DetroitRudyOwens
@detroitrudyowens.bsky.social
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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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
www.rudyowens.com
"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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#AdopteeRights
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Controversial plans to build a federal immigration facility in #Newport, Oregon, appear to be moving forward, despite widespread outcry from local residents, both US senators, and members of Congress in Oregon (all Ds). This was shared Nov. 25, 2025.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
A federal defense contractor is seeking hundreds of coastal Oregon hotel rooms, city of Newport says
It’s just one recent sign that interest over an immigrant detention facility on the coast hasn’t faded.
www.opb.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Controversial plans to build a federal immigration facility in #Newport, Oregon, appear to be moving forward, despite widespread outcry from local residents, both US senators, and members of Congress in Oregon (all Ds). This was shared Nov. 25, 2025.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Weird thing to be posting after this man claimed to have changed the CDC website to attack proven science to advance his scam that is undermining a foundation of public health. I'd be writing about how many died from measles after this guy went to Samoa to serve up his deadly vax conspiracies.
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Weird thing to be posting after this man claimed to have changed the CDC website to attack proven science to advance his scam that is undermining a foundation of public health. I'd be writing about how many died from measles after this guy went to Samoa to serve up his deadly vax conspiracies.
Well lookie here. The bloodthirsty vampires, I mean corporate executives, at Adobe want to gouge their customers who currently pay $10 a month to $15 month. It's vampire capitalism in its purest form. I never pegged @adobe.com to be anything less than greedy capitalists, just not the M*GA type.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Well lookie here. The bloodthirsty vampires, I mean corporate executives, at Adobe want to gouge their customers who currently pay $10 a month to $15 month. It's vampire capitalism in its purest form. I never pegged @adobe.com to be anything less than greedy capitalists, just not the M*GA type.
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🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Elderly patient with first recorded human infection by H5N5 strain has died, according to Washington state health officials. "All previous human avian influenza infections had been caused by H5N1 and were relatively mild." Infection source: backyard poultry flock.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Washington state officials confirm H5N5 avian flu patient has died from infection
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Elderly patient with first recorded human infection by H5N5 strain has died, according to Washington state health officials. "All previous human avian influenza infections had been caused by H5N1 and were relatively mild." Infection source: backyard poultry flock.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Anyone remember the coup in Madagascar just a month ago, except the people there? Anyone?
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
From Kenya to Madagascar, the African countries struggling to escape old politics
Discontent is brewing on the continent as a younger generation seek to dismantle the status quo
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Anyone remember the coup in Madagascar just a month ago, except the people there? Anyone?
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Big ruling tonight regarding lawsuit brought by Newport Fishermen’s Wives and Lincoln County to return a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter to the community with a large commercial fishing fleet. It was moved when news was breaking a detention center was planned there.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
US Coast Guard must return rescue helicopter to Newport, judge rules
The temporary order comes just three days after a lawsuit challenging the removal. The U.S. Coast Guard has stationed a rescue helicopter in Newport since 1987, not long after three fishermen died whe...
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Big ruling tonight regarding lawsuit brought by Newport Fishermen’s Wives and Lincoln County to return a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter to the community with a large commercial fishing fleet. It was moved when news was breaking a detention center was planned there.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Efforts by the U.S. Administration to exert pressure on an undemocratic (brutally run) country with the largest oil reserves in the world: Venezuela. Always see what resources are behind the talking points and bluster. No case made yet to the American people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Deadly airstrikes and a military buildup: how the US pressure campaign against Venezuela has unfolded in the Caribbean
US has used claims of a ‘war on drugs’ to justify its attacks, which have resulted in 83 deaths that the UN has called extrajudicial executions
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Efforts by the U.S. Administration to exert pressure on an undemocratic (brutally run) country with the largest oil reserves in the world: Venezuela. Always see what resources are behind the talking points and bluster. No case made yet to the American people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Coverage by #Portland, Oregon NBC News affiliate KGW of high school students in McMinnville, OR doing a walkout re the arrest/detention of their classmate, a US citizen. Federal agents reportedly detained him after shattering a car window after he shared his status.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7m...
McMinnville students walk out after U.S. citizen classmate arrested by border patrol
YouTube video by KGW News
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November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Coverage by #Portland, Oregon NBC News affiliate KGW of high school students in McMinnville, OR doing a walkout re the arrest/detention of their classmate, a US citizen. Federal agents reportedly detained him after shattering a car window after he shared his status.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7m...
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And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
All I heard for 3 days (painful too) was jibber jabber coming from the mouth of a person who once talked about Jewish space lasers, amid many other racist tropes. How about someone profile her wealth acquisition based on insider information. It's reporting 101. www.ibtimes.co.uk/marjorie-tay...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Ramps Up Stake in Top Dividend Stocks for Steady Income Amid Market Turmoil
Marjorie Taylor Greene shifts her investment focus from high-risk stocks to dividend aristocrats, seeking stability and income amid ongoing market volatility.
www.ibtimes.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
All I heard for 3 days (painful too) was jibber jabber coming from the mouth of a person who once talked about Jewish space lasers, amid many other racist tropes. How about someone profile her wealth acquisition based on insider information. It's reporting 101. www.ibtimes.co.uk/marjorie-tay...
It's timed with the release of provably false information on the CDC website on Nov. 19, 2021. That update, directed by the head of HHS, changed previous guidance that states there's zero link between autism and lifesaving vaccines. This supports outrageous harm to us all. apnews.com/article/utah...
