El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Jay Kuo is a composer, lyricist, Tony-winning producer, appellate lawyer, CEO of The Social Edge, and the Chair-elect of the HRC. Kuo tells how Colorado governor Ralph Carr stood firm in defense of Japanese Americans during WWII internment, even as it cost him his political career. #WeAreAmerica250

Nicholas Ferroni is a nationally recognized high school history and cultural studies teacher. Ferroni profiles Horace Mann, the reformer known as the father of America's public schools, who championed free, universal education as democracy's great equalizer. #WeAreAmerica250

Senator Andy Kim is an American politician and former diplomat from New Jersey, working as a key defender against Medicare and Medicaid cuts and privatization. Senator Kim traces the road to Medicare and Medicaid, from Truman's Fair Deal to Lyndon Johnson's expansive 1965 signing. #WeAreAmerica250

@rebeccanagle.bsky.social is an award-winning journalist, a citizen of Cherokee Nation, and the host of the First America podcast. Nagle tells the story of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native-run newspaper in America, which fought for Cherokee land and sovereignty and still publishes today.

Vernon Burton, historian and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, examines the Confederacy's Cornerstone Speech—in which Alexander Stephens declared slavery and white supremacy its founding principle, a claim the Union defeated and answered with the Reconstruction Amendments. #WeAreAmerica250

Peabody Award-winning storyteller and journalist, Al Letson, profiles Dwayne McDuffie, the trailblazing writer and artist who brought realistic Black representation to comic books and animation. #WeAreAmerica250

Historian Tyler McGraw is a writer for the Emerging Civil War community and host of the podcast The Unfiltered Historian. McGraw recounts how General U.S. Grant's refusal to retreat at the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness marked the turning point that would wear the Confederacy down. #WeAreAmerica250

Maggie Bohara is the co-founder and director of @weareamericamarch.bsky.social, a grassroots movement organizing 160-mile walks for democracy and civil rights. Bohara tells how Jacob Coxey's 1894 march of the unemployed on Washington foreshadowed the New Deal's public works. #WeAreAmerica250

SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

How could a global, equitable transition away from fossil fuels look like through a binding global Treaty? 🌎 🤔 We’ve just released a new series of briefing papers exploring the essential architecture of a potential Fossil Fuel Treaty. Read more at FossilFuelTreaty.org/optionspapers

US Senator Wyden urges regulators to probe Wall Street banks over Epstein accounts reut.rs/4fSKBO8

US Senator Wyden urges regulators to probe Wall Street banks over Epstein accounts

U.S. Democratic Senator Ron ​Wyden called for federal regulators to probe big banks over their handling of Jeffrey Epstein's accounts after surfacing ‌what Wyden said was potential evidence that the banks failed to report suspicious transactions linked to the late convicted sex offender.

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NEW REPORT: Senator Wyden says @MarshaBlackburn “declined to support Wyden’s effort to subpoena Epstein bank records” + “refused to cooperate with his investigation into financing of Epstein’s sex trafficking”— as she claimed to care & blamed Dems🤔 www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

New book by feminist theologian takes on clericalism, racism and the work of repair www.ncronline.org/culture/book...

New book by feminist theologian takes on clericalism, racism and the work of repair

The Wounded Church develops what Annie Selak describes as a "feminist ecclesiology of injury," an approach that begins with lived experiences of harm rather than idealized visions of what the church o...

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Parents face incredible anxiety when it comes to caring for their kids. MediKids is the guarantee I think our country needs.

Happy National Farmers Market Week! Farmers markets provide spaces for communities to gather while enjoying delicious food and fresh produce. There’s no better place to celebrate than the Garden State. Thank you to all the farmers back home who fuel our farmers markets!

New Post! Moms Clean Air Force Celebrates 15 Years of Wins #momsky #climatechange #globalwarming #climatecrisis #AirPollution #cleanair ift.tt/r5P37uL

@hcrichardson.bsky.social is an award-winning historian and the author of Letters from an American. Richardson revisits the Declaration of Independence and the principles of equality and self-government that set America on the road to becoming "the last, best hope of Earth." #WeAreAmerica250

Real American heroes

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

Dr. Dianne Johnson-Feelings is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Johnson-Feelings explores the Harlem Renaissance, the explosion of Black art, music, and literature that reshaped American culture in the early twentieth century. #WeAreAmerica250

Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.

Rep. Jamie Raskin told me he rejects the notion that Jewish Dems should vote as a bloc, including on Israel. That played out in a recent vote to cut military aid to Israel: 13 Jewish Dems voted against, but 1 didn't vote, and 8 voted in favor — including Raskin. religionnews.com/2026/07/30/w...

The House vote that split Jewish Democrats and is reshaping alliances

(RNS) — 'I think it's a sign of health, as well as inevitable, that the Jewish members of Congress would approach this vote from different perspectives,' Rep. Jamie Raskin said.

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For more on the broader situation here, read the latest reporting from @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social, who was among the first to report on these pastors last weekend over at @rns.org: religionnews.com/2026/07/27/r...

Released Texas pastors say immigration agents threatened family separation

(RNS) — At a Sunday service after their release, which was backed by a range of Latino evangelical groups, the Assemblies of God pastors urged Christians to speak out for immigrants.

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🧵 NEW: A spokesperson for Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, where Franklin Graham is president and CEO, messaged me today about two married pastors in the U.S. on religious visas who were arrested by ICE last week in Texas as they were trying to fly to a Billy Graham marriage conference.

Answering your questions about MediKids.

We must take the next step to deliver care to our country. I can’t think of a better place to start than with our kids.

It was great to meet with Michael Kidd-Gilchrist to discuss the Kidd's Stuttering Act. Michael, thank you for being an inspiration and for using your platform to help others. 1/2