On the fascist theater, propaganda, and deceptions that may lead to the birth of a US dictatorship under Trump unless Americans rise up and stop him. An essay about fascist unreality and the nazi game of Simon Says the Trump regime played during the President of El Salvador's official White House visit, and why the evidence suggests the United States just officially slipped into authoritarianism.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/16/fascist-word-games-and-the-birth-of-an-american-dictatorship/

Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship

"t this point I’m honestly not sure how much more evidence fair minded people need to see before they understand the Trump regime’s farcical yet terrifying trafficking of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador had no basis in law or public safety, but was rather just a form of highly-effective fascist propaganda; a grand act of nazi theatre designed to inspire white nationalists, terrorize brown people, and shatter the legal checks on the Klepto Kaiser and his Christian Nationalist regime’s power."

#Fascism #Trump #ElSalvador #CECOT #Law #USConstitution #AbregoGarcia #Kidnapping #HumanTrafficking #PamBondi #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #DHS #Imperialism #WarOnTerror #Dictatorship #NayibBukele #USPol #MassDeportations #WhiteNationalism #Essay

After watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spout ableism and eugenic theory on live TV while lying about and dehumanizing folks with autism, I'm alarmed that the story here appears to be "wow RFK Jr is a total crank" What it should be is that everything about RFK Jr’s sham HHS study into the “causes” of autism is a reactionary eugenicist nightmare that threatens the health & lives of autistic people, particular children.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/18/nina-bytes-kennedy-conspiracies-and-kids/

Nina-Bytes: Kennedy, Conspiracies, and Kids

"Reading this piece, two things immediately sprung to mind. First, I wouldn’t let Robert F. Kennedy Jr within ten feet of any child whatsoever if I had the ability to prevent it. Secondly; are we sure putting RFK Jr. in charge of Health and Human Services isn’t just a way to let some sadistic eugenicist freaks torture autistic children and profit from it? Because from out here, it sure does seem like that’s Kennedy’s plan and the reason for his department’s “massive testing and research” effort. I’m not a scientist, but somehow I doubt that conspiracy crank Kennedy and a fake doctor whose family business is apparently torturing children have the best interests of autistic Americans at heart; particularly when Kennedy is openly promoting the eugenicist idea that autism is an “epidemic” that is “destroying our children.”

#Fascism #TrumpRegime #RFKJr #Autism #Eugenics #Ableism #HHS #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #Vaccines #Eliminationism #Grift #USPol #Healthcare #Nazis #DavidGeier #Kennedy #AmandaMarcotte #Salon #Blog

As Israel openly ramps up it genocidal project to empty Gaza of Palestinians through starvation and murder, and the Trump regime unleashes a fascist police state on targeted protestors at home, it's becoming clear that the machine wants us all to forget about Gaza and let the nightmare happen - but that is precisely why now is not the time to go silent.

Recommended Reading: Censorship, Silence, and Genocide - on NIDC

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/20/recommended-reading-censorship-silence-and-genocide/

"Look friends, I know that this is a really bad time to ask people to stick their necks out to oppose a genocide but Israel just bombed literally the last hospital in Gaza and it barely made the evening news in the United States. The regime and indeed much of the larger ruling class establishment that supports settler colonialism, and profits from the genocide by various means, wants to create an environment where speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and Israel’s settler colonial massacres is just criminal and subversive enough to stop most of us from doing it. This will then allow them to easily isolate and repress a much smaller number of people who are brave enough and otherwise able to resist the genocide directly. It is vital that we counteract this cone of silence effect by keeping the US-backed genocide in Gaza on our lips, and our outrage about crimes against humanity Israel is committing in the discourse; the regime can’t arrest us all – and Gaza, is running out time."

#Fascism #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #PoliceState #Trump #Netanyahu #Palestinians #CrimesAgainstHumanity

The Skinny is a cleaned up collection of my Fediverse blog posts; this time from April 16th to April 19th. Topics explored include Trump's ICE Gestapo, the anti-trans pogrom, signs that a Christian Nationalist purge is brewing in the Trump administration, Broligarchs, and why Seb Gorka just implied half the country are aiding and abetting terrorists by fighting back against the Trump agenda.

