#semiquincentennial — Public Fediverse posts
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Indiana State Fair 2026 Photos, Part 3: The Year of America’s 250th
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: It’s that time again! The Indiana State Fair is an annual celebration of Hoosier pride, farming, food, and 4-H, with amusement park rides, cooking demos, concerts by musicians either nearly or formerly popular, and farm animals competing for cash prizes without their knowledge. My wife Anne and I attend each year as a date-day to seek new forms of creativity and imagination within a local context... ...and one splashy theme recurred throughout the various exhibits of arts, crafts, cookery, and antiquing across all participating buildings: the 250th anniversary of July 4th, 1776, generally considered the date of birth of the United States of America. Granted, not all citizens observed the only semiquincetennial party our nation will ever have, particularly among a statistically significant percentage of the terminally online. No, America isn't perfect and never will be, which is kind of the point, no matter who's in charge. If you only love people, places, or things that are perfect, then how many absolutely perfect people, places, or things do you genuinely love? If you count more than one, you've gotten it wrong. As it happens, our road trip this year began over the Independence Day weekend and showed us evidence of folks proud to celebrate offline, about which I'll get to post about here someday when I get caught up on sharing our travelogues, Lord willing. Anne, for one, was excited to see America cross that milestone without preemption by the Second Coming, collapsing under a giant meteor, or being conquered by a conspiratorial Canada/Mexico tag-team invasion. She braked at every roadside attraction that acknowledged its happening and was overjoyed to see that same enthusiasm here at the fair. […] -
"The founding father of the Trump dynasty was an undocumented, illegal, draft-dodging teenage runaway." #semiquincentennial #USA #freedumb250 #Trump #EpsteinFiles #8647now #malignantnarcissist #syphiliticdementia #TrumpCrimeFamily #kakistocracy #idiocracy https://ifloz.substack.com/p/memory-lane-is-a-crime-scene-a-guided
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Joe Tall spent the whole weekend in our yard, celebrating the USA's Semiquincentennial. #Semiquincentennial #celebrate #celebration #usacelebration #usacelebrations #fourthofjuly #patriotic #patriot #jingo #jingoism #jingoistic #holiday #holyday #lewistown #pennsyvania #centralpennsylvania #wackywavingarminflatable #inflatable #inflatables #wackyinflatables #zhuzh #decorate #decorations #summer #summertime #summersolstice #warm #warmweather #hot #hotweather #summerweather
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Dawn of our Country's Semiquincentennial at the Lewistown Courthouse. #Semiquincentennial #anniversary #usaanniversary #usacelebration #celebration #history #historical #celebrate #patriotic #jingo #jingoism #civilwar #civilwarmonument #monument #concrete #courthouse #civilliberties #civilrights #scotusiscorrupt #potusiscorrupt #flotusiscorrupt #corruption #corruptioningovernment #governmentcorruption #EndCitizensUnited
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“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again.” Donald J Trump, campaign trail, 2024. 🤣 #semiquincentennial #USA #freedumb250 #Trump #EpsteinFiles #8647now #malignantnarcissist #syphiliticdementia #TrumpCrimeFamily #kakistocracy #idiocracy https://ifloz.substack.com/p/the-fucking-bill-has-arrived-america
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This week, I am taking a look at how the United States is like a start-up business. A 250-year-old start-up.
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https://www.edyouragilecoach.com/what-250-years-of-u-s-history-teaches-about-agility/
#business #agility #GhostGang #semiquincentennial
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Timmy and Tabitha toast the USA's Semiquincentennial with a pitcher of Martimmies. "PASSIONS," 2001. #soap #soaps #passions #soapopera #soapoperas #daytimetv #daytimetelevision #daytimesoaps #daytimesoapoperas #tabitha #timmy #Joshryanevans #julietmills #witch #witchcraft #witchery #humor #humorous #favoritecharacters #skullduggery #occult #occultsoapopera #occultsoapoperas #celebrate #celebration #semiquincentennial #250thanniversay
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Joe Tall waved from our front yard all weekend, to celebrate the USA's Semiquincentennial. #Semiquincentennial #celebrate #celebration #250 #250th #twohundredfiftieth #twohundredandfiftieth #anniversary #scotusiscorrupt #potusiscorrupt #flotusiscorrupt #corruption #corruptgovernment #EndCitizensUnited #getdirtymoneyoutofpolitics #getdirtymoneyout #buyingpoliticians #government #corruptgovernement #Wackywavingarminflatable #wavingarminflatable #inflatable #inflatables #lawndecor
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"This is not a celebration of America. This is the end of it if he succeeds. This is McCarthyism." #semiquincentennial #USA #freedumb250 #Trump #EpsteinFiles #8647now #malignantnarcissist #syphiliticdementia #TrumpCrimeFamily #kakistocracy #idiocracy https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/donald-trump-changed-everything-tonight
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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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"The Americans are slouching back to their origin. Greed and spectacles of punishment define them." #semiquincentennial #USA #freedumb250 #Trump #EpsteinFiles #8647now #malignantnarcissist #syphiliticdementia #TrumpCrimeFamily #kakistocracy
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I could not agree more!
