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Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)

A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.

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‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the Contrarian “Left”

An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.

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Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King

Nina takes a look at the terrifying logic behind the new-old strain of Republican excuses for a lawless president in “Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King.”

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The Hammering In My Head

A short essay channeling Thompson to talk about why rich people are absolutely trying to kill you for literally pennies on the share.

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The Simple Truth: No Puppet

Despite being in the middle of a move, I took a night off to talk about what recent foreign policy developments in Ukraine, Iran & Syria do for the Trump is Putin’s puppet theory in the Russiagate scandal – hint, it’s not pretty.

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Fear & Droning: A War on Everyone, Including Ourselves

My internet conked out on New Years Even and it was either write about something I knew from memory, or read a book written by Hillary Clinton; so let’s talk about the endless US war on everyone, including ourselves.

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The Simple Truth: The FCC & ISPs Are Attacking Free Speech Online

I’m back with a quick but informative look at the FCC’s recent 3-2, heinously anti-democratic decision to repeal Tittle II protection for Net Neutrality and what you can do about it

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A Brief Thought: An Empire of One

I’m back with a look at the growing power of Amazon founder and Washington Post CEO Jeff Bezos; being the richest man on earth has it’s advantages but is catering to corporate elites killing US Democracy? In a word, yes.

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The Simple Truth: The Congressional Sexual Harassment Cover Up Scandal

Nina takes a break from working on essays to take a quick look at a rapidly snowballing scandal the media is not talking about as forcefully as they should be

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A Letter to an Anonymous Friend About the Current State of the “Russiagate” Scandal

After a long time away from this website while staring into the abyss, Nina is back with a short letter explaining why the often absurd scandal that is Russiagate really hasn’t progressed all that much in the past two months despite numerous sensational media “revelations” about the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

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A Brief Thought: Clinton, Facebook & the Ridiculous Russiagate Redux

After a quasi-relaxing weekend off, I’m back with a look at a topic I sincerely wish we’d never have to talk about again – debunking Russiagate and why Hillary Clinton can’t admit her terrible campaign is the reason she lost the 2016 election.

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