The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21/the-skinny-climate-of-fear-and-indifference/2/

"As such, it should absolutely alarm you when Seb Gorka goes on TV to repeat and reinforce the US government’s fact-free claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is literally a “terrorist,” and starts characterizing people who oppose Trump’s illegal “deportation” of Garcia as folks potentially “aiding and abetting” terrorists; because again, for some mysterious reason (they’re all nazis too) the Trump regime gave this disgraced War on Terror-era reject authority over protecting America from whoever the hell the regime says are “terrorists” apparently. How Gorka finds the time to do so amid his typically busy day of doing Islambophia, warmongering, and spreading fascist ideology, remains a mystery."

#Fascism #Trump #antisemitism #Gaza #Genocide #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #ICE #StudentProtests #IdeologicalPolicing #ChristianNationalism #MarcoRubio #Gorka #WarOnTerror #CivilRights #HumanRights #Broligarchs #Musk

I don't plan on writing a ton about electoral politics until it's clear we're going to have elections that aren't just straight up rigged, but I expanded some thoughts about Gavin Newsom for the I told you so-s later:

Picture Show: Gavin Newsom is the Problem

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21/picture-show-gavin-newsom-is-the-problem/

"Speaking frankly, I think Newsom’s eliminationist policies towards unhoused people in California, and his willingness to chum around with nazi Trump regime propagandists on his podcast while agreeing they make some good points about things like trans rights, should be enough to disqualify him from political life immediately, let alone a 2028 Dem nomination run. This is in addition to the fact that he’s a soulless neoliberal who talks like a progressive but has been quietly transforming California into a police state."

#GavinNewsom #Politics #2028Election #TransRights #Unhoused #PoliceState #DemocraticParty #Trump #Fascism #AbregoGarcia

In the latest edition of the Skinny I took advantage of the two day Easter truce with reality the Trump regime undertook to catch up on a couple of stories that had fallen by the wayside. Talking Climate Crisis, ideological purges in Trump's federal government, and why RFK Jr is starting to scare the heck out of me.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/23/the-skinny-stop-and-breathe/2/

The Skinny: Stop and Breathe

"It is shockingly disingenuous and absurd for the Trump regime to argue that regulations on air quality, fossil fuel production, environmental pollution control, and nuclear fucking waste are “contrary to the public interest.” Unfortunately that really doesn’t matter because once again it’s clear that the public interest was never the point of the president’s order. The crass level of corruption and self-serving exercise of power the Klepto Kaiser regularly partakes in makes it obvious that this is all just a way to reward his capitalist donors; without having to tolerate pushback from a public that cares very much about clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and a world on fire. Fascist is as fascist does I guess."

#Fascism #Trump #ClinateCrisis #Purge #RFKJr #Eugenics #Autism #Politics #News #Capitalism #TransRights

I don't usually pin back-posted material to this thread, but last night I published a couple of theory blogs from about six weeks ago that aren't time sensitive.

On why a wealthy ruling class has so gleefully collaborated with fascism to install the Trump regime - it's not just that they're awful people, it's also all that filthy lucre.

Theory Blog: Fascism For Profit

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/03/12/theory-blog-fascism-for-profit/

"All of which brings us to Trump and the rapid expansion of the carceral complex necessary to enact his fascist agenda. When Downmarket Mussolini moves to conduct the mass deportation of millions of people, that creates an enormous pot of money that can be looted by his rich donors in various ways. Are these folks motivated by white supremacy? Yes, definitely. But even if they weren’t we’re talking about billions, if not trillions of dollars worth of government contracts at stake here; a whole lot of people are going to get very rich off Trump’s ethno-nationalist policies regardless of what they believe in their hearts."

#Fascism #Capitalism #Billionaires #MassDeportations #Trump #ChristianNationalism #Eliminationism

On why allying with a liberal capitalist establishment in the throes of free market fundamentalist ideology, isn't a viable long term answer for a labor class tired of authoritarian police states and living on a boiling rock.

