At 245, America’s Old Enough to Be Honest About Its Founding (Intercept) ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass (Nation) A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite — ‘David Surozenski, a Republican, refused to add Trump flags to his display. “That’s not the way I was brought up,” he said. “The American flag political? No.”’ (New York Times) I can admire that.
Links for 3 July 2021 The North American heatwave shows we need to know how climate change will change our weather (Attention to the Unseen) Biden backs Dems into a corner on climate — “Climate activists … are worried that no one — including President JOE BIDEN and lawmakers on Capitol Hill — is doing enough to fix it, and as climate policies get swallowed up by the reconciliation process, they’re gearing up for a new pressure campaign to turn up the heat on Washington.