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An #adoptee, my book "Growing in the Dark" explains who was behind the sealing of adoption records and the harm done by these laws. www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookde… 🕊️ "Never again" means never again for anyone.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 2h
I am hair-on-fire alarmed. Particularly as a Jew. We’ve been in that place…
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“Against the enemy class, gorged on trillions, our one weapon is in human solidarity.”
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 17h
Israeli settlers attacked a Jewish American journalist in broad daylight, and Israeli soldiers did nothing. She said from her hospital bed, "Sadly, none of them will be prosecuted. I am sure of it.” @premthakker.bsky.social asks, "Are we going to let her be right?"
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
summer of self-promotion now includes graphics! buy your copy today nyupress.org/978147983835...
Promotional image of the yellow and blue cover of the book “Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles” accompanied by offer to “Save 30% when you use code NYUAU30 at checkout on NYUPRESS.org”
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betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 22h
Snowy Egret and Great Blue Heron at very low tide, Emeryville Crescent, San Francisco Bay, Emeryville, California. 📸 #birds #eck #eastcoastkin #nature
Two large shorebirds, one all-white feathers and the other with gray, tan, blue and white feathers standing near large boulders covered with seaweed. Some seafloor is exposed.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I have always stood up to him and that will never change. The pedophile protector will never silence me.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles" is a new history book by Caroline Luce. nyupress.org/978147983835...
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Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine
How a cohort of young Jewish radicals from the borderlands of Eastern Europe was critical in reshaping multiracial left-wing activism in southern CaliforniaY...
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"Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles" is a new history book by Caroline Luce. nyupress.org/978147983835...
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Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine
How a cohort of young Jewish radicals from the borderlands of Eastern Europe was critical in reshaping multiracial left-wing activism in southern CaliforniaY...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/10/2026
More than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits since President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd
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Cuts to SNAP benefits push many Americans to seek help from food banks
More than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. The bill cut SNAP funding, e...
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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 13/10/2026
A beautiful waterfall in amazing New Zealand that we visited today! ☺️
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Excerpt from the Mother Jones story (I feel like this should be the lede):
Quote from Richard Wexler pointing out that child welfare agencies investigating abuse in adoptive families are really investigating their own decisions to place that child in the family and is therefore a conflict of interest.
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California Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Long before it was called California, this land was home to hundreds of Indigenous tribes and nations. This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor their history, sovereignty, and enduring contributions to our state.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
President @barackobama.bsky.social showed me something in myself I might never have seen without him. I’m humbled to have his support in this fight. The Affordable Care Act will have laid the groundwork for guaranteed healthcare and I'm honored to pick up his baton and finally pass Medicare for All.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Rep. Ilhan Omar is Black, an immigrant, Muslim and a woman. It's all that the things MAGA despises rolled into one person. That is why Trump is now using his DOJ to target her just weeks before the midterm election. He is trying to animate his racist base. My new video: youtu.be/GJm6mc7n9cM
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Trump is targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar because she is everything MAGA hates rolled into one person!
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
kpfa.org/program/up-f... Molly Crabapple discusses the history of the Jewish Bund and the Holocaust in Part 2 at this link. (Scroll to 12 minutes to skip the fundraising.) Near the end she explains that Jews were safe in Palestine during WWII *only* because Great Britain stopped the nazis in Egypt.
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UpFront Archives | KPFA
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. Pitch us at upfront@kpfa.org....
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8xd... Israeli peace activists and Palestinians clash with militant settlers in the West Bank | 60 Minutes
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The Israeli settlers behind West Bank conflict with Palestinians | 60 Minutes
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8xd... Israeli peace activists and Palestinians clash with militant settlers in the West Bank | 60 Minutes
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The Israeli settlers behind West Bank conflict with Palestinians | 60 Minutes
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm an adoptee whose birth father was from Vancouver. That's why I follow you on Bluesky from here in California. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/10/2026
Israeli peace activist Maoz Inon, who lost both parents in the October 7 attack, says people in the region "deserve a different reality."
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Israeli Activist Maoz Inon Lost His Parents on Oct. 7, Decries Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Israelis and Palestinians are marking three years since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. Nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed, and around 250 were taken hostage. It was t...
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🌛⭐🌜ThatWitch🌛⭐🌜 @qitty1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a good article to read and share. about Zionism from the Atlantic. (gift article from The Atlantic, published 5 October 2026 - It's an opinion piece, but also an excellent summary of the history of Zionism) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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What Is Zionism?
To understand what the word means today, you have to go back to the beginning of the story.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here's the trailer to NAZA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...
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NAZA - official trailer
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here's the trailer to NAZA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...
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NAZA - official trailer
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/10/2026
Navi Pillay’s career in international human rights law includes work as a defense lawyer for anti-apartheid activists, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a former judge at the International Criminal Court and the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights from 2008 to 2014.
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Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Wins Nobel Peace Prize in “Stinging Rebuke to Donald Trump”
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist who led the United Nations commission of inquiry that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in ...
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hmm. Sounds interesting but maybe not too knowledgeable about adoption.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Maricarmen...whose eviction shook Spain, has died "Although a historic agreement was reached that would have allowed her to return home, this solution came too late," the Madrid Tenants' Union said... "It was an entirely avoidable situation following a harrowing ordeal." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction shook Spain, has died
María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her Madrid home sparked nationwide protests across Spain and unleashed a political crisis, died on Wednesday while hospitalized.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.
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David Rodgers @daverodgers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Happy Birthday to Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," who turns 100 years old today! Portrait by Sedrick Huckaby, and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Sedrick Huckaby's oil painting portrait of Opal Lee, sitting at her dining room table, holding an open book in her lap while looking at the viewer, a cup of coffee on the table on the viewer's side.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three years. May their memories be a blessing ז"ל. May their memories be a revolution. The only liberation is a shared liberation 🕯️💔
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There is so much wrong here. Years ago there was legislation in California to ban surrogacy but it obviously didn't succeed. Also, low-income parents of color will often have their kids removed by CPS for "neglect" while wealthy people like these are less likely to ever be caught.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😧 "...Mr Xuan and Ms Zhang were also charged...with multiple counts of dissuading a witness. Prosecutors said the couple had instructed the children not to disclose...that they had been beaten and to deny that they had been coached on how to answer questions." 🥚 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Couple Charged With Conspiring to Abuse Numerous Surrogate Children (Gift Article)
A Southern California couple were arrested and charged with conspiring to abuse 15 children, nearly all of whom were born to surrogate mothers, prosecutors said.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Under a state law, passed in the 1930s, adoptees can only obtain a record that is amended to not list their birth parents... "The bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee through a largely secretive process where many measures are killed...the last stop before...the entire Assembly."
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Under a state law, passed in the 1930s, adoptees can only obtain a record that is amended to not list their birth parents... "The bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee through a largely secretive process where many measures are killed...the last stop before...the entire Assembly."
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anyone interested in the details about how California's bill was passed in 1935 who hasn't read my book, it can still be purchased from Xlibris or Amazon as a paperback or ebook. www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore... www.amazon.com/Growing-Dark...
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Growing in the Dark
Generations of adults who were adopted as children have been kept in the dark about their original identities. The law sealing birth records, passed in 1935 in California during the Great Depression, ...
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here's a version without a paywall: "California adoptees continue push in Legislature for original birth certificates" 🥚 www.union-bulletin.com/news/nationa...
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California adoptees continue push in Legislature for original birth certificates
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s been a little over a month since the bill he’s longed to see pass suffered a stinging defeat. But Paul Kimball was back in California’s legislative
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betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alcatraz and Golden Gate Bridge this afternoon with lovely fog entering the San Francisco Bay to hopefully bring some relief from the heat (which hasn't been that bad where I am, but is extreme in other locations.) Taken from Emeryville, California. 📸 #fog #eck
The Golden Gate Bridge towers above white fog. Alcatraz Island is in front of the bridge and the Marin Headlands are to the right. Sky and water are blue.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm voting YES on Prop 40, the California billionaire tax. Here's why.
