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Independence Forever! 🇺🇸

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

It is the same struggle.

https://www.ukrainetrustchain.org/

#america250 #usa #freedom

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general Favor; a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of Custom. But the Tumult soon subsides. Time makes more Converts than Reason."

From Common Sense by Thomas Paine
#america250

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"The Trump admin🚨is ordering federal employees to wear #Freedom250 pins - at events celebrating the Declaration of Independence. And🚨threatening them with disciplinary action if they decline.

“When I asked if I would receive any disciplinary action if I chose not to wear the pin, I was told,🚨‘Yes,'” one person said."
-D Friedman

Not:🚨#America250 pins‼️
#NPS #1A #FreeSpeech #Intimidation #Threats #Constitution #Rights #TrumpRegime #Uprising #Protest #USPol
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-freedom-250-pins-national-park-service/

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69d

Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary This Fourth of July http://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2026/07/01/celebrate-americas-250th-anniversary-this-fourth-of-july/

They say this is a time "to reflect on the blessings of being a beacon of hope and democratic freedom."

Oh honey, the #AmericanEmpire has not been a beacon of anything for a good while now other than #imperialism, #warfare, #invasions, and toppling governments they disliked then enabling Right Wing dictatorships.

And before any of you exceptional gringos come to whine, read a fucking book or two.

Colonial ranting aside, you can also get the documents they mention via GovInfo. Need help? Ask your local librarian.

#America250 #GovDocs #USGovernment #books #reading #history

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68d

Mister drags off his box of fireworks to the shore.
Missiz drains her drink and hits the floor
with someone half her age…

—Liz Lochhead, “Fourth of July Fireworks”
published in THREE SCOTTISH POETS: MacCaig • Morgan • Lochhead, @canongatebooks 1992

🇺🇸 🎆

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #FourthofJuly #America250 #IndependenceDay

Fourth of July Fireworks
by Liz Lochhead

The guests are gathered.
Boston-Irish Nancy, half in huff says,
Better help yourselves,
you all know Mister's timing well enough.'
Aside at me she mutters.
'Millionaires can afford to let things wait.
Honest-to-God Mister would be late
for his own funeral.' Cigarstore Indian,
I hide behind my apron, wait and drink in all I can.

(We don't exist. They pick our trays,
Tom Collinses, Martinis and canapés.)

Oh horror, new England night,
when I fetched the ice down and that snake
looped my feet in the kitchen garden! I still shake.
'Harmless,' says Nancy.
I hear her hiss, 'Some host!
That beggar'll only get here when he's sure he's last.'

Fourth of July. Cape Cod. Dead on cue,
last-man Mister comes running to his barbecue.
Arms flailing like a cricketer's across the lawn
from his 'so English' house with a flame red shirt on.

It's the cocktail hour. The air is still.
Mister gets busy on the charcoal grill.
Social-kissing women, backslapping men
has failed to break the ice. But then
Missiz appears like magic from the dusk.
Cool, ten years his junior, she smells of musk

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and 'Madame Rochas'. Two small spots of anger
high on her cheekbones linger.

When Mister says it's done enough
the guests spread ketchup on the fatted calf.
The night hots up. Liquor flows. Listless
couples come alive. A bit apart, restless,
Missiz sways gently on her own
to Glen Miller on the gramophone.
All eyes are on the soignee cling
of this year's leisure favourite, velvety stretch towelling
for patio-party wear. Those purples and electric pinks
'Just far too hectic altogether,' Nancy thinks.

(Ten years with Missiz, Nancy's face
is quite professional, impervious.)

Ice melts in the Martini tray. Midges
drown. The whole night edges
to a thunderstorm. Maybugs big as golfballs thud
as screendoors bounce them. But, after our blood,
divebombing mosquitoes dodge the mesh and slide
in down their own thin whine.
They bite despite insecticide.

