I’m with @carlquintanilla.bsky.social. Look like the high-income snakes are swallowing their tails.
We need to report key economic metrics in a segmented manner to track the “K-economy”. The total economy is severely skewed to the wealthy and super-wealthy.
#NewGildedAge
How’d that turn out?
Illustration of Greenland flag wrapping around a defiant fist, with the message “I stand with Greenland”
I stand with Greenland 🇬🇱
#Greenland #StandWithGreenland #IStandWithGreenland #Resist #FightTheOligarchy #Oligarchy #Fascism #GildedAge #NewGildedAge #NeoNazi #NeoNazis #NeoNazism #Neo-Nazi #Neo-Nazis #Neo-Nazism
This year saw 14 new donors commit to giving away most of their fortunes to charitable causes.
Martha Ramirez(@martharamirez.bsky.social) Reports: tinyurl.com/effbs7up
#GivingPledge #BillionairePhilanthropy #MajorDonors #WealthGiving #PhilanthropyTrends #LivingDonors #ImpactGiving #NewGildedAge
Merry #ChristmasEve to those who celebrate. We've won the #WarOnChristmas ... and just as the next #ForeverWar in #Venezuela is getting started. Just remember: #Affordability is a #Hoax, a #Scam, so just ignore your lying eyes when you go to the store. It's the #NewGildedAge!!!
Part 1
Wealth Against Commonwealth: The New Gilded Age and Its Discontents - Democracy's big problem is billionaires. We need wealth redistribution. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #newGildedAge
Yellow journalism is back #NewGildedAge is getting old
New Gilded Age. History is repeating itself. We need performs to get out of it. #NewGildedAge
Signs at the No Kings rally: Land of the free . . . if we are brave
Signs at the No Kings rally: “Good monarch” title over illustration of a monarch butterfly; / “Bad monarch” title over illustration of the president dressed up as a king
Signs at the No Kings rally: Fight truth decay
Signs at the No Kings rally: Not a paid protester. I hate Trump for free.
Happy to have been able to join a local No Kings protest yesterday. I’m reading that nearly 7 million participated in the United States. I think Canada and parts of Europe also participated. Thank you! 💙
#Oligarchy #Tyranny #NoKings #FightThePower #Project2025 #NewGildedAge #GildedAge
Additional point: Americans are paying twice. (1) Extra costs for unnecessary tariffs; (2) to bail out the farmers.
Meanwhile, resources are bring cut, the debt is being driven up, and the already rich are getting a permanent, unneeded tax break. #newgildedage
Some good news!
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Trump admin settles lawsuit, agrees to restore deleted DEI, gender health web pages
#Oligarchy #Tyranny #NoKings #FightThePower #Project2025 #NewGildedAge #GildedAge #Diversity #DEI
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
All to give tax cuts to the Billionaires. It’s the #newgildedage
The maximum possible outcome for that Tesla case is that they throw money at the plaintiffs to make them go away. Couch-cushion change, nothing more.
But the fraud and all that? Ho-hum, oh well, whaddya gonna do, etc.
"Justice" has always been selective, but more so now.
#NewGildedAge
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#Oligarchy #Tyranny #NoKings #FightThePower #Project2025 #NewGildedAge #GildedAge
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
—Thomas Paine
#ThomasPaine #Tyranny #NoKings #Oligarchy #FightThePower #Project2025 #NewGildedAge #GildedAge #IndependenceDay
tinyurl.com/yc6jpfzv
We must fight for our rights ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
#Oligarchy #FightThePower #GildedAge #NewGildedAge
The same bill will simultaneously extend tax breaks for the very wealthy. Is this really what you want for yourself and your loved ones? For America? (5/5)
#BigUglyBill #Medicaid #MedicaidCuts #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HealthcareIsARight #Oligarchy #NewGildedAge
The bill also adds burdensome paperwork requirements to drive away people who are still eligible for coverage. (3/5)
#BigUglyBill #Medicaid #MedicaidCuts #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HealthcareIsARight #Oligarchy #NewGildedAge
Illustration of Rosie the Riveter in nurse’s uniform, with the caption: Healthcare is a human right
To those who are okay with the Medicaid and other healthcare cuts in the bill currently under debate in Congress (continued; 1/5):
#BigUglyBill #Medicaid #MedicaidCuts #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HealthcareIsARight #Oligarchy #NewGildedAge
The #MadMonk is a warrior of the #NewGildedAge
#TaxTheRich
It's all very Dickensian (if that's a word)
If there is a future where English is spoken, I wonder if #Trumpian will replace Victorian when referring to extreme inequality and harsh times for common people
#NewGildedAge
#TaxTheRich
#Standby… everything happens within “two weeks”. Then again… maybe not.
#Trump #TwoWeeks #NewGildedAge #Nonsense #Lies #Propaganda
apnews.com/video/times-...
How did we get here? Why?
Understanding Trump's America
#TheJoyReidShow #AmberRuffin #NewGildedAge
youtu.be/F5ECy8eM5oI?...
History teaches us that when wealth and power become this concentrated, the fabric of society is at risk.
#WealthTax #NewGildedAge #TaxTheRich
🎥: @msnbc.com
You might be thinking that’s a funny looking yacht. It’s because it’s actually a $30m floating garage that carries all the yacht owner’s toys along behind the main yacht. #newgildedage
Illustration of Kilmar Garcia. Due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and all who are detained, disappeared, and/or deported!
Due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and all who are detained, disappeared, and/or deported.
#DueProcess #KilmarGarcia #KilmarAbregoGarcia #Detained #Disappeared #Deported #GildedAge #NewGildedAge #Oligarchy
Original Gilded Age (1890s): Top 1% owned ~25-30% of wealth
2025: Top 1% owns ~35-40% of wealth
What's worse now? They've captured both parties and the media. The Powell Memo blueprint worked: convince half the victims this is "freedom" while the looting accelerates. #WealthGap #NewGildedAge
Men of the People: Trump selects a new Tesla on White House driveway to show support for Elon Musk apnews.com/article/trum... #Trump #Musk #NewGildedAge
The thing is those who do learn history are pretty much also doomed to repeat it. #NewGildedAge
