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The Caribbean Faces Two Choices: Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/01/the-caribbean-faces-two-choices-join-the-us-attempt-to-intimidate-venezuela-or-build-its-own-sovereignty

Colonialism; populist, anti-crime, pro-militarism rhetoric

December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

The Caribbean Faces Two Choices: Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/01/t...

Colonialism; populist, anti-crime, pro-militarism rhetoric

December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

#LLM: Era of AI persuasion in elections about to begin
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/05/1...

AI capable of political persuasion & could automate it at mass scale. We're not prepared

#AIchatbots #conservatism #disinformation #SyntheticMedia #posttruth #Christofascism #billionaires #oligarchy

#LLM: Era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/05/1128837/the-era-of-ai-persuasion-in-elections-is-about-to-begin

AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared.

#AIchatbots #conservatism #misinformation #disinformation #SyntheticMedia #posttruth #Christofascism #billionaires #oligarchy

December 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Renowned Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry dead at 96
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Frank Gehry
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_G...

Check out the images!! 😯 #FrankGehry #architecture

December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

#LLM #OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race
www.theverge.com/news/836212/...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612...

#LLM #OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race
https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870

December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Ex-Honduran president convicted of trafficking 360 TONNES cocaine pardoned by Trump 💩
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

m/w
* propagandizing Argentinian drug-running: violation of international law
* preparing for invasion: resource plundering

🇺🇲 #Christofascism
#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

Ex-Honduran president convicted of trafficking 360 tonnes of cocaine out of prison after Trump pardon 💩
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-honduras-hernandez-pardon-9.7000112

Pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández criticized in both Honduras and U.S.

360 TONNES of cocaine ... m/w propagandizing Argentinian drug-running 🤔 as enormous threat / violating international law / murdering civilians w/o due process / preparing for invasion (resource plundering)

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

#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Trump2 Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation
prospect.org/2025/11/19/t...
therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-trump-ad...

Usual players Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, billionaires

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism

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

#capitalism #inequality #socialism

Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation
https://prospect.org/2025/11/19/trump-administration-quietly-preparing-to-bring-back-school-segregation/
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-trump-administration-is-quietly-preparing-to-bring-back-school-segregation

Usual players: Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, billionaires

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism 🇨🇦 #Trumpism

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

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

State of AI: December 2025 newsletter - by Nathan Benaich
nathanbenaich.substack.com/p/state-of-a...

Welcome to the latest issue of the State of AI, an editorialized newsletter that covers key developments in AI policy, research, industry & start-ups over the last month. First a few reminders ...

November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source
ricochet.media/indigenous/o...

Onigaming First Nation says no to mining without consent
thenarwhal.ca/onigaming-fi...

independent, local investigative journalism 👍️

🇨🇦 Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/ontario-first-nation-prepared-to-block-highway-to-stop-mining-near-drinking-water-source

Onigaming First Nation says no to mining without consent
https://thenarwhal.ca/onigaming-first-nation-mining-blockade

independent, local investigative journalism 👍️

Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibways_of_Onigaming_First_Nation

Ojibways of Onigaming – Anishinaabeg of Kabapikotawangag Resource Council
https://www.akrc.on.ca/member-first-nations/ojibways-of-onigaming

November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

"You have to just draw something that you hope is funny."
How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4607...

Snoopy and Woodstock

'You have to just draw something that you hope is funny': How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241205-how-charles-m-schulz-created-charlie-brown-and-snoopy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074362

November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

DonorsTrust: Dark Money Donor Conduit Funneled $195M to Right-Wing Groups in 2024
www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/11/21/d...

300+ right-wing influence groups, climate deniers ... underpinning U.S. far-right infrastructure

[thread] Dark money, campaign finance
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

Dark money, DonorsTrust: Dark Money Donor Conduit Funneled $195 Million to Right-Wing Groups in 2024
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/11/21/dark-money-donor-conduit-funneled-195-million-to-right-wing-groups-in-2024

2024 DonorsTrust (preferred donor-advised fund of Koch political network) distributed $195.3M in grants to 300+ right-wing influence groups, litigation centers, media outlets, climate deniers, pro-gun groups, other tax-exempt organizations that underpin America’s far-right infrastructure

[thread] Dark money, campaign finance
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110953607664918460

November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

TDoR 2025: trans visibility is power - feared by Christian right / oligarchic billionaires & their minions.

I'm co-Chair of Senior Pride Network Canada
spnc-rfac.ca

mailchi.mp/ab94fa642f34...

Solidarity, people!

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #transgenocide 🇨🇦 #Trumpism

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

TDoR 2025: trans visibility is power - feared by Christian right / oligarchic billionaires & their minions.

Off shortly to Vancouver, B.C. 🇨🇦 event.

I am co-Chair of

Senior Pride Network Canada / Réseau de la Fierté des personnes aînées du Canada (SPNC/RFAC)
https://spnc-rfac.ca/

which today released

https://mailchi.mp/ab94fa642f34/new-spncrfac-email-address-call-for-board-nominations-nouvelle-adresse-courriel-du-spncrfac-appel-de-candidatures-pour-le-conseil-dadmin-55379?e=ff4692fabf

Solidarity, people!

