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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 6, 2024

CRITICAL READING

1970 None Dare Call It Conspiracy
https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101

2016 Dark Money
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)

2018 How Democracies Die - Levitsky & Ziblatt

2019 Democracy in Chains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains

2019 Communicating w. Memes: Post-truth Civilization
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/communicating-with-memes-9781498551342/

2024 Opus: Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking & Right-Wing Conspiracy (Catholic Church)
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113626054599320051

2025 Money, Lies & God: Movement to destroy American democracy
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/money-lies-and-god-9781635578546

NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY : by Gary Allen with Larry Abraham : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

by Gary Allen with Larry Abraham

Internet Archive

#democracy #SocialDemocracy #ecosocialism #sustainability #environmentalism
#SocialJustice #HumanRights #equality
#activism #advocacy
#capitalism #PoliticalEconomy #WealthTax #taxation

Don’t Mourn, Fight
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/07/dont-mourn-fight

* capitalism prevents genuine democracy due to influence of money in elections & elsewhere in the political system
* no easy way to defeat fascism within context of capitalist economy & a bourgeois electoral system
* that fact means organizing
* Don’t mourn, organize.

Don’t Mourn, Fight

Far be it from me to claim that the US government is a democracy. In my understanding, capitalism prevents genuine democracy because of the influence

CounterPunch.org

#democracy #SocialDemocracy #ecosocialism #sustainability #environmentalism
#SocialJustice #HumanRights #equality
#activism #advocacy
#capitalism #PoliticalEconomy #WealthTax #taxation

How to stay politically engaged in between election cycles
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/07/texas-elections-how-to-stay-involved

* 1st: understand the system
* get involved in community organizations or advocacy groups
* engage with elected officials
* attend local government meetings
* consider running for office

How to stay politically engaged in between election cycles

From engaging with representatives to joining advocacy groups, there are numerous ways to continue participating in democracy and shaping policy after the polls close.

The Texas Tribune

#transgender #SocialJustice

My dear trans community 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

Again we're front/center in turbulent times.

Those of us who are weary &/or anxious:

* step aside: attend to your mental/emotional/spiritual health
* disengage f. toxic soc. media
* others can/will step up

Write: the pen is mightier than the sword. Share our tribulations, triumphs.
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113917994270280225

Volunteer: build friendships & allies
* political candidates
* unions; workers rights assemblies; tenants unions

/1 Crisis support

In crisis/thoughts of suicide?
Call or text 9-8-8

If you are
* feeling like you lost hope/struggling to cope
* dealing w. thoughts of suicide
* worried about someone else
9-8-8 is here for you

* trained responders listen w/o judging
* support/understanding
* resources
https://988.ca/about-us

Trans Lifeline’s Hotline: https://translifeline.org/hotline

* peer support phone service by trans people for trans/questioning peers
* call even if you’re not in crisis or not sure you’re trans

About us | 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline

Home

9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 10, 2024

New wave of movements against Trumpism
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/a-new-wave-of-movements-against-trumpism-is-coming

* for many of us, immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory a time of deep despair & mourning
* our job: translate outrage over his agenda into action toward truly transformational vision
* there are reasons to believe a new social movement cycle to confront Trumpism can emerge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaTFz_qxWqg

Image: Protect Our Futures march, NYC, 2024-Nov-09

A new wave of movements against Trumpism is coming

Our job is to translate outrage over his agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.

Waging Nonviolence

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 11, 2024

Building a working class movement after Trump’s victory
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/10/building-a-working-class-movement-after-trumps-victory

* history of working class struggle in U.S. & how it can inform where movements go next

#democracy #SocialDemocracy #ecosocialism #sustainability #environmentalism
#SocialJustice #HumanRights #equality
#activism #advocacy #rebellion #CivilDisobedience #solidarity #unions #WorkersAssemblies
#capitalism #libertarianism #billionaires #PoliticalEconomy #plutocracy #oligarchy #meritocracy #WealthTax #WeathForfiture

