An a propos symbol for the #SecondGildedAge

... are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?” #SamuelGompers #GildedAge #SecondGildedAge

This is also the way.

#Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #NewProgressiveEra #NoKings #FightOligarchy #TrainDaddy

Perfection! Looking forward to the next reading. #SecondGildedAge

Fascism easily takes away things that society needs and fails to replace them with anything better.

It’s a race to the bottom.

#SecondGildedAge

Yes, America Is an Oligarchy Over the past dozen or so years, about half the concentration of wealth in the U.S. has benefited just 19 families.

As @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social and #Progressives campaign against “oligarchy,” the data shows half of wealth concentration in the U.S. over the past dozen or so years has benefited just 19 families.

#Resist #FightOligarchy #NewProgressiveEra
#SecondGildedAge

Spoken | The Fall of Rome by franetta_mcmillian.bx7ic 0 likes, 0 listens

“Love conquers evil. Love is stronger than death. Love conquers all.”
#fiction #dystopian #SecondGildedAge

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WHEN WILL DEMOCRATS GET MAD?

#Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #NewProgressiveEra #NoKings #FightOligarchy

Americans of the Progressive Era watched as giant corporations generated more wealth than previously imagined. In “A Very Different Age,” Steven J. Diner focuses his social history on how these changes affected regular Americans of diverse backgrounds.

#BookSky #NewProgressiveEra
#SecondGildedAge

What is freedom? Is it only freedom from tyrannical government? What about freedom from the corporate overlords of our economy??

How free do you feel these days?

#Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #NewProgressiveEra #NewBirthofFreedom @linamkhan.bsky.social

Everything that is old is new again, as Trump wipes out food safety protections for us and our families.

#Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #NewProgressiveEra

The Gilded Age | What America Failed to Learn from the Gilded Age Podcast Episode · American History Tellers · S24 E7 · 38m

Capitalism run amok and disregard for the working class defined the Gilded Age. The problems of that era haven’t disappeared. The economic disparities of the Gilded Age are still affecting our country and, in some ways, worse.
#Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #FightOligarchy #NewProgressiveEra

Opinion | The Progressive Regulator Winning Over the Populist Right

Set aside the author and host of this discussion if possible. His guest, former chair of the FTC Lina Khan, offers a vision for #Progressive victories.

A New Progressive Era depends on leaders pushing antimonopoly and fair competition aims.

#FightOligarchy #Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge

And fearless in their challenges to the moneyed and powerful. In the end, their most enduring legacy was reimagining the responsibility of government to its citizens and empowering its people to demand more from their government.”

#NewProgressiveEra #Resist #SecondGildedAge #FightOligarchy

#BookSky #Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #FightOligarchy

The typical pay package for CEOs in S&P 500 companies increased nearly 10% last year.

It’s estimated that it would take an average worker in the *middle* of their company’s pay ranks 192 years to make what the CEO makes in 1 year.

#Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #FightOligarchy

The boardroom meme. The CEO barks out to his team, "We need to do something about our sovereign debt!" A team member responds, "Cut social programs!" Another says, "Deport immigrants!" A third asks, "Raise taxes on the top 1%?" Cut to two panels. In the first, the boss glares and the third person. In the second, he is thrown through a closed window at the top of a large office building.

Why is the austerity always the only solution? Because the ultra-wealthy own the politicians.

#TaxTheRich #99Percent #SecondGildedAge

Robert Prevost is sending a signal by selecting Leo XIV as his papal name from this #conclave.

Maybe he read my post from yesterday?!

#Progressives #Resist #SecondGildedAge #2ndGildedAge #FightOligarchy #HabemusPapam #PopeLeoXIV

#SecondGildedAge

The #SecondGildedAge

Wall Street bonuses hit record high of $47.5B in 2024, state comptroller says Wall Street accounted for 19% of the state’s tax collections in fiscal year 2023-24.

💰 “Last year was a good year for New York's financial industry as Wall Street bonuses reached a record $47.5 billion in 2024…” #SecondGildedAge

Academics are calling this the #SecondGildedAge

Apparently morality and ethics shouldn't stand in the way of maximizing profits. Further evidence Trump is just trying to take us back to the 1870s. #SecondGildedAge

Let’s learn from the past.

And this time there is not even a shred of the Gospel of Wealth, only egotistical mid-life crises men who build penis-shaped rockets to go into low-orbit rather then libraries

#SecondGildedAge

I feel our consumer protections are being undermined at every turn! Corporation (their wealthy directors) have waaaay too much sway in government. #EndTheOligarchy #SecondGildedAge

This weasel has spent decades weaponizing the courts as a private citizen. The only difference now is that people are giving him money to really indulge himself #SecondGildedAge

Do you know about the New Gilded Age? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmq7...

#2ndGildedAge #SecondGildedAge #NewGildedAge #GildedAge #SafetyNets #GuardRails #BlackSky

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind - The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith #secondgildedage #inequality #trump2025 #requiemforamericandream

America might be in a second Gilded Age The first Gilded Age was marked by rising inequality and a push for social change

America might be in a second Gilded Age

The first Gilded Age was marked by rising inequality and a push for social change
#SecondGildedAge

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