wapperson
@wapperson.bsky.social
she/her PNW catmom, tifosi, knitter, former Angeleno, CSA survivor, adoptee #AbolishICE
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Bigotry is rooted in deep insecurity, which in full load, is narcissism. It's rooted in the belief you're not worthy of love. It's rooted in competition as the only defense for the crushing knowledge you aren't good enough. The fantasies are just intellectualized justification after the fact.
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They are so, so, so incompetent
So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
They are so, so, so incompetent
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crisis pregnancy centers, which receive public funds alongside private donations, are designed to extract children from pregnant women. It’s a prolonged psyop aiming to strip their sense of self-worth to the point that they will feel totally incapable & unworthy of keeping their own children. 🥚
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
crisis pregnancy centers, which receive public funds alongside private donations, are designed to extract children from pregnant women. It’s a prolonged psyop aiming to strip their sense of self-worth to the point that they will feel totally incapable & unworthy of keeping their own children. 🥚
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People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
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Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
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Solstice on a Spinning Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Solstice on a Spinning Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
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All of the people in this photo descend from America's 2nd Vice President and 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson. Would JD consider these people white? If not, why not? They're all "heritage Americans" in that they descend from a founder, yes?
December 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
All of the people in this photo descend from America's 2nd Vice President and 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson. Would JD consider these people white? If not, why not? They're all "heritage Americans" in that they descend from a founder, yes?
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So they've apparently had 1000 agents working through the 300GB of Epstein files, and they've managed to release under 1% of them, and those wholly or heavily redacted.
Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.
Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So they've apparently had 1000 agents working through the 300GB of Epstein files, and they've managed to release under 1% of them, and those wholly or heavily redacted.
Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.
Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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This follows him having purchased a housing complex some years ago, to provide housing for young, single, mothers. He then donated it to the YWCA.
If put your money where your mouth is was a person...
If put your money where your mouth is was a person...
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This follows him having purchased a housing complex some years ago, to provide housing for young, single, mothers. He then donated it to the YWCA.
If put your money where your mouth is was a person...
If put your money where your mouth is was a person...
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Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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“The Trump administration’s policies work in tandem. It is harder for people of color to enter the workforce. It is harder for them to remain in the workforce. And if they are victimized by illegal discrimination, it is harder for them to do anything about it.” @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The Trump administration’s policies work in tandem. It is harder for people of color to enter the workforce. It is harder for them to remain in the workforce. And if they are victimized by illegal discrimination, it is harder for them to do anything about it.” @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
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As an adoptee and abolitionist, this 🧵 is powerful. Read Dorothy Roberts. You can learn how the system of adoption is built on racial capitalism, colonialism, and slavery. You can change the questions you ask. There are so many ways to reimagine the world.
Every adoption reveals so many politics. I’ve grown to apply the idea of abolition (of slavery) to prisons & policing, ie: I stopped asking how prison & police could be improved, but ask how conditions of societies can change so that they’re unnecessary.
Abolition can be applied to adoption, too.
Abolition can be applied to adoption, too.
Every defense of intercountry #adoption into the USA is a defense of what the other sending country *will* eventually call a “shameful chapter in our history.” Bank on that.
December 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
As an adoptee and abolitionist, this 🧵 is powerful. Read Dorothy Roberts. You can learn how the system of adoption is built on racial capitalism, colonialism, and slavery. You can change the questions you ask. There are so many ways to reimagine the world.
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When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
"Reading demographics from a pathology slide is thought of as a 'mission impossible' for a human pathologist, so the bias in pathology AI was a surprise to us."
www.yahoo.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
This administration are child abusers and child killers. It's really a simple as that.
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This administration are child abusers and child killers. It's really a simple as that.
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Remember: The purpose of a system is what it does.
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Remember: The purpose of a system is what it does.
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You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center?
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center?
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
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since poverty is the overwhelming cause of relinquishment, we should think of #adoption, largely, as a grotesque mockery of mutual aid: instead of spending money to provide material support to someone in crisis, we spend even more to complete the catastrophe to which the crisis has driven them.
i’m rereading Kathryn Joyce’s THE CHILD CATCHERS and I came across this passage, which characterizes infant #adoption in the USA: an industry in which clients purchase children with sums of money that often could have lifted those children’s families out of poverty “many times over.”
December 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
since poverty is the overwhelming cause of relinquishment, we should think of #adoption, largely, as a grotesque mockery of mutual aid: instead of spending money to provide material support to someone in crisis, we spend even more to complete the catastrophe to which the crisis has driven them.
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away
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We should be supporting organizations that help to reunite these children with their families not promoting a system that permanently severs them from their places of origin. Here's one organization doing this work. 🥚
What We Do | Hope and Homes for Children share.google/wx3nY4Ecx5rw...
What We Do | Hope and Homes for Children share.google/wx3nY4Ecx5rw...
What We Do | Hope and Homes for Children
Orphanages harm children and they harm society. We are working towards a day when orphanages are consigned to history.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We should be supporting organizations that help to reunite these children with their families not promoting a system that permanently severs them from their places of origin. Here's one organization doing this work. 🥚
What We Do | Hope and Homes for Children share.google/wx3nY4Ecx5rw...
What We Do | Hope and Homes for Children share.google/wx3nY4Ecx5rw...
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republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle
If you are wondering, how else do we help children in other countries who need care?Your brain is moving in the right direction. Because human trafficking was never the answer. Stealing children from their families of origin was never the answer. Erasing their identities was never the answer.
does everyone hitting Like on those posts decrying the banning of intercountry #adoption from countries like Cuba (which does not even *send* children to the US for adoption) even understand that intercountry adoption has been in steep decline for decades?
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
International adoptions to the U.S. have slowed to a trickle, matching trends in other countries
After peaking in 2004, the annual number of international adoptions to the United States has fallen by 94% as of 2023.
www.pewresearch.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If you are wondering, how else do we help children in other countries who need care?Your brain is moving in the right direction. Because human trafficking was never the answer. Stealing children from their families of origin was never the answer. Erasing their identities was never the answer.