#MediaWatchdog #ProjectCensored #RalphNader

Let’s Start a Revolution; Usurping the Titans of Capital
https://www.projectcensored.org/start-revolution-usurping-titans-capital

* podcast ft. Ralph Nader, Peter Phillips re: latest books
* iconic consumer/civil rights activist/author Ralph Nader
* need to
dismantle corporate state
boost civic engagement f. grassroots up
demand dark money/billionaires be driven of political system

How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity

Let’s Start a Revolution; Usurping the Titans of Capital

Ralph Nader discusses his books on dismantling corporate power, civic engagement, & dark money, Peter Phillips explores wealth's threat to humanity.

projectcensored

#SocialJustice #RalphNader #PeterPhillips #books

/1 critical reading

R. Nader 2024
Ralph Nader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

Let’s Start the Revolution. Tools for Displacing the Corporate State & Building a Country that Works for the People
https://nader.org/books/lets-start-the-revolution

Out of Darkness
https://nader.org/books/out-of-darkness/

Peter Phillips 2024
Project Censored >> Media Freedom Foundation >> Peter Phillips: https://www.projectcensored.org/who-we-are

Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity
https://www.project-censored.org/shop/p/titans-of-capital-peter-phillips

Ralph Nader - Wikipedia

#peace #ScienceForPeace #JudithDeutsch #capitalism #corporations #LegalPersonhood #StructuralViolence #HigherEducation #IAEA #NPT #AssetForfeiture

Judith Deutsch, Science For Peace

Brilliant essay! Bear through opening paragraphs; 5-10' read

Killing Knowledge
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113283950252848660

* aggression/wars/nuclear proliferation
* narcissistic leaders
* misogyny; racism
* psychology: motives
* genocides; international justice
* 3rd world debt
* egregious wealth/tax havens
* confiscating assets

#HaroldPinter #NobelPrize #literature #SocialCommentary #war #fascism #politics #corruption #posttruthism

[Nobel Lecture, 2005, Harold Pinter] Art, Truth & Politics
https://persagen.org/docs/harold_pinter-art_truth_and_politics.html

COMMENT
* still relevant [replace art w. social media]
* vicious/scathing commentary on search for truth in art, avoidance of truth in politics

* Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 awarded to Harold Pinter
"who in his plays uncovers precipice under everyday prattle & forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"

[Nobel Lecture, Harold Pinter] Art, Truth and Politics

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We Must Reorient Our Movements Under Trump2 Administration
https://truthout.org/articles/how-must-we-reorient-our-movements-under-a-second-trump-administration

Resisting Trump2 fascism: crucial we rethink direct action in authoritarian context

Concerns:
well-supported/systemic far-right
oligarchy woven into social fabric
far-right judiciaries incl. SCOTUS
mass surveillance/facial recog.

Actions:
direct action: civil disobedience/mass marches
establish/fortify small adaptable groups
defiance, e.g. healthcare wkr refusing to aid in criminalizing patient
symbolic acts

How Must We Reorient Our Movements Under a Second Trump Administration?

It is crucial that we rethink our approach to direct action in a potentially authoritarian, dictatorial context.

Truthout

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If/when needed, civil disobedience/ongoing, large scale mass protests topples governments.

E.g. Arab Spring uprisings

Arab Spring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

Social media's role in the Arab Spring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media%27s_role_in_the_Arab_Spring

Here in Vancouver, counter-protests (e.g. transportation artery blockades) helped limit social media conspiracy driven, far-right organized/led 2022 Freedom Convoy protests.

Arab Spring - Wikipedia

Likewise, protests against Pacific Northwest old growth forest logging protests / support of Indigenous protesters led to railway blockades/Canada-wide rail service disruption.

2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_railway_protests

Timeline of the 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_railway_protests

2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests - Wikipedia

Community service

Continuing my thoughts f. the top of this thread ...
I think it's imp. to have person-to-person social interaction.

