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The American Footprint in Madrid: The 250th Anniversary Commemorative Route https://www.byteseu.com/2335951/ #Andorra #Freedom250 #RutaConmemorativa

White House Officials call on NASCAR to race in Washington, D.C. https://www.rawchili.com/5081315/ #AdamSchiff #CupSeries #DonaldTrump #DougCollins #Freedom250 #GrahamRahal #IndyCar #IndycarSeries #MurielBowser #nascar #NASCARCup #NCS #NttIndycarSeries #RogerPenske #SeanDuffy #Washington #WashingtonDC #WhiteHouse

White House Officials call on NASCAR to race in Washington, D.C. https://www.rawchili.com/5081315/ #AdamSchiff #CupSeries #DonaldTrump #DougCollins #Freedom250 #GrahamRahal #IndyCar #IndycarSeries #MurielBowser #nascar #NASCARCup #NCS #NttIndycarSeries #RogerPenske #SeanDuffy #Washington #WashingtonDC #WhiteHouse

DC Street Race Sparks Urgent Fears Over Fragile Historic Treasures

Full story 👇

Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/08/freedom-250-grand-prix-road-closures.html

#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #US #America #USNews #USPolitics #Freedom250 #Grand Prix #HistoricArt #BreakingNews #Trending

Alle hauen ab – Was ist bei Trumps Event vorgefallen? #Politik #uspolitik #usa

https://pallenberg.video/w/hpwQrcC7dVfPAFENt4MPmQ

@grumble209
#DonTheCon claimed "45,000 people showed up and nobody wanted to leave."

Fact: Only about 1,000 people showed up and left early when they saw there was no activity.

#MAGAt idiot RW actor Dean Cain posted a photo of himself "enjoying" the event, inadvertently revealing how poorly attended it was: #Freedom250 #LoserMcLoserson

RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/116772598844001884

Nothing says #Freedom like marching orders from an authoritarian state! 😂

#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
#ElbowsUp 💪

P.S. If you *have to* wear a #Freedom250 lapel pin to keep your job, wear it *upside down*! https://apnews.com/article/upside-down-flag-trump-hush-money-verdict-21af85bfe799e9c736f9ed5919cf7584

Large-scale flyovers without proper notice are rude–and an insult to avgeeks

The past two days have featured some of the most impressive airshow performances in D.C. skies in years–but I, a card-carrying avgeek, saw almost none of them. I’m blaming that on the Trump administration, and I don’t think I’m wrong.

Wednesday night, I missed all but the end of a flyover that concluded with a B-2 bomber accompanied by a formation of F-35 fighters–I heard the roar of the smaller jets as I was exiting a grocery store but only saw one or two reflected in the windows of an office building across the street. Thursday afternoon, I didn’t catch any of an unusual grouping of two B-52s and pairs of F-15s, F/A-18s and F-35s.

I was in the wrong place twice (which is why I’m illustrating this post with a picture of an F-16 formation over Nationals Park before 2025’s home opener) because the organizers of the Freedom 250 series of events on the Malls did not specify flight times in their announcement of these flyovers.

The people running this decidedly partisan event also didn’t use their X account to offer updates on flyover scheduling. I should have instead checked photographer and aviation enthusiast Andrew Leyden, who has been relaying updates there.

(He’s also on Bluesky but not repeating everything that he posts on X, to my dismay.)

From looking at Reddit, I see that I have company in being perplexed by the lack of a heads-up and wondering why there’s no published schedule. It appears that I’ll continue to be left guessing over the remaining days of flyovers–through July 10.

That’s not how this is supposed to work: People on the ground deserve to know when they’ll see their taxpayer dollars in action like this. They don’t have to be total aerospace nerds to appreciate a demonstration of engineering in action–and the piloting skills required to fly so precisely.

And even if folks on the ground somehow have zero interest in aviation, they still might want to know when not to schedule a call to avoid people on the other end thinking they’re about to be on the receiving end of an airstrike.

We know how to do this correctly. I can plan to watch for Arlington National Cemetery flyovers in support of military funerals because I get a text and an e-mail a few days before from the District’s AlertDC system; although those alerts had grown spotty by the time I wrote an explainer about flyovers for Greater Greater Washington in 2023, they’ve been much more reliable recently.

For more involved aerial performances, organizers have even fewer reasons to leave people guessing. The May 8, 2025 “Arsenal of Democracy” flyover that commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe had a starting time of 12:10 p.m. published weeks in advance. And six years ago, even in the middle of pandemic-induced chaos, we knew when to step outside to watch the July 4, 2020 flyovers above the Mall that Trump ordered up because those, too, came with a start time published three days before.

This is far from the worst example of the second Trump administration falling below the low standards of the first one, but it belongs somewhere on that list.

Leonard Cohen’s Estate Issues A Pre-Event Objection To Use Of ‘Hallelujah’ At Trump’s Freedom 250 Kickoff
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Freedom250 #Hallelujah #LeonardCohen

https://deadline.com/2026/06/trump-leonard-cohen-hallelujah-1236966988/

Leonard Cohen Estate Objects to Trump’s Promised Use of ‘Hallelujah’ at Freedom 250 Rally
#Variety #News #DonaldJTrump #Freedom250 #LeonardCohen

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/leonard-cohen-estate-objects-trump-hallelujah-freedom-250-1236789752/

I can be fairly accused of having made jokes and laughing at other's japes about the Eurovision Song Contest.
But today, as a USian, I must keep my lips sealed in response to anything people in Europe or the rest of the world might have to say about Sunday's abomination on the White House lawn.
USians can look forward now -- I fully expect -- to Trump monetizing his presidency with live broadcasts of him posting on social media while seated on a toilet.
His followers would lap it up.
And he'd laugh all the way to the bank.
#USPolitics #USCulture #Freedom250 #Eurovision

Donald Trump built a White House spectacle around beautiful men and muscle. During Pride Month

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/donald-trump-gay-ufc-pride

So far 5 out of the 9 groups/musicians scheduled to perform at the Nazi festival, I mean great American state fair have dropped out. Others haven’t commented while only Vanilla Ice has doubled down. I find this HILARIOUS and can’t wait to see the lineup for the counter-festival. 🍿

Also, did MAGA not consider the optics of holding the national STATE FAIR in a place to which they have consistently denied statehood?

#GreatAmericanStateFair #Freedom250 #ResistFascism