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Cheesemonger, cooperator, widow. Have a mini schnauzer, love the SF Giants and the GS Valkyries and I wrote a couple of cheese books. I write about grief, and sometimes cheese, over on https://www.patreon.com/Gordonzola. All grief posts are public

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Sunday List 11/16 Locked in Walk-in Again | Gordon Edgar Get more from Gordon Edgar on Patreon

Hey, new Sunday list for those who like that kind of thing:

16.11.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

15.11.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8797    πŸ” 1802    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 44

Excellent read. We should practice being "stubborn anarchists" more often.

15.11.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MAHA is nothing more than a return to some of the most brutal Malthusian social Darwinism imaginable, and it is a blueprint for mass social murder, both domestically and abroad, and they are already instituting their plans which included the destruction of USAID and vaccination programs

13.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Even the busses are fleeing Mamdani. They don't want to be free!

12.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Text on a light blue background reads:
β€œNational Adoption Awareness Month.
Every time the state says it’s β€˜saving children,’ someone is getting paid.
Billions of federal dollars flow through family policing each year, not to keep families together, but to remove and rehome children.
This isn’t about protection. It’s about profit, power, and punishment disguised as care.”

Text on a light blue background reads: β€œNational Adoption Awareness Month. Every time the state says it’s β€˜saving children,’ someone is getting paid. Billions of federal dollars flow through family policing each year, not to keep families together, but to remove and rehome children. This isn’t about protection. It’s about profit, power, and punishment disguised as care.”

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β€œ01. The Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997) rewards states up to $10,000 per finalized adoption, on top of millions in annual federal reimbursements for foster care.
Meanwhile, family reunification programs receive only a fraction of that funding.
It’s not that the money doesn’t exist β€” it’s that it’s intentionally redirected away from keeping families whole.
The system profits more when families are separated.”

Text reads: β€œ01. The Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997) rewards states up to $10,000 per finalized adoption, on top of millions in annual federal reimbursements for foster care. Meanwhile, family reunification programs receive only a fraction of that funding. It’s not that the money doesn’t exist β€” it’s that it’s intentionally redirected away from keeping families whole. The system profits more when families are separated.”

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β€œ02. Private agencies, lawyers, and nonprofits profit from every step of the adoption pipeline.
But the cost is paid by parents criminalized for poverty, by families fighting to be reunified, and by adoptees who inherit the grief of state violence.
For every check written in the name of β€˜child welfare,’ a bond is broken, often permanently.”

Text reads: β€œ02. Private agencies, lawyers, and nonprofits profit from every step of the adoption pipeline. But the cost is paid by parents criminalized for poverty, by families fighting to be reunified, and by adoptees who inherit the grief of state violence. For every check written in the name of β€˜child welfare,’ a bond is broken, often permanently.”

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β€œ03. Imagine if those same dollars funded food programs, housing, childcare, and cash assistance instead of removals.
That’s what abolition looks like β€” shifting money from surveillance to survival.
Ending the family policing system isn’t about scarcity. It’s about choosing care over control.”

Text reads: β€œ03. Imagine if those same dollars funded food programs, housing, childcare, and cash assistance instead of removals. That’s what abolition looks like β€” shifting money from surveillance to survival. Ending the family policing system isn’t about scarcity. It’s about choosing care over control.”

Every time the state says it’s β€œsaving children,” someone is getting paid.

Billions in federal dollars flow through the family policing system each year, not to keep families together, but to remove and rehome children.

This isn’t protection. It’s profit.

#adopteesky

10.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#adoptee

10.11.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pennycuick Introduces Measure to Incentivize Child Adoption In Recognition of National Adoption Month - Pennsylvania Senate Republicans Sen. Tracy Pennycuick (R-24) announced that in recognition of National Adoption Month, she introduced Senate Bill 1084 to incentivize child adoption in the Commonwealth through establishment of the Ch...

One horrific reason #Adoption continues to exist in the USA separating millions of families already is because we fail to support moms/kids (policy failures by both parties) and we incentivize family separation with tax giveaways like this proposal. It's ghastly. www.pasenategop.com/news/pennycu...

09.11.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

tomorrow is world adoption day i guess, it’s wild how many holidays and months we have to be like β€œdoesn’t it rule that you were permanently separated from your family and identity and that someone was able to buy you like a product? isn’t that an amazing and healthy system that has zero downsides?”

08.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

In the 80s, this would have killed:

I don't know
if people know.... this
but good poems
are hard
to write

11.11.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooooh, and beautiful cover art by my friend Paul!

11.11.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, total earthquake weather right now.

11.11.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why I love you folks...

10.11.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol. My wife -- among many other things -- taught RR to working class and BIPOC people who were appointed to city commissions. So important.

10.11.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Best and worst!

10.11.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a little thing, but I appreciate that your skeets include context (the last sentence). So many people make political posts that are hard to understand if one is not super up-to-date or super online. Thanks.

10.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Plus, so many of the angry people DID vote for her. It's such an reductionist and wrong argument.

10.11.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Working Families Party not a bad option either.

10.11.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best way for you to do that would be to resign your leadership position in favor of someone who knows how to fight.

10.11.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
White schanuzer looking up at camera and smiling.

White schanuzer looking up at camera and smiling.

Grumble!

10.11.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What if the Baileys that Chuck listens to are just the two shots he pours into his decaf every morning

10.11.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

07.11.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 13986    πŸ” 4202    πŸ’¬ 172    πŸ“Œ 98
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Sunday 11/9/25: Remembrance, Bundts, Songs, and Links | Gordon Edgar Get more from Gordon Edgar on Patreon

A new sunday list. About half is about Laurie's 3 year remembrance.

09.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump is an environmental hero, take that libs!

06.11.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mamdani already moving the needle on sex offenders, you love to see it

04.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2541    πŸ” 305    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 9

Fascist.

04.11.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate this shit. Bulwark, you don't have to be dumb!

03.11.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person thingsβ€”petting bodega cats, riding public transportβ€”you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

02.11.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 10124    πŸ” 1828    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 72

lol, this is labeled as "graphic media"

02.11.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You know I hate the Dodgers, but this account continues to be the best thing on the internet.

02.11.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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