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she/her PNW catmom, tifosi, former Angeleno, CSA survivor
#adoptee
#AbolishICE
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Insecurity, the belief you aren't worthy of love, and in full load, is narcissism, is the root of white supremacy. It has caused a 400 year collective mental health crisis in this country. We need to heal ourselves.
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I can't think of a worse way to use AI. This is really gross.
#adoptee
How about use AI to support families, to ensure kin stay together?
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about 17 hours ago
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Merriam-Webster
about 18 hours ago
Rudolph gets all the love, so let’s talk about the names of Santa’s other reindeer. dasher | noun | one that dashes dancer | noun | one that dances prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner Ok, those three are easy to understand. 🧵⬇️
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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast
3 days ago
A new national study confirms what adoptees have said for decades: medical care isn’t neutral for us.
#adopteesky
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TheRoadie.
5 days ago
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
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Feena van
8 days ago
"Federal government agencies recognize tribal ID as a valid form of identification, and Miles has used it to travel back and forth to Canada and Mexico without any issues." "Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”"
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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-actress-elaine-miles-says-ice-called-her-tribal-id-fake/#Echobox=1764252325
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Nils Gilman
9 days ago
Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
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ProPublica
10 days ago
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
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Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-pregnancy-risk-autism-study-cdc?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Hopeful in AZ
12 days ago
And just WHERE ARE the Epstein files? I was promised…by the President of the United States, no less.
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Pam Keith
12 days ago
It is a TOP priority of the GOP to get rid of vote by mail because they can’t intimidate and challenge voters based on race with mail in voting. I wish I could believe that Dems will actually fight them on this, but we know Chuck and Hakeem. Whatever the AIPAC position is, is what they will do.
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The Associated Press
16 days ago
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
https://bit.ly/4ibcn8Z
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Tony Corsentino
17 days ago
this is one of the biggest rage points for adoptees about anonymity in
#adoption
. And it's a harm that propagates generationally forward. It was when awareness dawned that my lack of family health history meant my children would lack family health history that I finally decided to search.
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ReinVIR
18 days ago
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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Brent Snavely
21 days ago
If you punish unwed mothers in the right way, you can boost the domestic supply of infants for the use and enjoyment of society's most deserving... 🥚
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
20 days ago
Remember how Trump said ICE targets “violent criminals?” Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history. That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like
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Tony Corsentino
22 days ago
children constitute a crucially important test case for the thesis that powerless people have rights too, and liberals’ track record is far from perfect. it’s not lost on
#adopted
people that the ACLU is deliberately silent on whether we have a right to know our own identities.
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Attorney Ben Crump
22 days ago
A Baltimore officer has been indicted after video showed him chasing a man with his police cruiser — facing charges from second-degree attempted murder to assault. This could’ve been another deadly headline. When those sworn to protect weaponize their badge, accountability must follow.
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Farnad Darnell, PhD
22 days ago
As an adoptee, this is just dumb and gross. Instead of fixing the system so children can stay with their biological family, the system exploits the vulnerable for a $25B annual profit scheme. 🥚
#adopteesky
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
22 days ago
DOJ estimates Epstein trafficked at least 200 children. And, experts estimate ~2600 minors were forced into a child marriage in the United States in 2025—a trend expected to continue in 2026. Here’s how bad the situation is, and what we can do to stop it.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/epstein-fi...
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Epstein Files Reminder: USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think
Despite more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/epstein-files-reminder-usa-has-a
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC
24 days ago
#Adoptees
are diagnosed at higher rates with ADHD due to interaction of genes with environmental stressors such as systemic inequities and trauma related to adoption. A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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Why Adoptees Have Higher Rates of ADHD
Adoptees’ higher ADHD rates reflect genetic, prenatal, and social factors, highlighting the need for trauma-informed, adoption-competent care and systemic equity.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-third-wave/202511/why-adoptees-have-higher-rates-of-adhd
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC
26 days ago
#adoptee
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The Tennessee Holler
25 days ago
GUARDIAN: “Israeli soldiers described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers… use of human shields, opening fire unprovoked…”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Dr. Sarah Parcak
25 days ago
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...
https://substack.com/@sarahkendzior/note/c-175914197
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Oliver Willis
26 days ago
Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
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Sherrilyn Ifill
27 days ago
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/12/documentary-the-alabama-solution
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#caturday
was about napping.
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Jacob Soboroff
28 days ago
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill
28 days ago
Congratulations!
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Nina Metz
29 days ago
Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they’re happier too. Imagine!
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Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they’re happier too.
Employers are perfecting their flexible work arrangements. They’re making in-person time strategic and ensuring new employees don’t feel isolated.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/top-workplaces-hybrid-work/?share=kooy5bwpk7etco727p02
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Shintaro Melodrama
29 days ago
You have to understand. This is the fantasy of white folks in the US. The unmitigated cruelty of this travesty is *the reason* white folks either didn’t vote or voted for a racist pedophile for a second time. White folks do not care about a functioning society. They only care about hate.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
29 days ago
YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions" Read more in this
@theintercept.com
story by
@jonahmv.bsky.social
and Nikita Mazurov:
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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Alejandra Caraballo
29 days ago
Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
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A women's soccer star is the target of an anti-trans activist - Outsports
Barbra Banda's peers in the NWSL stood up for her when the head of an anti-trans fashion brand tried to demean her.
https://www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24121566/barbra-banda-orlando-pride-fc-anti-trans-accusations-xx-xy/
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Anne Applebaum
29 days ago
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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Rebecca Fachner
30 days ago
Oh my god women are in WORKPLACES??? With their BOOBS everywhere?
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
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I'm happy for all these wonderful results this morning. But I'm also sad that we have had to live through 9 months of 47 in order to wake people up to all his cruel cohort and policies. We knew it would be like this. Why couldn't we have all voted for Kamala? There's so much work to do.
about 1 month ago
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The Loch Ness Monster
about 1 month ago
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
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Meredith Shiner
about 1 month ago
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
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Amos Posner
about 1 month ago
As the Cuomo speech continues, a “No means no” chant has broken out in the bar.
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zach silberberg
about 1 month ago
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Jemele Hill
about 1 month ago
The NYC mayoral election is not an indictment on Trump, but the Democratic Party. Stale, bland, uninspired leadership isn’t what the people want. Zohran Mamdani is young and will make mistakes but proud of New Yorkers for at least being willing to try disruption.
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19thnews
about 1 month ago
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield has won the mayor’s race, according to the Associated Press. She becomes the city’s first woman mayor, a Black woman, with housing for single-mother-led households as a major part of her legacy and platform.
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Charlotte Clymer
about 1 month ago
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
about 1 month ago
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off. The media landscape shrinks even further.
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Anna Gifty
about 1 month ago
Starving people while building a massive ballroom isn't wise.
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Mark Chadbourn
about 1 month ago
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
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Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09581-z
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phoenix
about 1 month ago
ICE is murdering people in broad daylight, in the middle of the street
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