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#UShistory #Economics #Equality
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...and the last year for which the #CBO has crunched data, it had dipped to 7.4%."
So, #Biden's presidency was not so democratic based on #LBJ's #GreatSociety vision, as one might have expected, due to the reduction in "egalitarian" wealth transfers.
"According to the #CBO, the legislation reduced the annual income of the poorest tenth of households by 3.1% on average – about $1,200 – while boosting the income of...
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#UShistory #Economics #Equality
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...and the last year for which the #CBO has crunched data, it had dipped to 7.4%."
So, #Biden's presidency was not so democratic based on #LBJ's #GreatSociety vision, as one might have expected, due to the reduction in "egalitarian" wealth transfers.
"According to the #CBO, the legislation reduced the annual income of the poorest tenth of households by 3.1% on average – about $1,200 – while boosting the income of...
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👉Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of #US inequality👈
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What gargantuan conceptual abyss lies between #LBJ's address at the #UniversityOfMichigan in 1964 + the #MAGA ideology as embodied in the #OneBigBeautifulBill of 2025!--#LyndonBJohnson had a much more egalitarian society for 2014 in mind:
"...in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the #GreatSociety.
The #GreatSociety rests on abundance...
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👉Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of #US inequality👈
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What gargantuan conceptual abyss lies between #LBJ's address at the #UniversityOfMichigan in 1964 + the #MAGA ideology as embodied in the #OneBigBeautifulBill of 2025!--#LyndonBJohnson had a much more egalitarian society for 2014 in mind:
"...in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the #GreatSociety.
The #GreatSociety rests on abundance...
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“I’m not OK with it” – LeBron James was his own harshest critic during his historic 2015 NBA Finals https://www.rawchili.com/nba/753047/ #2015NBAFinals #Basketball #ChrisBosh #ClevelandCavaliers #DraymondGreen #DwyaneWade #GoldenStateWarriors #KevinLove #KlayThompson #KyrieIrving #LBJ #LeBronJames #Miami #NBA #NBAPlayoffs #ShotAttempts #StephenCurry #TeamBasketball #UncleDrew
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We are charged with building a #GreatSociety.
It is college graduation season in America. There was a time when a president used that moment to inspire graduates commencing their journey, not to treat the room as a mirror.
#HCR writes about one of those moments. 👇
It is a reminder that #politics can be noble. That #PublicService is not self-service.
The distance between those two instincts tells everything we need to know right now and what must be done
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-22-2026
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We are charged with building a #GreatSociety.
It is college graduation season in America. There was a time when a president used that moment to inspire graduates commencing their journey, not to treat the room as a mirror.
#HCR writes about one of those moments. 👇
It is a reminder that #politics can be noble. That #PublicService is not self-service.
The distance between those two instincts tells everything we need to know right now and what must be done
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-22-2026
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Kansas has voted Republican in the past 15 presidential elections, according to Wikipedia.
Kansas hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since it voted for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, when he ran against Barry Goldwater.
That means it has been 62 years since a Democrat has won Kansas in a presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Kansas
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Kansas has voted Republican in the past 15 presidential elections, according to Wikipedia.
Kansas hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since it voted for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, when he ran against Barry Goldwater.
That means it has been 62 years since a Democrat has won Kansas in a presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Kansas
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https://www.lovenba.com/1758378/ CLASSIC BRON vs KD! Los Angeles Lakers vs Houston Rockets | Series Preview #AlperenSengun #AmenThompson #AustinReaves #BronnyJames #DeandreAyton #FirstRound #HOU #HoustonRockets #JabariSmithJr #JakeLaRavia #JjReddick #KD #KevinDurant #LA #LAL #latest #LBJ #LebronJames #LosAngelesLakers #LukaDoncic #LukeKennard #MarcusSmart #NBA #news #PacificDivision #palyoffs #playin #ReedSheppard #report #RuiHachimura #series #TariEason #Today #update #WesternConference #wgameplay #wgph
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“He’s not Kobe or Magic” – Stephen A. Smith urges LeBron to leave Lakers for “God-Like” return to Cleveland https://www.rawchili.com/nba/693442/ #AustinReaves #Basketball #Cavaliers #cavs #Cleveland #ClevelandCavaliers #ClevelandCavaliers #DonovanMitchell #EvanMobley #JarrettAllen #KingJames #Kobe #LBJ #LeBronJames #LosAngelesLakers #LukaDončić #MagicJohnson #NBA #NBAChampionship #StephenASmith
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Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?
#Iran #Trump #USA #WestAsia #Geopolitics #VietnamWar #LBJ #LyndonJohnson #MAGA #Elections #Midterms #EconomicCrisis #Inflation #OilPrices #PowerShift
https://the-14.com/vietnam-ruined-lyndon-b-johnsons-political-career-will-donald-trump-face-the-same-fate-over-iran/ -
Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?
