Reposted by shaarenmaniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986) 62900633
Reposted by shaarenAdoptee Rights Law Center @adopteerights.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I'm currently not recommending U.S. domestic air travel for intercountry adoptees unless it is 1) necessary and 2) they have a U.S. passport. More details. Please read carefully. 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/advisory-do-...adopteerightslaw.comADVISORY: Do Not Fly | ARLCIntercountry adoptees should use caution and possess a US passport book or card when flying within the United States. 03123
Reposted by shaarenFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 24/07/2026DC renters, this is your call up. Get your building's owner or management company to commit NOW to decline contracts with the National Guard.notus.orgNational Guard Signs $292M Housing Contract for Troops in Washington, D.C.The deal would provide 2,000 “apartment-style lodging units” for service members deployed in the city. 06748
Reposted by shaarenRachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Chicken broth or even that cloudy water when you boil rice or plantains also works well. What matters more than the solution is how much you take. You need a lot. Constant sips are best. 3/ 3803105
Reposted by shaarenRachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Oral rehydration should be with an electrolyte solution, not just water, juice or soda. Pedialyte is optimized. Gatorade is okay. Both can be expensive. You can also make it at home - 1L water, 1 tsp sugar, 1 pinch salt, squeeze of citrus if you have it. This optimizes absorption. 2/ 181159283
Reposted by shaarenMartha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 08/07/2026The “joe rogan from the left” fantasy is the leftish pundit male attachment & loyalty to their inner Brute-Baby That is why they must always be forgiven. 0171
Reposted by shaarenTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026NEW: You should know about this lawsuit in Maine. Basically, it's testing whether states can pass laws that'll allow you to sue ICE agents (even in federal court!). Learn more, it's fascinating and complex — but at bottom, it's all about whether there are basic mechanics of accountability.boltsmag.orgThis Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - BoltsOne morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day... Read More 7594213
Reposted by shaarenBrent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 02/07/2026every infant/child relinquished for plenary adoption is a societal failure 🥚 0115
Reposted by shaarenorithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026I feel like adoptees shouldn’t have to pay a single dime to get the copy of our original birth certificates when it’s not our fault we don’t have it in the first place. 🥚 4547
Reposted by shaarenJaneese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for DC Mayor. 325739
Reposted by shaarenFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The energy in the room tonight was electric ⚡️ as @janeese4dc.bsky.social pulls into a massive lead in the race to be DC’s next mayor. “Tonight we celebrate, but tomorrow we organize.” 17228
Reposted by shaarenelliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick 10994032187
Reposted by shaarenDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions. 5155651767
Reposted by shaarenorithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 24/05/2026Imagine waiting 80 years to see your birth certificate. Adoptees everywhere deserve better. 🥚 03715
Reposted by shaarenAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Katie Phang visits the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, an exhibition that displays the 3,437 volumes of The Epstein Files. “Each of them weighs about 5 lb. … 3.5 million files bound into 800-page volumes. Altogether, it weighs about 17,000 lb.” 10941731589
Reposted by shaarenStop Surrogacy Now UK @wombsnotforrent.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Today marks six years since ‘Lucy’s Law’ was passed, banning the third-party commercial sale of puppies and kittens, in an effort to end the horrors of puppy farming - yet human babies born through #surrogacy are removed from their mothers at birth under pre-arranged contracts or agreements. 011
Reposted by shaarenTyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/05/2026This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 491482734
Reposted by shaarenMarie Newman | Politics × Books × Power @marienewman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026It is why we all have to suffer and now have a Supreme Court with 6 racist, misogynist and corrupt justices. Just because powerful men could not bring themselves to hear the truth and believe Anita Hill in 1991. 611449314
Reposted by shaarenAlex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 03/05/2026It seems to me the people of Washington, DC are going through a much more deranged version of the Trump Presidency than the rest of us 431562313
Reposted by shaarenHeather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026“Do you know how many dead people are in the bottom of rivers in Mississippi because they tried to vote?” 💔 13917
Reposted by shaarenMichael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Trump is expanding the Afrikaaner refugee program, which is based on the "white genocide" conspiracy that Black South Africans are trying to take land from Whites You can't understand this story if you don't know 1 of the greatest stories in all of history A thread www.reuters.com/world/africa...reuters.comExclusive: Trump poised to expand refugee program for white South AfricansPresident Donald Trump's administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the U.S., according to three people familiar with the matter. 6396207
Reposted by shaarenRichard Lawler @rjcc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026It seems to me like a lot of people haven't followed the details of why folks have issues with Substack, and basically assume that leaving the platform for moral or social reasons just automatically means giving up money. But I don't think that's supported by the actual math. 49750
