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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 4h

Not hating something is huge.

100% agree on APs. We're an interchangeable stand-in, peripheral to the plot.

I chose not to change my last name when I got married but, after my daughters were born, I changed it to match theirs; an act of claiming them as mine... my only bio relatives.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 7h

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When I was little, my adoptive mom said my birth mother named me Margaret. As a kid, I had complicated/confused feelings about it. AM's name is Maggie so why change my name? I realise now the change was an act of ownership & erasure. And the complicated emotions were anger, loss and grief. 🥚

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 8h

i think it's time to note that ICE did not pioneer child taking; that it's not a new atrocity being visited upon the vulnerable; that "child welfare" agencies routinely use it to police families in crisis; that good progressive people enter the "foster-to-adopt pipeline" to benefit from it. 🥚

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 8h

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

AOC: "We will not be intimidated by an administration that is violating rights and making life hard and unaffordable for every single American in this country. And we will send in a wave of Democrats that not bow to this administration, but stand up to this administration."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

AOC: "The Supreme Court has given Trump a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and danger of this moment, but we cannot respond to that threat with cowardice."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 1d

When the oppressed strives to emulate the oppressor rather than support basic human rights of other oppressed/exploited people. Ugh.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 2d

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

💯 👍

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

PP is the epitome of an adoptee who hasn't done the work. A walking bundle of unresolved trauma served tone deaf and lacking empathy. 🥚

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no, a little internet sleuthing can provide all! Except, in my case, birth parents. 🥚

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

His block list is a who's who list of my adoptee community favs.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

I'm still alive. Abuses happened but APs were not the primary perpetrators; they did fail to prevent thru providing a safe home. Unlike @jerseycraig.bsky.social 's adoptee friend, I'm not 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 & the resulting Mental Health challenges have seriously impacted my 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 as an adult. 🥚

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

🥚 In yesterday's tomfoolery (buying infants&children as a triumph over homophobia) I was told, "Sorry your adoption was horrendous". Interestingly, my adoption had best possible outcomes given an infant w/ unresolved trauma/motherloss, was raised by adoptive mother w/ unresolved infertility trauma.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

💯 agree.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

Sharks are the least furry animal on land or sea; like living rocks covered with sharp sandpaper.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

I hate that for you. 💔

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

I hate this for us. 🥚

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

Makes me tired just thinking about it. 🥚

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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 3d

I'm still reeling from the word choice. Thrilled? Hard no. 😬
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Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social · 4d

It's absurd how effective it is. Folks having more empathy for animals than adoptees breaks my heart. And I love animals. 🥚

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