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Analysis Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth July 28, 2025July 29, 2025 Amerikan Musik, analysis, budget, CBP, concentration camps, DHS, dictatorship, Donald Trump, ethnic cleansing, FA1, fascism, Gestapo, ICE, immigration, JA5, Judith Levine, martial law, mass surveillance, MP6, Nazis, Nina Illingworth, OBBBA, police state, Politics, Project Esther, Racism, Republican Party, Schutzstaffel, Stephen Miller, The Guardian, Tom Homan

A Schutzstaffel of His Own

Although it didn’t register much in American corporate media, the budget bill Republicans just passed transforms ICE from Trump’s Gestapo, into the Regime’s SS.

Blog Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth July 10, 2025July 11, 2025 Alligator Alcatraz, blog, CBP, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, concentration camps, DEI, DHS, Donald Trump, education, FA1, fascism, FCC, Florida, fossil fuels, Gestapo, Gitmo, human rights, ICE, immigration, Invasion of LA, JA5, Jenny Ramirez, LAPD, LGBTQ rights, mass surveillance, Migrant Rights, MP6, National Guard, Nina Illingworth, oil, panopticon, Police, police state, Politics, Republican Party, Ron DeSantis, SCOTUS, Stephen Miller, The Skinny, Trotsky, Verizon, War on Terror

The Skinny: Staggering On Fumes

The Skinny returns after a brief hiatus due to a pet death in the author’s family to find that things are not improving in Trump’s emerging Fourth Reich.

Analysis Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth June 5, 2025June 5, 2025 Aaron Krolik, AI, Amerikan Musik, analysis, CA4, capitalism, Civil Rights, class war, DHS, dissent, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, free speech, ICE, JA5, mass deportations, mass surveillance, MP6, Nina Illingworth, NYTimes, oligarchy, Palantir, panopticon, Peter Thiel, Police, police state, Politics, privacy rights, Project Esther, Sheera Frenkel, Snowden Leaks, terrorism

One Eye To See Them All

As every move Trump makes builds towards a war against the broader left news leaks that Thiel-backed firm Palantir is supercharging the Pork Reich’s panopticon.

Blog Fascism Justice Police State

NinaIllingworth May 2, 2025 Amerikan Musik, blog, carceral state, Civil Rights, coup, Department of Defense, DHS, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Elie Mystal, FA1, fascism, GOP, ICE, immigration, Insurrection Act, JA5, January 6th, Justice, martial law, mass surveillance, militarized police, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, panopticon, Police, police state, Politics, The Nation, War on Terror

Nina-Bytes: A Road to Martial Law

On the verge of transforming America into a fascist dictatorship, Trump’s latest executive order paves the road to domestic police occupation and martial law.

Blog Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth April 12, 2025April 27, 2025 Amerikan Musik, antisemitism, blog, Chuck Schumer, DHS, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, GOP, ICE, immigration, JA5, Kristi Noem, Mahmoud Khalil, Marco Rubio, mass surveillance, Migrant Rights, Mike Johnson, MP6, Nazi, Nina Illingworth, panopticon, pogroms, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Republican Party, Social Security, The Skinny, Todd Lyons

The Skinny: Trump’s Fascist Panopticon Expands

As the Trump regime shambled into April, the profile of the fascist panopticon being deployed against immigrants and protesters began to take shape.

Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth February 28, 2025April 20, 2025 Amerikan Musik, billionaires, blog, CA4, capitalism, Catholic Church, child abuse, class war, concentration camps, coverup, CSA, Dark Enlightenment, DOGE, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, Guantanamo Bay, longtermism, mass surveillance, Media, Migrant Rights, MP6, Musk, New Orleans Archdiocese, New Orleans Saints, NFL, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Sports, The Skinny

The Skinny: February 2025 Blogs

Elon Musk, DOGE, billionaire nazi cultists, coverups, and concentration camps are on the menu in our February, 20025 collection of my Fediverse blog posts.

Can't You Read Journals Police State Theory

NinaIllingworth March 9, 2021April 20, 2025 American left, analysis, anticapitalism, austerity, blog, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism is a cult, class analysis, class war, COINTELPRO, counter insurgency, counter intelligence, democratic socialism, FA1, fascism, fascism and the police work together, growing left, info graphics, informal writing, Journals, left wing theory, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historiographic analysis, mass surveillance, Meme, Michael Parenti, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, personal, police harassment, police state, reaction, reactionaries, reactionary violence, Socialism, ST2, state sponsored repression, stress, systemic analysis, that's why we call them reactionaries, the war against the left, The War on Sharing, Theory

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.