Reposted by shaarenFarnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Central Adoption Resource Authority of India fighting to preserve records for adoptees. If only more countries followed. Access to our records is a right, not a privilege. 🥚 #adoption timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/cara-a...?timesofindia.indiatimes.comCARA asks states to ensure access to records by older adoptees seeking info about their origins | India News - The Times of IndiaIndia News: New Delhi: In view of difficulties faced by adult adoptees seeking information about their origins through the “root search” process laid out under th. 0114
Reposted by shaarenDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Just heard an “Adoptees On” podcast interview with Erick Wolfmeyer who said adoption is 1) designed to solve adult problems and 2) is a form of shame management. 🥚 03114
Reposted by shaarenLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.unwomen.orgMore than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025 – UN Women | UN Women – HeadquartersSix months after the ceasefire, and as regional developments shift global attention, UN Women warns that women and girls in Gaza remain at critical risk. 18520405
shaaren @shaaren.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Bobcats are the @batescollege.bsky.social mascots and apparently they call their first years *bobkittens* and if that isn't the sweetest thing 😍😭 000
Reposted by shaarenThe Good Adoptee ❌👑 @thegoodadoptee.com · 10/04/2026Two mothers, Cherise Doyley and Brianna Bennett, were ambushed by doctors, attorneys and a judge who held a virtual hearing – while they were in labor — to force them to undergo a C-section. The Florida hospitals that did this need to be held accountable. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/nUz0Z8Mvshare.weareultraviolet.orgStop forced C-sections! 021
Reposted by shaarenAnil Dash @anildash.com · 31/03/2026This is an interview that is well worth your time: youtu.be/QkC1aK7jfLoyoutu.beCindy Cohn - Fighting for Digital Human Rights in “Privacy’s Defender” | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 35822
Reposted by shaarenKathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I’m honored to be reading as part of this Words as Lifelines series Sunday night at 6pm ET, along with @alandettlaff.com & @gretchensisson.bsky.social, talking adoption, family policing, repro justice & more, to benefit families in Gaza. Donate & join us if you can: form.jotform.com/joonae/lifel... 12010
Reposted by shaarenorithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 25/03/2026I don’t think I’ve read something that spoke to my soul this deeply in a VERY long time. And I would REALLY appreciate if yall read this too. It’s about genealogical bewilderment. 🥚medium.comMissing Blueprint: How Genealogical Bewilderment Shapes a LifeGenealogical bewilderment is the specific and chronic state of confusion, uncertainty, and loss experienced by individuals separated from… 32010
Reposted by shaarenDanny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Did I just read that WNBA players won a 400 PERCENT raise thanks to their labor union? Pull that out the hat next time someone pulls one of those anti-union rants. 744043584
Reposted by shaarensage 🍄🌿 @lilachysteria.bsky.social · 20/03/2026and then trafficking them to texas so they’ll be forced to give birth to their rapists’ children (and then said children will likely be trafficked into the evangelical adoption system). american history is timeloop of the worst crimes against humanity imaginable. 2265
Reposted by shaarenMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.” 4651301110
Reposted by shaarenLily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026CBP doesn’t deport the worst of the worst. They hire them. Very long thread below. 019864
Reposted by shaarenEmily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 15/03/2026i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it 282610858
Reposted by shaarenJo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Yep, more often I find the work is how to feel rage and not act out destructively, to become spacious enough to tolerate the full extent of our rage so that it can become useful. We absolutely *need* our anger right now and need to get skilled with it. 1183
Reposted by shaarenAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.theguardian.comICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimonyUnder oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’ 216103426152
shaaren @shaaren.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Me, every spring: Man. Telling myself I'll change my car clock when I get home every day since November sure paid off 010
Reposted by shaarenAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening. 1349355028414
Reposted by shaarenMJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This is nice, but I also want an official apology and compensation, and I want the same for all the birth families. I also want restoration of my citizenship and the promise of #adoption being permanently shut down in Korea, as well action to support single mothers. 🥚 01910
Reposted by shaarenSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...wsj.comAmericans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration CrackdownA WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters. 16548342
Reposted by shaarenBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 23/02/2026There is no eliminating coercion and conflicts of interest from the private adoption industry, which survives only to the extent that it continues to extract babies from desperate people. The design of #adoption as a family-building tool ensures the persistence of these conflicts of interest. 1275
Reposted by shaarenBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 23/02/2026The private adoption industry sets the privileged and the powerless on a direct collision course. The industry survives by collecting handsome fees from adopters. The support the industry offers to pregnant people is aimed at, and ends with, securing relinquishments. + 1234
Reposted by shaarenBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 23/02/2026Those caught up on the relinquishment side of adoption are almost without exception in that position not by choice but by abject necessity. Relinquishment is so unpopular that even people who wish to end their pregnancies *overwhelmingly* choose to parent if denied abortions. + 1243