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

NinaIllingworth September 7, 2024 activism, blog, CA4, California, capitalism, Chris Mills Rodrigo, Common Dreams, Door Dash, exploitation, gig economy, gig workers, labor, labor law, labor rights, Labor Wars, Late Stage Capitalism, Lyft, minimum wage, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Pinkertons, poverty wages, Proposition 22, rideshare companies, Strike, U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, Uber, Union

Nina-Bytes: Exploitation as a Business Model

A recent study shows gig workers at rideshare companies are making less than minimum wage in the US; to stop it, we need to fight capitalism in the streets.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2024August 31, 2024 blog, CA4, capitalism, carbon capture, CC3, climate colonialism, Climate Crisis, climate mythology, climate nihilism, climate science, endless growth, extractivism, fossil fuels, James Dyke, mass extinction, net zero, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Overshoot Myth, Paris Climate Agreement, Rec Reads, revolution, Robert Watson, The Conversation, Wolfgang Knorr

Nina Bytes: Capitalist Mythology and the Climate

Nina looks at a great longform essay that debunks the climate “overshoot” myth and reveals that the only way to save humanity is to “leave it in the ground.”

Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2024August 26, 2024 billionaires, blog, book bans, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, colonialism, critical race theory, culture war, DEI, education, FA1, fascism, fundamentalism, Gaza, genocide, George Orwell, History, indoctrination, Israel, LGBTQ rights, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, reactionaries, student protests, Swing Kids, WD7

Nina-Bytes: Indoctrinating A Dystopian Future

The reactionary war on history is about more than money; it’s about creating a generation of fascists who’ll watch billions die for profit as the world burns.

Blog Capitalism Journals Pandemic

NinaIllingworth August 23, 2024 2020, back to normal, billionaires, blog, brain fog, capitalism, Captain Trips, class war, coronavirus, Covid, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, Covid eugenics, covid isn't over, death cult, Depression, disability, epidemiology, Eugenics, Journals, labor rights, long covid, long hauler, mass murder for profit, neofeudalism, new normal, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, virus

Journal: Fuel for the Pyre

A personal journal about my experiences with Long Covid and why I think living in a capitalist society under our “new normal” may eventually disable us all.

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.

Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth August 18, 2024 affordable housing, blog, budget, CA4, California, capitalism, carceral state, Civil Rights, cruelty, Democratic Party, Dystopia, executive order, FA1, fascism, Gavin Newsom, Grants Pass v Johnson, homeless encampments, homeless sweeps, housing crisis, human rights, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, photo op, police state, Politics, SCOTUS, Unhoused

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.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis media

NinaIllingworth August 3, 2024 Anti-Capitalism, Billionaire Tax, blog, Brazil, CA4, capitalism, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, extractivism, fossil fuels, George Monbiot, mass extinction, Media, News, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, revolution, The Guardian, wealth tax

Nina-Bytes: No Half Measures

Once again George Monbiot is making the argument against oligarchy and climate crisis; it’s just a shame he won’t be honest about the solution to these problems

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis media

NinaIllingworth April 2, 2024 Big Oil, blog, Chevron, class war, Climate Crisis, corporate control, corporate propaganda, David Folkenflik, extractivism, fossil fuels, Fox News, Media, media consolidation, Miranda Green, MP6, news desert, Nina-Bytes, NPR, Propaganda, Richmond California, Sinclair, The Richmond Standard

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News

A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town.

Picture of a wealthy capitalist it top hat and tails, dancing romantically with a skeletal soldier holding a reaper's scythe.

Books Capitalism Quotes Theory

NinaIllingworth August 29, 2023 2008 Financial Crisis, antifascism, Book Blog, Books, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, David Graeber, Debt, FA1, fascism, genocide, geohell, History, mutual aid, neoliberalism, oligarchy, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, revolution, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, The War on Sharing, Theory

Quickshot Quotation: Debt and Rebirth

Building off a Graeber quote from Debt, Nina briefly touches on the war on sharing, the idea killing machine, and why we discuss alternatives to capitalism.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

NinaIllingworth August 28, 2023August 27, 2023 Alexander Cooley, analysis, banking, billionaires, blog, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, Cory Doctorow, dark money, Finance, John Heathershaw, kleptocracy, lobby groups, money laundering, MP6, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, philanthropy, pig empire, Pluralistic, Politics, Propaganda, public relations, Ricard Soares de Oliveira, Second Gilded Age, SuperPAC, think tanks, transnational, TUSN

Nina-Bytes: Bagmen for the Transnational Oligarchy

Nina highlights the open structures of power the uber rich use to control our society in broad daylight with the help of a Cory Doctorow article about bagmen.

A modern picture of a man in a business suit, walking past a flattering stone mural of Mussolini and the fascist Italian army, during World War II.

Capitalism Fascism News Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth August 26, 2023 AIM, Amazon, American Identity Movement, Bailey Ross, Boogaloo movement, CA4, capitalism, corporate power, DeVos Family, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist militias, Jason Wilson, Judd Legum, Mark Zuckerberg, MP6, News, Orlando Magic, Popular Information, Rebecca Crosby, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Shopify, SuperPAC, Tesnim Zekeria, Tess Owen, The Guardian, Vice News