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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 1d

Remember Trump1 family separation policy? Reptilian hate-monger Stephen Miller
-- Henry Giroux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Giroux
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/stephen-miller-and-the-making-of-the-fascist-subject

How Stephen Miller Manipulates Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/02/how-stephen-miller-manipulates-donald-trump-to-further-his-immigration-obsession
* driving force behind Trump1/2 racist agenda

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #AmeriKKKa
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 1d

Remember Trump1 family separation policy? Stephen Miller
-- Henry Giroux: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_G...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/s...

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Miller's racist obsession
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
* driving force, Trump1/2 racist agenda

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism

Remember Trump1 family separation policy? Stephen Miller & the Making of the Fascist Subject
-- Henry Giroux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Giroux
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/stephen-miller-and-the-making-of-the-fascist-subject

How Stephen Miller Manipulates Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/02/how-stephen-miller-manipulates-donald-trump-to-further-his-immigration-obsession
* driving force behind Trump1/2 racist agenda

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #AmeriKKKa
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 1d

Video: Who Is Russell Vought? [Heritage Foundation | Project 2025]
www.propublica.org/article/vide...

* controls fate of trillions of dollars, millions of federal workers.

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🇺🇲 #Christofascism 🇨🇦 #Trumpism

#transgenocide
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#socialism

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113510337698070311

Video: Who Is Russell Vought? [Heritage Foundation | Project 2025]
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-who-is-russell-vought-trump-omb-shutdown

Little-Known D.C. Insider Became Trump’s Dismantler-in-Chief
* rose from a congressional staffer to pilot everything f. Trump2 layoffs/agency closings
* controls the fate of trillions of dollars, millions of federal workers.

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 1d

🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney Calls for “Zionist Palestinian State”
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$100 million missing f. Jewish National Fund Canada tax returns
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/excl...

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism 🇨🇦 #Trumpism 🇮🇱 #genocide
#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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🇨🇦 Canadian charities helping fund Israeli settlement movement in West Bank
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-charities-israeli-settlement-movement-west-bank-9.6939381

200+ 🇨🇦 charities fund Israeli occupation
https://the-peak.ca/2024/06/over-200-canadian-charities-found-funding-the-israeli-occupation/

🇨🇦 Canada’s Role in Arming Israel
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115101405697529889

🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney Calls for “Zionist Palestinian State”
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114753756310715864

$100 million missing f. Jewish National Fund Canada tax returns
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/exclusive-100-million-is-missing-from-the-jewish-national-fund-canadas-tax-returns-where-did-the-money-go

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism 🇨🇦 #Trumpism 🇮🇱 #genocide
#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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Blue Jays drummer 'Rockin' Rick' announces his retirement from busking | CBC News

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 1d

🇨🇦 Canadian charities helping fund Israeli settlement movement in West Bank
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

200+ 🇨🇦 charities fund Israeli occupation
the-peak.ca/2024/06/over...

🇨🇦 Canada’s Role in Arming Israel
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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Jays drummer 'Rockin' Rick' hanging up his sticks, retiring from busking
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rick Donaldson, known as ‘Rockin' Rick,' has been performing outside Rogers Centre since 1989

Sporting a Blue Jays jersey and always tapping out a tune on his drum set, ‘Rockin' Rick’ has been a fixture outside Rogers Centre since he first started busking in 1989. He's now retiring from buskin...

www.cbc.ca

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT becomes SexGPT for verified adults - Sam Altman on X 🤔
x.com/sama/status/...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560...
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#OpenAI #AIslop #ChatGPT #SexGPT

🇺🇲 #Christofascism
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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#capitalism #socialism

OpenAI will allow mature content/erotica to adult users as of Dec 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/openai-content-restrictions-9.6939095

New version of ChatGPT that allows people to better control bot's tone coming soon, says CEO Sam Altman

Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults - Sam Altman on X 🤔
https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604313

#OpenAI sewer #AIslop #ChatGPT #SexGPT

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

Alberta beef entering Mexico’s Costco market where U.S. cuts once reigned | CBC News

Reposted by Victoria Stuart

Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦 @mog7546.bsky.social · 3d

#ElbowsUp
#CANADA 🇨🇦

#MOG8

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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 2d

🇨🇦 Alberta beef entering Mexico’s Costco market where U.S. cuts once reigned
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

The Mexican government also announced it was ending ban on Canadian pet foods made from bovine meal

Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico's 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath...

www.cbc.ca

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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

🇺🇲 Gavin #Newsom signs pro-LGBTQ+ laws, VETOs gender-affirming care, HIV coverage
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...
🇺🇲 #Christofascism #SCOTUS
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️
#TLM
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Gavin Newsom signs several pro-LGBTQ+ laws, vetoes gender-affirming care and HIV coverage

Here are the LGBTQ+ bills Gavin Newsom signed or vetoed this week.

www.advocate.com

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

🇨🇦 Egale Canada Granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations
pardot.egale.ca/webmail/1050...

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #SCOTUS
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

🇨🇦 Egale Canada Granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations
https://pardot.egale.ca/webmail/1050202/161178733/eeea18d606ef431bbc807afb363618950f7559df782573dc20c9672fca0ec3bb

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #AmeriKKKa
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

Wedge issue/distraction: #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
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#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

No one was helping Black transgender youth; these parents stepped in
19thnews.org/2025/10/no-o...

Rainbow In Black
www.rainbowinblack.org/about

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #SCOTUS
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TLM #BTLM
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A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

19thnews.org

OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December | CBC News

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 2025
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

New version of ChatGPT that allows people to better control bot's tone coming soon, says CEO Sam Altman

CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI had made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive" to make sure it was being careful with mental health issues, though that made the chatbot "less useful/enjoyable to many users who had ...

www.cbc.ca

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

Americans Hate the Democratic Party
jacobin.com/2025/10/demo...

I conclude there's NO fundamental diff. betw. Dems/GOP
Both captured by billionaire/corporations
Biden expanded Trump1 policies, sold arms to Israel pre-Trump2 ...

Biden’s Ignominious Gaza Failure
prospect.org/world/2025-1...

Why Americans Hate Democratic Party
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/democratic-party-polling-rust-belt

* they don’t deliver

My pers. research: wealth/power/influence
I reluctantly conclude there's NO fundamental diff. between Dems/GOP
Both captured by billionaire/corporate interests
Biden kept/expanded Trump1 policies, sold arms to Israel pre-Trump2 ...

Biden’s Ignominious Gaza Failure
https://prospect.org/world/2025-10-15-gaza-israel-joe-biden-peace-failure

🇺🇲 #Christofascism 🇮🇱 #genocide
#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

🇺🇲 SCOTUS redistricting ruling could upend decades of voting rights
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/15/supreme-court-redistricting-ruling-could-upend-decades-of-voting-rights-law_partner

John Roberts slowly dismantling America
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/15/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america
Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?

Roberts Empowered Lawless Presidency
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114230161453097627

Roberts Went Full MAGA
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113153276418249444

U.S. v. Skrmetti: Roberts' Plan to Deny Transgender Rights
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113602001628670284

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #SCOTUS
#TLM https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

Supreme Court redistricting ruling could upend decades of voting rights law - Salon.com

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

🇺🇲 SCOTUS redistricting ruling could upend decades of voting rights
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www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...

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🇺🇲 #Christofascism #SCOTUS
#TLM mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

An upcoming case could change congressional maps across the country.

www.salon.com

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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

🇨🇦 Danielle Smith Met w. Heritage Foundation After U.S. Election
www.desmog.com/2025/10/14/d...

* far-right think tank spearheaded Project 2025/Trump2 win

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #Trumpism

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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Danielle Smith Met with Heritage Foundation After U.S. Election

The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank that spearheaded Project 2025 following Donald Trump’s second win.

www.desmog.com

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

Historian/anti-fascism scholar Mark Bray flees U.S. fearing for safety amid Trump2 “Antifa” fearmongering
www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/m...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Br...
* booking, Oct 7 flight canceled by unknown persons AFTER rboarding passes/checked bags

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #AmericanReich

Historian/anti-fascism scholar Mark Bray flees U.S. fearing for safety amid Trump2 “Antifa” fearmongering
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bray_(historian)
* fled to Spain on 2025-Oct-08
* booking for Oct 7 flight canceled by unknown persons AFTER they rec'd boarding passes/checked bags

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #AmericanReich
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

Karahantepe'de 12 bin yıl öncesine ait insan yüzlü dikili taş bulundu

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

12,000-y.o. obelisk with human face was found in Karahan Tepe

Karahantepe'de 12 bin yıl öncesine ait insan yüzlü dikili taş bulundu Sayfa
www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/...

English: www-trthaber-com.translate.goog/foto-galeri/...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahan...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549...

Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Karahantepe’de gerçekleştirilen son kazılarda, ilk kez insan yüzü betimli bir T biçimli dikili taş gün yüzüne çıkarıldığını duyurdu.

www.trthaber.com

Mysterious dark object in space

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

Astronomers ‘image’ a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
www.mpg.de/25518363/100...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558...

A million-solar-mass object detected at a cosmological distance using gravitational imaging | Nature Astronomy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists detect the lowest mass dark object currently measured

www.mpg.de

Three Years After Trial Launch, Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent

Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Commentary, critique:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4559...

#UBI #Ireland

Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.

www.artnews.com

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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

Stellantis backtracks on plans to build Jeep model in Ontario
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

* $US13 billion to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity
* 🇺🇲 repression of it's citizens will render them cheap labor w. eroded labor rights

🇺🇲 #Christofascism
#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

Stellantis backtracks on plans to build Jeep model in Ontario, shifts to U.S.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/stellantis-jeep-compass-canada-9.6938834

* 🇨🇦 Unifor, Carney speak out against decision
* world's 5th-largest automaker, global sales
* will invest $US13B yrs to expand manufacturing capacity in U.S.

Corporate profits before people: investing 🇺🇲 where certain repression of it's citizens will render them cheap labor w. eroded labor rights

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism

🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 3d

/1 Brilliant satire! Thank you, #JohnOliver !! 🙏
@lastweektonight.com

Wedge issue / distraction: #transgenocide

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/ Background: Transphobia & transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf * comprehensive...

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