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Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2024August 26, 2024 2024 US Election, analysis, asylum seekers, BLM, blog, CA4, capitalism, carceral state, CC3, Climate Crisis, colonialism, Democratic Party, deportations, DNC, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Gaza, genocide, Imperialism, Iran, Israel, JA5, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Overton Window, pogroms, Police, police state, Politics, POTUS, progressive politics, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, trans rights, Uncommitted Movement, WD7

Falling Backwards Into History

While Democrats celebrated the “unity” on offer at the DNC, informed observers who read the 2024 platform saw a party shifting to the right to appease fascism.

Essays Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 1964 Civil Rights Act, 303 Creative LLC v Elenis, abolish SCOTUS, American theocracy, Amerikan Musik, Amy Coney Barrett, Andrew Jackson, anti-trans pogrom, Brett Kavanaugh, christian fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, Civil Rights, Clarence Thomas, colonialism, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, cultural genocide, decolonization, Democrats, Essays, expand SCOTUS, FA1, fascism, GOP, GOP is a fascist party, Haaland v Brackeen, independent state legislature doctrine, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, JA5, Joe Manchin, John Roberts, judicial fascism, Justice, Kyrsten Sinema, law, Moore v Harper, MP6, Neil Gorsuch, Nina Illingworth, Paul Starr, Politics, Pork Reich, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, religious Right, Republican Party, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stanley Cohen, Supreme Court, The American Prospect, Thom Hartmann, US Congress, US Judiciary branch, US politics, voting rights, Weimar America, white nationalism, white supremacy

Recommended Reading: Bench Warfare

As a fascist SCOTUS hears cases that will destroy US democratic life Nina lays bare the cynical inversion of principles that are leading us into the Pork Reich.

Essays Fascism Rec Reads Social Justice

NinaIllingworth December 5, 2022December 5, 2022 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Andrew Anglin, Andy Ngo, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-trans pogrom, anti-trans propaganda, antifascism, antisemitism, Chad Loder, Crimethinc, Daily Stormer, eliminationism, Elon Musk, Essays, FA1, far right, far right online extremism, fascism, hate speech, James Lindsay, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West, Media, Micah Lee, MP6, neonazi, Nikki McCann Ramirez, Nina Illingworth, online fascism, Pork Reich, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Mackey, Roger Stone, Rolling Stone, Ron DeSantis, Social Justice, social media, The Intercept, Twitter, Weimar America, white supremacy, Ye

Recommended Reading: Trip Line

In today’s Recommended Reading, Nina circles back to talk about why pretending Musk isn’t turning Twitter into a fascist paradise is a form of collaboration.

Decolonization Essays Fascism Police State

NinaIllingworth December 1, 2022January 9, 2023 abolition, American Gestapo, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Anna Cathrine-Brigida, antifascism, bipartisan, bipartisan white supremacy, Border Patrol, borders are imperialism, By Any Other Name, CA4, colonialism, Common Dreams, concentration camps, decolonization, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, family separation policy, fascism, genocide, human rights, ICE, injustice, JA5, Jessica Corbett, Joe Biden, John Washington, Justice, liberal antifascism is an oxymoron, Mass incarceration, Media, Migrant Industrial Complex, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, prison industrial complex, private prisons, Propaganda, Texas Observer, Title 42, US politics, warehousing migrants is big business, WD7, Weimar America, white supremacy

Nina-Bytes: By Any Other Name

In today’s Nina-Bytes we’re tracking back to remind Joe Biden that he ran on ending Trump’s fascist immigration policies; not extending and adopting them.

Can't You Read Essays Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth April 26, 2021November 17, 2022 abolish the police, ACAB, anti protest laws, Black Lives Matter, BLM, CA4, Can't You Read, Chauvin trial, crimes by police, Defund the Police, Democrats, Derek Chauvin, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascist cops, fascist police state, fire em all, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd was murdered, guilty, JA5, Joe Biden, Little Eichmanns, Marxist analysis of policing, murderpigs, murders by police, neoliberal authoritarianism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig, Police, police reform, police state, police violence and capitalism, policing and capitalism, racial justice, racism and capitalism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, Social Justice, ST2, state sponsored murder, Temitope Oriola, the GOP is fascist

No Justice, No Peace on Can’t You Read

A Recommended Reading essay on CYR that talks about why police reform is dead even after the Chauvin verdict because you can’t reform capitalist exploitation.

