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Mass Shooting at July 4th Cookout in Coney Island Leaves 8 Injured

📰 Original title: 8 Wounded In Mass Shooting At July Fourth Cookout In Coney Island

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#justice #massshooting #coneyisland #july4th

An underreported bit of mediocrity for the DC Fourth of July celebrations: the cheap-looking projections on the Washington Monument (photo from https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-monument-illumination-returns-for-fourth-of-july-celebrations-freedom-250-independence-day-projection-mapping-250th-anniversary-national-mall-patriotism).

This looks like a cheap neon store sign, not a tribute to America's anniversary.

#Freedom250 #July4th #corruption

So on July 4th, as the USA was celebrating its stunningly long 250 year history, I spent a big chunk of the day at a Buddhist temple in Wuhan that features this tower.

This 739 year old tower.

"Freedom 250" just doesn't really land very hard anymore after staring at this for a while.

#July4th #BaotongTemple #HongshanPagoda #Freedom250 #Perspective739

On July 5th 1852, exactly 174 years ago today, Frederick Douglass gave a speech at Corinthian Hall here in #RochesterNY, at a gathering of the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. His words were blunt and honest, pointing out the hypocrisy about the laudable ideals of liberty and justice promised in the Declaration of Independence. He forced his audience to confront the truth, that the high-minded assertion that "all men are created equal", was NOT actually being extended to all.

The speech is known under the title "What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?" It is well worth reading again now, on this July 5th.

Here's the complete text of the speech, as published in a pamphlet at the time:

https://archive.org/details/Douglass_July_Oration/page/n1/mode/2up

And here are some central excerpts from the speech, read by some of Douglass's descendants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5qbnkqoM

#FrederickDouglass #July4th #July5th

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

#Freedom250 #July4th #FourthOfJuly at the #Capitol.

#WTF
https://youtu.be/ppTEXZnKppc?t=502

We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.
-- George Carlin

#CurrentMood #July4th #Freedom250 #USA #history #GeorgeCarlin #quote #quotes

It's only fitting that today, July 4th, 2026, the 250th "birthday" of America, it is hot as hell outside, and a health hazard, for most of the US, as well as an outbreak of explosive diarrhea in the US due to a parasite... #USPol #July4th #Freedom250 #4thofJuly

Is #God trying to tell Trump something? 😂😂😂😂 #250 #Freedom250 #July4th
https://apple.news/AqbrjcOgKQCGisnFUQ930WQ

“What to the Slave is 4th of July?”:
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

Democracy Now! Youtube-channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0baE_CtU08
#July4th #frederickdouglass #democracynow

If you want to hear the full text after watching these amazing young people, Democracy Now! has posted their annual YT video of the late James Earl Jones reading the full text, here:

#FrederickDouglass #USA250 #Freedom #July4th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6voBttasmk

I have always loved James Earl Jones' delivery of this speech, but gog, this one hits so hard: a few young Frederick Douglass' descendants read excerpts from his, "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" speech.

#FrederickDouglass #USA250 #Freedom #July4th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5qbnkqoM

WHATEVER day it is, I'll have your complete 7-day weather forecast for the 4th of July weekend and ALL of next week at 4:30, 5:30 and 10pm! Have a fun, safe and happy 4th of July, everyone!

#Montana #WhatDayIsIt #Thursday #Friday #Saturday #4thOfJuly #July4th #July4 #weather

vegan/vegetarisches 4-Gängemenue und Beiträge aus den USA und Berlin über den politischen Gefangenen und Journalisten #Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Meldet euch per E-mail (gerne Pseudonym) zwecks Essensplanung an: [email protected]

#Berlin #July4th #FreeMumia #FreeThemAll

✊ 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

Another gallery of Flickr Commons photos I put together 14 years ago, this one in honor of the 4th of July. It is an assortment of images celebrating both the US Independence Day - as well as other expressions of patriotism and independence from around the world.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8265502@N08/galleries/72157624296949217/

#Flickr #FlickrCommons #Photos #Photography #Summer #SummerTime  #archives #history #IndependenceDay #July4th

If you're in the USA: don't forget to keep your pets safe and away from fireworks!

https://www.aaha.org/resources/stars-stripes-and-safety-july-fourth-pet-safety-tips/

#Pets #July4 #July4th #Safety #AnimalSafety #IndependenceDay #Fireworks #4thOfJuly #FourthOfJuly #PSA

Happy #Independence Day! #July4th

Check out "July Fourth in Cape Cod"

© Photo by Chris Boese

https://www.chrisboese.photo/warehouse-open-edition-prints/art_print_products/july-fourth-in-cape-cod?product_gallery=273374&product_id=6081330

#JulyFourthinCapeCod #ocean #water #pier #summer #fireworks #JulyFourth #chrisboese #boesegalleries #artquote #artcollection #artwork #contemporaryart #IndependenceDay #CapeCod #Celebration #July4th #Massachusetts #Provincetown #Photography #Art #MastoArt #MastodonArt