Great piece. Legalized gambling is always and everywhere class war.

ALSO TODAY: @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social has some conditions. “I will not buy ANY prepared foods during the course of the show, surviving only on all natural items which might well be found in the wilderness, such as carrots, bananas, oatmeal, steaks, and hummus.” flaminghydra.com/minor-edits-...

Yes www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...

Did you know that the paperback version of my labor history book for young readers, ‘Fight to Win!’ is coming out in paperback soon, at a very low price point, right in time for summer reading lists? Now you do, and you can preorder it for 25% off here! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fight-to-w...

All the passengers on The Atlantic cruise will be other magazine writers writing 7000-word "this wacky cruise sucks" stories www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

TV news that likes to brag about how it’s real news should have a strict “you have to say what you actually believe” policy. This would disqualify a large portion of political consultant-type pundits. Then maybe they could book some interesting people instead.

"People think to themselves, 'Oh no— if the airline workers could just strike, it would cause chaos.' That’s the wrong way to think about it. The power of the strike is a temporary crowbar used to push a power imbalance back towards a balanced state." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Data and efficiency are destined to shape the Washington Post's future. Whatever that means. Read Hamilton Nolan and Siddhartha Mahanta. www.cjr.org/analysis/was...

One reaction to six-hour TSA lines and ICE in airports that I would like to see more is: If airline industry unions could strike like normal unions, none of this would be happening. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.

TSA Officers have been working without pay for over a month. Americans must demand this administration pay TSA right now. Refusing to do so is putting our safety and security at extreme risk.

Read the statement from @wgaeast.bsky.social and @wgawest.bsky.social on the layoff of Guild members at CBS News. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and friends and will fight to protect journalists.

“Autonomous drones attacking data centers” is kind of a best case scenario for war

I actually had a discussion with a very nice lady about exactly this last week in New York. Our conversation began when she asked how things are in Texas, to which I replied, “Oh you know, descending into barbarism.”

How the South won the Civil War

It is amazing to watch the supercharging of the South's extractive economic model, destroying education for its own residents in order to beg for out-of-state wealth that will ultimately leave behind almost no benefits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/suicidal-b...

I’m kind of curious how many years it will take before NIMBYism becomes so politically toxic that Good Liberals like these Princeton professors start to feel that they can’t do it any more. We’re not there yet obviously but we’re on the path.

For @defector.com, I wrote about the Nitehawk Workers Union, "saving movie theaters," and why humans respond to other humans defector.com/fair-pay-fee...

Our CBS News 24/7 union members are walking out today to demand a fair contract from CBS/Paramount management. Join them this morning at bicoastal rallies outside CBS News Broadcast Center in NYC and KPIX-TV CBS News Bay Area in SF!

Thank you Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Michael Powell for everything you did to win Leqaa's freedom in the name of free speech on campus

A guillotine is being constructed, by our own desperate peers, that will be capable of rendering today’s version of organized labor more or less obsolete.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existen...

Just wild. Jackals picking at the American empire’s carcass. Say hello to the Chinese century. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

If Democrats are gonna pander this hard on tax cuts they need to pair it with “imprison billionaires and confiscate their wealth” which is also popular

“AI is a threat not just to jobs, but to the entire existence of organized labor in America.” Hugely important from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

I am beginning to think that we are not afraid enough of the potential that AI will not just automate jobs, but may destroy the entire way that organized labor builds power for working people. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existen...

It is so heartening to see city officials talking with such firmness and enthusiasm about making New York a place where workers, immigrants, and artists (three overlapping categories of course) can thrive!

Schultz fleeing a prospective wealth tax--just like his fellow billionaires in California--goes to show that state level wealth taxes should include common sense provisions to imprison billionaires until they pay it.

Julie Su, Biden's former Labor Secretary, is now head of "Economic Justice" in NYC-- meaning she's responsible for making much of Zohran's agenda a reality. I spoke to her about labor policy, the gig economy, immigration, Trump, and proper falafel prices. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/julie-sus-...

Good piece and it's true a lot of unions would be better off going for slimmer and shorter first contracts, focused on winning union security. Caveat is if a company sees you walk in with this modest goal, they'll fight it just as hard as any first contract. We must conceal our modesty with threats.

We’ve had more than a decade to listen to Donald Trump talk now and if you are making large financial decisions based upon off-the-cuff responses he gives to questions then someone should cut off your ability to trade

We have reached the “15th century Florence” stage of media funding in America. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/patrons-of...

Nola newspaper is reporting a “sickout” by TSA workers who are working with no pay, though there is no official confirmation of a strike or similar action (as you would expect since strikes are illegal). Good. www.nola.com/news/politic...

I have a dream (or a hope) that we are gonna make it with no paywalls and no ads. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/patrons-of...

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If you have a union, when your boss does this you are allowed to knock him out and leave him splayed on the clean kitchen floor. Unionize your workplace today. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

There’s a pretty strong norm in the union world against publicly criticizing other union leaders but at some point I think it becomes necessary for labor movement leaders to start saying “Sean O’Brien sucks.” Otherwise this guy represents all unions in people’s minds thehill.com/homenews/adm...

The underlying thing making democracy impossible is the vast fortunes of the extremely rich and any Democrat unwilling to support wealth taxes is not interested in addressing America’s biggest problem. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-l...

Heard from some people at @unitehere.org today miffed that the NYT didn’t mention the union’s role in these NC races—they knocked on 46,000 doors! And this story doesn’t mention sone people quoted are Unite Here members. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

The litmus test that actually matters for 2028 Democratic presidential candidates is "do not vote for them if they don't support a wealth tax." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-l...

🚨 New from me @therealnews.com Sean O'Brien sold workers & unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him I speak w/ Richard Hooker Jr. & John Palmer, who are running against the O'Brien administration in this year’s Teamsters elections therealnews.com/sean-obrien-...

My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.

"The class of people telling us that government will step in to prevent the worst economic outcomes of our era is the same class of people who are working to prevent the government from doing so!" — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

The case against the dystopian scenario of AI-fueled inequality says that the government will step in to prevent the worst economic outcomes. The people making that case are, themselves, working as hard as possible to prevent the government from doing so. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capitalist...

Smirking and chuckling and saying "and you're surprised by this?" when I am killed in a Hezbollah attack on the New York City subway system

so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil

It’s interesting to observe that when a US president, no matter how evil, dies, the journalistic convention is to strike a somber and respectful tone of loss, but when a foreign leader is killed by us it can be played purely as a story of geostrategy with no obligatory pseudo-sadness whatsoever.

“Opening the door to things like ‘preemptive war’ to head off some form of ‘real or concocted) threat has the same effect as saying it is ok to shoot someone if they make you feel nervous. It causes a lot of people to get shot unnecessarily.” open.substack.com/pub/howthing...