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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"Yesterday Arian Campo-Flores of the Wall Street Journal reported that the net worth of the top 0.1% of households in the U.S. reached $23.3 trillion this year, while the bottom 50% hold $4.2 trillion."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-16-2025-190

November 16, 2025

On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have sex with him.
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Paul Krugman features two headlines from a little more than a week apart re: the (empty) threats of the super-rich to leave New York City if Mamdani won the election:

"The reaction of plutocrats to the Mamdani campaign — histrionic freakout before the election, with promises to flee the city if he won, followed by a big 'never mind' when he did — can teach us a couple of things."

#EconomicElites #Mamdani #wealth #EconomicDisparity #SuperRich #GildedAge
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-plutocrats-who-cried-commie

The Plutocrats Who Cried “Commie”

About that “fleeing New York” claim
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