🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the
front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it
developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
Front pages carrying each part at each hourly run, Nov 2, 6 AM to Nov 10, 10 AM ET (peak 23), stacked by part:
1 · 2Its parts in the order of their latest news, each from when we first saw it on a front page to when we last
did; beneath, the TV captions, radio newscasts and retellings, each in the color of the part it was
about. Hover for details.
🧩 The parts
in the order of their latest news, each in its color on the charts; the bar is the outlets that carried it. 🔴 on the front pages now, 📄 a page of its own, 🗄️ older than a week
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index: each day its most-told, wider for more tellers, colored by genre (✨ new to the saga that day)
Billionaires beat California's wealth tax and duped voters into banning tax increases, helped by Democratic leaders afraid of donors and voters who dream of being rich. told by 33 people, on “California billionaire tax defeated in statewide vote”
Billionaires are greedy, selfish people who should be taxed heavily to pay their fair share and fund the economy. told by 7 people, on “California billionaire tax defeated in statewide vote”
Reparations for slavery should be funded by repossessing the wealth and compensation paid to slave owners and the monarchy. told by 6 people, on “California billionaire tax defeated in statewide vote” 🧩 They paid the slavers
California voters rejected a billionaire wealth tax because billionaires can relocate to avoid it and because of massive spending by opponents. told by 37 people, on “California voters reject billionaire wealth tax measure”