Just watched #ACapitolFourth. It was everything Trump's authoritarian event was not: Diverse entertainment (including Muppets singing G-d Bless America). #JohnStamos saying cool things about America. Vanessa Williams singing #AmericaTheBeautiful. Sousa. Fireworks. #July4thPBS
#AmericaTheBeautiful was written by #KatherineLeeBates, a #lesbian professor at #WellesleyCollege--alma mater of my mother and #HillaryClinton.

Bates was partnered for 30yrs with #KatharineComan, who founded the economics school at Wellesley.
#July4th
#KatherineLeeBates wrote #AmericaTheBeautiful for #FourthofJuly.
My favorite line "mend thine every flaw" "thy liberty in law." Our #Constitution is meant to grow and breathe and fix what is wrong with this nation.
Here's @VWOfficial performing #AmericaTheBeautiful at the Capitol Reflecting Pool. #July4thPBS
It's vital we remember that Trump hasn't despoiled the best of America--which is us. Our true patriotism is not jingoistic shows of force, but our support for one another, our reaching out to those who need our help, our fealty to truth and justice and resistance.
#July4th
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