Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go.

If an adoptee finding their family hurts their adoptive family imagine how much hurt the adoptee had growing up in such a manipulative controlling family. #adoptionawareness

i think it's time to note that ICE did not pioneer child taking; that it's not a new atrocity being visited upon the vulnerable; that "child welfare" agencies routinely use it to police families in crisis; that good progressive people enter the "foster-to-adopt pipeline" to benefit from it. 🥚

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

AOC: "We will not be intimidated by an administration that is violating rights and making life hard and unaffordable for every single American in this country. And we will send in a wave of Democrats that not bow to this administration, but stand up to this administration."

AOC: "The Supreme Court has given Trump a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and danger of this moment, but we cannot respond to that threat with cowardice."

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

🥚 In yesterday's tomfoolery (buying infants&children as a triumph over homophobia) I was told, "Sorry your adoption was horrendous". Interestingly, my adoption had best possible outcomes given an infant w/ unresolved trauma/motherloss, was raised by adoptive mother w/ unresolved infertility trauma.

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.

For National Adoptee Awareness Month, this lives rent-free in my head. 🥚 #adopteesky

Just got blocked for saying adoption is human trafficking. Troubling when the oppressed wish to emulate their oppressors in the exploitation of infants and children instead of standing up for human rights. 🥚 #AdoptionIsTrauma #AbolishAdoption #adopteesky #AdoptionIsHumanTrafficking

Come for their stupid right-wing polices that bankrupt their countries, stay for their inability to do hair.

Is bread pudding just French Toast cosplaying as a casserole?

The Hatfields keep blaming the McCoys every time a Hatfield shoots another Hatfield.

Yes! 🥚

I just heard, "When procuring an object, the source doesn't matter."

"For me, like, I don't see having your own child as really any different in adopting," Brown said. "I feel like ... my home is full of love for anyone or anything." Spoken like a human trafficker. Offensive on so many levels. 🥚

🥚"Today, I'm doing for myself what my adoptive parents didn't do for me. I'm allowing myself to grieve my adoptee losses, whatever that looks like for me." ~~Pamela Karanova Listen to #adopteevoices

PSA unplug hotel alarm clocks on arrival! No one wants to be awakened earlier than necessary. Ever.

I would encourage you to frame this differently. Poverty is a systemic issue, not a personal failure. What is it when we take children from people who suffer from systemic oppression and poverty? When society first creates the problem and then punishes people for not being able to overcome it?

the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻

Most churches, like most schools, run on the unpaid labor of women…

people dismiss adoptees like me as “angry” because the belief that #adoption does selfless good in the world is dogma. it therefore leaves no room for the idea that what produces the anger is knowledge.

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Yet another fact-checked lie by Poilievre (he also lied about 200,000 affordable homes built under his govt; it was 4,000). The percentage of people’s income that are taxes has remained unchanged since 2016:

Can’t believe between the federal government and Harvard I’m rooting for Harvard

Think I might start using this prefix to explain my feelings as an #adoptee. penfamilia Almost but never quite #adopteesky 🥚

Elbows up, Canada.

🥚 Adoptees, what are your opinions on therapists or councilors who are also adoptive parents? For me, it's an immediate no. Am I unreasonable? Am I limiting my options or keeping myself safe? My goal is to find an adoptee-safe therapist.

#Adoption is an emotional minefield. One moment feeling empathy for a fellow adoptee, the next moment in my feels about a stranger's antisemitism at my hand-over and it's lasting impact of othering and invisibility in my relationship with my a-parents. 🥚

so given a choice between stopping or letting people drink poo the united states supreme court is on record on the “drink poo” side

A kept journalist writing for a kept audience. "I discovered... mistakes happened – with unimaginable consequences. " That child-loss is accepted as every parent's worst nightmare contradicts the premise of adoption. Unimaginable consequences are my day-to-day lived experience. 🥚 #AdoptionAbolition

@adopteeson.bsky.social’s interview with @kit-myers.bsky.social is so good. Kit discusses what he calls the “emotional violence” of #adoption with such sensitivity. I highly recommend it.

#Adoptee here. The very idea of a registry of infant suppliers—of breeders for baby buyers—is fascism. Coercing people to relinquish to strangers the children they were forced to give birth to does not redress the injustice of forcing births; it compounds the injustice.

Introducing a powerful adoptee writer 🥚@mirellastoyanova.bsky.social — a moving sample of more to come. writeordiemag.com/elliptical-l...

“Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.” — Tommy Douglas

Some of us pro-choice adoptees warned people they wanted to bring back a new Baby Scoop Era (google if you don't know) and that means only white Christian cishet married people get to adopt the forced birth babies.

If there’s anything we learn from the history of authoritarianism, it’s that once the authoritarian achieves small goals like purging the civil service & installing loyalists, they always just stop there and don’t go any further. Wait, hang on, I may not have read that book the whole way to the end.

a slideshow on surrogacy policy from the always 🔥 @moonjoo.bsky.social 🥚 1/8

“A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal govt to one of the richest men on the planet…whose…interests are tangled up in those of rival govts and foreign autocracies”

Well. I did it. I submitted my book on the history of how the US government has removed Indigenous children from their families. From colonization to removal to boarding schools to today. For middle schoolers. I think it's the first book of its kind. I can't believe I got to do it.

Season 4 is live! ✌🏾 https://buff.ly/4hqWBW8 #adoptee #adopteevoices #adopted

Are any other adoptees irritated by pet parents, dog dads, or cat moms? I love animals, but casting yourself as the parent for a purchased pet is triggering. 🥚

What are the mediocrities going to do when they find out that “DEI” isn’t their problem? I’m curious.

Even though Tony shared this a year ago, it remains at the forefront of my mind. A big push/step of my "coming out of the fog" process. 🥚 🧵