USA-250 Club ONT - July 4, 2026 [3 D's]

Welcome to Club ONT - a revolutionary collaboration of The Club's "founding fathers", The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. That's right - even the prodigal pooch couldn't stay away from our USA-250 celebration!

We built this place for you so you can have some fun. Come in in, grab a drink or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Jerks need not enter the premises. No loyal British subjects of the king are allowed either! Club ONT is for citizens, not subjects.

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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: The Most Pro-American Movies of the 21st Century (to date)

On this 250th Independence Day, I thought it would be fun to revisit three films that came out in the 21st century that reflected the most positively on this great and glorious nation. There's a thread running through all this, which is probably really obvious. If you're not drunk, it'll probably leap out like a firework with a surprisingly short fuse.

You don't even have to be a great detctive to figure this one out.

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Hobby Thread - July 4, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling explosive. It spun and spun and landed on a fireworks theme for this Hobby Thread.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 4

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, July 4!

Happy Independence Day! I think the Cleome flowers above sort of resemble fireworks.

Hi KT!

The sunflowers are growing so tall in this heat. The one below is way above my head and is almost ready to bloom although the flowers will be very hard to see without a ladder

Other summer flowers are just now blooming. The cleome or spider flowers are something I started from seed this spring.

The bee balm is full of bees, as advertised

The gray headed cone flowers have just started to bloom. Yellow finches love them!

Hope you have a wonderful Independence Day!

Mrs. Leggy

Well, the birds and bees are loving your yard! Can't wait for those big sunflowers!

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Happy 250th Anniversary!

Courtesy Robert and Holly

Anybody remember this?

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival (Happy Independence Day!)

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over (Rulz for those of you in Bunker Hill)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Some people need to be reminded, be nice. Be kind.
3) Running with sharp objects takes away from the concentration required to detonate the fireworks.
4) Have a wonderful Independence Day celebration. Happy Birthday America!!!!

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Daily Tech News INDEPENDENCE DAY 2026

Top Story

• Happy birthday, America! You don't look a day over 240!
  
  (Actually you look a lot better than you did at 240, but we won't go into that.)
  
  
  
• US life expectancy is expected to hit a record high as drug overdoses decrease. (CNN)
  
  Unexpectedly. Turns out you can just do things.
  
  
  
• Sitting - or lying down - for more than 30 minutes at a time has been linked to an increased risk of dying of cancer. (The Guardian)
  
  So has drinking water and breathing air.

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Star-Spangled ONT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! OK, I'm a few hours early. Sue me.

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Independence Eve Cafe

Tall ships at Norfalk, Virginia, to celebrate the 250th last weekend

Life with a prairie dog.

A dog was found dying on the side of the road with two broken legs (due to being hit by a car). A woman rescues her and names her Faith and Faith will walk again.

Wolf pup attempts his first little howl.

Feeding and petting a hyrax, which is not a Space Monster but some kind of weasel.

Baby goat rejected by mother and stray bulldog become littermates.

Baby owl is rescued after losing parents in hurricane.

Dog befriends squirrel.

Cute story about a couple whose dog died -- but then a neighbor's dog, who apparently wasn't well-loved, began digging under the fence to visit the other couple.

Woman gives the magpies in her backyard toys and now has a whole flock following her when she walks around the neighborhood.

When a wild elephant drops by for a visit.

Baby and crow are friends.

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The Adventures of Taarna Open Thread

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Everyone Hates Thieves and Wants to See Them Hurt Open Thread

I don't know if this is real or if they're paying the "thieves" to take the bikes. This seems like a huge lawsuit and possibly a crime.

Let's assume it's real. It looks real.

Putting out a bait bike for thieves to steal. The trick is, the seat has an explosively-deployed airbag hidden in the seat.

Skip to 6:30 if you want to jump past all the preamble.

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Beaver ♥ Banana Open Thread

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Viral Dogs Open Thread

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Karma for "Pranksters" Open Thread

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The Badman Open Thread

I didn't like Pete Holmes superhero parody stuff because I'm a self-hating nerd who hates when people pander to me with nerdy shit I'm supposed to like.

