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Hamilton Nolan

2 months

The response I've gotten on the book tour for "The Hammer" so far has been great-- people want to talk about the labor movement, everywhere. Here is an updated list of my book events for the next month. Coast to coast! Please buy the book and come see me.

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

1 year

One of the worst paragraphs I’ve ever read

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

Extremely noticeable that cable news spent the early days of protests covering them nonstop while condemning the burning and looting and then stopped covering the ongoing protests once there was no burning and looting

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@hamiltonnolan

3 years

The inability of the Democratic Party to turn "We want to give you money and they don't" into a successful political message is wild

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@hamiltonnolan

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Having police violently break up protests and then calling them “violent protests” is an old trick that succeeds only when the press takes the bait which is what’s happening now

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

6 months

The entire western world condemned Saudi Arabia for the murder of one journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Israel, with our support, has already killed at least 36 journalists in Gaza.

Hind Hassan

@HindHassanNews

6 months

Another Palestinian journalist in Gaza killed by Israel, Mohammed Abu Hattab and 11 members of his family were killed in Khan Younis, SOUTH of Gaza, where residents were told to flee too. This is his death being announced on TV. You don't need to understand Arabic, just watch.

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

6 months

The pan to the Ronald McDonald balloon makes this a complete history of the USA in 13 seconds

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@tracyrosenthal_

6 months

Protesters block the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and hold the street! No celebrating the genocide of the indigenous people of the americas, no funding genocide in Palestine

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@hamiltonnolan

20 days

[as I drop a 2000 pound bomb on a hospital] protesters of this have gone too far

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

3 years

Lowest Possible Bar Cleared

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@hamiltonnolan

2 years

I’m pretty cynical but watching how fast the Democratic Party went from Black Lives Matter marches to “FUND THE POLICE” will never stop blowing my mind

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@hamiltonnolan

6 years

“The swing voter is not red to blue. The swing voter is non voter to voter. That’s our swing voter.” - @Ocasio2018

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

If all the companies saying “Black Lives Matter” would stop making it impossible for their workers to unionize it would cause a transfer of wealth to black and brown working people a thousand times greater than any charity donation and that is exactly why they won’t do it

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@hamiltonnolan

6 months

I hate to be a skeptic but “Blowing up the already-captured parliament building in a controlled demolition” is making me begin to question Israel’s commitment to democratic ideals

Séamus Malekafzali

@Seamus_Malek

6 months

After capturing it days ago, the IDF has now blown up the chambers of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Gaza's de facto parliament, in a controlled demolition. The previous, original building had also been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in 2009.

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@hamiltonnolan

3 years

Seeing the police response to BLM protests all year vs the police response to right wingers storming the Capitol is a fantastic validation of everything BLM has been saying

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@hamiltonnolan

11 months

What distinguishes this moment in media is that for the past 20 years the assumption was that we were in a transition from print to online media and now it's clear that online media is dying and we don't seem to be transitioning into anything. Just less.

National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers

National Geographic is laying off its staff writers, the latest cut in a challenging environment for magazine publishing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

4 years

The UK is paying everyone 80% of their wages through this crisis. Denmark is paying 75%. Remember that when you get your $1200 check.

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@hamiltonnolan

4 months

It’s very noticeable that there’s a lot less video coming out of Gaza than there was a couple of months ago and that seems like it’s a direct consequence of a lot of the people who were showing the world what was happening being killed for doing just that.

Gaza Notifications

@gazanotice

4 months

#BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨The occupation intends to invade Nasser Hospital, the last operating hospital in the Gaza Strip, which contains thousands of wounded and tens of thousands of displaced people! This is a crime against humanity! What happened in Al-Shifa Hospital, Kamal Adwan, and…

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@hamiltonnolan

3 months

[as I reload the mass shooter’s machine gun and hand it back to him] you need to chill

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2 years

If the cities are all scary hellholes why aren’t the rents going down

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@hamiltonnolan

6 months

It’s pretty special to see a headline that will one day be taught in journalism schools as an example of how not to cover news

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

6 years

oh my fucking god IT'S CALLED A UNION. GOOGLE IT

Eric Schmidt

@ericschmidt

6 years

Let's find ideas that can increase the wages of 100,000 low and moderate income workers by at least $10,000. Delighted to support call for ideas for a "unicorn for the middle class" - JFF's $1 billion Wage Gain Challenge. @SchmidtFutures @jfftweets

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

2 years

The NLRB suit against Starbucks today that is (reasonably) being called “unprecedented” and “massive” can also be accurately described as “the federal government enforcing existing labor law,” which is something many of us have never seen in our lifetimes.

