The Japan Times<p>Americans must reckon with the fact that President Donald Trump’s administration has largely abandoned the principles underpinning the Declaration of Independence. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/11/world/trumps-rejects-americas-founding-principles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/11/world/trumps-rejects-americas-founding-principles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/declarationofindependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>declarationofindependence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usconstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usconstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>donaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a></p>
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PrinceOfDenmark<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p><p>It has been *ages* since I read the whole <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a>. It is mind blowing how many colonial grievances are about actions that are *identical* to the crap Trump is pulling or trying to start now! <a href="https://mas.to/tags/IndependenceDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndependenceDay</span></a> is taking on a more contemporary significance.</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/check-out-the-declarations-list-of?r=3i6ry0&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/contrari</span><span class="invisible">an/p/check-out-the-declarations-list-of?r=3i6ry0&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p>Bonus <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Joke</span></a><br>My friend saw the Liberty Bell once and said it's not all it's cracked up to be. </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Happy4thOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Happy4thOfJuly</span></a> !</p><p>(It's <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HootinTootinTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HootinTootinTuesday</span></a> again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humour</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FunnyMeme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FunnyMeme</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/4thOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4thOfJuly</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/July4th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>July4th</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AmericasBirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericasBirthday</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FourthOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthOfJuly</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FourthOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthOfJuly</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThomasJefferson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasJefferson</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LibertyBell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibertyBell</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p>Reading publicly of the FULL Declaration of Independence needs to be done this next Friday from every street corner. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/declarationofindependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>declarationofindependence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LetsGoTaco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsGoTaco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
Wulfric<p>*Looks around at America*</p><p>So...what are your plans for the 4th of July?</p><p>I'm getting ready by sharing the Declaration of Independence. If people read it, they might get ideas.</p><p><a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">archives.gov/founding-docs/dec</span><span class="invisible">laration-transcript</span></a></p><p>How many of these apply today?</p><p>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</p><p>He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.</p><p>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.</p><p>He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.</p><p>He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</p><p>He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.</p><p>He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.</p><p>He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.</p><p>He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.</p><p>He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.</p><p>He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.</p><p>He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.</p><p>He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:</p><p>For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:</p><p>For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:</p><p>For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:</p><p>For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:</p><p>For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:</p><p>For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:</p><p>For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:</p><p>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:</p><p>For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.</p><p>He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.</p><p>He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.</p><p>He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.</p><p>He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.</p><p>He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a></p>
Ed Wilk 🇺🇦🌵<p>Rest easy, my friends. All is well..</p><p>Molly Ploofkins<br>@mollyploofkins.bsky.social</p><p>MORAN: What does it (the Declaration of Independence) mean to you?</p><p>TRUMP: It means exactly what it says; it's a declaration of unity, love and respect and it means a lot. It's something very special to our country.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/declarationofindependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>declarationofindependence</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/clueless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clueless</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChunderRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChunderRoad</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/drink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drink</span></a></p>
Ferdi Magellan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <br>History repeats. </p><p>‘They descended on Philadelphia from all over, determined to act against a king and his “establishment of absolute tyranny over these states.” Their long list of grievances included:<br>“For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;<br>For imposing taxes on us without our consent;<br>For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;<br>For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;"</p><p>…<br>‘But actually these are quotes from the Thomas Jefferson-penned Declaration of Independence, reminding us of the tragic irony that America under President Donald Trump has, in many ways, become the kind of tyranny that citizens on this soil rebelled against in 1776.’</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThomasJefferson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasJefferson</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TRumpTheTyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TRumpTheTyrant</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>I came across a copy of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> today in the office of a criminal defense attorney.</p><p>What I love about it is the relative size of John Hancock’s signature.</p><p><a href="https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2019/09/12/john-hancock-and-his-signature/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prologue.blogs.archives.gov/20</span><span class="invisible">19/09/12/john-hancock-and-his-signature/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
beSpacific<p>This man appears to want <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Bibles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bibles</span></a>, not <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/inhalers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inhalers</span></a>, for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oklahoma</span></a>'s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a>, Ryan Walters is supposed to be Oklahoma's "Superintendent of Public Instruction." The Request for Proposal <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RFP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFP</span></a> looking to award a contract for “the purchase of 55,000 King James Version Bibles with US Pledge of Allegiance, The U.S. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DeclarationofIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationofIndependence</span></a>, The U.S. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>, and The U.S. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BillofRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillofRights</span></a> documents included.“ Specifically on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bibles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bibles</span></a>. <a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/</span><span class="invisible">10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publicschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicschools</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>That instinct stayed w/them. In #1776, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> accused the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/king" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>king</span></a> of having “made <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judges</span></a> dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, & the amount & payment of their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/salaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>salaries</span></a>.” A decade later, delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, although bitterly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/divided" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>divided</span></a> about many things, stayed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unified</span></a> on the need for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independent</span></a> federal judges.