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The Mini-Skinny: Headlights

Gathering together my social media analysis from around the internet, today’s Mini-Skinny is all about the unimpeded progress of the fascist creep in America.

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Some Mini Skinnys and A Minor Course Alteration

A post explaining why I’m changing how we share essay-length blog material; includes links to four such collections from November 2021.

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Barbarism Starts at Home on Can’t You Read

Nina reviews Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror” and finds a good book, that could have been so much more. Check out the new Bookish Bits on Can’t You Read.

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The War on Sharing: Pretending Is Not a Strategy

In our newest War On Sharing journal, Nina takes an informal look at the terrifying truth everyone in the ruling establishment knows but won’t say; the fascists are winning.

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No Justice, No Peace on Can’t You Read

A Recommended Reading essay on CYR that talks about why police reform is dead even after the Chauvin verdict because you can’t reform capitalist exploitation.

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Book Blog: The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

Book Blog featuring a review & analysis of Greg Grandin’s “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” on Can’t You Read.

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The War on Sharing: Thunderheads

Nina breaks ground a new journal feature that combines Marxist socio-political and historical analysis with emo ravings about a society largely ignorant of capitalism’s purpose.

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The Trump Suspensions, Big Tech and Section 230 on Can’t You Read

A link to an essay on Can’t You Read discussing Big Tech, Trump’s social media suspensions, and Biden’s threats to repeal Section 230.

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Counting Coup on Can’t You Read

Over on Can’t You Read, Nina closes the Trump-era chapter of American Fascism by reciting her works and counting coup on faux-left contrarians and numpties.

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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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American Fascism and Networks of Power on Can’t You Read

A link to a short essay on Can’t You Read about why fascism will survive Trump; includes a recommended reading article showing fascist power networks in action during the Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests.

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