Join host Anna Sarkitova, intercountry adoptee and advocate, for a powerful conversation with Sandi Morgan Caesar, MSW— a community leader whose life and work illuminate the intersections of identity, belonging, and justice in adoption. 🥚

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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

I was able to donate 50 which is doubled. Who can join me?

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

If you are an author and you're offering a free eBook in exchange for a donation to a foodbank, please reach out to me to have yourself added. Link to form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If Senate Dems allow this deal to go through without ACA premium assistance, they will make it much harder for disabled people to work. They are already getting screwed because of HR1, losing medicaid and SNAP funding. www.americanprogress.org/article/aca-...

Disabled people tried to warn you. We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone The new healthcare plan for America appears to be: Don’t get sick If you do get sick, it’s your fault If you can’t pay, die

So far only 3 NYC Council Members are on record supporting our 0.5% demand for public libraries. That's pathetic. nycplan.org/scorecards/l... - If you don't see your Council member on the list, then you should be giving them a call this week.

Saying you'll "adopt" victims of genocide just plays into the *purpose* of the genocide fyi: colonialism You can simply support people without implying ownership, superiority, or a saviour position. My refusing to boost that language isn't just personal- it's a moral obligation.

Excellent piece! "the cult of adoption ... is so well integrated into society that it passes unseen. The harm and trauma it causes is passed off as a failure of an individual adopted person to appreciate the benefits, rather than structural, judicial and legislative intent."

Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

This is the second most promising set of results. We need progressives and leftists to run for these school board and LIBRARY BOARD seats. www.librariesforthepeople.org

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

The deadline is here and we’ve not received aid or help in 12 hours which means that we are still $695 short. Can someone help?? Not listening the first time is going to have us outside again. #Urgent linktr.ee/hiitsbritt 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️💸 #MutualAid #HelpSky #BIPOCMA #FundSky #HelpFolksLive #MutualAidVoid

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

you call her a prophet in order to absolve yourself of complicity, so you can look at where we are today and be all "omg how did this happen?😱"

🗳️🗳️🗳️VOTING DAY🗳️🗳️🗳️ CA Vote YES on ✅ Prop 50 PA Vote YES to Retain: ✅ Donohue ✅ Dougherty ✅ Wecht NJ Vote ✅ Mikie Sherrill NY Vote ✅ Zohran Mamdani VA Vote ✅ Abigail Spanberger thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Odai still needs us, don't look away.

NAAM isn’t about awareness, it’s a state sponsored marketing campaign. Every November, the family policing system rebrands family separation as “love.” It’s time to tell the truth: adoption isn’t liberation. Abolition is. #adopteesky

Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

within 15 feet of each other: a display on Indigenous Stories and a display on National Adoption Month, which promotes #adoption. entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚

They literally ruin everything they touch

Jesus, NAAM is starting off like a horse at the races, I’ve already lost my seat and it’s day fucking 1.

This is an ongoing need.

Especially today, props to intercountry adopted people who speak out about being denied US citizenship despite being adopted by US citizen parents decades ago 🥚 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yesterday, the Iowa Adoptee & Family Coalition, in response to a Safe Haven Baby Box installation scheduled for next week in Norwalk, Iowa, issued a press release /policy statement condemning boxes. You can read the entire statement on the organization’s Facebook page, bit.ly/4hC2q48

Over 750,0000 working class Oregonians rely on SNAP. The Trump administration is using these benefits as a pawn to pass a budget that favors billionaires over workers. Here's a list of resources to help keep you and your family fed: www.oraflcio.org/post/how-to-...

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I’m whooping ass if I see this IRL

Yesterday we talked a little bit about SNAP ending and how everyone who can, should give back to their communities. I'm going to spend a little time today talking about what to give.

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business. If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s. Here's one! toastedseattle.com

the Sudan Solidarity Collective has partners in El Fashir distributing aid. give what you can bsky.app/profile/nisr...

"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee" this keeps getting worse www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Our friends @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social are gathering information about "soft censorship" happening in the US According to School Library Journal, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." If you've seen it in your community, please respond to their survey

Stanford is prosecuting 11 pro-Palestine protesters on felony vandalism charges & demanding $300K+ in restitution. Consider signing this petition to drop the charges: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... Unsurprising although disgusting to see my alma mater on the wrong side of genocide.

There’s another youngish man who while not without problems Is a progressive Had his life cracked like an egg A really great package with good policies grounded in his district…. He’s about to become Mayor of NYC …. Why aren’t we looking for more of him

ok this one's gonna ruffle feathers but: EVERY nation is unethical and problematic actually because they ALL "legally" traffic infants to the wealthy and intentionally, sometimes violently, muddy the waters for adoptees. sorry not sorry. 😀👍

All day I’m seeing people say Nazi tattoos on gov reps are fine, meanwhile every brown person in the states has to worry about their tattoos getting them kidnapped and sent to CECOT.

Ok-or we could just admit white supremacy makes zero sense and stop blaming it on mental illness.

During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.

What did I just see?

Ugh Discover feed: Read this and thought they were talking about the pre-k child nextdoor. Like seriously? You move their trash bc a 4 year old doesn’t say hi to you and is scared of your dogs. Is this an AITA post? I know I got it wrong but it was bleak and that’s why I’m going back to bed now.

We've had a number of requests, so we are *extending* our registration deadline to October 20th for our 2-day virtual convening, Abolition Means ALL Carceral Spaces: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/a... Live captioning, ASL/Spanish interpretation, large print materials provided.

The programs will continue to receive grant funding, but only for one year. “It is still a disruption to families,’’ Lisa McConachie of the Oregon DeafBlind Project said. “It creates this mistrust, that you are gone and back and gone and back.”

And they've already deleted him again. This is fucking violence.

Please donate and boost.

“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”

We knew adoptees, particularly international, would be hit hard by these ICE raids 🤬🤬🥚👇🏽