I'm atheist/categorize religion as sub-branch of philosophy:
https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/wpi-ontology.pdf

However, there are 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming congregations:
https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/wpi-ontology.pdf

Vancouver Unitarians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Unitarians
* birthplace of Greenpeace

MCC: Metropolitan Community Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Community_Church

Other outlets:
* volunteer at food banks
* help the homeless

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Christofascism #antiLGBT
#billionaires #capitalism #corporations #plutocracy #oligarchy #meritocracy
#CivilDisobedience #protests #writing #DirectAction #ActsOfDefiance #revolution
#ecosocialism #SocialDemocracy #sustainability

The worse the chaos, the sooner the eventual revulsion/turnaround
https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/11/15/the-worse-the-chaos-that-results-the-sooner-the-eventual-revulsion-and-turnaround

* gullible population let itself be bamboozled
* only consequences will ult. persuade people what a catastrophic mistake they made

The worse the chaos that results, the sooner the eventual revulsion and turnaround | NationofChange

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 29, 2024

[Ontario Fed. Labor] Break the Silence: End Gender-Based Violence/Intimate Partner Violence by Participating in 16 Days of Activism
https://ofl.ca/16-days-of-activism

* violence against women, girls, transfeminine folx, gender diverse, 2-Spirit people remains most widespread human rights violation around world
* Canada: 44% of women ever been in intimate relationship reported exp. violence by partner at some point

#misogyny #feminism #DomesticViolence #IntimatePartnerViolence #activism #solidarity

Break the Silence: Take action to End Gender-Based Violence and Intimate Partner Violence by Participating in the 16 Days of Activism | The Ontario Federation of Labour

(November 25-December 10) Violence against women, girls, transfeminine folx, gender diverse, and 2-Spirit people remains...

The Ontario Federation of Labour

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 15, 2024

Working-Class History of Fighting Deportations
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/deportations-unions-immigrants-organizing-trump

* U.S. working class: tradition of standing up against immigrant repression
* historical reservoir of inspiration/strategic thinking
* fund. rights of immigrants = rights labor movement fights to secure
* immigrant workers/communities can confront Trump2 repression

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #MassDeportation
#immigration #immigrants #WorkersRights
#unions #solidarity #DirectDemocracy

A Working-Class History of Fighting Deportations

The US working class has a long tradition of standing up against immigrant repression. This history is a reservoir of inspiration and strategic thinking — and it can help immigrant workers and communities confront Donald Trump’s promised wave of repression.

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #MassDeportations

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Advocates train immigrants to prepare to stay in U.S. under Trump
https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-mass-deportation-trump-preparation-ea141413457a04803ce147ecaa11191f

Protect yourself against Trump’s promise to conduct mass deportations
* plan for someone to care for your children if you are arrested
* don’t open door unless authorities slip signed judicial warrant under it
* NOTE: exercise your right to remain silent

Activists step up trainings amid Trump deportation threats
https://apnews.com/article/b4a45fd77b794ae99a83819129671614

Advocates train immigrants to 'prepare to stay' in the US under Trump

Immigrant advocates are preparing for President-elect Donald Trump’s second term by training community members on how to protect themselves from his promise of mass deportations. It’s déjà vu for those who sprung to action during Trump's first four years, when he changed the nation’s immigration system arguably more than any other U.S. president. Groups are hosting know-your-rights trainings to teach immigrants how to respond to immigration agents and encouraging those eligible for citizenship or other benefits to get their paperwork filed as quickly as possible.

AP News

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024

[Canada] Seniors group in Victoria, B.C. nourishes appetites & souls
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/new-seniors-group-in-victoria-nourishes-appetites-and-souls-1.7153614

"We all want seniors to have the care and support they need to live healthy and dignified lives" -- B.C.'s social development and poverty reduction minister, Sheila Malcolmson. "We know that seniors have been hit especially hard the last few years with rising costs of living."

#Canada #BritishColumbia #VictoriaBC #charity #OurPlaceSociety #seniors #homelessness #addiction #CommunityBuilding #2SLGBTQIA+

New seniors group in Victoria nourishes appetites and souls

A Victoria non-profit known for its work helping the homeless has a new club that’s bursting with joy.

