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

Media Madness Police State Social Justice Sports

NinaIllingworth June 17, 2019November 5, 2022 2019 NBA Finals, Alameda County, Alameda County Sherriff's Office, Alan Strickland, America is racist, assault, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Deadspin, Deep Dives, Donald Trump, driving while black, Essays, fascism, Ferguson, Gestapo, Golden State Warriors, Greg Wiener, Gregory Ahern, investigation, investigative analysis, JA5, Justice, Kyle Korver, Masai Ujiri, Mass incarceration, Media Madness, Michael McCann, MP6, NBA, Nina Illingworth, no justice, Oakland, Offsite Writing, Olga Rodriguez, Oracle Arena, Patrick Redford, Player's Tribune, Police, police state, police violence, protests, racial politics, racial profiling, racialized police violence, Racism, racist policing, Ray Kelly, Rob Gillies, Sandra Bland, Sheriff Gregory Ahern, Social Justice, Sports, Toronto Raptors, white supremacy

Cracker Barrel of Bullcrap (on Media Madness)

A deep dive investigation into the racist Alameda County Sherriff’s Office and its attempts to charge Masai Ujiri for being racially profiled and assaulted by a Deputy on live TV.

Censorship Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth June 15, 2019January 16, 2021 algorithm, blogger, Can't You Read, censorship, comment sections, Contact, Contact Page, email, Facebook, fascists, Mastodon, Media Madness, neoliberal, Patreon, personal, shadowbanned, Site Updates, social media, TERFs, Tumblr, Tweetstorms, Twitter

Twittering Classes: A Social Media Policy Update

A brief explanation of why I shut down my main Twitter account and how you can find me or my writing online, going forward.

Fascism media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth June 12, 2019November 5, 2022 Alex Shephard, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Carter Wrenn, census, conspiracy theory, crackers, Crosscheck, Deep Dives, Democracy, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, Election Fraud, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascist judges, gerrymandering, GOP, Hofeller leaks, liberalism, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Media, Media Madness, MP6, neoliberalism, new Red Scare, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, opposing fascism, Pork Reich, racialized voter suppression, Racism, Republican, Russiagate, Russiagate hysteria, stacking the judiciary, Supreme Court, The New Republic, Thomas Hofeller, voter suppression, voting rights, white supremacy, Wilbur Ross Jr

Active Measures on Media Madness

A longer essay on Media Madness about GOP racialized voter suppression, elite liberal complicity and the need for a united antifascist front on the left.

Books Can't You Read Essays Justice War

NinaIllingworth June 4, 2019November 5, 2022 Afghanistan, Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday, Betsy DeVos, Blackwater, Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Books, Can't You Read, contractor army, crusader, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Erik Prince, Essays, FA1, forever war, genocide, GOP, intelligence contractors, Iraq, Iraq occupation, Islamophobia, Jeremy Scahill, mass murder, mercenaries, military contractors, Nicholas Slatten, Nicholas Slatten pardon, Nina Illingworth, Nisour Square massacre, Offsite Writing, pardoning war criminals to fire up the base, pig empire, Politics, Presidential Pardon, private intelligence, Republican, Reviews, travesty of justice, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, Venezuela, War Crimes, WD7

Blackwater and the Slatten Pardon on Can’t You Read

A combination book review and current affairs essay on Can’t You Read that talks about Trump’s pardon power, Erik Prince, and Jeremy Scahill’s “Blackwater.”

Books Essays News Site Updates

NinaIllingworth June 1, 2019November 17, 2022 blogger, Books, Can't You Read, Essays, Facebook, link dump, Media Madness, News, Nina Illingworth, Odds and Ends, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Rec Reads, recap, Recommended Reading, Site Updates, Six Things I Think, Tumblr

Odds and Ends: February to May 2019

A recap of my writing from February to May 2019 with links to everything published off-site.