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@hamiltonnolan

2 years

The best thing Twitter did for journalism was to show everyone there are thousands of regular people who are better writers than most professionals which is why the most mediocre famous pundits have always been quickest to dismiss it as a cesspool

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

6 months

Really though “as 10,000 Palestinian civilians are killed, the US congress plans to send more bombs to kill them, while trying to censure the only Palestinian-American member of Congress, who is calling for a ceasefire” is not complex at all. It’s very straightforward.

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@hamiltonnolan

3 years

Look you have to understand that basic economics says that paying people $15 an hour will destroy jobs but allowing one guy to accumulate $200 billion will create jobs

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@hamiltonnolan

2 years

Best thing Twitter did for the world in general was to allow anyone to yell directly at rich and powerful people, which drove many of them insane, including the richest guy on earth

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@hamiltonnolan

7 months

It’s very easy to understand that if hospitals in Gaza say “patients will die if we don’t get fuel” and Israel blocks the fuel, Israel is effectively murdering those civilians. To the extent it’s not being covered in those terms, the press is failing. Euphemism is bad journalism

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

11 months

I know you did a PhD and wrote a book on this complex topic but if you don't debate my horse on stage at the county fair, why should I believe you? my horse can clomp his hoof once for yes and twice for no

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@hamiltonnolan

1 year

There were about one million 20 year olds in the streets in 2003 who knew perfectly well that the reasons for the Iraq war were bullshit so the idea that every elected politician and pundit and analyst got misled by bad intelligence should be "taken with a grain of salt"

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

4 years

The Boeing Company is currently valued at $70 bil. For a $60 billion bailout, the company should become majority owned by the people of the United States of America.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

4 years

Boeing is just out with its bailout ask in a new statement. Minimum $60 billion in access to "public and private liquidity, including loan guarantees" Bailouts currently on table for: hotels; airlines; cruises; casinos; oil & gas producers

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7 months

If the moral standard is “you are eligible to be killed if you didn’t overthrow your evil regime” then everyone in the western world better be ready to die.

Henry Mance

@henrymance

7 months

Israel's president is denying the concept of innocent civilians, on the brink of a major military offensive. A very bad sign.

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3 years

I don’t wear a mask because I refuse to live in FEAR and also I insist on carrying a gun everywhere because I might be MURDERED at any moment

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6 months

It’s interesting that the Israeli government is escorting CNN around Gaza while at the same time killing dozens of journalists already in Gaza. I wonder why

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5 months

The New York Times is currently running the Ivy League presidents controversy story higher than the US vetoing the UN ceasefire resolution story, which is maybe an opportunity for them to reflect on whether some of the criticism they’ve gotten recently might be fair.

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

As a taxpayer I am sick of these disabled people who have $3,501 in assets, such as a dented 2005 Toyota Camry, who also want to be able to eat food. Food or the Camry, choose one. That's the American dream.

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10 months

A lot of people think the term “class war” is a little corny or exaggerated. But

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2 years

Adjusting my protest style to what the people I'm protesting want

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3 years

Capitalism is the belief that this man who hasn't held a real job in seven years earned $20 billion last year because of hard work

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2 years

The leadership of the Democratic Party worked harder this month on passing a bill to increase security for Supreme Court members than they did on thinking up a single useful thing they might do when abortion was outlawed

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5 years

Jared Kushner you duck voiced prep school scum. You cannot escape the milkshakes forever you dumb little pomade cotillion ball escort. You fancy little Nazi dog

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1 year

I have zero idea what will happen in 2024 but it’s wild to hear every political pundit being like “well this time the republicans surely won’t embrace trump.” Were any of yall alive in 2015

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5 years

If you are an undecided democrat please consider making a small donation to Elizabeth Warren just to demonstrate that a strategy of A) focusing on policy and B) rejecting big money donors is not politically fatal. This will make future campaigns less bad.

