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The Epstein Class: How Wealth and Power Shielded Abuse for Decades
Anand Giridharadas reveals how the “Epstein class” protected power and privilege across parties while victims waited for justice.
#AnandGiridharadas #eliteCorruption #EpsteinClass #independentJournalism #JeffreyEpstein #mediaCriticism #Oligarchy #politicalAccountability #ProgressivePolitics #wealthInequality https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oJ4
Great insights into the whys and wherefores of the #EpsteinElite, with valuable input from #RoKhanna and the brilliant #AnandGiridharadas. His network spanned right and left, learned and crass. Aside from #childrape, what else did he offer? Gift link. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-ro-khanna.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.NMKZ.qoQONgmAAcHn&smid=nytcore-ios-share
“That people move from representing the presidency to representing banks is so normal that we forget the costs: the private job done with the savvy to outfox one’s former public-sector colleagues, the public job done gently to keep open doors.” #AnandGiridharadas https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/meaning-epstein-emails.html
The Epstein Network
A piece by #EzraKlein and
#AnandGiridharadas
Wow, yes, this is very very good. Thank you for the link. Truly insightful, on many levels.
The network of the elite and how they assess, use and pay each other. The depth of corruption is frightening, and it is good to be given concepts to describe it.
This text would be a worthy addition to a working bookshelf as a slim paperback, sitting next to weightier volumes by Marcel Mauss or Claude Levy-Strauss.
#Epstein #elite #corruption #letusonlyspeakthetruthanddowhatwesayandnotbecorrupted
Hier lässt sich sehr gut nachvollziehen, warum das #EpsteinNetzwerk so durchschlagend erfolgreich war.
#AnandGiridharadas beschreibt sehr sehr gut den menschlichen Sinn und Bindung innerhalb Infrastruktur !
Epstein Emails Expose How America’s Elites Really See the Rest of Us
Anand Giridharadas explains how the Epstein emails expose elite contempt, inequality, and a culture that normalizes exploitation and moral indifference.
#AnandGiridharadas #billionaireCulture #capitalism #ClassWarfare #democracy #EconomicJustice #elitePower #EpsteinEmails #IndependentMedia #Inequality #paidLeave #ProgressivePolitics https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oFo
via #AnandGiridharadas: https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/its-so-much-bigger-than-epstein
“If you were an alien landing on Earth and the first thing you saw was the Epstein emails, you could gauge status by spelling, grammar, punctuation. Usage is inversely related to #power in this network. The earnest scientists and scholars type neatly. The wealthy and powerful reply tersely, with misspellings, erratic spacing, stray commas.
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Great discussion, must see.
"How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)
Anand Giridharadas explains how the elite continuously find ways to screw you, with either good or cynical intentions."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFgIRpGnUJA
#epstein #billionaires #inequality #anandgiridharadas
Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around Epstein
https://youtu.be/B7Eb0WNvORQ
#AnandGiridharadas #DemocracyNow #epsteinclass
"Winner takes all!
How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)"
#Capitalism #Commodification #powerelites #chrishedges #anandgiridharadas
Why elites around #Epstein could ignore his crimes
#AnandGiridharadas tells the truth about this #EliteTrash our world is infected with
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Eb0WNvORQ
#AnandGiridharadas on How 'Elites' Behave When No One's Looking
Watch EPIC Takedown of #MSNBC's #ZohranMamdani "Socialist" Propaganda - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar2-NLLCHc8&pp=ygUQc3RhdHVzIGNvdXAgbmV3cw%3D%3D
#StatusCoupNews. #ZohranForMayor
#AnandGiridharadas sets them straight
Anand Giridharadas pushes back on the Morning Joe panel about the meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s win.
Author/Writer Anand Giridharadas challenged Morning Joe’s Andrea Mitchell and Johnathan Lemire on the meaning of Zohran Mamdani New York mayoral win.
#PeteButtigieg #AnandGiridharadas #SubstackLive
"Watch Pete's conversation with Anand Giridharadas on the chaos of the Trump-Vance administration, where Democrats go from here, and more."
Pete On How We Stand Up To Trump and Offer Something Better
https://youtu.be/Awv2BkibcGg?si=GUKCHWK5EfnCFLZ0
Democratic leaders slammed for their anemic response to Trump’s attack on the working class.
Anand Giridharadas did not mince his words as he called out Democrats for their timidity in handling Trump’s working class assault.
#AlexandriaOcasioCortez #AnandGiridharadas #AOC #billionaire #HakeemJeffries #JasmineCrockett #MaxwellFrost #Oligarchy #RussellVought
"None of these things — contrary to popular belief — have anything to do with the still high price of eggs. None of these things will make it easier to start a business. None of these things will make it easier for people to get the education they need, change their lives, leave their kids better off." - #AnandGiridharadas
https://the.ink/p/the-knock-at-the-door
> What we stand to lose in a check-your-papers society
#Project2025 #Fascism #MAGA #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #Trump #USPol #CivilRights #HumanRights
Why Capitalism Will Not Save Us - Anand Giridharadas
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/808a93ba-583a-42a8-b021-c7b60fad805c
“Conspiracy #culture is just kind of the way we talk on the #internet now.”
