WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE XENOPHOBIC BIGOTRY: “Syrian Refugee Family in Cleveland: ‘Today We Cannot Go Outside'” ☮

Donald Trump’s calls to ban Syrian and Muslim refugees from entering the country has been a centerpiece of his campaign. This week, he will be formally named the Republican nominee at the RNC in Cleveland.

Blocks from where Trump’s coronation ceremony is taking place is a small Cleveland neighborhood where hundreds of refugee families have recently been resettled from conflict zones across the Middle East. For them, Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric poses a very real threat. VICE News visits this neighborhood to see what it’s like watching the RNC through their eyes.

WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY: “Rumble – Christian Taliban Now in the GOP Platform” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Crystal Wright, Con Job: How the Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering and Racial Division/Conservative Black Chick & Alex Lawson, Social Security Works & Charles Sauer, The Market Institute all join Thom. The official GOP platform encourages the public display of the Ten Commandments. But why is the GOP pretending that our Constitution establishes a theocracy?

RELIGIOUS STUDIES: “The Only US Public School with a Mandatory World Religions Course?” / ReligionForBreakfast / Andrew Henry ☮

Teaching neutral, academic religious studies courses in American public schools is tricky. Many people don’t even realize that it is legal! But one school district in Modesto, California is proving that a world religions requirement for all students can help improve religious literacy and foster respect for religious freedom.