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?

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. 🧵⬇️

A new national study confirms what adoptees have said for decades: medical care isn’t neutral for us. #adopteesky

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.

"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.”"

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. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

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.

And just WHERE ARE the Epstein files? I was promised…by the President of the United States, no less.

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.

AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.

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.

"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?

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... 🥚

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

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.

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.

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

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...

#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-...

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...

Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party

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...

#caturday was about napping.

"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.”

Congratulations!

Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they’re happier too. Imagine!

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.

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:

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...

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Oh my god women are in WORKPLACES??? With their BOOBS everywhere?

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.

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.

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

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."

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."

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.”

As the Cuomo speech continues, a “No means no” chant has broken out in the bar.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

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.

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. 19thnews.org/2025/11/mary...

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.

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.

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.

Starving people while building a massive ballroom isn't wise.

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.

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

ICE is murdering people in broad daylight, in the middle of the street