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Das Ende einer Ära? FOX News zerlegt Trump öffentlich!
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NASA F-15 and F-18 Soar Above Washington to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
#ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Freedom250 #Julyfourth #NASAAFRC #NASAF15 #NASAF18 #WashingtonDC #flyover
▶️ 1 new picture from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_F-15_and_F-18_Soar_Above_Washington_to_Celebrate_America%E2%80%99s_250th_Birthday_%28AFRC2026-0146-75%29.jpg
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NASA F-15 and F-18 Soar Above Washington to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
#ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Freedom250 #Julyfourth #NASAAFRC #NASAF15 #NASAF18 #WashingtonDC #flyover
▶️ 1 new picture from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_F-15_and_F-18_Soar_Above_Washington_to_Celebrate_America%E2%80%99s_250th_Birthday_%28AFRC2026-0146-75%29.jpg
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NASA at the Great American State Fair
#DC #Freedom250 #GreatAmericanStateFair(GASF) #JaredIsaacman #KatiePavlich #NASAAdministrator #NationalMall #USA
⏩ 16 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1
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NASA at the Great American State Fair
#DC #Freedom250 #GreatAmericanStateFair(GASF) #JaredIsaacman #KatiePavlich #NASAAdministrator #NationalMall #USA
⏩ 16 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1
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NASA F-15, F-18 Painted in Red, White, Blue to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
#ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Freedom250 #Julyfourth #NASAAFRC #NASAF15 #NASAF18 #WashingtonDC #flyover
⏩ 19 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1
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NASA F-15, F-18 Painted in Red, White, Blue to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
#ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Freedom250 #Julyfourth #NASAAFRC #NASAF15 #NASAF18 #WashingtonDC #flyover
⏩ 19 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1
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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'.":
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/02/nx-s1-5879162/freedom-250-report-house-democrats-controversy
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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'.":
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/02/nx-s1-5879162/freedom-250-report-house-democrats-controversy
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An underreported bit of mediocrity for the DC Fourth of July celebrations: the cheap-looking projections on the Washington Monument (photo from https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-monument-illumination-returns-for-fourth-of-july-celebrations-freedom-250-independence-day-projection-mapping-250th-anniversary-national-mall-patriotism).
This looks like a cheap neon store sign, not a tribute to America's anniversary.
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An underreported bit of mediocrity for the DC Fourth of July celebrations: the cheap-looking projections on the Washington Monument (photo from https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-monument-illumination-returns-for-fourth-of-july-celebrations-freedom-250-independence-day-projection-mapping-250th-anniversary-national-mall-patriotism).
This looks like a cheap neon store sign, not a tribute to America's anniversary.
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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
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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
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Hundreds of masked racist extremists march in D.C. as Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration unfolds
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/patriot-front-dc-freedom-250
#whitesupremacists #racists #USracism #freedom250 #4thffjuly #fascism #uspol
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Hundreds of masked racist extremists march in D.C. as Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration unfolds
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/patriot-front-dc-freedom-250
#whitesupremacists #racists #USracism #freedom250 #4thffjuly #fascism #uspol
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RE: https://sfba.social/@markmetz/116867268564450698
Cowardly #ChadsAndChuds on the march in #WashingtonDC on the #FourthOfJuly. Sad.
#America250 👉 #Freedom250 👉 #Freedumb250.
#Resist #WhiteSupremacists and #kakistocracy in #USpol.
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RE: https://sfba.social/@markmetz/116867268564450698
Cowardly #ChadsAndChuds on the march in #WashingtonDC on the #FourthOfJuly. Sad.
#America250 👉 #Freedom250 👉 #Freedumb250.
#Resist #WhiteSupremacists and #kakistocracy in #USpol.
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Alle hauen ab – Was ist bei Trumps Event vorgefallen? #Politik #uspolitik #usa
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Alle hauen ab – Was ist bei Trumps Event vorgefallen? #Politik #uspolitik #usa
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@PallasRiot Cowardly Chads and chuds in #WashingtonDC added to the pall on the Mall for the #Semiquincentennial celebration on the #FourthOfJuly. Sad.
#Resist #WhiteSupremacists and #kakistocracy in #USpol.
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@PallasRiot Cowardly Chads and chuds in #WashingtonDC added to the pall on the Mall for the #Semiquincentennial celebration on the #FourthOfJuly. Sad.
#Resist #WhiteSupremacists and #kakistocracy in #USpol.
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Gruselige Szenen: Was Trump sagte, während Nazis durch Washington marschierten!
