Farnad Darnell, PhD
@docdarnell.bsky.social
Minimalist. Iranian American adoptee. 100% Persian. Adoption research. Sociologist. Social psychology. Social Democrat.
Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys
December 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys
No grace for common grammar.
Technically, ‘should of’ is ‘should have,’ but we’re all about showing grace in the new year.
December 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
No grace for common grammar.
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
With decades of policy failure and traumatic results, this is long past due. 🥚
www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...
www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...
South Korea moves to end overseas adoptions by 2029
Under the new framework, the South Korean government will oversee the entire adoption process. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
With decades of policy failure and traumatic results, this is long past due. 🥚
www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...
www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...
Explain your user name 🎤
I have a doctorate and my adoptors last name.
I have a doctorate and my adoptors last name.
explain your username 🎤
My copy of my original birth certificate is printed in large letters with “THIS IS NOT A LEGAL RECORD”
My copy of my original birth certificate is printed in large letters with “THIS IS NOT A LEGAL RECORD”
December 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Explain your user name 🎤
I have a doctorate and my adoptors last name.
I have a doctorate and my adoptors last name.
Because Aurora needs another shooting, and America needs more guns. 🤬
America's gun psychopathy continues: *475* mass shootings so far in 2025. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer
The latest, with 2 people killed and 3 wounded, in a Christmas Eve shooting in Aurora, Colo.: www.9news.com/article/news...
The latest, with 2 people killed and 3 wounded, in a Christmas Eve shooting in Aurora, Colo.: www.9news.com/article/news...
2 killed, 3 injured in Christmas Eve shooting in Aurora
Two people were killed and three were injured in a shooting on Christmas Eve in Aurora.
www.9news.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Because Aurora needs another shooting, and America needs more guns. 🤬
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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. 🥚
December 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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.
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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. 🥚
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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. 🥚
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
Funny, if it weren't true
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Funny, if it weren't true
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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. 🥚
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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. 🥚
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🥚 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...
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...
Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere
Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.
time.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🥚 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...
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.
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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.
Does anyone remember when the now-Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publicly testified he supported vaccines at his confirmation hearing? We can confirm 100 percent he was lying especially about his support of the MMR vaccine.
www.c-span.org/program/sena...
www.c-span.org/program/sena...
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I remember a lot of nominees said one thing then bout faced after confirmation.
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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.
anyone who positions infant adoption as a poltical “safe zone” in the abortion wars is proposing to find common ground by standing on the necks of vulnerable and desperate pregnant people
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Bari Weiss happened
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Katie Miller is racist trash. Just like her husband.
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Katie Miller is racist trash. Just like her husband.
How much will it be redacted? 🤔
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
How much will it be redacted? 🤔
Sounds about White
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sounds about White
But of course
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
But of course
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Oh, goddammit¹!!!
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December 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Oh, goddammit¹!!!
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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.
December 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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.
I do not envy the next Democratic president. The task of bringing all these criminals to justice while trying to piece back together the very foundations of our government and institutions will be daunting.
December 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We the People must support them in the rebuilding.