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While it's certainly true that one week seems to feel very much like another in our Hot Gestapo Summer, fascism continues unabated in American society - and thus The Skinny was there once again. Check out our newsletter featuring the best of my blogging from the past ten days.

ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/20

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer

"If, as I and others have argued, these mass deportations are clear violations of constitutional and human rights, then ICE lawyers working to ram every brown person they can through via legally dubious methods (like say, declaring that a fake invasion by a Venezuelan gang nobody has ever heard of means you can ship people to foreign gulags without due process) would be legally accountable for their role in perpetuating these crimes. If you know what you’re doing is illegal, because you’re a lawyer, “I was just following orders” has a pretty poor track record as an excuse in court. So you can understand why it might behoove immigration judges, who literally work for Trump’s executive branch, not the judiciary, to hide the names of government attorneys doing the legal legwork for a fascist ethnic-cleansing project; a project that probably represents a real as fuck crime against humanity if several international scholars are to be believed. This isn’t about protecting ICE attorneys, it’s about protecting folks complicit in criminal atrocities."

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer | Nina Illingworth Dot Com - Part 2As the July sun scorches Trump's fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina's daily blogging content about the Pork Reich. - Part 2
#Fascism#Trump#USPol
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I don't know if its an artifact of cable news, cowardice, or genuine ignorance but there's a countercurrent developing in the discussion around the disgustingly-named "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant cages in the Florida Everglades and I think it's important to nip arguments that it's not *really* a "concentration camp" in the bud. So I cleaned up a post from earlier this week, threw some links in, and got into how the camp is run, the efforts Trump and DeSantis are undertaking to keep much of this a secret, and what conditions are like inside.

ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/18

Recommended Reading: Yes, It’s A Concentration Camp

"I think the debate over whether or not “Alligator Alcatraz” officially qualifies as a “real” concentration camp is both farcical and insulting. However you feel about longtime DNC minion Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as a politician, it is inarguable that she’s objectively describing a type of concentration camp. With dozens of brown bodies packed into small cages, inadequate access to washroom facilities and water, purposely reduced caloric counts inadequate for the preservation of healthy adults, exposure to elements and insects; what else would you call what we’re doing in the Florida swamp besides running a concentration camp? It’s not an accident Wasserman-Schultz references America’s dark history with the term “interment camps” but I think she’s still being too generous to the Trump regime here; this is a camp of cages for cruelly concentrating migrants without any concern for their wellbeing at all – a concentration camp, to be precise."

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · Recommended Reading: Yes, It’s A Concentration Camp | NIDCAs fascists and cowards push back on calling Alligator Alcatraz a concentration camp, Nina reads the news and asks what else you could possibly describe it as?
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At this point, I think we're probably still a long way from identifying the full web of influence, corruption, and misappropriation of resources behind Governor Ron DeSantis' concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, the obnoxiously named "Alligator Alcatraz." As such I'm going to keep this post pretty brief; more or less to keep the issue on our radar as more information emerges.

With that caveat noted however, this Talking Points Memo article talks about the outlet's extremely nascent investigation into how DeSantis built the concentration camp, who paid for it, and who profits from it. Would it surprise you to learn that Florida's fascist governor is using a fake "emergency" to make this monstrous bullshit happen, the money trail is a hot mess, and Florida taxpayers are going to be the folks footing the bill for Ron's nazi apology to Downmarket Mussolini? Yeah, it didn't surprise me either.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/con

Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

"TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp in the Everglades. The documents identify eight previously undisclosed companies — including two firms with a Fortune 500 pedigree — involved with the controversial facility. They also show that, in at least one instance, resources allocated for the state’s “disaster preparedness” apparatus were diverted to the site as DeSantis’ office used emergency powers to quickly establish the camp, causing a shortfall that needs to be addressed during the ongoing hurricane season."