#Iran #Trump #USA #WestAsia #Geopolitics #VietnamWar #LBJ #LyndonJohnson #MAGA #Elections #Midterms #EconomicCrisis #Inflation #OilPrices #PowerShift
https://the-14.com/vietnam-ruined-lyndon-b-johnsons-political-career-will-donald-trump-face-the-same-fate-over-iran/ -
March 15, 1965 - Less than a week after the Bloody Sunday police attacks on peaceful marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the American people before a televised Joint Session of Congress. He said, “There is no issue of States rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights . . . We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone . . . .”
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March 15, 1965 - Less than a week after the Bloody Sunday police attacks on peaceful marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the American people before a televised Joint Session of Congress. He said, “There is no issue of States rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights . . . We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone . . . .”
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OTD in 1965 while responding to the Selma crisis, US President Lyndon B Johnson told the US Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act https://toilet-guru.com/power-and-privacy.html?s=mb #LBJ #history
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OTD in 1965 while responding to the Selma crisis, US President Lyndon B Johnson told the US Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act https://toilet-guru.com/power-and-privacy.html?s=mb #LBJ #history
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Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1868762/hey-hey-lbj-how-many-kids-did-you-kill-today
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Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1868762/hey-hey-lbj-how-many-kids-did-you-kill-today
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I was tempted to post a simple "Ignore Tony, follow Harold!" message to Starmer, but as this article suggests, Wilson's "keeping the UK out of Vietnam" story is not quite that straightforward.
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/britain-vietnam-and-special-relationship
#Iran #USUKRealtions #VietnamWar #HaroldWilson #SpecialRelationship #LBJ #LyndonBainesJohnson
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I was tempted to post a simple "Ignore Tony, follow Harold!" message to Starmer, but as this article suggests, Wilson's "keeping the UK out of Vietnam" story is not quite that straightforward.
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/britain-vietnam-and-special-relationship
#Iran #USUKRealtions #VietnamWar #HaroldWilson #SpecialRelationship #LBJ #LyndonBainesJohnson
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US President Lyndon Johnson announced a "War on Poverty" OTD in 1964 https://toilet-guru.com/power-and-privacy.html?s=mb #history #LBJ
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US President Lyndon Johnson announced a "War on Poverty" OTD in 1964 https://toilet-guru.com/power-and-privacy.html?s=mb #history #LBJ
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“If guys aren’t in this locker room, I don’t have much time for them” – Bosh didn’t talk with LeBron after he left Miami https://www.rawchili.com/nba/424184/ #Basketball #ChicagoBulls #ChrisBosh #ClevelandCavaliers #DwyaneWade #heat #KingJames #LBJ #LeBronJames #Miami #MiamiHeat #MiamiHeat #NBA
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Frustrated, angry US lefty here to suggest slogan to needle the corporatist neoliberal Democratic Party, move the Overton window left in the direction of progressive / populist / social democratic safety net platform, policies (even if the bad guys own the White House, the House, the Senate and the extreme Court😡):
New rule: Dems must quickly become the best of #FDR, #JFK, #LBJ
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Just some figurehead who accomplishing nothing, no one of importance /s
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Just some figurehead who accomplishing nothing, no one of importance /s
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I recently read Patrick Cox -- Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator.
It's a must read for anyone interested in Texas, but it's not just Texana; in fact, it's a scholarly work that merits attention from anyone who wants to understand the political history of the USA from the the twenties to the Civil Rights movement.
I found fascinating Yarborough's evolution from an East Texas Democrat who hemmed and hawed about Brown and "forced integration" to his becoming the only US senator from the South to have voted for all of the major Civil Rights bills.
Following Yarborough's political career can help the reader understand the broader transformation of the Democrats in the postwar era.
His often frosty relationship with LBJ is an important theme of the book. Their differences were not just personal, but arose from Yarborough's unwillingness to join LBJ in forging bonds with the major industrial and financial powers of Texas to facilitate both campaigning in the giant state and the passgage of modernizing and desegregating legislation.
As Cox notes, Yarborough remained in many ways a figure from an earlier era; a teetotal Southern Baptist happier with courthouse square stemwinder oratory than TV campaigning, an old style hands on politician who tried to answer his mail personally, much to the frustration of his staff. Yet his part in pushing forward measures on civil rights, education, health care, and the environment also shows him pushing into a future that we still have not realized in full.
The account of his battles with Allan Shivers will remind you of just how barf making these southern conservative Democrats were!
#RalphYarborough #Texas #USHistory #USPolitics #CivilRights #LBJ #Democrats #AllanShivers #Liberals #SouthernPolitics #TheSouth #ConservativeDemocrats
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I recently read Patrick Cox -- Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator.
It's a must read for anyone interested in Texas, but it's not just Texana; in fact, it's a scholarly work that merits attention from anyone who wants to understand the political history of the USA from the the twenties to the Civil Rights movement.