Theory Blog: There’s No Going Back to “Normal”

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/03/13/theory-blog-theres-no-going-back-to-normal/

"Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, the bipartisan fascist police state that protects oligarchs and projects corporate power is the same fascist police state Trump is using to protect and install a fascist political order. The same racism, marginalization, and callous indifference to human life required to make capitalist extraction possible, is fueling popular support behind the rise of de facto fascist political parties all over the Pig Empire. The same national security state created to fight an endless “war on terror” is now being used to hunt down and silence opposition to Trump’s fascist agenda. The chickens have come home to roost and an unholy union of capitalism, imperialism, and hierarchal class warfare that is all completely “normal” in our society, has given birth to the very same fascist monsters that threaten to destroy everything labor class people care about today."

#Fascism #Capitalism #Trump #FreeMarketFundamentalism #ClimateCrisis #RightWingPolitics #RightwardShift #Antifascism #NoMoreNormal

Media sources have obtained a March 14th Department of Justice memo the Trump regime released after a FOIA request, revealing that the Pork Reich wants ICE agents to ignore the Fourth Amendment to fight a fake war against "narco-terrorist gangs." If they get away with this, we'll truly be in the V for Vendetta era of Trumpism.

Nina-Bytes: Jackboots at the Door

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/29/nina-bytes-jackboots-at-the-door/

"As someone who has spent many years studying fascism, authoritarianism, and police states however, I’m pretty sure you don’t issue a Department of Justice order like that unless you intend to use ICE to start going house to house in American communities; and once a fascist government grants itself the power to do that, it really doesn’t matter why they claim they’re doing so anymore. This is quite literally the beginnings of the dystopian police state winger prepper reactionaries are always going on about guarding against, and in anything resembling a functioning democracy US Attorney General Pam Bondi would be arrested immediately for even signing it. As both the article and your middle school civics class will tell you, absolutely none of this is legal no matter what ancient laws Trump tries to invoke and Bondi’s Justice Department is basically telling ICE to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, “because we say so.”

#Fascism #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #DoJ #PamBondi #FourthAmendment #USConstitution #WhiteNationalism #MassDeportations #AlienEnemiesAct

If the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 era have taught us nothing else, it's that DHS, ICE, and the Migrant Carceral Complex, all built by bipartisan hands, represent the tools to create a turnkey dictatorship for any president willing to seize them; and thus they should all go.

Nina-Bytes: Sowing and Reaping in Trump’s America

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/30/nina-bytes-sowing-and-reaping-in-trumps-america/

"The reality is that a police state and vast carceral complex built to target migrants, can just as easily be repurposed by a fascist government to target the regime’s political opposition. Either we make our stand against fascism here, on the issue of immigration justice, or the rest of us will surely fall under that same machinery of oppression in due time. Both the Department of Homeland Security and ICE were built under false pretenses by governments who were violating our civil rights; they are “solutions” in search of a problem, and under Trump anyone who opposes fascism has become that problem."

#Fascism #Trump #ICE #DHS #Dictatorship #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteNationalism #Nativism #PoliceState #MigrantRights #Immigration #Justice

It was a real police state kinda week on The Skinny this time; we've got the American Gestapo, Nixonian revenge plots, and a world on fire in this week's blog collection.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/30/the-skinny-more-nixonian-than-nixon/2/

The Skinny: More Nixonian Than Nixon

“Mainstream analysts have been either unable, or unwilling to actively separate whether or not Downmarket Mussolini “can” do something, from whether or not he “should” do something. This isn’t a videogame; emergency presidential powers presupposes an actual emergency that justifies them or Trump is just stealing power for the executive branch and the media has a responsibility to report that because it’s part of the story. Yes, the President has the authority to declare a bunch of national emergencies, but that doesn’t mean we have to believe him when he makes up a bunch of fake crises and then insists that those fake crises give him the power to literally do fascism.”

#Fascism #Trump #ClimateCrisis #ICE #AbregoGarcia #JudgeDugan #DHS #PamBondi #Authoritarianism #PoliceState #Capitalism #TheSkinny #Blog

Trump's recent executive order to "unleash" police in America is actually a paint-by-numbers recipe for an authoritarian police state operating under a perpetual condition of martial law; and given the Swine Emperor's history, that should alarm Americans more than their media is letting on.