I must confess that part of me feels like I'm insulting my readers' intelligence when I remind folks, over and over again, that nightmare concentration camps for migrants, many of whom are guilty of nothing more than a civil violation, would be an unacceptable eliminationist outrage even if nobody was profiteering from it and it cost the public coffers zero dollars. In the grand scheme of things the lies, corruption, and misappropriation of public funds are a side story compared to the fact that we've just opened a real as fuck concentration camp in a remote part of Florida and there are already reports of widespread human rights abuses and unsafe conditions emerging mere weeks after "Alligator Alcratraz" opened. With that having been said, informed observers must know by now that the rich nazis running the larger American fascist movement do have designs on profiting from fascist repression, ethnic cleansing, and the migrant carceral complex - and projects like Alligator Alcatraz demonstrate how that odious business functions.

If you want to know the names of the eleven companies already identified as working with the government of Florida to make this eliminationist bullshit possible, who is getting paid for what, and how many of the folks directly profiting from this are DeSantis donors (there are several) I recommend you just read the article. The short version here however is that like Trump, DeSantis has declared "an alarming number of migrants in Florida" to be a state level crisis, he then used emergency powers to divert a bunch of money, including from disaster prevention and relief funding in a state notorious for having a "hurricane season," to build a fucking concentration camp surrounded by alligators as a make up gift for his ally and former GOP nomination opponent, President Trump. Along the way a bunch of very shitty companies are raking in the money for substandard work, and the entire DeSantis administration is working overtime to keep as much of this as possible a complete secret from anyone who might be in a position to conduct any oversight on this genocidal nazi boondoggle. Think "Halliburton in post-Saddam Iraq" but on a smaller scale.

TPM - Talking Points Memo · Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’By Hunter Walker
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At this point if you cannot see that the Trumpenreich is actively engineering the conditions necessary for a fascist genocide of migrants and a massive ethnic cleansing project against brown people to create a white ethnostate, I need to ask if you've been living in a cave for the past six months. With recent news that the Trump administration is looking to fire up a mass denaturalization program, we are now in the process of both expanding the ethnic cleansing project to include American citizens and establishing the kind of stateless people fascist regimes are able to exterminate in unfathomable numbers. This isn't a debate anymore, and we're running out of time to stop this nightmare - mass graves are on the horizon.

ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/16

Ominous “Solutions” to Nonexistent Problems

"Folks, if this doesn’t terrify you I’m not sure you’re paying enough attention to the nightmare unfolding around us in Trump’s brave new Amerikkka. Historically, denaturalization policies have lead to some of the worst atrocities in Pig Empire history, including, you guessed it, the actual fucking Holocaust. If that sounds like scaremongering to you please let me remind you that we are currently bragging about building a concentration camp surrounded by migrant-eating alligators, and the Supreme Court has more or less signaled its willingness to let the Trump regime at least temporarily ignore the constitution to commit life-destroying human rights violations against non-citizens. How much longer do you think it’s going to take these fascist pigs to figure out that deportation flights are more expensive than bullets, or even just letting underfed people die in remote internment camps, far away from the public eye? We are through the looking glass now, and waiting until we’re finding mass graves outside of ICE facilities to recognize a rapidly escalating ethnonationalist genocide being conducted under the guise of immigration enforcement is an unacceptable course of action."

#Fascism #Trump #DOJ #MassDeportations #PamBondi #EthnicCleansing #Denaturalization #Ethnonationalism #Nazis #Genocide #WhiteSupremacy

(NIDC original post)

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · Ominous “Solutions” to Nonexistent Problems | on NIDCNow that Trump's DoJ intends to ramp up efforts to denaturalize foreign-born Americans, it's time to be frank about where this ethnonationalist nightmare ends.

East Germany Faces Societal Collapse

A leading sociologist from Leipzig is raising concerns about a potential turning point in eastern Germany, warning of a concerted effort by right-wing forces targeting civil society engagement. Alexander Leistner, a specialist in social dynamics, voiced his apprehension in an interview with “Der Spiegel”, highlighting an unusual pressure felt by citizens in eastern German communities who participate in political or social activities.

Leistner observes a skewed understanding of neutrality prevalent across numerous regions, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Ore Mountains. Historically, a cornerstone of democratic societies has been the open exchange of ideas and robust debate. However, in many areas of eastern Germany, a prevailing sentiment equates inaction and non-participation with neutrality.

