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Hype for the Future 105B: National Forests of Texas
Introduction Within the State of Texas, a total of four (4) national forest zones are included, obviously on the eastern side of the State in which more humidity is typical. For each national forest, a distinct story is told about the State as a whole, with every particular regional divide representing cultural distinctions as well as geographic and potentially natural distinctions. National Forests Within the State of Texas, the national forests are named Sam Houston, Angelina, Davy […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/hype-for-the-future-105b-national-forests-of-texas/
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Israel was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK
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Pablo Larraín, Natalie Portman – „Jackie“ (2016)
Dieses Biopic über Jackie Kennedy war für Natalie Portman kein Karriereschritt, sondern eine Transformation. In eine Ikone, die selbst bereits eine Kunstfigur war. Die First Lady als Maske, als Spiegel, als Mythos: keine Biografie, sondern eine Performance der Performance einer anderen. Pablo Larraín hat daraus ein Filmporträt gemacht, das nachwirkt, scharfkantig, unruhig, durchaus schwer erträglich – und gerade deshalb wahrhaftig. (ARTE)
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Letters from an American – August 5, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 5, 2025 (Tuesday)
By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 05, 2025
Sixty years ago tomorrow, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The need for the law was explained in its full title: “An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes.”
In the wake of the Civil War, Americans tried to create a new nation in which the law treated Black men and white men as equals. In 1865 they ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing enslavement except as punishment for crimes. In 1868 they adjusted the Constitution again, guaranteeing that anyone born or naturalized in the United States—except certain Indigenous Americans—was a citizen, opening up suffrage to Black men. In 1870, after Georgia legislators expelled their newly seated Black colleagues, Americans defended the right of Black men to vote by adding that right to the Constitution.
All three of those amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth—gave Congress the power to enforce them. In 1870, Congress established the Department of Justice to do just that. Reactionary white southerners had been using state laws, and the unwillingness of state judges and juries to protect Black Americans from white gangs and cheating employers, to keep Black people subservient. White men organized as the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize Black men and to keep them and their white allies from voting to change that system. In 1870 the federal government stepped in to protect Black rights and prosecute members of the Ku Klux Klan.
With federal power now behind the Constitutional protection of equality, threatening jail for those who violated the law, white opponents of Black voting changed their argument against it.
In 1871 they began to say that they had no problem with Black men voting on racial grounds; their objection to Black voting was that Black men, just out of enslavement, were poor and uneducated. They were voting for lawmakers who promised them public services like roads and schools, and which could only be paid for with tax levies.
The idea that Black voters were socialists—they actually used that term in 1871—meant that white northerners who had fought to replace the hierarchical society of the Old South with a society based on equality began to change their tune. They looked the other way as white men kept Black men from voting, first with terrorism and then with grandfather clauses that cut out Black men without mentioning race by permitting a man to vote if his grandfather had, literacy tests in which white registrars got to decide who passed, poll taxes, and so on. States also cut up districts unevenly to favor the Democrats, who ran an all-white, segregationist party. By 1880 the South was solidly Democratic, and it would remain so until 1964.
Southern states always held elections: it was just foreordained that Democrats would win them.
Black Americans never accepted this state of affairs, but their opposition did not gain powerful national traction until after World War II.
During that war, Americans from all walks of life had turned out to defeat fascism, a government system based on the idea that some people are better than others. Americans defended democracy and, for all that Black Americans fought in segregated units, and that race riots broke out in cities across the country during the war years, and that the government interned Japanese Americans, lawmakers began to recognize that the nation could not effectively define itself as a democracy if Black and Brown people lived in substandard housing, received substandard educations, could not advance from menial jobs, and could not vote to change any of those circumstances.
