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

Essays Fascism News Politics War

NinaIllingworth August 28, 2020November 5, 2022 1807 Insurrection Act, 2019 El Paso shooting, Adolf Hitler, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Amerikan Musik, Amerikkka, anarchists, anti-Mexican racism, antifa, antisemitism, Barack Obama, Benito Mussolini, Bigotry, Black Lives Matter, Border Patrol, CA4, CC3, Central Park 5, Christchurch mosque shootings, christian fundamentalism, COINTELPRO, Colin Kaepernick, concentration camps, CVille, Department of Justice, DHS, dictator, Donald Trump, enabling Turkish atrocities, Essays, ethnonationalist, FA1, far right violence, fascism, fascist conspiracy theories, fascist coup, fascist death cult, Gary Johnson, Gaza genocide, George Floyd Protests, George Soros, Gestapo, Holocaust survivors, homophobia, Hurricane Maria, ICE, Ilhan Omar, Islamophobia, JA5, Jason Stanley, Jeff Sessions, Jill Stein, Khashoggi murder, Lafayette Park, martial law, Masha Gessen, mass murder, migrant child abuse, misogyny, MP6, Muslim ban, Muslim Registry, National Guard, nationalism, nativism, News, nuclear war, overreach, Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Politics, Portland, Post Office, Prince Bone Saw, Proud Boys, Puerto Rico, QAnon, Racism, racist militias, rigged election, Sebastian Gorka, Snake Story, ST2, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Timothy Snyder, Trump is a fascist, Trump is a rapist, Trump was impeached, Unite the Right Rally, US Constitution, US drone assassination program, US military, war, War Crimes, War with Iran, WD7, white nationalism, white supremacist White House, white supremacy, William Barr, Yemen genocide

Stop Making Excuses: Trump is Definitely a Fascist And Here is the Evidence

A fifty-two point, fully sourced list of evidence that objectively demonstrates that Donald Trump is a fascist; even to the mendacious.

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth June 27, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, Adolf Hitler, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, Andrew Jackson, Armenian Genocide, Border Patrol, concentration camps, Confederate President, Dachau, dehumanization, DHS, Donald Trump, Essays, ethnic cleansing, FA1, Family Raid, fascism, genocidal intent, genocide, GOP, Haaretz, Herero and Nama genocide, ICE, JA5, Kristallnacht house raids, Little Eichmanns, mass deportataions, migrants, Nazi Germany, neonazi, never again, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Police, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, process of genocide, revanchism, Six Things I Think, Social Justice, Stephen Miller, Summer Camp, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, The Holocaust, Trail of Tears, WD7, white nationalism, white supremacy

Summer Camp

Yes, they’re concentration camps – but have you even stopped for a moment to think about what that actually means?

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth June 23, 2019November 17, 2022 Amerikan Musik, baby cages, baby jails, CBP, concentration camps, deportations, DHS, Donald Trump, Eoin Higgins, Essays, ethnic cleansing, FA1, Family Raid, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Gestapo police, GOP, ICE, ICE Family Op, immigration, JA5, Media, MP6, nazi sympathizers, Nina Illingworth, Parsing the Pork Reich's Family Raid Pause, police state, Politics, reactionary, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, revanchist, road to genocide, Six Things I Think, Stephen Miller, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, the cruelty is the point, undocumented migrants, white nationalism, white supremacy

Parsing the Pork Reich’s Family Raid Pause

A short essay examining a Common Dreams article by Eoin Higgins and the seemingly mystifying Trump ICE “Family Raid” saga.

Books Can't You Read Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth December 22, 2018November 5, 2022 13th Amendment, blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism is white supremacy, critical race theory, exploitation, extraction, FA1, informal writing, JA5, Jim Crow, knowing without knowing, Mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, prison, prison labor, prison labor is slave labor, prisoner, prisoner rights, private prisons, Psychology, racialized incarceration, Racism, Rants, slaver labor, slavery, Social Justice, systemic racism, TADMS, Tales from the American DMZ, The New Jim Crow, white supremacy, whiteness

Blog: New Jim Crow Mini-Review & Commentary (Link)

Link to a short blog post combining a mini-review of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander with additional commentary about cognitive deceptions.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2018November 5, 2022 a new mainfesto for the end of the world, activism, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, anti-imperialism, anticapitalism, Bigotry, capitalism vs the climate, climate catastrophe, climate disaster, Corporatism, Essays, Evil, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, global deregulated capitalism, Imperialism, Jair Bolsonaro, Media, Naomi Klein, NATO, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oligarchy, OODS, Que Se Vayan Todos, rhetoric, ST2, Steve Bannon, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Theory, they must all go, Trump, Trump Administration, war, western Europe, Western fascism

Praxis of Evil: Words As Weapons

Editor’s Note: I have spent many nights over the past five months ruminating on just how I would explain my

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Police State

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2018November 5, 2022 anarchists, austerity, Black Identity Extremists, death penalty, death squads, Democrats, dog whistle, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fake terror threats, fake war on cops, fascism, FBI, hate crime, Howard Dean scream, JA5, Jeff Sessions, Justice, Mass incarceration, McResistance, Media, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, opioid crisis, police state, Politics, Racism, radical Islam, reactionary violence, Republican, revanchist, Rodrigo Duterte, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Vichy Democrats, vigilante justice, war on drugs, white nationalism

Strung Out and Hunted Beneath a Killing Moon

I’m back and this time we’re staring into the dark abyss of Trump’s unhinged comments about seeking the death penalty for drug dealers as an answer to the American opioid crisis.