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1 year

Three dozen 19 year old Florida Gators football players threatening to boycott the season could end Ron Desantis's political career in a weekend

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

4 years

If you think we should all vote and then count the votes and then whoever has the most votes wins, you're so stupid. you don't understand anything. step aside and let the experts handle this. I'm embarrassed for you. dumb.

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@hamiltonnolan

8 months

Love to see the world’s richest man dress up like Simon Legree and go stare at some desperate migrants who have been rounded up for his entertainment

Team Tony

@TonyGonzales4TX

8 months

RECORD 260,000+ illegal entries in the US during September. This border crisis is unsustainable, we need sensible solutions NOW. #TX23

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Hamilton Nolan

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4 years

Ok having the stupidest motherfucker in America be president didn’t work. We gave it a shot

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

In 2018 Floridians voted overwhelmingly to restore voting rights to 1.4 million felons, and last year the Republican legislature kneecapped it with a poll tax. That one act of disenfranchisement could have provided the margin for Trump to win FL. Voter suppression is the story.

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@hamiltonnolan

6 months

In earlier periods of history I would have bravely engaged in civil disobedience against injustice but recently the world evolved into perfect equilibrium so now I’m outraged and disgusted by protesters who break minor laws. Crazy timing, yeah

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

5 months

I’ve lost respect for people before but I don’t think I’ve ever lost as much respect as fast as I have for this schmo.

John Fetterman

@JohnFetterman

5 months

“I’m not a progressive, I'm just a regular Democrat.”

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6 years

My honest good faith reading of what Bari Weiss/ Andrew Sullivan/ David Brooks et al see as America's greatest problem is: "People like me are no longer fully insulated from the social consequences of being racist."

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4 years

If I Told You My Idea Was a Robot That Harasses Chickens, You Wouldn’t Believe Me. But That’s My Best Idea. By Thomas Friedman

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4 years

Democrats fighting against Bernie are not going to achieve centrism, they’re going to achieve fascism

Bernie Sanders' real obstacle is not Trump. It's the Democratic establishment | Hamilton Nolan

The fact that Sanders can succeed without the party machine enrages those who sacrificed their idealism to play the game

www.theguardian.com

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

I hope every one of you intellectual fuckers crying about “cancel culture” have watched this entire RNC as they take that and run with it straight towards fascism. You absolute saps

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@hamiltonnolan

1 year

There’s always a point in crisis management PR where they say to the client / villain “we have to humanize you” and if you’re the reporter who gets that pitch the thing to do is to say no thanks

Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth (Published 2023)

The black turtlenecks are gone. So is the voice. As the convicted Theranos founder awaits prison, she has adopted a new persona: devoted mother.

www.nytimes.com

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@hamiltonnolan

3 years

"Welcome to CNN. I'm your host, the heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. My guest today is our commentator who just got $100 million from Jeff Bezos. We're the liberal network."

Geoff Bennett

@GeoffRBennett

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Jeff Bezos announces he's giving Van Jones $100 million to donate to charity as Jones sees fit. Bezos calls this a "Courage and Civility" award

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4 years

I absolutely guarantee that Pete Buttigieg will be a multimillionaire who does not live in Indiana by the age of 45

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1 month

A group of equally terrifying threats. Thank you David Brooks.

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“How would Columbia respond if these kids were pro genocide instead of anti genocide?” good one man

Bill Ackman

@BillAckman

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How would @Columbia respond if the students took over campus in support of the KKK and called for the genocide of other ethnic minorities? Would @Columbia continue to support the demonstrations on the basis of a commitment to free speech or would the University’s code of conduct…

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5 years

Amazon has the right to be in NYC. They can rent space and build buildings and hire workers and pay taxes just like anyone else. They do not have the divine right to special multi-billion dollar tax breaks, which is what their tantrum is about.

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@hamiltonnolan

5 years

Rand Paul voted yes on the Trump tax cut bill, which cost $1 trillion.

Amee Vanderpool

@girlsreallyrule

5 years

BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has blocked an attempt to pass an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, pointing to the country's growing debt and arguing that any new spending should be offset by cuts to other spending. (via @thehill )

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3 years

The quality of the national media would improve drastically if we had one (1) TV news interview show where the moderator would continue to ask follow up questions until a question was actually answered even if it took the entire hour

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@hamiltonnolan

2 years

The first Starbucks store in Buffalo has voted YES to unionize, 19-8.