British Columbia

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024

/1 [Canada] Our Place Society, Victoria BC
https://www.ourplacesociety.com

* 1,400+ meals/day, 500 housing units
* transitional shelter spaces, hot showers, education, job skills, health care, addiction recovery services, donated clothing, counseling, outreach services ...
* long-term recovery community for men
* provides sense of hope/belonging to neighbors in need

#Canada #BritishColumbia #VictoriaBC #charity #OurPlaceSociety #seniors #homelessness #addiction #community #outreach #CommunityBuilding

Our Place Society - Community Support in Victoria BC

Our Place serves Greater Victoria’s most vulnerable. We tackle homelessness, mental health challenges, substance use issues, and more.

Our Place Society

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024

Ensuring Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ communities grow/thrive in digital age thru safe, accessible, inclusive digital spaces
https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/ensuring-2slgbtqia-voices-can-be-heard-and-empowered-in-a-digital-world-269993

Ontario Digital Literacy & Access Network
* vision: advance safe, accessible & inclusive access to digital spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities
* tech subsidy helps volunteers/advisors participate fully in work they do

https://www.odlan.ca
https://www.facebook.com/ODLANCanada

#Canada #LGBT #2SLGBTQIA+ #ODLAN #advocacy #LGBTrights #TransRights #SafeSpace #DigitalSpace

Ensuring 2SLGBTQIA+ voices can be heard and empowered in a digital world | Xtra Magazine

The Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network’s tech subsidy helps volunteers and advisors to participate fully in the work it is doing.

Xtra Magazine

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 24, 2024

[community building] Cheers to Thursday Night Cookups
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/12/24/Thursday-Night-Cookups

How my friends and I made a delicious ritual of communing
* Kitsilano, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
* started fall 2017 to bring friends together to cook a big meal we’d never attempt as 20-somethings on our own
* restaurants a luxury few of us could afford
* h/e we could comfortably pitch in $5 to buy ingredients for communal meal

#community #CommunityBuilding #homecooking #SocialActivities #Kitsilano #BC

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 26, 2024

Americans - exhausted by political news - tuning out
https://apnews.com/article/politics-fatigue-trump-gop-democrat-cnn-msnbc-b67aebae1a0853a1a3170ac588100bbd

Ignorance, apathy a consequence of
far-right dogmatism
culture wars
populist rhetoric
social media polarization
reflection/echo chambers

Post-truthism | alternative facts
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113402618866354849

#truth #evidence #epistemology
#FarRight #CultureWars #ToxicRhetoric
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #theocracy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #billionaires #libertarianism #disinformation

Americans are tuning out of political news, AP-NORC poll finds

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news. That's evident in cable television news ratings and a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll found nearly two-thirds of Americans saying they've found the need recently to cut down on their consumption of political and government news. That's particularly true among Democrats following President-elect Donald Trump's victory, although a significant number of Republicans and independents feel the same way. Cable networks MSNBC and CNN are really seeing a slump. That's also happened in years past for networks that particularly appeal to supporters of one candidate.

AP News

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 26, 2024

/1 ... and this is the risk/consequence: What if Trump Does Everything He’s Promised and People Don’t Care?
https://newrepublic.com/article/189233/trump-2025-second-term-agenda-democracy

* interview re: 2018 comp. politics book How Democracies Die
* Harvard pol. sci.
* democratic backsliding
* how elected leaders gradually subvert democratic process to incr. power
* stark warnings about impact of Republican Party/Trump1 on U.S. democracy
* arguably most imp. book of the Trump era

How Democracies Die
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Democracies_Die

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism

What if Trump Does Everything He’s Promised—and the People Don’t Care?

The authors of the bestselling “How Democracies Die” talk with editor Michael Tomasky about what kind of mark four more years of Donald Trump might leave on this democracy.

