Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2hMorozov rightly points out the problem with the left supporting an AI sovereign wealth fund, which is that you explicitly align the public's interests with imperialism www.ft.com/content/bc17... 1437
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 20hPublic education, labor unions, and the free press are the three load-bearing pillars of our democracy and they are all in desperate need of material support before they collapse. inthesetimes.com/article/thre...inthesetimes.comThe Three True Pillars Of American DemocracyIt’s no shock that the Right and Big Tech are targeting the same three institutions—if Democrats don’t take action to defend them, we can kiss our democracy goodbye. 17616
Reposted by Hamilton Nolanryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026"Thiel’s destruction of Gawker, a publication that attacked virtually everyone, was the first shot fired in this era’s remarkably successful war against the free press. The war itself is not new. It’s just that today’s iteration of it is so very on the nose." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...hamiltonnolan.comThe Free and Unfree PressJournalism, and its adversaries. 521550
Reposted by Hamilton NolanPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The news outlets purged as a result—the Washington Post, CBS, CNN, and surely more to come—are, from the perspectives of the oligarchy, a fringe benefit. They don’t have to worry about the pesky writers attacking them so much any more, either." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...hamiltonnolan.comThe Free and Unfree PressJournalism, and its adversaries. 15413
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a great example of the Regional Business Yokel Hangs Himself With His Own Quotes genre. Recommended. Also fuck Walter Isaacson. thelensnola.org/2026/09/28/j...thelensnola.orgJohn Georges believes Meta AI deals will ‘save journalism’ — and Louisiana’s largest newspaper | The LensJohn Georges and Meta have developed closer business ties as the Louisiana newspaper owner pursues AI licensing deals, raising questions about sponsored content and journalism. 06210
Reposted by Hamilton NolanChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Journalists may not have much. But we retain the right to call the frauds and bootlickers masquerading as the pillars of the media industry a bunch of scumbags. Truth, after all, comes free." remarkable @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...hamiltonnolan.comThe Free and Unfree PressJournalism, and its adversaries. 08728
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...hamiltonnolan.comThe Free and Unfree PressJournalism, and its adversaries. 432185
Reposted by Hamilton NolanSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 25/09/2026Reminder that @garnethenderson.com and I don't have salaries. Chipping in to help us pay this bill means we can pay ourselves for our labor instead: 24020
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There should 100% be an office in the next administration's Justice Department to prosecute this ever growing list of stuff that does not even have any plausible veneer of legality. Just a big fuck you to rule of law. 531447
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It is an absolute disgrace that every major union in California is not backing the billionaire tax. Petty ass crabs in a pot doing the work of Sergey Brin. Wake up! 616326
Reposted by Hamilton NolanTommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is about how great tech critics are made and how they’re sometimes unmade, and for a few hundred words it’s also about a guy named Dick Pick. 24915
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Punditry would be better if it was more like a tournament. Backed the Iraq war? Sorry, you’re out. 948855
Reposted by Hamilton NolanKB ❤️🔥 UVW-CWA @square2mom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"For some reason we pretend that declaring that schools could be 'separate but equal' by race was absurd, but that 'separate but equal' by income and social capital is reasonable. It is not true." 07511
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A common sense good government reform would be that after you work in the White House, you can only work in fast food for the rest of your life. 414321
Reposted by Hamilton Nolanryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...hamiltonnolan.comPrivate Schools Are Bad for SocietyThe starting point for any honest discussion. 15781131
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...hamiltonnolan.comPrivate Schools Are Bad for SocietyThe starting point for any honest discussion. 13456125
Reposted by Hamilton NolanIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026Union members: This one’s for you. Sign up for 10 free issues of In These Times and get independent reporting on politics, labor and the movement for workers’ rights. No credit card required: inthesetimes.com/union 14421
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We’re all living through a years-long preview for THE BATTLE OF DC: COMING JANUARY 2028. 710925
Reposted by Hamilton NolanJames Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Almost all of America’s mainstream political debate over 'socialism' is stupid....Do you support higher minimum wages, higher taxes on the rich, stronger labor unions, and less concentrated corporate power? Then we are on the same side." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.socialopen.substack.comI Want You To Tell Me What “Socialism” MeansBefore you tell me if it’s good or bad. 36911
Reposted by Hamilton NolanSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026lovely review of THIS IS HOW WE WIN.ueunion.orgNew Book Explores ‘How We Win’As the folk singer Ani DiFranco sings, “you gotta have the right tools for every job.” If the job is building a bolder, more militant labor and working-class movement, the May Day Strong coalition (of... 0117
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Once again the White House Correspondents Association, which had a celebratory dinner with this guy just months ago, looks like stupid craven fools. Good call idiots. 1755687
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The American debate over "socialism" is almost entirely useless because nobody has a shared definition of what "socialism" means. Stop wasting everybody's time! www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/i-want-you...hamiltonnolan.comI Want You To Tell Me What “Socialism” MeansBefore you tell me if it’s good or bad. 1012522
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US Congress has proposed both a strong Democratic version of this law (the PRO Act) and a weak bipartisan version (Faster Labor Contracts Act) and neither has passed because Republicans hate worker power and all claims to the contrary are frauds. 116737
