Hamilton Nolan
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
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Email: [email protected]
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: [email protected]
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“There are no clocks in a casino, so the dealers all set their phone alarms for noon. Everyone was a bundle of nerves. Before work, a couple of people threw up.”
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Indiana Casino Dealers Are Bringing Back the Recognition Strike
There are no clocks in a casino, so the dealers all set their phone alarms for noon. Everyone was a bundle of nerves. Before work, a couple of people threw up. But when the cacophony of alarms sounded...
labornotes.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“There are no clocks in a casino, so the dealers all set their phone alarms for noon. Everyone was a bundle of nerves. Before work, a couple of people threw up.”
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labornotes.org/2025/11/indi...
"Broadening stock ownership" is a way to buy economic equality at the price of incentivizing the corporate capture of democracy. What if I told you there is an even better way???
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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stocks-are...
Stocks Aren't Salvation
Political consequences of the ownership society
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November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Broadening stock ownership" is a way to buy economic equality at the price of incentivizing the corporate capture of democracy. What if I told you there is an even better way???
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stocks-are...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stocks-are...
A govt shutdown is like a strike in the sense that before you start it you MUST have a concrete idea of what your leverage is and what will cause your opponent to fold. Ironically the Dems' strongest leverage point was probably "fucked up Thanksgiving travel" and they folded just before it came.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A govt shutdown is like a strike in the sense that before you start it you MUST have a concrete idea of what your leverage is and what will cause your opponent to fold. Ironically the Dems' strongest leverage point was probably "fucked up Thanksgiving travel" and they folded just before it came.
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Tell Conde Nast execs Chief People Officer Stan Duncan, CEO Roger Lynch, Chief Content Officer Anna Wintour and @newyorker.com Editor David Remnick to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting. Sign the petition!
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November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Tell Conde Nast execs Chief People Officer Stan Duncan, CEO Roger Lynch, Chief Content Officer Anna Wintour and @newyorker.com Editor David Remnick to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting. Sign the petition!
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November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"If you are going to pursue an uncertain outcome, you might as well pursue the uncertain outcome that you want, rather than one that will not give you what you want even if it succeeds."
Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
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Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"If you are going to pursue an uncertain outcome, you might as well pursue the uncertain outcome that you want, rather than one that will not give you what you want even if it succeeds."
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November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social is on🔥: "Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant ... I want to suggest a different mental model of politics: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing."
Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social is on🔥: "Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant ... I want to suggest a different mental model of politics: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing."
Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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?
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
[editor returning from vacation] so did that temp yesterday do okay?
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"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."
@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."
Zohran Mamdani's Win—A Rare and Beautiful Moment In War
Can good things happen? Last night's victory in New York City suggests they can.
inthesetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"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."
@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."
Capitalism is now illegal
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Capitalism is now illegal
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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...
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.
www.cjr.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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...
www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...
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.
www.cjr.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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...
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...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
Try some modern donuts idiots
ALSO TODAY: @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social DESTROYS the loathsome apple cider donut. "While you’re at it why don’t you go pull a plow on a subsistence farm, reject modern medicine, and attempt to live a harsh Puritanical life by candlelight?" flaminghydra.com/apple-cider-...
Apple Cider Donuts = BS
The time: 1,300 B.C. The setting: Ancient Egypt. By the banks of the Nile, the first apple trees in recorded history bloomed. Long before the reign of Jesus, ancient heathens had a bright idea: making...
flaminghydra.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Try some modern donuts idiots
This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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.
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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
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A Brief Biannual Update on the Publication You Are Reading
How Things Work.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A quarter decade deep in the HOW THINGS WORK game
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"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.
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Good essay by the villain max read.
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Platform Temperance
Notes on a new wave of the Techlash
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October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"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...
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.
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Local Paper Opines on Mayor's Race
The Wall Street Journal's incredible Zohran obsession.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Wall Street Journal has run more than four dozen op-eds attacking Zohran Mamdani since June.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/local-pape...
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:
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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/local-pape...
Local Paper Opines on Mayor's Race
The Wall Street Journal's incredible Zohran obsession.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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...
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.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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.