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

Blog Capitalism Healthcare Politics

NinaIllingworth June 6, 2025 Ableism, abuse, ACL, activism, Aktion T4, Amerikan Musik, austerity, Autism, blog, budget, CA4, capitalism, class war, Community Living, disability assistance, disability rights, Donald Trump, Eugenics, fascism, GOP, healthcare, HHS, labor, MAHA, Marianne Dhenin, MP6, neglect, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Politics, Republican Party, RFK Jr, Seniors, Truthout

Nina-Bytes: Only the Able Count in Trump’s America

The Trump regime’s war on disability funding exposes the dark class war, eugenicist, and eliminationist ideology driving the GOP and the oligarchs who own them.

Blog Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth April 30, 2025 American Gestapo, blog, counterterrorism, Democratic Party, DHS, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, ICE, immigration, immigration justice, Imperialism, JA5, Justice, Migrant Rights, National Security State, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, police state, Politics, private prisons, Racism, Republican Party, Silky Shah, Truthout, War on Terror, white nationalism

Nina-Bytes: Sowing and Reaping in Trump’s America

The truth is Trump didn’t build the fascist police state he’s using to undo American democracy, and we can’t beat fascism without ending that police state.

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

Recommended Reading: Daylight Ambush

Given the available evidence, it’s probably not a question of will Trump try a second coup if he loses the 2024 election, but what form will that coup take?

Fascism Police State Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth August 10, 2024 abortion rights, anti-LGBTQ persecution, Balaji Srinivasan, CA4, capitalism, Captured States, Christian nationalism, FA1, fascism, GOP, LGBTQ rights, Mark Robinson, MP6, Network State, Nina Illingworth, North Carolina, police state, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, San Francisco, Tech authoritarianism, The New Republic, Truthout, US politics

Recommended Reading: Captured States

A brief look at why despite their superficial differences Tech Bros and Christian Nationalists both have fascist visions of captured states in America’s future.

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.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 15, 2022November 17, 2022 anti-trans legislation, anti-trans pogrom, antifascism, antifascist united front, blog, Chase Strangio, Chris Rufo, Donald Trump, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, fascist propaganda, GOP, Greg Abbot, LGBTQ rights, liberal transphobia, Matt Walsh, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Politics, protect trans kids, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican Party, Ron DeSantis, Social Justice, solidarity, ST2, trans rights, transphobia, transphobia in media, Truthout, US midterms, US politics

Recommended Reading: Claxon Call

While a liberal establishment that feels comfortable policing trans bodies exhales, fascists that did get reelected are pushing ahead with an anti-trans pogrom.

Climate Crisis media Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth October 8, 2021November 5, 2022 Andy Kroll, API, Ari Berman, Arizona, Biden Agenda, Brett Wilkins, Build Back Better Act, CA4, CC3, CEPP, Charles Koch, Clean Electricity Performance Program, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, coal, Common Dreams, corporate donors, corruption, Daniel Boguslaw, Daniel Strauss, dark money, David Sirota, Democratic Party, FA1, Fantastic Lies, filibuster, fossil fuels, Geoff Dembicki, Gizmodo, immigration reform, infrastructure bill, infrastructure spending, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kate Aronoff, Kochtopus, Kyrsten Sinema, legalized bribery, liberal politics, lobby groups, lobbying, lobbyist, Mark Gruenberg, Media, migrants, Molly Taft, money in politics, Mother Jones, MP6, natural gas, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, oligarchy, People's World, plutocracy, Politics, progressive politics, Propaganda, reconciliation bill, Rolling Stone, Ryan Grim, Sara Sirota, Sharon Zhang, Six Things I Think, Super PACS, the Daily Poster, The Intercept, The New Republic, Truthout, US Senate, West Virginia

Six Things I Think: Reconciliation and the Dirty Pair

Nina’s back with an in-depth investigation into a riddle no one outside of the Beltway was struggling to solve. Power, politics and payola collide on NIDC.

Fascism Media Madness News Police State

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2020April 16, 2025 ABC News, ACAB, additional content, Alice Speri, American Prospect, Amerikan Musik, Black Lives Matter, blog, bonus content, Brennan Center for Justice, civil rights violations, Cops, CPUSA, Defund the Police, Department of Justice, FA1, fascism, fascist cops, FBI, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd was murdered, informal writing, JA5, Joel Wendland, John Knefel, Josh Margolin, Kelly Hayes, Kenya Downs, Laura Hazard Owen, Media Madness, Michael German, neonazi cops, News, NiemanLab, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Open Democracy, PBS, Police, police state, Racism, racist cops, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Kuttner, Sam Levin, Simon Purdue, Social Justice, ST2, The Guardian, The Intercept, Truthout, violent neonazi cops, we call them pigs for a reason, white supremacists in law enforcement, white supremacy

Media Madness: Some of Those That Work Forces

This short blog post features something old, something new, and a whole lot of links that prove there’s something rotten about our boys in blue.

media Media Madness Police Politics

NinaIllingworth November 11, 2019April 20, 2025 abolition, Amerikan Musik, Bill Barr, BLM, blog, Chicago, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, JA5, Media Madness, militarized police, Nina Illingworth, Police, police state, police violence, Politics, Racism, Truthout, white nationalism

Analysis: Trump’s Ignored Police “Surge” Threat

Are Bill Barr and Donald Trump planning on invading Democrat-voting cities with militarized police in the lead up to the 2020 election?

Fascism media News Politics

NinaIllingworth April 2, 2016November 17, 2022 Andres Sepulveda, Andrew Willis, Associated Press, Bill Clinton, Bloomberg Businessweek, capitalism, Civil Liberties, Democratic Primary, fascism, Fourth Amendment, History, Jordan Robertson, Justice, Koch Brothers, Media, Michael Corcoran, Michael Riley, Moyers & Company, MP6, Nazi Party, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Philip Oltermann, Politics, Progressive, Racism, Radley Balko, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Rolling Stone, Six Things I Think, Socialism, Sociology, South Carolina, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, The Guardian, Tim Dickinson, Truthout, Washington Post, World War II

Recommended Reading – April 2nd, 2016

Our latest edition of Recommended Reading – Big Energy’s War on Solar, the 1996 Telecom Act, Civil Liberties Violations in America and more. The very best in socialist, progressive reading from around the web.