Hamilton Nolan

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If I were an SEIU member and my union was giving $200 million to get Biden reelected I would very much want it to tell him he needs to step down so that money isn't wasted. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-hole-a...

The Hole at the Heart of the Democratic Partywww.hamiltonnolan.com Labor needs to fill the vacuum. Or else.

Watching the entire "should Biden step down" discussion play out completely among donors and insiders is an incredibly bleak illustration of how absent the working class base of the Democratic Party is from its power center. We can fix that. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-hole-a...

The Hole at the Heart of the Democratic Partywww.hamiltonnolan.com Labor needs to fill the vacuum. Or else.

I'll bet that everything is not as it seems. flaminghydra.com/wagers-ill-m...

Wagers I'll Makeflaminghydra.com by Hamilton Nolan Those Krispy Kreme donuts are tasty. But I’ll bet that behind the scenes, things aren't as straightforward they seem. I’ll bet that if you got into the back room, you’d be in for ...

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"After many of Biden’s accomplishments have been dismantled and erased by right wing courts, it will become clear that his inability to get to the right place on those two issues was one of his most deadly miscalculations," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.

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"The true believers in institutionalism had a theory of power that turned out to not be true." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.

Laws are fake. Power is real. Goodbye, liberal institutionalism. Hello, new power centers. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.

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“Either get the courage to fix the system itself, or imagine Joe Biden’s pale face & wide eyes, gazing into your soul from a debate stage, for eternity.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Dictatorship Of The Oldwww.hamiltonnolan.com You get what you pay for, Jack.

In a system where power accumulates over time, old people will inevitably come to be in charge of everything. Breaking out of that requires some collective courage from the political class. Unfortunately they tend to have none. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dictatorsh...

Dictatorship Of The Oldwww.hamiltonnolan.com You get what you pay for, Jack.

The fact that American workers are doing well by historic standards does not have to tie us in knots. Yes they are doing well, and also they would be doing a lot better if the rich weren't skimming off a significant portion of the working class's wealth. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-have-a-...

We Have a Distribution Problemwww.hamiltonnolan.com Working people are doing well. They're also getting robbed.

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If you love press freedom and media controlled by writers and artists, not corporations, please support our cooperative newsletter, @flaminghydra.com *bonus* it is fun to read. With more subscribers/donations, we can add merch, podcasts, new contributors, columns, and more! flaminghydra.com

a great gawker story would be to publish the leaked contents of the [email protected] inbox

there it is!

I want to run for city council with a platform of building more public pull up bars across the city. No citizen should ever be more than 3 blocks from a pull up bar. There is no excuse for that

If you are for example the president of the Teamsters, this is why you don't speak at the RNC. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-repub...

What Republicans Plan to Do to Labor If They Winwww.hamiltonnolan.com Forget slogans. Here are the actual, awful policy proposals.

The new president of Unite Here tells me they plan to DOUBLE spending on new organizing, to $20m per year. Similar to UAW boosting new organizing spending recently, trying to seize the moment. Full interview on organizing, politics, and saving democracy here: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-unite-...

How Unite Here Plans to Double Organizing Spending and Save Democracywww.hamiltonnolan.com An interview with Unite Here's new president, Gwen Mills.

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This has been a fun outlet for me, and I've written some stuff there I'm really happy with. More than that, though, it has been reliably excellent to read every day, with a wide array of posts from a very diverse and talented group of people. I'm biased, but I think it's a steal for the price.

It is almost time for our ONE HUNDREDTH NEWSLETTER. How will you be celebrating, and why is it "by complimenting us floridly and at length"?

I'll be in ROCHESTER, NY this Thursday night, talking about my book and the labor movement with the great union organizer Richard Bensinger of @sbworkersunited.bsky.social. Come through!

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"Just because protesters understand that they will suffer consequences does not make the consequences justified...the people who impose the penalty on you for breaking the unjust rule are not on the right side." - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/a-note-on-...

A Note on Civil Disobediencewww.hamiltonnolan.com Accepting consequences doesn't mean the consequences are just.

One thing that is very annoying is when authority figures sanctimoniously argue that "accepting the consequences" is an important part of doing civil disobedience correctly. The consequences are part of the injustice! www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/a-note-on-...

A Note on Civil Disobediencewww.hamiltonnolan.com Accepting consequences doesn't mean the consequences are just.

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When cops shot Linda Tirado in the George Floyd protests, they destroyed one of her eyes with a rubber bullet. The subsequent brain damage is proving fatal. Linda needs funds for hospice Venmo: Linda-Tirado-3 PayPal: Bootstrapindustries@gmail Zelle: 806.433.6075

Police Blinded Her With a Foam Bullet. Suing Them Was When the Pain Beganrubberbullets.longlead.com When less-lethal weapons are misused, journalist Linda Tirado learned, there are no consequences — except for the people at the wrong end of the launcher.

People have shot up an elementary school, people have shot up a country music concert, people have shot up members of Congress themselves, and still we cannot restrict guns. I can't think of another interest group that can murder every political constituency and still maintain its power. Incredible.

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“Companies are tigers in cages. You can lock them in there and pet them and feed them for years, but let them out for one minute and they will eat you. That’s it.” — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social He’s talking about labor, but might as well be in general. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-hammer...

The Hammer, Not the Handshakewww.hamiltonnolan.com Your own labor power is the only thing they can't take away from you.

Today's Starbucks ruling is a good illustration of why you should always assume that everyone and everything will sell you out and you will be left with only the most important thing: your own labor power, which is the foundation of everything. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-hammer...

The Hammer, Not the Handshakewww.hamiltonnolan.com Your own labor power is the only thing they can't take away from you.

Public sector union organizing in red states is one of the best ways to build a firewall against the erosion of democracy that Republicans in those states are constantly pursuing. inthesetimes.com/article/fair...

Those Who Hate Public Sector Unions Also Hate Democracy. It's Not a Coincidence.inthesetimes.com A huge union win in the Fairfax County schools could be the first of many.

Nationalism is poison. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nationalis...

Nationalism Is Poisonwww.hamiltonnolan.com People are real, flags are made up.

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So Keith Olbermann covered my legal situation on his show Friday and he did so in a way that is pretty straightforward. I hope you'll listen to it, it's only a few minutes. youtu.be/Hi_0xTaRKxk?...

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It's hilarious that the WSJ's reporters can meticulously document the utter industry capture of the FTC that gutted antitrust enforcement for years while the idiot WSJ editorial writers rage endlessly at Lina Khan. Gotta respect the newsroom/ opinion separation! www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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"The inflation that voters keep screaming about in polls is driven most strongly not by $5 cartons of eggs but by $2500-per-month one bedroom apartments." @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Housing Is The Economywww.hamiltonnolan.com Nothing gets better until we build more housing.

Housing prices are the single most important part of people's lived experience of "the economy" and the only way to make them better is to build a hell of a lot more housing. This is progressive. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/housing-is...

Housing Is The Economywww.hamiltonnolan.com Nothing gets better until we build more housing.

I don't like to exaggerate but I believe that I have made food history. flaminghydra.com/cream-five-w...

Cream Five Waysflaminghydra.com by Hamilton Nolan How does a chef create a new recipe? I’m not sure, but I bet it’s like a seed taking root and growing a beautiful new tree. In this case, the seed is the idea, and the tree is the...

Putting the same words in increasingly fancy publications until the White House reads them. www.newstatesman.com/world/2024/0...

Joe Biden doesn’t have a “left” problem. He has a Joe Biden problemwww.newstatesman.com The president will only have himself to blame for any electoral damage come November.