There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

September 19, 2025

September 15, 2025 Six years of Letters from an American. I could not be more grateful to be part of this wonderful community.

September 12, 2025

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September 9, 2025

Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.

September 4, 2025

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August 29, 2025

"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. . . .

August 27, 2025

A video about the Nineteenth Amendment.

August 25, 2025

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August 22, 2025

Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.

August 21, 2025

It’s disgraceful this needs to be shared, but Washington friends should know their rights with this hostile regime abusing its authority.

The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.

August 19, 2025

Don’t let anyone tell you it couldn’t happen here - it already is.

Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.

August 18, 2025

August 16, 2025

Kudos to our Alt sibling for calling it out. If it walks like fascist and talks like a fascist, the odds are pretty high.

August 13, 2025

Others of us are releasing our own stories of American history for the 250th. My team's videos are on my YouTube channel and Instagram, and honor "unity and progress" and "American values" just like Trump wants. Here, for example, is Mary McLeod Bethune defending the Constitution....

August 12, 2025

Donald Trump wants to rewrite how our museums tell the stories of American history. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

K-12 educators! Looking for a few ideas for humanities-based lesson plans? We've got you! 🤓 The EDSITEment! website is still up! Don't mind the America 250-heavy landing page (unless that's what you're looking for)— hit the search bar for your topic and voila! edsitement.neh.gov

New in PN: Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating. "The fact that crime is down conflicts with the ever-present right-wing narrative of a nationwide crime epidemic. So Republicans are resorting to sensationalizing random street fights."

pssst...have you seen our new quick-guides for talking about science to your friends and family? #31daysofaction

August 10, 2025

We don’t have a ton of info besides this for now. But I’m so mad I can barely breathe. 🤬🤬 www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

August 7, 2025

"The waste generated by DOGE in six months could have fully covered the President’s misguided rescissions package twice over — with $2.9 billion to spare,” the report states. www.devex.com/news/lawmake...

Ummm, hey #Congress, you're "forgetting" a couple of sections here. constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

🔴 THREAD: RFK Jr. just canceled 22 mRNA vaccine projects. TL;DR: mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives. Ending these projects puts us at risk and leaves us unprepared for the next big outbreak. Here’s what RFK Jr. did — and why everyone should care. 🧵 (1/12)

August 5, 2025

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

August 3, 2025

August 2, 2025

Great gerrymandering infographic and explanation from WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp... If fighting fair won't work (which it doesn't when everyone can see how awful you are), they'll just redraw the map. 🙄

July 31, 2025

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...