Elinor Lutu-McMoore is the Director of the American Samoa Weather Service and Meteorologist-in-Charge at the U.S. National Weather Service Pago Pago. Lutu-McMoore tells how an 1889 cyclone thst destroyed a fleet of warships in Samoa spurred Congress to build the modern American Navy.#WeAreAmerica250

Meta is contaminating public water supplies with deadly bacteria. Cupriavidus gilardii is resistant to multiple antibiotic agents (even Carbapenems) and can cause fatal human infections.

This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

Megan Kate Nelson is an American historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of “The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier.” Nelson follows the journey of Lewis and Clark, who mapped the American West and transformed the nation. #WeAreAmerica250 @mkn.bsky.social

Rosanne Cash is an author and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Cash recounts the 1970 Kent State killings, when National Guardsmen opened fire, leaving four students dead and forcing a national reckoning over protest and police violence. #WeAreAmerica250

Ted Cruz on Talarico: "I do think he has a chance. I think this is a real race."

July 9, 2026

A Danish journalist, Rasmus Svaneborg, asked NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: "You sit next to Trump while he talks about taking over Greenland or publicly humiliates Spain. Doesn't it affect your self-respect when you just sit there and say nothing?"

Mexico’s president is preparing legal action after an ICE officer fatally shot Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. Trump’s immigration crackdown is no longer just terrorizing communities at home, it is costing lives and creating an international crisis.

Please read this, if you haven’t yet - the summit did produce actual results

Trump has the attention span of a gnat. That’s why the ceasefire in Iran is collapsing. This moment requires dedication and focus from our president. He has neither.

@minjinlee.bsky.social is the award-winning author of “Free Food for Millionaires” and “Pachinko.” Here, Lee profiles Nam June Paik, the Korean American artist who became the father of video art and foresaw our connected digital future. #WeAreAmerica250

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When you see online trolls celebrating Trump or defending crimes by the police or ICE, 9 out of 10 times that’s not an actual human, that’s your tax money weaponized against you.

Patterson Hood is a writer and performer, and co-founder and lead singer of the rock & roll band Drive-By Truckers. Patterson celebrates the Swampers, the Muscle Shoals session musicians who crossed racial lines to create some of America's most iconic soul and rock records. #WeAreAmerica250

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

I'm glad that Graham Platner is out. But it is so disturbing to contemplate that the man who was *twice* elected president makes Platner look like an amateur when it comes to serial sexual assaults.

July 8, 2026

Mexico's president Sheinbaum, condemned the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as another tragic death of people whose only offense is not yet having proper documentation; the government is preparing legal action and UN involvement over killings and abuses by the United States.

NEWS: Rep. Andrew Clyde owns a gun store. He sits on the committee that funds the ATF, and he's spent years trying to gut its budget. A gun sold by his store just turned up in a federal trafficking case.

Shana Bushyhead Condill recounts the Trail of Tears, the brutal forced removal of Indigenous peoples whose survival remains a testament to Native resilience that endures today. #WeAreAmerica250

holy shit -- Mark Rutte says Trump is "right" about Greenland "When it comes to defense of the arctic, he absolutely was right, because there is a huge risk that Russia and China will gain more and more access to the arctic"

July 7, 2026

Katie Boyd is a prominent health, wellness, and fitness coach and proud owner of Katie Boyd’s Miss Fit Club(KBMFC), which helps pageant titleholders prepare for the national stage. Boyd narrates the origins and legacy of the Miss America Pageant. #WeAreAmerica250 #MissAmericaPageant

Alison Brown is a Grammy-award winning banjoist, co-founder of Compass Records and recovering investment banker. She explains the history of the Banjo and the profound effect the instrument has had on American music. #WeAreAmerica250

July 6, 2026

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Team Belgium’s response to the US after the match.

Belgium’s team celebrated their victory over the US by mocking Trump’s signature double jerk off dance move.

Everything Trump touches dies

Dr. Sherrilyn Ifill is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney, expert, and scholar. Ifill is the former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the founder and director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard University School of Law. #WeAreAmerica250

July 5, 2026

💯 There has been so much corruption and insider trading.

White nationalists and Christian nationalists are two sides of the same coin.

New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"

Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen at scale Cambridge Uni made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie...

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When did this new rule take effect? Because we already have one in the White House.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

July 3, 2026

Inspiration for the 250th:

If you are not following @250to250.bsky.social you are truly missing some great informative videos. They are exquisitely put together and narrated by some great people!! Can’t wait to see what they say about VT!! #weareamerica250

July 2, 2026

Sarah Longwell is publisher of The Bulwark, host of The Focus Group podcast, and bestselling author of "How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time," releasing this fall. Longwell tells us how the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 inspired our national anthem. #WeAreAmerica250

Rosie Casals is the winner of 12 Grand Slam Doubles titles, is one of only three players inducted into the Hall of Fame twice and helped establish the WTA in 1973. Casals details how Billie Jean King has used her platform to push for gender equality and social change. #WeAreAmerica250

@sarageorgini.bsky.social is a historian, author, and Series Editor for the ‘Papers of John Adams,’ at @mhs1791.bsky.social. Georgini shares how John Adams, writing to his wife Abigail in 1776, envisioned generations of Americans celebrating independence with pomp and parade. #WeAreAmerica250

Governor Josh Shapiro is the 48th Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the home state to one of America’s most beloved neighbors, Fred Rogers. As a kid, Governor Shapiro grew up watching "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” #WeAreAmerica250

July 1, 2026