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

Can't You Read media Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth October 24, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, bad predictions, Bernie Sanders, blog, building a narrative, Can't You Read, class war, corporate candidate, corporate media, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, liberalism, manufacturing consent, Media, Michigan, Michigan primary was rigged, money in politics, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, Palooka Joe, Politics, polls, Propaganda, Super Tuesday, they cheated Bernie again, Voltron strategy

Blog: Manufacturing A Primary Narrative

A short blog analyzing the media’s false narrative about Joe Biden that turned out to be right, and also wrong, once the primaries started. It’s complicated.

media Patreon Politics Russiagate

NinaIllingworth October 23, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, anti-Bernie campaign, Ashlee Marie Preston, Bad Grandma, Bernie Sanders, Bigotry, corporate media, corporate media coverage of Bernie Sanders, covering up for Liz Warren, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Elizabeth Warren, Fantastic Lies, Giant Russia Theory, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, informal writing, Jill Stein, LGBTQ rights, liberals, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Media, media bias, MP6, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Politics, Racism, Receipts, Russiagate, Russophobia, Sanders surrogates, Social Justice, Susan Sarandon, The Skinny, Vladimir Putin

The Skinny: Receipt Collection

A collection of informal Patreon journals about skullduggery, Russophobia, and corporate media bias in the 2020 Democratic Party Nomination contest.

Essays Fascism Justice Politics

NinaIllingworth October 18, 2019November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, checks and balances, constitutional law, Constitutional originalism, Deep Dives, despotism, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Federalist Society, Fox News, GOP, James Madison, John Yoo, Justice, law, lawless state, Mitch McConnell, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, obstruction, Op-Ed, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Richard Nixon, Senate, the GOP is obstructionist, Torture Memos, Trump impeachment, turtle boy, war criminal, WD7

Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King

Nina takes a look at the terrifying logic behind the new-old strain of Republican excuses for a lawless president in “Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King.”

Fascism Patreon Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth October 16, 2019April 15, 2025 1994 crime bill, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Anita Hill, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Caliburn International Corp, Comprehensive Health Services Inc, concentration camps, corruption, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DHS, endorsements, FA1, fascism, General Dynamics Information Technology, GOP, GOP is a fascist party, ICE, ICE guards union, Ilhan Omar, immigration, Iraq War, James Mattis, Jeff Sessions, Joe Biden, John Kelly, Justice, kids in cages, left wing insurgency, migrants, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no justice, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Politics, Pork Reich, prison industrial complex, private prisons, Rashida Tlaib, Social Justice, Socialism, the Dem Party civil war, The GEO Group, The Skinny, The Squad, war on drugs, warehousing migrants is big business

The Skinny: And Sometimes You Miss

Link to an October 2019th edition of The Skinny in which Nina nails contractors in the migrant prison game and screws up political predictions.

Blog Can't You Read media Politics War

NinaIllingworth October 11, 2019April 14, 2025 anarcho socialist militias, anti-imperialism, Assad, blog, Can't You Read, CIA, crocodile tears, Donald Trump, forever war, imperial policy, Imperialism, Kurdish People, liberal interventionism, liberals don't care about the Kurds, manufacturing consent, Media, MENA, Middle East, Military Industrial Complex, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil, Peoples’ Protection Units, pig empire, Politics, regime change, Rojova, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Trump is an imperialist too, Trump isn't leaving Syria, Turkey, war, WD7, YPG, YPJ

Can’t You Read: Saving Kurdistan Means Staying In Syria Forever

A Can’t You Read blog post about why leaving Syria means abandoning the YPG even if that’s not a popular decision on the left.

Blog Patreon Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth October 2, 2019April 14, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, appropriation, bad idea jeans, blog, Chuck Schumer, class war, Cole DeLaune, Democratic Party, DNA test, election strategies, Elizabeth Warren, fake outreach, fake progressives, fallacy of the white working class, Indian Country Today, labor class, Liz Warren is a fake lefty, Liz Warren is not Indigenous, Liz Warren was a Republican, Midwest, myth of a white working class, Patreon, Paul Krugman, PMC, Politics, professional managerial class, progressive politics, Racism, snake, Social Justice, Socialism, The Skinny, Twila Barnes, whiteness

The Skinny: Warring With Warren and Fake Labor Class Outreach

Link to an October 2019 edition of the Skinny discussing the image crafting surrounding Liz Warren and Dem Party appeals to a mythical white working class.

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.

media Patreon Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth September 28, 2019April 14, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Bernie Sanders, bourgeoisie, CA4, class, class warfare, democratic socialism, Fantastic Lies, Harvard conspiracy, Joe Biden, labor class, Left Wing Media, letters, liberals, Liz Warren, manager class, Media, Medicare for all, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, open letter, Patreon, Patreon Blog, PMC, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rich people, sans culottes, Socialism, ST2

Link: An Open Letter to the American Left and in Particular, the Bourgeoisie “Left Wing” Media

Some thoughts on “Left Wing” American media and class tensions in the 2020 Democratic Party nomination contest.

Blog Climate Crisis Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth September 27, 2019April 14, 2025 abuse of power, blog, bribery, CC3, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, corporate media, dark money, dark money behind climate science denial, Democratic Party, far right propaganda, fascism, foreign policy, Giant Russia Theory, GOP, Greta Thunberg, informal writing, intimidation, Koch Brothers, Koch network, liberals, MP6, nativism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Nixonian, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Republican Party, Russiagate, The Skinny, Ukraine, Wall Street, war

The Skinny: Impeachment Politics, Targeting and Anti-Climate Flak

A link to my informal journal writing where we discuss why I’m not Josh Marshall, why Democrat’s will blow impeachment, and why dark money right wing groups are behind attempts to discredit Greta Thunberg.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth September 25, 2019November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, corruption, Democratic Party, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascist creep, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, hubris, Hunter Biden, impeachment, Joe Biden, liberals, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Nixon, Opinion, Pelosi, Politics, rich liberal, Russiagate, Trump, Ukraine, US Constitution

Opinion: Why I Support Impeachment but Fear Incompetent Democrat Hubris

A brief look at why I support Nancy Pelosi’s decision to open an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump even if I doubt her ability to actually seal the deal.

Blog Climate Crisis media Patreon Politics

NinaIllingworth September 24, 2019April 13, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Bernie Sanders, billionaire, blog, capitalism, capitalism will kill us all, capitalist media supports capitalist tyranny, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, corporate media, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Elizabeth Warren, Fantastic Lies, fossil fuels, informal writing, Joe Biden, Journals, left wing politics, liberalism, manufacturing consent, Media, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, petite bourgeoisie, PMC, Politics, polls, public perception, ruling classes, Socialism, the media lies, The Skinny

The Skinny: Vote Pledging, Untrustworthy Media, and the Urgency of Climate Catastrophe

A collection of my informal writing from late September 2019, including vote pledges, declining trust in media, and why the capitalist solution to climate catastrophe is to kill us all.