RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116863488282016628

Okay this is fucking wild.

If white people rich enough to own a fucking racing sailboat can't fly a flag with words on it without some government boat with a fucking machine gun coming over to escort them back to land, nobody in your damn country has any freedom of speech.

Nobody.

EDIT: as some have pointed out, the ship in question is owned not by an individual but by a nonprofit known for environmental activism, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. That said I believe my point still stands.

"The⚡chances of getting killed in #NYC are 9% what they were in 1990. Then➡️ some nbhds with just 1% or 2% of the city’s pop had as many murders in a year as the entire city had had these last 6 mos -close to a miracle as I’ve experienced.

1990: New Yorkers were 28%
#immigrants & 57% non-white and/or Hispanic. Our💙11X-safer city today➡️ >1M, of whom 37% are IMMs & 69% are non-white &/or Hispanic.
#Happy250, America."
-K Anderson
Trump & Rs spew #lies about🔵cities 24/7‼️
#Democrats #Mamdani #USPol

Interim report🚨alleges: #Freedom250 surreptitiously diverted res' intended for #America250 for Freedom250's own benefit, leaving it scrambling for$.

Sources intvw'd by Dems on the CMTE:🚨fundraisers incl O’Rourke misled prospective Am250 donors by providing them with F250’s banking & routing#s instead -could const #WireFraud & char sol fraud➡️fed & DC law.

#Deceit extended to the ENT IND. Artists recruited for the kickoff of the Gr Am St Fair:🚨assured➡️non-partisan.
#USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/trump-hijacked-250-anniversary

Nearly 1M people🚨who bought Trump’s memecoin have lost money thru the end of Jun *losses total🚨$3.81B.

#Trump walked away🚨with a $636M payout on the same #crypto bet, part of a haul of at least $2.2B from all of his bus ventures in 2025.

The odds were always in his favor.🚨He profited whether the price of his memecoin went up or down -collected returns whenever anyone traded the tokens *pushed his followers to do, using his TS acct to promote the coin.
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/us/politics/trump-coin-crypto-investors-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.3FGU.p1yx4ubdccty&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Left of #DSA: Social Democracy:⚡Do you know how to get an American co to grant you exc wages & amz bens, even for an entry-level job?⚡Move to NO & take the job there.

Const wkrs, hotel maids, gas sta attnds... typ earn >$20/hr +eve or wknd bns', ~5 wks’ paid vacay/yr, a pension, ML, PL -add up to a yr +paid leave when a child is sick.

Broadly:💙terms for Norwegian & fgn cos. If American & other INTL firms can offer such terms -could they do so in our C?

#Equality #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/opinion/norway-nordic-social-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.rkVi.ANzcLI7AzMbC&smid=url-share

"The⚡chances of getting killed in #NYC are 9% what they were in 1990. Then➡️ some nbhds with just 1% or 2% of the city’s pop had as many murders in a year as the entire city had had these last 6 mos -close to a miracle as I’ve experienced.

1990: New Yorkers were 28%
#immigrants & 57% non-white and/or Hispanic. Our💙11X-safer city today➡️ >1M, of whom 37% are IMMs & 69% are non-white &/or Hispanic.
#Happy250, America."
-K Anderson
Trump & Rs spew #lies about🔵cities 24/7‼️
#Democrats #Mamdani #USPol

"Fox News host & political analyst Brit Hume offered a prediction that D Trump is unlikely to appreciate.🚨If the Democrats come out ahead in the midterms, the chief exec could find himself paying big for his🚨breathtaking #crypto #corruption."
-J Hughes

"Hume's forecast comes in the wake of the president's 2025 FIN disclosures earlier in the week, which🚨revealed that his family raked in a shocking $1B from its crypto ventures while Daddy #Trump regulated the mkt."

#USPol
https://www.alternet.org/trump-fox-corruption/

Interim report🚨alleges: #Freedom250 surreptitiously diverted res' intended for #America250 for Freedom250's own benefit, leaving it scrambling for$.

Sources intvw'd by Dems on the CMTE:🚨fundraisers incl O’Rourke misled prospective Am250 donors by providing them with F250’s banking & routing#s instead -could const #WireFraud & char sol fraud➡️fed & DC law.

#Deceit extended to the ENT IND. Artists recruited for the kickoff of the Gr Am St Fair:🚨assured➡️non-partisan.
#USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/trump-hijacked-250-anniversary

Nearly 1M people🚨who bought Trump’s memecoin have lost money thru the end of Jun *losses total🚨$3.81B.

#Trump walked away🚨with a $636M payout on the same #crypto bet, part of a haul of at least $2.2B from all of his bus ventures in 2025.

