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Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ☮ Ph.D. | Truth network
• YES! Universal social justice, human rights | environmentalism | unions | democratic socialism
• NO! Capitalism | billionaires | inequality | oligarchy | authoritarianism | theocracy

• https://Persagen.org/wpi/
• Transgenocide: https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf
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🇨🇦 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Holocaust Remembrance Day a time to remember Canadian complicity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-poilievre-holocaust-remembrance-9.7063419

Looking away 'not a passive act, but an act of betrayal,' PM tells ceremony

Yet on his / Liberal Party of Canada's tenure: arms sales to Israel throughout Israeli genocide of Palestinian peoples

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🇺🇲 2026 Nov elections: crisis, apathy, billionaires
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/15/the-billionaires-and-the-november-elections

  • lack of market reaction to Trump ordering DoJ to investigate criminal charges against Fed Chair

  • fine w. this threat: stock indexes all rose

  • how might markets react if Trump cancels/steals 2026 elections?

  • Trump made it clear that he considers both cancellation/ordering that some votes not be counted as options - NYT interview
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🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 Trumpism

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Behind Trump vs. Powell: Battle Over Future of U.S. Empire
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-powell-fed-europe-dollars

After 2008 crisis U.S. set up vast financial network offering liquidity to allies

Ongoing clash between Jerome Powell & Donald Trump partly about

  • future of this system

  • which vision of American empire ro promote

  • weaponized U.S. dollar

  • source of overseas hegemony: political, economic, military predominance of one state over another
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony

Behind Trump vs. Powell: Battle Over Future of U.S. Empire https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-powell-fed-europe-dollars After 2008 crisis U.S. set up vast financial network offering liquidity to allies Ongoing clash between Jerome Powell & Donald Trump partly about * future of this system * which vision of American empire ro promote * weaponized U.S. dollar * source of overseas hegemony: political, economic, military predominance of one state over another https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony #Christofascism #capitalism #DemocraticSocialism
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    🇨🇦 "Old order not coming back" Canadian Prime Minister says in provocative speech at Davos
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-davos-speech-9.7052725
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum

    Prime Minister Mark Carney says great powers are using 'economic integration as weapons'

    .. sez the capitalist, blowing both sides of his trumpet ...

    🇺🇲 🇬🇧
    🇨🇦 Trumpism

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    Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

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    “The bargain no longer works.” 🇨🇦 Canada’s Prime Minister calls out America’s economic hegemony 🤔
    https://www.salon.com/2026/01/20/the-bargain-no-longer-works-canadas-prime-minister-calls-out-americas-economic-hegemony

    Mark Carney called the global order based on rules a “fiction” in a World Economic Forum speech Tuesday

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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

    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

    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
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    Neocolonialism / resource plundering / geo-terrorism: Trump’s Venezuela Blockade Is for “Our Oil”
    https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115736959647645024

    Blockade an act of war: Trump escalates attack on Venezuela
    https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115736959647645024

    Venezuelan "Threat" Is All Trumped Up
    https://progressive.org/op-eds/venezuelan-threat-is-all-trumped-up-rojas-20251230

    President Donald Trump has been inching toward war with Venezuela for one reason: oil.

    Fascist waits for you ... also:

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    Stellantis backtracks on plans to build Jeep model in Ontario, shifts to U.S.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/stellantis-jeep-compass-canada-9.6938834
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellantis

    • 🇨🇦 Unifor, Carney speak out against decision
    • world's 5th-largest automaker
    • $US13 billion to expand manufacturing capacity in U.S.

    Corporate profits before people: investing 🇺🇲 where certain repression of it's citizens will render them cheap labor w. eroded labor rights

    🇺🇲 🇬🇧

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    John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense of Transgender People 🙏
    https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/john-oliver-destroys-bari-weiss-in

    Last Week Tonight w. John Oliver

    • longtime, consistent, authoritative defender of trans persons 🙏

    2015: Transgender Rights
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoAX9f6MOc

    2022: Transgender Rights II
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8NvPPHX5Y

    Apr 2025: Trans Athletes
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS1tjoxf0

    🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦

    Wedge
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    Idiot: Poilievre claims Christians #1 victims of hate-based violence
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-christians-hate-1.7646471

    • data: Jews, Muslims most targeted

    thread: Pierre Poilievre
    https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110970121516907014

    6 Policy Areas Where Poilievre Mirrors Trump
    https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114381983497554754

    Poilievre calls for more legal protection for Canadians defending homes
    https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115113284375633673

    Poilievre/Conservatives: Wokeism
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    Well played, sir.

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    @georgetakei He (Trump)'s so f. dim ...

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    Canadian Association of University Warns 🇨🇦 Academics Against Traveling to U.S. 🇺🇲
    https://pressprogress.ca/university-teachers-association-warns-canadian-academics-against-travelling-to-the-united-states

    • 🇨🇦 academics could be searched/detained for political views

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    Boston declares itself a pro-trans sanctuary city amid GOP’s escalating attacks
    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/boston-declares-itself-a-pro-trans-sanctuary-city-amid-gops-escalating-anti-trans-attacks/

    Boston won't comply w. anti-LGBTQ+ fed. orders

    • decision comes w. some risk. 🏳️‍⚧️🙏


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    🏳️‍⚧️ Transgenocide

    https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/

    Background: Transphobia & transgenocide
    https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf

    • comprehensive analysis of conservative movements viz-a-viz transgenocide

    Namaste 🙏

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    🏳️‍⚧️ Transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/ Background: Transphobia & transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf * comprehensive analysis of conservative movements viz-a-viz transgenocide Namaste 🙏 #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #transgender 🇺🇲 #USpol #USlaw #Trump #GOP #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide #FRC #HeritageFoundation #ACPeds #M4L #LibsOfTikTok #SPN #ParentalRightsMovement 🇨🇦 #CanPol #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #protofascism #Trumpism #transphobia #antiLGBTQ

    🏳️‍⚧️ Transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/ Background: Transphobia & transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf * comprehensive analysis of conservative movements viz-a-viz transgenocide Namaste 🙏 #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #transgender 🇺🇲 #USpol #USlaw #Trump #GOP #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide #FRC #HeritageFoundation #ACPeds #M4L #LibsOfTikTok #SPN #ParentalRightsMovement 🇨🇦 #CanPol #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #protofascism #Trumpism #transphobia #antiLGBTQ
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    Yet another reason to love : "HARRIS for President"
    https://xkcd.com/

    @xkcd xkcd@lemmy.ml icon xkcd @xkcd @xkcdbot

    Yet another reason to love #xkcd: "HARRIS for President" https://xkcd.com/
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    Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
    She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03129-3
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664199

    • 25 y.o. woman w. type 1 diabetes
    • started producing own insulin <3 mo after receiving transplant of reprogrammed stem cells
    • 1st person w. T1D disease to be treated using cells extracted f. her own body
    • “I can eat sugar now” said the woman

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    [thread] genocide
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

    • violence targeting individuals because of their group membership
    • aims at destruction of a people

    [thread] genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide * violence targeting individuals because of their group membership * aims at destruction of a people #discrimination #genocide #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Netanyahu #China #Uighur #Uyghur #apartheid #GenderApartheid #Afghanistan Image: 10 stages of genocide https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111070341861878788
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    [Rwanda] As a brutal genocide raged around her, Josephine smuggled 12 people to safety
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    [China] The Literature of Uyghur Disappearance
    Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide
    https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-literature-of-uyghur-disappearance

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    GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Features, spread, implications
    https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41477516

    • many about applied, controversial topics susceptible to disinformation
    • environment, health, computing
    • resulting potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, a concern