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

🎵 Morning ☮-in #MorningPeaceIn - John Scofield: Works For Me
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kD1moAm3EcRimyKnOCWoK-ye6KkR9_YZE

Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #JohnScofield #WorksForMe #jazz #JazzGuitar

Trump orders GOP to snuff out press freedom bill
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/republicans-must-this-bill-orders-to-snuff-out-press-freedom-act

* act under attack would shield journalists f. being compelled to turn over their reporting & sources

H.R.4250 - PRESS Act (2024)
Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4250/text
* would make curr. DoJ rule barring prosecutors f. compelling release of journalists' sources into federal law

#journalism #NewsMedia #FreePress
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #extremism #censorship #PressAct #HR4250

House Speaker Mike Johnson Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban - On Trans Day of Remembrance
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/congress-trans-bathroom-ban-johnson-mace

* he & Nancy Mace tag team their transphobia ahead of arrival of 1st openly trans member of Congress Sarah McBride

Mike Johnson responds to election of trans lawmaker by banning her f. Capitol bathrooms
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/mike-johnson-responds-to-of-trans-lawmaker-by-banning-her-from-capitol-bathrooms

* Sarah McBride: trans woman representing Delaware in House of Rep.

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Congress #NancyMace #transphobia #misogyny #TDoR #SarahMcBride

#USpol #Trump #Trump2 #MAGA #Trumpism #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #Gilead #misogyny #sexism #paternalism

@persagen
Oh cool, they want to bribe public schools to indoctrinate children with their religion. And they call _queer_ people groomers.

Dark Money Is Flooding Kamala Harris’s Campaign Coffers
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/kamala-harris-dark-money-donations

* then: before Kamala Harris became V.P. she said dark money groups play dangerously influential role in political system
* now: her campaign reaping rewards of massive donations f. these very sources

#Democrats #KamalaHarris #Harris #ActBlue #DarkMoney #CampaignFinance #DonorAdvisedFunds #lobbying #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #democracy #DemocraticBacksliding #corporations #LegalPersons #StateCapture

Dark Money Group Targets Democratic Donors
Threatening messages to users = campaign of baseless allegations against fundraising platform ActBlue
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/actblue-fair-election-fund-dark-money

* st. 2024-Aug-01 people who gave money to Democratic presidential ticket began getting ominous messages suggesting their identities may have been stolen

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

#Democrats #ActBlue #DarkMoney #CampaignFinance #DonorAdvisedFunds #EnablingFascism #GOP #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression #GOP #Trump2 #MAGA

/1 Only Citizens Vote Coalition

Who’s Behind Only Citizens Vote Coalition?
https://issueone.org/articles/whos-behind-the-only-citizens-vote-coalition

f:former* 2024: lawyer Cleta Mitchell launches Only Citizens Vote Coalition
* f. OH Sec. State Ken Blackwell
* f. Trump transition team Ed Corrigan
* f. Trump Cabinet/co-chair Trump’s 2025 transition team Linda McMahon
* f. WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
* 20 member gps involv. in Project2025

#DarkMoney #CampaignFinance #OnlyCitizensVoteCoalition #CletaMitchell #Project2025 #LeonardLeo #85Fund

Only Citizens Vote Coalition

Shadowy Money Behind Plot to Overturn Election
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/non-citizen-voting

* groups pushing lies about non-citizen voting
* backed by people who brought you Project 2025 & Trump’s Supreme Court

Who’s Behind the Only Citizens Vote Coalition?
https://issueone.org/articles/whos-behind-the-only-citizens-vote-coalition

* report illuminates connections, secretive donors behind groups pushing false narratives that noncitizens are voting in U.S. elections
#DarkMoney #CampaignFinance #OnlyCitizensVoteCoalition #CletaMitchell

DonorsTrust Injected More Than $150 Million in Untraceable Cash Into Right-Wing Groups in 2023
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/11/20/donorstrust-injected-more-than-150-million-in-untraceable-cash-into-right-wing-groups-in-2023

* DonorsTrust: donor conduit favored by Koch political network
* 2013: funneled $152.5M+ to MAGA groups, right-wing national & state think tanks, litigation centers, hate groups, youth groups ...

