Independence Day celebrated worldwide

cultureJul 4, 202696501

Independence Day posts collect patriotic greetings, tributes, historical readings, and local celebration reports for July 4. Audio readings of Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech figure prominently, including versions read by Ossie Davis and by James Earl Jones, alongside posts about the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular for the 250th anniversary. Gallery entries range from a plein air watercolor painted in Maine and a childhood Boston Tea Party stamp block to movie picks like JAWS touted as the ultimate Fourth of July watch and a Norman MacCaig poem evoking a city skyline. Expect flags, multiracial celebratory images, fireworks coverage, poetry, and reflective critiques of the holiday under the #FourthOfJuly and #America250 tags.

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@jazzanna83.bsky.social

🇺🇸 Part 3 | Multiracial Celebrating 250 years of America and the many backgrounds that come together to make one nation. America's diversity is one of its greatest strengths. Happy Fourth of July! ❤️🤍💙 #America250 #FourthOfJuly #RepresentationMatters

672h ago

Mitch Goldstone (ScanMyPhotos.com)

@scanmyphotos.bsky.social

DOES THIS FOURTH OF JULY FEEL DIFFERENT? I still remember America’s Bicentennial in 1976. It felt like the whole country celebrated together. Flags. Parades. Neighbors. Optimism. This year feels… different. Am I the only one who feels that, or do you too? 🇺🇸 #FourthOfJuly #America250

483h ago

ellen2point0.bsky.social3

I’m depressed. I wasn’t in 1976

Jessup_at_large3

I remember the bicentennial well, such a beautiful celebration. Events/reenactments/celebrations throughout the entire year, in all corners of the country. Does this feel different? I don't feel anything.

barskin™2

Oh no, no, no! You are not the only one. Not with a pedophile, rapist cashing in on his job, raking in billions, in the White House. This feels a hell of a lot different.

CrabbyGG542

No. Feels like no celebration should be done

Denise 💙🏳️‍🌈🌊2

This feels like we never celebrated…

Mike 🫘🇺🇦1

Same here my friend. But hopeful.

Pasquinel

@pasquinel.bsky.social

#NowWatching: JAWS (1975) The ultimate 4th of July movie Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary & Murray Hamilton #Movies #FilmSky #Jaws #70s #FourthofJuly #Cinema #Spielberg #Horror #IndependenceDay #Shark #4thofJuly #MovieSky

351h ago

Semetra Rhodes1

I love that reworked cloud poster. Recently stumbled across it and have actually searched to purchase it.

floralfauna13.bsky.social1

It's my 4th of July tradition!

Brianna Ashby

@briannaduggan.bsky.social

On this, the Fourth of July, I celebrate the inalienable right to the freedom of speech, and more importantly, my inalienable right to not give a single fuck if you dislike something that I like.

282h ago

Ilena Gilbert-Mays

@ilenagm.bsky.social

#SixOnSaturday is the #FourthOfJuly and the end of #FIFA ⚽️32 teams down to 16 next week 🙌 everyone stay hydrated and in the shade whatever you’re up too 😄🎆🎇 #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #RedWhiteBlueFlowers #FlowerReport #Summertime

212h ago

Cindi H. Peery

@cindicat.bsky.social

It's all one big grift, people! RESIST & REVOLT!👊 #America250 #Freedom250 #FourthofJuly

132h ago

The Boston Globe

@bostonglobe.com

It’s a big year for the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, as the annual July Fourth show returns to celebrate not only the holiday but also the 250th anniversary of the founding of America. Here's how to watch.

211h ago

Tipsy Productions Inc. | Team Mystery

@everglowingstar91.bsky.social

#tipsyarts #ocs #fourthofjuly Both Gregory Ramsey and Matthew Jones wish you a Happy Fourth of July! Tags: @marcaangeles21.bsky.social @jefftheytp.bsky.social @plushblueeperic.bsky.social @ananas1234.bsky.social @juanartistgomez02.bsky.social and @robertleyva02.bsky.social

143h ago

Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

This morning I watched from here a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect the Empire State Building, that jumbo size dentist’s drill… —Norman MacCaig, “Hotel Room, 12th Floor” from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) #FourthofJuly #America250 #poetry birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

Hotel Room, 12th Floor
by Norman MacCaig

This morning I watched from here
a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect
the Empire State Building, that
jumbo size dentist’s drill, and landing
on the roof of the PanAm skyscraper.
But now midnight has come in
from foreign places. Its uncivilised darkness
is shot at by a million lit windows, all
ups and acrosses
But midnight is not
so easily defeated. I lie in bed, between
a radio and a television set, and hear
the wildest of warwhoops continually ululating through
the glittering canyons and gulches –
police cars and ambulances racing
to the broken bones, the harsh screaming
from coldwater flats, the blood
glazed on sidewalks.

The frontier is never
somewhere else. And no stockades
can keep the midnight out.

162h ago

Alice Little

@alicelittle.bskyverified.social

Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 How are you celebrating? 😎 #USA #FourthOfJuly #4thOfJuly #Bikini #Redhead #Petite #Sexy #AliceLittle #TheAliceLittle

191h ago

🦋 Jez Jones 🦋

@jezebeljones.bsky.social

Watching 90’s cartoon Ren & Stimpy this morning and came across the Powdered Toast Man episode where he becomes the President of the US: “…do solemnly swear, to relieve American citizens of their basic human rights” - couldn’t be more relevant today. youtu.be/knbbDRCjzz8?... #julyfourth #resist

133h ago

Kat 🕊️

@smith83k.bsky.social

Happy 250th Birthday, America! 🇺🇸 🎉🎊🎆 #FourthOfJuly #Semiquincentennial

143h ago

THX•1138

@ithx1138.bsky.social

Happy #fourthofjuly 🇺🇸 #america ...get well soon -signed; your friends around the world

IF YOU CAN'T FLY RUN
IF YOU CAN'T RUN WALK
IF YOU CAN'T WALK CRAWL
BUT BY ALL MEANS
KEEP MOVING‼️
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

112h ago

Vincentforcongress

@vincent4congress.bsky.social

This Fourth of July, let’s celebrate the freedoms we cherish and the resilience that defines America. Through every challenge, we move forward together. Wishing SC-7 a safe and happy Independence Day. Thank you to all who serve and believe in our nation’s promise. 🇺🇸 #FourthOfJuly #SC7 #America

63h ago

Roland van Gaalen

@rolandvangaalen.bsky.social

#America250 #FourthOfJuly Nothing to celebrate. America as we knew it (an imperfect champion of liberty, democracy, human rights, science, technology & progress) has been destroyed by Trump, the Republican Party, the Religious Right and the U.S. Supreme Court. Reversing this will not be easy.

72h ago

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oddnews.com5 Reasons To Celebrate the 4th of July Even Though Everything Still Kind of Sucks umlegacypressqsefc.comWhy Independence Day is About Us — Not a Single Leader: The Fourth of July is about community, and it’s only through community that we can remake America #IndependenceDay #FourthOfJuly #Community #AmericanValues #Unity

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