This is it. 100% chance of a recession caused directly by trump’s policies but now its timing will be even more unpredictable than usual due to declining economic transparency.

A pretty good definition of journalism is “not doing this”

It’s a true fact: I got a Business Job in the Business World, which I start next week. But on my last day, Slate let me do one last job: A post about [portentously] all that I’ve seen. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country — Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live! RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally

Ahahahaha

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

"It’s not just that we are being destroyed, it’s that we are being destroyed for incredibly stupid reasons. There lies the ultimate triumph of the dumbasses!"

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

The defining experience of fascism is familiar to anyone who has written stuff on the internet. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Since 9/11 the main use of the word “terrorism” has been as a blanket justification for atrocities and the world would be a better place if we stopped using it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/retire-the...

The right wing will attempt to address this issue by funneling immigrants, prisoners, snd/ or other oppressed groups into forced labor. Watch

"Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us." Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's latest assessment of the struggle.

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.

Join me in supporting the Rose Lane workers in NYC who were fired for organizing a union. gofund.me/8f2642b95

⭐️ Drop Site News, with @unmutehumanity.bsky.social, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south. Please give: givebutter.com/gazajournalists

They are gonna do unrestrained crackdowns on whatever they want now

'One way to think about Donald Trump’s chaotic political career is “What happens when one of the people who is supposed to be reading the real news instead only pays attention to the bullshit propaganda news for idiots.”' www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/where-does...

News is a business where demand is always strong and also where meeting that demand has almost nothing to do with the way the business makes money. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/where-does...

"Normal socialism. That is the most important thing that Zohran represents to me....socialism [so] It’s easier to take the bus & the subway & pay the rent & take care of your kids & generally live a decent life." Damn, this is a really great essay by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social shorturl.at/gbAOT

New York magazine asked me to explore Roblox and report back on what the hell is going on in there. I found kids are bombarded with covert ads, casino-style manipulation, and nonstop enticements to spend their parents' money. nymag.com/intelligence...

Are there other examples of a nation repeatedly doing air strikes on civilian members of military opponents while they are in neutral third countries? This seems insane and destabilizing as a practice regardless of the nations in question.

New York City is naturally socialist and Bill Ackman is welcome to leave.

“A socialism that means that the government is a thing that works on behalf of the public to make the public’s life better. That’s all! That’s it! Can we not try this? Are we to believe this is a foolish dream—for the bus to be free and on time?”

If you live in New York City you are either a socialist or you haven't thought about it enough. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-york-s...

“yeah you too bitch” 🇺🇸

This is the scariest thing I’ve read in the new aggressive Bezos era of the Washington Post because once your paper starts running editorials like this they have fully checked out on doing worthwhile work

Zohran Mamdani said at his rally in brooklyn just now that “we have to prepare for the inevitability” of Trump deploying the National Guard in New York City.

WGAE members and friends showed up strong to today’s @nyclabor.bsky.social @aflcio.org NYC Labor Day Parade. ✊📝 We marched alongside thousands of other union members to show that even when authoritarian leaders try to strip workers’ rights and suppress freedom of speech, labor fights back.

Quality labor reporter doing the work 👇

People love to invent entire political theories to solve the world’s most important problem, “someone was mean to me online”

If there is anyone that I am comfortable with having the power of extrajudicial killing it is Donald Trump

Here is a transcript of Posobiec's speech at this same event last year, where he said "We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity." (He was congratulated afterwards by a Republican senator.)

"The war on science, on democracy, on constitutional norms, the war on immigrants—all of these things are branches of the class war, because losing the class war is what granted the bad people the power to pursue those things in such an unchecked manner." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/all-the-th...

It is great for bari weiss to finally land a job where she doesn’t have to write

we can sell a wealth cap to the 1% by saying right now you’re merely rich but wouldn’t you like to be tied for RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD

The things that billionaires buy are things that it would be better if nobody could buy. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/all-the-th...

"we are all being cast as unwilling actors in the drama of a man who used reality television to achieve real power, and is now repeating that procedure with dramatically higher stakes. This show is on every channel and nobody can turn it off." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/symbolic-b...

The administration's response to this will tell us a lot about whether Trump wants to exercise dictatorial control at gunpoint or whether he's satisfied just getting pictures of his army guys on TV.

Talked about unions and building power against fascism with Gabe Dunn on the Bad With Money podcast: athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com/p/leveraging...

Desperate feds offer ever increasing bonuses in search of a single cop physically capable of pursuing us for three blocks at a light jog

America's grand battle to write the myths that people of the future will tell about us. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/symbolic-b...

Way to zero in on the important aspect of this story. Well done.

Feel like this is less an issue with "the left" and more of a broader issue of the rejection of expertise, which is pervasive in our current right wing government as well.

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.”

One extremely powerful political current that cuts across parties is the desire of the comfortable to minimize the importance of issues that they may be ideologically against but which they don't believe will impact their own lives.

Trump is assembling a personal army and he is going to use it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-a...