A man in a red cap salutes on the left, while a shouting woman with short hair is shown on the right, highlighting contrasting emotions.

A man in a red cap salutes on the left, while a shouting woman with short hair is shown on the right, highlighting contrasting emotions.



Former failed woke MSNBC host Joy Reid and her former colleague Alex Wagner recently sparked controversy with an online conversation about Independence Day and Juneteenth that has ricocheted across news outlets and social media. Reid said that “black people — nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July,” arguing that her Black friends mostly treat it as a day off to barbecue.

She went on to describe Independence Day as “the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire,” explicitly linking the holiday’s origins to slavery rather than American liberty. Reid told Wagner that for many Black Americans the Fourth of July feels similar to how Indigenous people view Thanksgiving, adding that Juneteenth “to me is the real thing that Fourth of July is” because the United States “really weren’t a democracy until we ended slavery.”

Clips of the exchange, posted on Reid’s YouTube show and highlighted by outlets including HuffPost and AOL, quickly drew backlash from conservative commentators, who used social platforms to rightly accuse her of distorting the American Revolution and ignoring Black enthusiasm for Independence Day celebrations.

In a separate high-profile interview, former Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on a podcast hosted by former CNN anchor Don Lemon, where she outlined an aggressive approach to reshaping U.S. institutions after Democrats’ 2024 election loss. Asked about progressive calls to “pack” the Supreme Court, Harris said Democrats should “absolutely” explore expanding the Court, arguing that its current conservative majority has “destroyed so many of the elements of the Constitution that were designed to protect minorities.”

She linked potential court expansion to a broader agenda, suggesting that additional justices could help advance priorities such as statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Pressed by Lemon on the Electoral College, Harris replied that “we need to look at that, too” and that getting rid of the system “should be a discussion that we should have,” calling for “some real shaking up that we have to do of the rules and the structure.”

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