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Nina Illingworth Dot Com

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

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: The People and Ideas JD Vance Applauds

As more of JD Vance’s odious worldview is exposed to the light of day, it’s time for the media to start calling the GOP VP nominee what he really is: a fascist.

Analysis Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis

NinaIllingworth August 18, 2024 activism, analysis, anticapitalism, Big Oil, blog, CA4, capitalism, carbon emissions, CC3, Climate Crisis, climate denial, death cult, Dystopia, extractivism, fossil fuel industry, fossil fuels, gas, global warming, green energy, habitable planet, mass extinction, News, nihilism, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Propaganda, revolution, Selwin Hart, United Nations

Nina-Bytes: Induced Hopelessness

As society battles pervasive climate nihilism, the UN reveals that the fossil fuel industry is behind propaganda designed to convince you it’s too late.

Analysis Blog Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, antifascism, blog, Christian Zionism, CUFI, FA1, fascism, GOP, Mini Theory Blog, Moms for Liberty, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, Opus Dei, Politics, Project 2025, Propaganda, Proud Boys, Silicon Valley, Tech-authoritarians, the Heritage Foundation, Theory, Triumph of the Will, Trump, Umberto Eco

Fascism: A Patchwork Mockery of Movement Politics

Despite propaganda to the contrary fascist movements are neither unified in rhetoric, nor uniform in appearance; what binds them is violent reactionary hatred.

Photograph of the New York Times street front masthead sign, tilted so it travels upward as you read it left to right.

Analysis Fascism media Social Justice

NinaIllingworth August 24, 2023 analysis, anti-trans pogrom, Assigned Media, Azeen Ghorayshi, Evan Urquhart, FA1, fascism, gender affirming therapy, Jamie Reed, LGBTQ, Media, MP6, New York Times, Nina-Bytes, NYT, Politics, Propaganda, protect trans kids, Social Justice, TERFs, trans panic, trans rights, transphobia in media

Nina-Bytes: Selling the Pogroms

Nina examines an important article by Evan Urquhart at Assigned to help illustrate how mainstream media provides ideological justification for a trans pogrom.

Analysis Fascism Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 16, 2023 analysis, anti-LGBTQ persecution, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-queer pogrom, anti-trans bills, anti-trans legislation, anti-trans pogrom, AP News, Associated Press, Cathy Renna, dehumanization, demonization, Erin Reed, fascism, fascist project, fascist propaganda, GOP, Hannah Schoenbaum, hate groups, Kansas, Kentucky, latent American transphobia, LGBTQ rights, Media, Missouri, Montana, National LGBTQ Task Force, Nazi Germany, New Hampshire, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Oklahoma, pogrom as politics, political apathy, Politics, queer rights, Republican Party, Social Justice, South Carolina, State politics, stochastic terrorism, Tennessee, Texas, the process of genocide, trans rights, US politics, Utah, Virginia

Nina-Bytes: Framea Thrust

New year, same anti-trans pogrom; as GOP-controlled states introduce anti-trans bills after mediocre midterm results, Nina explains why the fascists won’t stop.

Analysis Capitalism Pandemic Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 23, 2022 analysis, anticapitalism, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, Captain Trips, class war, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid 19 primer, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, culture war, doctors, epidemiology, genocide, Global Pandemic, homicidal capitalism, Jessica Wildfire, killing people for profit, labor rights, Media, medical science, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, OK Doomer, pandemic, Politics, QAnon, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, US politics, virus denial as politics

Nina-Bytes: Call and Response

Today we’re using two recent articles to analyze the obvious connection between fascist anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in US politics and reactionary stochastic terrorism.

Analysis Climate Crisis media Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 17, 2022November 18, 2022 activism, analysis, anticapitalism, Big Oil, blog, Brett Wilkins, CA4, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, CC3, Climate Action Network, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate racism, climate theatre, Common Dreams, COP27, Daniel Rodriguez, developing world, fighting climate change, fossil fuels, Fridays for Future, genocide, George Monbiot, Greta Thunberg, Harjeet Singh, Ian Brown, John Vidal, Keep It In the Ground, Letters to the Editor, lobbyist, Luisa Nebauer, Malthusianism, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, overpopulation, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Socialism, The Guardian, Theory, United Nations Climate Change Conference

Nina Illingworth Dot Com

Nina-Bytes: The People and Ideas JD Vance Applauds

Nina-Bytes: Induced Hopelessness

Fascism: A Patchwork Mockery of Movement Politics

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