Nina-Bytes: A Road to Martial Law

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/02/nina-bytes-a-road-to-martial-law/

"Even if we didn’t know Trump is an unhinged fascist with a penchant for punitive violence, the combination of material state support for police criminality, arming up and training to occupy American communities, and the unification of military, police, and national security assets, including personnel apparently, into a single ad-hoc domestic security force would all be ominous signs of an impending dictatorship under martial law. If I’m being honest I don’t think the author of this piece is being alarmist enough given the scope of this executive order."

#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #MartialLaw #ExecutiveOrder #ICE #DHS #DoD #DoJ #MigrantJustice #Police #MilitarizedPolice #GOP #Jan6 #Coup #Panopticon #Counterterrorism #WarOnTerror

In an environment of collaboration, cowardice, and greed, we must never forget that corporate America surrendered to Trump's fascism willingly.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/08/nina-bytes-corporate-usa-collaborates-for-cash/

Nina-Bytes: Corporate USA Collaborates for Cash

"Frankly I don’t think it’s really news that much of the American private sector’s DEI initiatives were motivated more by appearing to oppose white supremacy and enforced social hierarchies in an increasingly Christian Nationalist political environment, than actually opposing those problems. This was pointed out long before Trump’s second term, and obviously their actions since the regime was installed have demonstrated that critics were right to question the commitment of American corporations that directly profit from a white supremacist order that marks out certain groups of people for brutal exploitation. In that context then, it’s important to understand that we are in fact not “all in this together” and a corporate sector that gladly donated to Trump’s election campaigns must be understood as active partners in the installation of a Christian Nationalist dictatorship in America."

(Original written in early April, I literally got so busy I lost this one in the drafts folder; when I found it again on Friday I decided to clean it up and add links. And here we are.)

As the regime tears American apart it’s time for everyone to accept the dark but undeniable truth; Trump and the MAGA movement are modern day Nazis in America. Looking at two recent stories and how they demonstrate that there's nothing hyp;erbolic at all about comparing Trumpism to the 3rd Reich and Nazism as a whole.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/06/picture-show-a-modern-day-nazi-movement/

Picture Show: A Modern Day Nazi Movement

"If kidnapping migrants and trafficking to them to a torture prison in El Salvador doesn’t represent a red line for the MAGA base, what makes you think anything, even mass killings, actually would? This is a Christian Nationalist movement, lead by a fascist President, and the people who still support all this monstrous shit are literally the modern American equivalent of pre-war German supporters of the Nazi Party under Hitler."

#Fascism #Trump #MAGA #Nazism #USPol #GOP #Warren #Michigan #Propaganda #ICE #MarcoRubio #TomHoman #USConstitution #WhiteNationalism #ElSalvador #Honduras #MassDeportations #Cruelty #Racism #Ethnostate

Cratering in the polls, and losing left right and center in court, the Trump regime spent this week scrambling to install a permanent fascist order before the peasants show up on the National Mall with pitchforks; and we wrote about it all in this week's The Skinny.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/07/the-skinny-may-1st-7th/2/

The Skinny: Building A Patchwork Enabling Act

"I confess that on some level it’s probably amusing to picture Trump sitting in front of a TV and getting big mad when it tells him Black and trans people exist, he shouldn’t bully overweight people, and the abortion bans he facilitated are hurting American women. The reality here however is that in signaling what the president doesn’t want to see in publicly-funded media, he’s effectively articulating a Christian Nationalist agenda. As we’ve discussed numerous times on this blog, the regime is not just fighting a material war to install a fascist dictatorship in our society; they’re also fighting an authoritarian cultural war on our discourse, our history, and who is allowed to matter in our media entertainment complex. The ideological headcage Trump is trying to use state power to enforce here, is just as important to the Trumpenrich project to create a white ethnostate dictatorship under the Kelpto Kaiser, as its material expansion of the American fascist police state is."

#Fascism #Trump #KariLake #LindaMcMahon #TransRights #USPol #StephenMiller #NPR #OAN #WhiteNationalism #BigTech #PBS #TheMindset #Media #Harvard #IdeologicalPolicing #Censorship #VOA #TinaPeters #TheBigLie #Nazis