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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

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TMS: Organizing to Win the Impossible Fight

Fresh off the most stunning labor victory in a generation, Nina takes a look at why the fight against corporate power can help us win a revolution.

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Fool Me Twice: Kyrsten Sinema and the Poverty of Progressive Politics

A deeply sourced essay about progressive politics, acts of betrayal, and the need for an explicitly anti-capitalist mass movement in the Pig Empire.

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Six Things I Think: The Enemy of My Enemy Is Still a Fascist, Actually

An extremely detailed Deep Dive post explaining why Boogaloos are fascists, Jimmy Dore is no leftist, and online pinkos have a crypto-reactionary infuencer problem.

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The Skinny: Biden His Time Edition

A collection of informal journal posts about the new (and yet so uninspiring) Biden era, on my free to read Patreon Blog.

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On What Twitter Is & Why I’m Fine With Never Coming Back

A link to a new essay on my free Patreon blog that discusses why Twitter’s role in public discourse is frankly pretty sinister, and I don’t miss it one bit.

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Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)

A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.

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Essay: On Mea Culpas, the Populist Alliance & the Young American Left (Link)

A link to a (free to read) Patreon Blog essay that looks at online Twitter drama, declaring war on Bidenist neoliberalism and why anti-identity politics populism is cancer for the left.

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A Whole Jamil of Beans on Media Madness

Biden’s rolling out his cabinet, the media is tossing out bullsh*t and Rahm Emanuel might be on his way back into government over the strong objections of Rolling Stone senior writer Jamil Smith; not that Biden gives a damn of course, since the machine bought Smith’s soul a long time ago.

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Stasis: Surviving the Pork Reich With A Cassandra Complex

A very long, very personal journal about why I’ve spent the past three months staring into the abyss and why I’m basically certain Trump isn’t going to accept any election he doesn’t win this fall.

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Link: The Skinny – Crisis And Class War, April 2020

Link to Nina’s latest collection of social media essays. In this edition: economic segregation, the importance of organizing around class and why the 2020 Dem Party nomination contest is already illegitimate.

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Link: The Skinny – “My Carona & Other Oddities” March 2020

The Skinny is back and we’re talking about killing the poor for profit; rigged Dem Primaries, debate night fallout and coronavirus criminality on my free to read Patreon blog.

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