#july4th — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/116873990326384796

Highly recommended thread about the the US Constitution, who wrote it, who it serves.

Please read it all

#July #July4th #4thofJuly #Constitution #USConstitution #Congress #USPOL #us #usa

Three children suffer major injuries in Kent fireworks accident

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/three-children-suffer-major-injuries-in-kent-fireworks-accident/

#Fireworks #July4th #IndependenceDay #Celebrations #Accidents #Safety #Dangers

At least 8 people, including 4 children, were shot during a #July4th barbecue in the #ConeyIsland neighborhood of #Brooklyn Saturday, acc/to police.

As family celebrated #IndependenceDay in the courtyard of a home, an unknown man dressed in all black & wearing a black ski mask approached the fence line along Surf Ave & fired multiple rounds into the courtyard before fleeing on foot, NYPD Com Jessica Tisch told reporters Sunday.

#MassShooting #law #GunLaws #GunControl
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/us/july-4-shooting-coney-island

In 1969 at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix played “The Star Spangled Banner” and masterfully used his guitar reflecting the American experience, beautiful & painful including the Vietnam War & racial tensions.

You can hear the war and screams of civil unrest woven in the melody.

#July4th #MusicSky #DejaVu

So many beautiful colors in Montana for the 4th of July: fireworks, rainbows and Northern Lights, too! Thanks to Rocky Rothwell for sending this pretty aurora photo from Columbus! I'll have your complete 7-day weather forecast at 10pm... have a safe night!

#Montana #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #aurora #4thOfJuly #July4th #photography #Saturday #weather

Happy #July4th 🇺🇸

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#ForkMesh #BuildInPublic #OpenSource #Git #GitHosting #DigitalIndependence #IndieDev #FOSS #SelfHosting #LocalFirst #DevTools #DecentralizedWeb

Poem – 250

https://vsvirsus.com/2026/07/04/poem-250/

@autistics

So, let's talk about 1976. At the time, I was in a "special needs" program at a school way bigger than the 2 room village schoolhouse I had been attending. The teachers at the new school encouraged all the students to write essays about the #AmericanRevolution -- the prize being a trip to Philadelphia to participate in the #Bicentennial. I managed to win the contest with a very graphic essay about #GeorgeWashington's troops in #ValleyForge (mentioning the possibility of #cannibalism -- one of my obsessions at the time, along with Zombies). Anyhow, in order to participate in the parade, we had to dress in period clothes. I *insisted* on having a boy-man's uniform (which I made in a very public interview with the local press), and I got my way! And marched with the boys/men, with the fife and drum squad and flag bearers (I played the flute). Unfortunately, I was there by myself, with no family to take photos of me. But here's a photo of the group I was part of. And bonus... I got to spend the night at Valley Forge, telling my tales of Revolutionary cannibalism!

#AmericanRevolution #Reenactment #GenderFluidity #GenderFluid #BornThisWay #ActuallyAutistic #HistoryGeek #ZombieGeek #July4th #USHistory

✊ Join us at Genesee Park in Cuba, NY from 11-12 on Friday 7/4 for our Fight Back Fridays demonstration! ✊

⭐ NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME AT 11AM⭐

Need more info? Just DM me or email [email protected].

#FightBackFridays #SocialJustice #CommunityOrganizing #Activism #WNY #WesternNY #CubaNY #July4th #Solidarity #PeacefulProtest #LocalActivism

Gil Michaels writes that fireworks are banned in Geezerville for July 4th, instead frolic reigns. Enjoy comedy, wine pairings and a fine Cuban potato salad recipe in this latest dispatch from Alameda's past.

https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/frolic-not-fireworks-on-the-geezerville-fourth-of-july/

#wine #music #comedy #frolic #alameda #july4th #geezerville #GildaMensch #NoFireworks #PotatoSalad #SriNisargadattaMaharaj

"What, to the #American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross #injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a #sham; your boasted #liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling #vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of #tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere #bombast, #fraud, #deception, #impiety, and #hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these #UnitedStates, at this very hour."

https://youtu.be/iZDcB1NhMfo

#July4th