Like many of you, I spent part of today at a Families Belong Together event. K1, a friend of hers and fellow Kossack RubDMC met in Boston to attend the rally on Boston Common. It was good to be with so many people who understand the importance of family and are united in their resistance to the Grifter-in-Chief. Grab your beverage of choice and follow me below the Story Break to see why *family* is especially meaningful to me today...
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June 30th at Casa Brillig isn’t JUST the end of the political campaign fundraising quarter (did your inbox explode under the weight of ten thousand desperate emails like mine did?). It also marks the anniversary of that day in 2009 when we received the referral and first pictures of the boy in an Ethiopian orphanage with the most amazing eyes and smile who would become our son, K2.
Over the intervening nine years I’ve thought every single day about what a wrenching decision it must have been for his surviving relatives to choose to place him for adoption. I think about how I cannot imagine our family without him.
Lately I’ve been thinking about whether all of his paperwork is in order. We have all of his adoption paperwork, his passport, and his Certificate of Citizenship proving once and for all, without expiration date, that he is a United States citizen. But we realized this week that his Social Security card has the name he had upon arrival in the United States back in 2009, not the family middle name he was given when we went through the formality of a readoption in 2011. And that middle initial could, under the brutally ridiculous logic propagated by our Chief Cheeto and his henchmen, indicate faulty paperwork that puts his citizenship at risk (note: of COURSE it’s ridiculous, and a simple name change form will fix it).
Today is our 9th Referraversary, and we marked it by doing what we can to ensure ALL families stay together. Did you attend a Families Belong Together event today, or watch coverage on TV or social media? Let’s chat in the comments!
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From Mike The Liberal:
From trumpimpeachment’s Trump Foundation's Lawyer Asks that Trial not Begin so Close to Midterms; Judge Laughs comes this top comment by intelligencio, a response to this one by whiskeyandiron.
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This really great cartoon comes from Major Kong, in FrankDiPrima’s Kim Jung Un Bamboozles Trump, Steps Up Production of Nuclear Fuel at Secret Sites.
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From yours truly, brillig:
So many reports from the marches, rallies and events today. Meteor Blades sums it up succinctly in this comment from Jessica Sutherland‘s frontpage THIS IS WHAT PROTEST LOOKS LIKE: East coast #FamiliesBelongTogether marches kick off, referencing the map of events. It WAS impressive!
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