Hamilton Nolan
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
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Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Stephen Miller, if allowed to guide US policy, will start World War 3.
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Stephen Miller, if allowed to guide US policy, will start World War 3.
So far the Mamdani administration’s strategy is “we have all these ideas about how to help people so let’s try to do them” which seems like such a rare thing and which then makes you say “wait why is that a rare thing?”
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
So far the Mamdani administration’s strategy is “we have all these ideas about how to help people so let’s try to do them” which seems like such a rare thing and which then makes you say “wait why is that a rare thing?”
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"At least 80 people in Venezuela, including civilians, were killed in the U.S. strikes on Friday night. I bet they would have liked to know that they were coming. Are U.S. troops more important than them? If so, why?" @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
The Public Good, Not Patriotism
Journalists don't work for the United States of America.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"At least 80 people in Venezuela, including civilians, were killed in the U.S. strikes on Friday night. I bet they would have liked to know that they were coming. Are U.S. troops more important than them? If so, why?" @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
This is not any big insight but it is especially important during wartime to remind ourselves that journalism does not serve the US military, or American interests, but rather "the public good," which includes all of humanity.
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The Public Good, Not Patriotism
Journalists don't work for the United States of America.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This is not any big insight but it is especially important during wartime to remind ourselves that journalism does not serve the US military, or American interests, but rather "the public good," which includes all of humanity.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public...
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January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Holding stories like this is a longstanding practice and also completely antithetical to the entire purpose of journalism. RIP Gawker.
🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Holding stories like this is a longstanding practice and also completely antithetical to the entire purpose of journalism. RIP Gawker.
We are the world's bad guys.
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We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
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January 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
We are the world's bad guys.
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To be fair you have to give Bari Weiss credit for unearthing obscure local characters like a mayor, a Senator, and a Governor.
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 AM
To be fair you have to give Bari Weiss credit for unearthing obscure local characters like a mayor, a Senator, and a Governor.
Zohran is going to kill the “YIMBYs and leftists are mortal enemies” idea and that alone will make the internet 23% less annoying to me personally. Big accomplishment.
January 2, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Zohran is going to kill the “YIMBYs and leftists are mortal enemies” idea and that alone will make the internet 23% less annoying to me personally. Big accomplishment.
Remembering this today hehehe
NYT Editorial board effectively endorses Andrew Cuomo today in the most weaselly possible way. “Don’t rank Mamdani, and it will probably be either him or Cuomo, sooo…”
January 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Remembering this today hehehe
Outstanding explanation of the consequences of putting cowards and/ or idiots in positions overseeing investigative reporting
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Outstanding explanation of the consequences of putting cowards and/ or idiots in positions overseeing investigative reporting
December 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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“Jaguars Junction” is an independent source of football analysis unaffiliated with any professional sports franchise. defector.com/jaguars-junc...
Jaguars Junction: Week 17 | Defector
Once upon a time there was a man who felt no fear. His name was Jacksonville. Things that scared other people did not scare Jacksonville. When Los Angeles came over, people said, “Watch out, those…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Jaguars Junction” is an independent source of football analysis unaffiliated with any professional sports franchise. defector.com/jaguars-junc...
Religion offers no shared basis for debate and is therefore ultimately poisonous to pluralistic democracy, but solidarity…. Solidarity is good.
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The God of Solidarity
Beyond religion, a better world.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Religion offers no shared basis for debate and is therefore ultimately poisonous to pluralistic democracy, but solidarity…. Solidarity is good.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-god-of...
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The God of Solidarity
Beyond religion, a better world.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The answer to your panicked question is investor.vanguard.com/investment-p...
December 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The answer to your panicked question is investor.vanguard.com/investment-p...
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"Prison during the holidays isn't what you think..."
New from me & Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social
@therealnews.com
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New from me & Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social
@therealnews.com
youtu.be/GjB54gjQ4vg?...
Prison during the holidays isn’t what you think
YouTube video by The Real News Network
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December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Prison during the holidays isn't what you think..."
New from me & Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social
@therealnews.com
youtu.be/GjB54gjQ4vg?...
New from me & Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social
@therealnews.com
youtu.be/GjB54gjQ4vg?...
Boss tries to suppress a news story, then the angry internal emails leak, then the all-hands meeting leaks, then the story itself leaks. Next will be the leak of the boss’s stern “no leaking” warning. Then whatever gets cut from the story will get twice as much attention. Don’t make idiots the boss.
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Boss tries to suppress a news story, then the angry internal emails leak, then the all-hands meeting leaks, then the story itself leaks. Next will be the leak of the boss’s stern “no leaking” warning. Then whatever gets cut from the story will get twice as much attention. Don’t make idiots the boss.
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Here’s to 2026; may the fascists finally fall back into their pit, and may I crawl my way back out of mine.
A look back at 2025
Good fucking riddance
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December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Here’s to 2026; may the fascists finally fall back into their pit, and may I crawl my way back out of mine.
"Having a boss like Bari Weiss" is why many journalists are alcoholics
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Having a boss like Bari Weiss" is why many journalists are alcoholics
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
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In 2026 there will be more organizing in the new, weird media landscape, writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/more...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/more...
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
In 2026 there will be more organizing in the new, weird media landscape, writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/more...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/more...
Trump 🤝 Millionaire Democratic homeowners with "No Kings" signs in their front yards
“If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth”
Trump admits what every homeowner blocking more housing is thinking.
Trump admits what every homeowner blocking more housing is thinking.
December 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trump 🤝 Millionaire Democratic homeowners with "No Kings" signs in their front yards
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The Year in How Things Work • We're a good team, you and me.
The Year in How Things Work
We're a good team, you and me.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Year in How Things Work • We're a good team, you and me.
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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