momwifelawyer
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Fundamental rights, at risk
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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The number of LA County youth placed in out-of-home foster care dropped from 2010 to 2025, with the largest decline occurring over the past five years.
Number of Children in LA County Foster Care Has Plunged
The Imprint set out to discover why LA County's foster care placements have declined even more dramatically than the nation's.
imprintnews.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The number of LA County youth placed in out-of-home foster care dropped from 2010 to 2025, with the largest decline occurring over the past five years.
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13 years ago today.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
13 years ago today.
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i don’t think people understand the interconnection of the #adoption industry, child welfare systems, and the manufacturing of orphanhood. the overwhelmingly predominant cause children’s loss of family is not death but the state. most adoptees are people whose parents are dead *in law only.*
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
i don’t think people understand the interconnection of the #adoption industry, child welfare systems, and the manufacturing of orphanhood. the overwhelmingly predominant cause children’s loss of family is not death but the state. most adoptees are people whose parents are dead *in law only.*
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Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood a book by Kristen Martin
The real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream. The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo...
bookshop.org
November 9, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)
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Something notable to me here is how there is a cycle of a country becoming a hotspot for surrogacy, only to legally ban the practice after scandal, causing the market to move to a new country with less regulation—similar to the history of international adoption: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...
They Answered an Ad for Surrogates, and Found Themselves in a Nightmare
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Something notable to me here is how there is a cycle of a country becoming a hotspot for surrogacy, only to legally ban the practice after scandal, causing the market to move to a new country with less regulation—similar to the history of international adoption: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
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The challenges faced by adopted children are often misunderstood or minimized. This article highlights the lack of support families face while showing how rarely adoptees are included in conversations about their own experiences. 🥚
Hundreds tell BBC of adopted children's struggles amid calls for lifelong support
A charity says the system is “under severe strain” as parents recount addiction and mental health battles.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The challenges faced by adopted children are often misunderstood or minimized. This article highlights the lack of support families face while showing how rarely adoptees are included in conversations about their own experiences. 🥚
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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why, as adults, can’t we annul our adoptions?
why are we not free to reclaim our original identities, but instead must forever remain tethered to a legal contrivance made with no possibility of our consent?
why are we not free to reclaim our original identities, but instead must forever remain tethered to a legal contrivance made with no possibility of our consent?
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
why, as adults, can’t we annul our adoptions?
why are we not free to reclaim our original identities, but instead must forever remain tethered to a legal contrivance made with no possibility of our consent?
why are we not free to reclaim our original identities, but instead must forever remain tethered to a legal contrivance made with no possibility of our consent?
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"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
October 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
Shutdown layoffs target services for vulnerable students, homeless, seniors. …A nail in the coffin of the great society… they figured out how to do what not even Regan could.
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Shutdown layoffs target services for vulnerable students, homeless, seniors. …A nail in the coffin of the great society… they figured out how to do what not even Regan could.
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When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
September 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
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My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
August 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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Wow! Yesssss!!!! 🥚🎥
August 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wow! Yesssss!!!! 🥚🎥
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The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
n.pr
August 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“At 96, my father is one of the last living Holocaust survivors. He also has Alzheimer’s. The disease has not brought him the forgetting that would be a gift to him,” Orli Peter writes in a guest essay.
“At 96, my father is one of the last living Holocaust survivors. He also has Alzheimer’s. The disease has not brought him the forgetting that would be a gift to him,” Orli Peter writes in a guest essay.
Opinion | If Only My Father Could Choose to Deny the Holocaust
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“At 96, my father is one of the last living Holocaust survivors. He also has Alzheimer’s. The disease has not brought him the forgetting that would be a gift to him,” Orli Peter writes in a guest essay.
“At 96, my father is one of the last living Holocaust survivors. He also has Alzheimer’s. The disease has not brought him the forgetting that would be a gift to him,” Orli Peter writes in a guest essay.