But then I watched his great impression of Bale Batman and was won over.

Here are his original "Badman" sketches. Most of them are so-so, but there are two must watches. The one at the beginning of that series shows Batman trying out a lot of bad voices, including celebrity impressions, as his "Bat-Voice."

The other great one I linked a few months ago -- it's the climax of The Dark Knight Rises, and Talia al-Ghul wants to explain her evil plot to him, but Batman just wants to keep bragging that he banged her.

A more recent Batman series is called "Bat-Canned," where Batman fires various members of the Justice League, as well as the Robert Pattinson "The Batman" and the Joachin Phoenix Joker. There are also videos of the outtakes for each.

The best ones are Cyborg (despite how lame that character is), "the Batman," and Superman. The Joker one is okay. The Aquaman one is lame, as is the Wonder Woman one.

But for the outtakes, the Wonder Woman one is the best. They really left all their best jokes on the cutting room floor, maybe because they kept laughing at them. Other good outtakes ones include Cyborg again (which has a joke I guess they considered too dark and disturbing for the official video), Superman, and "The Batman."

You might want to watch the Wonder Woman video, as lame as it is, just as a set-up for the very funny outtakes video. Batman is #Based. "It's amazing I haven't gotten canceled yet," he says.

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Music for Mammals Open Thread

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THE MORNING RANT: Independence Day and (Repeatedly) Stolen Lands

It’s sad that Independence Day is a national day of mourning for the American left. This year it’s especially tough for them, since the celebration is even grander due to this being the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

My local paper is honoring the semiquincentennial by running a different story every day which highlight reasons for their shame about being American. In the past week, the featured stories have included slavery, lynchings, the slave trade, the KKK, and segregation. There is no triumph in those stories about what was overcome under the stars and stripes either, just pure venom at what a sinister country this is.

But it’s long been this way. For decades it’s made me sad that the left couldn’t stop hating on America for even one day of the year, but they can’t. I recall listening to the NPR station back in the late ‘90s, and it’s Independence Day coverage was heavily focused on injustices and land theft committed against Native Americans and Mexicans. I fully understood that NPR was providing emotional support to its listeners on a very difficult day. Those of us patriotically celebrating the USA have always caused emotional distress to the left.

Because Democrats are desperately fixated on this country being built on stolen land, they’ll never accept the U.S. as being a legitimate country to take pride in. At this point, all we on the right can do is laugh at them and hope their fervent anti-patriotism propels their party into further disrepute.

At the recent Texas Democratic Convention, it opened with, what else, a land acknowledgement to the native Karankawa Indians. This is what attendees heard: “I would also like to acknowledge that we gather on the traditional homelands of the indigenous peoples of the coastal bend and the area known as Corpus Christi. The Karankawa were the people of Corpus Christi Bay.”

Now listen, I’m a guy who believes it’s imperative to celebrate the good and de-emphasize the bad in those who came before us and helped shape this country, but the Karankawa were so rough that even the “civilized tribes” kept their distance.

The Texas Democrat Convention kicks off with, what else, but a land acknowledgement…for cannibals!

Oh brother. pic.twitter.com/HZK5AAggXX

— Brandon Waltens (@bwaltens) June 26, 2026

The Tonkawas of Central Texas allied with and fought alongside white settlers because the Tonkawas were sandwiched between the Karankawas to the southeast and the Comanches to the northwest. History is complicated, but land acknowledgements aren’t. They are simple, no-cost outlets for white guilt.

But speaking of stolen land - in the great 19th century battles on the Texas frontier between white settlers and Comanches, both sides were fighting over stolen land that neither were native to. The Comanches had been a small, weak Shoshone tribe in the Mountain West until they acquired horses and moved east, creating the powerful “Comancheria empire in the southern plains by displacing the Apaches. The indispensable Traces of Texas provides an account from “Comanche Empire” on the Comanche colonization of the plains:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread: Happy Independence Day!*

Three Flags
Jasper Johns

*The 4th of July is a date. Independence Day is our national holiday. And yes, this will be on the quiz!

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The Morning Report — 7/ 3 /26

Good morning kids. Considering tomorrow is not only Independence Day but the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, I'll try to keep things light, but considering the how, why and what of our nation's founding and the pedal to the metal headlong rush by a sizable percentage of our fellow citizens (at least on paper) to utterly eradicate it by the embracing of political philosophies and principles that are wholly antithetical to the founding and its bedrock core of several thousand years of human development based on Judeo/Christianity and our overcoming of evil, tyranny and the baser instincts of men to deprive their fellow men of life and liberty.

On her social media, Chevalier had bragged about being a Communist and praised Stalin. Now she’ll be a full-time government employee while wielding power over the lives of millions, but it would not have happened without the intersection of pro-terrorist activism and socialism. . . Democrats welcoming their first “Death to America” congresswoman is certainly a trend of sorts.

After Mamdani’s three endorsed candidates, including Chevalier, who oppose Israel and support Islamic terrorism, won, former VP Kamala Harris called to congratulate the Islamic politician and ask him for tips about breathing some life into her own flailing 2028 presidential campaign. . . Oct 7, like Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter, had become a social contagion and a hysterical cause that could be used to recruit a new army of political foot soldiers for the far Left. Riots and clashes blooded them, social media confrontations indoctrinated them and now they’re moving into higher office on behalf of the DSA. . .What is happening is that the Democrats are disintegrating into a radical party even while losing more of the country. The DSA isn’t becoming popular so much as Democrats are becoming so hollowed out that even small groups of pro-Hamas activists can take over the party.

That’s bad news for America, but it’s even worse news for the Democratic Party.

this is not merely about Jews and Israel. In the view of this freak and really everyone like her is that Israel is the little Satan but America is the Great Satan! That was is and always will be the central motivating factor not merely of the DSA but of the Democrat Party as a whole, as it has always been ever since Aaron Burr slaughtered Alexander Hamilton in 1804 and ever since. It cannot be said enough but everything wrong with this country, all the pain, suffering, misery, dislocation and the wastage of blood treasure and human potential is directly the fault of or has been exacerbated by the will to power of the Democrat/Left, period full stop. Since losing the Civil War which they initiated in order to perpetuate slavery, they have done everything they could to seize power even if it meant glomming onto Satan himself to bring this nation down. No evil, perversion or lie was too horrendous to embrace if it got them a fraction of an inch closer to their goals. Even to this day is is evidenced by who and what is the driving force of what once supposedly was one of the two mainstream political parties of the USA. I still marvel how a Gus Hall/Angela Davis boosting card-carrying communist could ever have become a CIA agent let alone rise to head that agency itself. Meh, look who hired him, a dog-eating anti-American Muslim Commie whose principal booster was William Ayers, a man who fantasized about wiping out 25 million people who refused to accept a Weather/Underground run America once he and his cohorts seized power. That might have been back in 1968 but it was only a week or so ago where we had a story about a Democrat candidate who supported the mass roundup of ICE agents and Zionists and their forced castration.

That may be crackpot nuttery, but the frightening thing is not that but this little tidbit that considering the aforementioned should scare the shit out of you.

Nearly one-third of Democrats favor political leaders who identify as democratic socialists, according to a new poll, as recent primary victories by self-described democratic socialists have drawn renewed attention to the Democratic Party’s ideological direction. The Pew Research Center survey comes after democratic socialist candidates scored a series of high-profile Democratic primary victories in recent weeks, including last week’s victories in New York City and Tuesday’s upset of 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) by Democratic Socialist candidate Melat Kiros in Colorado, highlighting the movement’s recent electoral momentum.

On that very sour note, we're still standing. But for how much longer? Was the election of President Trump a harbinger or was it merely a speed bump on the road to Hell? And what of the coming of the DSA? Was that a speed bump on our way back on the road to American renewal or is that GOD FORBID a harbinger?

We'll have to wait and see, I suppose and with that I bid you all...

Have a wonderful July 4th Independence Day weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Democrats welcome their first “Death to America” congresswoman.
  Hamas Rioters Get Their Own Members of Congress

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