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

Blog Fascism Politics Site Updates

NinaIllingworth January 31, 2025April 20, 2025 Amerikan Musik, antifascism, blog, brownshirts, censorship, Christian nationalism, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, fascist takeover, Gestapo, January 6th, LGBTQ, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Meta, Migrant Rights, MP6, Nina Illingworth, police state, Politics, resistance, shut it down, Site Updates, social media, The Skinny, trans rights, white nationalism

The New Skinny: January 2025 Blogs

Author’s note: in addition to my work here on NIDC, I also blog about fascism and current affairs on the

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 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.

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.

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.

Picture of a large, modern Pig Empire city about to be submerged under a tsunami wave as very small people run away from the waterline in the foreground.

Capitalism Climate Crisis Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate power, Covid, Eugenics, extractivism, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, funding fascism, global boiling, Malthusianism, Mini Theory Blog, oil, pandemic, pig empire, Propaganda, ruling class, ST2, the fascist creep, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

Picture of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's smirking heads, posed back to back.

Capitalism media Social Media Theory

NinaIllingworth August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 AI, antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Elon Musk, enshitification, Facebook, fascism, free internet, information environment, left wing organizing, left wing theory, LLM, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, social media, ST2, Theory, Twitter, walled garden

Mini-Theory Blog: Escaping the Garden

A brief discussion about how leftists online should respond to fascist billionaires attempting to transform the internet into walled gardens and propaganda ops.

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.

Fascism Journals Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 algorithm, algos, Amerikan Musik, AnarchoNinaWrites, Andy Ngo, anti-LGBTQ hate speech, anti-trans pogrom, anticapitalism, antifa, antifascism, beginner guides, capitalism, capitalist fuckery, content serving algorithms, Discord, eliminationism, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, fascist project, fascist propaganda, hate speech, homophobia, Journals, Kiwi Farms, Media, MP6, Musk Twitter, new user guide, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, onboarding, online fascism, online harassment, Pavlichenko Appreciation Society, Politics, Pork Reich, Site Updates, social media, transphobia, Twitter, Twitter is a fascist website, Twitter is a hate site, Weimar America, Wired

Update: A Regrettable Reconsideration

Elon Musk is actively turning Twitter into a fascist hate website and that obviously means I’m leaving; here’s where you can find me online going forward.

Books Fascism Reviews Theory

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, antifascist theory, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, Brazil, capitalism births fascism, capitalist ideology, capitalist realism, contemporary fascism, Cultural Marxism, Democracy, Donald Trump, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, Fascist Italy, fascist politics, faux democracy, Hannah Arendt, history of fascism, Hitler, How Fascism Works, India, Jair Bolsonaro, Jason Stanley, Joe Biden, Leon Trotsky, liberal antifascism, liberal democracies, Mussolini, Narendra Modi, Nazi Germany, neo fascism, Nina Illingworth, Pork Reich, Propaganda, reactionary thought, Reviews, semi fascism, ST2, Theodor Adorno, Theory, Umberto Eco, United States, Weimar America

Bookish Bits: Birdwatching With Liberal Antifascism

In this week’s Bookish Bits, Nina gets around to reviewing a delightful, but still extremely frustrating mainstream liberal analysis of modern fascist politics.

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