I found more photos from that event: https://historycollection.com/26-photographs-americas-1976-bicentennial-celebration/
It was good to scroll thru them.
I was about five years older than the kid at the top of this photo. You can tell that they were glad to be part of a whole. And it was a hopeful time... we were getting our act together. We were righting wrongs. For context, these are the things that were on my mind at that time...
The first #Oil #Crisis 🛢️
#Watergate 🕵️
#Racism and the #CivilRights Movement ✊🏾
The #VietnamWar (I was subject to the draft.) 🪖
The #ColdWar with its attendant #Nuclear Dread 🤯My friends and I were particularly concerned about protecting the #Environment 🌲 , tried to avoid cars, and rode our #bicycles everywhere. 🚴
So what about the #Semiquincentennial? Let's say it's a celebration deferred. We need to get our act together, we need to right some wrongs, we need to start feeling AND acting like a whole again.
We've made a start, we can do it, and when we're on the right track again I'll be there with you all to celebrate! 💕 🇺🇸
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How Philadelphia Weather On July 4th, 1776 Compared To Today
The signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4th, 1776 (by John Trumbull, American, 1756…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Climate #DeclarationofIndependence #heatdome #nationalweatherservice #Philadelphia #Semiquincentennial #ThomasJefferson #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Weather
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On Tyranny 250th Edition Turns July Fourth Into a Fight Over What Patriotism Means
The On Tyranny 250th Edition video brings Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Jessica Parker and dozens more into a July Fourth debate over democracy and dissent.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/on-tyranny-250th-edition/
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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 -
Updated my /now page today, with an essay on the semi-quincentennial of the US.
tl;dr: I hate what we've become as a nation, and hope we can change.
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In the Land of the Blind
From Tyrie's scaffold to Riyadh's bone saw: the World Cup, the FIFA Peace Prize, and the audit that removed the crimes before it began. Urban Wronski looks.https://urbanwronski.com/2026/07/05/in-the-land-of-the-blind/
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Celebrate America's #semiquincentennial by listening to historian Heather Cox Richardson's masterful reading and explanation of the Declaration of Independence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCsf4t2bxjA
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Two Hundred Fifty Years of What, and What For?
A drummer boy surfaced in my pocket change this week, on a quarter so worn his tricorn hat has gone soft at the edges. The Mint struck him by the hundreds of millions for the Bicentennial, Jack Ahr's little colonial drummer with the dual date 1776-1976 stamped beneath his heels, and fifty years later he still turns up in laundromats and bodegas like a veteran who never quite made it home. I was eleven when that coin was new. Holding it on a Tuesday in Jersey City, the day the country turns two hundred fifty, I felt the whole distance between that summer and this one settle into my palm, small and cold. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/04/two-hundred-fifty-years-of-what-and-what-for/
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On today's 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the United States, my thoughts go out to my fellow Americans and others who call this country their home, who have put others' needs and well-being before their own. Those who help a neighbor or a friend in need.
You are the true patriots.
Whether you're celebrating, commemorating, mourning, or just going about your day, I hope you're all surrounded by people who care about you, and that you don't feel alone.
Hang in there ✊
#USPol #July4th #IndependenceDay #US250 #semiquincentennial #UnitedStates #solidarity
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"Happy Two Hundred and Fiftieth, USA!" from Lewistown, the All-American City, once identified on a regional newscast as "Heroin Capital of the Eastern Seaboard." #Semiquincentennial #america #usa #fourthofjuly #anniversary #250th #250 #twohundredfiftieth #twohundredandfiftieth #twohundredandfiftiethbirthday #birthday #anniversay #scotusiscorrupt #corruptpolitics #governmentcorruption #celebration #fireworks #fireworksscarewildlife #fireworksscareanimals #jingo #jingoism #patriotic #patriot
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Getting a raging semiquincentennial in public.
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Generations of #Editorialcartoonists celebrate #America’s somethingcentennials:
https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2026/07/happy-dyscentennial-everybody.html#semiquincentennial #UncleSam #Columbia #Philadelphia #Washington #Jefferson #bicentennial #centennial #Lurie
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Faith and the Founding: The Religious Roots of the Original Thirteen Colonies
As America celebrates 250 years of independence, it's worth looking beyond the Declaration of Independence to the diverse religious foundations of the original thirteen colonies. Contrary to popular belief, not every colony was founded for religious freedom. Some sought wealth, others provided refuge for persecuted believers, and together they shaped the ideas of faith, liberty, and government that continue to influence our nation today.