- #CharlieWarzel via #AnandGiridharadas
FML
https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/kate-middleton-conspiracy-theory?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios
…the high court will do anything it can to hand the fmr #insurrectionist-in-chief the keys to the #WhiteHouse. Today it struck again.
I mean, who among us hasn’t insurrected? It happens to a lot of guys. It’s not a big deal.
#AnandGiridharadas; #TheInk
#Trump #law #justice #Jan6 #Insurrection #14A #14thAmendment #law #SCOTUSstench #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #CourtReform #TermLimits
https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/supreme-court-impunity-colorado-ballot?r=dikz2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
“We should have our own conversation from #FirstPrinciples: This is an extraordinary country.
“It's extraordinary for many reasons.
“Among the reasons it is extraordinary: it is a country built of the world, from the world, from every part of the world.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/america-is-a-country-made-of-the?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios
You say you care about #memory, via #anandgiridharadas:
“Today’s electoral left is highly cerebral. It is suspicious of the politics of passion. It doesn’t do emotional appeals. It doesn’t have much of a role for music, for the body, for in-person communing in public spaces, for catchy slogans, for arresting visuals.”
https://the.ink/p/the-real-battleground-of-2024-is?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#AlsGeekLab does a good job of telling the story of #GaryKildall and #DigitalResearch. It's important to be reminded just how rapacious and repeatedly scummy #BillGates and #Microsoft were, from the very beginning.
As others on here have said in different contexts: if someone shows you who they are, believe them. Being a philanthropist doesn't give you a free pass for your bad behaviour, and creates all kinds of perverse incentives. Shout out to #AnandGiridharadas and his 2018 book "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World".
They invented a modern #ElitePhilanthropy playbook that #AnandGiridharadas documents in his must-read *Winners Take All,* about the charity-industrial complex that washes away an ocean of blood with a trickle of money:
As part of this PR exercise, the individual Sacklers kept their names and images out of the public eye. For years, there were virtually no news-service photos of individual Sacklers.
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Build bridges, not walls
Another good #PoliticsAndProse author talk (65 m) , http://twitter.com/@anandwrites about his new book, The Persuaders.
https://www.youtube.com/live/NPGgSoA7YoY?feature=share
#Democracy #ThePersuaders #AnandGiridharadas #BuildBridges #CivilSociety
I think Giridharadas is making the case for a human-centric, holistic and universal strategy.
In my opinion, the objectives of fascists and their Fellow Travelers™ are to:
- persuade us to compartmentalize traumas
- inflict cruelty by normalizing physical and psychological violence
- sustain incoherence (i.e. flood the zone with shit)
https://the.ink/p/a-ban-isnt-a-plan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#humanfirst #RadicalHumanism #fascism #strategy #AnandGiridharadas #trauma #cruelty #psychology #hypocrisy #attention #cybergrunge
@dawnatella holy cow these ideas exactly, bloomed in my brain -as it happened- when I got to #anandgiridharadas uninspired disappointing conclusion to #winnerstakeall - eg, defeat #carnegie -ism by turning back to centralized wealth redistribution. Blecch, & dumb, because the oligarch’s lobbyists will always beat us at that game. Nope, thought I, the answer is #employeeownership , a moment which has since landed me in the #cooperative #multistakeholder #capitalism #defi camps!
Billionaires seem to be making the case against them all by themselves.
Anand Giridharadas:
"One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class"
#Billionaires #MSNBC #AnandGiridharadas #EatTheRich #ClassWarfare #DystopiaBeat
Thanks Toddo
“A great op-ed by one of my favorite public intellectuals (i.e., non-academics) #AnandGiridharadas #billionaires #inequality #oligarchy #RIPTwitter Billionares made a strong case this week for abolishing themselves.”
Bezos invested funds on personal business pursuits, outside his company. All while firing huge #s of hourly workers in his company, before the holidays to save money.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/musk-trump-bezos-bankman-fried-billionaires.html
Anand Giridharadas: The End Of #Democracy May Just Be
#PermanentMinorityRule
#Writer #AnandGiridharadas joins Morning Joe (dont really care about Joe Scarborough, but anyway) to discuss the current state of American politics and his thoughts on what an end of U.S. democracy could look li...
#WinnersTakeAll”: #AnandGiridharadas on the #EliteCharade of Changing the World
An extended web-only conversation with Anand Giridharadas about his book, “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.”Watch Part 1: https://y...
#AnandGiridharadas on '
#WinnersTakeAll' and the charade of
#elitephilanthropy | #VPRO #Documentary
Writer Anand Giridharadas describes in his book " Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World " why the rich do not pay taxes, but with their p...
Writer Anand Giridharadas on tech’s billionaires: “Are they even on the same team as us?” - Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, America’s roughly 640 billionaires have seen their fort... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/D-RWFXbF6RY/ #anandgiridharadas #wealthdisparity #markzuckerberg #billionaires #socialmedia #inequality #technology #diversity #jeffbezos #elonmusk #opinion #policy #amazon #tc