as we discuss naturalization and birthright citizenship don’t forget the precarious position of many intercountry adoptees, particularly since some never had their adoptions finalized—possibly to facilitate the disposal of defective goods if necessary. 🥚

The unhinged irony and hypocrisy of Christianity. Not surprised.

I hate the holidays. As an adoptee, Christmas time has always felt like the gifts given were a payoff - the parents were buying my affection. Emotionally unhealthy relationships and constant gratitude were the results. 🥚

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Funny, if it weren't true

Kathryn Joyce published these words a dozen years ago. The women who suffered under the Baby Scoop know now that no formal acknowledgment is coming; none likely ever will. They were brutalized. We, their children, were failed. And the forces that were arrayed against them persist today. 🥚

🥚 We live in barbarism. No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it. Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇 time.com/7299476/baby...

Since @60minutes.bsky.social / @cbsnews.com blew it, this is available.

I remember a lot of nominees said one thing then bout faced after confirmation.

my unpopular opinion is that #adoption is not an alternative to abortion. And it is certainly not a solution to the lack of access to safe and affordable abortions. Compelling vulnerable people to relinquish their own children by ignoring their material needs is just another way to oppress them.

Bari Weiss happened

Katie Miller is racist trash. Just like her husband.

How much will it be redacted? 🤔

Sounds about White

But of course

Oh, goddammit¹!!! _ 1.👩‍🔬:😠

people tell me all the time how universal and global #adoption is, when in fact adoption agencies have time and again dangled promises to the families of the “orphans” they want to “save” in non-Western countries by exploiting their ignorance of the modern Western concept of plenary adoption.

We the People must support them in the rebuilding.

So true! Having lived in an orphanage in my developing years, I identify as an "orphan" more so than an "adoptee" because of the systemic/cultural circumstances that created the orphanage in the first place.

What the Forbes?!?! This is blatantly false!!

I #GetSentimental around the holidays

By the very DOJ. Color me shocked.

Clinton was President then. Hmmm....

Coercion of first mothers in adoption doesn't get discussed enough. I talked about this on Al Jazeera's baby boxes episode. When mothers lack real choices or full info, that's not consent - it's coercion. #AdoptionReform #FirstMothers #AlJazeera #ReproductiveJustice 🥚

In Iran, people who criticize the Ayatollah are arrested and often die in jail. In Russia, criticizing Putin or any of his policies carries a 15-year term. China convicts democracy activists of "treason." Trump's America is preparing to prosecute protestors against his policies as "terrorists."

Also, this will perpetuate the 'domestic supply of infants' agenda because America First. But make no mistake... children are and will continue to be the voiceless victims of this practice. 👇🏽🥚

"Why Should I Care?" by Diana Krall

As a foundling, this movie made me believe I was a superhero with an unknown origin 🥚

@stephenfarrow.bsky.social you saw this, correct?

And this will only further the "domestic supply of infants" agenda.

Using adoption to enhance one’s public image, especially among the famous, is not a new strategy. In these situations, adoptees often face unrealistic expectations and pressure to perform gratitude and loyalty for public approval, causing deep and lasting emotional harm. 🥚

Goddammit! This is the wrong direction! www.kob.com/news/top-new...

More criminal activity associated with so-called "orphan" #adoption. It's human trafficking and globally it always has been. No surprises here. www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubric-s...

*during sex Coke or Pepsi?

I remember this show well. Geez.

the denial of adoptees’ access to their own birth records is a legal enshrinement of our permanently juvenile status. #adoption was supposed to save us as children, but the fetters it places on us remain throughout our lives.

The Lord of the Rings funk cover band called Middle Earth, Wind, and Shire

liberals and the left, on the whole, don’t give a shit about ending #adoption. spend any time talking about these issues and you see this clearly. it’s not a left issue and it’s not a feminist issue. it should be both, but it’s not. 🥚

An adoptee discovers her Romanian orphanage kidnapped her during her mother’s illness and placed her with a U.S. adoptive family. Her story illustrates the harm caused when children are treated as commodities, leaving families searching for one another worldwide. buff.ly/MOI7JnF 🥚

Fav cover? Suspicious Minds by either FYC or Dwight Yeokum @sluggodoug.bsky.social

If only the US was paying attention

It really can be this easy btw.

The first night of Hannukah has been terrible for the Jewish people. Please keep them in your thoughts this week. 🕎 #BondiBeach

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

Truly. 👇🏽

the proposed $5000 tax credit for adopters would, in the words of too many birth mothers, have made the difference between relinquishing and keeping their own children.

Sigh.