You’ll never believe what Zohran Mamdani said.
“But to deliver this great society, we should tax the Rich.”
Same old message that they never deliver on.
#zohranmamdani #greatsociety #newyork #socialism #breakingnews #breaking #mustangmedic #politics
⚠️ Tension with New Deal—addressed
Yes, I support FDR & LBJ. But their programs relied on congressionally designed agencies, not unchecked presidential will. Capacity ≠ dictatorship. 🏛️✅
#NewDeal #GreatSociety
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🗳️ LBJ’s Great Society: Rights must be enforceable. Voting Rights Act, Medicare & civil rights laws made the Constitution real — especially in times of unrest & backlash. Liberty expands democracy.
#LBJ #GreatSociety
📜⚖️ “The Constitution is not a suicide pact” is often used to justify limiting rights in crises. But that’s not how FDR or LBJ understood the Constitution’s purpose.
📖 Origins: Justice Robert Jackson (1949)
#Constitution #NewDeal #GreatSociety
The modern battle over immigration has been going on since the early #20thcentury. the most recent salvo is reaction to the reforms enacted in 1965 as part of the #GreatSociety. #Coneheads is you look at #the80sImigrationPolicies #Freedom&theMoment
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As a man of color in America, the president who probably had the biggest impact on my life today would be #LBJ because of his #GreatSociety programming and the protections of his #CivilRights laws. Yes, he was a racist son of a bitch but he cared about those folks deep down
#presidentsday
HONORING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Happy Martin Luther King . Day to All. See link below.
منير
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#MartinLutherKingDay #MartinLutherKingJrDay #martinluther #shiningone #shiningones #darkones #allah #Islam #christian #Christians #peace #greatsociety #Hindu #buddhist
Mike Johnson tries to sell some fake Congressional history
#ushistory #AmericanHistory #mikejohnson #greatsociety #newdeal www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UtmSxq/
We can reinforce and build upon The #NewDeal and the #GreatSociety... authored by under supervision of an old-timey #Billionaire and a Macho #Texan who was reformed by his wife and a preacher.
It's interesting to see how organizing my #primaryresearch for my #WIP might help me structure the book. She said wishful-thinkingly. #kidlit #MegaKidLitFeed #nonfiction #LBJ #GreatSociety #Vietnam #Selma #votingrights #civilrights #Medicare #ESEA
Congratulations to all who have something new in the works. Thank you @CarolynYoder @agentemurph.bsky.social @Astrapub @CalkinsCreek #kidlit #Megakidlit #LBJ #bio #GreatSociety #civilrights #Vietnam #environment
Press Release announcing our continuing fight for the people of California in the redrawn 6th Congressional District!
Our work for a better and safer #California continues, and preserving our democratic values and institutions has never been more urgent.
Together, we can rebuild our #GreatSociety. I look forward to continuing my campaign to serve the diverse and wonderful California 6th Congressional District!
In The Rock 10/16/1965: The Jefferson Airplane perform at Longshoreman’s Hall at the first big Happening, with special guest The Great Society. #JeffersonAirplane #Happening #GreatSociety #RockHonorRoll
(Economic Nationalism + Family + Rule-of-Law) × Civic Virtue & Historical Wisdom= A #GreatSociety. The sooner my party figures that out, the better it is.
#American #poverty is endemic. It has been tolerated, oh well that is just the way it is baloney. It is not acceptable. I know most will have a problem with my real position, #money is #evil because it guarantees poverty, #homelessness, and #disparities. But which #greatsociety would allow this?
From the 🏛️ Senate floor to the 🏠 Oval Office — the story of ⚡ power, 📈 progress, and 📜 legacy.
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#PageAndPostage #StampTok #Bookstagram #Philately #HistoryThroughStamps #USHistory #LyndonJohnson #GreatSociety #CivilRights #BookAndStampPairing #HistoryNerd
When Reagan came to power ca. 1980, Union Station became home to many of the mentally ill he deinstitutionalized by fiat. Hue and cry ensued. You want pristine public places? Take care of people. #NewDeal #GreatSociety #Liberals
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So who is going to tell the 34 time felon he brought back a policy that was part of #LBJ's #GreatSociety?
