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Minimalist. Iranian American adoptee. 100% Persian. Adoption research. Sociologist. Social psychology. Social Democrat.
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slept in a minor threat shirt, woke up way out of step (with the world)
Slept in a Dead Kennedys shirt, woke up too drunk to fuck
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This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
Kraftwerk should trademark their name, if they haven't.
If you've never, you should have a listen. It's a great album.
That, and Dances with Wolves. I'm old too
Haft and Kreinz sounds like a German company
This Labor Day, reread Carl Sandburg's magnificent poem of working America. www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Really a fine actor. This is a sad loss.
No. All they know is the emotional trigger of the word "family"
Our "familial" culture needs babies to maintain its facade. (meanwhile women and children don't get adequate healthcare or are denied healthcare)
I think it is, yes
The fossil fuel companies really do intend to keep on extracting and burning until they're forced to stop — no matter how much damage they do along the way. Their executives literally Do Not Care. The very definition of evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
My prayers are almost answered
"Global adoption privileges = American soft power" The decline in international adoptions is an interesting metric to watch when global disharmony exists (see what's happening with China, Russia, Vietnam, and South Korea).🥚 #adopteesky providencemag.com/2025/08/inte...?
A person does not need to be a racist to participate in or perpetuate racist systems. It's important to listen and learn with open hearts and minds, especially when the person naming the harm is someone you claim to love as one of your own. #adopteevoices 🥚 www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/whats-...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
The celebration of his impending death?
Ouch…
Why bother.
Live your life in such a way that nobody is rooting for your death
Inspired by the Notting Hill Riots of August 30, 1976 White Riot - The Clash #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #theclash #whiteriot #history #punkrockhistory #otd
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Including his mental health. Fat Ass is too old.
Loss is the root of lifelong trauma for many adoptees. 🥚 *from LinkedIn*
Yesterday was the 70 year anniversary of 14 year old Emmett Till's death. I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime. It's not ancient past.
she said that “black” with a hard r
“They cripple the bird‘s wing and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.” Malcolm X
Prayer didn't work at the Synagogue shooting, at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, at this Catholic school. "Faith without works is dead." P.S. Leavitt just shooting her mouth off
My grandfather, who was an imam, used to say, “if you don’t water a plant, you can pray all you want, it’s not going to grow.” Meaning, God wants action, not just words.
Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys
Very cool!
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
California could be the Portugal of this land. Let's do it!
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
Let's all raise a glass to the NSA.
I had absolutely no idea! 🐈.
More thoughts and prayers will save us!
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
“If you can do no good, at least do no harm.” Kurt Vonnegut
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Some important information that might help you out 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Boosting for Saeed and his family. Please share and donate if you can
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Straw-beary sundae, please
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Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Follow the money. Profit over people
My take on the whole Cracker Barrel fiasco is... RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
So, you might want to freeze your credit reports...
Hatchi. I can't bear to watch it again.
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SCOTUS has become the most dangerous domestic terrorist organization in our country.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” Malcolm X
Domestic supply of infants is the expected outcome of controlling women's bodies and pushing the adoption option agenda. Systemic changes are needed to keep families together.
You are not doing anyone any favors by pushing lies. The demand for womb-wet infants is much higher than the supply, and one of the major motivations behind limiting reproductive rights is precisely to provide (specifically white) adoptable babies. #Adoption #Adoptee
This'll go well. 🙄
Good morning, let’s get this bill closed out today, less than $113 to go. Donate if you can, sharing is always free 💜
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
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🧵 CBS Sunday Morning has a story about actor Christian Bale's project to keep foster siblings together by building a community in Palmdale, Calif. OK, but what about their parents? Why are these kids in foster care? CBS mis-labeled them "orphaned" (in caption) + www.cbsnews.com/video/christ... 1/4
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Newsom 🧵
"adoption" is doing a lot of work for child trafficking 🥚
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"For me" is the selfishness of adopters. They don't think about the child's trauma or history, or even options to keep the child with its biofam. 🥚
Police state is here.
You can get on their mailing list via their website. It says films will screen in November. 🎞️ Thanks for posting! www.adopteefilmfest.com
This study provides no evidence of that. Researchers looked at motor skills in children and found deficits. Also changes in brain architecture in kids exposed in utero. Also: “Just-sayin’” inquiries into biological determinants of criminality—genetic or otherwise—have a long racist history.
The more information, the more questions. I hate that cycle. It's all too real and frustrating
ryan dobson and his adopter, james dobson, on a podcast called Family Life Today (2006) ryan is the goodest adoptee aren't you boy. yes you are! oh yes you are!! 🥚
From Sweden, to South Korea, to Vietnam, the stolen children's stories from 1970s to present. 🥚 #adopteesky youtu.be/pUUaGCP4j5Q?...
So was Trump. Yet here we are. Free criminals and lock up the innocent.
So much was built [on the backs of slaves] in the name of progress!
Wow! Yesssss!!!! 🥚🎥
For adoptees, by adoptees. 🥚 #adopteesky filmfreeway.com/adopteefilmf...
The greatest American of our time Judge Frank Caprio Passed away today The world is a much worse place than it was yesterday #judgefrankcaprio #RIP
America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare. Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
The Dead Kennedys should update their song to "America, Uber Alles"
Prepare now! 👇🏽👇🏽
JFC. I was just browsing the news this morning and then this article hits me in the face. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
I had no idea how much anger I could feel until I found my little brother. Now, I understand what was stolen from us. Society shames adoptees for feeling angry. If you aren't angry about systemic child abuse, corruption, and violations of human rights, maybe it's time to ask why. #adoption 🥚
Mother teaching her 6 week old puppy how to herd the sheep... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
This visualization of intercountry adoptions by birth country since 1968 has been compiled by Gregory Luce, immigration lawyer helping intercountry adoptees. Please give him credit if sharing elsewhere. His sources are USCIS and Dept of State. 🥚 #adopteesky public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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