Reposted by Hamilton NolanLynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW REPORT: Haitian-Americans' detention in four Ohio jails SOARED since TPS ended. Haitian women now make up 39% of the female ICE population at these jails, up from 2%. Read our new report. ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/9/... 212982
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“We certainly don’t, in the back of our heads, think that the 1% share [of national income] is fixed deep in the economy. Perhaps it’s time we think the same thing with the capital share.” 1413
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As a reader I urge news organizations to take this opportunity to reconsider their practice of running months and months of headlines like “ISRAELI BOMBS KILL 37 AS CEASEFIRE APPEARS FRAGILE.” Words mean things. 08226
Reposted by Hamilton NolanBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.bloodinthemachine.comThe End Times Fascists of AI, ft. Naomi Klein + Astra TaylorListen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry. 420666
Reposted by Hamilton NolanAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Worried about the threat of AI to humanity? There's a simple solution. Engineers, Q/A workers, and scientists creating AI can UNIONIZE to take charge of how their research is being used. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social explains it all for you. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...open.substack.comUnionize AIIs a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose? 011325
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In Silicon Valley, it appears that organized worker action is considered more far-fetched than the LITERAL END OF HUMANITY. That is insane. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unionize-aihamiltonnolan.comUnionize AIIs a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose? 39720
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ironically a good argument for DEI is “it would help the NYT find someone other than a Princeton grad, suit wearing right wing magazine editor dweeb to write about rural America” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o... 617925
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos. 271648401
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Local news in the US will not exist in the medium term without public funding. Period. The sooner we all accept this the sooner we can work on getting the money. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/public-fun...hamiltonnolan.comPublic Funding of Journalism Is the Only WayThere is no other magic solution. I promise. 315746
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...hamiltonnolan.comYou Have to Call Bigots What They AreStop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate. 7686204
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026To all @wgaeast.bsky.social members, please take one minute today and vote in your union council elections. You’ll get a voting email this morning. You can read all of our candidate statements here and frankly everyone running is great. Support union democracy, vote! www.wgaeast.org/candidates/#...wgaeast.orgCandidates | Writers Guild of America East 0263
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There is no place in America for this blatant antisemitism 0898
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This "Republicanism packaged as a gen Z hostage video" show has the real potential to become the Thought Catalog of the late 2020s. thank you jeff bezos. 39314
Reposted by Hamilton NolanSam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 08/09/2026Exclusive: I obtained hundreds of pages of contract documents from the OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/xAI Pentagon deal. It includes a (redacted) copy of OpenAI's classified deployment agreement signed during the DOD/Anthropic showdown. theintercept.com/2026/09/08/m...theintercept.comAI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts RevealThe Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. 04416
Reposted by Hamilton NolanBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We need to tax the rich, yes, but the real political project is to take power away from capital, period. — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.socialopen.substack.comCapital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a SideshowCapitalism or humanity, but not both. 010423
Reposted by Hamilton NolanPhillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yes. This right here. This is the whole goddamn ballgame: “We need to tax the rich, yes, but the real political project is to take power away from capital, period.” 012330
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The declining labor share of income is the class war crystallized and everything progressives want is downstream of putting the power of capital on a leash. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...hamiltonnolan.comCapital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a SideshowCapitalism or humanity, but not both. 643297
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026An essay by a union busting lawyer arguing to overturn pro-union NLRB rulings as Labor Day content is a perfect encapsulation of the Bezos era Washington Post. SANTA CLAUS IS WATCHING YOU, BOOTLICKING CAPITALIST SCUM.wapo.stOpinion | Biden made poor labor choices. I had a front-row seat.The NLRB finally has enough Republican votes to overturn precedent from the previous administration. 010621
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Everything you want is downstream of changing the balance of power between capital and labor. 515541
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wrote an essay about Eugene Deb’s and labor power for a new Haymarket book called “This Is How We Win.” An excerpt of the essay is in @currentaffairs.bsky.social: www.currentaffairs.org/news/eugene-...currentaffairs.orgEugene Debs Knew the Power Labor HoldsMore than 100 years ago, the socialist leader taught us that working people make the world run—so we can remake the world, too. 29238
Reposted by Hamilton NolanMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 02/09/2026Years of sweat and advocacy. 540780
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Full video of my interview with FL Senate candidate Angie Nixon, who says she joined DSA because “someone organized me.” Lots of good talk on the organizing mindset applied to politics, and how shocking that is to the establishment . www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/angie-nixo...hamiltonnolan.comAngie Nixon Wants to Expand the Court, End the Filibuster, and Put ICE in JailThe Florida Democratic Senate candidate is very relaxed about being called a socialist. 213028
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026What you say right before you get knocked out by some guy in a bar who was not actually interested in your wife: 101598