This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

I would love to burn the word adoption into dust. Call the “adopters” of the future “guardians” or “sponsors”. Or can we not imagine love and care taking root without a legal title of ownership?

everybody always tells me “we need adoption, duh.” No one ever tells me why we need *irrevocable* severance and identity change.

And for Canadians, who claim we're different, my parents paid for me in 1965 - I have receipts from Peel CAS. It's all child trafficking and it's all TRAUMA. No one tells an infant who lost her parents in a car crash to be GRATEFUL - unless she's then adopted.

There is no proof good enough for the white supremacist right-wingers.

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

ICE is holding Native Americans hostage as a bargaining chip to raid reservations, saying they won't release them until the tribes give up sovereignty. www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...

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When you've lost the f-bomb guy who really doesn't want to be there and has to work in the morning, you've lost middle America.

This dude is intense and correct

Like I want yall to sit with this. There are Black children in this country with birth certificates that say they were birthed by white families. And nowhere on the cert does it say that the child is actually an adoptee. Does that make you uncomfy? It should

My adoptive family did not. And that is why I regard the recent discourse about adult estrangement with grim amusement. They cared so little to respond compassionately to my predicament as a closed-adoption adoptee that it’s a natural and, I believe, healthy response for me to declare independence.

Read this thread. Secrecy and lies are a cancer on the entire #adoption system.

Esteban decided to celebrate one year of being with us by sneaking out an open door and then being too scared to let Zach pick him up such that we had to team up to corral him back into the house. He's now sulking on the kitchen floor after Zach called him a dumbass. 🤣

they said they wanted pissful protesting

Lmao someone threw an open bottle of piss into an ICE vehicle that was driving by

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Also don’t love a scientist trying to make it seem like the data is flawed, shows a deep misunderstanding of the existing research (or proof of not having looked at it at all)

I watched this and I’m glad it passed but oof, that was A LOT. I’m so glad there are adoptee advocates who can keep a cool head in the same room as all this condescending nonsense. I’d just be angry crying and glaring

what a rhetorical whataboutism to equate my need for *family health history*—for me and my children—with whatever he is ascribing to my birthmother (peace of mind?)

The only people who actually matter, but never the people who drive the discourse.

Love the comment from the Senator who was "well, I want to adopt someday and this might mean my adopted child could find their birth parents and I am not cool with that because I want to be the sole owner of the child". Loosely paraphrasing. But holy fucking christ! The self interest is stunning. 🥚

By all means let's make policies and pass laws that affect real people all based on possibilities, myths, and what-ifs. No need to talk to actual real humans with lived experience. These people can step all the way off. 🥚

it's very clear that this is a template for how they're going to approach other cities they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years

they're shooting us in the face, ted

The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.

No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

the birthrate discussion I think always circles around a core reality that nobody really wants to talk about, which is that - when living in a stable society that does not rely on your family needing more children for support - most people don’t want many kids and no incentives will change that

Republicans say they care about women. Then they raise health insurance costs, threaten hospitals, lie about safe medication, and fight for a national abortion ban. Restricting abortion has never been about protecting women. It’s about control. We must stop them. youtube.com/shorts/pZLag...

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Anyone asking “but is that the right way to resist?” is missing the point. People in Minneapolis are doing everything that we can think of that we know has helped in the past. We’re not choosing one tactic. We’re using all of them—because that’s the amount of community participation we have.

conceiving a child from an anonymously “donated” gamete violates the human right to know one’s origins, but in addition it presents the ugly ethical spectacle of a person achieving a genetic connection to a child precisely by denying that child access to their own genetic origins. 🥚

anyone who has followed me for a little while might be able to predict my response, since I bang a shoe about this too: Anonymous gamete donation should be banned. 🥚

And then sometimes both families get mad at the adoptee!!! Does that make any sense?! No. 🥚

That's how you do it

if the fight for CA adoptees ends in heartbreak, yet again, it’s a real comfort to me to know, as I didn’t for so much of my life, that I’m not alone in feeling unmoored by #adoption and trapped in its life sentence of secrecy.

And that last reskeet is exactly why I have grace for adoptees who use 23andMe and the like. When there is *no* other way for you to learn where you come from, it makes sense. 🥚

Who had the World War Uno Reverso card up their fucking sleeve? I hate this game.

Oh, we should totally be panicking. Our “official” are falsified. They will come for transnational adoptees first but no one is safe ultimately.

CA people could really do #adoptees a solid by calling their reps *immediately* to voice support for SB-381, a clean bill giving CA adoptees access to their original birth certificates.

I felt panicky about this stuff a year ago, but anybody I mentioned it to brushed me off about it. "No no. You have your passport and RealID driver's license. You're fine." Even my bio mom was like "I have a copy of your original B.C." So do I, but both our copies have "INVALID" stamped on them. 🥚

Adoptees, adoptive parents, and biological parents have petitioned courts TOGETHER, and still been denied original birth certificates. Why would adoptees who already know their parent's identity need an original birth certificate? People in Minnesota could probably tell you exactly why right now.

“ICE agents would have to wear QR codes you can scan to find out who they are” wow thanks man that’ll be super useful when i’m sitting in a detention center in louisiana because an aggro freak on uppers decided i looked at him kinda weird

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

“pro-adoption” has never meant “pro-adoptee.”

I was 34 years old when I saw my "official" long form birth certificate for the 1st time. The one I'd had before that was the size of a credit card and didn't list any parents at all. Just my name, date & place of birth, and the signature of some government official. 🥚