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shaaren
@shaaren.bsky.social
· Jul 17
We're trying to get this collaborative documentary off the ground. Hoping #adopteesky has some connections! 🥚
Please and thank you! maidenindiafilm.wordpress.com
Please and thank you! maidenindiafilm.wordpress.com
🥚#adopteesky who also work in schools: Have any of you read "H3lp For Billy"? Thoughts? Do you have an alternative?
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🥚#adopteesky who also work in schools: Have any of you read "H3lp For Billy"? Thoughts? Do you have an alternative?
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all #adopted people were forced as children, with no guidance from anyone, to write parts for themselves in other people’s plays.
i’m finally beginning to understand all the ways that this was *the* formative influence on the person i have become.
i’m finally beginning to understand all the ways that this was *the* formative influence on the person i have become.
March 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
all #adopted people were forced as children, with no guidance from anyone, to write parts for themselves in other people’s plays.
i’m finally beginning to understand all the ways that this was *the* formative influence on the person i have become.
i’m finally beginning to understand all the ways that this was *the* formative influence on the person i have become.
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And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
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When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
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Whoa!
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Whoa!
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reposting this with alt text for adopteesky. 🥚
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
reposting this with alt text for adopteesky. 🥚
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The US Senate has introduced the bipartisan Protect Adoptees and American Families Act, formerly known as the Adoptee Citizenship Act. Let's get this enacted so that thousands of intercountry adoptees finally secure US citizenship. 🥚 adopteesunited.org/congress-int...
The Protect Adoptees and American Families Act | Adoptees United
The fight for US citizenship for all intercountry adoptees continues, with introduction of the Protect Adoptees and American Families Act
adopteesunited.org
September 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The US Senate has introduced the bipartisan Protect Adoptees and American Families Act, formerly known as the Adoptee Citizenship Act. Let's get this enacted so that thousands of intercountry adoptees finally secure US citizenship. 🥚 adopteesunited.org/congress-int...
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Stephen Colbert needs no Paramount. He has the people. ❤️
September 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Stephen Colbert needs no Paramount. He has the people. ❤️
I spent part of my Saturday night on Costco's customer service chat asking for classroom wish list capabilities because we're refusing to use *the others*.
September 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I spent part of my Saturday night on Costco's customer service chat asking for classroom wish list capabilities because we're refusing to use *the others*.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
DC - what was that flyover?
September 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
DC - what was that flyover?
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Avelo Airlines is cashing in on ICE deportation flights. Indivisible organizers are at the airport TODAY demanding Avelo cancel its deportation contract. Add your voice—take action now at www.groundavelo.org/
August 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Avelo Airlines is cashing in on ICE deportation flights. Indivisible organizers are at the airport TODAY demanding Avelo cancel its deportation contract. Add your voice—take action now at www.groundavelo.org/
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🥪🥪🥪 is the new 🔥🔥🔥
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
August 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
🥪🥪🥪 is the new 🔥🔥🔥
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#tdih 1939 Five Black men arrested for trying to use library in Alexandria, Va. that their tax $ paid for.
In pre-internet days, few other options for key information.
Who did the police protect?
Once again, it is time to defend library access. #TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
In pre-internet days, few other options for key information.
Who did the police protect?
Once again, it is time to defend library access. #TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
Aug. 21, 1939: African Americans Arrested for Going to Public Library
Five Black men were arrested for staging a peaceful sit-in at the Alexandria “public” library that denied access to African Americans, making this the anniversary of one of the earliest instances of t...
www.zinnedproject.org
August 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#tdih 1939 Five Black men arrested for trying to use library in Alexandria, Va. that their tax $ paid for.
In pre-internet days, few other options for key information.
Who did the police protect?
Once again, it is time to defend library access. #TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
In pre-internet days, few other options for key information.
Who did the police protect?
Once again, it is time to defend library access. #TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
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The DC Attorney General made it clear yesterday that Pam Bondi's attempt to take control of MPD is unlawful.
We need Chief Smith to listen to the DCAG and refuse to follow this order. Join us today at 12 PM to add your messages to a copy of DCAG's letter. freedcproject.org/event-list/c...
We need Chief Smith to listen to the DCAG and refuse to follow this order. Join us today at 12 PM to add your messages to a copy of DCAG's letter. freedcproject.org/event-list/c...
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The DC Attorney General made it clear yesterday that Pam Bondi's attempt to take control of MPD is unlawful.
We need Chief Smith to listen to the DCAG and refuse to follow this order. Join us today at 12 PM to add your messages to a copy of DCAG's letter. freedcproject.org/event-list/c...
We need Chief Smith to listen to the DCAG and refuse to follow this order. Join us today at 12 PM to add your messages to a copy of DCAG's letter. freedcproject.org/event-list/c...
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There is so much grief right now. I highly recommend having an intentional grief practice. On some days it will be rage, on some days it will be sorrow. But what I know is unprocessed grief leads to the very behaviors that we are watching and abhor in this moment. Move it out of your body and heart.
August 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
There is so much grief right now. I highly recommend having an intentional grief practice. On some days it will be rage, on some days it will be sorrow. But what I know is unprocessed grief leads to the very behaviors that we are watching and abhor in this moment. Move it out of your body and heart.
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all intercountry #adoption is modern-day child trafficking. but we are usually too polite to call children sold to overseas buyers as “abducted,” though the more one learns, the hazier the distinctions become.
🔴 Russia has launched an online catalog listing abducted Ukrainian children for adoption, with filters like eye color and traits such as “obedient”—a move Ukraine calls modern-day child trafficking.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Russia Launches Online Catalog Listing Ukrainian Children for Adoption, Featuring Traits Like “Obedient”
Russian authorities in Ukraine have set up a database listing children for adoption, prompting accusations of child trafficking and violations of rights.
united24media.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
all intercountry #adoption is modern-day child trafficking. but we are usually too polite to call children sold to overseas buyers as “abducted,” though the more one learns, the hazier the distinctions become.
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Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne
Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature
Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne
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🥚These trends are the result of national bans enacted around the world after exposés in international media revealed systemic deception, corruption, coercion, fraud, and baby-stealing by adoption agencies.
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
𝟐𝟐,𝟗𝟖𝟖: the number of international adoptions to the US in 2004
𝟏,𝟐𝟕𝟓: the number of international adoptions to the US in 2023
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
𝟏,𝟐𝟕𝟓: the number of international adoptions to the US in 2023
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
July 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🥚These trends are the result of national bans enacted around the world after exposés in international media revealed systemic deception, corruption, coercion, fraud, and baby-stealing by adoption agencies.
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
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Get out your paper bags, kids. It’s time to see if you can get into Columbia.
Pause to consider what this means: The Trump administration will audit admissions data by race, color, and test score.
RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.
When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?
RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.
When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
July 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Get out your paper bags, kids. It’s time to see if you can get into Columbia.
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I think a lot about how much a student protest movement nationwide could have done to save some of these colleges and universities, or at least to slow their capitulation, if administrators hadn't already put in overtime to expel the politically active kids and get them arrested.
July 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I think a lot about how much a student protest movement nationwide could have done to save some of these colleges and universities, or at least to slow their capitulation, if administrators hadn't already put in overtime to expel the politically active kids and get them arrested.