Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

[editor returning from vacation] so did that temp yesterday do okay?

"What stood out were the words of power, of the willingness to fight, of revolution." @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech, filled with the "inspiring hope-and-change flavor of Obama, but it was all gripped in a fist."

On Zohran. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

Capitalism is now illegal

Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do. Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

The opinion sections of major newspapers have responded to Zohran Mamdani's campaign in the same way that a group of terrified, purse-clutching suburbanites visiting NYC might respond if you asked them to ride the subway to try some Indian food in Jackson Heights. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

Try some modern donuts idiots

This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.

I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.

A quarter decade deep in the HOW THINGS WORK game www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/a-brief-bi...

"One way of thinking about the past half-decade or so of life on the internet is that we’ve all become test subjects in a grand experiment to see just how bad 'good enough' can be." Good essay by the villain max read. maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

The Wall Street Journal has run more than four dozen op-eds attacking Zohran Mamdani since June. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/local-pape...

America's best performance art is the Wall Street Journal Opinion section's truly staggering obsession with Zohran Mamdani. A catalogue: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/local-pape...

Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.

Many of you have been watching our contract fight at the L.A. Times and asking how to help. Now's the time. Tell our managers that you'll honor the picket line if negotiations drag to a point where we're forced to call a strike. You can sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Dropping in mailboxes now: @kimkelly.bsky.social on the American narcissus @sarahlazare.bsky.social on deadly uranium @ajamonet.bsky.social on art, Maroons & love @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on the campaign trail w/ Mamdani Cover: @mollycrabapple.bsky.social & Rachel K. Dooley inthesetimes.com

Strong union contracts raise a company's labor costs relative to non-union competitors. The proper response to this is not "the union is bad," but rather "unionize the competitors." www.wsj.com/opinion/team...

We’re not going to have people killed in our cities even if it means killing every last person in our cities.

‘In every age, it has been the tyrant, the oppressor, and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism or religion or both to deceive and overawe the people.’ Eugene V. Debs

Shout out to the GUTS bus drivers at Georgetown U— unionized with @1199seiu.org. Got to hear from them today about the university’s ongoing attempt to turn them into subcontractors. Bad! Contrary to Jesuit values! Just like adjuncts, they’re fighting for decent full time jobs. Solidarity on campus.

"Looking backwards from today, it is impossible not to be struck by the fact that we seem to have completed an entire political cycle since the time of Debs. Now, we are back to re-fighting the same battles that he tried, and failed, to win at the turn of the last century."

Bernie, AOC, Sara Nelson, Eugene Debs, striking casino workers, and the "concept of human solidarity." A report from Terre Haute, Indiana: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/eugene-deb...

DC peoples, come through and talk about the labor movement with me tomorrow night. 530 PM at Georgetown, free.

SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza. theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...

"They will not be able to order food in a restaurant without having it spit in. Who do you think works in New York City’s kitchens, fuckos? Don’t miss the spit bagels, spit hot dogs, and spit pastrami sandwiches of our fine city. You sad little clowns." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

In other words CNN is going to become state media. Trump will have essentially destroyed CBS, Washington Post, and CNN as credible news outlets before his term is up. nypost.com/2025/10/23/m...

"Building inspectors, yes. And safety inspectors. Is the water in the ICE office clean? Cut it off, to test it. Fire drills. Tickets on their parked cars. Brake light violations. Health inspections. Sidewalk construction. Street closures. More fire drills. More fire drills!"

ICE will not have fun in New York City. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc

Andrew Cuomo is just “I like the Knicks. And the other sports teams. Anybody like hot dogs? I do. Empire State Building is my fave! I guess you could say ‘I Heart NY’ haha. I am not dangerous to women and death to Palestine. Go Yankees/ Mets!”

“when the dark history of the Trump era is written one day in our smoldering, dystopian future, I think that the most prescient assessment of what was coming for us all will stand as: ‘Go fuck yourself.’” talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...

For @talkingpointsmemo.com I wrote about the one journalistic skill that bloggers did better than any other writers, which was to get to the fucking point. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...

The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida. Dr. King said at the time: “We have worked in some difficult communities...but we have never worked in one as lawless as this.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-time-t...

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

I grew up hearing my dad, a historian, talk about the civil rights history of my hometown. But recently he told me a mind-blowing story I had never heard before: how Martin Luther King, Jr. was very nearly killed by a local crank in 1964. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-time-t...

Getting beat up in a mostly empty arena is just a job: defector.com/getting-beat...

Boxing is a job. defector.com/getting-beat...

Heather Hardy's new lawsuit, which will try to hold various boxing institutions responsible for the damage she took in the sport, is gonna be really interesting to watch. I spoke to her last year about what she's going through and her story is powerful.

Not sure why, but all this “Halloween” stuff—witches, vampires, werewolves—is totally foreign to me. Where does it come from? Definitely not here, at Alabama Bible College.

The righteous cartoonist @mirkdrop.bsky.social made this zine out of one of my essays about billionaires www.instagram.com/p/DP9hZI0Ecp... DOWNLOAD THE PDF AND PRINT IT FOR FREE HERE. YES TO ZINES: www.ddesignlab.org/our-work/out...

Tomorrow, our unfair labor practice strike against @post-gazette.com marks it's third full year. Three years of fighting the most lawless union-busting campaign can be tiring, but we're never going to quit fighting. Last night, we were uplifted to see a new sign adorning the Pittsburgh skyline...

I have a dream that one day police will treat all Americans with the respect that they give to a drunk racist guy who yells “I’M FUCKIN LAW ENFORCEMENT”

The inability of either Curtis Sliwa or Andrew Cuomo to pronounce Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly after all this time seems a little racist!

I wrote about David Brooks discovering mass movements. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/shift-chan...

Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like