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DetroitRudyOwens
@detroitrudyowens.bsky.social
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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.
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · Apr 10
"Family is universal. We all have family—biological #family. It’s the common glue that binds us to others." I had a few words to share on this topic, as in more than 9,000 words! And I was just getting started. 😀🇫🇮🇺🇸
#AdopteeRights
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Blood is thicker than water: Meeting my kin in Finland - Rudy Owens: Sisu Powered
Rudy Owens' story about meeting his Finnish kin in Finland in September 2023
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1h
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Leader of the WWII armed forces in the West who helped to defeat fascism. That made him and the men seen here anti-fascists. Thank you all, and the generations that follow will always remember the sacrifice of those who died so others could live in freedom.
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1h
So we're talking about an mRNA research breakthrough? And what a shame for the American people and science that the head of the US Department of Health and Human Services slashed $500 million in funding this field.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/slashin...
Slashing of funding for mRNA vaccine development raises concern | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
In August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cancelled nearly $500 million in contracts that funded mRNA vaccine development. The mRNA
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 2h
Typo: Lead by an administration....
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 3h
Extreme heat will just get worse, and its threat to public health will keep growing. Meanwhile we have a nation lead an administration that denies climate change is changing the planet and impacting the health of us all.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted
www.theguardian.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 14h
We had at least 30-40 people tonight at the Sellwood Bridge Friday Night Protest in #Portland, before a massive downpour hit. The week of outrages drew out people tonight, especially in Portland, a peaceful city being used as a prop to promote acts that threaten our democracy and rule of law.
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 16h
There are many guilty parties here: far-right fringe groups attacking science, wellness vloggers who know nothing about human health and science, and of course hucksters, including one now heading the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. MMR vaccines work. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
www.nbcnews.com
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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 1d
Ummm...this should be a bigger story 👇🏽
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d
Dominion Voting Systems has been sold to the former GOP director of elections in St. Louis -- will now be named Liberty Vote.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner
Company, which reached $787.5m defamation settlement with Fox News, becomes new entity called Liberty Vote
www.theguardian.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 22h
S&P slide on Oct. 10, 2025.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 23h
EPA is furloughed but Dept of Interior employees that hand out permits to drill on federal lands have not slowed the pace of their approvals.

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US sustains oil permitting pace during shutdown | Latest Market News
Federal land managers have been roughly maintaining their pace in approving permits to drill since government funding ran out on 30 September, but industry officials worry delays could begin to pile u...
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 22h
Looks like the S&P lost it all after one social media post by you know who? Or was it the correction now being predicted by Jamie Dimon? www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...
Trump threatens 'massive' tariff hike on China over rare earths dispute
Stock markets dropped on Trump's bellicose Truth Social post that said China is "becoming very hostile" in seeking tough export controls on rare earths.
www.cnbc.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 23h
In addition to shamelessly promoting religion on resources owned by the American people, it's a flat out violation of the Hatch Act. And no one's putting the brakes on it.
We call such things "flashing neon lights." It's your memo and wake up call, as if you still need one.
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 23h
Violation of Hatch Act--and really, it's not even close. Straight up, no debate. And it's happening without any pushback when people know this is fully unlawful. Do folks get the memo yet?
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown rolling out at TSA security checkpoints across the country
Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.
www.yahoo.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
Oregon's senior Senator Ron Wyden speaking on issue of deploying US forces to Portland, OR (it's peaceful, and still boring). I know. I live here. (Posted Oct. 9, 2025)
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Wyden Slams Trumps Authoritarian Takeover in Portland
YouTube video by Ron Wyden
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
This is a violation of federal law to layoff workers during a shutdown. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Federal layoffs have started, Trump’s budget chief says, as Congress remains deadlocked over funding to end shutdown – live
Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB chief and Project 2025 architect, says federal ‘reductions in force’ have begun on 10th day of government shutdown
www.theguardian.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
Update from Mindanao, Philippines. "Two powerful offshore earthquakes struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least seven people, while towns near the epicentre suffered structural damage and authorities warned of strong aftershocks." www.reuters.com/business/env...
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
"Miranda told the agents he was an American citizen and tried to show them his driver’s license, which the tort alleged the officers confiscated. The officers showed Miranda a photo of himself working on a fishing boat from more than a decade ago, Fuller said, and asked, 'Is this you?'"
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
Arrested for one reason: the color of his skin, according to reporting by multiple local media in #Portland and now in a pending lawsuit. This happened Oct. 2, 2025, in my city. And it's happening in many cities now in my country. But this is the point, isn't it? www.opb.org/article/2025...
US citizen to file suit after targeted ICE arrest in Portland
Milwaukie resident Francisco Miranda, born in California, was arrested outside of his workplace on Oct. 2.
www.opb.org
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
Nights are getting shorter in #Portland, so I got in a walk in Oaks Bottom near my home. I'm happy to report no signs of war, destruction, lawlessness, or anything that might merit violations of federal law sending US military to my city as a pretext for ending our fragile democratic experiment.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
Corrections happen cyclically, and they always are painful, and usually those at the bottom suffer, and government bails out the banks and players who created the risk.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Head of largest US bank warns of risk of American stock market crash
Jamie Dimon, chair of JPMorgan Chase, said he was ‘far more worried than others’ about serious market correction
www.theguardian.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
For us here, in #Portland, this is not a joke, and it's terribly dangerous stuff, and our state Attorney General and others are working hard to safeguard democracy now with litigation. Also, Blackhawks have circled nightly for 2 weeks. Not good for vets/those with PTSD. www.kgw.com/article/news...
South Portland residents are at their wits' end with helicopters circling over the ICE facility
For almost two weeks, helicopters have been circling over the South Waterfront ICE facility. It's gone beyond a mere nuisance for many residents.
www.kgw.com
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
The USA once had measles wards and hospitals built to address one of the world's most highly contagious diseases--a disease The Dep't. of HHS right is allowing to return with changes to MMR vaccine policy/misinfo about the efficacy of MMR vaccines! From Ellis Island.
www.loc.gov/resource/hhh...
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
The Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo, and President, Alexander Stubb, met with the US President today in the White House. People don't know who Orpo is apparently at Sky News, which posted this clip. He's the leader of the Nordic nation! Ignored by US media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmmT...
Trump meets President of Finland Alexander Stubb at White House
YouTube video by Sky News
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
Well I always go to the WSJ to learn about cool. I doubt anyone at the WSJ can tell you who Ida Hayes is. JR Cash, or Johnny Cash, could, and he's got a song about that. Or how about "Ring of Fire," with June Carter Cash. Or "The Man Comes Around"? Too dark for cool.
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 1d
Port of Portland posts lame, vague message about now nearly 2 weeks of Blackhawk helicopter flights over the city of Portland every evening, sometimes late. We deserve better from a government accountable to the public. They are not accountable to any King. www.portofportland.com/NoiseManagem...