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  1. Getting set to watch the #Indycar #Freedom250 from D.C., which we all are paying for. The MASSIVE flyover (while cool because…airplanes) could have fed a lot of hungry kids. I am sure Cheeto will be front and center because this race and everything HAS to be about him. Right now, they are running an ad for the new FOX show “Nation’s Dumbest” casting for that should be easy these days.

  2. Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee published a 55-page report Thursday accusing #Freedom250 of aiding Pres. Trump in turning America's milestone into a hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment through tactics that potentially amount to criminal fraud. It's titled 'From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People out of their 250th Birthday'.":
    npr.org/2026/07/02/nx-s1-58791
    #corruption #greed #politics

  3. An underreported bit of mediocrity for the DC Fourth of July celebrations: the cheap-looking projections on the Washington Monument (photo from wjla.com/news/local/washington).

    This looks like a cheap neon store sign, not a tribute to America's anniversary.

    #Freedom250 #July4th #corruption

  4. So on July 4th, as the USA was celebrating its stunningly long 250 year history, I spent a big chunk of the day at a Buddhist temple in Wuhan that features this tower.

    This 739 year old tower.

    "Freedom 250" just doesn't really land very hard anymore after staring at this for a while.

    #July4th #BaotongTemple #HongshanPagoda #Freedom250 #Perspective739

  5. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.
    -- George Carlin

    #CurrentMood #July4th #Freedom250 #USA #history #GeorgeCarlin #quote #quotes

  6. It's only fitting that today, July 4th, 2026, the 250th "birthday" of America, it is hot as hell outside, and a health hazard, for most of the US, as well as an outbreak of explosive diarrhea in the US due to a parasite... #USPol #July4th #Freedom250 #4thofJuly