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

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.

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.

Analysis Fascism Healthcare Justice

NinaIllingworth June 19, 2025June 20, 2025 anti-trans pogrom, Carter Sherman, Chris Geidner, Christian nationalism, Civil Rights, Donald Trump, Equal Protections, Erin Reed, FA1, fascism, gender affirming therapy, GOP, healthcare, human rights, Ian Millhiser, JA5, John Roberts, Justice, LGBTQ rights, mental health, moral panic, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, nonbinary, puberty blockers, SCOTUS, Skrmetti, Social Justice, Supreme Court, Tennessee, The Guardian, the Heritage Foundation, trans rights, trans youth, transphobia

On Pogroms, Trans Youth, and the Supreme Court

This week a fundie fascist-dominated US Supreme Court told trans kids to just die, and gave a green light to the burgeoning anti-trans pogrom in American life.

Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth May 22, 2025May 23, 2025 austerity, authoritarianism, Big Beautiful Bill, blog, budget, CA4, capitalism, Christian nationalism, class war, courts, dictatorship, Donald Trump, El Salvador, FA1, fascism, GOP, Justice, labor class, law, Mike Johnson, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, Politics, reconciliation bill, Republican Party, Robert Reich, SCOTUS, US Congress, US Constitution

Nina-Bytes: Reconciliation and a US Enabling Act

Under the cover of darkness House Republicans slipped a provision into their budget bill that would, at least temporarily, allow Donald Trump to be a 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.”

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth April 16, 2025April 18, 2025 9/11, Alien Enemies Act, Amerikan Musik, CECOT, Christian nationalism, Civil Rights, DHS, dictatorship, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Essays, FA1, fascism, gangs, Gestapo, ICE, Imperialism, James Boasberg, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Kristi Noam, Marco Rubio, MP6, MS13, Nayib Bukele, Nina Illingworth, Pam Bondi, Paula Xinis, police state, Politics, Racism, SCOTUS, Stephen Miller, terrorism, Tren de Aragua, US Constitution, Venezuela, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship

On the fascist theater, propaganda, and deceptions that may lead to the birth of a US dictatorship under Trump unless Americans rise up and stop him.

Blog Fascism Imperialism Police State

NinaIllingworth April 15, 2025April 20, 2025 ACLU, Amerikan Musik, blog, Brendan Carr, CECOT, Civil Rights, CoreCivic, DHS, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, genocide, GEO, ICE, immigration, Imperialism, Justice, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Marc Andreessen, Marco Rubio, mass deportations, Mohsen Mahdawi, MP6, nativism, Nayib Bukele, Nina Illingworth, Pam Bondi, Peter Thiel, police state, private prisons, Protesters, SCOTUS, Stephen Miller, The Skinny, Vicky Osterweil, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

The Skinny: Pork Reich on Parade

Today we’re introducing a new spin on an old feature; plus a complete collection of my Fediverse blog posts from April 13th to April 15th, 2025.

Blog Fascism Justice Politics

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2025April 27, 2025 Adam Abelson, Andrew Jackson, Bezalel Smotrich, blog, Canada, Christian nationalism, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Enabling Act, FA1, fascism, FCC, FEC, gay conversion therapy, Gaza, genocide, homophobia, ICE, impeachment, Imperialism, Israel, JA5, Justice, LGBTQ rights, Mahmoud Khalil, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, police state, Politics, SCOTUS, The Skinny

The Skinny: Cannonballs – March 2025 Blogs

The Trump regime is ignoring court orders and it’s not clear SCOTUS would rule against them anyway; the cavalry isn’t coming but the March 8-14 Skinny is here.

Capitalism Fascism Police State Theory

NinaIllingworth March 13, 2025April 27, 2025 Amerikan Musik, billionaires, blog, capitalism, Christian nationalism, Civil Rights, class war, Climate Crisis, collaborators, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, extractivism, FA1, fascism, GOP, JA5, liberalism, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, police state, Politics, SCOTUS, Socialism, ST2, Theory, white supremacy

Theory Blog: There’s No Going Back to “Normal”

There is no way to defeat fascism that doesn’t involve repudiating the free market fundamentalist order that built the police state he’s using against us now.

Analysis Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth September 2, 2024September 1, 2024 2024 US Election, Amerikan Musik, analysis, AP3, Carole Cadwalladr, coup, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, GOP, insurrection, January 6th, Joshua Kaplan, judicial coup, Kenny Bruno, militias, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Politics, ProPublica, Proud Boys, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, riots, SCOTUS, social media, The Guardian, Truthout, Twitter, UK riots

Nina-Bytes: California Über Alles

As the California governor threatens to defund counties that won’t do encampment sweeps, it’s time to call Newsom’s war on unhoused people what it is: fascism.

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