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #transgenocide 🇨🇦 #Trumpism

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

#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Trump Anti-Trans Report Authors: Hate Groups/Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Activists
www.erininthemorning.com/p/trumps-ant...

Revisions to national caregiving plan erase trans people, PoC
19thnews.org/2025/11/nati...

Halt anti-trans rhetoric
19thnews.org/2025/11/tran...

#Transgenocide #TDoR #TLM

November 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

🇺🇲 ICE: We Go As We Please: What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y’all
www.commondreams.org/further/we-g...

American Gestapo’s brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on ...

🇺🇲 ICE: We Go As We Please: What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y’all
https://www.commondreams.org/further/we-go-as-we-please-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-y-all

American Gestapo’s brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on ...

November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Sad day! Hadn't seen my friend Lucky since April; Googled, found recent YouTube video for which the About / comments mention he passed in April. 😢
Lucky was a good person; kind, generous ... wolf clan (protector); strong supporter of 2S/LGBTQIA+ & Palestinian rights.

www.instagram.com/sacred_bead/

Sad day ... I hadn't seen my friend Lucky since April (and no posts to his Instagram). Googled, found this recent YouTube video for which the About / comments mention he passed in April. 😢
Lucky was a good person; kind, generous ... wolf clan (protector); strong supporter of 2S/LGBTQIA+ & Palestinian rights.

https://www.instagram.com/sacred_bead/

Lucky's Outlook On Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatzxl0YRWs

He will be missed! We didn't know him long / well (crossed paths lots on False Creek; good chats); awesome person!

November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

I've commented recently there's no fundamental difference betw. U.S. Democrats/Republicans

Inside Texas church’s training academy for Christians running for office
www.levernews.com/the-bible-th...

Dem darling showered w. Miriam Adelson-linked money
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

I've commented recently there's no fundamental difference betw. U.S. Democrats/Republicans (the medium is the message i.e. window dressing over wealth-captured goods/services/governance)

Inside Texas church’s training academy for Christians running for office
https://www.levernews.com/the-bible-thumper-and-the-billionaire/

* no separation betw. church/state
* Democrats flummoxed by org. religion
* TX Democratic State Rep. James Talarico trying to change that

Dem darling showered w. Miriam Adelson-linked money
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/james-talarico-miriam-adelson-billionaire-donations-00517288

November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Neuromorphic computing: Computers that run on human brain cells
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nonpaywalled: archive.fo/O5WqR

Neuromorphic computing: Computers that run on human brain cells
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03633-0
nonpaywalled: https://archive.fo/O5WqR

November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Secret Sign Trump’s People Know He’s Not Fit
www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret-s...

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #AmeriKKKa
#StephenMiller #HeritageFoundation #Project2025

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

#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice

The Secret Sign Trump’s People Know He’s Not Fit
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret-sign-trumps-people-know-hes-not-fit/

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #AmeriKKKa
#StephenMiller #HeritageFoundation #Project2025

#transgenocide #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice

November 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

Indigenous Veterans Day celebrates Indigenous peoples in Canadian Armed Forces

12k+ Indigenous peoples served in WWI/II, Korean War despite inequality, cultural suppression

www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembran...

www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Artwork: Robin Roberts: Haida, Tsimshian, Squamish Nations

Indigenous Veterans Day celebrates bravery, resilience, contributions of Indigenous peoples in Canadian Armed Forces

12,000+ Indigenous peoples served in WWI, WWII, & the Korean War, courageously fighting for Canada despite facing inequality, & cultural suppression.

Today, we remember & honour these First Nations, Inuit, & Métis warriors who served bravely in the wars. 🕊️

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/people-and-stories/indigenous-veterans

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/maple-leaf/defence/2025/11/beyond-remembrance-the-meaning-of-indigenous-veterans-day.html

Artwork: Robin Roberts - Haida, Tsimshian, Squamish Nations

November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

James Watson, DNA double-helix, dead at 97
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-...

* as undergrad biochemist (early 80s) I saw Watson speak
* admired succinct DNA helix 1-pager
* later find he's a white supremacist/racist
* colleague told me someone shat on his CSHL residence stoop

James Watson, DNA double-helix, dead at 97
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/watson-james-obituary-9.6971457
https://www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-nature-papers-watson-crick-wilkins-franklin.pdf

Some people disappoint: as an undergrad biochemist (early 80's) I saw Watson speak (SMU, Halifax) and hugely admired the succinct, DNA helix 1-pager. Later to find he's a white supremacist/racist. Colleague told me one night someone shat on his CSHL residence stoop. 💩

Ditto Gretzky: Trumpist MAGA-hat wearing sycophant.

Their legacy, my lens.

Universal human rights / social justice / love, people! 🙏

November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Victoria Stuart

@persagen.bsky.social

As Americans live paycheck to paycheck, Tesla shareholders approve Musk’s $1 trillion package
mastodon.social/@persagen/11...

Billionaire wealth surges; Oxfam predicts 5 trillionaires in decade
www.euronews.com/business/202...