“Whether you believe that you can change the future or not, you are certain to be correct.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/against-se...
Against Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The prize for asking for less is less.
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When you ask for less than what you want, you do the work of your opponents. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/against-se...
Against Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The prize for asking for less is less.
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Put $25 a month behind worker-centered journalism, and we’ll send you a signed copy of The Hammer by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social along with a year's subscription to In These Times. The offer runs through August 7—or until all 10 copies are claimed. secure.actblue.com/donate/itt-b...
Unfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
This WSJ editorial unwittingly makes my point about the danger of Bernie's plan to turn all Americans into AI investors: "give public workers a direct stake in the success of AI and other companies. Maybe then government unions wouldn’t be as hostile to private business." www.wsj.com/opinion/publ...
An AI-Funded Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Dangerous
Some constructive thoughts on Bernie's proposal.
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STRIKE ALERT: Prisoners across the U.S. will stage a National Prisoners' Human Rights Strike from May Day through June 19 (Juneteenth), 2027, uniting the fight to end legalized slavery with the struggle to restore voting rights to the prison class Jailhouselawyersspeak.com @jaillawspeak.bsky.social
I haven't stopped thinking about this @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social essay since I read it earlier this week. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
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“Our work has become more relevant, accessible, and consequential”
Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5d agoNew: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday
"To embrace movement politics is to be able to look at any given campaign season and ask: What is the best, most meaningful way for us to use this election to build the movement, in order to make the world better in the long run?"
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d agoThe left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
'It is generally a mistake, in American politics, to say “let’s wait four years and build.” It is wiser to seize every momentary advantage and push it as hard and as far as you can.' www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
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The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
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This. Great piece arguing that our failure, not just to price in societal costs that businesses generate, but to not even try, is unacceptable. Product impact on health is a classic example.
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.It is kind of amazing that we have settled on a version of capitalism that leads us into a trash can due to a decision not to price in the public costs of private profits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...
“The failure to realize that ignoring these costs to public welfare does not make them disappear accounts for the nagging disquietude that enshittification creates in the public mind…They are not just feelings! They are economically real! We ignore them at our peril!” THE VIBES ARE OFF
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.It is kind of amazing that we have settled on a version of capitalism that leads us into a trash can due to a decision not to price in the public costs of private profits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...
"America’s capitalism adds up the profits created by privatizing public goods without subtracting the value destroyed. We've created the largest enshittifying machine in history with financial logic that leaves out half the equation." - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
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It is kind of amazing that we have settled on a version of capitalism that leads us into a trash can due to a decision not to price in the public costs of private profits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
hamiltonnolan.com
Pitch for new AI product that writes for you: "What comes out isn't AI content. It's your authentic work." Awful.
Fantastic blog here. This is a gift link: defector.com/all-the-trai...
All The Trains I Rode In Los Angeles | Defector
This is not really a blog about trains. A blog about trains in Los Angeles, and my experience with them across 10 days, would ultimately be very short: Despite its notorious gaps in coverage, LA Metro...
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"I Don’t Know How You Can Look at Minneapolis and Say They Are Better for Choosing Reform Over Revolution" • A conversation with Justin Ellis about "The Cruelty of Nice Folks"
"I Don’t Know How You Can Look at Minneapolis and Say They Are Better for Choosing Reform Over Revolution"
A conversation with Justin Ellis about "The Cruelty of Nice Folks"
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Though we have failed to rectify the material consequences of bigotry, the campaign to demonize bigotry itself has been a cultural success. It is the one charge so powerful that racists cry about reverse racism, and war criminals claim to be victims of hate speech for being called war criminals.
Netanyahu Accuses Mamdani of ‘Hate Speech’ After Mayor’s Video Address
The Israeli prime minister criticized Mr. Mamdani for releasing a video last week in which the mayor called for the federal government to arrest Mr. Netanyahu for war crimes.
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“Incrementalism is ultimately bullshit.” Spoke to @justinellis.bsky.social about Minneapolis, defunding the police, and his new book. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/i-dont-kno...
"I Don’t Know How You Can Look at Minneapolis and Say They Are Better for Choosing Reform Over Revolution"
A conversation with Justin Ellis about "The Cruelty of Nice Folks"
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At $80, “Tim Tszyu vs Errol Spence with all the decent undercard fights cancelled” may be the shittiest PPV in boxing history
Rahm Emanuel’s example of a good Democratic candidate “touting substantive ways to help families cover the mortgage” is Abigail Spanberger, who vetoed a public sector bargaining bill that would have done just that for half a million Virginians. Rahm Emanuel is an idiot. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
A banger of a column. My favorite line in the description of the Searchlight Institute: "At least they are fighting the good fight against their own unemployment."
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2w agoMost people are not policy experts. Therefore it's easy to produce a poll that finds that most people do not advocate for any particular sophisticated policy position. Centrists use this as a weapon against progress, which is bad. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-polls...
Most people are not policy experts. Therefore it's easy to produce a poll that finds that most people do not advocate for any particular sophisticated policy position. Centrists use this as a weapon against progress, which is bad. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-polls...
What Polls Do and Don't Tell You
Does the public oppose its own interests? Really?
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Nate is a true union activist from South Dakota that I met at Labor Notes. He’s fighting cancer right now and anyone who can donate to help him get by would be greatly appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-nate-...
Donate to Help Nate with his cancer battle, organized by Nate Wendt
My name is Nate. I'm a 40yr old father from South Dakota 20yrs in the construction field/… Nate Wendt needs your support for Help Nate with his cancer battle
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ICYMI: Union Density Is the Cause of and Solution to Our Problems via Hamilton Nolan 📰 https://ow.ly/Z3zm50ZoYhS
Union Density Is the Cause of and Solution to Our Problems
What it means to take that seriously.
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Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies
The most useless genre on earth.
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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
If the WHCA had any backbone they would not host this dinner in the first place. Asking them to “fight back” while simultaneously mingling with the offending people at dinner is like asking a trained dancing seal to fight back against Sea World.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: 500+ journalists formally ask White House Correspondents Assoc. "to publicly pledge that it will fight back against the Trump Admin's assault on press freedom" at its dinner with Trump on Friday "Attacks on journalists and press freedom have become even more egregious"
The new McCarthyism is a C minus World History 101 essay at Liberty university
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2w agoRubio’s State Department just published a 100-page report identifying Cuba as the locus of Communist infiltration in the US since the 1960s. Absolutely bonkers shit. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...
