Like many of the people reading this, my focus is currently on trying to process everything that's coming out of the regime's invasion of LA; particularly the alarming things the government is saying which imply they're preparing to respond violently to what I suspect are going to be big, but extremely tepid mainstream liberal protests on June 14th. But news still existed before Trump sent the National Guard into LA, and as always The Skinny was there. We've got stories about the Gestapo gone wild, American participation in a colonial massacre in Gaza, and of course a little bit about the early stages of Trump's war on blue cities. Buckle up, it only gets dumber and more terrifying from here.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/06/10/the-skinny-a-whiter-shade-of-fail/2/

The Skinny: A Whiter Shade of Fail

“This is a fascist regime, ruled by a reality TV show nazi with his own burgeoning cult of personality, actively looking to create an American one-party dictatorship by consolidating as much governing power and control over US security forces as possible, in the executive branch. Levine is more than correct to point out what other observers apparently will not; in addition to positioning himself as the embodiment of US military might, Trump is also courting the armed forces he needs to enforce a nazi police state conducting mass deportations under martial law, with lavish funding and the prestige of a fascist propaganda theater event that celebrates the troops, at the same time it celebrates Trump.”

#Fascism #Trump #USPol #ICE #LA #TheSkinny #Nativism #Migrants #Geatapo #Gaza #Genocide #WitkoffMassacre #Project2025 #RussellVought #HeritageFoundation #UM #USPol #InvasionOfLA

This week's Skinny timed out with the end of the month, and a season change on my website; needless to say I'm a little exhausted. I'm fond of this one tho, there's several pieces I wrote this week that when cleaned up clearly could have been full essays. Not that I had the time to source them, but some of this was pretty good for a social media blog for sure.

This week we're talking about how the budget bill fuels the fascist anti-trans pogrom, the multiple purposes of the surveillance panopticon, ICE agents setting traps for migrants at courthouses nationwide, and the banality of the open white nationalism the regime engages in daily. Oh, and Senate Democrats could stop the GOP homicidal class war Billionaire Bill in its tracks; do they want to? Check out this week's Skinny for more:

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/31/the-skinny-banality-of-evil-in-trumps-america/2/

The Skinny: Banality of Evil in Trump’s America

"Which brings us to the vague wording, and potentially broad applications of this ideological screening. As we’ve learned to watch for from studying the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, and the Trump administration’s clear adherence to its doctrines, there is nothing in any of the administration’s orders targeting dissidents that essentializes being pro-Palestine, or anti-genocide. The regime has already asserted the power to define anything as terrorism, or material support, and even casual criticism as being a threat to US national security, so why would they stop at anti-genocide protestors or foreign students at all for that matter? A vast digital panopticon relying on “AI-processing” technology to sort through every aspect of a targeted individual or group’s lives can and almost certainly will be repurposed to identify and surveil the regime’s political and ideological opposition in broader American society until such a time as a ghoul like Marco Rubio, or Pam Bondi finds a way to declare that their constitutional rights too, are null and void."

#Fascism #USPol #ReconciliationBill #TransRights #Trump #GOP #ICE #MarcoRubio #StudentVisas #WhiteNationalism #TheSkinny #Newsletter

Lovely words in The Skinny! #theskinny

"De Rosa frontman M. John Henry releases 'Strange Is the Way' via Gargleblast Records (20 Jun), a collection of ten heavenly, folk-rock ballads, that centres intricate guitar technique and an illuminating use of effects."

Thank you x

In a week dominated by class war budget news, an ongoing genocide, and the persecution of Trump’s political opponents, the Skinny had a finger on the pulse.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/24/26716/2/

The Skinny: Threats, Fantasies, and Naked Corruption

"There is something fundamentally wrong, and actively dangerous, about a US corporate media complex that can watch a fascist, white nationalist, and openly nativist regime engage in a clear act of authoritarian political intimidation against its duly-elected political opposition, to protect a nightmare mass deportation scheme built on legal arguments you know are extremely dubious, and report it as a “clash” while accepting Alina Habba of all people’s arguments at face value. This isn’t bad journalism, this is paving the way for the fascist repression of Trump’s political opponents in real time and whether its a result of cowardice, or open collaboration, is absolutely fucking irrelevant. The United States is speedrunning a descent into a fascist dictatorship run by a brainwormed septuagenarian racist and his openly white nationalist toady Stephen Miller, and these chucklefucks are out here pretending just maybe a Congresswoman should do a couple decades of hard time for bumping into an ICE murderpig while literally being prevented from doing her job; even though we have the entire interaction on fucking video."

#Fascism #Trump #ICE #Politics #Media #Budget #MikeJohnson #LaMonicaMcIver #GOP #DemocraticParty #Austerity #ClassWar #Propaganda #MsRachel #Genocide #EnablingAct #TheSkinny #DHS #AlinaHabba

The fascist Trump Regime went prime time this week to manipulate the media and spread fascist propaganda while bringing in an unlikely ringer: Judge Jeanine. The Pork Reich can lie to us, threaten us, and try to gaslight the entire world, but they can't stop The Skinny.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/15/the-skinny-media-manipulation-regime-propaganda/

The Skinny: Media Manipulation & Regime Propaganda

"One of the hallmarks of the second Trump era is the way the Pork Reich consistently finds a way to make bad things, infinitely worse. For example, I don’t think anyone reading this would be surprised to hear me describe Fox News as an objectively fascist media organization, that is closely aligned with and prepared to lie to promote, Republican political objectives and GOP politicians. “Fox News lies for Republicans” was a pretty heady message in 1999, but it’s essentially a “well, duh” moment here in 2025. When you combine the power of the Fox Media apparatus with a Trump regime that approaches governance like a type of reality television show and actively sees control of media messaging as foundation to the success of their fascist project however, this unholy union creates something that roughly approximates “state news” in a dictatorship."

#Fascism #Trump #TheSkinny #News #Blog #Media #DNI #TulsiGabbard #JeaninePirro #FoxNews #Propaganda #Censorship #USPol #GavinNewsome #Courts #USConstitution #WhiteNationalism #SouthAfrica #ElonMusk #Nazis #ConspiracyTheories

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

A collection of my Fediverse blog posts about fascism and current events, published from April 13th to 15th, 2025. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, I wrote a lot about the Trump regime, ICE, and nazi billionaires.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/15/the-skinny-pork-reich-on-parade/2/

The Skinny: Pork Reich on Parade

"If they get away with this, or even if they can just successfully use it to justify applying government pressure against an extremely large, well-funded news organization, there’s no limit to how far these nazis will take this. This is how a fascist regime transforms the entire media environment into pro-Trump, state news outlets and it won’t just stop with the Fox-ification of media orgs either."

#Fascism #Trump #Blog #FCC #CurrentEvents #News #ICE #Media #USPol #MassDeportations #WhiteNationalism #TheSkinny

The Skinny: Albums of 2024

https://www.yearendlists.com/2024/the-skinny-albums-of-2024

#YearEndLists #TheSkinny #CharliXCX #FontainesDC #TheLastDinnerParty #Kneecap