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

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 Climate Crisis Fascism Social Media

NinaIllingworth August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 America PAC, Amerikan Musik, anti-regulation, BBC, blog, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, fascist billionaires, GOP, longtermism, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, plutocrats, Propaganda, social media, TESCREAL, trans rights, Twitter, UK Politics, UK riots, US politics, X

Matchstick Man in a World on Fire

A recent BBC article asked “what’s Elon Musk’s game?” Unfortunately, the piece didn’t bother answering the question, so Nina is here to do it for them.

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

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.

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 Fascism media Politics

NinaIllingworth July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, blog, class war, Donald Trump, ethnic cleansing, FA1, fascism, genocide, GOP, mass deportataions, Mastodon, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, nativism, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, political violence, Politics, Republican National Convention, Republican Party, RNC, Trump, Trumpism, Weimar America

How It Happens Here

Trump loving GOP fascists are calling for ethnic cleansing at the Republican National Convention and our media barely mentioned it; this is Weimar America.

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.

IDF Chief of the General Staff lieutenant general Herzi Halevi

Blog Decolonization Imperialism War

NinaIllingworth April 1, 2024 apartheid regime, Benjamin Netanyahu, blog, colonialism, decolonization, Famine, Gaza, genocide, Herzi Halevi, IDF, Imperialism, Israel, Joe Biden, Julian Borger, News, Nina-Bytes, Palestine, Palestinians, refugees, Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian, United Nations, United States, UNWRA, war, WD7

Nina-Bytes: Israel’s Quest to Dismantle Palestinian Relief Agency Continues

A brief look at Israel’s latest attempt to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian relief organization as part of its ongoing, U.S. backed genocide in Gaza.

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.

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.

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.