The 250 #anniversary is mixed but so's our #history - a fun look back at pivotal, innovative and just plain "whaaaa?!" moments from the #US
Week One in 250 to 250 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/week-one-in-250-to-250
#HeatherCoxRichardson #videos #semiquincentennial from #war to #law to #popculture
Why America’s 250th Birthday Doesn’t Feel Like 1976’s Celebration
America is about to turn 250, and you wouldn’t know it unless you happened to trip over a press release from the city or county about a parade or upcoming fireworks displays. For a nation that once threw itself a year‑long Bicentennial bash — tall ships crowding New York Harbor, wagon trains converging on Valley Forge like a Norman Rockwell recreation — the silence today is deafening. And it is very sad as we prepare to observe the semiquincentennial. This past week, James and I […]
1987 #RunningMan Logline
“a future dystopian America, a wrongfully accused and convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he's forced to participate in a TV game show where convicts called Runners must battle killers for their freedom.”
2026 USA actual
“Construction is under way on the #WhiteHouse lawn for an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) arena that will host a cage match next month to mark the US’s 250th anniversary”
2026 is more like 1987 than I would have thought possible.
#USA / #250Years / #Semiquincentennial/ #Bisesquicentennial / #Sestercentennial / #QuarterMillennium <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/ufc-arena-white-house-trump-birthday>
Why is capitalism interrogated and sometimes despised by the people who come into contact with it?
Because this is America, you boot-licking moral blanks, and we express ourselves and reflect on our many different experiences freely.
Because that is our right as citizens, to resist your attempts to dictate truth and historical knowledge.
And then this:
At the bottom there’s a QR code that encourages you to “discover more fun and quizzes at PragerU”. The code links to PragerU’s website page Capitalism 101. “Sign up to learn why capitalism is the greatest and fairest economic system ever known,” it says. “Capitalism gave us great prosperity, yet why is it so misunderstood and even demonized?”
Back to the Guardian:
“The US is back at war. Its president has threatened to destroy an entire civilisation, posted AI images of himself as Jesus and survived his third assassination attempt, while on the domestic front federal officers have killed American citizens at point-blank range. Quite the year to be celebrating American greatness.”
In *Erasing History: How Fascists Re-write the Past to Control the Future,* Jason Stanley observes the “mutually reinforcing” relationship between representation and practice.
How we describe and talk about the past informs how we practice politics and frame the rights of citizenship today.
These stupid A250 trucks are driving around today as SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act (6-3) and these two things are mirror images of each other.
Per Guardian:
The man who launched his first bid for the presidency by descending a golden escalator, who has sloshed gold paint all over the White House, not to mention the Aurelian hue he has coloured his own skin, would like us to believe that he, and he alone, is the channel through which America’s so-called “Judeo-Christian” lineage now flows, and that he, and he alone, should be credited for all its future greatness.
#history #uspol #semiquincentennial
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/trump-freedom-truck-museum-exhibit
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