Here are 5 of the first 6 grievances with King George III that the colonists put in the US Declaration of Independence:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

#uspol

@bascule NPR (oh, damnit, I’d forgotten for a period of time that these fucks are shuttering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) has had a yearly tradition of posting the US Declaration of Independence to social media and panicking the shit out of people who have forgotten its contents.