Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 4, 2025

/1 Columbia’s Acquiescence to Trump Was Disgraceful
https://truthout.org/articles/columbias-acquiescence-to-trump-was-disgraceful-as-faculty-we-demand-better

Columbia’s admin won’t defend academic freedom/student rights

#TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide #academia #censorship
#HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #cowardize #sycophancy

Columbia’s Acquiescence to Trump Was Disgraceful. As Faculty, We Demand Better.

We cannot conduct business as usual if Columbia’s administrators won’t defend academic freedom or student rights.

Truthout
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 4, 2025

A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-university-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice
nonpaywalled: https://archive.ph/a9ie5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43568655
Michael S. Roth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Roth

Surrendering to Authoritarianism
https://mronline.org/2025/04/04/surrendering-to-authoritarianism

#TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide #academia #censorship
#HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #cowardize #sycophancy

Transgenocide
https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate

A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice

Molly Fischer talks with Michael Roth, who has been the president of Wesleyan University since 2007.

The New Yorker
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 28, 2025

🇺🇲 Cowards! Democrats’ “Reshuffling” on Trans Issues Cedes Key Territory to Far Right
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-reshuffling-on-trans-issues-cedes-key-territory-to-the-far-right

Democrats Learned Absolutely Nothing f. Defeat
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/signal-group-chat-yemen-democrats

#TransLivesMatter
#USpol #cowardize #sycophancy #Democrats #FailureToLead #abandonment
#GOP #Trump #fascism #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate
#solidarity #community

Transgenocide: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

Democrats’ “Reshuffling” on Trans Issues Cedes Key Territory to the Far Right

The right is using trans rights as a wedge issue. We must not fall for it.

Truthout
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 19, 2025

Cowardize: ‘You’re not fighting!’: U.S. Democrats run into angry crowds at town halls
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/democrats-town-halls-anger-schumer-00239667

It was only weeks ago that House Republicans were facing their own rowdy forums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer

#cowardize #Democrats
#Trump #GOP #fascism #Christofascism

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 7, 2025

100s Protest Children’s Hospital L.A. for bending knee to Trump Executive Order
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/hundreds-protest-childrens-hospital-los-angeles-for-bending-the-knee-to-trumps-executive-order

* latest in series of protests towards hospitals denying treatment for trans youth

Children’s Hospital L.A. stops initiating hormonal therapy for transgender patients <19
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-04/childrens-hospital-to-stop-initiating-hormonal-therapy-for-trans-patients-under-19

#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter
#cowardize #sycophancy #ChildrensHospitalLA
#Trump #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #theocracy #transgenocide

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 6, 2025

New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/06/new-rules-for-radical-resistance-in-the-accelerated-age-of

* Trump is acting above the law
* the opposition can no longer cower in the corner

#cowardize #sycophancy #Democrats #corporations
#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy
#ChristianRight #Project2025 #antiLGBT #misogyny
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights

Democrats struggle to respond to an accelerated age of Trump

Salon.com
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 9, 2025

Disney Paid Off Trump for a Reason
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/disney-paid-off-trump-for-a-reason

* FuboTV CEO David Gandler sells out to Disney
* Disney greased wheels of incoming Trump2 administration
* $16M payment settlement for defamation against Trump

FuboTV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuboTV

#USpol #Trump2 #fascism #sycophancy #cowardize #supplication
#billionaires #capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #Disney #FuboTV #DavidGandler #antitrust #libertarianism #oligarchy

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 3, 2025

[2022]
Canada’s Liberal Party a Club of Plutocrat Sycophants
https://jacobin.com/2022/11/bill-morneau-trudeau-administration-cibc-private-bank-revolving-door

* fmr finance minister Bill Morneau moved f. cabinet to board of multinational bank
* business as usual
* reminder that Liberals at home among Canada’s rich/powerful

Sycophant Pierre Poilievre sucks up to Trump
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113436903207178566

USpol #CanPol #sycophancy #bullying #harassment #supplication
#billionaires #capitalism #cowardize #Musk #corporations #libertarianism #LiberalParty #Trudeau #protofascism

Canada’s Liberal Party Is a Club of Plutocrat Sycophants

Canada’s former finance minister Bill Morneau has recently moved from cabinet to the board of a multinational bank. This business as usual is a reminder that Liberals are totally at home among Canada’s rich and powerful.

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 3, 2025

[thread] Sycophancy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycophancy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulation_(surrender)

* insincere flattery to gain advantage
* surrender

Supplication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplication

* form of prayer
* one party humbly/earnestly asks another party to provide something

[thread] Anticipatory obedience
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113618710751701033

#USpol #sycophancy #capitulation #bullying #harassment #supplication
#billionaires #capitalism #cowardize #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #oligarchy
#Trump2 #fascism

Sycophancy - Wikipedia