If you choose not to celebrate our "freedom" on this day, you are not alone.
You're not alone if you don't want to celebrate our "freedom" today. When millions of people's fundamental rights are being attacked by unelected judges and our autonomy over our own bodies is being taken away, how can we as a nation celebrate freedom? when Republican politicians are battling tooth and nail to restrict the right to vote in their fascist attempts to seize control of our democracy? when the police that our taxes support are killing Black people and our transgender siblings? How can we honor our nation's freedom when, just three days prior, a Supreme Court tainted by MAGA granted presidents the authority of kings? This was not supposed to be our day. Rather than using today as a punishment, let's use it to visit with loved ones, spend time outside, and get enough of rest because we still have a long battle ahead of us.