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

Blog Fascism Imperialism Police State

NinaIllingworth April 21, 2025April 21, 2025 9/11, Amerikan Musik, anti-trans pogrom, antisemitism, billionaires, blog, capitalism, censorship, Christian nationalism, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, Gaza, genocide, GOP, Imperialism, Israel, Jewish Left, Mahmoud Khalil, Marco Rubio, Meta, Mohsen Mahdawi, Nina Illingworth, police state, Pork Reich, SAVE Act, Sci-Fi, Sebastian Gorka, The Skinny, trans rights, WD7

The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference

As the Trumpenreich’s fascist agenda accelerates, American society appears to be descending into a climate of fear and indifference

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth April 16, 2025April 18, 2025 9/11, Alien Enemies Act, Amerikan Musik, CECOT, Christian nationalism, Civil Rights, DHS, dictatorship, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Essays, FA1, fascism, gangs, Gestapo, ICE, Imperialism, James Boasberg, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Kristi Noam, Marco Rubio, MP6, MS13, Nayib Bukele, Nina Illingworth, Pam Bondi, Paula Xinis, police state, Politics, Racism, SCOTUS, Stephen Miller, terrorism, Tren de Aragua, US Constitution, Venezuela, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship

On the fascist theater, propaganda, and deceptions that may lead to the birth of a US dictatorship under Trump unless Americans rise up and stop him.

Blog Fascism Imperialism Police State

NinaIllingworth April 15, 2025April 20, 2025 ACLU, Amerikan Musik, blog, Brendan Carr, CECOT, Civil Rights, CoreCivic, DHS, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, genocide, GEO, ICE, immigration, Imperialism, Justice, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Marc Andreessen, Marco Rubio, mass deportations, Mohsen Mahdawi, MP6, nativism, Nayib Bukele, Nina Illingworth, Pam Bondi, Peter Thiel, police state, private prisons, Protesters, SCOTUS, Stephen Miller, The Skinny, Vicky Osterweil, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

The Skinny: Pork Reich on Parade

Today we’re introducing a new spin on an old feature; plus a complete collection of my Fediverse blog posts from April 13th to April 15th, 2025.

Activism Fascism Police State Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth September 9, 2024 activism, blog, Campus Encampments, Carrie Zaremba:, colonialism, Democracy Now, FA1, fascism, free speech, Gaza, genocide, Homeland Security Campus, Israel, Jim Banks, Mondoweiss, Nina Illingworth, Northwestern University, Palestinians, Police, police state, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, settler colonialism, Steven Thrasher, student protests, Zionism

Recommended Reading: Campus Police States

After preparing all summer for war, American universities are now set to unleash the militarized Homeland Security Campus on student protestors this fall.

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.

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.

Image of graffiti saying "No Cop City" on a concrete lane divider, covered in slightly overgrown forest plants and grasses. Image is posterized.

Activism Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2023September 10, 2023 1985 MOVE Bombing, 2020 Uprising, abolition, activism, anarchism, Bill Barr, Chris Carr, Civil Rights, COINTELPRO, Defund the Police, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, George Floyd, Haymarket bombing, IWW, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Justice, labor organization, McCarthyism, Michael Reinoehl, Occupy Wall Street, Police, police state, RICO Act, Social Justice, ST2, Stop Cop City, The War on Sharing, Theory, Tortuguita

Mini-Theory Blog: the War on Sharing Escalates in Georgia

Nina talks about why attempts to criminalize protest itself and anarchist ideology in Georgia, are part of America’s long war on sharing and the left.

Canada FotB Podcast Police State

Scurvy January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Canada, citizen journalism, civil rights violations, Crackdown Podcast, drug war, first person testimony, FotB, Friends of the Blog, Garth Mullins, Indigenous Rights, Mass incarceration, MP6, neoliberalism, Podcast, Police, police budgets, police state, policing, policing for profit, poverty, racialized incarceration, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, Socialism, the prison industrial complex, the war on drugs, victims of the drug war, violent policing

Scurvy’s Selection: Crackdown Podcast

In today’s Selection, our host Scurvy brings us the straight dope about the war on drugs by highlighting first person accounts on the amazing Crackdown Podcast.

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.

Blog Fascism media Police State

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2022 abolition, Amerikan Musik, antifa, antifascism, assault on Portland, blog, Chad Wolf, Dell Cameron, Democratic Party, DHS, Donald Trump, FA1, fake terrorists, fascism, Gizmodo, GOP, JA5, Justice, Media, Media Madness, MP6, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, police abolition, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, Portland, Propaganda, Republican Party, Social Justice, terrorism, US Midterm Elections

Nina-Bytes: Order of the Day

Today in Nina-Bytes, we’re tracking back to Trump’s fascist invasion of Portland to find out what the Homeland Security was up to and why that matters today.

Fascism Field Notes media Police State

Scurvy November 4, 2022November 6, 2022 abolition, All Roads Lead Here, anarchism, anticapitalism, antifascism, austerity, billionaire funded fascism, blog, Breitbart, capitalism breeds fascism, capitalism is causing climate crisis, capitalism kills, capitalist realism, Climate Crisis, climate science denial, corporate America, dark money, Democracy, ecofascism, elections, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, fascist police, fascist police state, fascist propaganda, Field Notes, fossil fuel industry, Fox News, free market fundamentalism, informal writing, internet media, JA5, Journals, lie, Mark Fisher, Media, misinformation, MP6, murderpigs, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, paywalls, pig empire, Police, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, social media, Socialism, ST2, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Daily Caller, the end of democracy, The Outlaw Ocean, Theory, Trumpism is fascism, US midterms, US politics, voter intimidation, voter suppression, voting rights

Field Notes: This is Fine

Our man Scurvy is back, bringing you Nina’s blog writing from around the web and his hot multi-media pick of the week; a new podcast called “The Outlaw Ocean.”

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