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Gruselige Szenen: Was Trump sagte, während Nazis durch Washington marschierten!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Is #God trying to tell Trump something? 😂😂😂😂 #250 #Freedom250 #July4th
https://apple.news/AqbrjcOgKQCGisnFUQ930WQ -
Is #God trying to tell Trump something? 😂😂😂😂 #250 #Freedom250 #July4th
https://apple.news/AqbrjcOgKQCGisnFUQ930WQ -
National Mall Evacuated In Advance Of Donald Trump Speech Due To Severe Weather
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Freedom250 #NationalMall #SaluteToAmericahttps://deadline.com/2026/07/trump-speech-july-4-weather-evacuation-1236974274/
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National Mall Evacuated In Advance Of Donald Trump Speech Due To Severe Weather
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Freedom250 #NationalMall #SaluteToAmericahttps://deadline.com/2026/07/trump-speech-july-4-weather-evacuation-1236974274/
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George Washington is too old for this shit.
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George Washington is too old for this shit.
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QVC doesn’t have the sense God gave a Nazi.
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QVC doesn’t have the sense God gave a Nazi.
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A subdued semiquincentennial
It’s the 250th birthday of the United States, but the mood around the nation can seem distinctly sub-celebratory. It’s definitely less than joyful around the nation’s capital, where months of seeing armed troops from other states on our streets and watching buildings transformed into billboards for the 47th president have now been followed by a Trumpified version of the national holiday.
That’s not how things were supposed to go, but the White House shoved aside a Congressionally chartered, nonpartisan project to celebrate the semiquincentennial and spun up its own Freedom 250 organization instead. That group, having already treated the nation last month to the crass spectacle of a UFC fight on the South Lawn, has now taken over much of the Mall with the “Great American State Fair,” a cheap, tacky production that reeks of squandered possibilities.
The organizers seem to be trying to overcompensate for that sad spectacle by scheduling nine hours of military flyovers from Saturday afternoon into the night, to be followed by 850,000 fireworks launched from 10 sites–which would mean an average of 35 a second at each site, leaving an unhealthy haze of particulate pollution draped over the city.
Before that orgy of pyrotechnics, however, Trump will have to get his turn at the microphone, and that speech is no more likely to end on time than any he has given in the last decade.
Trump’s insistence on making himself the face of the American franchise, even on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s adoption, would be repellent enough if he were good at his job. He is not, unless you define that job as “running an administration unparalleled in bigotry, corruption, cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence.”
But while Trump may think along the lines of “L’État, c’est moi” (not that he would ever be seen speaking in French), America is not and has never been defined only by its presidents.
And Trump’s reactionary, resentful vision of America is not the country I see on its 250th birthday.
The nation I know does not subscribe to the blood-and-soil nationalism sold by the Trump administration’s racist propagandists. We renew a different story every time a group of immigrants stands up, forming a quilt of ancestries and accents, at a naturalization ceremony to choose the United States.
The country that I love is one that can acknowledge its problems and work on them, one where people left out of some of the Founders’ visions for America have ably used the Founders’ own words to push the nation forward. On this day, there is no better example of that than Frederick Douglass in “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” calling the Constitution properly interpreted a “Glorious Liberty Document.”
It remains so, even if some members of an increasingly embarrassing Supreme Court keep trying to twist it into something else.
The America that I see has a long and honorable history of not treating other countries as freeloaders or potential targets of annexation and instead being willing to cooperate with them. Even if we outright need their help, starting with France’s critical support for the American Revolution.
And the U.S. that I know applies its vast economic and technological resources not only to deploy the military might that has been booming over Washington but to advance science and apply it to send humans and machines farther into the universe than any other nation–as we saw this spring with Artemis II, although that itself involved international teamwork.
Staying optimistic in the American experiment can be difficult in 2026, knowing that Trump’s chaos was a choice that Americans made and that his stooges are working to wreck so many of the things that actually make America great.
But our country’s story includes Americans making a way out of no way. We are a stubborn lot, even when our institutions start to fail us. That stubbornness has filled streets as citizens have marched peacefully to protest this administration’s offenses, and it’s now sending voters to the polls in equally impressive numbers for representatives who will oppose them. The message these signs and votes deliver was true in 1776 and holds up in 2026, no matter what the current president says: There are no kings in America.
#America250 #FourthOfJuly #Freedom250 #IndependenceDay #July4 #JulyFourth #NoKings #semiquincentennial #Trump #US250thBirthday -
Hey let's use a little judgement out there today, people.
@AlterNewt @biff52 @glasspusher @edwilk. #freedom250 #fireworks #Dunderheads #HeyWatchThis -
Hundreds of masked racist extremists march in D.C. as Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration unfolds
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/patriot-front-dc-freedom-250
