Jill Watts

Grateful to @BertelsmannFdn for the chance to contribute to their "How to Fix Democracy" podcast. Thanks to host @ajkeen and to @CSUSM's Catrina Manchor, Blair Houk, and @EricBrier for supporting the recording of this episode. Sometimes looking backward can help us move forward.

A vandalized 1958 Googie landmark in L.A. was supposed to disappear. Instead, it was rebuilt—neon, terrazzo, and all. Inside the resurrection of a Helen Liu Fong classic. 🚀🏛️ Read more: bit.ly/4k9Py6U #Googie #Preservation #Architecture

When your anniversary falls on St. Patrick's Day, what better way to celebrate than with a potato filled with shamrocks?

@BarryMotivates @SenRickScott Sending condolences to all

@SenRickScott We are waiting to bury a United States soldier who went to school with my 20-year-old son. Pardon me if I don’t feel like your bill is the most important thing we need to be considering right now.#ReadTheRoom.

Tomorrow, the wait is over as we spring forward and get an extra hour of sunshine! That means more time to enjoy at the beach, in the park, and with your family. Who doesn’t love that? I’m fighting to pass my Sunshine Protection Act so we can keep Daylight Saving Time YEAR-ROUND and enjoy more sunshine, not less.

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune was the highest-ranking African American in the Roosevelt administration. See Bethune's letter to ER and much more in "SIGNATURE MOMENTS: Letters From the Famous, the Infamous, and Everyday Americans." #BlackHistoryMonth

#OnThisDay: Sixty-one years ago today, on December 16, 1964, #PresidentJohnson hosted a #Christmas party for orphaned children at the #WhiteHouse. 🎅🎄 📷 @USNavy

Today would have been Mary Todd Lincoln’s birthday — a woman history has too often misunderstood, minimized, or dismissed. I wrote An Inconvenient Widow to correct the record. The book arrives May 2026, and I’m excited to share it with the world! Preorder now: bit.ly/aninconvenient…

Mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana, January 1939.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Ken Burns is a six-part documentary series premiering this weekend on @PBS . I am honored to voice one of many voices in this monumental film. A MUST WATCH! 🔥

Whatever its new trappings and new slogans, TYRANNY is the oldest and most discredited rule known to history. And whenever tyranny has replaced a more human form of Government it has been due more to internal causes than external. Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children. #FDR 1940

The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor can there be true humanism without a critical sense, without the courage to ask questions: "Where are we going? For whom and for what are we working? How are we making the world a better place?"

On this day in 1968, Shirley Chisholm became first black woman elected to the United States Congress.

My name is Jonathan Nez. I am the former Navajo Nation President running for Congress to defeat extremist Eli Crane and flip Arizona's 2nd blue. This race will decide the House majority . Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help us make history in Arizona?

Workers are hard at work in CAs San Joaquin Valley. Roma tomatoes are tougher to pick and take longer to fill then standard tomatoes. Workers earn $0.89 per 25 lb bucket. These pickers are working the edges of the field to get every last bit of the yield. #WeFeedYou

From motherhood to beauty standards to access to capital, women entrepreneurs face hidden costs at every turn. Roosevelt Fellow Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman reveals the invisible “taxes” holding women entrepreneurs back—and the tools we need to change it. ⤵️ player.fm/episodes/50232…

Designer Ann Lowe became the quintessential style maven and influencer of the fashion industry. Her Madison Avenue boutique showcased exceptional design and tailoring, welcoming prominent clients including Jacqueline Kennedy and the Rockefellers during her 50-year career.

"If you're a history buff, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library could make for the ideal road trip destination. The museum features 'special interactives, immersive audio-visuals, and rarely seen artifacts' that take visitors through the Roosevelt era." ow.ly/xlrK50WAcOZ

@AGuzmanLopez Thank you for this memory

@teemcee So sorry. Sending condolences.

Galaxy crossed the Rainbow Bridge on Friday. I’ll be honest, this has really messed me up. This house is not the same without El Jefe and I’m gonna miss him forever. Hasta la próxima chiquito. You were the goodest boy.

@bstrub @nlbmprez Thanks for reading

History no one taught me, but I learned anyway, by reading these outstanding books. The Black Cabinet by @jillmwatts and Only the Ball was White by Robert Peterson. Solid books for #juneteenthday to better understand our shared American history.