America 250, SCOTUS's Blockbuster Week, and AI Teddy Roosevelt

Nick and Rick break down America's 250th anniversary week — and the chaos that came with it. They open on the America 250 meltdown: the DC Independence Day Parade was canceled Friday night due to a 115-degree heat dome; Philadelphia's parade was canceled the day before; the Great American State Fair on the National Mall temporarily closed after 44 attendees needed medical attention for heat-related illness; Mt. Olive Pickle Company withdrew from the fair over Confederate flag displays at Southern state booths; and Trump used his July 4 White House speech to complain that he "wasn't treated that well" by the media. Then Trump's dark Mount Rushmore speech Friday night, where he called communism "the greatest threat to our country, including WWI, WWII, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11" — aimed at DSA-aligned Democrats — while Pope Leo XIV counterprogrammed from the Vatican, calling America a "byword for freedom" because it "opened its doors to successive waves of immigrants." Then to SCOTUS's blockbuster final week: the Court upheld birthright citizenship 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara, with Chief Justice Roberts writing the majority and Kavanaugh and Barrett joining the liberals to strike down Trump's day-one executive order; the Court also killed the 91-year-old Humphrey's Executor precedent 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter, giving Trump the power to fire commissioners at approximately 24 previously-independent federal agencies — from the FTC and FCC to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the NTSB — with Justice Sotomayor reading her dissent from the bench; a separate 5-4 ruling blocked Trump from firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook, leaving the Fed as the sole exception; SCOTUS also protected cellphone location data under the 4th Amendment, declined to hear Trump's appeal of the $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict, and agreed to consider Arizona's proof-of-citizenship voter law next term.