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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’ve shared this everywhere but here. If adoption does ANY of these things, even one of them, it’s deeply unethical. #adoptionistrauma

Adoption requires a few things that make the 'cure' just as bad (if not worse) than the 'sickness'.
There is no good reason to:
• permanently sever a child from ALL kin (not just mom & dad), including ancestral history.
• enter a child into a contract they can't consent to and can never revoke, rescind, or annul.
• falsify a child's authentic natal identity and force them to use a fake birth certificate as legal ID.
• brainwash a child into believing that strangers are mommy & daddy.
• put a child in a position of expected gratitude by society.
• raise a child apart from their inherent culture and community.
• offer zero protection for the child to even know they're adopted, which deprives them of their medical history and can lead to accidental incest.
Motherloss, genetic bewilderment, and identity falsification are profound traumas that plenary adoption creates.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Congratulations, Republicans! You now 100% own the chaos at our nation's airports. The voters will no longer question who is responsible for making their lives so difficult.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 14/02/2025

given any prevailing social and political climate, there are always hegemonic attitudes that forbid the discussion of certain basic ethical questions, and i believe that the identity crime at the heart of #adoption is one of them—and has been for at least 80 years in the USA.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

BREAKING: Here is the anti-trans sex/gender executive order. It's extensive, it's bad, and it's often lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.

Sec. 2. Policy and Definitions. It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. Under my direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy:

(a) “Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female. “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.”

(b) “Women” or “woman” and “girls” or “girl” shall mean adult and juvenile human females, respectively.

(c) “Men” or “man” and “boys” or “boy” shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively.

(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A helpful thing to remember, or at least it has been for me: in hard times, there will be discrete moments—maybe lots of them—where you experience love and joy and community. It is no sin to enjoy them, and arguably more of one to refuse them.

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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Why tf has the ERA not been enshrined yet???

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Donald Trump tapped Kimberly Guilfoyle as the United States Ambassador to Greece. Sooooo... Don Jr. reportedly cheated on her and dumped her for a socialite, and Donald thinks it's a great idea to give her a job as an ambassador? Clown. Show.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024

🧵 @llmunro.bsky.social gave me permission to recreate her outstanding Twitter thread of writings about the history of family separation + plenary adoption as it’s practiced in the US. It also includes additions from others on Adoptee Twitter. Here we go!

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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Never get tired of repeating this: You cannot be an intersectional feminist and anti-racist and also support the adoption and surrogacy industries. #adoption #adoptee #adopteevoices 🥚

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 04/12/2024

just don’t invoke the slogan “love is what makes a family” in connection with #adoption. If that slogan has any meaning, it refers to the reciprocity in the concept of chosen family. Most adoptees never had a choice. There is no reciprocity when you’re trafficked as a baby.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 08/12/2024

From @kwistent.bsky.social ‘s forthcoming THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW, a history of orphanhood in the USA. Adopted people will want to read this book for the way Martin’s analysis connects with the abolitionist emphasis on #adoption as a privatized solution to systemic social harms.

From our first introduction to her, then, Annie's main problem is the hold that mean old Miss Asthma has over her due to her parentless, impoverished state. The solution to her problem is adoption by "nice folks" —people who make the individual decision to share their wealth and love by rescuing a "charity girl" like her. In order to win over those folks, Annie needs to show hope and determination, to be resilient above all. This portrayal of Annie's problem and solution remains constant throughout the many iterations of her story and has twisted our imagined reality of orphanhood for gen-erations. Each time we regurgitate Annie's story, we allow ourselves to believe the orphan's struggle is one with individual causes and individual answers. In doing so, we overlook the systems-economic, religious, political— that have made orphans out of real children like Annie and that continue to control their fates. Our preference to buy into Annie's version of orphanhood at the expense of sitting with actuality speaks to how we as Americans value individualism and fail to grasp the need for societal interventions for systemic harms.

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Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)

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The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood a book by Kristen Martin

The real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream. The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo...

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God @thegodshow.com · 09/12/2024

Big corporate is super happy to get back to the status quo - keeping you distracted whilst totally fucking you six ways from Sunday.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/12/2024

Elon Musk, with his 4-year-old son X-Æ-12, appeared together on Capitol Hill Thursday for a DOGE meeting—but you can call him ‘Human Shield,’ it’s easier to pronounce.

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Conspiratorial templates @mynamehear.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I am both heartened and a little scared by how many recipe ideas people had ready to go for this, and at least 3 vegetarians offered to do the cooking. There are even some side dish suggestions. You people are awesome 😂

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Maybe don't run your business such that every customer is a potential suspect in your shooting. Follow me for more life tips.

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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It sucks that I can't be my bio parents kid. That the law says I belong to someone else because, well, they bought me. 🥚

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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🥚"Adoption is not merely a loss of familial bonds – it is a rewriting of identity at the most fundamental level.... For adoptees, embracing a “true self” is not a straightforward journey; it is a battle against a system that has deliberately severed the roots of identity." medium.com/thoughtless-...

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The Forgotten Suffering:

Adoption, Trauma, and the Silence of Experts

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

“Our ancestors did more, with less, against worse”* is a great mantra for the days ahead. So how about telling #adoptees who our ancestors are so we too can feel historically moved to action? Or you know just give us our birth certificates. We’ll take it from there. 🥚 * @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 05/12/2024

reminder to all #adoptees: No one* is coming to help us tell our stories. If people start to pay attention, it will only be because WE force them to. Speak, write, do research, make art, music, find community. Be visible. People in this adoption-besotted country prefer to look away. Don’t let them.

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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I seriously LOVE this picture. :)

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 06/12/2024

people who cry “parents’ rights” assume that children are property, objects of dominion; they are asserting their dominion over that of the state. i prefer as a parent to talk about my responsibilities to my children rather than my rights over them, since no human being is another’s property.

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The trickle-down myth is deeply embedded in the American psyche and it’s beyond time to excise it.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What if our votes were weighted on a curve favoring success? Letting OK set policy for MA seems self-destructive, and yet the Electoral College is selecting for failure.

Red state/Blue state comparison
Oklahoma: 44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
top ten worst poverty

Massachusetts
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st on quality of life
1st in test scores
top ten least poverty

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 03/12/2024

NEW: Formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant in the US. It comes from cars, trucks, planes and a combination of emissions cooked in the atmosphere. For the first time, EPA modeled this risk down to the census block — and we mapped it.

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Map: What's the Cancer Risk From Formaldehyde Where I Live? — ProPublica

In most of the country, formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes fr...

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Adopted Connor @adoptedconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Adoption agencies oppose open records because they fear giving adopted people these basic human rights will threaten their business.

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Adopted Connor @adoptedconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Adoption and human trafficking: spot the difference

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Adopted Connor @adoptedconnor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Something I wish every parent understood, especially on days like today: Forced gratitude is not gratitude. Kids are not going to be grateful for every damn thing in life. You can’t teach gratitude by trying to force someone to feel how you feel.

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Adopted Connor @adoptedconnor.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

I was adopted at birth and raised in an “open” adoption. Most adoption agencies and facilitators have spent the past 30 or so years saying “open” adoption is a great thing and a win-win-win for adopters, natural parents and adopted people. Here’s what they don’t tell you about open adoption

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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

OMG 😮 That was one helluva game! Congrats to the Bulldawgs #collegefootball #SEC

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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Overall I think Pete seems like a great guy with sound politics, but this ain’t it. ‘Building a family’ with other people’s children, aka #adoption, is not *family values*. No one is owed a child. #adoptionistrauma 🥚

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Drop a 💙 if you'd like a follow back. I'll FB if I recognize you from the other place...or I'll skim your bio and a few posts to make sure you're not a psychopath. Also, updated starter pack below to help you find more good folks. Follow each other. Grow your voices here. go.bsky.app/QoxQfM5

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Haymarket Books 40% off every book sale, including eight of mine (and Hope in the Dark is still a free download at Haymarket for another week or so). Two more or less for kids in the mix (and yeah, that's a holiday gifts hint).

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Welcome new followers! I know a lot of you are “old” followers from Twitter but can’t tell how many. For those who are, I don’t know what you may or may not know about my recent trajectory. If you don’t need this thread, please ignore it; if you’d like an “orientation” of sorts, please read on!

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The only time Meta does anything worthwhile is when it feels threatened— in this case by Bluesky. Otherwise it’s perfectly content to ignore its user base indefinitely.

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