Hamilton Nolan
@hamiltonnolan
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Labor writer, @InTheseTimesMag. My site, How Things Work: https://t.co/P5BG1ZNpba Author of "The Hammer." Email: [email protected]
Joined March 2010
I’m told that my book “The Hammer” made the USA Today bestseller list, which I did not know existed. Nevertheless my publisher says it can now be called a National Bestseller—wow. Help depose some celebrity memoirs by buying yourself a copy today: https://t.co/3eMrGCCVa1
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from ac...
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Like this website, AI is above all a social problem. https://t.co/rPPgIFIWhz
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No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.
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Loved chatting with @hamiltonnolan about all things NYC—and the urgency of standing up to Trump and ICE to protect our neighbors and our communities.
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The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.
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Breaking: Labor Notes has put together a new resource to help you organize w/ rank-and-file members in your local to build toward a nationwide show of power & a season of escalating labor action that could harness the momentum from May 2028 to spin a whirlwind of class struggle.
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Let's see that famous honor and courage in action. https://t.co/G4AkH6MCiI
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What does courage demand?
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Workers’ pensions are trillions of dollars in capital that could be wielded as labor’s most powerful weapon. @hamiltonnolan on why unions must go on offense. https://t.co/6gaM00Cgfp
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Workers' pensions can help seed the ground for the next generation of union members. It's time to go on offense.
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You will soon be punished for your many crimes. https://t.co/bBVnh7FZBO
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Here comes the iron fist.
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No god in politics. https://t.co/3nDpFDnw0T
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One party needs to stand against god in public policy.
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Fascism is much like this website. https://t.co/EHStuqgud0
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The defining experience of fascism.
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Elon Musk is also poison for news btw https://t.co/lKmKJIf4Mh
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This damn media machine stole my money!
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Bill Ackman can leave if he wants. Bye https://t.co/1MfONBGkpp
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Where taking care of everyone is common sense.
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Wrote about Sugared + Bronzed workers’ fight to build the first salon chain union in the country 💐 https://t.co/JWAGE6p9CC
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I wrote about what it means for nearly half-a-million union contracts to dissolve overnight. Union presidents were locked out of their offices. Moms are being forced to cut their maternity leaves short. Clerical staff are answering VA hospital call bells.
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Deteriorating services, moms forced back from maternity leave, and more as federal workers lose formal union protections.
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The real world fight for the symbols that move the minds that move the guns of the future. https://t.co/a6Pkw70JtY
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Fighting to tell America's story.
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A new executive order makes it very plausible for Donald Trump to use the military to seize full political control of an American city. https://t.co/z24doxlNNE
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A new executive order gives Trump his army.
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Now is the best and coolest time to embrace DEI. https://t.co/YmHTozrTCt
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Racism has turned a corporate buzzword into a moral imperative.
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Thoughts on how to beat oligarchy or die trying. https://t.co/t1Q6mO3i0v
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"Organize or Die" gets uncomfortably relevant.
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Flooding a city with law enforcement produces the crisis it purported to solve, thereby manufacturing a justification for itself. https://t.co/HK7dqF9PTd
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A manufactured crisis unfolds.
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This is not "just how it has always been." This is much worse. https://t.co/IU1MtAnKFO
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It's bad and you should be alarmed.
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The American labor movement is in existential danger and we should act like it. https://t.co/wMH4R0MPsi
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Taking seriously the threat to organized labor.
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Check out this FREE event coming up at the @ReutherLibrary! Telling Labor's Story brings two panels of labor writers and union communicators — including @hamiltonnolan and @GrimKim and the UAW's very own, Dave Elsila — to the stage on August 18, 2025, 11 am-4 pm ET. Register
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Brian says CFO. We say spokesperson. He says receipts. We say Ramp. RSVP to see who wins.
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