#greatgatsby — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greatgatsby, aggregated by home.social.
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I know cheap champagne is pretty inexpensive these days, but it still seems a bit #GreatGatsby for everyone to be sipping bubbly at the start of #Drupalcon while the economy is slumping and more and more people are losing their jobs.
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tbh, from the pic, I thought it was a #GreatGatsby reference
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.@AntiSocialStudies The 👏🏼 Roaring 👏🏼 20s 👏🏼 were 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 fun 👏🏼I’m sick of the “green light.” I want a red light. Can we please stop. #historyteacher #teacher #history #ushistory #news #politics #whitehouse #1920s #roaring20s #greatgatsby https://youtube.com/shorts/GCJt3fEZGcE?si=64VTeHzNjIjBAuRi via @youtube
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"Meanwhile, more than 1 million federal employees were furloughed or worked without pay amid a five-week-old government shutdown, some of them joining previously fired public servants at food banks. The online People magazine juxtaposed a photo of Trump surveying his Palm Beach party with a shot of nearby Miamians in a food line."
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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"The president of the United States held court at Mar-a-Lago, amid free-flowing liquor and tables laden with food, hours before federal food aid would end for 42 million Americans."
~ Jackie Calmes
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
/3https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-11-06/trump-gatsby-party-election
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"It was a revel of moral blindness — an orgy of delusion and bad taste. Here was the 'champion of the forgotten man,' presiding over a pageant of excess, surrounded by lackeys dressed as the very elites he pretends to despise. ...
Trump has made himself the perfect emblem of our age: rich in spectacle, bankrupt in soul, and utterly incapable of shame."
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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"Trump’s 'Gatsby' gala wasn’t homage but autopsy — a champagne-soaked dirge for a nation that once believed in class, grace, and conscience. ...
Trump, the man who once wrapped himself in the mantle of populism, threw a party mocking the very people who once believed him."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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#Trump #Oligarchs #GreatGatsby #History #Short #Video
THE PEOPLE WHO RUN OUR COUNTRY DON’T READ. THEY COMPLETELY MISSED THAT THE GREAT GATSBY IS A CAUTIONARY TALE
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Trump Throws "Great Gatsby" Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/great_gatsby #uspoli #trump #SNAP #TrumpShutdown #LetThemEatCake #TrumpDontCare #fascism #GOPNazis #GreatGatsby #MarALago
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"Trump declared that he would not payout SNAP benefits, signaling that his administration will not release the funds as ordered. The move effectively blocks distribution of aid to millions of low-income households, seniors, and children across the country."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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"In a stunning escalation of the standoff over federal food aid, President Donald Trump announced that he will refuse to comply with a federal court order requiring his administration to release emergency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), potentially cutting off food benefits to millions of Americans."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/19https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-set-to-defy-court
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"I’ve seen a lot of reports calling Donald tone deaf, but that is a way to let him off the hook. The choice to host that party is of a piece with the choice to build a $350 million ballroom after razing the East Week—it is intentional and a clear demonstration of Donald’s priorities."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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"Trump’s announcement caught members of his own team off guard, with four people with knowledge of the matter telling Politico they aren’t clear whether his post means that USDA now won’t abide by the court order."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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"President Donald Trump went rogue on Truth Social on Tuesday, contradicting his own administration’s decision a day earlier to fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown—and potentially violating a court order in the process."
~ Rachel Kahn
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/16https://newrepublic.com/post/202668/trump-shocks-team-defy-courts-stop-funding-snap
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"It’s … an astonishing act of cruelty, especially as grocery prices are going up—Trump lied that they are stable in the 60 Minutes interview—hiring has slowed, and the nation is about to celebrate Thanksgiving."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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TWO-TO-ONE voters see their vote today as a message of OPPOSITION to #DisasterDon than a message of support.
And while #unemployment rises and #SNAP benefits are held hostage, #CreamsicleCaligula is showing off his palatial #Ballroom, posting photos of his new gilded bathroom, and hosting a 1920s #GreatGatsby themed party on the newly paved-over "Rose Garden Cafe". 🤬 #Clueless
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"It’s all part of the right’s deeper political project to control women and assert their preferred gender and class-based hierarchies."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #women #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown #patriarchy #gender #misogyny
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"The casual cruelty of limiting or cutting off SNAP isn’t just about budgets. It’s about power. It’s about who gets to eat, who gets to work, & who stays dependent. The White House’s refusal to fully extend funding for SNAP will disproportionately harm women and children, who make up the vast majority of SNAP recipients."
~ Cammy Pedroja
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #women #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/13https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/republicans-snap-benefits-women
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"The Trump Administration is now threatening grocery stores that give discounts to SNAP eligible Americans."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/12https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-threatens-grocery-stores
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"Meanwhile, Trump is gilding the Oval Office and building a ballroom. At least he’s not out of touch!"