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It's timed with the release of provably false information on the CDC website on Nov. 19, 2021. That update, directed by the head of HHS, changed previous guidance that states there's zero link between autism and lifesaving vaccines. This supports outrageous harm to us all. apnews.com/article/utah...
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Republicans know exactly what they are doing in these cases. Speculation that they might simply be waging an ideological battle — and that it could backfire politically — is either dangerous wishful thinking or uninformed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The Zero-Sum Game Behind Republican Voter Suppression
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Republicans know exactly what they are doing in these cases. Speculation that they might simply be waging an ideological battle — and that it could backfire politically — is either dangerous wishful thinking or uninformed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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So much for all immigrants being criminals and freeloaders instead of hard working tax paying people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
Judge Places Hold on I.R.S. Data Sharing With ICE
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So much for all immigrants being criminals and freeloaders instead of hard working tax paying people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
Update on horrific mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria--yet another horrific crime targeting children amid the country's longstanding conflict with homegrown religious extremist insurgents/criminals. The violence forced the government to shut 47 colleges. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Fifty pupils escape after mass kidnapping in Nigeria, bishop says
Christian Association of Nigeria says students reunited with parents but 253 children and 12 staff still with kidnappers
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Update on horrific mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria--yet another horrific crime targeting children amid the country's longstanding conflict with homegrown religious extremist insurgents/criminals. The violence forced the government to shut 47 colleges. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
More coverage by larger networks of the illegal arrests in the #Portland, Oregon metro area, all without warrants, of residents whose apparent crime, if there is one, is immigration status and ethnicity--being Latino.
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
Telemundo spotlights ICE arrests, fear in Oregon
The Spanish-language network featured several major stories out of the Portland area.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
More coverage by larger networks of the illegal arrests in the #Portland, Oregon metro area, all without warrants, of residents whose apparent crime, if there is one, is immigration status and ethnicity--being Latino.
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
Last week the administration released a #Putin surrender plan that it demanded #Ukraine accept by Thanksgiving Day. T**mp also posted death threats against six Democrats for their video on military law. In Estonia, people there understand Putin/death threats to his foes. Photographed in Tallinn 8/25
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Last week the administration released a #Putin surrender plan that it demanded #Ukraine accept by Thanksgiving Day. T**mp also posted death threats against six Democrats for their video on military law. In Estonia, people there understand Putin/death threats to his foes. Photographed in Tallinn 8/25
Residents of McMinnville, OR hit the streets after a U.S. citizen, a high school was illegally abducted by federal agents without any warrant, even when he explained he was a citizen. Three other US citizens were detained too. This is an outrage. www.kgw.com/article/news...
McMinnville High School student among 4 U.S. citizens detained by ICE, advocacy group says
A 17-year-old U.S. citizen was among those detained by ICE during sweeps in Yamhill County and was released later that evening, the school confirmed.
www.kgw.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Residents of McMinnville, OR hit the streets after a U.S. citizen, a high school was illegally abducted by federal agents without any warrant, even when he explained he was a citizen. Three other US citizens were detained too. This is an outrage. www.kgw.com/article/news...
KGW in Portland is reporting a longtime resident of Beaverton, Oregon, was arrested on the street, detained and transported to a jail in Tacoma, and then deported--all without due process.
www.kgw.com/article/news...
www.kgw.com/article/news...
Beaverton father deported to Mexico after being detained by ICE: 'I wouldn't wish this on anyone'
Paulino Martin San Pedro, a handyman and longtime Beaverton resident, is one of several in the area picked up by federal agents over the last month.
www.kgw.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
KGW in Portland is reporting a longtime resident of Beaverton, Oregon, was arrested on the street, detained and transported to a jail in Tacoma, and then deported--all without due process.
www.kgw.com/article/news...
www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
This is unprecedented and never happened during the last shutdowns, at a time when clearly illegal tariffs and unchecked corporate greed are destroying the ability of Americans on the margins to simple get by. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US data agency cancels October inflation report as Fed considers whether to cut rates
Bureau of Labor Statistics canceled release of October’s consumer price index, citing the government shutdown
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is unprecedented and never happened during the last shutdowns, at a time when clearly illegal tariffs and unchecked corporate greed are destroying the ability of Americans on the margins to simple get by. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hundreds of Oregonians have been abducted by masked men who appear to be federal agents (we don't know who they are) in communities up and down the Willamette Valley. This arrest targeted the city of Newberg. They illegally arrested a US citizen. It's fascist.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Hundreds of Oregonians have been abducted by masked men who appear to be federal agents (we don't know who they are) in communities up and down the Willamette Valley. This arrest targeted the city of Newberg. They illegally arrested a US citizen. It's fascist.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
I could not care about today's classic White House Distractions. They took the US gaze away from the absolute betrayal of #Ukraine with the Putin plan being promoted by T as a path for peace. It's a plan to destroy Ukraine, and it's shocking my country is party to this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
What we know about leaked US draft plan to end Russia's Ukraine war
There are 28 key points and while several on the face of it could be acceptable to Ukraine, others cross Kyiv's red lines.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I could not care about today's classic White House Distractions. They took the US gaze away from the absolute betrayal of #Ukraine with the Putin plan being promoted by T as a path for peace. It's a plan to destroy Ukraine, and it's shocking my country is party to this. www.bbc.com/news/article...