Essays Neoliberalism Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2021November 5, 2022 $15 minimum wage, Afghanistan War, Andrew Perez, anti war, anti-labor, anti-racism, anti-war protests, anticapitalism, antifascism, Arizona, Arizona Democrats, austerity, Bernie Sanders, Biden White House, Blue Dog Caucus, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corruption, Covid 19, culture war, David Sirota, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Economics, electoralism, Essays, Fight for $15, filibuster, forever war, gone Washington, GOP, Green Party, Iraq War, Jacobin, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, left right alliance, left wing theory, let them eat cake, liberalism, Marxism, minimum wage, Mitch McConnell, MP6, neoliberalism, Paula Swearengin, Political Theory, Politics, populism, Progressive, progressive movement, progressive politics, Ralph Nader, reformers, reformism, Republican Party, Senate politics, Socialism, ST2, the Daily Poster, Theory, Thumbs Down, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, US Federal Minimum Wage, US Senate

Fool Me Twice: Kyrsten Sinema and the Poverty of Progressive Politics

A deeply sourced essay about progressive politics, acts of betrayal, and the need for an explicitly anti-capitalist mass movement in the Pig Empire.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2021November 17, 2022 American politics, analysis, CA4, capitalism, class war, Essays, Fight for $15, film sessions, JT Chapman, labor, labor class, labor is not a commodity, labor rights, left wing theory, left wing Youtube, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Media Madness, minimum wage, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, owner class, Politics, poverty wages, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Second Thought, Six Things I Think, Socialism, ST2, the US minimum wage is a poverty wage, Theory, Video, we are labor class, working class, Youtube

Film Sessions: Minimum Wage Debate Explained by Second Thought

Looking at the secret class war hidden inside the debate around the American minimum wage, with a new video by Second Thought.

Can't You Read Censorship Essays Social Media

NinaIllingworth January 18, 2021November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, anti lockdown protests, AstroTurf, Biden supermajority, Big Tech, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, censorship, chicken coup, chud insurrection, chud riot, Democrats, Democrats control US Senate, DeVos Family, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist coup attempt, free speech, Georgia Special Election, GOP, Internet, Jack Dorsey, January 6th 2021, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberal authoritarianism, neoliberal censorship, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no new Patriot Act, Offsite Writing, Politics, profit motive, Republican, right wing terrorism, Section 230, social media, spreading fascist ideology on Twitter, Trump incited an insurrection, Trump social media suspensions, Trump's Twitter should have been suspended years ago, Twitter

The Trump Suspensions, Big Tech and Section 230 on Can’t You Read

A link to an essay on Can’t You Read discussing Big Tech, Trump’s social media suspensions, and Biden’s threats to repeal Section 230.

Can't You Read Essays Fascism News

NinaIllingworth January 13, 2021November 17, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Biden crackdown, Can't You Read, Capitol Hill Police, chicken coup, chud riot, contrarian left, coup, coup attempt, crackers, Daily Poster, David Sirota, DC riots, Department of Defense, Donald Trump, doomed to fail, Essays, FA1, fake left, fallout, fascism, fascist coup attempt, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, I Told You So, inside job, insurrection, JA5, January 6th 2021, Josh Hawley, liberal enablers, Mike Pence, Mike Tracey, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberal authoritarianism, News, Nina Illingworth, pathetic coup, Pentagon, political violence, Politics, QAnon, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican Party, ST2, stupid coup, Ted Cruz, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, yes it was a coup

Counting Coup on Can’t You Read

Over on Can’t You Read, Nina closes the Trump-era chapter of American Fascism by reciting her works and counting coup on faux-left contrarians and numpties.

Censorship Essays Patreon Social Media

NinaIllingworth January 5, 2021November 5, 2022 Andy Ngo, anti-Bernie campaign, Bernie Sanders, blue check hierarchy, Bob Mercer, Cambridge Analytica, censorship, CIA, Clinton media list, coordinated harassment, corporate propaganda, Correct the Record, data harvesting, disinformation, Edward Snowden, Essays, FA1, Facebook, Gamergate, Google, Ian Miles Cheong, influence market, Jack Dorsey, Mike Cernovich, MP6, Neera Tanden, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online censorship, online marketing, online surveillance, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Pizzagate, Politics, profanity is praxis, Project Mockingbird, Propaganda, ratfucking, Sally Albright, selling user data, Snowden Leaks, social media, spying on users, ST2, swearing, troll armies, trolls, Trump, Twitter, Twitter rules, twitter suspension, unregulated, Wikileaks

On What Twitter Is & Why I’m Fine With Never Coming Back

A link to a new essay on my free Patreon blog that discusses why Twitter’s role in public discourse is frankly pretty sinister, and I don’t miss it one bit.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 18, 2020November 5, 2022 21st century fascism, Aimee Terese, Amerikan Musik, Angela Nagle, anticommunism, Caitlin Johnstone, contrarian left, crypto fascism, distortions, Donald Trump, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fake populism, Fantastic Lies, fascism, gaslighting, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, Hitler, independent media, Jason Stanley, Jim Crow fascism, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Lee Fang, left right alliance, left wing theory, liberalism empowers fascism, lie, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Masha Gessen, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, Media, Mike Tracey, MP6, Mussolini, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed, Palmer Raids, Palooka Joe, Politics, reactionary thought, Red Scare podcast, Republican Party, right wing populism, Ron Paul libertarians, skeptics, social media, ST2, Stupidpol, the Red Scare, Theory, Timothy Snyder, Trump Coup, Trump is a fascist, Trump isn't Hitler but so what?, Trumpism is fascism, woke neoliberalism, Zaid Jilani

‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the Contrarian “Left”

An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.

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