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Essays Fascism media Media Madness

NinaIllingworth November 20, 2020April 17, 2025 2024 US Election, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Bob Mercer, Breitbart News, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is white supremacy, coup, Crenshaw, dark money, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, ecofascism, elite capital, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascism will outlive Trump, fascist billionaires, fascist propaganda, fascist succession crisis, Fox News, Gaetz, GOP, Hawley, Josh Hawley, Luke O'Neil, Media, Media Madness, Media Madness blog, MP6, Next Trump, Nina Illingworth, OANN, Offsite Writing, Pork Reich, post election fascism, right wing reactionaries, social media, swine emperor, Tom Cotton, toxic masculinity, Tucker Carlson, US politics, white nationalism, white supremacy

Link: “No Magic Man” on Media Madness

A link to a short essay examining the relationship between masculine authority and fascism, as well as the reasons why the Pork Reich will survive just fine without Trump.

Blog Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos

NinaIllingworth September 29, 2020April 16, 2025 absolute boys, Against PragerU, anticapitalism, antifascism, Ayn Rand is an idiot, big government, billionaires fund fascism, blog, Briahna Joy Gray, countering free market propaganda, countering Prager U, debunking, democratic socialism, Dennis Prager is a fascist, digestible ideas, Economics, explainers, Facebook, Facebook Journals, false freedom, fascism, film sessions, freedom propaganda, freedom to sell yourself cheap, how capitalism fails us, Koch Brothers, left wing Youtube, libertarianism, Media Madness, Mike Gravel, MP6, my little leftism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Propaganda, short videos, six minute explainers, social media, Socialism, ST2, teaching leftism, The Gravel Institute, the Gravel teens, the lies wingers tell, think tanks, Video, you love to see it, Youtube, Zephyr Teachout

Film Sessions: Those Darn Gravel Teens

Links to two early Film Sessions prototype posts on Media Madness designed to help The Gravel Institute crush the fascists at PragerU; published Fall, 2020.

Fascism media Media Madness Police State

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2020April 16, 2025 Amerikan Musik, anti Trump protests, antifa, antifascism, Bill Barr, Bill Barr is a fundie fascist, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, Chad Wolf, Christian White Nationalism, Christina Carrega, civil rights violations, CNN, COINTELPRO, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Fox News, JA5, Kyle Rittenhouse, Media, Media Madness, Michael Reinoehl, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, police state, police violence, political assassination, Portland, Proud Boys, Racism, revenge killing, ST2, state sanctioned murder, the Trump administration is fascist, Trump assassinated a guy, Trump is a fascist, Tucker Carlson, U.S. Marshals Service, white nationalism

Media Madness: Law and (the Fascist) Order

A two part essay looking at stories about the Trump Regime’s open fascism that weren’t properly covered by the mainstream American media.

Fascism Media Madness Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth September 5, 2020April 16, 2025 ACAB, against the left, Alt Right, Alt Right means Fascist, Amerikan Musik, antifa, antifascism, blog, Donald Trump, FA1, far right, fascism, fascism and antifascism are NOT the same, George Floyd Protests, horseshoe theory, In These Times, JA5, Joe Biden, Kyle Rittenhouse, Media, Media Madness, Natasha Lennard, neonazi, Nina Illingworth, Noah Berlatsky, Offsite Writing, Pacific Standard Magazine, Police, Politics, protest is legal murder is not, Protesters, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, right wing extremism, right wing terrorism, Rittenhouse is a murderer, ST2, Stanislav Vysotsky, Theory, Vice News

Media Madness Blog: Hamstrung

A short but heavily sourced Media Madness blog from September 2020 that looks at the dangers of pushing horseshoe theory in the fascist moment.

Fascism Media Madness News Police State

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2020April 16, 2025 ABC News, ACAB, additional content, Alice Speri, American Prospect, Amerikan Musik, Black Lives Matter, blog, bonus content, Brennan Center for Justice, civil rights violations, Cops, CPUSA, Defund the Police, Department of Justice, FA1, fascism, fascist cops, FBI, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd was murdered, informal writing, JA5, Joel Wendland, John Knefel, Josh Margolin, Kelly Hayes, Kenya Downs, Laura Hazard Owen, Media Madness, Michael German, neonazi cops, News, NiemanLab, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Open Democracy, PBS, Police, police state, Racism, racist cops, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Kuttner, Sam Levin, Simon Purdue, Social Justice, ST2, The Guardian, The Intercept, Truthout, violent neonazi cops, we call them pigs for a reason, white supremacists in law enforcement, white supremacy

Media Madness: Some of Those That Work Forces

This short blog post features something old, something new, and a whole lot of links that prove there’s something rotten about our boys in blue.