Books Essays media Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth May 31, 2019November 5, 2022 anticommunism, antifascism, austerity, Books, CA4, Canada, capitalism, Chris Hedges, Citizen's United, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, class war, climate catastrophe, COINTELPRO, cold war, corruption, Deep Dives, democratic rights, Essays, FA1, fascism, FBI, Glenn Greenwald, Greece, Ibram X Kendi, inverted totalitarianism, Jane Mayer, Jim Crow, lobbying, Margin Notes, mass surveillance, Media, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, plutocrats, quotations, Quotes, Red Scare, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the Palmer Raids, UK, Wages of Rebellion, War on Terror, Yanis Varoufakis

Margin Notes: Wages of Rebellion and the Inversion Perversion in the Pig Empire

A deep look at the way the underlying logic behind our rights and freedoms are inverted to help the wealthy few at the expense of the many – featuring a quotation from “Wages of Rebellion” by Chris Hedges.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth May 29, 2019November 5, 2022 1996 Telecom Act, American history, cable news, class, class war, corporate media, Debunking the Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press, Essays, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, forever war, History, Iraq War, Jeff Bezos, Joe Hill, journalism, Julian Assange, left wing theory, Media, media lied us into war, media lies to you for power, media myths, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, mythmaking, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Propaganda, rich people own the media, ST2, The Post, The Post is a narrative building movie, Theory, Vietnam War, war, Watergate, Wikileaks, WMDs, yellow journalism

The Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press

A short Patreon essay about why corporate media-created narratives about their own role in checking the powerful are bunk.

Climate Crisis Essays News Politics

NinaIllingworth May 24, 2019November 17, 2022 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Alt Right, anti-climate science, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Beto ORourke, big business, border militias, Bush, capitalism, CC3, Chuck Schumer, climate change, Climate Chaos, Climate Crisis, Corporate Fascism, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialists, Deregulation, DNC, Donald Trump, Donations, DSA, ecofascism, Economics, EPA, Essays, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, fracking, GOP, Joe Biden, Koch Brothers, libertarians, Mercer family, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, Naomi Klein, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Palooka Joe, Pinkertons, plutocrats, Politics, reactionary, Reagan, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, right wing paramilitaries, Scott Pruitt, Silicon Valley, Six Things I Think, Stephen Miller, Tea Party, Tech Bros, the Green New Deal, Tom Perez, white nationalism

Six Things I Think: Tomb-World Politics Edition

Climate Catastrophe is unquestionably the single most important issue of our era; which is why it’s now become a full time culture war battleground in America.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Wall Street

NinaIllingworth May 20, 2019November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, banks, CA4, derivative trading, Economics, Essays, federally insured gambling, Finance, Fraud, Griftopia, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, London Whale scandal, Matt Taibbi, Media Madness, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, OCC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Offsite Writing, OTC derivative trades, pension funds, stock derivatives, the global economy is a ponzi scheme, Wall Street, Wall Street on Parade

Distant Early Warning on Media Madness

An article about JP Morgan Chase’s 2.2 trillion dollar bespoke betting time bomb and why it could pop at pretty much any time, on Media Madness.

Patreon Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth May 18, 2019November 5, 2022 African Americans, anti racist intellectuals, anti-racism, anticapitalism, Black America, Black Intellectuals, Black Power Movement, capitalism, Civil Rights movement, civil war, class war, COINTELPRO, Economics, economics of racism, Essays, exploitation, FA1, Fred Hampton, genocide, how to get shot in America, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Jim Crow, Kwame Ture, left wing theory, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, MLK Jr, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Police, police state, Propaganda, race and class for the undercaste, racialized incarceration, Racism, Racism is profitable for the rich, racist propaganda, slavery, Social Justice, social sciences, Socialism, ST2, street racism, structural racism, the Black experience in America, The FBI killed Malcolm and Chairman Fred, Theory, WD7

“How to Get Shot in America” on Patreon

A link to one of my best essays, discussing how talking about where racism, meets capitalism, often results in assassination by the cracker aristocracy.

Blog media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth May 17, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 538, Bernie Sanders, blog, Comcast, Comcast was in the tank for Biden, corporate media, democratic socialism, Fantastic Lies, Five Thirty Eight, Joe Biden, liberal establishment, liberals, Media, Media Madness, MP6, MSNBC, MSNBC was in the tank for Biden, Nate Silver, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, political propaganda, Politics, Propaganda, rigged, smearing Bernie Sanders, US politics

“Kingmaking II: Confidence Games” on Media Madness

A link to a short blog post about how the media was already rigging the 2020 Dem Primary, just under a year in advance.