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PartisanCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivistCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illiberalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VillageIdiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VillageIdiot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MarjorieTaylorGreene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarjorieTaylorGreene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roasted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roasted</span></a> After <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Flunking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flunking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Basic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lesson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lesson</span></a>. </p><p>Why hasn’t <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MTG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTG</span></a> taken her <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/post" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>post</span></a> on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DeclarationofIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationofIndependence</span></a> down yet? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extremism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FauxPatriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FauxPatriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThePartyOfHate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EmptyThePews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmptyThePews</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/183519/marjorie-taylor-greene-roasted-basic-history-lesson-declaration-independence" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/183519/ma</span><span class="invisible">rjorie-taylor-greene-roasted-basic-history-lesson-declaration-independence</span></a></p>
DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic<p>Americans’ lack of understanding of their own history adds to the turmoil of today 😬</p><p>The indictments against King 👑 George in the <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/DeclarationofIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationofIndependence</span></a> could just easily be applied to <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> granted <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> an extraordinary level of immunity from prosecution, described by dissenting Justice Sonia <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Sotomayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sotomayor</span></a> as elevating the president to “a <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/King" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>King</span></a> above the law”</p><p>The day after <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/KevinRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KevinRoberts</span></a> said:</p><p>“We are in the process of the 2nd <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/AmericanRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanRevolution</span></a>, which will remain <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Bloodless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bloodless</span></a> if the left allows it to be”</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a><br><a href="https://on.ft.com/3XObR93" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">on.ft.com/3XObR93</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jim Wald<p>When I was small, my father knew I was very interested in <a href="https://historians.social/tags/VastEarlyAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VastEarlyAmerica</span></a>, so when he went to Washington, he brought me large facsimiles of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> & <a href="https://historians.social/tags/EmancipationProclamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmancipationProclamation</span></a>, as well as a folder w smaller texts of Declaration, Constitution, Bill of Rights</p>
Skip Lacaze<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@GregPalast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GregPalast</span></a></span> What is the source for this quote? I can find a few variations included in longer drafts, but the words, if not the meaning, are quite different. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ThomasJefferson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasJefferson</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">blackpast.org/african-american</span><span class="invisible">-history/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery/</span></a> <a href="https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffd</span><span class="invisible">rft.html</span></a></p>
Jim Wald<p>Even in his indictment of American society, Douglass ended as he put it, "where I began, with hope," "drawing encouragement from 'the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a>,' the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions." Would he still have confidence today?<br>2/3</p>
Jim Wald<p>for the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/FourthOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthOfJuly</span></a>: Our Favorite Quotations About the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> - Journal of the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/AmericanRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanRevolution</span></a></p><p><a href="https://allthingsliberty.com/2024/07/our-favorite-quotations-about-the-declaration-of-independence/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">allthingsliberty.com/2024/07/o</span><span class="invisible">ur-favorite-quotations-about-the-declaration-of-independence/</span></a></p><p>There are some little gems buried in this long list. See what you find</p>
Today On Screen<p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, July 4, in 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress (depicted in 1776, 1972)</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cinemastodon</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Letterboxd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Letterboxd</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/SecondContinentalCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondContinentalCongress</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/SeventeenSeventySix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeventeenSeventySix</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/July4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>July4</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/July4th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>July4th</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/4thOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4thOfJuly</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/FourthOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthOfJuly</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/JulyFourth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JulyFourth</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/IndependenceDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndependenceDay</span></a></p>
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)<p>“But just as in the 1850s, we are now, once again, facing a rebellion against our founding principle, as a few people seek to reshape America into a nation in which certain people are better than others.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuleOfLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndependenceDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndependenceDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LettersFromAnAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LettersFromAnAmerican</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-3-2024-aea" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/july-3-2024-aea</span></a></p>
gentlegardener<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/independenceday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independenceday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> Not feelin’ it. Maybe a walk at <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/jamesmadisonsmontpelier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesmadisonsmontpelier</span></a> nearby will do the trick, or watching <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> become new <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizens</span></a> at <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/monticello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monticello</span></a>. Considering how <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Adams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adams</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/jefferson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jefferson</span></a> both died on this day 50 years after the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/declarationofindependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>declarationofindependence</span></a> was edited/penned, then published at great peril by <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scots</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irish</span></a> printers.</p><p>Last year I was in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belfast</span></a> at a little visited exhibit on the people whose thinking, writing, and fighting for their independence informed ours</p>
Democrats Abroad<p>Happy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/July4th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>July4th</span></a>! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocratsAbroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocratsAbroad</span></a> members from around the world joined to read the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeclarationOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfIndependence</span></a> in honor of this holiday. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> was founded in defiance of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/king" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>king</span></a>. 248 years later, our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> has never been more in danger. </p><p>Democracy itself is on the ballot this November. </p><p>So after we’re done celebrating, we’re excited to get back to work, helping Americans abroad <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a>! </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/ezH0nqLRwHY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/ezH0nqLRwHY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="http://VoteFromAbroad.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">VoteFromAbroad.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FourthOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthOfJuly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
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