Meanwhile, Black Americans and people of color who had fought for the nation overseas brought home their determination to be treated equally, especially as the financial collapse of European nations loosened their grip on their former African and Asian colonies and launched new nations.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-5-2025-tuesday
August 5, 2025 (Tuesday) by Heather Cox Richardson
#2025 #America #CivilWar #DonaldTrump #Education #HeatherCoxRichardson #History #LettersFromAnAmerican #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #LyndonBJohnson #Politics #PresidentJohnson #Resistance #Science #Substack #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VotingRightsAct
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"Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can." -William Feather
A few great book quotes. Got any favorites of your own?
#books #education #intolerance #ignorance #prejudice #bigotry #bias #hate #racism #antisemitism #quotestoliveby #quotes #quote #quoteoftheday #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #LyndonBJohnson
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Sounds exactly like the #MAGA motto--for all non-whites, including but not limited to Latinos.
Caption:
"Ifyou can convince
the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man,
he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on,
and he'll empty his pockets for you.President #LyndonBJohnson"
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#Biden’s historic move sets #Democrats & the country on an uncertain path
by Dan BalzBiden’s statement carried echoes of the surprise Sunday night announcement by #POTUS #LyndonBJohnson in Mar 1968 in which he said he would not seek or accept the #Democratic nomination for another term. Both Johnson & Biden said they did so to concentrate their full energies on the duties & responsibilities of being #president for the duration of their term.
#Election2024
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I did mention that there were four books 📚 about #LyndonBJohnson, right? 😉
Book One: The Path to Power (1982)
Book Two: Means of Ascent (1990)
Book Three: Master of the Senate (2002)
Book Four: The Passage of Power (2012)
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@mina @Yorkshiregeek @evelynefoerster @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @MaJ1 @mattotcha @2ndStar @energiepirat @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @GreenFire
#BooksThatInfluencedYou
Day 12:(4/n)
...knowledge and writing skills, I' love to write a book in the style of #AlternateHistory, where #LyndonBJohnson, a grandmaster of backroom deals and finding morning majorities, would clash with #HenryClay, #TheGreatCompromiser, and one...
#Bookwyrm
#20Days20Books (We'll see 😉)
#USpol
#UShistory
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#2024PresidentialElection Crucial As Were 1864 And 1964 #Elections, And They Were #Election #Landslides
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13/23 #JohnFKennedy, a northern Democrat like FDR, put a southerner (another Texan, #LyndonBJohnson), on his ticket, like FDR, in 1960.
#JFK was assassinated in the south (Dallas). #LBJ assumed presidency.
While Black folks were embracing - that is to say, switching towards - this new, progressive, Democratic Party, Johnson lamented that signing the Civil Rights Act 1964 meant the Democrats would "lose the South for a generation."
OBVIOUSLY, he saw the #PartySwitch happening.
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#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 21: Countdown on #NationalCountdownDay
[SPOILER WARNING BELOW]
#Peace, little girl aka Daisy aka Daisy Girl was the #PoliticalAd campaign to end all ad campaigns. It opens innocently enough with a little blonde girl, picking the petals of an ox-eye #daisy while counting. When the final petal's gone, the tone changes completely*
This deceptively simple #propaganda #film was made in support of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign by ad agency #DBB and media consultant #TonySchwartz. It was so effective and bleak in is insinuations that the Johnson campaign was forced to pull it after only one screening.
What fascinates me is the similarity with one particular scene from James Whale's Frankenstein (1931). The Monster (#Karloff) meets a little girl who sits on the shore of a lake, picking daisies. He approaches her, and the girl, knowing the creature is a good man at heart, invites him to play a game with her involving them tossing the daisies into the lake. <spoiler>When they run out of daisies, the Monster picks up the girl who to him is as pretty and innocent as a flower, and throws her into the water.</spoiler>.
This scene was cut and considered lost until the 1980s. Could Tony Schwartz have been aware of that scene? He was at the right age to have seen the pre-code, pre-cut version.
*Peace, little girl is deceptively simple and only a minute long. However, do watch it on a sunny day: https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01185386.
#film #cinema #propaganda #elections #LyndonBJohnson #BarryGoldwater #ColdWar #Vietnam #VietnamWar #politics #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/