TsalagiAdoptee
@tsisqua.bsky.social
ᏣᏔᎩ Ꭿ ᎠᏰᎵ ᎨᎲᎢ, #decolonize, #landback, reunified pre-ICWA adoptee, anti plenary adoption, disabled by RX’d psychotropic, #prescribedharm, DSM=BS, PhD candidate, MSW
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the right loves #adoption for all the reasons you would guess: an “alternative” to abortion; an alternative to social support for people in crisis; a general disregard for human rights; MONEY; profit-seeking from gross social & material inequality.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
Look, we know this man has a deep and abiding interest in trafficking children.
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
the right loves #adoption for all the reasons you would guess: an “alternative” to abortion; an alternative to social support for people in crisis; a general disregard for human rights; MONEY; profit-seeking from gross social & material inequality.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
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On Sunday Nov 9 @adopteesunited.bsky.social is having a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to reshape how adoption is represented online.
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, with Adoption Mosaic and Adoptees United
Join Adoptees United and Adoption Mosaic on November 9, 2025, to continue challenging and changing the dominant narrative of adoption.
adopteesunited.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
On Sunday Nov 9 @adopteesunited.bsky.social is having a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to reshape how adoption is represented online.
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
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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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within 15 feet of each other: a display on Indigenous Stories and a display on National Adoption Month, which promotes #adoption.
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
within 15 feet of each other: a display on Indigenous Stories and a display on National Adoption Month, which promotes #adoption.
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
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A federal judge has sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute with NY state. What comes next?
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
Federal judge rules New York lacked right to build Thruway on Seneca land
A federal judge just sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute—but what comes next?
www.wgrz.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A federal judge has sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute with NY state. What comes next?
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
www.motherjones.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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🥚 Denmark has a shameful history of forcibly adopting out Indigenous (Inuit) infants for reasons of “parental incompetence.”
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🥚 Denmark has a shameful history of forcibly adopting out Indigenous (Inuit) infants for reasons of “parental incompetence.”
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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👉"What masquerades as climate action often replicates colonial logics: militarised extraction, land grabs in Indigenous territories, and green technologies controlled by the same corporate and geopolitical elites responsible for the climate crisis."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power: Building Energy Futures from Below
From the corridors of the Parliament down to the provincial governments, the shift from fossil fuels to renewables is being framed as both inevitable and immediate. Yet beneath the veneer of urgency a...
www.resilience.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
👉"What masquerades as climate action often replicates colonial logics: militarised extraction, land grabs in Indigenous territories, and green technologies controlled by the same corporate and geopolitical elites responsible for the climate crisis."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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Unless you look at the whole of US History then we're, as of this year, 249 years in....ya'll need to quit romanticizing pre- Trump years. Yes...it seems worse under Trump and it is really bad for ALL of us because he isn't smart, has no manners or tact but none of this new. This is America.
- war without congressional approval
- masked thugs abducting and deporting people without due process
- concentration camps on foreign soil
- US military deployed against protesters
- tariffs costing families thousands
- gutting healthcare for millions
… we’re only 152 days in
- masked thugs abducting and deporting people without due process
- concentration camps on foreign soil
- US military deployed against protesters
- tariffs costing families thousands
- gutting healthcare for millions
… we’re only 152 days in
June 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Unless you look at the whole of US History then we're, as of this year, 249 years in....ya'll need to quit romanticizing pre- Trump years. Yes...it seems worse under Trump and it is really bad for ALL of us because he isn't smart, has no manners or tact but none of this new. This is America.
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Treating everybody like Indians now.
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Treating everybody like Indians now.
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People keep being surprised by things Native folks told them about because they are committing testimonial injustice against Native folks
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
n.pr
June 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
People keep being surprised by things Native folks told them about because they are committing testimonial injustice against Native folks
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California’s Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
California’s Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.
www.seattletimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
California’s Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
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Western Australia announces redress scheme for members of the Stolen Generations
Western Australia announces redress scheme for members of the Stolen Generations
Aboriginal people forcibly removed from families in WA will be eligible for payments in ‘major step in the pursuit of reconciliation and healing’
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www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Western Australia announces redress scheme for members of the Stolen Generations
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😡Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto copper mine opposed by Native Americans. The planned copper mine at sacred Oak Flat will be one of the largest in the world. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto copper mine opposed by Native Americans
The Trump administration said on Thursday it would approve a land swap needed for Rio Tinto and BHP to build one of the world's largest copper mines, despite concerns from Native Americans that it would destroy a site of religious value.
www.reuters.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
😡Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto copper mine opposed by Native Americans. The planned copper mine at sacred Oak Flat will be one of the largest in the world. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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The US Army Corps of Engineers granted national energy emergency status for a #Line5 pipeline tunnel, fast-tracking a key federal permitting process for a project opposed by Indigenous Nations and environmental groups. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Trump emergency order will expedite permitting process for Enbridge Line 5 tunnel
Environmental groups decried the Army Corps' move as a reckless threat to the Great Lakes.
www.freep.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The US Army Corps of Engineers granted national energy emergency status for a #Line5 pipeline tunnel, fast-tracking a key federal permitting process for a project opposed by Indigenous Nations and environmental groups. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Mark Fiddler, the adoption attorney we investigated in S2 of This Land is still at it. This time, he is trying to overturn ICWA before the Minnesota State Supreme Court.
ictnews.org
April 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Mark Fiddler, the adoption attorney we investigated in S2 of This Land is still at it. This time, he is trying to overturn ICWA before the Minnesota State Supreme Court.
