ALAN K. HENDERSON: Musings on the Declaration of Independence. “These ends are summarized as the rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” To the untrained eye the last two may seem synonymous, but they speak of freedom from undue government coercion and freedom of peaceable individual initiative, respectively. The Declaration lists 27 grievances deemed serious enough to warrant the colonists to ‘throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.’ As I see it, they boil down to four basic principles.”

YEP, THAT’S HER:

This you? https://t.co/MZomB0SSNm pic.twitter.com/mxnuALZwtD

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 5, 2026

HANNAH KNUDSEN: America 250 Exposed the Democrats: They Want to Rule a Country They Don’t Love.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Communism isn't popular. Never has been.

Hence all Communist revolutions are spearheaded by a small number of academic elites, while the underlings—the ones who invariably perish in such a revolt—must be manipulated into participating with some other pet issue. https://t.co/dkGniT3Q1u

— RazörFist (@RazorFist) July 4, 2026

CHECKS OUT:

The UK is what happens when career public sector middle-managers get into power.

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) July 3, 2026

Update: Embed was bad before — sorry! Should work now.

DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE:

Just so we are all on the same page:

>White male surrounded by Black males
>Black males ASSAULT White male on camera
>White male gets arrested (???)
>By White female cop (?!!)
>Police ask for footage not to be shared

…what are we even doing here?! pic.twitter.com/5C3uLqqwX9

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) July 3, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: She Plays a Bloody Good Game of Pickleball. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to get a DUI with two vehicles in one day, all about full-contact pickleball, and what to do when a bear tries to steal your truck in Colorado.”

CORN, POPPED: FBI infiltrated Gavin Newsom’s inner circle by convincing governor’s ally to wear a wire.

MUSTN’T LET THE PROLES SEE ISRAEL IN A POSITIVE LIGHT:

Israel sent search-and-rescue teams to Venezuela. That's a documented fact.
The @nytimes reported on the international response while omitting Israel's rescue mission. Other major media outlets did the same. That's not a typo. It's not a factual dispute. It's an editorial…

— Chaskel Bennett (@ChaskelBennett) July 3, 2026

I guess there wasn’t a way to spin “Israel participates in rescue operations” as a genocide.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS LAST SEEN AT A ROADSIDE FIREWORKS STAND: Mamdani Gives 250th Anniversary Speech, and Boy, Does This Guy Hate America.

THAT ISN’T HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO WORK: AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced.

INDEED:

Qatar is an actual slave state with just a few hundred thousand citizens and a clear record of funding terrorism. The fact that we have somehow allowed them to buy their way into influencing so much of America's ME policy and dictating information flow is still crazy to me.

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 2, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: States Give Serfs a Huge America 250 ‘Gift’ “Your humble correspondent extends you a much better greeting than California and Washington gave to their citizens subjects this week. The three West Coast, Messed Coast™ governors demonstrate for all to see that they hate President Donald Trump more than they love the country this America 250. What losers.”

IRAN: WE CONTROL THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

Meanwhile, in the Strait of Hormuz: Hormuz Ship Transits Quadruple as Trump Plan Works.

I THINK EGYPT IS STILL IN, BUT POINT TAKEN:

Saudi Arabia is out. Egypt is out. Iran is out. England and France are the only Muslim countries left in the World Cup.

— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) July 2, 2026

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Shabbat Shalom From Israel!

CONSTITUENT SERVICE: Mamdani’s rent freeze affects 1 million apts—nearly 50% are occupied by foreigners. “According to the 2023 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, the latest data available, 44 percent of all homes that are rent-stabilized in the city were occupied by people born outside of the US, which would translate to approximately 440,000 residences.”

Bumped and updated with important context from Eugene Volokh:

1. “People born outside of the US” (such as me) isn’t the same as “foreigners.”

2. About 38% of New Yorkers are foreign-born. They are thus slightly overrepresented in “rent stabilized” housing, but also slightly underrepresented (by the same 6%) in public housing, and at about their share of the population in market rental and rent-controlled housing (according to the table on which the cited article relies). So it sounds like the native-born and non-native-born New Yorkers are on balance very similar to each other in their use of these particular kinds of benefits. Or am I missing something?

Looks like he didn’t miss much at all, but that PM (and Yours Truly) did.

SHOT:

I do not, in fact, think a feminist matriarchy would institute institutional affirmative action for men. https://t.co/I6Yk0YJnul

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 3, 2026

Chaser:

Turn it back on 'em, boys! #lb https://t.co/s7vjshUc8i

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 3, 2026

I don’t see conservative American men treating women like the photo on the left. And the photo on the right is just cosplaying by neurotic lefty women with questionable literally tastes.

TIM O’BRIEN: At 250, the American Dream Is Alive and Well.

I PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE LAUGHED, GIVEN THE WAY COLORADO IS GOING:

Attn: New York Liberals

If you don’t like getting told what temperature to set your thermostat, you probably won’t like socialism 🤷🏻‍♀️

— Alexis Wilkins (@AlexisWilkins) July 3, 2026

PAY ANY PRICE, BEAR ANY BURDEN: Americans are paying record prices for steak. Here’s why demand isn’t cracking.

“We are seeing customer demand for steaks remain quite high, with a shift towards more premium and organic options,” a Kroger spokesperson told CNBC. “We’ve also seen beef continue to be a preferred choice during recent holidays, including Easter and Memorial Day.″

Beef has generated the largest dollar growth of any food category ahead of Independence Day, with sales rising roughly $352 million compared to last year, according to data from NielsenIQ.

“Consumers are entering the holiday with discipline, making more trips but with clear intent behind each one,” the consumer research firm said in a June report.

Ribeye needs no excuse.

KRUISER: Dear Europoors: I’m Setting My Thermostat to 1776 for Independence Day.

FLORIDA MAN: DeSantis announces plans to use new state law to target dozens of alleged terrorist groups.

HB 1471 was signed into law earlier this year and went into effect on Wednesday.

The governor said the state plans to implement its new statutory authority to “identify, designate, and combat terrorist organizations operating in Florida” in the first use of powers established under the legislation.

Florida officials plan to designate more than 90 groups as terrorist organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations the Muslim Brotherhood and Antifa, though the proposed designations must be approved by the governor and Cabinet before they are finalized under the statute.

Even CAIR? Excellent.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE:

Europoors: if we stop using AC we will solve climate change

China: 1M sq ft indoor ski resort that has 10 MW of refrigeration running 365 days a year pic.twitter.com/SMx9tvESBd

— Max (@minordissent) July 3, 2026

AMERICA 250: What If We Celebrated the Second of July?