The odds were always in his favor.🚨He profited whether the price of his memecoin went up or down -collected returns whenever anyone traded the tokens *pushed his followers to do, using his TS acct to promote the coin.
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/us/politics/trump-coin-crypto-investors-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.3FGU.p1yx4ubdccty&smid=nytcore-ios-share

💙 200 unique IDs represented in a blend -as 340M Americans:⚡Greeks in Tarpon Sprs, FL➡️ in the early 1900s, Greek sponge divers came from the Dodecanese isles & revolutionized the sponge IND on FLs gulf cst, pkts of Portuguese & Cape Verdeans in New Bedford, MA➡️In the 1800s, winds pushed whaling boats E to the Azores & Cape Verde, where exp whalers joined the crews, families of Yemeni IMMs: hired by Ford to bld cars in Detroit...

50M #immigrants:💙15% of the US pop!
#USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/us/america-identity-ancestry-census.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.RFcj.lLYW0wqwSELk&smid=nytcore-ios-share

As on Trump's birthday a few weeks ago, the weather sucks in #WashingtonDC. Nature hates #Trump! Happy Fourth!

#FourthOfJuly

this is what $658K buys you in san francisco (look at the 'inside') pictures

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/143-Prospect-Ave-San-Francisco-CA-94110/15161317_zpid/

#SanFrancisco #California #RealEstate #ZillowGoneWild

GW💙was beloved by many for giving away power he could have kept.🚨#Trump's reviled by many for snatching power -driven by whims, co-opting leg powers on #tariffs & #war. GW avoided interfering *DT does, in cong races *meddles in primaries➡️#revenge & test fealty.

J Adams⚡praised GW for his self-command *trait fgn to him.

One⚡was modest -reflected in the refined but decidedly unflashy furnishings at Mt Vernon. Other: is🚨megalomaniacal:👓gold... +immoderate #ballroom‼️
#USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/opinion/founding-father-vs-foundering-toddler.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.gZPW.-Qw7CYIedlAq&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Left of #DSA: Social Democracy:⚡Do you know how to get an American co to grant you exc wages & amz bens, even for an entry-level job?⚡Move to NO & take the job there.

Const wkrs, hotel maids, gas sta attnds... typ earn >$20/hr +eve or wknd bns', ~5 wks’ paid vacay/yr, a pension, ML, PL -add up to a yr +paid leave when a child is sick.

Broadly:💙terms for Norwegian & fgn cos. If American & other INTL firms can offer such terms -could they do so in our C?

#Equality #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/opinion/norway-nordic-social-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.rkVi.ANzcLI7AzMbC&smid=url-share

Ugh:🚨A watch-sized gold ring was gifted to #Trump this week from a Belgian diamond group,🚨months after it won tariff relief. Mörsel, pres of the Antwerp World Diam Cen, presented the ring to the US AMB to Belgium, to give to Trump.

"A very special TY to my friends from Antwerp for the magnificent #Freedom250 ring,"

"Not to get technical,🚨but this is unambiguously illegal, but as they say, there's🚨no law in Trump's America."
-D Baker
#Bribery #Corruption #Tariffs #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/belgian-diamond-group-gifts-trump-ring/

"They🚨wave the American flag yet they are #traitors to this great nation, & choose to express their #hatred of its founding principles on the day of its BD for the attention."
-A R-Melnick

"A group of masked men🚨gathered at Union Sta today & called for reclaiming the country & getting rid of #immigrants. Some held #Confederate flags -have been marching across Capitol Hill."
-M Miller

"Patriot Front🚨marching➡️now. White supremacist & neo-fascist org;"
-R Batista
#WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #USPol

Who’s the most ignorant person the US is willing to elect?🚨By elevating candidates who can entertain over those who can think, MSM➡️made the election of dunces more likely.🚨When you combine #ignorance with performing talent➡️#Trump tells the C to inject bleach.

A hyp job appl:🚨can’t spell: simplest words -thinks there’s an African C called “Nambia," A Jackson *died in 1845, was angry about the Civil War, & F Douglass *died in 1895➡️still alive.
#MakeAmericaSmartAgain #USPol
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/250-years-of-ignorance

Endlessly frustrating, ever-far from perfect, America will always be worth fighting for as long as there are those inspired by our founding ideals. 250 years is worth celebrating, but it’s the next 100 that will test our character and resolve. 🇺🇸

"Fox News host & political analyst Brit Hume offered a prediction that D Trump is unlikely to appreciate.🚨If the Democrats come out ahead in the midterms, the chief exec could find himself paying big for his🚨breathtaking #crypto #corruption."
-J Hughes

"Hume's forecast comes in the wake of the president's 2025 FIN disclosures earlier in the week, which🚨revealed that his family raked in a shocking $1B from its crypto ventures while Daddy #Trump regulated the mkt."

#USPol
https://www.alternet.org/trump-fox-corruption/

#TaylorSwift & Kelce's $26M in #donations💙are welcome news in the midst of misery from the #TrumpRegime's #Freedom250 #theft of #America250, CC's🫠...:⚡Many of the 20 #charities are in areas where the couple has ties, & 9 of the orgs are based in NY, where they were married: including the Food Bank for NYC & City Harvest, & Musical Mentors.

➕RI Comm Food Bank & the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library & the ASPCA...
#ETTD #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-donate-charity/