Hamilton Nolan

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

Interesting defector.com/jaguars-junc...

It is bizarre that there has been no real mainstream effort to discourage joining the military, considering who solders are taking orders from now. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/friends-do...

We need a lot more explicit talk from elected officials and others about how nobody should join the US military while Trump is in charge. Continued, zombie-like veneration of military service today is a danger to our democracy. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/friends-do...

You could teach an entire J school class on how to identify weak, dishonest arguments using only WaPo editorials. Today: editorial about El Niño somehow gets pretzeled into criticism of climate “activists” (???) Cites zero examples of what it is arguing against. wapo.st/4hFMKO4

Good employers think in terms of "If I worked here, what would I want?" Forcing employees to stand rather than sit in chairs is basically the polar opposite of this approach and indicative of an employer who should be treated with contempt.

Morozov 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...

Public 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...

I have decided to vote for Zohran

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This 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...