Open post Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson@mastodon.social · 3mo ago Replying to @j2bryson@mastodon.social 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: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: #4thOfJuly #nokings #notyrants Apparently the #bicentenial really was a bigger deal #4thOfJuly #nokings #notyrants https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/us-independence-day-holidays-past?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other the Guardian The US celebrated the end of a ‘long national nightmare’ as it turned 200. What about now? A decade in the making, the 1976 bicentennial had a cathartic impact on the wounded national polity