I found fascinating Yarborough's evolution from an East Texas Democrat who hemmed and hawed about Brown and "forced integration" to his becoming the only US senator from the South to have voted for all of the major Civil Rights bills.
Following Yarborough's political career can help the reader understand the broader transformation of the Democrats in the postwar era.
His often frosty relationship with LBJ is an important theme of the book. Their differences were not just personal, but arose from Yarborough's unwillingness to join LBJ in forging bonds with the major industrial and financial powers of Texas to facilitate both campaigning in the giant state and the passgage of modernizing and desegregating legislation.
As Cox notes, Yarborough remained in many ways a figure from an earlier era; a teetotal Southern Baptist happier with courthouse square stemwinder oratory than TV campaigning, an old style hands on politician who tried to answer his mail personally, much to the frustration of his staff. Yet his part in pushing forward measures on civil rights, education, health care, and the environment also shows him pushing into a future that we still have not realized in full.
The account of his battles with Allan Shivers will remind you of just how barf making these southern conservative Democrats were!
#RalphYarborough #Texas #USHistory #USPolitics #CivilRights #LBJ #Democrats #AllanShivers #Liberals #SouthernPolitics #TheSouth #ConservativeDemocrats
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Aftersome by You Man is a hypnotic journey, a sonic mosaic reflecting the unpredictable beauty of the paths that emerge as we move forward. #music #youman #aftersome #album #lbj
htt ps://evl.one/aftersome-by-you-man
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This image of #LBJ opening the Denton Federal Underground Center in 1961 is going around. Here is a link to a KSAT San Antonio story from 2018.
Cold War era underground government facility in Denton built to survive nuclear attack
#ColdWar #FEMA #Denton
https://www.ksat.com/news/2018/05/03/cold-war-era-underground-government-facility-in-denton-built-to-survive-nuclear-attack/ -
This image of #LBJ opening the Denton Federal Underground Center in 1961 is going around. Here is a link to a KSAT San Antonio story from 2018.
Cold War era underground government facility in Denton built to survive nuclear attack
#ColdWar #FEMA #Denton
https://www.ksat.com/news/2018/05/03/cold-war-era-underground-government-facility-in-denton-built-to-survive-nuclear-attack/ -
@petergleick Reminiscent of #W and #Cheney and the #WMD in #Iraq, #LBJ and the #TonkinGulf, and many others
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@petergleick Reminiscent of #W and #Cheney and the #WMD in #Iraq, #LBJ and the #TonkinGulf, and many others
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When Karl Malone mocked Jeff Van Gundy for claiming the Heat Big 3 would break Bulls’ 72-10 record: “Must have had some red wine that night” https://www.rawchili.com/nba/261654/ #Basketball #BasketballCommunity #ChicagoBulls #heat #JeffVanGundy #KarlMalone #LBJ #LeBronJames #mavs #Miami #MiamiHeat #MiamiHeat #NBA #OklahomaCityThunder #TheHeat
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Exactly 60 years ago today the Voting Rights Act became law, thanks to Black liberation struggle via Diane Nash, Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, Amelia Boynton, John Lewis, James Lawson, James Bevel, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, et al. LBJ speech: https://www.lbjlibrary.org/object/video/signing-voting-rights-act
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NEW: Wednesday’s POLITICRAT.
The 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-politicrat/id1503246845?i=1000720946466
#mlk #votingrightsact #voting #votingrights #lbj #podcast #usa
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July 28, 1965 - President Lyndon Johnson ordered 50,000 troops to Vietnam to join the 75,000 already there. By the end of the year 180,000 U.S. troops will have been sent to Vietnam; in 1966 the figure doubled. In addition to countless Vietnamese deaths, close to 1900 Americans were killed in 1965; the following year the number more than tripled.
President Johnson explained: “We intend to convince the communists that we cannot be defeated by force of arms or by superior power.”
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Als der Präsident auf seiner Ranch den Zentralbankchef schubste: Mein Text über die Versuche der US-Präsidenten, die Fed zu kontrollieren: #Trump #LBJ www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/u...
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I've often heard #Republicans trying to claim #CivilRights icon #MartinLutherKing/#MLK as one of their own... citing "Negroes" fleeing Deep South anti-Civil Rights Dixiecrats.At the same time #JFK & #LBJ were advancing Civil Rights, #Republicans started courting the Deep South over to their side where they remain to this day.
MLK Jr famously warned against voting for Barry Goldwater and endorsed Kennedy:
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March 31, 1968 - President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek re-election, ordered a partial bombing halt in Vietnam, and appointed W. Averell Harriman to seek peace negotiations with North Vietnam.
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OTD in 1965 while responding to the Selma crisis, US President Lyndon B Johnson told the US Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act https://toilet-guru.com/power-and-privacy.html?s=mb #LBJ #history
