Mastodawn

What would late civil rights icon and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall say about the current court?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/thurgood-marshall-current-supreme-court

Blaze Media | News, opinion, and entertainment Sep 21

Mark Levin invokes Reagan’s 1964 warning as a rallying cry against today’s looming crisis

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/shows/levintv/mark-levin-invokes-reagans-1964-warning-as-a-rallying-cry-against-todays-looming-crisis

Tim Zee Jun 28

Journalist Bill Moyers died this week at the age of 91. Before his journalism career he worked for Lyndon Johnson and became his press secretary at age 31.
Moyers was the last surviving individual to have witnessed the swearing in of LBJ on Air Force One after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
The arrow points to Moyers in back.
#BillMoyers #LyndonJohnson #JohnFKennedy #USHistory

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Nonilex Jun 26

#BillMoyers, who served as #press secy to President #LyndonJohnson & then, for >40 years, as a broadcast #journalist known for bringing ideas—both timely & timeless—to TV, died June 26 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 91.
 The cause was complications from prostate #cancer, said his son, William Cope Moyers. Long before he became a grandee of #PublicTelevision, the #Texas-born Moyers was a top aide &, by many accounts, a surrogate son to Johnson.

Alan Lewis Jun 22

https://c.im/@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

The Zhi Zhu post (attached) is one of the most important messages of the past week. Franklin Roosevelt saw the Hitler threat long before the American public did. FDR needed to do the groundwork for American intervention, which, by the way, started long before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. US history is filled with major examples. Right now, according to public opinion polling, the American public is not with us on Gaza. We need Capitol Hill "leadership" to lead on this issue and many others and we positively are not getting it. It has been altogether too convenient to just slide along while Bernie Sanders says what needs to be said. Young or not so young, we need a new group of Democratic politicians who do not leave their spines at home.

Eightysix47

: #berniesanders #democrats #donaldtrump #eightysix47 #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklinroosevelt #gaza #israel #lyndonbjohnson #lyndonjohnson #palestine #palestinians #uspol #uspolitics :

AFRICAN CONNECTIONS (ACREF)May 8

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

by: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/maga-republicans-us-universities?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

#education #University
#rightwing #MAGA
#JDVance #Nixon
#Trump #Harvard #Yale #Princeton #antisemitism #Christianity #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute
#ThinkTank #GIBill #JosephMcCarthy #LyndonJohnson
#HigherEducationAct #culturewars
#autocrat

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began

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Shaman Mar 8

Thank you #HeatherCoxRichardson for putting things into perspective...
" On August 6th, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling the outrage of Selma, Johnson said, this right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
Let's not forget that of all the rights Americans enjoy, the #RightToVote is the most consequential!
#LyndonJohnson #BloodySunday #GOPVoterSuppression
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-7-2025-06b?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=20533&post_id=158663199&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=listen_now_button&r=2hbrmw&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

March 7, 2025

Letters from an American

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cob Feb 15

... mais représente un formidable progrès pédagogique."

Cf Psdt USA Lyndon Johnson : " 'le monde ne possède qu'une fraction des enseignants dont il a besoin.' "

"Avec la massification de l'enseignement, trouver des professeurs qualifiés se révèlent de plus en pllus compliqué, surtout si l'on considère les questions de rémunération."

#MichelDesmurget #digital #teameduc #teamprof #parents #science #education #economie #politique #LyndonJohnson

kriykat Jan 28

Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 7 Years Ago Today
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/27/remembering-robert-parry-who-died-7-yrs-ago-today/
We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018. The founder of this website died seven years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career…
#Politics #GaryWebbFreedomOfThePressAward #Guatemala #History #Intelligence #Iran #IranContra #Iraq #LatinAmerica #LostHistory #Media #MiddleEast #Nicaragua #OctoberSurprise #Propaganda #RobertParry #Secrecy #JimmyCarter #JohnKerry #LyndonJohnson #NatParry #RonaldReagan #SunMyungMoon #ThomasPaine

Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 7 Years Ago Today

We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018. The founder of this website died seven years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newswee

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