The researcher emphasizes that extremist right-wing groups are actively promoting the concept of a “neutral” state paired with a society defined by ethnicity. He notes that political parties like the AfD advocate for a civil society ostensibly detached from politics, focusing instead on themes of “homeland” and “tradition.

Osna.FM · East Germany Faces Societal Collapse - Osna.FMSociologist warns of a tipping point for civil society in Eastern Germany, citing increasing pressure against political engagement and potential right-wing influence.

Report: Narendra Modi's ethno-nationalist politics increasingly aligns with Israel

"Zionism’s vision of a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine has become a model for Hindu nationalist ideology, Hindutva, which advocates for the establishment of a Hindu-supremacist nation in India."

"The ideological overlap is more than symbolic."

electronicintifada.net/content

#Modi-Netanyahu #Ethnonationalism #GazaGenocide #USPol #IndiaPol #IsraeliApartheid @palestine .

Report: Narendra Modi's ethno-nationalist politics increasingly aligns with Israel's

"Zionism’s vision of a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine has become a model for Hindu nationalist ideology, Hindutva, which advocates for the establishment of a Hindu-supremacist nation in India."

"The ideological overlap is more than symbolic."

electronicintifada.net/content

#Modi-Netanyahu #Ethnonationalism #GazaGenocide #USPol #IndiaPol #IsraeliApartheid @palestine .

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There is something altogether insidious about the way purposely-cultivated, nativist coding in American attitudes about immigration policy work to obscure the ethno-nationalist reality of Trump's mass deportation efforts and broader white nationalist agenda. No matter how many times the Trump regime lets the mask slip and either openly admits or institutes policies that make it clear they also want to harm, expel, or otherwise remove *legal* immigrants who don't fit a particular political and racial archetype, the broader US discourse translates those objectives to "Trump is deporting dangerous, violent, criminal migrants who snuck across the border illegally." It doesn't matter how often ICE arrests a beloved small business owner who has been contributing positively to his community for decades, or DHS deports children who are American citizens in their fanatical quest to expel an undocumented parent, or how often the Trump regime's policies treat refugees, green card holders, and even foreign-born US citizens as "illegal" and "criminal." The overtly racist, authoritarian reality of our immigration policies washes away in a national mantra about "keeping us safe" from "violent criminal migrants" that represent an almost microscopic fraction of the very real people, often guilty of nothing more than a civil violation, these fascist programs and policies affect.

As I've documented repeatedly however, there is a clear and unmistakable ethno-nationalist or nativist pattern to way the Trump regime's overarching "immigration reform" agenda functions. Well, you can add preventing potentially millions of legal immigrants from working in America because they can't get a social security number, to the growing pile of evidence demonstrating the Trump regime's rhetoric about "criminals" and "illegals" is obfuscating an openly nativist political program.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

Millions of legal immigrants’ lives upended after social security freeze

"The Enumeration Beyond Entry program is an agreement between the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security, where US Citizenship and Immigration Services would provide social security with information from applicants for work authorization or naturalization.

The program began in 2017 under the first Trump administration.

Without any public notice, on 19 March, the program was halted, affecting millions of immigrants every year and burdening Social Security Administration offices, as those applicants will now have to visit a Social Security Administration office and apply separately to receive a social security number.

Following the freeze, the Trump administration issued a memo on 15 April aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from receiving social security benefits, but provided no evidence of it being a problem."

So, stop me if you've heard this one before but a Trump regime policy they claim is necessary to stop "illegals" from stealing our social security benefits (that the ruling GOP party is trying to steal itself) actually has nothing in particular to do with preventing fraud and is just a giant "fuck you, go home" to legal immigrants in the United States. I guess they shoulda been South African nazis if they didn't want Stephen Miller and Downmarket Mussolini to harass them, am I right?