JD Vance confirms Trump's regime change at FBI
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/jd-vance-accidentally-confirmed-that-wants-regime-change-at-the-fbi

* fire Trump1 appointee Christopher Wray
* replacement incl.
Mike Rogers (R-MI)
Kash Patel: Trump1/hardline loyalist

Fmr FBI agent Daniel Brunner: “someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous”

#USpol #FBI #Trump2 #GOP #fascism#JDVance #KashPatel #MikeRogers
#Project2025 #MassDeportations #xenophobia
#libertarianism #privatization #PrisonIndustrialComplex

Anti-trans violence a rising issue across North America
https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/anti-trans-violence-2024-269144

* perpetrators emboldened to carry out attacks on trans & gender-diverse people across North America
* Anti-trans violence in Canada a serious/growing concern
* 64% increase in hate-motivated crimes
* compounded by decr. support for 2SLGBTQIA+ people

* Human Rights Campaign: >1/5 all reported U.S. 2023 U.S. hate crimes based on anti-2SLGBTQIA+ bias
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/new-fbi-data-anti-lgbtq-hate-crimes-continue-to-spike-even-as-overall-crime-rate-declines

#transphobia #TDoR #HateCrimes #antiLGBT

@persagen
I feel like they are deliberately misunderstanding the concept of "optional"

Trump picks Matthew Whitaker for ambassador to NATO
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20/nx-s1-5188699/trump-matthew-whitaker-nato

* Trump criticizes defense spending by other NATO member countries
* argues U.S. shoulders oversized burden
* Trump1: Whitaker critical of Robert Mueller's investigation into poss. ties betw. 2016 Trump campaign & Russia

#USpol #MatthewWhitaker #NATO #Trump2 #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia #misogyny #sexism #paternalism

[thread] Matthew Whitaker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Whitaker

* lawyer, lobbyist, politician
* Trump1: acting U.S. Attorney General Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
* Christian; opposes non-Christian judiciary
* xenophile
* climate change denial

#USpol #MatthewWhitaker #Trump2 #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia #misogyny #sexism #paternalism

Canada: Yukon-based clinical social worker temp. stripped of registration for supporting conspiracy theories
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-based-clinical-social-worker-temporarily-stripped-of-registration-for-supporting-conspiracy-theories-1.7387984

* Debbra Greig under invest. by British Columbia College of Social Workers
* Greig's views could be detrimental to her clients; real risk of harm
* believes in cult leader Romana Didulo, self-professed "Queen of Canada" known for QAnon beliefs

https://bccsw.ca

#Yukon #BritishColumbia #SocialWork #BCCSW
#ConspiracyTheorists #QAnon #extremists #RomanaDidulo

What to know about Transgender Day of Remembrance and violence against trans people
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-day-of-remembrance-deaths-rita-hester-8160deb98febe780aa94577fd59a6758
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-day-visibility-gender-affirming-0858d8f42ece877cfad27488a4ad83dd

* TDoR every Nov 20
* began 1999 to honor Rita Hester, trans woman killed in Massachusetts
* marks end of Transgender Awareness Week: raises public knowledge about transgender community & issues we face
* Williams Institute, UCLA Law est. 1.6M people in U.S. age 13+ identify as transgender
* >4x more likely than cisgender persons to be victims of violence

#TDoR

What to know about Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick for Education secretary
https://apnews.com/article/linda-mcmahon-trump-education-secretary-wwe-613016d0c164b89765af761404cbb123

Texas board advances plan to allow Bible material in elementary school lessons
https://apnews.com/article/texas-public-school-religion-bible-curriculum-education-0585dc0a1ecb04b6cf426cce08af7543

Trans community resolved to persevere through another Trump presidency
https://truthout.org/articles/trans-community-prepares-to-persevere-through-another-trump-presidency
reposted: https://truthout.org/articles/trans-community-prepares-to-persevere-through-another-trump-presidency/

* leaders of the movement remind trans people of their long history of resilience and resistance

“We come from a lineage of resilience,” said Erin Reed, an independent reporter on transgender political issues in Washington, D.C.
Dora Richter
Sylvia Rivera
Marsha P. Johnson
Christine Jorgensen

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Christofasciam #antiLGBT #transphobia #TransRights