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Activism Blog Fascism Justice

NinaIllingworth September 12, 2023September 17, 2023 activism, Alex Reid Ross, Alissa Azar, Amerikan Musik, Andy Ngo, antifascism, AstroTurf, blog, coup, Donald Trump, Doxing, FA1, fascism, GOP, January 6th, Justice, MP6, News, Nina-Bytes, Patriot Prayer, Portland, Propaganda, Shane Burley, ST2, stochastic terrorism, The War on Sharing, Truthout

Nina-Bytes: Courting Destruction in Fascist America

Nina examines a story by antifascist Shane Burley that proves losing his lawsuit against “Antifa” doesn’t mean Andy Ngo and his fascist allies aren’t winning.

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Activism Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2023September 10, 2023 1985 MOVE Bombing, 2020 Uprising, abolition, activism, anarchism, Bill Barr, Chris Carr, Civil Rights, COINTELPRO, Defund the Police, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, George Floyd, Haymarket bombing, IWW, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Justice, labor organization, McCarthyism, Michael Reinoehl, Occupy Wall Street, Police, police state, RICO Act, Social Justice, ST2, Stop Cop City, The War on Sharing, Theory, Tortuguita

Mini-Theory Blog: the War on Sharing Escalates in Georgia

Nina talks about why attempts to criminalize protest itself and anarchist ideology in Georgia, are part of America’s long war on sharing and the left.

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Books Capitalism Quotes Theory

NinaIllingworth August 29, 2023 2008 Financial Crisis, antifascism, Book Blog, Books, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, David Graeber, Debt, FA1, fascism, genocide, geohell, History, mutual aid, neoliberalism, oligarchy, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, revolution, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, The War on Sharing, Theory

Quickshot Quotation: Debt and Rebirth

Building off a Graeber quote from Debt, Nina briefly touches on the war on sharing, the idea killing machine, and why we discuss alternatives to capitalism.

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Capitalism Fascism News Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth August 26, 2023 AIM, Amazon, American Identity Movement, Bailey Ross, Boogaloo movement, CA4, capitalism, corporate power, DeVos Family, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist militias, Jason Wilson, Judd Legum, Mark Zuckerberg, MP6, News, Orlando Magic, Popular Information, Rebecca Crosby, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Shopify, SuperPAC, Tesnim Zekeria, Tess Owen, The Guardian, Vice News

Recommended Reading: Corporations, Fascism, and Profit

Examining three mundane stories in our media, Nina talks about why, contrary to public rhetoric, corporate power is happy to help fascists for money.

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Capitalism Climate Crisis Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate power, Covid, Eugenics, extractivism, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, funding fascism, global boiling, Malthusianism, Mini Theory Blog, oil, pandemic, pig empire, Propaganda, ruling class, ST2, the fascist creep, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

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Analysis Fascism media Social Justice

NinaIllingworth August 24, 2023 analysis, anti-trans pogrom, Assigned Media, Azeen Ghorayshi, Evan Urquhart, FA1, fascism, gender affirming therapy, Jamie Reed, LGBTQ, Media, MP6, New York Times, Nina-Bytes, NYT, Politics, Propaganda, protect trans kids, Social Justice, TERFs, trans panic, trans rights, transphobia in media

Nina-Bytes: Selling the Pogroms

Nina examines an important article by Evan Urquhart at Assigned to help illustrate how mainstream media provides ideological justification for a trans pogrom.

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Capitalism media Social Media Theory

NinaIllingworth August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 AI, antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Elon Musk, enshitification, Facebook, fascism, free internet, information environment, left wing organizing, left wing theory, LLM, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, social media, ST2, Theory, Twitter, walled garden

Mini-Theory Blog: Escaping the Garden

A brief discussion about how leftists online should respond to fascist billionaires attempting to transform the internet into walled gardens and propaganda ops.

Analysis Fascism Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 16, 2023 analysis, anti-LGBTQ persecution, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-queer pogrom, anti-trans bills, anti-trans legislation, anti-trans pogrom, AP News, Associated Press, Cathy Renna, dehumanization, demonization, Erin Reed, fascism, fascist project, fascist propaganda, GOP, Hannah Schoenbaum, hate groups, Kansas, Kentucky, latent American transphobia, LGBTQ rights, Media, Missouri, Montana, National LGBTQ Task Force, Nazi Germany, New Hampshire, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Oklahoma, pogrom as politics, political apathy, Politics, queer rights, Republican Party, Social Justice, South Carolina, State politics, stochastic terrorism, Tennessee, Texas, the process of genocide, trans rights, US politics, Utah, Virginia

Nina-Bytes: Framea Thrust

New year, same anti-trans pogrom; as GOP-controlled states introduce anti-trans bills after mediocre midterm results, Nina explains why the fascists won’t stop.

Blog Capitalism Pandemic Theory

NinaIllingworth December 14, 2022 anti lockdown protests, anti-fascism, anti-vax death cult, anticapitalism, blog, capitalism, Charles Koch, China, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, dark money, Eugenics, fascism, fascist ideology, herd immunity is fake, high church of capitalism, IMTB, instagram, killing grandma for profit, Koch network, Kochtopus, labor rights, Mini Theory Blog, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, paying fascists to reopen the economy, pig empire, profits over people, Propaganda, QAnon, Socialism, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Capitalism, Covid, and the Fascist Creep

The biggest Covid story the media isn’t reporting is the fact that right wing billionaires are funding the campaign to pretend it’s over, for their own profit.

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.

Blog Fascism Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth December 6, 2022 abolition, Amerikan Musik, bipartisan white supremacy, blog, concentration camps, decolonization, FA1, fascism, free market fundamentalism, instagram, JA5, Justice, Mass incarceration, migrant crisis, Migrant Rights, Mini Theory Blog, nativism, neoliberalism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, Nina Illingworth, Politics, private prisons, racialized incarceration, Social Justice, ST2, the War on Migrants, Theory, US politics, WD7, white supremacy, xenophobia

Mini-Theory Blog: Unspoken Agreements

A brief look at how bipartisan immigration policy and migrant concentration camps pave the way for fascist politics to succeed in the Pig Empire.

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