The New Republic

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 26, 2024

/2 Conspiracy theory the new normal: 2024 is the year QAnon went mainstream
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/26/conspiracy-theory-is-the-new-normal-2024-was-the-year-qanon-went-mainstream

* single biggest reason Trump won? Median voter ignores real news to consume endless disinformation

#news #facts #truth #evidence #epistemology
#FarRight #CultureWars #ToxicRhetoric
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #theocracy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #billionaires #libertarianism #disinformation #PostTruthism #AlternativeFacts #ignorance #apathy #QAnon

QAnon fell out of headlines in 2024 — but only because conspiracy theory is the new normal

The single biggest reason Trump won? The median voter ignores real news to consume endless disinformation

Salon.com

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 27, 2024

Civil Discourse in Time of Genocide
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/27/civil-discourse-in-a-time-of-genocide
https://chass.ncsu.edu/people/duckpond

* civil discourse pref. to coerced silence
* withhold co-operation: collective action disrupts status quo

3 steps to civil dialogue
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113488383853609947

Anticipatory obedience
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113618710751701033

#CivilDiscourse #CollectiveAction #BDSmovement #boycotts
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#conformity #AnticipatoryObedience #SelfCensorship #MajorityMinorityRelations
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Civil Discourse in a Time of Genocide

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in further discussion; be quiet and accept that our desires will prevail. Violence means that reason has failed and we are reduced to the condition of resolving disputes by means of fang and claw, rock and club, bullet and bomb.

CounterPunch.org

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 27, 2024

Digital platforms that empower 2SLGBTQIA+ voices to confront hate/racism
https://xtramagazine.com/power/exploring-digital-platforms-that-empower-2slgbtqia-voices-to-confront-hate-and-racism-270091

* developing community-based tool to track/report anti-2SLGBTQIA+ online hate

Reporting Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Online Hate: Feasibility Study
https://odlan.ca/research-report-2023

Ensuring Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ communities grow/thrive in digital age thru safe, accessible, incl. digital spaces
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113686763672934747

#Canada #LGBT #2SLGBTQIA+ #ODLAN #advocacy #LGBTrights #TransRights #SafeSpace #DigitalSpace

Exploring digital platforms that empower 2SLGBTQIA+ voices to confront hate and racism | Xtra Magazine

Examining challenges and obstacles in creating a digital tool that would help increase reporting of 2SLBTQIA+ hate and racism online

Xtra Magazine

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 27, 2024

Across Middle East: Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement thriving
https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/12/27/across-the-middle-east-the-bds-movement-is-thriving/

Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions

* individuals use purchasing power as effective tool for change

Civil Discourse in Time of Genocide
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113725828666434227

#CivilDiscourse #CollectiveAction #BDSmovement #boycotts
#MidEast
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#conformity #AnticipatoryObedience #SelfCensorship #MajorityMinorityRelations
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Across the Middle East, the BDS movement is thriving | NationofChange

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 31, 2024

How to Survive Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans
https://newrepublic.com/article/189505/trump-mass-deportation-immigration-lawyer-guide

* immigration lawyer’s guide to triaging coming emergency
* legal advice; seek qualified immigration attorney

Working-Class History of Fighting Deportations
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113658493781271243

Advocates train immigrants to prepare to stay in U.S. under Trump
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113681778929936931

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #MassDeportation
#immigration #immigrants #WorkersRights
#unions #solidarity #DirectDemocracy

How to Survive Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans

An immigration lawyer’s guide to triaging the coming emergency

The New Republic

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #antiLGBT
#USsenate #filibuster
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Solutions: filibuster

Comment: in the Democratic Party era the GOP/Mitch McConnell weaponized the filibuster to push far-right/conservative agendae, e.g. stacking SCOTUS w. a conservative supermajority.

Under Trump2 the same tactics available to Democrats.

Can trans rights survive a Trump2/Republican-controlled Congress?
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113793988191718084
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113794004811068644

Review
https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-2024/book-review-vigilante-nation-by-jon-michaels-and-david-noll/

Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235

* MAGA Republican/Christian right strategy to roll back civil/political/privacy rights & subvert Am. democracy
* white Christian nationalism
* state-supported vigilantism
* post-2021-Jan-06 coup

#USpol #GOP #MAGA #SteveBannon #MikeLee #Trump2 #Project2025 #antiLGBT
#fascism #whiteSupremacism #vigilantism #extremism #misogyny
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide

Vigilante Nation

For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and su...