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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"Grocery prices are 2.7 percent higher than they were last September and 1.4 percent higher than January, when Trump triumphantly returned to office. They’re also still on the rise, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last Friday. Overall, grocery prices have increased almost 30 percent in the last five years."
~ Rachel Kahn
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #SNAP #shutdown
/10https://newrepublic.com/post/202586/no-youre-wrong-trump-spirals-food-prices-60-minutes
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"The administration’s position on SNAP shows its cruelty and sends a message that no one is safe from the administration’s heartless disregard of the law. ... Inhumane and cruel have become the watchwords of the Trump administration."
~ Austin Sarat and Steve Kramer
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/9https://contrarian.substack.com/p/a-mia-president-and-a-hungry-america
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"Trump agrees to only starve families a little bit."
~ Alix Breeden
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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"As a result of the shutdown, Donald Trump has threatened to cut off the food benefits for the first time in the program’s more than 60-year history. A federal judge last week prevented the Department of Agriculture from suspending Snap altogether."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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"The Trump administration said it would provide only partial relief to recipients of food stamps on Monday, amid mounting uncertainty among the nearly 42 million people on the supplemental nutrition assistance program (Snap). ...
How did we get here?"
~ Jem Bartholomew
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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"Trump and his minions can also shame and police poor people for buying soda, or getting their nails done, because, again, those are the perks of being wealthy.
Power is entitlement—and part of entitlement is the sadistic pleasure of immiserating women, Black people, immigrants, the poor. As Adam Serwer says, the cruelty is the point."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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"Being rich is fun because you have lots of stuff. But an important part of the pleasure is not just enjoying what you have but enjoying what others do not have. Policing the purchases of the poor is part of the entitlement of the wealthy. Trump can have a gold plated bathroom because that’s the kind of thing he deserves."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/4https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republicans-want-poor-people-to-suffer
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Not so, Krugman says. Trump knew exactly what he was doing:
"The party at Mar a Lago wasn’t a case of tone deafness, living it up despite others’ suffering. It was in large part a party held to celebrate others’ suffering."
For Trump and his followers, the cruelty always has been the point. It's what they celebrate:
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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Paul Krugman notes that commentary on Trump's roaring twenties party hours before 42 million Americans lost food assistance as federal workers are going without pay says the party was "tone deaf." As if Trump really had no idea what he was communicating throwing the obscene gilded age shindig as people face hunger and no salaries.
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
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—> #TheTonightShow ⦁ #JimmyFallon <— #Trump Throws Tone-Deaf #GreatGatsby Party Brags About Lavish Bathroom Renovation Dodgers Winning the #WorldSeries #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/nCTA-YDFtiA
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Found another of my "old" posts from Twitter/X. I'd say it's aged quite well...unfortunately!
#TrumpSucks #GuildedAge #GreatGatsby #MarALargo #HungerGames #SNAPCuts #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #PowerCorruptionAndLies #USPol
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What was happening at Mar-a-Lago as 42 million Americans were about to lose their SNAP benefits? The U.S. president was hosting a "Great Gatsby"-themed Halloween party. Here's @people with the story.
#USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #SNAPBenefits #GreatGatsby #RoaringTwenties #Lifestyle #MarALago
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My friend, high-school English teacher Alexandra Howes, interviewed along with colleague Alonzo Vereen on the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby. #booksky #literature #NPR #AllThingsConsidered #GreatGatsby www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-04-12/h...
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My friend, high-school English teacher Alexandra Howes, interviewed along with colleague Alonzo Vereen on the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby. #booksky #literature #NPR #AllThingsConsidered #GreatGatsby www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-04-12/h...
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My friend, high-school English teacher Alexandra Howes, interviewed along with colleague Alonzo Vereen on the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby. #booksky #literature #NPR #AllThingsConsidered #GreatGatsby www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-04-12/h...
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The Heliopause and #GreatGatsby connection! And of course, the perfect song choice. It’s also #indieapril! Get your #spaceopera fix with the four book series, The Questrison Saga! Written by me under my J. Dianne Dotson pseudonym. #scifi #scififantasy #books
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Put your party dress on 🥂 #TheGreatGatsby by #FScottFitzgerald was published #OTD 100 years ago! The #AmericanDream in the #RoaringTwenties & its downfall are captured perfectly in the novel. The 1st edition's cover (pic 2) inspired today's post
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Ah, yes, another deep dive into Fitzgerald's mysterious ties to WWI—because clearly, we haven't dissected that enough. 🎩✨ Who knew the Great Gatsby was actually a footnote in an endless museum tour brochure? 📜🤷♂️
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/borne-back-ceaselessly-past-fitzgerald-gatsby-and-wwi #Fitzgerald #WWII #GreatGatsby #LiteraryAnalysis #MuseumTour #HackerNews #ngated