The Patriot Post® · Thursday Top Headlines

• Commander-in-chief thanks military families “for keeping America safe, strong, proud, mighty and free” (Washington Examiner)

• “Our most fundamental values are under attack”: Democrats issue bleak July Fourth statement (USA Today)

• How ironic: Trump protester shuts down Liberty Island (National Review)

• Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech (The Washington Times)

• Facebook slammed for “censorship” of country group’s patriotic song (Fox News)

• How Facebook is fact-checking conservative sites into oblivion (PJ Media)

• AG Jeff Sessions rescinds 24 more Obama-era “guidance documents” that circumvented rule-making process (CNS News)

• DNC Chief Tom Perez: socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “the future of our party” (Breitbart)

• Senate Democrats stall Trump nominees at record rate compared to predecessors (The Daily Signal)

• As Trump weighs options, Mike Pence meets with Supreme Court contenders (Washington Examiner)

• Mueller taps more prosecutors to help with growing Trump probe (Bloomberg)

• Democrat introduces bill to abolish ICE, says agency is “ripping at the moral fabric of our nation” (Fox News Insider)

• College graduates feel less patriotic than non-college graduates (The College Fix)

• Your tax dollars at work: Feds blow up dummies on Mall to warn against celebrating the Fourth with fireworks, sparklers (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Humor: The Bee explains: A brief history of America (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Clearing up misconceptions about health savings accounts (Hoover Institution)

• Policy: Eliminating identity politics from the U.S. Census (The Heritage Foundation)

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