every person who is adopted is a person who has undergone and experienced family separation. the fact that Western culture valorizes #adoption as a system for family creation cannot alter this fact, though it does create a taboo against acknowledging it and against hearing dissenting voices.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

🥚... report Adoptee Voices draws on the experiences of more than 300 adopted young people aged 13 to 25 and reveals widespread feelings of isolation, confusion about identity and difficulties accessing specialist support. www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

I saw a post saying "what little discipline ICE had is collapsing under the stress and constant opposition." As an ex-cop I say, That's Not It -- what we see is the state's monopoly over violence being exercised by small minded people who have been itching to be the assholes they have always been

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

Happy MLK Day!

Want to make that appreciative email even better? cc their principal/admin team!

“The entire operation is becoming slower and more resource-intensive. There is good reason to believe that more immigrants are with their families tonight because of ICE Watch.”

How many times have I argued that Trump was using white identity politics to consolidate power only to be told by the pundit class and “objective” journalists that the failing of the left was its continuous embrace of identity politics while they were completely blind to whiteness as an identity?

ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP: -Cancel contracts with Flock -Ban facial recognition -End private camera registries -Data privacy protections

Like ICE, but on MDMA.🇨🇦

Or, hear me out, you're doing it right and indicating the limitations of their allegiance.

🥖🥖🥖 www.instagram.com/reel/DTNpbg8...

Non-adoptees don't know the racial violence people will say to another white person in front of a POC adoptee. Whatever you are imagining, make it worse and more aggressive.

Teaching kindergarten ON CAPITOL HILLL virtually the day after Jan 6 - the kids were so...quiet. When are kids ever quiet?! What collective trauma we all experienced - but especially those of us who live and work and learn and play here.

Any #adopteesky #formerfosteryouth watch Run Away? 🥚

THIS IS SO GOOD

Foster parents in Massachusetts want to unionize. Bill H229 exposes the truth: Money exists. It’s just not given to families before separation. Why fund separation when you could fund support? (Source: OnLabor, 2025) #adopteesky

www.koreaherald.com/article/1064... #adoption 🥚

Every adoption reveals so many politics. I’ve grown to apply the idea of abolition (of slavery) to prisons & policing, ie: I stopped asking how prison & police could be improved, but ask how conditions of societies can change so that they’re unnecessary. Abolition can be applied to adoption, too.

As an adoptee and abolitionist, this 🧵 is powerful. Read Dorothy Roberts. You can learn how the system of adoption is built on racial capitalism, colonialism, and slavery. You can change the questions you ask. There are so many ways to reimagine the world.

It is legal to buy a baby. It's illegal to buy an adult. It's illegal to buy body parts or organs. It is legal to buy sperm, eggs and to rent a womb.

pssst! Costco in DC has @athleticbrewingco.bsky.social!

Chances are, most platforms have support (free and paid) to help you switch platforms. Ask yourself whether S*bst*ck's "social features" are worth supporting n*zis.

It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it Learn more here: www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren... And here: notournativedaughters.org

🥚#adopteesky who also work in schools: Have any of you read "H3lp For Billy"? Thoughts? Do you have an alternative?

all #adopted people were forced as children, with no guidance from anyone, to write parts for themselves in other people’s plays. i’m finally beginning to understand all the ways that this was *the* formative influence on the person i have become.

For absolutely no reason at all www.bonfire.com/resist-t-shi...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Whoa!

reposting this with alt text for adopteesky. 🥚

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/

🥪🥪🥪 is the new 🔥🔥🔥

#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🧵