July 1, 2025
Back in New York City, Mamdani’s victory also shows that even billionaires don’t always get what they want.
If last week was the best time for Zohran Mamdani and New York workers, it was the worst time for billionaires who spent a small fortune trying to stop him from securing a democratic mayor nomination for the city. Media tycoon Barry Diller, who gave only one, donated $250,000 to Andrew Cuomo’s campaign, saw the shameful former governor lose with a decisive profit margin.
But Diller will soon be able to overwhelm his disappointment The Great Gatsby– He was a cocktail when joining Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and at least three Kardashians for the most enjoyable event on this year’s oligarch social calendar, the Venetian wedding of journalist Lauren Sánchez and Amazon founder Jeff Beeff.
This is a juxtaposition, even CNN questioned, as the network cuts into the coverage of the gilded wonder from an interview with Mamdani. The $50 million booked all nine ports in the Venetian Yacht Harbor, shutting parts of the city to the public and forcing hotel guests to relocate to make room for the happy couple. Without the expense, large wealthy people will not pay any price for their comfort, all of which is distinct, except, of course, except for the losses caused by their luxury to the communities where they draw wealth from.
The choice of birds for Venice shows their carelessness. Because the city has more than 100 islands in the Adriatic Sea, it is very susceptible to sea level rise driven by global warming. Although Sánchez claims to be “committed to fighting climate change” and Bezos calls the issue “the biggest threat to our planet”, their guests arrive in the city of Bridges through 96 private jets, the most carbon-intensive mode of transportation. Bezos has also made huge commitments to combat climate change, such as paying $10 billion to his Bezos Earth Fund, while Amazon promises to become neutral carbon neutral by 2040. But Amazon’s delivery fleet has nearly doubled its emissions, and between 2019 and 2023, its latest data center will accumulate energy from millions of gallons of energy, among others.
This unwise is Bezos’s two-day delivery of just as much business strategy as Prime’s two-day delivery, allowing him to launder money without damaging his bottom line. Last year, this model was definitely his ownership Washington Post– In his position, once he is threatened by the rising Donald Trump, the integrity of the news falls faster than the unwelcome wedding guests on a luxury gondola.
As I introduced in my column earlier this year, Bezos killed postalKamala Harris’s endorsement directed the editorial board to publish columns that support only “individual free and free market” and oversaw the Exodus of more than 20 journalists and editors. Pamela Weymouth, pioneering granddaughter postal Publisher Katharine Graham describes this surrender in a recent article nation Harm “things that make America democratic.”
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But, to be fair, charity washing is a career hazard to billionaires. Mark Zuckerberg initially donated to organizations fighting the California housing crisis, and then quietly ended the funding this year. The Gates Foundation provides 90% of its funds to nonprofits in wealthy countries, rather than poverty whose GDP is smaller than its net worth of the same name. über-wealthy’s broadness tends to produce what journalist Anand Giridharadas calls “false changes” or to try to stop systematic changes because these systems are the basis of the great wealth of donors.
That’s why no vision of incremental change can rely on Bezos or his celebrity wedding guests to fight their own interests. (No, not even Oprah.) A new green deal won’t come from the oligarch’s inner gui, but from the mass movement. Like a person who deployed nearly 30,000 doors and merged funds from 27,000 donors, shared Mamdani’s true economic authorization information.
His victory on Tuesday added growing evidence that even billionaires don’t always get what they want. Elon Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars in electing Republicans last year, but nothing could get him out of Donald Trump’s grumpy temper. His wealth also did not affect voters in Wisconsin, where he donated $21 million to a Supreme Court candidate, eventually falling 10 points.
There is no doubt that voters are skeptical of 1%. Just like in Venice, local protesters threatened to fill the canal with inflatable crocodiles, forcing weddings of this century to move to the city’s outskirts. In the U.S. backward, progressives Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continue to attract record-breaking crowds across the country. In a recent stop in Oklahoma (one state Trump won 33 points), the party talked to only the crowd.
Will anti-billionaires establish a rebound? If so, it will be the mid-term next year.
