Kristen Annes
@krisared.bsky.social
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Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
Think again.🧵
Think again.🧵
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
Think again.🧵
Think again.🧵
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Like a cult, adoption relies on unquestioned belief, emotional control, and the erasure of identity. It demands silence around grief and loss. But once the truth is revealed, the structure can be dismantled. 🥚
buff.ly/QiGjUCn
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A Little Bit Culty: adoption and the architecture of a cult
Are YOU in the cult?
drbarbarasumner.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Like a cult, adoption relies on unquestioned belief, emotional control, and the erasure of identity. It demands silence around grief and loss. But once the truth is revealed, the structure can be dismantled. 🥚
buff.ly/QiGjUCn
buff.ly/QiGjUCn
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
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National Adoption Awareness Month, which is about promoting #adoption, begins today. none of the promotional material contains an answer to the following naïve question:
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
November 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
National Adoption Awareness Month, which is about promoting #adoption, begins today. none of the promotional material contains an answer to the following naïve question:
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
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Idea for a musical: a man is arrested and imprisoned for stealing bread and then is hounded by the cops for breaking parole and then there are some student protesters in the streets and everyone sings One More Day…oh wait…
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Idea for a musical: a man is arrested and imprisoned for stealing bread and then is hounded by the cops for breaking parole and then there are some student protesters in the streets and everyone sings One More Day…oh wait…
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Entirely fitting that this story appears in a media outlet called Marketplace. Adoptees are human commodities as infants. Made more valuable with their origins erased. Now they’re the consumers of concierge services—DNA testing, media ads, personal searchers—as adults…2/3
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Entirely fitting that this story appears in a media outlet called Marketplace. Adoptees are human commodities as infants. Made more valuable with their origins erased. Now they’re the consumers of concierge services—DNA testing, media ads, personal searchers—as adults…2/3
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Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
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At the Alligator Alcatraz press conference a reporter asked Trump what he planned to do to fulfill his next campaign promise. His full response was six minutes long. This is a verbatim reading of part of his answer. You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face.
July 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
At the Alligator Alcatraz press conference a reporter asked Trump what he planned to do to fulfill his next campaign promise. His full response was six minutes long. This is a verbatim reading of part of his answer. You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face.
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Economic genius Donald Trump explains how he comes up with tariff rates
July 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Economic genius Donald Trump explains how he comes up with tariff rates
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I'm so angry this morning. I grew up during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the pointless pathetic conflicts that only resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead human beings.
June 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'm so angry this morning. I grew up during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the pointless pathetic conflicts that only resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead human beings.
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here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...
NBC's Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs
NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting on the ground in Los Angeles when law enforcement started using crowd control tactics against protesters, including firing flash bangs. Soboroff spe...
www.msnbc.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...
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This week @theverge.com is publishing a series on the legacy of the Vietnam War. I wrote about the generation of children who were adopted from the war. While reporting this, I was struck by how historically singular the experiences of this group of people are.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption
www.theverge.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This week @theverge.com is publishing a series on the legacy of the Vietnam War. I wrote about the generation of children who were adopted from the war. While reporting this, I was struck by how historically singular the experiences of this group of people are.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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“Adoption stole my family from me. All because of a society that shamed an unmarried pregnant woman and told her I’d be better off with strangers who were married.”
#adoptiontrauma
open.substack.com/pub/defendsu...
#adoptiontrauma
open.substack.com/pub/defendsu...
My Identity Was Stolen From Me And Now I Have To Beg For It Back?
Why it’s infuriating that adults who were adopted have to grovel for their own information
open.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“Adoption stole my family from me. All because of a society that shamed an unmarried pregnant woman and told her I’d be better off with strangers who were married.”
#adoptiontrauma
open.substack.com/pub/defendsu...
#adoptiontrauma
open.substack.com/pub/defendsu...
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One reason the "do diets work?" debate interests me is because so many things that are terrible for fat people (and others) rests on that foundational belief that fat people could stop being fat if they wanted to.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One reason the "do diets work?" debate interests me is because so many things that are terrible for fat people (and others) rests on that foundational belief that fat people could stop being fat if they wanted to.
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How can you sanction a country you can't even spell.
January 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
How can you sanction a country you can't even spell.
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The military vets told Trump that no, Agent Orange wasn't napalm, but he refused to accept it with two full minutes of argument.
"According to two people in attendance, Trump then flippantly replied to the Vietnam vet, 'Well, I think you just didn’t like the movie,' before finally moving on."
"According to two people in attendance, Trump then flippantly replied to the Vietnam vet, 'Well, I think you just didn’t like the movie,' before finally moving on."
January 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The military vets told Trump that no, Agent Orange wasn't napalm, but he refused to accept it with two full minutes of argument.
"According to two people in attendance, Trump then flippantly replied to the Vietnam vet, 'Well, I think you just didn’t like the movie,' before finally moving on."
"According to two people in attendance, Trump then flippantly replied to the Vietnam vet, 'Well, I think you just didn’t like the movie,' before finally moving on."
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What if Ouija boards consumed a liter of fresh water every time you asked a question?
January 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What if Ouija boards consumed a liter of fresh water every time you asked a question?
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Can't believe I was thinking about turning off DMs today.
January 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Can't believe I was thinking about turning off DMs today.
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You also voted to strip children of service members of medically necessary care. You’ve lost my vote for any future runs, and made it clear to Californians that you don’t care about trans people.
December 19, 2024 at 1:02 AM
You also voted to strip children of service members of medically necessary care. You’ve lost my vote for any future runs, and made it clear to Californians that you don’t care about trans people.
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🥚 California Alliance for Adoptee Rights (Facebook) has a new video about CA's sealed birth certificate law. It's 12 mins long. Many Calif. legislators know very little about our issue; they are the target audience. I'd like to see this ancient law change in 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHy...
Original Birth Certificates to California Born Adoptees
YouTube video by Paul Kimball
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:10 PM
🥚 California Alliance for Adoptee Rights (Facebook) has a new video about CA's sealed birth certificate law. It's 12 mins long. Many Calif. legislators know very little about our issue; they are the target audience. I'd like to see this ancient law change in 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHy...