Kristen Annes

the National Council for #Adoption will be running a Super Bowl ad. That’s about $16 million for a 60-second spot.

does anyone even fucking care how far that money could go to allowing vulnerable people to keep rather than lose their own children?

I'm honestly shocked! When I watched one of those committee hearings and the nonsense that was being said, I thought there was only a slim chance of it passing.

Yes on SB 381.

You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male

Exactly!!! This pissed me off! I'm in my fifties ffs!! I'm not a child

Been watching....anyone else yelling at their screen?? 😠 The way they refer to us as children, that they express that the rights of the birth parents supercedes ours.

Has anyone in these committees taken a look at how it's affected the other states that are already doing this??? Ffs

Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”

Shoot! I JUST missed the deadline to submit for the judiciary committee, but I did submit a letter of support for the health committee. Thanks!

if I’ve had something taken from me without my consent and against my rights, it is not incumbent upon me to persuade anyone to give it back.

But the idea that adopted people *have* rights shared by all human beings but denied to us in particular is a bridge too far for some very liberated people.

I read it this summer and wow! It was a powerful read! Thank you for sharing your story Harrison.

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

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I agree completely!! What fun to listen to @boomboomhiller.bsky.social 's voice reading it!! And I just watched episode 4 of Pluribus and was so happy to see Jeff! Hoping for more!!

Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?

Think again.🧵

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

A Little Bit Culty: adoption and the architecture of a cult Are YOU in the cult?

Like a cult, adoption relies on unquestioned belief, emotional control, and the erasure of identity. It demands silence around grief and loss. But once the truth is revealed, the structure can be dismantled. 🥚
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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”?

Idea for a musical: a man is arrested and imprisoned for stealing bread and then is hounded by the cops for breaking parole and then there are some student protesters in the streets and everyone sings One More Day…oh wait…

Beautiful Sierra Madre CA #NoKings

2 protesters holding signs at No Kings rally. "No Kings, Yas Queens" and "Trans rights are Human rights"

No Kings!!

Mine says "Alleged natural father" then his name is misspelled. Is it because they didn't believe her? Or because then they didn't need to get his signature? Or maybe both.

Entirely fitting that this story appears in a media outlet called Marketplace. Adoptees are human commodities as infants. Made more valuable with their origins erased. Now they’re the consumers of concierge services—DNA testing, media ads, personal searchers—as adults…2/3

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Fun fact: Ryan and I were purchased from the same "Christian" adoption agency and went to the same high school. He was not, in fact, a "good boy" in HS.

At the Alligator Alcatraz press conference a reporter asked Trump what he planned to do to fulfill his next campaign promise. His full response was six minutes long. This is a verbatim reading of part of his answer. You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face.

Economic genius Donald Trump explains how he comes up with tariff rates

I'm so angry this morning. I grew up during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the pointless pathetic conflicts that only resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead human beings.

NBC's Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting on the ground in Los Angeles when law enforcement started using crowd control tactics against protesters, including firing flash bangs. Soboroff spe...

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

Well, I liked that he read the source material of "The Girls Who Went Away" and spoke to actual mothers, but I'm not sure there will be much on the babies that were sold... I'd like to hear another adoptee's review first.