Notices by Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)

Two 8th century communities near Vienna shared culture but not ancestries
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04150-2

* interdisciplinary analysis of ancient DNA f. 722 individuals
* lived in region about ad 650 - ad 800
* 2 neighboring communities had strikingly different genetic ancestries
* 2 family trees comprising 6 generations/500 related individuals
* reveal different marriage networks kept these communities genetically distinct despite their shared culture

#anthropology #AncientDNA #Vienna #history

Ancient genomes reveal Iron Age society centered on women
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250115124453.htm

* groundbreaking study finds land inherited through female line in Iron Age Britain
* husbands moved to live w. their wife's community
* 1st time such a system has documented in European prehistory

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6

#history #prehistory #Britain #anthropology #genetics #matrilocality #matriarchal #IronAge #AncientDNA

Singer/notorious anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant dead
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/anita-bryant-obit-1.7428055

* once-popular singer
* outspoken/influential opp. to gay rights
* embraced as poster girl by Christian right
* legacy of virulent anti-gay rights crusading
* "parental rights" movement led by conservative organizations like Moms Against Liberty rooted in Bryant's toxic rhetoric

#AnitaBryant #RepublicanParty #GOP #discrimination
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #homophobia #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #M4L

/ 1 Comment: hugely influential at the time; with Christofascist compatriots rolled back many 2SLGBTQIA+ bills, legislation, initiatives; reviled by 2SLGBTQIA+ community to this day

[thread] Anita Bryant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant

* outspoken Christian activist against U.S. gay rights
* 1977 Save Our Children campaign to repeal local ordinance in Miami-Dade County, FL
* ordinance outlawed discrim. on basis of sexual orientation
* disgraced; freq. named prototypical example of opposition to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights
* 2024-Dec-16 died f. cancer

#AnitaBryant #RepublicanParty #GOP #discrimination
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #homophobia #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #hatred

Gay Democrat Scott Wiener introduces bill to protect trans people’s privacy
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/gay-democrat-introduces-bill-to-protect-trans-peoples-privacy-as-donald-trump-takes-office
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/transgender-court-records-trump-scott-wiener
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59

* Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA)
* SB59, Transgender Privacy Act: protect trans people’s privacy
* retroactively seals court records re: someone’s gender transition in CA
* ensure gender transition records that refer to the person by dead name/sex assigned at birth sealed

#USpol #California #ScottWiener #LGBTactivists #LGBTrights #TransRights

[thread] Scott Wiener
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener

* (D-CA) California State Senate 2016+
* advocate, California housing construction
* Wiener is gay, Jewish
* 2SLGBTQIA+ advocate 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🙏
* 2016 introduced bill (passed) barring San Francisco f. doing business w. companies based in states with anti-2SLGBTQIA+ policies
* 2022 "trans refuge bill"
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107

* 2025 Transgender Privacy Act
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59

#USpol #California #ScottWiener #LGBTactivists #LGBTrights #TransRights

[2016] San Francisco will not do business w. states w. anti-LGBT laws
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2016/09/29/san-francisco-anti-lgbt-states.html

* S.F. will not do business w. companies based in states that forbid civil rights protections for 2SLGBTQIA+ citizens
* author: Supervisor Scott Wiener
* pressures on North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi ...

[2023] San Francisco repeals boycott of anti-LGBT states
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1172407847/san-francisco-boycott-anti-lgbt-texas-florida
* ineffective/increased city costs 20%

#USpol #California #ScottWiener #LGBTactivists #LGBTrights #TransRights

[thread] Jesse Watters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Watters

* Am. conservative pol. commentator, Fox News host
* freq. guest on The O'Reilly Factor w. Bill O'Reilly
* host of Jesse Watters Primetime
* 2020 praised conspiracy theory QAnon
* 2021 COVID-19 on conspiratorial attacks Fauci ...
* 2024 joked men who vote for a woman transitions into a woman
* 2025 expressed a desire for U.S. mil. invasion of Canada

#JesseWatters #FoxNews #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists #QAnon #transphobia #misogyny

Fox News' Jesse Watters can't wait for "Dad" Trump to begin mass deportation: "gonna be hysterical"
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113454284889342615

[crisis support] Supporting grieving loved one on holidays & special occasions: Practical tips f. clinical psychologist
https://theconversation.com/supporting-a-grieving-loved-one-on-holidays-and-special-occasions-practical-tips-from-a-clinical-psychologist-244707
https://theconversation.com/profiles/j-kim-penberthy-1293418
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/dops-staff/kim-penberthy
https://uvahealth.com/findadoctor/Jennifer-Penberthy-1811066459

