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

Blog Fascism Politics Propaganda

NinaIllingworth July 30, 2025July 31, 2025 Amerikan Musik, blog, Brett Wilkins, Christian nationalism, Christian Zionism, Common Dreams, crusade, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, federal employees, fundamentalism, GOP, ideological purge, Marco Rubio, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, OPM, Politics, Project 2025, Propaganda, religion, religious Right, Scott Kupor, the Heritage Foundation, US State Department

Nina-Bytes: Dark Omens of a New Crusade

Nina talks about how a recent, barely noticed OPM federal workplace guidance may signal the next fundie fascist crusade the Trump regime intends to conduct.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth July 25, 2025July 26, 2025 2020 US Election, 2026 US Midterm Elections, 2028 US election, Amerikan Musik, blog, Colorado, Common Dreams, coup, dictatorship, DoJ, Donald Trump, election boards, elections, FA1, fascism, Harry Litman, JA5, Jake Johnson, January 6th, Justice, Justice Department, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Palantir, Pam Bondi, Politics, Project 2025, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican Party, rigged election, The Big Lie, The New Republic, voter purges, voter suppression

Recommended Reading: Ground Games

Amid a backdrop of fascist conspiracies about Democrat-voting migrants, Bondi’s DoJ is moving to target election officials who won’t help Trump rig elections.

Blog Fascism Police State Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth July 18, 2025July 19, 2025 Alligator Alcatraz, Amerikan Musik, blog, Common Dreams, concentration camp, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Donald Trump, ethnic cleansing, FA1, fascism, Florida, Gestapo, ICE, JA5, Jared Moskowitz, Maxwell Frost, MP6, Nina Illingworth, police state, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Richard Luscombe, Ron DeSantis, Stephen Prager, The Guardian

Recommended Reading: Yes, It’s A Concentration Camp

As fascists and cowards push back on calling Alligator Alcatraz a concentration camp, Nina reads the news and asks what else you could possibly describe it as?

Analysis Fascism Justice Police State

NinaIllingworth July 16, 2025July 17, 2025 Alligator Alcatraz, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Andy Ogles, citizenship, Common Dreams, concentration camps, denaturalization, Donald Trump, ethnonationalism, FA1, fascism, genocide, immigration, JA5, Justice, Migrant Rights, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, Pam Bondi, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, Stephen Prager, The Holocaust, US Constitution

Ominous “Solutions” to Nonexistent Problems

Now that Trump’s DoJ intends to ramp up efforts to denaturalize foreign-born Americans, it’s time to be frank about where this ethnonationalist nightmare ends.

Blog Imperialism media Politics

NinaIllingworth July 14, 2025July 15, 2025 apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, blog, Brett Wilkins, colonialism, Common Dreams, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, genocide, human rights, IDF, Imperialism, IOF, Israel, Marco Rubio, Media, MENA, Middle East, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Palestinians, Politics, sanctions, Syria, Trita Parsi, United Nations, war, WD7, West Bank

Nina-Bytes: Our Genocide and the Limits of Pretend

With recent news that the US sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, it’s time for everyone to admit we’re watching an American genocide in Gaza.

Fascism Justice Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth July 1, 2025July 9, 2025 Amy Coney Barrett, Brian Murphy, Chris Geidner, Civil Rights, Common Dreams, courts, DHS, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Elie Mystal, Eloise Goldsmith, ethnic cleansing, FA1, fascism, human rights, immigration, JA5, John Roberts, Justice, Justice Department, Law Dork, Media, MP6, Nazis, Nina Illingworth, police state, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, SCOTUS, shadow docket, Shawn Musgrave, South Sudan, Supreme Court, The Intercept, The Nation, white nationalism

Knives Out: The Roberts Court Coronates Trump

At the end of June, the Supreme Court locked the US Constitution behind a paywall and signaled its intentions to let Trump rule as a fascist dictator.

Blog Fascism Justice Police State

NinaIllingworth April 29, 2025 Alien Enemies Act, American Gestapo, Amerikan Musik, blog, Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, DHS, DoJ, Donald Trump, ethnic cleansing, FA1, fascism, Fourth Amendment, ICE, JA5, Justice, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mass deportations, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Pam Bondi, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, SCOTUS, US Constitution, white nationalism

Nina-Bytes: Jackboots at the Door

A recent DoJ directive reveals that the Trump regime is ordering ICE to violate the constitution to fight a made up war against “narco-terrorist gangs.”

Blog Fascism Police State War

NinaIllingworth March 17, 2025May 11, 2025 Amerikan Musik, blog, Civil Rights, colonialism, Columbia University, Common Dreams, DHS, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, Gaza, genocide, Imperialism, Israel, JA5, Julia Conley, Mahmoud Khalil, Marco Rubio, Michel Martin, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, NPR, Palestinians, police state, protest rights, Troy Edgar, US State Department, war, War on Terror, WD7

Nina-Bytes: Eye of the Beholder

It’s not hard to prove the Trump regime intends to use anti-terrorism laws to crack down on American protestors when DHS officials just admit it openly.

Activism Blog Capitalism Labor

NinaIllingworth September 7, 2024 activism, blog, CA4, California, capitalism, Chris Mills Rodrigo, Common Dreams, Door Dash, exploitation, gig economy, gig workers, labor, labor law, labor rights, Labor Wars, Late Stage Capitalism, Lyft, minimum wage, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Pinkertons, poverty wages, Proposition 22, rideshare companies, Strike, U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, Uber, Union

Nina-Bytes: Exploitation as a Business Model

A recent study shows gig workers at rideshare companies are making less than minimum wage in the US; to stop it, we need to fight capitalism in the streets.

Blog Imperialism media War

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2024August 31, 2024 BBC, Benjamin Netanyahu, bias, blog, CBC, CNN, colonialism, Common Dreams, Craig Mokhiber, crimes against humanity, Fox, Gaza, genocide, human rights, IDF, Imperialism, Israel, Media, MP6, Nazi Germany, New York Times, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Palestinians, Propaganda, Rwanda, TikTok, Torture, Wall Street Journal, War Crimes, Washington Post, WD7

Nina-Bytes: Manufacturing Consent for a Genocide

As corporate media continues to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a recent Common Dreams article asks if it’s time to consider legal liability.

Essays Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 1964 Civil Rights Act, 303 Creative LLC v Elenis, abolish SCOTUS, American theocracy, Amerikan Musik, Amy Coney Barrett, Andrew Jackson, anti-trans pogrom, Brett Kavanaugh, christian fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, Civil Rights, Clarence Thomas, colonialism, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, cultural genocide, decolonization, Democrats, Essays, expand SCOTUS, FA1, fascism, GOP, GOP is a fascist party, Haaland v Brackeen, independent state legislature doctrine, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, JA5, Joe Manchin, John Roberts, judicial fascism, Justice, Kyrsten Sinema, law, Moore v Harper, MP6, Neil Gorsuch, Nina Illingworth, Paul Starr, Politics, Pork Reich, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, religious Right, Republican Party, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stanley Cohen, Supreme Court, The American Prospect, Thom Hartmann, US Congress, US Judiciary branch, US politics, voting rights, Weimar America, white nationalism, white supremacy

Recommended Reading: Bench Warfare

As a fascist SCOTUS hears cases that will destroy US democratic life Nina lays bare the cynical inversion of principles that are leading us into the Pork Reich.

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