about our users in the Netherlands and protecting their privacy is important to us,” the spokesperson said. “ Users have meaningful control over the data that they share on Facebook and we provide transparency around how their data is used.”

    Has strong “your call is very important to us” vibes

  69. 69.

    JoyceH

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): 

    I guess we’re going back to the moon

    Dang, if you’d told 1970 me that in 2021 we wouldn’t have so much as a BASE on the moon, and no human had reached Mars yet, I would have called you a liar.

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