* holidays esp. difficult time for those grieving a loss

>> CRISIS SUPPORT <<
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113443996020715749
Call/text 9-8-8

Starting conversations re: suicidal ideation
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113006187415099231

#holidays #MentalHealth #suicide #depression #stress #anxiety
#helpline #CrisisSupport #988

[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

[thread] Sycophancy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycophancy

* "insincere flatterer:" someone practising sycophancy i.e., insincere flattery to gain advantage

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 #InterpersonalRelationships #bullying #harassment #supplication
#billionaires #capitalism #cowardize #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #oligarchy
#Trump2 #fascism

Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1M to Trump2 Inauguration
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/tim-cook-apple-inauguration-trump

* Dec 2024 Meta & Amazon also donated $1M to Trump2 inauguration committee
* ditto OpenAI’s Sam Altman
* Uber/CEO Dara Khosrowshahi donated $1M ea. apiece
* Trump2 inaugural comm. donations total $150M+ so far
* AMZN Jeff Bezos dined @ Mar-a-Lago w. Trump/Musk Dec 2024

#USpol #sycophancy #supplication #Trump2 #fascism
#billionaires #capitalism #oligarchy #BigTech
#TimCook #Musk #Bezos #Altman #UBER #Zuckerberg

Trump2 billionaire sycophants: Zuckerberg/Bezos/Musk
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113647160706577498

OpenAI/Altman to donate $1M to Trump2 inaugural fund
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113647472616033586

Zuckerberg puts Republican Joel Kaplan in charge of policy
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/03/mark-zuckerberg-puts-in-charge-of-policy-as-he-seeks-to-make-nice-with

* seeks to placate Trump
* Joel Kaplan, fmr Republican W.H. official, to head policy at Meta

#USpol #sycophancy
#billionaires #capitalism #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #SamAltman #oligarchy #JoelKaplan
#X_corp #Twitter #Facebook #Meta_corp #OpenAI
#Trump2 #fascism

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes quits after paper rejects sketch of Bezos bowing to Trump
https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-trump-bezos-cartoonist-resigns-53928aadc4fb4dda8f35fd840b5717ac

*WaPo owner/other media executives bowing before Trump

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post - by Ann Telnaes
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

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

#AnnTelnaes #WaPo #censorship
#billionaires #capitalism #oligarchy #BigTech
#TimCook #Musk #Bezos #Altman #UBER #Zuckerberg
#Christofascism #transgenocide #discrimination #racism #antiLGBT #xenophobia #MassDeportations

Trump inauguration pulls in $200M in donations, doubling previous record
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/us/politics/trump-inaugural-donations.html
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/04/inauguration-pulls-in-200-million-in-donations-doubling-previous-record

* Trump to have most expensive inauguration
* donors lining up to curry favor with / atonement from Trump2 administration

#USpol #sycophancy #supplication #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#billionaires #capitalism #oligarchy #BigTech
#TimCook #Musk #Bezos #Altman #UBER #Zuckerberg
#Christofascism #transgenocide #discrimination #racism #antiLGBT #xenophobia #MassDeportations

/1 Elon Musk Faces Blowback After Shocking Praise for Germany’s Far Right
https://newrepublic.com/post/189609/elon-musk-blowback-praise-germany-far-right-afd

* Musk decided to start his day by endorsing Germany’s right-wing AfD

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#Germany #GermanPol #AfD #FarRight
#ElonMusk #capitalism #billionaires #oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #libertarianism #WealthTax
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Elon Musk throws his support behind German extremist far-right AfD
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/20/elon-musk-throws-his-support-behind-germanys-extremist-far-right
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

* Alternative for Germany performing strongly in polls leading to Feb. 2025 election
* far-right party described as xenophobic, extremist, successor to Nazi Party
* Elon Musk throwing his support behind AfD

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#ElonMusk #capitalism #billionaires #oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #libertarianism #WealthTax
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Elon Musk Inaugurates New Gilded Age
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/20/elon-musk-throws-his-support-behind-germanys-extremist-far-right
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

* world’s richest man Elon Musk
* $443B: https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk
* uses vast wealth/political influence to shut down bipartisan deal to keep U.S. gov't open
* obscene; just 1 example of ways billionaires dominate American democracy

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#ElonMusk #capitalism #billionaires #oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #libertarianism #WealthTax
#Christofascism #transgenocide