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dr.kwittman
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Community eng.+sustainability pro & historian. Knitter, runner, & adoptee rights activist. Cubs fan & cat mom. MS-born, Midwesterner at heart. Étudiante 🇫🇷. Interests: history of integration @ community colleges. she/her/dr.
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For some years now, I’ve maintained a list of sources related to adoptee-focused research, critical adoption studies, and loosely related topics that intrigue me. In time, I’ll recreate the thread of items below, but the document is a better starting point.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Resources and Readings on Adoption
A note to readers: I am an adult, domestic, same-race adoptee placed in a closed-records state, with no legal access to identity documents. I am in reunion and have had both one failed and one moderat...
docs.google.com
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"Industry agendas – whether the industry is tobacco, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, or tech – rarely align with human welfare or disinterested research, especially when left unchecked and unregulated."

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Also see:
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Leavitt emphasized the president has unquestionable authority to alter the premises however he desires, repeatedly leaning on a legal precedent she failed to name. trib.al/a5edvxJ

Trump's team is flagrantly ignoring the fact that any significant project requires congressional approval.
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Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
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I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.
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Yeah the refusal to deal with the fact many are running leading institutions has led to a largely circular and unproductive discourse
The racists among us aren't just sitting in some trailers somewhere. They're doctors, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, cops, federal agents, lawmakers, nurses, firefighters, paramedics, and any other profession you can think of.

They are in every aspect of society.
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Don’t engage with lies. Instead, “Cause a Pause” in the misinformed person’s thinking. Online, share the truth; offline, listen and empathize to understand their source of misinformation. #TruthBrigade #DisinfoBuster
Join the Truth Brigade
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So long as they both want the same thing in the end, forgiveness for all the errors in the middle will be granted.

Whether that’s finding their rightful place on the mudsill above those who don’t look like them, or eternal life, the larger end goal is what matters most. //
My neighbor knows he shares the bigger experience of grievance with his president. And so, even if broken promises in the interim cause harm, he exercises his own power of forgiveness, which he believes he’s seen modeled every time he’s said his evening prayers and felt relief when he says amen.
For my neighbor, he sees DJT as he sees his faith. He believes eternal life is his, if he has made the long walk at altar call. He knows he has fallen from grace and so - though the big finale is set - he will need daily forgiveness from a god he talks to like a friend, and who always grants it.
DJT sees himself similarly. He’s equally harmed, similarly kept from what he thinks he deserves. And his world is equally small, filled with fawning supporters & a diet of compliance. Though their end goals - what they each think they deserve - are different, their guiding resentment is the same.
Their deal - the only one he’s kept - is all about White grievance. Some poor white trash pole yard worker sees himself as disaffected and kept below his station. He trusts in his church and his family, but he leads a life in a world that is tiny, only interacting with folks who feel the same way.
And yet, they’ve come to support… this.

They don’t see the broken promises, the lies, the obvious things we see, because the individual ‘deal’ isn’t the point. He’s a deal maker who keeps his word with THEM, BECAUSE the pact they’ve made is bigger than any hundred broken promises in the middle.
The people who made me who I am are smart, kind folks. Caring. Careful. Hard working and thoughtful. Good caregivers, coworkers, and friends. They taught me to love Brahms and Chopin, to read Hurston and Baldwin and O’Conner - and my Bible. To care for the Earth. To love and respect my neighbors.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. 🧵

I was raised in a community filled with folks who believe him. Who think he’s the greatest president ever.

But all I saw before 2016 was the gilded rot and rudeness; now, only the fascist cruelty and harm.
He’s broken his word so many times, it’s had to believe his people trust him
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It is yet another instance of rhetorically invoking "free speech" to effectively do the opposite: silence dissent by framing dissenting voices as beyond the pale of civility, humanity (both of which are implicitly coded as white, male)
How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
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How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
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Bezos removed books from Amazon on Ghislane Maxwell's trial and Kevin Spacey's trial.

Inner City Press is a nonprofit in NYC.

They do fantastic work.

Fuck Bezos.

@innercitypress.bsky.social
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If anyone wants to know which ad had Trump losing his mind on Truth Social in the middle of the night and tanking relations with one of the United States’ most reliable trade partners, here it is.
youtu.be/hN_CVvzExpM?...
Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.
YouTube video by Toronto Sun
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes
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Good morning to everyone who said six years ago that it was wrong to call these concentration camps.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 3d
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
What in the… clattering fuck… did I just read?
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“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job”

First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality.

Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work.

Third, no one should starve to death.
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.