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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

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May 18, 2026

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William Lindsey

May 3

"People often forget that the economically and politically corrupt Gilded Age and the vicious, apartheid Jim Crow era occurred at the same time, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and following the collapse of Reconstruction. The two ill systems fed and needed each other to survive."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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William Lindsey

May 3

"civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, the admission of nonwhite immigrants, workers rights, environmental care, the secularization of American society, women’s liberation through the right to access contraception and abortion, and LGBTQ rights."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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William Lindsey

May 3

"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:"

~ Joy-Ann Reid

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-roberts-corrupt

A Sunday Reid: John Roberts' corrupt, neoconfederate court is solidifying 'Don Crow'

Chief Justice Roberts is repealing the 20th century to protect the corruption of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and his own conservative majority

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Apr 26

“For many interpreters of our conjuncture, it seems that we are regressing both in terms of #inequality and #international #tension to a configuration alarmingly reminiscent of the pre-1914 era. The inequality numbers in the US resemble those of the #gildedage.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Chartbook 443 Hard-working heg...

Chartbook 443 Hard-working hegemon? Why 21st-century America is not like Edwardian Britain.

... or the ironies of neo-Hobsonian analysis.

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Angie Mangino Mar 26

City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-helmsley-building/

The Helmsley Building: A Beaux-Arts Beauty And A Transportation Artery — City Beautiful BLOG

With its skyscraper height, elaborate Beaux-Arts decorations, iconic pyramidal roof, and its dramatic position straddling Park Avenue, the Helmsley Building

City Beautiful Blog

Angie Mangino Mar 24

The Waldorf Astoria began as a calculated social insult. William Waldorf Astor built a luxury hotel next to his aunt's mansion just to annoy her. City Beautiful Blog traces the full story, from that Gilded Age family feud to FDR's secret railway platform beneath the Park Avenue building. A well-told piece of New York history.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #NewYork #LocalHistory
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-waldorf-astoria-on-park-avenue/

The Waldorf Astoria On Park Avenue — City Beautiful BLOG

The glorious Waldorf Astoria on Park Avenue is the second reincarnation of one of New York City’s most legendary hotels. Here is its story.

City Beautiful Blog

Coach Sankhavaram ®Mar 19

#American oligarchs believing in and supporting the American Experiment is—indeed—considered…quaint.

The #GildedAge 2.0 is built different.

#history #sensemaking

Terminal Tilt Mar 18

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