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even as the feds attempt to diminish our sovereignty and cut into treaty obligations, Indigenous people will continue to put our bodies on the line to defend the land, the water, and all living things
As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans
Tribal governance takes a long view based in Native peoples’ deep history with these lands.
theconversation.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
even as the feds attempt to diminish our sovereignty and cut into treaty obligations, Indigenous people will continue to put our bodies on the line to defend the land, the water, and all living things
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There’s a reason why my people banned Kristi Noem from our reservations. It’s called homeland security from settler fascists.
March 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There’s a reason why my people banned Kristi Noem from our reservations. It’s called homeland security from settler fascists.
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Native American Rights Fund is using treaty obligations to sue the Trump admin over cuts to the Department of Education. Under the U.S. constitution, treaties are the supreme law of the land and in many, the federal government promised tribes it would provide their citizens with an education.
March 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Native American Rights Fund is using treaty obligations to sue the Trump admin over cuts to the Department of Education. Under the U.S. constitution, treaties are the supreme law of the land and in many, the federal government promised tribes it would provide their citizens with an education.
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Indigenous women in W. Australia are scared to seek help for fear that their children will be taken from them. Western Australia has the highest rate of Indigenous child removals in the country -- more than 60% of all children in care. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Aboriginal women are scared to seek help for fear their children will be taken, report finds
Human Rights Watch spoke to 33 Aboriginal parents who between them have had 114 children removed and placed in out-of-home care
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Indigenous women in W. Australia are scared to seek help for fear that their children will be taken from them. Western Australia has the highest rate of Indigenous child removals in the country -- more than 60% of all children in care. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I mean it's not a coincidence that within a year of ICWA (an act that says "you can't just steal Native children) passing international adoption boomed.
It's the same evil people changing their supply
It's the same evil people changing their supply
intercountry #adoption is human trafficking for profit. “adoptability” means “readiness for sale.”
Gift link.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/asia/south-korea-adoption-fraud.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.S_M4.rMH-XHM8MSzn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Gift link.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/asia/south-korea-adoption-fraud.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.S_M4.rMH-XHM8MSzn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
South Korea, World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter,’ Admits to Adoption Fraud (Gift Article)
A South Korean truth commission called for the country to apologize to those who were sent abroad “like luggage” so that adoption agencies could profit.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I mean it's not a coincidence that within a year of ICWA (an act that says "you can't just steal Native children) passing international adoption boomed.
It's the same evil people changing their supply
It's the same evil people changing their supply
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The Army Corps of Engineers is using the Trump exec order declaring an “energy emergency” to fast-track of the Line 5 Enbridge oil project. Six tribes cooperated and provided input that the Corps will likely ignore. The tribes have withdrawn their participation in protest.
narf.org/line-5-tunne...
narf.org/line-5-tunne...
March 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The Army Corps of Engineers is using the Trump exec order declaring an “energy emergency” to fast-track of the Line 5 Enbridge oil project. Six tribes cooperated and provided input that the Corps will likely ignore. The tribes have withdrawn their participation in protest.
narf.org/line-5-tunne...
narf.org/line-5-tunne...
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Turning the DSM Against Itself: Diagnosing the Disorders of Western Psychology
A new paper satirically reworks psychiatric nosology, diagnosing colonial behaviors—greed, amnesia, and entitlement—as the true psychological disorders.
By Justin Karter
A new paper satirically reworks psychiatric nosology, diagnosing colonial behaviors—greed, amnesia, and entitlement—as the true psychological disorders.
By Justin Karter
Turning the DSM Against Itself: Diagnosing the Disorders of Western Psychology
A new paper satirically reworks the DSM, diagnosing colonial behaviors—greed, amnesia, and entitlement—as the true psychological disorders.
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Turning the DSM Against Itself: Diagnosing the Disorders of Western Psychology
A new paper satirically reworks psychiatric nosology, diagnosing colonial behaviors—greed, amnesia, and entitlement—as the true psychological disorders.
By Justin Karter
A new paper satirically reworks psychiatric nosology, diagnosing colonial behaviors—greed, amnesia, and entitlement—as the true psychological disorders.
By Justin Karter
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Natives are citizens of Tribes - it is a political category legally (not a racial category) - just like being a citizen of your state. Programs serving Tribes & Natives are constitutional, trust responsibility, & treaty intergovernmental relationships with Tribal governments & their Tribal citizens.
January 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Natives are citizens of Tribes - it is a political category legally (not a racial category) - just like being a citizen of your state. Programs serving Tribes & Natives are constitutional, trust responsibility, & treaty intergovernmental relationships with Tribal governments & their Tribal citizens.