DetroitRudyOwens
@detroitrudyowens.bsky.social
Author of You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are, an adoptee's memoir on US adoption, adoptee rights, & the public health impacts of adoption. Focus: Adoptee rights, adoption reform, all issues re rights to one's identity/bio-kin connections. All views my own.
I know of terrible wrongs committed to intercountry adoptees like Adam Crapser, denied legal rights, horribly abused by failures of our US adoption system/his parents here. This is one story I hope others share by the BBC on the threats now to adoptees--good reporting! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I know of terrible wrongs committed to intercountry adoptees like Adam Crapser, denied legal rights, horribly abused by failures of our US adoption system/his parents here. This is one story I hope others share by the BBC on the threats now to adoptees--good reporting! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The source is a lawyer named Dawn Post. I've never heard of this attorney, at least in adoptee rights spaces. Her post claims, without any citation: "Hundreds of American adoptees remain warehoused abroad, disconnected from family and country." I will support sharing this, but once I confirm it.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The source is a lawyer named Dawn Post. I've never heard of this attorney, at least in adoptee rights spaces. Her post claims, without any citation: "Hundreds of American adoptees remain warehoused abroad, disconnected from family and country." I will support sharing this, but once I confirm it.
Have we already forgotten that more than 7 million people showed where power resides and what power means? We all know who the monster is and what this monster has done. I'm thinking now of nursing home closures that could kill a family member. YOU alone will save our country, NOT Epstein files.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Have we already forgotten that more than 7 million people showed where power resides and what power means? We all know who the monster is and what this monster has done. I'm thinking now of nursing home closures that could kill a family member. YOU alone will save our country, NOT Epstein files.
Typo: What the weak....
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Typo: What the weak....
Her constituents in WA held this elected official accountable when she held town halls in the spring. She was called out for abandoning the people she was elected to represent with her vote that could restrict voting to 20 million people, most women (and adoptees too). www.kgw.com/article/news...
Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez faces vocal crowd at town hall as questions fly
Hundreds lined up for Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez's town hall in Vancouver, where her break from party left many constituents frustrated.
www.kgw.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Her constituents in WA held this elected official accountable when she held town halls in the spring. She was called out for abandoning the people she was elected to represent with her vote that could restrict voting to 20 million people, most women (and adoptees too). www.kgw.com/article/news...
Story further notes that the Finnish baby box, introduced first in the 1930s, tied to improve health outcomes for infants, has since been emulated by nearly 100 programs in 60 countries around the world. Finland is the happiest country in the world 7x in a row! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Story further notes that the Finnish baby box, introduced first in the 1930s, tied to improve health outcomes for infants, has since been emulated by nearly 100 programs in 60 countries around the world. Finland is the happiest country in the world 7x in a row! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
One in four nursing homes will close because of the toxic bill signed on July 4, and about $900 billion+ will be stolen from Medicaid for the wealthiest Americans. We don't even know yet how many Americans will die from this, and they'll die when nursing homes shut. I think Americans already get it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
One in four nursing homes will close because of the toxic bill signed on July 4, and about $900 billion+ will be stolen from Medicaid for the wealthiest Americans. We don't even know yet how many Americans will die from this, and they'll die when nursing homes shut. I think Americans already get it.
Testimony from a Hillsboro young man who talks of living in fear for his parents being arrested on any given day. Testimony on Nov. 4, Hillsboro City Hall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUkN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUkN...
Hillsboro teen’s emotional testimony on immigration enforcement’s toll goes viral
YouTube video by The Oregonian
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Testimony from a Hillsboro young man who talks of living in fear for his parents being arrested on any given day. Testimony on Nov. 4, Hillsboro City Hall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUkN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUkN...