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ACLU Statement on Trump’s Threat to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Military Troops to Minneapolis
www.commondreams.org/newswire/acl...

Insurrection Act, 1807
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurre...
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ACLU Statement on Trump’s Threat to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Military Troops to Minneapolis
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/aclu-statement-on-president-trumps-threat-to-invoke-the-insurrection-act-and-deploy-military-troops-to-minneapolis

Insurrection Act, 1807
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807

#ACLU: trans ally/advocate - Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in State Legislatures
https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2025
https://translegislation.com

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

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

January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇺🇲 Is ICE Trump’s Gestapo?
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/15/t...

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

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

🇺🇲 Is ICE Trump’s Gestapo?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/15/the-billionaires-and-the-november-elections

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

Wedge issue/distraction: #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

January 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇺🇲 #ICE : Rogue Paramilitary
jacobin.com/2026/01/ice-...
Domestic army used by Trump to terrorize vulnerable people, violently intimidate enemies into submission
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #AmericanReich
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...
#capitalism #DemocraticSocialism

ICE Has Become a Rogue Paramilitary

It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.

jacobin.com

January 15, 2026 at 2:24 AM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇺🇲 ICE Puts All of Us in Danger
otherwords.org/ice-puts-all...

#ICE murders citizens because we allowed them to abuse immigrants. How many more need to die?

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #AmericanReich

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

#DemocraticSocialism

ICE Puts All of Us in Danger - OtherWords

ICE is murdering citizens because we allowed them to abuse immigrants first. How many more need to die before Congress holds ICE accountable?

otherwords.org

January 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇺🇲 Fascist playbook: persecute your enemies - Hegseth’s Pursuit of Mark Kelly
www.dcreport.org/2026/01/13/h...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ke...

* Hegseth prev. threatened to re-activate/court martial Kelly

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

Hegseth's Pursuit of Mark Kelly

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attack on Sen. Mark Kelly raises serious free speech and military law questions as Kelly sues over alleged retaliation.

www.dcreport.org

January 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

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

Wedge issue/distraction: #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

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...

mastodon.social

January 13, 2026 at 3:29 AM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

/1 ... Covered yrs ago in superb 3-part Salon series

Charter schools
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

Movement to Redirect Taxpayer $B to Private Religious Schools
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

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

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image [thread 1/x] Charter schools [2/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113153575049972534 #USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #billionaires #BetsyDeVos #Publi...

mastodon.social

January 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM

RachRach

@solentrach.bsky.social

I am half way through watching "The Man in the High Castle" on Amazon Prime. It's been around a while but these days it deserves a bump in viewing figures. I swear the writer could see the future back then. #AmericanReich

January 9, 2026 at 10:38 AM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

/1
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #AmericanReich 🇨🇦 #Trumpism

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

Christian right wants: binary white family unit with male-only voice, vote

Rest is noise / misogyny / hate / profiteering (clicks)

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...

mastodon.social

January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

/1 ... Privatization of healthcare | sole-source contracts

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

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

#capitalism #socialism
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions | The Tyee

Not long after Addiction Ministry representatives toured the property, Mraiche bought it. Now it’s a detox centre leased to Métis Nation of Alberta.

thetyee.ca

January 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

/1
* possession of child pornography
* sexual assault
* child molestation
* aggravated kidnapping

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

Wedge #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

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...

mastodon.social

January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇺🇲 Trump's Jan. 6 Pardons & Anti-LGBTQ Extremism
www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/trumps-jan...

Dozens of pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionists re-arrested
19thnews.org/2026/01/janu...
...

🇺🇲 Trump's Jan. 6 Pardons & Anti-LGBTQ Extremism
https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/trumps-jan-6-pardons-and-anti-lgbtq

Dozens of pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionists re-arrested
https://19thnews.org/2026/01/january-6-pardons-arrests

* possession of child pornography
* sexual assault
* child molestation
* aggravated kidnapping

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

Wedge issue/distraction: #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

January 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Alberta produces a lot of oil. So does Venezuela...
thenarwhal.ca/canada-venez...

We should
* min fossil fuels consumption/sales
* invest in sustainable, alt. technologies

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

#capitalism #socialism
Capitalism + fossil fuels = climate change

🇨🇦 Alberta produces a lot of oil. So does Venezuela. How does it all fit together?
https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-venezuela-oil-markets/

Good article on global oil production, pricing.

We should
* minimize fossil fuels consumption/sales
* invest in sustainable, alternative technologies

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

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

... #Halliburton etc. Pro-tip: U.S. military consumes fossil fuels / is major greenhouse gas emitter

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

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

January 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM