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It is amazing that the 250th anniversary of America was pretty much just not a thing. You could tell all the companies thought it would be, they had 250th ketchup and ice cream and energy drinks but all we got was a shit ass fair that no one went to

Anna Kornbluh

27 июл., 00:08

have article about this coming out next week but it takes state capacity to make a thing! the 200th was an incredible bureaucratic project; the first term of the regime did nothing they needed to to get ready for 250, in the second term they fired, sidelined, expropriated everyone who would do it

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PeopleCanBeMoreThanOneThing

27 июл., 02:26

I have images of the parades down the Hudson River, but I haven’t shared them barely at all for this lack of enthusiasm!

Stuart Semmel

27 июл., 02:05

And the Biden administration, to be fair, was probably right to be more worried about other things than about this. But yeah, it’s sad, and I feel bad for the kids who might have really enjoyed a 250th in another timeline. bsky.app/profile/semm...

Stuart Semmel

How woke was the bicentennial? Check out the “Contributors to the Cause” stamps: a woman, a Black man who bought his way to freedom, and two immigrants (one from Portugal, one a Polish Jew). Simpler times—a time when stamps, like the bicentennial, could excite a kid. Nothing wrong with that.

Jennifer Juniper

27 июл., 00:29

Oh! Love to read that.. Where? I was 11 years old at an American school in Switzerland, and I remember the celebrations!

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Anna Kornbluh

27 июл., 00:35

wow, international reach! it will be in the next issue of Art in America