Today in Labor History April 10, 1947: FBI agents visited Ronald Reagan (then president of the Screen Actors Guild) and his wife Jane Wyman, accusing them of belonging to a communist front group. To prove his loyalty, Reagan agreed to become a secret informer and went on to have a long and illustrious career as an anti-communist, union-busting, trickle-down asshole.
#USpol #Education
Dismantling of #DoE
That is all correct but just scratching the surface. 
This is no partisan fight anymore. This is an all-out assault on #democracy.
Destroying education for the masses again is the aim
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406
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The #TrumpMuskDuumvirate is merely bringing to completion #RonaldReagan's, #RichardNixon's, and #SpiroAgnew's brainchild 1) that #RonaldReagan jumpstarted in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign in #California. 2)
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!["Many leaders. including #Reagan and #Nixon, saw the opening of CUNY [the City University of New York]... as a real ideological threat." said CUNY professor #AshlevDawson. 1)
At a 1970 Republican fundraiser, Vice President #SpiroAgnew made his concerns exolicit, #Dawson and #Franklin documented. #Agnew inveighed against “Black student militancy" at protests like the historic 1969 camp ocvupation at #CityCollege that hastened open admissions, arguing that too high a proportion of Black students were admitted to college. Open admissions, were the means “by which a wave of unqualified students are being swept into college on the
wave of the #NewSocialism. "
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"Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities."
https://www.cuny.edu/blog/iconic_faculty/ashley-dawson/](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/197/112/223/445/584/original/05021d9155e9faea.png)
Vaikka wanha olenkin, en muista 1970–80-luvulta #ydinsota-pelkoa. Jotenkin silloin aina ajatteli, etteivät ihmiset NIIN hulluja sentään ole, edes #RonaldReagan. #Neuvostoliitto oli paha mutta ennustettava, ei se ollut syöksemässä maailmaa #ydintalvi-skenaarioon. Nyt sen sijaan en ole varma: #Putin ja #TrumPutin ovat kumpikin hulluja kuin käkikellot. Mistä sen tietää, mitä ne tekevät, kuin aamulla on tylsä olo eikä uni edellisyönä tahtonut tulla. #maailmantilanne #kolmasmaailmansota
I wasn't a fan of #ronaldreagan but I feel bad for the fact that he must be spinning in his grave right now.
"We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, national security and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1T7kPEdDY&pp=ygUaIlJlYWdhbiIgdGFyaWZmcyBvbiBhbGxpZXM%3D&t=3m36s
#PanamaCanal #RonaldReagan #TrumpCoup
I guess, I was too young, but yes, #Reagan did talk a lot about the canal.
However, it was a pipedream even back then in 1977:
"It is possible that the canal could be defended against a hostile Panamanian population, backed by guerrillas from other Latin American countries, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff say it would take over 100,000 men, ..."
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/28/archives/reagan-on-panama.html
Ronald Reagan on taxing businesses and tax reform #ronaldreagan #reagan #taxes #tax #taxtherich
Here’s a question for anyone who was alive in the late 1970s and early 1980s and old enough to have a decent memory of those years.
How differently do you think the HIV and AIDS pandemic would have unfolded if Jimmy Carter had been president from 1981 to 1985 instead of Ronald Reagan?
(Boosts are welcomed!)
Ronald Reagan’s real legacy, charted and graphed. Spoiler: It’s not the bedtime story we’ve been told.
A visual breakdown of the inequality, debt, and mass incarceration still shaping our lives.
'Trickle-down' economics was never real.
[20:40] Sinn Féin focus on cost of living with US election query
"Do you feel better off than you did five years ago?", Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald asked at her party's manifesto launch - a question posed previously by US presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1119/1481869-sinn-fein-general-election/
#fiveyearsago #SinnFéin #MaryLouMcDonald #US #RonaldReagan #DonaldTrump
[10:32] Goed dat de Nederlandse autoriteiten bovenop Oleg en Natalja sprongen | LC commentaar
In 1988 verspreidde het Witte Huis een foto van president Ronald Reagan op het Rode Plein in Moskou, omringd door mannen in pakken. Hij reikt een jongetje de hand. Achter dat jongetje staat een blonde toerist met een camera op zijn buik. De toenmalige KGB-agent en latere president Vladimir Poetin, zo beweerde fotograaf Pete Souza.
https://www.lc.nl/opinie/Oleg-Natalja-en-wij-29254309.html
#1988 #WitteHuis #RonaldReagan #Moskou #presidentVladimirPoetin #PeteSouza
Yes, and it has been for months.
Bibi needs the war to continue, maybe even spread, as he will be finished once the war is over, and like Trump, will have to face the many charges agains him that are in the pipeline or on hold while he is a wartime president.
However, that has been evident for decades, too. #Netanyahu even embarassed mighty #RonaldReagan; *twice*.
from Michael de Adder
#donaldtrump #Trump2024 #Weird
#jfk #ronaldreagan #fdr
from Michael de Adder
#SciFi #Psychohistory #Asimov
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...a marxist to a free-marketeer within weeks by one of his professors, a founder of the #ChicagoSchool.
For decades, he has been one of the key Republican scientific cornerstones that paved the way for #RonaldReagan and ultimately #TFG.
How would #UShistory be different w/o these two impactful presidents?
This is but one example. I didn't pick an emperor like # #Augustus or a dictator like #Sulla, #Hitler, #Stalin or #Putler...
@rbreich #RonaldReagan never governed, instead, he let corporations do the governing and obediently said yes to all of their decisions. How is #DonaldTrump any different? We've seen this before.
What a difference in oratory skills between #RonaldReagan and #Trump!
#TFG is just a rambling old man!
Besides, there are some points I can even agree with the presidential undertaker of equal-opportuniy education.
