The US Senate has introduced the bipartisan Protect Adoptees and American Families Act, formerly known as the Adoptee Citizenship Act. Let's get this enacted so that thousands of intercountry adoptees finally secure US citizenship. 🥚 adopteesunited.org/congress-int...

Stephen Colbert needs no Paramount. He has the people. ❤️

I spent part of my Saturday night on Costco's customer service chat asking for classroom wish list capabilities because we're refusing to use *the others*.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

DC - what was that flyover?

Avelo Airlines is cashing in on ICE deportation flights. Indivisible organizers are at the airport TODAY demanding Avelo cancel its deportation contract. Add your voice—take action now at www.groundavelo.org/

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#tdih 1939 Five Black men arrested for trying to use library in Alexandria, Va. that their tax $ paid for. In pre-internet days, few other options for key information. Who did the police protect? Once again, it is time to defend library access. #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...

The DC Attorney General made it clear yesterday that Pam Bondi's attempt to take control of MPD is unlawful. We need Chief Smith to listen to the DCAG and refuse to follow this order. Join us today at 12 PM to add your messages to a copy of DCAG's letter. freedcproject.org/event-list/c...

There is so much grief right now. I highly recommend having an intentional grief practice. On some days it will be rage, on some days it will be sorrow. But what I know is unprocessed grief leads to the very behaviors that we are watching and abhor in this moment. Move it out of your body and heart.

all intercountry #adoption is modern-day child trafficking. but we are usually too polite to call children sold to overseas buyers as “abducted,” though the more one learns, the hazier the distinctions become.

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

🥚These trends are the result of national bans enacted around the world after exposés in international media revealed systemic deception, corruption, coercion, fraud, and baby-stealing by adoption agencies. And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵

Get out your paper bags, kids. It’s time to see if you can get into Columbia.

I think a lot about how much a student protest movement nationwide could have done to save some of these colleges and universities, or at least to slow their capitulation, if administrators hadn't already put in overtime to expel the politically active kids and get them arrested.

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Adopters tend to write children's stories "about adoption" that focus on the day they received their precious adoptee. News flash! Those are NOT stories about adoption nor do they provide any truths about what it means to BE adopted. They're tales about the day you got what you wanted. 🥚

When we say adoption secrecy is necessary to protect the feelings of adoptive parents, this is what we are protecting and hiding. And it has consequences for other international adoptees and birth families who are trying to find each other.

On the difficulty of creating a national database and seeking reparations, one of the researchers working hard to reunite families notes: “Some people don’t want to search because it would involve OR IMPLICATE the people who raised them.” [my emphasis]

🥚Remarkable to me how matter-of-factly this BBC report on forced adoption discusses Chile’s past policy of solving poverty by stealing kids from poor families and selling them abroad. Pretty sure this is still news to many white adoptive US parents. #adopteeskye 🧵 youtube.com/watch?v=Nliv...

We're trying to get this collaborative documentary off the ground. Hoping #adopteesky has some connections! 🥚 Please and thank you! maidenindiafilm.wordpress.com

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Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp. Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

This isn’t an administration that is indifferent to your death. This is a regime that will CELEBRATE it as an end goal.

"but what about infertile people? what about LGBTQ people? you don't believe they deserve families?" adoption is not a family planning tool, it is a last resort for children in extreme crisis, hope this helps.

adoption abolition should be a standard leftist position. people aren't property. identities shouldn't be controlled by the state. lower income parents shouldn't be exploited and coerced into relinquishing. kids shouldn't be denied access to their medical information or history. this is basic stuff.

Proud to say that I am the President Elect of the Washington Teachers Union AFT Local#6 alongside my entire Educators Taking Action slate. I am proud of the campaign we ran and the work we are gearing up to do. ✊

Yes we have a lot of flags. No we don’t care that you think it’s too many. No we don’t expect you to learn them all. But in case you’re curious, I’ll just leave this here 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

I was today year's old when I learned that Claire Danes narrated the audiobook to Miss Rumphius 🤯

I’m not kidding you when I say my work exposed Border Patrol’s rape culture, illegal coverup teams, the atrocities of deterrence policies, corruption,…Find out why BP Chief Rodney Scott has stated my writings/work have caused the Border Patrol a lot of problems. Available everywhere online.

The plan is to cause terror. MA, DC, NJ, CA - residential neighborhoods, schools, and small businesses in Dem strongholds. Look where they are not.

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

The way progressive White folks keep ignoring that most Black folks lived under authoritarianism HERE from the early 1500s to the 1970s in parts of this country & instead reach to Germany to describe our current situation is deep— Do y’all not know the Nazis modeled their system on Jim Crow HERE?

TELL HIM, KID.

This. And there is a specific reason they are talking about girls going with less instead of boys. They are still appealing to the people who want women & girls, and of course non-binary & trans femmes, to suffer.

If it wasn't for the Republicans, I wouldn't have realized that my pants were on inside out today. I went to put my passport card in my pants, which I now have to carry everywhere I go (bc of REPUBLICANS ffs) and couldn't, because my pants were inside out WOULDN'T THAT HAVE BEEN EMBARRASSING

Think of all these batshit Project 2025 executive orders not as laws or decrees - but as TESTS. They are all tests. And we must make sure they all fail.

Allowing eugenicists (who are always white supremacists) to create a registry of autistic people is more than dangerous, it is foreshadowing.

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i’ve stopped watching a few recent popular tv shows because of the way they make travesties of #adoption trauma in the ways MJ describes here.

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

🥚 “It should be my right to know who my parents are, who my ancestors are, what my medical history is. A fraudulent document claims I’m an orphan when I was not…the Korean government was basically manufacturing a lie in order to facilitate the exportation of children.” asamnews.com/2025/04/17/a...

oh hey welcome to your trial, blackshirts