His speech was followed by an influential study on “#EducationalTelevision” from the Carnegie Corporation. It concluded that the #FederalGovernment should finance a system of stations to produce programming that was “of human interest & importance” without regard for the free-market incentives […]
We wouldn't add the last two words. But when were "afterschool programs" started? #GreatSociety Back when it was Bob Dylan not Bob Vylan.
“Bill Moyers (1934–2025) At my age, more people who’ve inspired me seem to be dying. Occasionally, the news wallops me extra hard — as with the passing of Bill Moyers. And then, reading memorials celebrating that individual’s life, I realize they had a bigger and more intimate impact on me than I had fully appreciated. Yes, Bill Moyers was such a person. Moyers was a key player in helping to guide President Johnson’s Great Society legislation in the 1960s (an ambitious program to eliminate poverty, reduce racial injustice, and expand social welfare); a brave voice of progressive reason during the Bush years; and long the face of quiet yet thoughtful PBS journalism until he retired from television in 2015. With his strong faith, big heart, brilliance as a brainy interviewer, and the way he encouraged me in my teaching, Bill was my mentor and friend. About the same age as my dad, he was a kind of intellectual father to me. Reading the various memorials and sorting through my emotions in the wake of Bill’s passing, I realize we had a lot in common: In the late 1970s, we both spoke out against big corporations selling baby formula to mothers in extremely poor countries. Fearing a loss of advertisers, CBS told Bill to tone it down. Calling out Nestlé’s deceptive campaign to con African mothers into buying its baby formula rather than nursing was one of my earliest political causes. At a lecture I gave for the Everett Herald (where I wrote a weekly travel column), they, fearing a loss of advertisers, forbade me from handing out my travel newsletter with an editorial page on that topic. (I remember the frustration of that moment — how ripping out that page so everyone attending the talk could still receive my newsletter taught me poignantly how corporate money shapes media, which shapes public perception.)
Bill and I both deeply believed in the societal value of non-corporate broadcasting... public broadcasting. I never heard anyone talk “mission” on a pledge drive like Bill. He raised the bar and greatly inspired me for 20 years of producing and hosting pledge specials. Like Fred Rogers, Bill was ordained as a minister. These “PBS evangelicals,” both heroes of mine, chose media rather than a single church for their calling and spoke softly but effectively from their secular TV pulpits. I like to think that this work is a gentle yet strong way to both employ and share my faith at the same time (as I imagine Fred and Bill did). Bill was more interested in inspiring moral growth in the hope of creating a more just society than in promoting a particular political position. As he put it, “For someone with intellectual curiosity, life is a wonderful, perpetual and eternal university.” He spent several years (which he considered the happiest of his life) helping to create the Peace Corps (which was designed to export the best of American values). And in 1964, as a key player in shaping President Johnson’s Great Society program, he helped expand the role of government to address poverty, health care, education, and civil rights in America (exactly what President Trump is trying to undo today). Bill Moyers spoke boldly about U.S. involvement in Central America during the Contra-Sandinista era. This helped inspire me to travel there in the late 1980s, and to write and publish my “Banana-ology” journal called “There’s Blood on Your Banana” — www.ricksteves.com/travel-blogs/more/bananaology — which I then personally delivered to the office of nearly every member of Congress in a valiant if knowingly futile effort to wake people up to the injustices of U.S. policies south of our border. Moyers was so effective at shining a light on this issue that, even back then, it drove Republican efforts to defund PBS.
