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Less than half of Americans consider themselves to be “very” patriotic, a YouGov/The Economist survey released this week found.

These are the times that try men’s souls—and budgets. This year’s Fourth of July celebrations will be hit hard by inflation.

Hundreds of U.S. flights were cancelled over the weekend and on Monday, causing some alarm ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel hammered the Biden administration for its reckless spending and anti-U.S. energy agenda which force Americans to pay more for groceries, gas, and holiday travel plans.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) resumed her July 4 bashing Monday, proclaiming that the same people who believe black people have “full freedom” in the United States are “the same ones trying to prevent teaching the truth about white supremacy in our classrooms” — a likely reference to the widespread rejection of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

Left-wing actress Rosanna Arquette pushed an environmental alarmism message on Independence Day, suggesting people give up fireworks “for the wellbeing of mother earth and humans to survive.”

China’s government-run Global Times newspaper observed American Independence Day on Sunday by claiming Americans have nothing to celebrate, as their country has become “selfish,” failed on “the race issue,” and is currently “in its least confident stage.”

Independence Day is about freedom for whites, while blacks “still aren’t free,” wrote Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) on Sunday, July 4.

An essay published in the Nation on Friday accuses Americans celebrating independence of failing to “reckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,” with American “exceptionalism” and foreign policy being “grounded in racism,” adding that issues such as climate change and “racist policing” are the “greatest existential threats” while global terrorism and threats from China, Russia, and Iran, are merely “imagined threats.”

Fireworks went off Sunday at Maryland’s Ocean City Beach, injuring a worker who was setting up for a July 4 celebration.

Fireworks, fireworks, and yet more fireworks. Americans are expected to honor the nation’s 245th birthday Sunday with pyrotechnic displays lighting up a land celebrating both patriotism and freedom from (most) coronavirus restrictions.

Ahead of July 4, Democrats and leftists “are trying to make us hate our history,” J.D. Vance, author of Hillbillly Elegy, told Breitbart News.

Students at Georgetown University said they are not proud to be an American when interviewed shortly before the Fourth of July holiday, adding that they would give up their American citizenship. The students, however, were unable to name better country than the United States.

Country rock star Aaron Lewis’s patriotic anthem “Am I the Only One” soared up the iTunes charts, passing Big Red Machine’s “Renegade” featuring Taylor Swift, over the July 4th weekend.

CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen is recommending unvaccinated Americans only congregate with other unvaccinated people in outdoor settings during the Fourth of July weekend.

The White House is inviting representatives of illegal migrants to the Independence Day celebration at the White House, marking another effort to blur critical distinctions between Americans and foreigners. 

MSNBC contributor and former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that she is starting a “new family tradition” of watching videos of the January 6 Capitol Hill riot on the Fourth of July.

Country music star Toby Keith’s new song, “Happy Birthday America” wonders if the nation’s best days are behind it. The Grammy-nominated crooner laments voting for “the lesser of two evils,” he calls out protesters burning the U.S. “flag in their city streets,” and he rebukes “all the broken-down cities,” destroyed “by the left’s design.”

Chinese state media on Friday said Americans might see fewer fireworks on the Fourth of July because Chinese-made fireworks are “caught up in the global supply chain disruption resulting from the pandemic,” but with half a year to go until Christmas, “much-needed goods” from the “world’s factory” in China should make it to the U.S. and Europe on time.

A majority of Democrats do not believe America is a country with “liberty and justice for all,” a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found. 

Gas prices across the United States are at their highest level since late 2014 with shortages predicted in the run up to the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

About two dozen American flags lined up in Needham, Massachusetts, were found burned on Sunday night, according to police.

Instead of celebrating America’s independence over the weekend, professors at colleges and universities around the country offered criticisms of the United States on the Fourth of July. One professor even argued that the United States government should be redesigned for the modern era.

At least six children ranging from ages 6 to 14 have been killed in shootings across the country over Fourth of July weekend.

China’s state-run Global Times decided to phone its Fourth of July editorial in by cut-and-pasting a few insults tossed at President Donald Trump’s Mount Rushmore address by American media outlets. 

At least nine people were shot dead on Sunday during the Fourth of July weekend in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) New York City.

Newt Gingrich said Joe Biden’s short speech on the Fourth of July “may be the most anti-American speech ever given by an American presidential candidate.”

Tampa, Florida, police arrested seven people after they allegedly refused to stop protesting in the middle of a busy intersection on Saturday afternoon.

A “Back the Blue” car parade honoring members of local law enforcement was held in Osceola County, Florida, on Saturday.

On the Fourth of July, actor Matthew McConaughey suggested that in order to see America’s next birthday, everyone needs to “wear the damn mask.”

WASHINGTON, DC — Protesters on Washington, DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza failed miserably to get Fourth of July visitors’ eyes off the fireworks show.

Black Lives Matter and indigenous groups turned the Fourth of July into an occasion for protest against the country itself on Saturday, with demonstrations in several cities in California and elsewhere.

Grammy-winner rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West took to Twitter on Independence Day to announce that he is “running for president of the United States.”

Protesters gathered Saturday to object to a boat parade held in celebration of Independence Day and President Trump in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Saturday during his Salute to America celebration from the White House, where he announced the first round of historical figures to be included in the National Garden of American Heroes.

Watch President Donald Trump’s speech at “Salute to America” live on Saturday, the Fourth of July, in Washington, DC, at 6:40 p.m. EST.