Now, you might be tempted to push back on my categorization of this as a nativist administrative maneuver if you take this malicious, but not particularly cancerous-looking policy shift at face value. After all, legal immigrants still *can* get a social security number, they just have to visit an office in person to so. Even setting aside the fact that this still gives the federal government an unwarranted degree over oversight over the lives of folks the US government has already said were fit to be admitted into the country however, this action must be placed in the context of a Trump administration and DOGE project that just slashed the SSA's staffing to the bone, closed a massive number of Social Security offices, and altered this policy without even making a formal announcement of how it would affect legal immigrants. I may not be an unfuckable billionaire ketamine addict who builds cars and rockets that burst into flames randomly, but I'm not dumb enough to believe the Trump administration doesn't *realize* what they're doing here; fucking with legal immigrants is the point, because this entire government doesn't believe anyone who isn't white, Christian, and pro-Trump actually belongs here.

Folks, the purpose of a system is what it actually does; and everything about the Trump regime's fascist immigration policies consistently does nativist bullshit. This isn't about "criminals" or keeping anyone "safe," it's bald-faced racialized nationalism and we must say so, no matter how ingrained pretending otherwise is in American culture.

The Guardian · Millions of legal immigrants’ lives upended after social security freezeBy Michael Sainato

The white wellness ecosystem, fostering family-friendly ‘white wellbeing’
The Normalisation of the Far-Right

"White nationalism, or any other supremacist or ethno-nationalist movement, usually harkens back to some romanticised idea of the past. The past when [white people] 'had power'. The past when the community 'was pure'. The past, when everything was good."

"Built into that is usually the idea of a romanticisation of more traditional ways of doing things, of escaping from modern society, which is usually described in these communities as degenerate … as unwholesome. So the purity, the return-to-nature found in the wellness movement has an inherent appeal to many groups [including] white nationalists."

"....The wellness industry and white nationalism have a common thread of 'purity' and cleanliness. 'We want to focus on having picnics and outdoor meetings and public events that you can bring your family to, where we see our healthy white children running around and being happy, and other people will look at us and see how great and friendly and family oriented and not scary [we are], and not wearing hoods and not sporting swastikas.'""

"Wellness does play into that, in part, because if you're walling yourself off from the rest of the world, you do need your organic coffee and your bar of soap and your hair tonic and whatnot. And these businesses help to create an economic base."

How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness industry >>
abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/whi

Soap to supremacy: The rise of white wellness >>
aljazeera.com/features/longfor
#wellness #pure #purity #white #nationalism #ethnonationalism #WhiteSupremacy #FarRight #FamilyFriendly #modernity #subculture #lifestyle #ReturnToNature #BacktotheLand #GranolaNazis

ABC News · How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness industryBy Catherine Zengerer

, everything the stand for are a social cancer.

It rears its ugly head every few decades. it's up to us to stomp it down. Punch a Nazi.

There is no permanent cure for the affliction (*), but we CAN and MUST instill a sense of political memory, History about nazism.

* - We CAN cure any INDIVIDUAL affected, see the proven M-1 Garand vaccine, curing hundreds of thousands in Europe 1930s.

#TurdReich#nazi#GOP
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The truth is, we've been saying for many years now that it's not just the #UnitedStates that's in danger of collapsing into an #authoritarian #ethnonationalism #fascism state.

Many major countries around the world have seen a resurgence in authoritarianism and ethnonationalism in recent years, not least among them the UK, France, Germany, India, Brazil, and Turkey. It just so happens that the US is seeing a sudden rapid decline due the unwise re-election of Donald Trump. #USpol

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This is why #ethnonationalism is a synonym for #Fascism, and why these ideas inevitably lead to conflict, tragedy, and eventually, atrocity.

And it is easily demonstrated that all #authoritarian states are #expansionist and will seek to increase the territory they control by force.

They are never content to live in #peace with their neighbors, even if they could somehow achieve their ideal of genetic, ethnic, racial, and ideological purity and expel, or at least control, all "aliens". #USpol

'In addition to the genocide of Europe’s Jews, the Nazis also persecuted, brutalized, or murdered additional groups of people. In some cases, they did so with the help of their allies and collaborators'

None of what we are seeing in America-under-Trump is new.

The link is worth a visit - just info, no grim photographic material.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content

encyclopedia.ushmm.orgWhat Groups of People did the Nazis Target?Jews were the primary targets for mass murder by the Nazis and their collaborators. Nazi policies also led to the brutalization and persecution of millions of others.