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth October 3, 2019April 14, 2025 Allen Dulles, American exceptionalism, Books, Can't You Read, Castro, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Contra wars, death squads, Essays, establishment thought, History, history of the CIA, Imperialism, Kennedy, Latin America, Legacy of Ashes, lie, mass surveillance, Media, New York Times, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, Reagan's wars, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, secrets, spies, Tim Weiner, US government, war, WD7

Link: They All Fall Down – New Essay

A link to a short essay on Tim Weiner’s “Legacy of Ashes” and the structural reasons why pro-CIA propaganda is written by seemingly well-meaning critics.

Books Can't You Read Essays Police State

NinaIllingworth October 1, 2019April 14, 2025 1984, Books, Can't You Read, Chelsea Manning, CIA, corporate media, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act, Essays, George Orwell, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Karl Rove, liberal media, manufacturing consent, Marshall McLuhan, mass surveillance, Media, Michael Parenti, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, Permanent Record, police state, privacy rights, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Russia, spying, The Guardian, the medium is the message, US government spying, war on freedom of the press, War on Whistleblowers, Washington Post, whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Link: The Casualties of Cacophony – New Essay

A look at the disappointing change in mainstream attitudes towards Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers who’ve spoken out against the abuses of American intelligence.

Books Essays media Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth May 31, 2019November 5, 2022 anticommunism, antifascism, austerity, Books, CA4, Canada, capitalism, Chris Hedges, Citizen's United, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, class war, climate catastrophe, COINTELPRO, cold war, corruption, Deep Dives, democratic rights, Essays, FA1, fascism, FBI, Glenn Greenwald, Greece, Ibram X Kendi, inverted totalitarianism, Jane Mayer, Jim Crow, lobbying, Margin Notes, mass surveillance, Media, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, plutocrats, quotations, Quotes, Red Scare, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the Palmer Raids, UK, Wages of Rebellion, War on Terror, Yanis Varoufakis

Margin Notes: Wages of Rebellion and the Inversion Perversion in the Pig Empire

A deep look at the way the underlying logic behind our rights and freedoms are inverted to help the wealthy few at the expense of the many – featuring a quotation from “Wages of Rebellion” by Chris Hedges.

Essays Fascism Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth August 30, 2017November 5, 2022 1933, 25 days, above the law, activism, Adolf Hitler, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Alt Right, American aristocracy, Amerikan Musik, anarchism, anti Latino discrimination, anti protest laws, anti terrorism, anti Trump protests, antifa, antifa petition, antifascism, Arizona, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Berkley, Berkley anarchists, Bigotry, Black Lives Matter, bourgeoisie, brownshirts, Bull Conner, CA4, camps, centrism, centrist collaborators, Charlottesville, Civil Liberties, civil war, communism, concentration camps, constitutional crisis, corporate media, corruption, crackdown, criminal incompetence, dead prisoners, Deep Dives, Democrats, Department of Justice, deportation machine, Donald Trump, Dr Cornel West, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Dreamhost, Dylan Roof, Enabling Act, endless war, Eoin Higgins, Essays, ethnonationalism, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, fascist Germany, Federal Court, federal judges, Ferguson, First They Came For the Communists, free speech, freedom of the press, genocide, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, hate goblin, Heather Heyer, Herr Donald, Hispanic Americans, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Imperialism, intimidation, Israel, it can't happen here, J20 Disrupt, JA5, Janet Napolitano, Jeff Sessions, Joe Arpaio, Jon Burge, Justice, KKK, Latino, Lee Camp, let them eat sheetcake, liberalism, liberals, longform essays, mainstream liberals, mainstream media, maks, Maricopa County Sheriff, mass surveillance, moderate Republicans, MP6, Murray Snow, Muslim Americans, Nathan J Robinson, Nazi, nazi apologists, Nazi Germany, nazi terrorism, neonazi, never again, Nina Illingworth, NoDAPL, Obama, Op-Ed, Opinion, overt fascism, Palestine, panopticon, Patriot Act, patriotism, pinko activists, police state, political enemies, political persecution, Politics, Pork Reich, PR campaign lies, puppy murder, race war, Racism, racketeering, Reichstag Fire, Reichstag Fire Act, reign of terror, repression, Republican, right wing media, right wing reactionaries, right wing violence, Robert Dear, Robert E Morin, Robert Mueller, Rudolf Hoss, Russiagate, sanctioned murder, Sheriff Joe, smear, Social Justice, ST2, Steven Segal, stop and frisk, swine emperor Trump, swing heil, Tent City, the end of things, the tyranny of evil men, Trump Phoenix Rally, United States, US Constitution, US establishment, US Judiciary branch, US political class, violations, Virginia, war machine, warning, White House, white nationalism, white supremacy

Antifa, Arpaio and Donald Trump’s All-American Reichstag Fire

Examining the growing evidence that we’re living through Donald Trump’s All-American Reichstag Fire.

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