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Analysis Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth September 2, 2024September 1, 2024 2024 US Election, Amerikan Musik, analysis, AP3, Carole Cadwalladr, coup, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, GOP, insurrection, January 6th, Joshua Kaplan, judicial coup, Kenny Bruno, militias, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Politics, ProPublica, Proud Boys, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, riots, SCOTUS, social media, The Guardian, Truthout, Twitter, UK riots

Recommended Reading: Daylight Ambush

Given the available evidence, it’s probably not a question of will Trump try a second coup if he loses the 2024 election, but what form will that coup take?

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.

Analysis Fascism media Politics

NinaIllingworth August 24, 2024August 24, 2024 2024 US Election, analysis, Arthur Milikh, blog, Brad Onishi, Christian nationalism, Claremont Institute, David Azerrad, DoJ, Donald Trump, Douglass Mackey, FA1, fascism, Helen Andrews, Jason Wilson, JD Vance, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Peter Thiel, Politics, Project 2025, Racism, Scott Yenor, The Guardian, Up from Conservatism, white nationalism

Nina-Bytes: The People and Ideas JD Vance Applauds

As more of JD Vance’s odious worldview is exposed to the light of day, it’s time for the media to start calling the GOP VP nominee what he really is: a fascist.

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.

Analysis Blog Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, antifascism, blog, Christian Zionism, CUFI, FA1, fascism, GOP, Mini Theory Blog, Moms for Liberty, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, Opus Dei, Politics, Project 2025, Propaganda, Proud Boys, Silicon Valley, Tech-authoritarians, the Heritage Foundation, Theory, Triumph of the Will, Trump, Umberto Eco

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 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.

Photograph of the New York Times street front masthead sign, tilted so it travels upward as you read it left to right.

Analysis Fascism media Social Justice

NinaIllingworth August 24, 2023 analysis, anti-trans pogrom, Assigned Media, Azeen Ghorayshi, Evan Urquhart, FA1, fascism, gender affirming therapy, Jamie Reed, LGBTQ, Media, MP6, New York Times, Nina-Bytes, NYT, Politics, Propaganda, protect trans kids, Social Justice, TERFs, trans panic, trans rights, transphobia in media

Nina-Bytes: Selling the Pogroms

Nina examines an important article by Evan Urquhart at Assigned to help illustrate how mainstream media provides ideological justification for a trans pogrom.

Analysis Fascism Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 16, 2023 analysis, anti-LGBTQ persecution, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-queer pogrom, anti-trans bills, anti-trans legislation, anti-trans pogrom, AP News, Associated Press, Cathy Renna, dehumanization, demonization, Erin Reed, fascism, fascist project, fascist propaganda, GOP, Hannah Schoenbaum, hate groups, Kansas, Kentucky, latent American transphobia, LGBTQ rights, Media, Missouri, Montana, National LGBTQ Task Force, Nazi Germany, New Hampshire, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Oklahoma, pogrom as politics, political apathy, Politics, queer rights, Republican Party, Social Justice, South Carolina, State politics, stochastic terrorism, Tennessee, Texas, the process of genocide, trans rights, US politics, Utah, Virginia

Nina-Bytes: Framea Thrust

New year, same anti-trans pogrom; as GOP-controlled states introduce anti-trans bills after mediocre midterm results, Nina explains why the fascists won’t stop.

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.

Analysis Capitalism Pandemic Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 23, 2022 analysis, anticapitalism, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, Captain Trips, class war, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid 19 primer, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, culture war, doctors, epidemiology, genocide, Global Pandemic, homicidal capitalism, Jessica Wildfire, killing people for profit, labor rights, Media, medical science, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, OK Doomer, pandemic, Politics, QAnon, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, US politics, virus denial as politics

Recommended Reading: Graveside Gaslighting

In today’s Recommended Reading, Nina catches up with the coronavirus by sharing an ominous and informative article from OK Doomer’s Jessica Wildfire.

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