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by strawbale
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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by strawbale
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on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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During a very productive hearing on COVID-19 school closures (wait, did I say “hearing”?—I meant “harangue”), Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten over the trials and tribulations of...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Thu Apr 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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It was a precarious situation that twin brothers Tavon Lamar Jacobs and Daquane Shamar Jacobs were born into. Their birth mother ingested crack whilst pregnant and it was an unfortunate scene. The brothers were born weighing two pounds each and...
by Tevye
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on Sun Dec 18, 2022 at 03:25 PM PST
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Adoptees are intimately familiar with the same systems of white supremacist violence that make reproductive justice necessary.
This article was originally published at Prism
Adoptees ...
by Tina Vasquez
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the case Haaland v. Brackeen, which consolidates two other cases concerning the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978. The primary issue Haaland v. Brackeen touches on, as The Nation...
by April Siese
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on Thu Nov 03, 2022 at 11:29 AM PDT
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Taken Under Fascism, Spain’s ‘Stolen Babies’ Are Learning the Truth Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story. This article from The NY Times Magazine is an account...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Sep 28, 2022 at 07:11 AM PDT
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“Don’t ask questions. You only get answers.” I lived by a modified version of that wisdom doing criminal law- only ask questions you know the answer to. Yesterday, I violated that sage advice. I spoke with my birth mother for the first time in 40...
by jakedi
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 10:31 AM PDT
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Adopted Brothers From Sierra Leone Celebrate 1st Birthday in USA, Experience Joy In Its Purest Form. In late 2020, Joe and Jamie Walker of Waxhaw, North Carolina, outside of Charlotte, wanted to finally visit Sierra Leone, and the The Raining Season orphanage, which Joe’s friend Erica Stone founded a decade ago. It was right after the ending of the...
by Tevye
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on Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 03:15 PM PDT
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This week’s WOW host had something come up, and I’m not sure if she’ll be able to get a diary up later, so here are the story links contributed by WOW members this week. Thanks to elenacarlena,
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Jul 30, 2022 at 06:55 PM PDT
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Tennessee-based, state-sponsored Holston United Methodist Home for Children is a foster care and adoption agency. While they are a “private” entity, they receive taxpayer money under the guise that they are doing the heavy lifting service of placing...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jul 07, 2022 at 10:07 AM PDT
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Yesterday, I attended two protests in London. The first was the annual commemoration of the Nakba: End Apartheid – Free Palestine. I marched proudly with the Jewish Bloc which was made up of several Jewish groups opposing Apartheid in Israel. We have...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun May 15, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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This may be the shortest column I’ve ever written. It’s just a hot take on the three newest U.S. Supreme Court Justices – you know – the ones who lied to get their job. As my friend, Douglass Campbell pointed out… Lying to congress is lying under oath....
by Everyday People In Crisis
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on Mon May 09, 2022 at 03:32 AM PDT
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The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is seen as a gold standard of child adoption laws by child advocates — seeking first to reunite the child with their family, next to place them with a relative, and then to place them with a native couple. Enacted in...
by piqued pika
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on Sat May 07, 2022 at 03:16 PM PDT
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If it wasn’t horrifying enough to learn via a leaked draft majority opinion written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that the Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade, to make bad even worse, Alito uses a sickening racist theory as...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Wed May 04, 2022 at 09:05 AM PDT
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There are so many pets out there who need good homes.
by strawbale
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on Sat Apr 30, 2022 at 07:00 PM PDT
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After Finding Out She Was Terminal, She Asked Her Nurse The Most Important Question A Single Mom Can Let’s go back to where it started, in 2014. At Pinnacle Health Community General Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In a room on the oncology department floor. When 45- year-old single mother Tricia Somers was given the diagnosis….. that she had...
by Tevye
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on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 03:02 PM PDT
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It is Friday and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues.�Revelations about the nature of Trump’s DHS reveal complicity in the insurrection. The GOP landscape is filled with the hypocrisy we have ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Mar 11, 2022 at 07:30 PM PST
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by strawbale
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on Mon Feb 14, 2022 at 07:00 PM PST
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One of the great things about the ultra-right-wing’s blurry church-state distinction, which they like to call “religious liberty,” is that it’s really just a catch-all for conservative Christians to feel like they aren’t going to hell for...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jan 20, 2022 at 11:33 AM PST
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- I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. The media is lying to you. They’ve been lying to all of us, but then that's nothing new. In this video UCLA staff who were there during the entire week of protests at the UCLA encampment, and during the hours of...82 comments 148 Recs
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