Karen Pickell

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Author of AN ADOPTEE LEXICON. Founder of Adoptee Reading. Budding genealogist/family historian. #adoptee #cnf #genealogy #FamilyHistory
Personal websitehttps://karenpickell.com/
Adoptee Readinghttps://adopteereading.com/
Adoptee Reading on Bookshophttps://bookshop.org/shop/adopteereading
I'm also on Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/karenpickell.bsky.social
Florida Lawmakers Schedule Launch for Mid-Decade GOP Gerrymander - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/florida-lawmakers-schedule-launch-for-mid-decade-gop-gerrymander/ #Florida
Florida Lawmakers Schedule Launch for Mid-Decade GOP Gerrymander

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Democracy Docket
"Christianity is front and center at this moment in American history. It’s easier to recognize indoctrination in other sects than in the one you’re raised in, and that, of course, is by design." #adoptees #adoption #Catholic
https://karenpickell.com/2025/11/12/catholic-culpability-in-adoption/
Catholic Culpability in Adoption

Let me begin by admitting that it’s taken me two months to write this. In early September, I read The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice by Maria Laurino, an Italian American …

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News: The Nation | After This Shutdown Surrender, Chuck Schumer Needs to Go

Chuck Schumer was the central architect of this fiasco. Even though he negotiated the deal, he himself said on Sunday that he won’t vote for it. He clearly prefers to let other Democrats take the fall.

The shutdown deal is a humiliating defeat... but the party could still salvage this situation. Chuck Schumer needs to be removed as party leader and also defeated in his 2028 Senate primary.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/chuck-schumer-shutdown-senate-democrats/#

After This Shutdown Surrender, Chuck Schumer Needs to Go

The Democratic leader’s cave-in makes it all too clear: It’s time to clean house in the Senate.

The Nation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation wants destruction of the White House East Wing halted, saying it’s “deeply concerned that the massing and height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself.” https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-proposed-construction-of-white-house-ballroom

"Getting banned was a harsh reminder not to put my faith in someone else’s network. To spread out my social media activity, yes, across other platforms, but also to seek other ways to create community."

How I Successfully Restored My Facebook Account (and learned I needed a new community) | The Brevity Blog
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/new-community/ #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta

How I Successfully Restored My Facebook Account (and learned I needed a new community)

By Allison K Williams Did you miss me? For 5 months, I was off Facebook, my account disabled in a worldwide, AI-driven “crackdown” on rule-breakers, pornographers and hackers, Meta’s attempt to sho…

The Brevity Blog

"The Amsterdam court found that Meta’s automatic algorithmic feeds constitute a prohibited 'dark pattern' under Article 25 of the DSA, as they restrict users’ ability to make autonomous choices about how they consume information – a right the court framed as essential for a democratic society."

https://techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch-court-ruling-against-meta-signals-for-private-dsa-enforcement #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

Tech Policy Press

Last month Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump regime, and blocked the State of South Carolina from giving millions of voter data files to the DOJ.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of Trump's DOJ openly condemned Judge Goodstein's ruling in a tweet.

Yesterday Trump lackey Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists" requiring force to rebuke.

Now this is Judge Goodstein's home, on fire, and being investigated for arson.

Probably just a coincidence.

The time is now. Let's not shut up. Let's not go away.
https://karenpickell.com/2025/09/18/a-time-to-speak/
A Time To Speak

Everything changes, all the time. How we cope with change defines who we are, outlines our lives. I often feel as if I’m starting over again, again, again. But actually this feeling stems from my a…

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•ABC fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller
•MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech
•FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless

Corporate Media Has Failed Us

And as the receipts show, this Trump regime knows exactly what its doing as it enacts fascism
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancellation-of-jimmy-kimmel

The Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel

By indefinitely suspending him, ABC is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister afoot we cannot ignore

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid