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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

I looked up some of yhe things Reagan did bc I didn't know. In case anyone else is curious. Source: Wikipedia

aug 30, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0

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EcoHacker @ecohacker.bsky.social

Here's a source: CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy share.google/my72BhNNXGno...

aug 31, 2025, 10:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

Who is this written by? There's no author listed.

aug 31, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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EcoHacker @ecohacker.bsky.social

Does this make it easier? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_inv...

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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EcoHacker @ecohacker.bsky.social

This is a page directly from a government agency website (Office of the Inspector General) and it's a summary of his criminality There's references at the bottom and the body text is full of links to sources with authors listed Did you read it? This doesn't seem harder to read than Wikipedia

aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

With the assent of Reagan's sympathetic National Labor Relations Board appointees, many companies won wage and benefit cutbacks from unions, especially in the manufacturing sector.

aug 30, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

During Reagan's presidency, the share of employees who were part of a labor union dropped from approximately one-fourth of the total workforce to approximately one-sixth of the total workforce.[

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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 and 1988 to specify penalties for drug offenses.[266] Both bills have been criticized in the years since for promoting racial disparities.

aug 30, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

Reagan opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965,[32] which he long-deemed "humiliating to the South". He initially opposed the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

aug 30, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

He vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, tlarguing that the bill unreasonably increased the federal government's power and undermined the rights of churches and business owners.

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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

In doing so, Reagan was the first U.S. president to veto civil rights legislation since Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was also overridden by Congress.

aug 30, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

He appointed Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., known for his opposition to affirmative action and equal pay for men and women, as chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Pendleton and Reagan's subsequent appointees greatly eroded the enforcement of civil rights law.

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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

Reagan unsuccessfully nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court as a way to achieve his civil rights policy that could not be fulfilled during his presidency; Bork was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, appointed by President Reagan in 1982...

aug 30, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Karin with an I on humanity 🇨🇦 Part Owner of Canada @karcanada.bsky.social

FYI Opposition to his nomination centered on his perceived willingness to roll back the civil rights rulings of the Warren and Burger courts, and his role in the Saturday Night Massacre during the Watergate scandal.

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