Photo of a small piece of white paper on which blue and red yard is glued in an approximation of the flag of the United States of America. There is a square of pinched-together blue yard in the top left corner, and three lines of red yarn with spaces in between them so that the white of the paper can be seen. This makeshift flag sits on top of a piece of dull-brown wood. “‘The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence–that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.’”--Zohran Mamdani.

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Happy Independence Day, everyone! And don’t forget, “‘The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence–that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.’”–Zohran Mamdani.