George Hamilton
@eghamilton.bsky.social
Product marketing guy at Wasabi Technologies. Gen-X girl dad, Boston sports fan, & endurance junkie
The linked article is a must read - showing what America can be. It's not radical but we'll need to tear a wall down to achieve it
Great data analysis of what would US would be like if it were just an average country in its cohort of wealthy democracies, e.g. “the nation that would exist if our democracy functioned to serve the public rather than protect the already powerful”. [kottke.org]
The America That Could Be
The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the US could be ripe for a Berlin Wall-falling moment that opens the door for a better future. I’m n
kottke.org
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The linked article is a must read - showing what America can be. It's not radical but we'll need to tear a wall down to achieve it
My parents raised 6 kids on a single income. My wife and I were able to raise 3 with her mostly being home (she worked 1 or 2 Saturdays per month per diem as a nurse). So grateful for it but it's just impossible to do that today. Housing alone puts it out of reach for most
anecdotally most of the people i know who want babies but don’t have them just can’t afford it. and the closest this country can get to fixing that is trump’s half baked and almost certainly corrupt “investment accounts” full of pocket change that the kid can’t touch for almost 20 years. clownery
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in. n.pr/3NH3yso
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
My parents raised 6 kids on a single income. My wife and I were able to raise 3 with her mostly being home (she worked 1 or 2 Saturdays per month per diem as a nurse). So grateful for it but it's just impossible to do that today. Housing alone puts it out of reach for most
If you still support Trump right now, you are profoundly ignorant or a bad person. Or both
January 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
If you still support Trump right now, you are profoundly ignorant or a bad person. Or both
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Non-negotiable IMO. Tear it down day 1 of a democratic admin. Rebuild the East wing and the Jackie Kennedy garden
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Non-negotiable IMO. Tear it down day 1 of a democratic admin. Rebuild the East wing and the Jackie Kennedy garden
The cruelty and terror is the point. ICE is a domestic terrorist organization
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The cruelty and terror is the point. ICE is a domestic terrorist organization
That hour between the OR pain meds wearing off and your Rx drugs kicking in. Hoo boy
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
That hour between the OR pain meds wearing off and your Rx drugs kicking in. Hoo boy
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I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
My grandather served in the Coast Guard. And he served in WWII transporting troops and supplies. He and any other person who served would be horrified
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My grandather served in the Coast Guard. And he served in WWII transporting troops and supplies. He and any other person who served would be horrified
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
This has got to be a Black Mirror episode, right? RIGHT?
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This has got to be a Black Mirror episode, right? RIGHT?
100% this. You would think Democrats would have some self-reflection when they are as unpopular as the most unpopular president ever
2022 Tim Ryan, 2022 Will Rollins, and 2024 Sherrod Brown are the three highest profile candidates WelcomePAC have worked for this so far.
All three lost their campaigns.
www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
All three lost their campaigns.
www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems.
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
100% this. You would think Democrats would have some self-reflection when they are as unpopular as the most unpopular president ever
The vetting to be an Uber driver is more comprehensive
ICE's hiring surge is turning out to be an entirely predictable disaster. It turns out if you’re hiring for a pariah agency using nakedly fascist and racist messaging, America’s best, brightest, and most fit don’t apply. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiri...
ICE’s Hiring Surge is Already a Disaster
It's cutting standards and racing to hire exactly the wrong people, precisely as predicted.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The vetting to be an Uber driver is more comprehensive
We do not need any more reactionary centrists in the Senate. And we certainly don't want Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. C/mon, Maine, elect a good person who will fight for you (and us). Made my first donation today
Platner is obviousy disqualified, but this is also utterly unacceptable. But again, there's a third candidate who does not have Nazi tattoos and also wants to end the filibuster.
electjordan.com
electjordan.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We do not need any more reactionary centrists in the Senate. And we certainly don't want Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. C/mon, Maine, elect a good person who will fight for you (and us). Made my first donation today
Beating your girlfriend isn't "really serious". That's your Republican house leader
Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?
JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Beating your girlfriend isn't "really serious". That's your Republican house leader
THIS. Why is it so hard for most Dems to just be human? Primary the lot of them - I especially hope NYers boot out Shumer and Jeffries
One reason the Dem establishment hates Mamdani is that he's just *better at this than they are*. He just talks like an authentic human about things that matter & people respond & it breaks their poll-tested, consultant-cooked brains.
There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
THIS. Why is it so hard for most Dems to just be human? Primary the lot of them - I especially hope NYers boot out Shumer and Jeffries
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This is correct.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is correct.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
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The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
Just a brilliant summation of where we are
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just a brilliant summation of where we are
Because they are active participants in overthrowing our democracy
Why are 90% of op-eds scolding liberals for the way they talk about threats to democracy rather than scolding conservatives for threatening democracy
What in gods name is this
August 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Because they are active participants in overthrowing our democracy
Boston's history is certainly not perfect. But I'm proud to be a Bostonian today. Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov!
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Boston's history is certainly not perfect. But I'm proud to be a Bostonian today. Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov!
This right here is why Democrats lose elections
Susan Collins to Get Hollywood Treatment at Fund-Raiser Featuring Democrats
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This right here is why Democrats lose elections
Agree. ICE is a domestic terrorist group and should be abolished and the members prosecuted. That is not a far left opinion, it’s normalcy
This right here y'all. Marisa's got the truth. And Congresswoman Ramirez of Illinois, too.
August 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Agree. ICE is a domestic terrorist group and should be abolished and the members prosecuted. That is not a far left opinion, it’s normalcy
The @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com have not been relevant in a long time. Worse, they are now simply collaborators with fascism.
Here’s the full memo:
July 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com have not been relevant in a long time. Worse, they are now simply collaborators with fascism.