Pope Leo's Fourth of July message to all the world, incl. the U.S.:

“We become neighbors by acting as neighbors.”

["Neighbors" like in the 10 commandments, a community of people sharing this planet]

"...
Yesterday, the pope released a letter marking the semiquincentennial in which he implored the U.S. to live up to its founding ideals, particularly in its treatment of immigrants.
He called on the country to safeguard “human life from its beginning at conception until natural death,” which must include “welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes, sacrifices and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning.”
..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/pope-leo-lampedusa-july-4/687810/

I haven’t seen this posted…the text of Pope Leo’s acceptance address for the Liberty Medal of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, July 3rd. Despite the obvious spiritual language, it contains the uplifting rhetoric some of us were hoping for on the 250th/4th celebration.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2026/july/documents/20260703-liberty-medal.html

#IndependenceDay

NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders.

The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present.

This Fourth, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/two-hundred-and-fifty-years-justice-jackson

**Thomas Rousseau’s Patriot Front Grift**
MAGA’s Street Muscle Repackaged for the White Nationalist Pipeline
**Eyes On Ice**
https://eyesonice.substack.com/p/thomas-rousseaus-patriot-front-grift/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwaldby/116864095159279623

Actually original white mozzarella army's supposed to be exclusively made of Italian buffalo product, not of pseudo-American buffoons. 🤔😎🐃🐃🐃

Freedom only survives, because you, me, we all choose to defend it!

Happy 250th Anniversary to America's Declaration of the Spirit of Eternal Resistance Against Despotism & feeble-minded immaturity & criminality, wherever it originates from!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/independence-day-hostage-crisis-1976/687755/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116863361790233547

Were there a Nobel Criminality Prize, I'm sure the orange crook'd get one!

100% sure!

#Maga #4thOfJuly #ClimateCHange #GlobalWarming

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.

There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.

#Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

This song should be sung with the full lyrics. A protest song can also be a love song.

As I went walking I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

https://youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?is=jrMeij8G2xfiS6OF

https://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/This_Land.htm

@LaNaehForaday Especially precious would be for him to spend a decade or what’s left of his miserable life behind bars. Fantasy image follows:

George Washington and slavery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery

Trump Mocked After ‘Thieves, Radicals And Lunatics’ Line Backfires Spectacularly

See the comment section inn this article 😂

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pillage-loot_n_6a487867e4b03060a8508399

@CindyWeinstein Turns out Vance is an immoral opportunist who wanted some gold he could stash away. Just had to sell his soul which apparently was cheap.

Spouse explained why I liked visiting Milwaukee, Wisconsin so much more than visiting Madison, Wisconsin.

Madison had money that sprawled things out. The elite and upper class, the Capitol.

Milwaukee had money that concentrated things. Working class, rough and tumble.

#Madison #Milwaukee #Wisconsin

Orange Oval Office commie like: America's threatened by communists.

Also Soviets' & Putin's darling & the Russian mob's money-launderer in chief Trump: "And I’ll be honest – I think I’d be the greatest communist in history."

Where he's right he's right!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/trump-democrats-communists-midterms
#RuleOfLaw #UnseatTheTrumpRegime #NationalSecurityThreat #BetrayingAmerica #BetrayingAmericans #TrumPutin #MafiaState #AmericaDeservesBetter #AmericaHasBetter

SpaceX plans to launch 1 million satellites for space-based data centres.

This diagram shows the satellites that would be visible above our VLT:

⚪ invisible satellites in Earth’s shadow
🟠 2000 satellites brighter than magnitude 7
🔴 200 satellites brighter than magnitude 5

2/4

📷 ESO/O. Hainaut

RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116845598600670584

#SpaceDebris 📈

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116857755926130975

Only in America healthcare corruptly fucked up by "Republicans" equates to hospice care, preparing insolvent patients to die if they do not serve the Oligarchic mega-rich class.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@iryna/116858031943391543

Putin's empire of death & total destruction can't let go of its obsession with seeking lebensraum (= killing fields) in the west, for Russians, who didn't even have the chance (& will) to ask him for it.