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5 years

“Why is my local paper so thin now?” “Why aren’t there any statehouse reporters now?” “Why don’t they do more investigative reporting?” “Why did all my colleagues get laid off?” Well you see,

Google Made $4.7 Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says (Published 2019)

Journalists create the content, and big tech companies are profiting off it, according to a new analysis. “We need to share the revenue,” a news publisher says.

www.nytimes.com

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@hamiltonnolan

3 years

One week in police unions

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

The fact that James Bennet, the man who hired and enables climate change-denying eugenics fan Bret Stephens, is widely considered a top candidate to become the next editor of the New York Times......... is insane!! And tells you everything about the moral poison of credentialism.

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@hamiltonnolan

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Uber and Lyft invested around $200 mil in a ballot measure to minimize labor costs and have gained around $8 billion in value in one day as a result. That's how democracy works folks

Faiz Siddiqui

@faizsays

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Tech stocks doing well today, but none as well as Uber and Lyft, which have surged 15 and 18 percent respectively on news their ballot measure to deny drivers employment passed

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Strict borders for humans, no borders for capital.

The Real Immigration Problem Is Capital, Not Labor

Human immigrants are the same as you. Multinational corporations are not.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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this is insane cashier is literally zooming into nyc from the philippines

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

This description of what “antifa” is... is insane! Mind blowing that the NYT would publish this as fact

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@hamiltonnolan

1 year

It is very funny that they dumped a bunch of evidence of Tucker Carlson being like “I love lying to my rube audience, I hate facts” and Glenn Greenwald has not posted a million tweet rant about it. Odd

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4 years

They’re shooting fucking fireworks directly at the Minneapolis police station like rockets hahaha. Please give the Unicorn Riot camera person a Pulitzer. Incredible

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@hamiltonnolan

4 years

We all childishly believed that the arrival of fascism in America would be marked by armed paramilitaries loyal to a racist strongman descending on cities with "WE'RE FASCIST" signs, but in reality it's that without the signs

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Kirsten Gillibrand speaking at NYU just now on Trump: "Has he kept his promises? No. Fuck no."

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5 years

Unless Dick Cheney--a former WH chief of staff and defense secretary and a widely esteemed member of the DC establishment--is one of the most blatantly sociopathic liars on the face of Earth, this Iraqi WMD case is rock solid.

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@mtracey

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Unless Bill Barr -- a former Attorney General under George H. W. Bush and a widely esteemed member of the DC legal establishment -- is one of the most blatantly sociopathic liars on the face of Earth, the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory is officially dead

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6 years

Peace to all the people who are screaming like fuck in the senate gallery during the vote, you are good Americans

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2 years

Everyone with a “good job” should look at Twitter and understand all that destruction can happen to you. Doing that to companies is the whole business model of the private equity industry. Unionize WHILE THINGS ARE STILL GOOD. Until you do, you’re driving fast with no seatbelt.

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3 years

This week in police unions.

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@hamiltonnolan

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Carl Bernstein on CNN saying that trying to destroy the post office “will be the shame of the Republican Party for decades” is a great illustration of how belief in patriotic misty-eyed bullshit makes DC reporters unable to accurately analyze politics. They don’t have shame man!

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Really, really, really, really, really blatant. Cannot overstate how important it is that companies get punished severely for this, or you can expect this to become the standard response to the current wave of union drives at chain stores.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

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BREAKING: Chipotle is permanently closing the store in Augusta, ME where workers last month filed to form Chipotle's first union in the U.S. Workers are rallying outside the store at 5pm today and demanding the company halt its union-busting and reopen the store.

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This happens a lot and it's important for workers to understand that in every single case the only reason the company "can't" extend new benefits to union workers is because they don't want to. All they have to do is ask the union if it would like the new benefits!

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Is there any doubt that if this guy gets on the court his #1 goal is going to be revenge

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7 years

Unionize Amazon

Jeff Bezos

@JeffBezos

7 years

Request for ideas…

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@hamiltonnolan

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The richest men in the world, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, fear unions more than they fear anything else. Think about that next time someone mocks the power of unions. Class war is real.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

3 years

EXCLUSIVE: This ex-Tesla autoworker is exposing what's happening inside @ElonMusk 's company. Richard Ortiz tried to organize his coworkers at Tesla's CA factory. In response, Tesla "coercively interrogated" him three times, then fired him illegally, federal investigators say.

