"Prison during the holidays isn't what you think..." New from me & Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social @therealnews.com youtu.be/GjB54gjQ4vg?...

Boss tries to suppress a news story, then the angry internal emails leak, then the all-hands meeting leaks, then the story itself leaks. Next will be the leak of the boss’s stern “no leaking” warning. Then whatever gets cut from the story will get twice as much attention. Don’t make idiots the boss.

Here’s to 2026; may the fascists finally fall back into their pit, and may I crawl my way back out of mine.

"Having a boss like Bari Weiss" is why many journalists are alcoholics

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

In 2026 there will be more organizing in the new, weird media landscape, writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/more...

Trump 🤝 Millionaire Democratic homeowners with "No Kings" signs in their front yards

The Year in How Things Work • We're a good team, you and me.

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

Thank you all for supporting independent media in 2025. It is truly important even if it is a little ridiculous, sometimes. Together we will survive and thrive and smash fascism, amen. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-year-i...

A lot of once-unionized journalists have been forced to go independent on a bunch of platforms so we will have to organize the people on the platforms. I predict. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/more...

Add it to the list. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

My opinion as an unbiased journalist analyzing the president’s speech is that the Republican Party should be outlawed

Talking live on Substack tonight with @corbintrent.bsky.social at 7pm EST, tune in: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Ken Griffin is going to hell. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/abominatio...

'Now, I am just a simple man in Brooklyn with neither hedge fund nor art history degree, but I feel compelled to say that Ken Griffin owning that Basquiat is a moral perversion that disgusts me in the same way that Martin Luther was disgusted by the lavish papacy of Pope Leo X.'

Among the reasons that the existence of billionaires is a moral crime is their ability to force a price upon even the most priceless things. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/abominatio...

“Eventually I will win my argument with the rest of the internet” is the core delusion you must embrace to be a true blogger. Never lose this misplaced faith

Everyone currently paying bribes to the White House should be made to understand that we are going to remember and make them regret it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

I hate few public figures more than Hamilton Nolan but this is 100% correct and necessary.

It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

The fact that the entire Pentagon press corps covering the world's biggest military has been replaced with right wing influencers happy to act as administration enforcers is a legitimate crisis for democracy and global security.

"ICE and CBP goons, balaclavas emphasizing the penis-like nature of their heads, have descended on New Orleans," @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social writes. But the city is pissed off and fighting back, chasing the feds and holding protests almost daily.

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

Literary journalism, creative nonfiction, whatever you want to call it... man, this is just such a good read. Equal parts infuriating, inspiring, educational and witty.

The people of New Orleans have created an incredible grassroots community intelligence service to track the feds as they hunt the city's immigrants. A real good cops vs. bad cops dynamic being replicated across the country right now. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

Question: Are there any good studies on the economic effects of the widespread addition of tipping screens to payment systems? Have all these new tipping prompts increased workers earnings or no?

Any time you see “Grab Some Popcorn” in a headline that means the writer is too ignorant to have an actual position and indeed the Washington Post proves that three paragraphs in. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I’m afraid I have to share very sad news about a very nice man: www.caity.info/blog-1-1/38p...

The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Great quote for future stories about how insane the AI bubble was. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

it is essential that every unionized newsroom gets a ban on this kind of insidious bullshit written into their contract

Issues like anti-trans panic are not organic red state issues. They are engineered like viruses in a lab of bad faith politics, and the way to deal with bullies using them is to tell them to fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

"To decide that these bad faith issues must be compromised on in the name of savvy politics is precisely wrong. The compromise itself does the damage. The compromise itself brands you as insincere, weak, a sellout."

I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...

This study implies, to me, that major businesses should simply underwrite the costs of local newspapers in their areas because they would probably make up the costs on higher IPO and stock prices. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is a really interesting look at the knotty politics, economics, and communication challenges of climate policy, and also a good reminder that Joe Manchin has singlehandedly done more damage to America's future than any non-Republican human on the face of the Earth.

My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments

“Jaguars Junction” is an independent source of football analysis unaffiliated with any professional sports franchise. defector.com/jaguars-junc...

If you’ve ever wondered why it’s so fucking hard to unionize restaurants here is a good case study by @grendan.bsky.social

Labor unions can recruit working class candidates in red states, run them as independents, fund them with money they now give to Democrats, and use union members as the core of their volunteer base. The numbers are more plausible than you think. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...

Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

Spoke to @en.france24.com about the media coverage of Zohran's campaign, in order to smear American institutions in front of an audience of hostile foreign socialists www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

When I wrote this the main objection I heard was that soldiers and officers should stay in so they could spontaneously resist illegal orders. Subsequently the Commander in Chief accused US Senators of treason for saying that. Please wake up. Leave the military. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/leave-the-...

Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”