"You should be grateful!" Grateful my first mother was coerced into relinquishment? That my extended families never knew I existed? That my origin story was a lie? That I have no access to my original birth certificate? That my adoptive mom had relevant information but kept it hidden from me? 🥚

This is so well done. 👌

Your Mother’s Day weekend reminder that the so-called “party of family values” has historically blocked: -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Expanded Child Tax Credit -Programs to support reproductive health Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

apnews.com/article/adop... and Locked Away: Kids promised 'forever homes' instead confined in for-profit institutions

one consequence of being caught up in a system that is designed to let strangers to call me their very own and to eliminate my actual origins completely is that i go through life with the deep-seated belief that i belong to no one. i think this is my key to understanding a great deal about myself. 🥚

I lol'd at this.😆

In the end the Easter Bunny came through for everyone 🐰

Since when does the Easter Bunny threaten destruction of civilization.

Lawyers line. Birthright Citizenship

The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid. Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion. Priorities.

The heart of the lawsuit for one group of plaintiffs is that these children were denied the right to “family integrity,” meaning the right to remain with *one’s own family*. 🥚 imprintnews.org/top-stories/...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Over 17 THOUSAND people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora in the US, spanning the entire period up to its inception 70 years ago, lack US citizenship because of their adopters’ inaction. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

liberals profess shock at the phrase “domestic infant supply” because to take it literally is to accept that the USA operates a market in children. Plenary #adoption was codified a century ago, with a cascading series of legal changes in every state over a 20-year period, to legitimize that market.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

We condemn President Trump’s racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, which reflects a long and shameful history in this country of using racism to silence, demean, and divide.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

and we are not over reacting

All the resources you need in this thread! 🥚

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

I have never seen a community of people so united and so committed to helping each other in the face of something so terrible, in my decades of reporting on terrible things. The people of Minneapolis are all in this together, legit. You can feel it and see it everywhere. It's incredible.

They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.

DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’ Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota. Read now: zeteo.com/p/dhs-shooti...

Six interviews with Georgetown law students interested in public defense have sent me into a spiral of ideas about why everything matters. Are they just skilled pretenders, or can it be that extraordinary kids really see that public defense matters.

Trump Administration Destroys the Systems that Support and Protect America’s Children janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/t... by Jan Resseger

i am struck by how the quote refers to examples of a “perfectly legal adoption” as “when a child is orphaned or abandoned,” and how truly uncommon these are as causes of adoption in the US.

Great news! SB 381 passed out of California's Senate Judiciary Community UNANIMOUSLY, 13 to 0. The speeches were fantastic. There was no official opposition to adult adoptees being able to obtain our original birth certificate at age 18. The bill will be heard by the Health Committee tomorrow.

Open records for adopted people has passed the California judiciary committee. Unanimously. On to the health committee tomorrow.

Ryan Hanlon, former president and CEO of the Virginia-based National Council for Adoption, is expected to be announced as the leader of the federal Children’s Bureau next week.

America now has 935 billionaires with $8.1 trillion in collective wealth — a 20% increase from 2024. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 935 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The cognetive dissonance when you try to explain to people that even domestic adoption is all about 💰💰💰 "But no money is involved!" Are you sure? And this goes for cute little hygge-socialist-heaven-Denmark too. 🥚

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

The number of LA County youth placed in out-of-home foster care dropped from 2010 to 2025, with the largest decline occurring over the past five years.

13 years ago today.

i don’t think people understand the interconnection of the #adoption industry, child welfare systems, and the manufacturing of orphanhood. the overwhelmingly predominant cause children’s loss of family is not death but the state. most adoptees are people whose parents are dead *in law only.*

Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)

Something notable to me here is how there is a cycle of a country becoming a hotspot for surrogacy, only to legally ban the practice after scandal, causing the market to move to a new country with less regulation—similar to the history of international adoption: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...