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Bari Weiss was not a top-one-thousand writer in NYC. James Bennet was not a good editor (the NYT columnist roster is proof of that). Not being good at your job is a perfectly legitimate reason for people to want you to leave that job. This does not amount to oppression. Sorry!

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Manchin’s explanation was literally “We have a lot of problems and therefore I can’t support a bill that spends money to solve the problems”

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JOE BIDEN speaking now in Urbande, IA: “When Bobby Kennedy and Dr King were assassinated, in the 70s—in the late 70s.”

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In ten days, workers in Connecticut will vote to become what appears to be the only unionized Dollar General store in the country. Almost no one is paying attention.

Dollar General Workers Stare Down Historic Union Vote, Vowing "We're Gonna Fight"

With little national attention, a Connecticut Dollar General store could soon help unions crack a vital low-wage industry.

inthesetimes.com

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@hamiltonnolan

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I know that capitalism is broken because David Brooks is paid more than any writer I know despite being unable to read a chart

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@hamiltonnolan

6 years

WV teachers got offered: a 1% raise. Went on strike They got: a 5% raise 500% of the original offer That's what a union gets you Unionize your workplace this year

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@hamiltonnolan

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In New York City you will soon be able to delete uber and download a worker-owned ride share app called The Drivers Cooperative

New York City Drivers Cooperative Aims to Smash Uber’s Exploitative Model

The city's first worker-owned ridesharing app gets ready to take on the big boys.

inthesetimes.com

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@hamiltonnolan

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A year ago the Seattle City Council was considering a new tax that would have cost Amazon more than $10 mil a year. Amazon just flipped the City Council in its favor for only $1.5 mil in political spending. Buying politicians is one of the world’s best investments.

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@hamiltonnolan

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When they ask about the homeless crisis every Republican says “more cops” and none of them say “build more housing.” The left needs to be unified on “build more housing.” This is a gimme. Stop arguing over this please.

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@hamiltonnolan

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This is 100% a cover that a future Atlantic editor will have to disavow in an uncomfortable interview like “That was, uh, a different time,” while nervously pulling his collar and changing the topic to Ta-nehisi Coates

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

5 years

Our April cover story by @DavidFrum is out now: “How Much Immigration Is Too Much?”

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Having allowed the potential of police reform to die by focusing exclusively on the slogan about it and not at all on the substance of the issue, Democrats will now attempt to allow a genocide to happen by focusing exclusively on the slogan about it. Onward and upward, heroes.

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@hamiltonnolan

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If you frame your opposition to public healthcare as a pro-union message then your view of unions is that they exist to help their members and fuck everyone else. That is not what unions are. Unions are an embodiment of mutual aid and so is public health care for all.

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If you can watch a White House pandemic press conference that is just a parade of corporate healthcare CEOs and still be against medicare for all you are a sociopath

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Take all this outrage about partial loan forgiveness as a lesson that you will get just as much backlash for a small step as you will for a big step so it’s really a political waste not to go straight to full socialism

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

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Joe Biden is effectively putting every single good thing he has done at risk in order to support an awful war that could very well cost him the election. What a waste.

It Would Be a Shame If You Sacrificed All This Good Domestic Policy In Order to Kill a Bunch of Kids

Biden is putting all his accomplishments at risk for a terrible reason.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

5 months

Anthony Blinken at a press conference just now thanked the press and noted somberly that it has been an “extraordinarily dangerous year” for the press, without mentioning that we are supplying the weapons that have killed most of the reporters (in Gaza). Unreal

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

3 months

In the entire history of online media I have never seen a company that couldn’t have been run better by the journalists who worked there than by the executives

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

4 years

If you don’t know what to do with your idealism now, unionize your workplace.

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Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

4 years

This company has never made a profit and loses billions of dollars a year.

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

4 years

“I do think we have the system that’s optimized... it’s called capitalism,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said. “It’s not called labor-ism. It’s not called socialism. It’s capitalism and it’s a system that’s built to maximize shareholder value and capital."

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