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

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2024August 31, 2024 BBC, Benjamin Netanyahu, bias, blog, CBC, CNN, colonialism, Common Dreams, Craig Mokhiber, crimes against humanity, Fox, Gaza, genocide, human rights, IDF, Imperialism, Israel, Media, MP6, Nazi Germany, New York Times, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Palestinians, Propaganda, Rwanda, TikTok, Torture, Wall Street Journal, War Crimes, Washington Post, WD7

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.

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.

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.

Blog Climate Crisis Fascism Social Media

NinaIllingworth August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 America PAC, Amerikan Musik, anti-regulation, BBC, blog, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, fascist billionaires, GOP, longtermism, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, plutocrats, Propaganda, social media, TESCREAL, trans rights, Twitter, UK Politics, UK riots, US politics, X

Matchstick Man in a World on Fire

A recent BBC article asked “what’s Elon Musk’s game?” Unfortunately, the piece didn’t bother answering the question, so Nina is here to do it for them.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis media

NinaIllingworth August 3, 2024 Anti-Capitalism, Billionaire Tax, blog, Brazil, CA4, capitalism, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, extractivism, fossil fuels, George Monbiot, mass extinction, Media, News, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, revolution, The Guardian, wealth tax

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

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.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis media

NinaIllingworth April 2, 2024 Big Oil, blog, Chevron, class war, Climate Crisis, corporate control, corporate propaganda, David Folkenflik, extractivism, fossil fuels, Fox News, Media, media consolidation, Miranda Green, MP6, news desert, Nina-Bytes, NPR, Propaganda, Richmond California, Sinclair, The Richmond Standard

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News

A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town.

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.

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.

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