Essays Fascism News Police State

NinaIllingworth December 7, 2017November 5, 2022 1st amendment rights, activism, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, anarchists, antifa, antifascism, antifascists, Bigotry, black bloc, black bloc tactics, Black Lives Matter, Bryan Adelmeyer, chilling effect, Christopher Wray, Civil Liberties, COINTELPRO, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, conspiracy to riot, corporate media, criminializing protest, Department of Justice, DoJ, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump, entrapment, Essays, FA1, Fake News, fascism, FBI, FBI Director Wray, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ferguson protests, freedom of assembly, government, helping fascists, House Homeland Security Committee, ideology, inauguration protests, independent journalists, J20, J20 protests, JA5, James OKeefe, January 20th Inauguration Day protest, Jeff Sessions, Jennifer Kerkhoff, Jim Crow, journalists, Justice, mainstream media, Media, Meme, Metropolitan DC police, MP6, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, nurses, persecuting the left, Police, police state, police violence, President Trump, Project Veritas, Propaganda, Protest, protest fights, Racism, right wing extremist, right wing propagandist, riot, Rizwan Quershi, Robert Mercer, Social Justice, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, vandalism, War on Terror, white nationalism, white nationalist White House, Wray

TADMZ: Police State of Denial

A look at two clear signs that the US government is aligning itself with right wing reactionaries and against left wing protestors while corporate media shows tepid interest at best.

Activism Info Meme of the Week Politics TADMZ

NinaIllingworth April 26, 2017November 5, 2022 activism, anti government, bribes, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, CA4, CC3, Donald Trump, Environmental Protection Agency, environmental regulations, environmentalism, EPA, Evil Mutant, FA1, FOIA, fossil fuels, fox in the henhouse, good for capitalism, goon, GOP, industrialists, Info Meme of the Week, Koch Brothers, lobbyist, oil & gas industry, Oklahoma Attorney General, perjury, Politics, pollution, Pruitt, Scott Pruitt, Senate confirmation hearings, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Trump, Trump Administration, Trump Cabinet, Trump's Evil Mutants, wealthy donors

Info Meme of the Week: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants Pt Sixteen – Scott Pruitt

After taking some time off to chase other stories, Nina is back with another look at one of Trump’s key Brotherhood of Evil Mutants goons; new EPA head Scott Pruitt

Blog Memes Neoliberalism News

NinaIllingworth March 13, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Appalachia, auto industry, automation, bailout, CA4, child labor, corruption, Donald Trump, Econ, economic anxiety, economic collapse, Economics, economists, economy, farming, February Jobs Report, Flint, Flint Michigan, Flint Water Crisis, full employment, good jobs vs part time menial labor, inclusive capitalism, Jobs Report, manufacturing, Mark Blyth, Matt Taibbi, Media, medical insurance, Meme, Midwest, mining, MP6, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed, Opinion Editorial, Over 1000 Days Without Water, policy wonks, Politics, poverty, President Obama, President Trump, put Snyder in Jail, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rich elites, rising cost of education, rising cost of healthcare, rising cost of medical insurance, Six Things I Think, student loan debt, student loans, swine emperor, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, the Hamptons are not defensible, The Heartland, Trump Administration, Uber, unemployment, unemployment rate, US government, wage inequity, wealth inequity

A Brief Thought: Secrets A Jobs Report Won’t Tell

Nina takes a brief look at the laughably stupid Jobs Report controversy in a highly personal Op-Ed.

Blog Memes News Police State

NinaIllingworth February 23, 2017November 5, 2022 3AM raids, A Brief Thought, Amerikan Musik, anti-Immigrant, anti-migrant, bipartisan, blog, citizen, cruel, cruel and unusual, decent human beings, Democrats, Department of Homeland Security, deportations, DHS, Edmund Burke, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, GOP, ICE, ICE raids, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, inhumane, JA5, John F Kelly, Joy Reid, Justice, law enforcement, LEO, Martin Niemöller, Meme, migrants, monstrous, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Obama deportation policies, police state, Politics, Protest, Racism, Republican, resistance, slippery slope, sting, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, traps, Trump, Trump Administration, undocumented migrants, US Immigration policy, USA

A Brief Thought: A Cruel and Unusual Future

Nina takes a quick look at three recent, horrifying ICE actions under the Trump administration.

Blog Memes Politics Take Downs

NinaIllingworth February 16, 2017November 5, 2022 10 year old girl, A Brief Thought, activists, Alt Right, alt-right extremists, Amerikan Musik, anti-democratic, anti-protest, antisemitism, blog, Breitbart News, Chaffetz, Civil Rights Era, coward, Craigslist Hoax, demonstrations, Do Your Job, Donald Trump, ethnonationalism, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, George Soros, GOP, gutless, House Oversight Committee, Jason Chaffetz, KKK, liar, Meme, MP6, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, normalizing ethno-nationalism, Op-Ed, Politics, Protest, Racism, Rants, Republican, Republican town hall, right wing extremist, Russia, RWNJ, smears, TADMZ, Take Downs, Tales from the American DMZ, the Civil Rights Act, there is no such thing as a paid protestor, town hall, Utah, Vladimir Putin, what news is Jason Chaffetz reading?, worm

A Brief Thought: Jason Chaffetz is Total Dogshit

Today’s brief thought is a reminder for 2020 that Jason Chaffetz is a gutless ratfucking coward who reads racist websites

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