This is such a great thread and I have so many thoughts but don’t want to derail it. Unroll 🧵

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I know it was a lot, and people lost subscribers in the move but I so appreciate all those who stopped using the platform for their newsletters. I try to pay to offset that effort. Maybe I’ll read a post on SS but I won’t pay for a sub on the platform, no matter how much I like the writer.

Since we are talking today about how bad Substack is as a company

This is a little orgasmic, I won’t lie.

Mamdani took over the @NYCMayor account on Twitter but old Eric Adams tweets are still active. That means Mamdani's name and face shows up for old tweets he didn't send. You're probably going to see a lot of screenshots like this where Mamdani appears to praise Netanyahu, but they aren't by Mamdani

This was a great read that gave me a better understanding of journalistic integrity and the ongoing battle to not let top down orgs to undermine the fundamentals of your work. I saw this a lot in library work and expect it happens in many other professions too (healthcare, teaching, etc).

Disordered Cosmos is so awesome, I’m very excited for this to come out (and any future work). The doctor is an auto-buy for me.

You can watch the inauguration without commentary here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iazY...

As I said... the focus was on what we do TOGETHER and importantly an invocation that people in New York not simply go home and expect government to deliver like Door Dash.

I must have missed the 200 news stories about how it feels to be the target of VIRULENT racism by the Federal government. We've been subjected to 2000 stories about Trump voters though.

I’m not gonna lie - I tried this multiple times and they were all worse than the first (which kept being repeated) so, you win M-W.

How many former foster youth who aged out of the system have been swept up by ICE and sent to countries they have no memory of? #FFY #FosterCare #ChildWelfare #Immigration #Trump imprintnews.org/top-stories/...

Push him off the side of the dais.

we totally get it. #adopted people are perpetual children. If we demand the truth about ourselves, someone needs to restrain us because (a) we will misuse it and cause harm to others, and (b) we will have seized something that others had taken away from us for our own good.

The thing you all need to remember is that by being adopted I have thereby incurred no obligations to anyone for anything at all.

What does this man think a legacy is? This is like 45/47 worrying he might not get into heaven. How can there be this much of a disconnect? Whether it’s heaven or legacy, these men think they have forever to fuck around and then are worried that will impact public (or heavenly) opinion.

🥚In Ont, hidden behind the disclosure of adoption records—sealed under the guise CYFSA and the YCJA protections—are scores of mothers criminalized as “juvenile delinquents,” as well as wards of the Children’s Aid Society, many of whom were literally incarcerated in maternity homes. What did I miss?

Another dozen or so authors could request a correction like this. "In Covid's Wake" egregiously misrepresents research and ignores the scientific consensus throughout. Embarrassing that it's being praised by credible outlets.

Let me push this to the literal adoptive parent discomfort zone, adoptees should be able to annul their adoptions and reclaim their original identities. 🥚

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

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Dear Ameicans, Thank you for your concern. However, please direct your support to the people of Greenland, rather than their colonizer.

Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable. (Published Aug. 2024)

holy shit this would rule

anyone who counters an abolitionist critique of the last 100 years’ development of an industry in facilitating adoptions, and the corresponding legal innovations (like sealing and falsifying vital records), with “adoption is as old as time,” is ignorant or self-interested or both

To all those watching The Muppet Christmas Carol (which aside from muppets hijinks is very faithful to source text) pls note that Scrooge doesn’t take Tiny Tim to live w him & forsake the Crachit’s but becomes part of the family as honorary uncle and friend. He invests himself wholly to all of them.

Mute Lake Michigan . If you aren’t following the Epstein file MUTE LAKE MICHIGAN NOW

i think it is a test of one’s professed liberal or progressive values to consider critically the long history of racism and classism and misogyny and queerphobia conditioning one’s attitudes who does and does not deserve to be a parent, and the state’s role in enshrining these attitudes.

Please don't look away

I see some people talking about the anti-AI crusade going too far and I just...... This is not a Twitter cancelation campaign we are fighting a war with the richest and most powerful people who have ever existed, who've sunk the GDP of a nation into poisoning Black Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Hey everybody please donate and boost! This is doable and URGENT

The dvd menu of the Muppet Christmas Carol features a very chagrined Kermit asking if you really want to go to the settings menu. Frog just wants you to press play.

If you are not familiar with Saving our Sisters, please visit their website. They are working hard to keep children and their families together. savingoursistersadoption.org #adoption #crisispregnancy #pregnantandscared #mother #birthmother #consideringadoption #family

I have been propaganda. Used by a doctor. Used by a church. I am propaganda. Used by a Supreme Court. By a religion. Used by the Left, Thé Right ànd Thé Middle. Used by a multibillion dollar industry. Used by the government, federal and state. Adoption is political. Adoptees are politicized. 🥚

Mental hospitals are prisons! The conditions in them are torture & incarceration! It's bound with policing & the state! This has been your PSA.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

I received a thank you from some library workers for this piece after a Chicago city budget was passed this week without the previously proposed library cuts I described here. Many thanks to everyone who made noise about this issue. There were wins and losses in this budget, but this win matters.

Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

these foundling box programs are being designed to evade public accountability—to ensure total anonymization along the pipeline. You want *literal* infant trafficking? This is how you get it. 🥚

JOB!!! Jewish Currents is searching for a new Editor in Chief! This is a pretty important role, and I hope there is a diverse applicant pool. Being Jewish is NOT a requirement. As an advisory board member with no say in the hire, I hope especially that those who are POC and/or trans will apply!

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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. 🥚

what will it take to get people to understand the forms of psychological terror that #adoption agencies and many hopeful adopters are willing to inflict on pregnant women to convince them that they do not deserve to keep their own children?

You needed to have been listening to disabled people for a while before they started ramping up assisted death legislation! You need to know the state coerces people to die instead of providing them lives with dignity. Real suicidal people either struggle against disorder or were pushed there.

When a disabled person expresses concerns over assisted dying legislation, please listen to them. Don’t speak over them. Don’t assume they want to deny you the right to die. We’re fighting for our right to live. We’re fighting fascism & eugenics. Assisted Dying policies will always target us.

If you argue that ppl advocate to end plenary adoption in favor of guardianship and then assert that no alternative to adoption is being presented? And you typed that out yourself ànd still don’t see it? Thén you simply do not want to. #adoption #adopted #badfaith #adopteerights #abolition

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Disabled people tried to warn you We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist

as an #adoptee with a birth certificate that is legally valid and factually bogus, i can tell you that “your Real ID self” is whatever the state decides it shall be