Liam O'Mara IV, PhDFeb 9
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1950, alcoholic Senator #JosephMcCarthy found a reëlection trick in a bald-faced that he had a list of 205 "known communists" working in the #StateDepartment, setting off the #SecondRedScare. The number kept changing and he never turned over a single name.
Paria sans portefeuilleSep 10, 2025

"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself [...] its commitments to principles of equality and justice—to say nothing of truthful accounts of history—are being trashed."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-general-air-of-anxiety/
#USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #stateRepression #AcademicFreedom #education #AmericanSchools #UShigherEd #Trumpism #civilLiberties #SecondRedScare #McCarthyism