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

Activism Blog Capitalism Labor

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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 Imperialism media War

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Nina-Bytes: Manufacturing Consent for a Genocide

As corporate media continues to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a recent Common Dreams article asks if it’s time to consider legal liability.

Essays Fascism Politics Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: Bench Warfare

As a fascist SCOTUS hears cases that will destroy US democratic life Nina lays bare the cynical inversion of principles that are leading us into the Pork Reich.

Decolonization Essays Fascism Police State

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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 Climate Crisis media Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: Mass Response

Using two recent media examples, lets talk about hope and the growing body of evidence that everyday people know capitalism is the driver of climate crisis.

Labor Social Justice Social Media socialism

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TMS: Organizing to Win the Impossible Fight

Fresh off the most stunning labor victory in a generation, Nina takes a look at why the fight against corporate power can help us win a revolution.

Blog Can't You Read Fascism Social Media

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The Mini-Skinny: Headlights

Gathering together my social media analysis from around the internet, today’s Mini-Skinny is all about the unimpeded progress of the fascist creep in America.

Climate Crisis media Neoliberalism Politics

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Six Things I Think: Reconciliation and the Dirty Pair

Nina’s back with an in-depth investigation into a riddle no one outside of the Beltway was struggling to solve. Power, politics and payola collide on NIDC.