#gildedage — Public Fediverse posts

I saw in a post today someone calling the "AI" / LLM tulipmania "Gilded Age 2: Electric Boogaloo", and I think that's pretty fantastic.

#tulipmania #GildedAge #GildedAge2ElectricBoogaloo #ElectricBoogaloo

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

"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
/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
/2

"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
/1

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-roberts-corrupt

The Husband List: A Novel (Culhane Family Book 2) "She wanted adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly Rating: 4.3/5 (1,634 Reviews) #HistoricalRomance #GildedAge #Romance #JanetEvanovich #LoveStory #BookSky

The Husband List: A Novel (Cul...

The Husband List: A Novel (Culhane Family Book 2) "She wanted adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly Rating: 4.3/5 (1,634 Reviews) #HistoricalRomance #GildedAge #Romance #JanetEvanovich #LoveStory #BookSky

The Husband List: A Novel (Cul...

The Husband List: A Novel (Culhane Family Book 2) "She wanted adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly Rating: 4.3/5 (1,634 Reviews) #HistoricalRomance #GildedAge #Romance #JanetEvanovich #LoveStory #BookSky

The Husband List: A Novel (Cul...

The Husband List: A Novel (Culhane Family Book 2) "She wanted adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly Rating: 4.3/5 (1,634 Reviews) #HistoricalRomance #GildedAge #Romance #JanetEvanovich #LoveStory #BookSky

The Husband List: A Novel (Cul...

The Last Castle "The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Denise Kiernan Rating: 4.3/5 (7,529 Reviews) #History #GildedAge #Biltmore #Vanderbilt #Biography #Architecture #WomenInHistory #BookSky

The Last Castle: The Epic Stor...

The Last Castle "The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Denise Kiernan Rating: 4.3/5 (7,529 Reviews) #History #GildedAge #Biltmore #Vanderbilt #Biography #Architecture #WomenInHistory #BookSky

The Last Castle: The Epic Stor...

The Last Castle "The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Denise Kiernan Rating: 4.3/5 (7,529 Reviews) #History #GildedAge #Biltmore #Vanderbilt #Biography #Architecture #WomenInHistory #BookSky

The Last Castle: The Epic Stor...

The Last Castle "The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Denise Kiernan Rating: 4.3/5 (7,529 Reviews) #History #GildedAge #Biltmore #Vanderbilt #Biography #Architecture #WomenInHistory #BookSky

The Last Castle: The Epic Stor...

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/

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/

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/

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/

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 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 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 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 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 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/

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

The #GildedAge 2.0 is built different.

#history #sensemaking

IT HAPPENED BEFORE, IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1888589/it-happened-before-it-can-happen-again

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@tuban_muzuru If his gold spray painted white house isn't the absolute epitome of what America has become, I don't know what is.

I swear to Bob, one of the things that drives me mad about our current crop of #EpsteinClass #GildedAge asshats is that none of them do Obscene Wealth well.

If I were a heartless, soulless billionaire, I would have an airship. A fleet of dirigibles. I would fund a resurgence of steam punk aesthetic. I would have that spider mount from that terrible will smith movie. I would carry a walking stick, and use it liberally to make my point. I'm just saying, if I had "fuck you" money, I'd be having a lot more fun than these guys are.

If I were a billionaire with a soul...I wouldn't be a billionaire, because that's just immoral.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/billionaire-boom-jackson-teton-wyoming.html
Anyone paying attention knows about the ongoing devolution into a gilded age. We've been aware of "the 1%” for at least a decade and a half, since the Occupy movement that popularized it. What doesn't register in all the talk about this 1% is the role of those in the top lower percentages between them and the median who facilitate the devolution because they see their own interests in a similar light.
#gildedage

BookSky Author in Residence Spotlight 📚💙 Natalie G. Bergman ( @[email protected]) is the author of PEARL BOUND, a sapphic Gothic romantasy set in Gilded Age New York. Her work as a writer explores power, desire, and the dangerous beauty of women claiming their own stories.

The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood" Sale: $17.99 to $2.99 by Erik Larson Rating: 4.3/5 (30,523 Reviews) #History #TrueCrime #Chicago #Architecture #GildedAge #Books #BookSky

The Devil in the White City: A...

When William K. Vanderbilt's $30,000 offer for an opera box was rejected by Mrs. Astor's crowd at the Academy of Music, the snubbed industrialists built their own opera house. The Met opened in 1880 with superior acoustics and 36 private boxes—and the Academy of Music couldn't compete. Today's Lincoln Center home continues that legacy of grandeur.
#NYCHistory #MetropolitanOpera #GildedAge #Opera #LincolnCenter #Architecture
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-metropolitan-opera/

When William K. Vanderbilt's $30,000 offer for an opera box was rejected by Mrs. Astor's crowd at the Academy of Music, the snubbed industrialists built their own opera house. The Met opened in 1880 with superior acoustics and 36 private boxes—and the Academy of Music couldn't compete. Today's Lincoln Center home continues that legacy of grandeur.
#NYCHistory #MetropolitanOpera #GildedAge #Opera #LincolnCenter #Architecture
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-metropolitan-opera/

When William K. Vanderbilt's $30,000 offer for an opera box was rejected by Mrs. Astor's crowd at the Academy of Music, the snubbed industrialists built their own opera house. The Met opened in 1880 with superior acoustics and 36 private boxes—and the Academy of Music couldn't compete. Today's Lincoln Center home continues that legacy of grandeur.
#NYCHistory #MetropolitanOpera #GildedAge #Opera #LincolnCenter #Architecture
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-metropolitan-opera/

When William K. Vanderbilt's $30,000 offer for an opera box was rejected by Mrs. Astor's crowd at the Academy of Music, the snubbed industrialists built their own opera house. The Met opened in 1880 with superior acoustics and 36 private boxes—and the Academy of Music couldn't compete. Today's Lincoln Center home continues that legacy of grandeur.
#NYCHistory #MetropolitanOpera #GildedAge #Opera #LincolnCenter #Architecture
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-metropolitan-opera/

When William K. Vanderbilt's $30,000 offer for an opera box was rejected by Mrs. Astor's crowd at the Academy of Music, the snubbed industrialists built their own opera house. The Met opened in 1880 with superior acoustics and 36 private boxes—and the Academy of Music couldn't compete. Today's Lincoln Center home continues that legacy of grandeur.
#NYCHistory #MetropolitanOpera #GildedAge #Opera #LincolnCenter #Architecture
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-metropolitan-opera/

Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
https://www.untappedcities.com/lost-mansions-5th-ave-nyc/

Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
https://www.untappedcities.com/lost-mansions-5th-ave-nyc/