All at sea,
white and dayglo orange fins spinnaker the bay.
Music blares
from the jazzed-up clubhouse round the Cape, Cotuit way.
The whole damn town is two thirds empty after Labour Day.
These summer people
migrate to Florida, lock, stock and barrel.
Tonight their parked cars sprawl the drive and trail

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behind those his-and-hers coupled custom Cadillacs
like a comet tail.

(Oh I can see it all quite clearly, feeling small
and stone-cold sober. But I do not count at all.)

Out on the lawn the sprinklers, oddly luminous,
sputter like Roman Candles, ominous
as the sudden snap of queer clear light
from one weird streak unzips the dark.
The German Shepherd guard dogs bark.
A wind gets up. These beach-house boards
are flimsier than playing cards.

(Over the bay, like flares
odd rockets go up with a shock of stars.)

Mister drags off his box of fireworks to the shore.
Missiz drains her drink and hits the floor
with someone half her age. His snake-arms slur
around her waist. Eyes glaze. Sentence endings blur.
Missiz ('mutton dressed as lamb')
comes in slowly as the false-calm
lead-slow sea that slicks the beach. Sinatra sings.
The tide ravels up slowly, shelving things.

Raindrops big as bullets dent the roof we all stand under,
watching Canute's fireworks out-rage the storm,
try to steal its thunder.

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Burns & the Scottish Enlightenment in America
4 Aug, Robert Burns Ellisland Farm
Tickets by donation

Ian Houston will examine how the ideas that shaped Burns's world – liberty, equality, democracy, & human dignity – also influenced the emerging American republic

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-the-scottish-enlightenment-in-america-tickets-1990854549550

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poetry #Enlightenment #ScottishEnlightenment #18thcentury #America250

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67d

Happy Birthday, #USA!

#America250 #Americas250th #USPol #FirstAmendment #NoKings #StatueOfLiberty

A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty at a No Kings rally. Police wearing riot gear are putting handcuffs on her.

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A closer shot of the woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty getting arrested.

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67d

Happy Birthday, #USA!

#America250 #Americas250th
#USPol #FirstAmendment #NoKings
#FrogsResist #Resistance #ProtestFrog #PortlandFrog #PortlandOR

A person in a frog costume being confronted by armed police and soldiers at a No Kings rally.

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A January 2026 investigation by Texas Observer revealed that these four businesses have links to Patriot Front, the white supremacist group that marched in Washington, D.C. during the America 250 weekend. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-four-businesses-patriot-front-north-texas/

#racism #fascism #America250 #Trump #news #NorthTexas #Texas

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Happy Independence Week to those who celebrate! American Glory..Available here...https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/american-glory-tina-lecour.html

#july #july4th #independenceday #america #america250 #usa #mastoart #fediart #fedigiftshop #creativetoots #wallart #artforsale #gifts #giftideas #greetingcards #puzzle #puzzles #buyintoart #ayearforart #fineart #photography #art #artprints #homedecor #interiordesign

This is a canvas of a photograph of the American flag slightly waving

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I shot a very well attended 4th of July Parade in Monterey, CA. I have some fun shots from the parade, but the ones I'm most pleased by are these face in the crowd shots I was able to get after the parade ended.

Every time I'm in a crowd, I try to get shots like this, but it's always hit or miss... mostly miss. This time, I got exceedingly lucky and very noticeable faces kept appearing out of the sea of humanity over and over again for me.

#photography #monterey #4thofJuly #America250

A very large crowd of people on Alvardado St in Monterey, CA after the 2026 4th of July Parade. Standing out from the crowd are two women taking a selfie together in the middle of the photo.

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A very large crowd of people on Alvardado St in Monterey, CA after the 2026 4th of July Parade. the crowd has parted slightly in one area to allow a man waving a flag with both arms outstretched for a photo to be noticed out of the mass of humanity.

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A very large crowd of people on Alvardado St in Monterey, CA after the 2026 4th of July Parade. A man holding two American flags in one hand is very noticeable out of the sea of humanity. He has a very square face and he's wearing mirrored blue sunglasses. Most of the rest of the crowd is hard to pick out because there's so many people.

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