"The whole thing felt like a show that might be inflicted upon a desultory crowd of students at a reform school, forced by their principal to listen to the hits of the past, with the threat of juvenile hall looming over anyone who made a wisecrack." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/bad-fascis...

Always interesting to see the childlike, reactionary ideas that come out of the mouths of prestigious legacy media figures when they are allowed to stop pretending to be neutral.

Join us Tuesday at 5pm to call out @springernature.com's union busting and callous treatment of @sciam.bsky.social workers! RSVP: wgaea.st/sciam-rally

Standing on the National Mall looking up at the belly of a stealth bomber screaming overhead is a good way to understand how American got so successful. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/bad-fascis...

“The formal kickoff for the ‘Great American State Fair’ … was less of a party than a symbolic embodiment of the presently dominant vision of our nation as Shit Disneyland.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on Trump’s America 250 kickoff.

America’s 250th anniversary celebration is Shit Disneyland. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

Yeah, super smart to ask the most popular people to leave the party. This analytical acumen is why the Democrats control the government today.

If DSA wins ten or twenty more congressional seats we may even one day see a left wing pundit on CNN

Yes. Yes. Yes. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/embrace-le...

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

"Terrorist," as a descriptive category, is bullshit. Don't use it, don't uncritically repeat it. Wide mainstream legitimization of the government's ability to declare foreign people "terrorists" after 9/11 was an enormous mistake by the press and civil society.

I am excited to announce that I am working on a new book with @haymarketbooks.org and @inthesetimes.com, tentatively titled "AMERICAN SACRIFICE: Working People Talk About Fighting for Their Lives—and Our Future—in America's Sacrifice Zones"...

Smash that pre-order button folks

"Democratic socialists in 2026 are having a moment that is—not to be too bold, not to get too far over my skis in historical terms—more hopeful and more substantial than anything we’ve seen since World War 2....It’s years of organizing work coming to fruition." – @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

A strong showing by DSA candidates in this election cycle will produce the most substantial and hopeful electoral moment for the left in many, many decades, going into 2028. Time to think big. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/embrace-le...

Very funny bit to write this entire essay without including the possibility that maybe the left doesn't like Israel murdering all those people.

From fascism to AI, our world is breaking. Only rank-and-file workers can save it. A blockbuster panel with labor journalists @kimkelly.bsky.social @alexnpress.bsky.social @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com therealnews.com/from-fascism...

GOD, AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN, PULLING LEVER TO OPEN TRAP DOOR BENEATH JD VANCE'S FEET, EXPOSING PIT OF FLAMES: i find your argument unconvincing

Like many things that happen under fascist governments, this sounds like a bad joke and you laugh at it right up until the police break down your door. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/minneapoli...

Big picture, this race is two very progressive pro-union candidates. What is the upside of spending $650k+ of union members' money here? (Against the union organizer candidate, btw) www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

"Anti-fascism, a philosophy that should be considered a minimum standard of human decency, will be a long and hard fight. It will require not just actions, but institutions." Important to remember as DOJ goons come after "antifa" with bogus prosecutions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/minneapoli...

Fascists fear the labor movement and Minneapolis shows why. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/minneapoli...

The insistence on using caps lock even in this situation should be entered into evidence at The Hague

This month, in multiple settings, including the AFL-CIO convention, Minnesota's labor movement has been honored and given awards for standing up to ICE. Now trade unionists are among those being targeted by the federal govt, which is citing participation in worker assemblies as proof of conspiracy.

My flight got canceled. I got hit by an egg in a drive-by. I had to take trains, planes, and automobiles. But NOTHING could stop me from seeing the Knicks on Saturday night. I wrote about the greatest sports weekend I will ever have and a strange joy we all now feel. hellgatenyc.com/knicks-fans-...

The only real useful accomplishment of social media is that it has shown how many people who are geniuses in one field are very dumb in other fields. Two other things that do a good job of showing this are”holding elected office” and “doing a celebrity boxing match.”

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Nobody benefits more from the existence of a trillionaire than billionaires, who can now point to someone more grotesque than them.

I talked with Rogelio Bolufé, organizer of the Union of People Kidnapped by ICE. The US government deported him to Ecuador earlier this month, even though he's from Cuba, and left him there with nothing.

As an undecided voter I support the prosecution of Stephen Miller for crimes against humanity and look forward to supporting a 2028 Democratic primary candidate who prioritizes that.

Grocery stores are FASCINATING labor stories. Spoke to Ann Larson about her new book "Cleanup on Aisle Five," a firsthand account of working at a grocery store through the pandemic. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/brutal-opp...

Gets to many of my concerns with this proposal. We don’t need a public stake in a multi-trillion dollar toxic asset. Public investment/ownership has to come with serious conditions — and that’s not the version of this paradigm that Trump and the tech companies are warming up to.

I’ve been somewhat ambivalent about this but I think on balance this view is correct. Equity stakes are a costly and roundabout way for the public to exercise authority over businesses - much better to just tax and regulate them directly.

good nuanced criticism of bernie sanders' plan, which is good because a.) nuanced criticism is good b.) important to remember that even politicians you like get shit wrong

There are two big drawbacks to Bernie Sanders' plan to take stakes in AI companies to create a sovereign wealth fund: 1. We don't need a sovereign wealth fund. 2. You are going to make normal people view themselves as investors in AI companies, which is bad. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-ai-fund...

"Amateurs." - Roger Ailes, looking up from hell.

Unions, not governments, are the front line of real world AI regulation.

NEWS: SoFi Stadium cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers, and food attendants voted 96% to authorize a strike, just a week out from when the stadium is set to host its first World Cup game www.huffpost.com/entry/unite-...

This is a good demonstration of the amount of capital that gets deployed based on idiocy, gullibility, and a belief in magic. The predictive value of this is zero. www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Look if people sell their soul to the devil it’s not fair getting mad at them for getting a big number. Let’s not be anti labor.

Poverty wages, lack of benefits, poor working conditions, and exploitation in care labor is something I'd really like to see more attention to on the left.

To pay someone $19 an hour after they have spent two decades in an extremely difficult job taking care of developmentally disabled people is just a moral atrocity. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/less-than-...

NEW at @autonomynews.co: The nation's largest abortion fund and support service went dark for a day last week because workers went on strike over management's refusal to bargain with them on AI protections. This ongoing dispute could lead to tremendous disruptions in the abortion access landscape:

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

SHOUTS FROM THE INTERNET ROOFTOPS:

Axing property taxes: the latest manifestation of the grand right wing project “of making states into little dystopias” of poor public services and public schools that ensure the wealthy low taxes and a large pool of low-wage labor. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-want-...

I'd go 5-1 odds that Talarico can beat Todd Starnes' ass. Can tell Starnes doesn't have the cardio to push through the late rounds.

Floridians, many of whom are the sort of people to deny climate change at the same time that a hurricane is carrying away their roof, are generally happy to make poor long term decisions in exchange for short term benefits. — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Florida would like to free you from the tyranny of property taxes so that you can more easily live in hell. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-want-...