Can't You Read Essays Media Madness News

NinaIllingworth December 5, 2019April 15, 2025 Alt America, Alt Right, analysis, antifascism, Bircher nonsense, Can't You Read, conspiracy theory, David Neiwert, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Giant Russia Theory, grifter, Isaac Chotiner, Malcolm Nance, Media Madness, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, right wing violence, Russiagate, Russiagate is a conspiracy theory, takedowns, The New Yorker, Trump

Links: Liberal Anti-Fascism in “Alt-America” and Malcolm Nance’s Russiagate Grift – New Review and Essay

Links to my latest essay (about Malcolm Nance and Russiagate) and my most recent book review (about David Neiwert’s Alt-America.)

Analysis media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth November 22, 2019April 20, 2025 16 negative articles, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, analysis, August, Bernie Blackout, Bernie Sanders, blog, Branko Marcetic, centrist, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, FiveThirtyEight, In These Times, Joe Biden, Liz Warren, manufacturing consent, Media, Media Madness, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, September, WaPo

Analysis: The Bernie Blackout is Very Real

In the lead up to the 2020 Democratic Party Primary race, it’s time for everyone to admit the Bernie Blackout is real and MSNBC has its thumb on the scale.

media Media Madness Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Bernie Sanders, blog, campaigning against Bernie, CIA Pete, corporate media, Democratic Party, Dollar Store Macron, Douglass Plan, Essays, going through the motions, JA5, liberalism, Mayo Pete, Mayor Pete is kinda racist, Media, media bias, Media Madness, MP6, muppet, neoliberalism, not authentic, Pete Buttigieg, Politics, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Social Justice, South Bend, whiteness

Link: Fear, Loathing and Mayonnaise in the 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest

A link to my most recent Media Madness essay examining the mainstream media’s obviously biased coverage in favor of new Bernie-Slayer, Pete Buttigieg.

Blog Media Madness Neoliberalism Take Downs

NinaIllingworth November 15, 2019April 15, 2025 bad ideas, Bernie Sanders, blog, Clintonism, conservative cultural views, constitutional crisis, corruption, culture war, economic justice, Essays, excuses to do racism, Fantastic Lies, GOP, how to flip red states, Jeb Lund, Matthew Yglesias, Media, Media Madness, Medicare for all, MP6, Mr Destructo, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Propaganda, pundits, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, rightward drift of the Democratic Party, rule of law, standards and norms, Take Downs, Triangulation, Trump, Trump impeachment, US Constitution, US Senate, Vox, Yiggy

Matthew Yglesias is a Disingenuous Bootlicker on Media Madness

Let’s just stop for a moment and marvel at what a bloodless, mendacious piece of human pig manure Mathew Yglesias is; on Media Madness.

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NinaIllingworth November 11, 2019April 20, 2025 abolition, Amerikan Musik, Bill Barr, BLM, blog, Chicago, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, JA5, Media Madness, militarized police, Nina Illingworth, Police, police state, police violence, Politics, Racism, Truthout, white nationalism

Analysis: Trump’s Ignored Police “Surge” Threat

Are Bill Barr and Donald Trump planning on invading Democrat-voting cities with militarized police in the lead up to the 2020 election?

Can't You Read Climate Crisis Media Madness

NinaIllingworth September 29, 2019April 14, 2025 blog, CA4, Can't You Read, carbon emissions, CC3, climate catastrophe is a plot to kill us all, Climate Crisis, climate science denial, coffin ship Earth, conspiracy, culture war, DesmogUK, Fantastic Lies, fossil fuel industry, fossil fuels, global warming, Greta Thunberg, Greta visits the UN, Koch Brothers, Koch network, Kochtopus, lie, manufacturing consent, Media, Media Madness, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil companies, oil company propaganda, out of time, Politics, profits over people, right wing media, smear campaigns, smears, think tanks, United Nations, Wall Street

Greta is not the Problem: Climate Crisis and the Culture War

Two blog posts about what the media furor over Greta Thunberg’s visit to the UN means and why rich people aren’t listening to her.