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

NinaIllingworth September 7, 2024 activism, blog, CA4, California, capitalism, Chris Mills Rodrigo, Common Dreams, Door Dash, exploitation, gig economy, gig workers, labor, labor law, labor rights, Labor Wars, Late Stage Capitalism, Lyft, minimum wage, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Pinkertons, poverty wages, Proposition 22, rideshare companies, Strike, U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, Uber, Union

Nina-Bytes: Exploitation as a Business Model

A recent study shows gig workers at rideshare companies are making less than minimum wage in the US; to stop it, we need to fight capitalism in the streets.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2024August 31, 2024 blog, CA4, capitalism, carbon capture, CC3, climate colonialism, Climate Crisis, climate mythology, climate nihilism, climate science, endless growth, extractivism, fossil fuels, James Dyke, mass extinction, net zero, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Overshoot Myth, Paris Climate Agreement, Rec Reads, revolution, Robert Watson, The Conversation, Wolfgang Knorr

Nina Bytes: Capitalist Mythology and the Climate

Nina looks at a great longform essay that debunks the climate “overshoot” myth and reveals that the only way to save humanity is to “leave it in the ground.”

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.

Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2024August 26, 2024 billionaires, blog, book bans, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, colonialism, critical race theory, culture war, DEI, education, FA1, fascism, fundamentalism, Gaza, genocide, George Orwell, History, indoctrination, Israel, LGBTQ rights, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, reactionaries, student protests, Swing Kids, WD7

Nina-Bytes: Indoctrinating A Dystopian Future

The reactionary war on history is about more than money; it’s about creating a generation of fascists who’ll watch billions die for profit as the world burns.

Blog Capitalism Journals Pandemic

NinaIllingworth August 23, 2024 2020, back to normal, billionaires, blog, brain fog, capitalism, Captain Trips, class war, coronavirus, Covid, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, Covid eugenics, covid isn't over, death cult, Depression, disability, epidemiology, Eugenics, Journals, labor rights, long covid, long hauler, mass murder for profit, neofeudalism, new normal, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, virus

Journal: Fuel for the Pyre

A personal journal about my experiences with Long Covid and why I think living in a capitalist society under our “new normal” may eventually disable us all.

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.

Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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