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #antiLGBT #Christofascism #transgenocide
#UScongress #USsenate

Filibuster: U.S. Senate 2025

U.S. Congress bicameral: House Rep | Senate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate
Republican 52 | Democratic 45 | Independent 2 | Vacant 1

Democrats Have Massive Opportunity as Opposition Party
https://www.occupy.com/article/democrats-have-massive-opportunity-pure-opposition-party
* U.S. Senate GOP 53-47 majority
* have the 51 votes necessary to confirm Cabinet appointees/pass bills
*not enough to break 60-vote threshold to bypassing filibuster

United States Senate - Wikipedia

#USpol #GOP #MAGA #Trump2 #fascism #vigilantism #extremism #SteveBannon #MikeLee
#Christofascism #transgenocide #hatred

Vigilante Nation: Mike Lee
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113816904037655251

* Am. lawyer; U.S. senator (R-UT) 2011+
* Trumpist; election denial; anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Mormon

https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-2024/book-review-vigilante-nation-by-jon-michaels-and-david-noll/
* Vigilante Nation begins w. story of 2021-Jan-06 insurrection
* also details efforts of Republican elected officials like Utah Senator Mike Lee
* strategized about how to legitimize this attack on US democracy

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 18, 2025

Canada’s best response to MAGA aggression? Socialism
https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-best-response-to-donald-trumps-aggression-socialism

* need to start reversing 40 yts neoliberalism
* public ownership as bulwark against American oligarchy
* revive economic planning

https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/social_democracy.pdf

#CanPol #USpol #Canada #democracy #SocialDemocracy #ecosocialism #sustainability #environmentalism
#SocialJustice #HumanRights #equality
#activism #advocacy
#capitalism #PoliticalEconomy
#billionaires #oligarchy #WealthTax #taxation #WealthForfeiture #AssetSeizure

Canada’s best response to Donald Trump’s aggression? Socialism ⋆ The Breach

We need to start reversing 40 years of neoliberalism with economic planning and public ownership

The Breach

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 19, 2025

U.S. Senate: Representation by state, not population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate#Criticism

U.S. Senate undemocratic cf. other national legislatures

1. Filibuster: weaponized by Republican Party/Mitch McConnell
* ironically pot. utility against most egregious Trump2 far-right bills

2. Representation by state not electoral population
* disparity in representation betw. large/small states incr. favoring Republicans
* 2020 California 70x population Wyoming yet equal rep. in Senate

#USpol #USsenate #filibuster

United States Senate - Wikipedia

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 19, 2025

/1 Again, for more on far-right, white Christian, Republican Party corruption of U.S. politics read

Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113816826436563790

* vigilantism: state/citizen ... (bottom-up) suppression of education, services
* legislative, judicial attacks; lobbying ... (top-down)
* electoral fraud: gerrymandering: Party representation vs. population party affiliation proportions
* U.S. senate: Party representation by state rather than population

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 19, 2025

/2 Gerrymandering

Per /1 & Vigilante Nation above, gerrymandering handicapped democracy in the U.S.

See Wikipedia for intro; that text/following article for nuances.

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

Redistricting in America, Part One:
Gerrymandering Potency Raises the Stakes for the 2020s
https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/redistricting-in-america-part-one-gerrymandering-potency-raises-the-stakes-for-the-2020s

#USpol #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression #gerrymander #gerrymander #vigilantism
#RepublicanParty #GOP #Trump2 #MAGE #fascism #whiteSupremacism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 21, 2025

Doctors should take part in acts of civil disobedience to advocate for patients
https://theconversation.com/doctors-should-take-part-in-acts-of-civil-disobedience-to-advocate-for-patients-246007

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
-- William Osler

Essential role of physician as advocate
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5661729

* consensus amongst regulatory/certifying associations
* role of physician as advocate is a fundamental competency for Canadian physicians

#Canada #physicians #advocacy #CivilDisobedience #transgenocide #LGBT

Doctors should take part in acts of civil disobedience to advocate for patients

As the world continues to witness wars and climate-related disasters impacting the lives and well-being of more people, the voices of doctors become increasingly vital.

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