It came with the greatest compliment I’d ever received as a TV producer — and from the man I respected so much. In that letter (printed in full in the comments section, below), Bill wrote, “Your engagement reminds us of how the medium of TV can serve the larger community and, as Murrow said, be more than ‘wires in a box.’” I have so much admiration for the value of media to do good, that receiving this Edward R. Murrow quote from Bill Moyers in reference to our TV work nearly brought me to tears. That he took time to handwrite and mail it to me in the midst of his busy and important life was just another way I was inspired by my mentor. When I first wrote my “Travel as a Political Act” book, I felt I needed to make a pilgrimage to New York to personally give Bill a copy. He made time to welcome me into his NYC office and — both of us evangelical about sharing our take on the challenges confronting our society and the tantalizing potential of America becoming more of a force for good — we exchanged our latest books: He gave me a collection of his most impactful interviews, and I gave him a collection of my greatest lessons from the road. Just as I was getting more serious about my support for Bread for the World (a Christian citizens’ movement that lobbies our government for funding to fight hunger), I learned that Bill was one of Bread’s most generous and impactful supporters. He understood that hunger across the sea was just as real as hunger across the street .. BTW, if there’s one thing you could do in memory of Bill Moyers, it would be to raise a political ruckus with your senator or representative about de-funding USAID, letting the Voice of America become the Voice of China, and un-plugging American soft power abroad. (For guidance on how, click here: https://go.bread.org/page/80018/action/1?ea.tracking.id=secondhomepageblock&_gl=1*ppwws9*_gcl_au*OTc4OTMxMTAwLjE3NDkxMzk5ODM .)
As a journalist, Bill was evangelical about exposing systemic and structural injustices. He pursued the kind of stories that reach deeply into our everyday lives, as America works its way through challenges that may be daunting but shouldn’t be out of reach. He eventually moved from PBS to CBS, but as an ethical journalist, his frustrations with CBS’s need to keep advertisers happy and unthreatened eventually drove Bill out of commercial news and back into public broadcasting. Even during visits in his last years, I appreciated how Bill and Judith saw the world through a lens of social justice and were committed to raising awareness about societal challenges. For example, once, when apologizing for the construction mess caused by work going on in their building, they pointed out that it couldn’t start until 10 a.m. because, with the low wages for the workers and the high cost of living in New York City, anyone doing such labor likely had a two-hour commute. ..As for legacy, I know he inspired a generation of caring Americans with his courage, wit, faith-based compassion, and his drive to bring out the best in America. Think of the battles for the public good and for the ideals of America that he tirelessly championed: from his days as a student intern for then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson to his role as a trusted White House advisor and then as a venerable talking head in a class with Walter Cronkite well into his 80s... think of all the good Bill made possible. And I can’t help but reflect on how an angry, confused, and frightened public today has enabled a president who can roll back so much of that hard-earned societal progress with a few dozen hateful strokes of an executive pen. In spite of it all, I’m sure Bill would say that the ideals of America can survive and we must proceed — in solidarity — with a determined faith that a #GreatSociety is still worth fighting for.“
#RickSteves on #BillMoyers. Snip: “Bill Moyers (1934–2025) ..Moyers .. helping to guide President Johnson’s #GreatSociety legislation .. (.. to eliminate poverty, reduce racial injustice, and expand social welfare); a brave voice of progressive reason .. PBS journalism .. interviewer.. (c Alt-Txts)
The original... If you're impatient, go to 4:00.. but that'll make you want to go back to the beginning..
#WhiteRabbit #GraceSlick #GreatSociety
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Reminder @symonedsanders.bsky.social @michaelsteele.bsky.social that JFKs #WarOnPoverty LBJs #GreatSociety were inspired by the book "The Other America" by Michael Harrington, a Democratic Socialist thought leader.
Maybe talk about what democratic socialist policy really means. Debunk the bs folks.
Instead of dismantling the #greatsociety of #LBJ, we should be continuing to build upon his ideas, it was a starting place. Instead our #republican and #maga politicians are lining their pockets and passing legislation that takes away from the lower classes. Thisjj be is #classwarfare
Sorry Grace...
#whiterabbit #badcover #greatsociety #graceslick
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Still, the Populist legacy lived on.
Their ideas inspired the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and even modern reforms.
Real populism doesn’t fade. It evolves—when it’s rooted in justice.
#NewDeal #GreatSociety #ProgressivePolitics #ObamaCare
Without a doubt #HeadStart is the greatest success of LBJ's #GreatSociety. It should be expanded not destroyed.
If #LBJ were alive, he’d kick #47’s butt for messing with his #GreatSociety programs!
