Mastodawn

I guess we know whose side he’s on. 😕

“‘The century of progressivism,’ Thomas claims, ‘did not go well.’ For whom? By the mid-twentieth century, progressive reforms (and, later, the New Deal laws that built upon them) helped Americans reach higher standards of living than they could have imagined. …

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#Politics #USPolitics #DeclarationOfIndependance #Progressivism #ProgressivePolitics #History #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #CivilRights #NewDeal

https://newrepublic.com/article/209183/clarence-thomas-history-progressivism-speech

Clarence Thomas Can’t Get American History Right

In his recent broadside against the twentieth century, the justice is as ill informed as he is mean-spirited.

The New Republic

Jonathan Emmesedi Apr 13

Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.

>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<

I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.

Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons

#Art #JaredFrench #NewDeal #USArt #AmericanArt #Painting #1930s

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Axomamma, Antifa from birth Apr 11

@SmithsonianRoulette "Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, was the driving force behind the New Deal, credited with formulating policies to shore up the national economy following the nation’s most serious economic crisis and helping to create the modern middle class."

#NewDeal #WomenInHistory
https://francesperkinscenter.org/learn/her-life/

Her Life

Frances Perkins Center

WIST Quotations Apr 2

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance, of those who conduct a counter offensive against the American people’s march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness — it is an opposition that comes from subconscious resistance to any measure that disturbs the position of privilege.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Speech (1940-11-01), Campaign Address, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #newdeal #avarice #change #conservatives #elite #greed #privilege #progress #socialjustice #socialwelfare #statusquo

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - Speech (1940-11-01), Campaign Address, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York | WIST Quotations

We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance, of those who conduct a counter offensive against the American people's march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness — it is an opposition that comes from subconscious resistance to any measure that disturbs the…

WIST Quotations

World History Encyclopedia Mar 23

George Selgin’s "False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery 1933-1947" provides a measured and calculated investigation of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s efforts to lift the United States out of the Great Depression. #History #EconomicHistory #HerbertHoover #NewDeal #UnitedStates #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-556-en/

False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947

The reader is greeted with an iconic photo, likely recognizable from any lower division textbook or online article, of men waiting in line for a meal. The photo is misleading for two reasons. First...

World History Encyclopedia

jobo Mar 18

Ein linker US-#Präsident rettet den #Kapitalismus:

#Franklin_D_Roosevelt: "#NewDeal" erreicht 1936 den #Höhepunkt: Gegen #Widerstand setzt er auf #wirtschaftlichen #Aufschwung - und behält #Recht.
http://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/zeitzeichen/zeitzeichen-new-deal-roosevelt-102.html

#Zeitzeichen

Zeitzeichen - Im Jahr 1936: Höhepunkt des "New Deal" in den USA

Franklin D. Roosevelts "New Deal" erreicht 1936 den Höhepunkt: Gegen Widerstand setzt er auf wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung - und behält Recht.

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 15

American Free Enterprise System"):
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508

...so begann die #Geldaristokraten-Gegenbewegung nach der #Reconstruction im 19. Jahrhundert und dem #Trustbusting von #Theodore bzw. dem #NewDeal von #FranklinDelano #Rosevelt (#FDR.)

In diesem Zusammenhang ist auch die ab diesem Zeitpunkt in Gang gesetzte, unter #Trump dann schließlich vollendete #Demokratiefeindliche Übernahme des Obersten Gerichtshofs der #USA @mastodon.social @peter_koenig

GuyC59 Mar 14

Many people think of the U.S. Social Security program as providing retirement income. Do you know that your Social Security contributions can provide as much as a million dollars in life insurance coverage for your survivors? Do you know that your Social Security contributions insure against loss of income do to a disabling condition? Do you know the ways that your family is protected by your Social Security contributions? Watch this short video to learn more.

For more information:
* Survivor benefits: https://www.ssa.gov/survivor
* Family Benefits (Spouses, ex-spouses, children, and some grandchildren): https://www.ssa.gov/family
* Disability: https://www.ssa.gov/disability
* Eligibility: https://www.ssa.gov/prepare/check-eligibility-for-benefits
* Retirement: https://www.ssa.gov/retirement
* Delayed Retirement : https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/1958-delay.html

I hope you find this information helpful.

#socialsecurity #disability #retirement #insurance #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice
https://youtu.be/wDlbCmyT218

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Mar 7

The #FordHungerMarch was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1932, when #police opened fire on an unarmed crowd of the #unemployed during the #GreatDepression, killing five & wounding 60 others. Those killed were members of the #YoungCommunistLeague; fear of the workers created the #NewDeal.