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"As one Jewish group helps bring ‘NAZA’ to Bay Area, another plans to protest it" 🎞️ This made me smile. Antisemites often refer to "the Jews" — but people in the Jewish community know there is no such unity. (Tickets to the controversial film sold out instantly.) jweekly.com/2026/10/05/a...
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As one Jewish group helps bring ‘NAZA’ to Bay Area, another plans to protest it
The Jewish Film Institute is co-presenting "NAZA" with the Mill Valley Film Festival. The Israeli American Council plans a protest at the theater.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"As one Jewish group helps bring ‘NAZA’ to Bay Area, another plans to protest it" 🎞️ This made me smile. Antisemites often refer to "the Jews" — but people in the Jewish community know there is no such unity. (Tickets to the controversial film sold out instantly.) jweekly.com/2026/10/05/a...
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As one Jewish group helps bring ‘NAZA’ to Bay Area, another plans to protest it
The Jewish Film Institute is co-presenting "NAZA" with the Mill Valley Film Festival. The Israeli American Council plans a protest at the theater.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NAZA is the film about civilian deaths in Gaza. "'As with any film, the response has been varied and reflective of the diversity and spectrum of opinions within the Bay Area’s Jewish community,' Leban said in an interview. 'Responses run the gamut from appreciation to distress.'”
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I really relate to this: “I never feel like I 100% belong to either one because I don’t have the shared history with my biological family and I don’t have the genetic ties to my raising family. So it’s a conundrum that many adoptees live with.” — Patricia Knight Meyer 🥚
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I really relate to this: “I never feel like I 100% belong to either one because I don’t have the shared history with my biological family and I don’t have the genetic ties to my raising family. So it’s a conundrum that many adoptees live with.” — Patricia Knight Meyer 🥚
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎶 Since I missed the "Power to the People Festival" October 3, I especially appreciated HCR's summary. I'm especially glad to know that Joan Baez sang Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" aka Plane Wreck at Los Gatos. Here's a 2017 performance of that song by Baez: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmN2...
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"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" Joan Baez - 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎶 Since I missed the "Power to the People Festival" October 3, I especially appreciated HCR's summary. I'm especially glad to know that Joan Baez sang Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" aka Plane Wreck at Los Gatos. Here's a 2017 performance of that song by Baez: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmN2...
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"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" Joan Baez - 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You may be sick of politics but politics determines everything around you. Get serious and invested! The billionaires are! Vote Blue. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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"He was 20, and had arrived legally in the United States in March 2024 and been granted something called Temporary Protective Status, or TPS, due to dangerous conditions in Haiti."
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Missouri Man Discovers Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers Is His Biological Father" "It turned out Mr. McDonald and his former girlfriend, who remained friends over the years, had spent some 30 years looking for their son." 🥚 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Missouri Man Discovers Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers Is His Biological Father (Gift Article)
Michael Goessling’s first phone call with his biological father brought a shock: He was speaking to Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Missouri Man Discovers Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers Is His Biological Father" "It turned out Mr. McDonald and his former girlfriend, who remained friends over the years, had spent some 30 years looking for their son." 🥚 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Missouri Man Discovers Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers Is His Biological Father (Gift Article)
Michael Goessling’s first phone call with his biological father brought a shock: He was speaking to Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sukkot commands us to welcome guests and to find joy together. You never know when strangers might turn out to be angels. It was an honor to welcome @mayor.nyc.gov — and some very special ushpizin (exalted guests) — to our sukkah this week.
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
True! Here's a photo from a few days ago, taken from across the bay (not by me) from that very place! bsky.app/profile/bets...
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