Steph
@azindie11.bsky.social
Left leaning centrist. Also, late discovery adoptee (LDA) advocating for adoptees rights. Pro-Choice Adoptee. 🚫 No DMs without permission!
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My dad ran away from his final foster home in MO after about a year there because of abuse, including being overworked to provide free farm labor. He was 15, it was 1946, and he was picked up for vagrancy in TX, where he was essentially coerced into joining the Army or going to jail.
RFK's brilliant idea to steal kids and send them to "farms" is just orphan trains (not called that at the time, and most of the kids were not orphans), which we already did, and which resulted in stolen urban children being used as slave labor in rural communities.
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My dad ran away from his final foster home in MO after about a year there because of abuse, including being overworked to provide free farm labor. He was 15, it was 1946, and he was picked up for vagrancy in TX, where he was essentially coerced into joining the Army or going to jail.
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I’m still not over Mathew Crawley’s death in Season 3.
February 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I’m still not over Mathew Crawley’s death in Season 3.
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BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
February 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
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Boy this hits hard! 🥚
Transracial adoption is the ultimate diversity hire. Just like adoption has been used as a racist tool to control, erase and oppress, it has also been used to appear including and non-racist. The transracial adoptee performs the role of the token diversity hire, whilst being forced to assimilate.
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February 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Boy this hits hard! 🥚
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Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
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Canadian Liberal Party leadership contender calls for 100% tariff on Teslas. www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...
‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war
Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.
www.businesstoday.in
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Canadian Liberal Party leadership contender calls for 100% tariff on Teslas. www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...
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An estimated 50,000 adoptees live in the U.S. without citizenship—brought here as children, but their U.S. adoptive parents never secured their citizenship. Laken Riley targets immigrants not convicted of crimes, denies due process, and will impact intercountry adoptees.
The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
The U.S. immigration system isn’t ready for the havoc and expense this bill could unleash. But the real pain will be felt by the immigrants the bill targets.
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January 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An estimated 50,000 adoptees live in the U.S. without citizenship—brought here as children, but their U.S. adoptive parents never secured their citizenship. Laken Riley targets immigrants not convicted of crimes, denies due process, and will impact intercountry adoptees.
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Six sisters separated and adopted by different families. Reunited, now they're trying to find their brother. Adoptees have every right to know their kinship and separation story, but adoption isn't about the children. 🥚😡
#AdopteeSky
www-today-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.toda...
#AdopteeSky
www-today-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.toda...
Sisters' Search For Long-Lost Brother Goes Viral
"He's the missing piece."
www-today-com.cdn.ampproject.org
January 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Six sisters separated and adopted by different families. Reunited, now they're trying to find their brother. Adoptees have every right to know their kinship and separation story, but adoption isn't about the children. 🥚😡
#AdopteeSky
www-today-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.toda...
#AdopteeSky
www-today-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.toda...
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And some of us are immigrants by way of adoption. Yet some adoptees aren't naturalized because parents didn't go through the process.
We need to pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024! 🥚
#AdopteeSky
We need to pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024! 🥚
#AdopteeSky
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
January 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
And some of us are immigrants by way of adoption. Yet some adoptees aren't naturalized because parents didn't go through the process.
We need to pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024! 🥚
#AdopteeSky
We need to pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024! 🥚
#AdopteeSky
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I wasn't an orphan. I'm still not an orphan.
Just like most children around the world who are housed in orphanages, I had living parents plus a sleu of extended family members who could've cared for me.
Instead I was #adopted out to strangers.
Keep families together.
#adopteesky
#family 🥚
Just like most children around the world who are housed in orphanages, I had living parents plus a sleu of extended family members who could've cared for me.
Instead I was #adopted out to strangers.
Keep families together.
#adopteesky
#family 🥚
February 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I wasn't an orphan. I'm still not an orphan.
Just like most children around the world who are housed in orphanages, I had living parents plus a sleu of extended family members who could've cared for me.
Instead I was #adopted out to strangers.
Keep families together.
#adopteesky
#family 🥚
Just like most children around the world who are housed in orphanages, I had living parents plus a sleu of extended family members who could've cared for me.
Instead I was #adopted out to strangers.
Keep families together.
#adopteesky
#family 🥚
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Thrilled that WHEN WE BECOME OURS, the book that I wanted and needed as a young transracial adoptee, is a MN Book Award finalist in the new anthology category! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Co-edited with the marvelous @nicolechung.bsky.social and featuring so many 🔥🔥🔥adoptee authors. Congratulations to all the finalists.
January 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Thrilled that WHEN WE BECOME OURS, the book that I wanted and needed as a young transracial adoptee, is a MN Book Award finalist in the new anthology category! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Co-edited with the marvelous @nicolechung.bsky.social and featuring so many 🔥🔥🔥adoptee authors. Congratulations to all the finalists.
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🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.
January 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.
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Senator Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel:
"Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th."
BOOM!
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"Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th."
BOOM!
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January 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Senator Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel:
"Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th."
BOOM!
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"Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th."
BOOM!
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At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...
www.cnn.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.
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🥚 It’s crazy to me how people will obsess over their eye color, their nose shape, their lip size, every inch of their body is classified and understood. But when adoptees simply want to know where we get our features from, we’re gaslit and told “it isn’t that important”. (1)
January 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
🥚 It’s crazy to me how people will obsess over their eye color, their nose shape, their lip size, every inch of their body is classified and understood. But when adoptees simply want to know where we get our features from, we’re gaslit and told “it isn’t that important”. (1)
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Saw this over at the bad place, and it made me laugh.😂
January 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Saw this over at the bad place, and it made me laugh.😂
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These women didn’t sit down, stay quiet, or ask for permission—they broke the rules and changed the world. Role models.
We should add Bishop Mariann Budde to the list.
We should add Bishop Mariann Budde to the list.
January 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
These women didn’t sit down, stay quiet, or ask for permission—they broke the rules and changed the world. Role models.
We should add Bishop Mariann Budde to the list.
We should add Bishop Mariann Budde to the list.
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Here is the letter I just sent off to the VA House HSS Comm in support of HB2093, a clean OBC bill I will post a link to the Virginia Alliance Action Alert in comments. It's really easy and quick to follow. Please send HSS your support. Your letters need not be long. wp.me/paJe97-3zf
Virginia: Bastard Nation Letter of Support to the House HHS Committee for HB 2093. Clean OBC bill | Bastard Nation
Current Virginia law severely limits adopted people from obtaining their OBCs and other adoption information. Adoptees must petition a court for release of the information for “good cause” or a state ...
wp.me
January 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I used to enjoy this YouTuber's content. Now he has shown his true colors. I'm going to chalk it up to being uneducated, but still very disappointing.
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I Just Found Out ICE Is Raiding Homes and Deporting People!
YouTube video by More European Reacts
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January 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I used to enjoy this YouTuber's content. Now he has shown his true colors. I'm going to chalk it up to being uneducated, but still very disappointing.
youtu.be/dHiUZJNV9MI?...
youtu.be/dHiUZJNV9MI?...
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I’ll soon lose time to read anything but stuff related to my teaching, so i am VERY excited to approach the chapter in Viviana Zelizer’s PRICING THE PRICELESS CHILD where she explains how the market value of children in adoption came to depend on their “sentimental contributions to family life.” 🥚
January 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’ll soon lose time to read anything but stuff related to my teaching, so i am VERY excited to approach the chapter in Viviana Zelizer’s PRICING THE PRICELESS CHILD where she explains how the market value of children in adoption came to depend on their “sentimental contributions to family life.” 🥚
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because the 20th century happened, any gesture carried out in front of millions of people that exactly resembles a nazi salute is in fact a nazi salute
January 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
because the 20th century happened, any gesture carried out in front of millions of people that exactly resembles a nazi salute is in fact a nazi salute