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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/04/2025

"In essence, it’s child trafficking": another article on the state of Utah as a hotbed for #adoption trafficking. With competition among would-be adopters so intense--roughly 1 million couples versus roughly 20,000 adoptions every year--Utah is a hot marketplace.

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Inside Utah’s ‘human marketplace’ for adopted babies

Desperate women denied abortion access in much of the US are being offered a way out for the children they cannot raise themselves. It’s not always what it seems

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Danish media are only willing to speak to #adoptees if we are willing to be the personal tragic trauma story or the heart warming "I'm so grateful" story. Very rarely are they willing to just listen to us as experts on the adoption industry, racism, capitalism, sexism etc. 🥚

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Update on this: I have hashimoto’s disease. Still waiting for my follow up appointment.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

inews.co.uk

Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia

Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 11/03/2025

#adoption is a weapon of war and genocide. we see this again and again when states attack other states, or their own people.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Heads up, Utah. Tell your governor to sign this bill and normalize #adoptee rights to know where we come from and access our medical history. Also, these are our fucking records. They should not be held as state secrets because other people want to play pretend games. 🥚 suunews.net/2025/03/06/u...

suunews.net

Utah Legislature passes house bill allowing increased access to adoption records - SUU News

A bill increasing adoptee access to adoption records passed the Utah Legislature on Feb. 21, 2025, and now awaits approval from Gov. Spencer Cox. The bill, HB 129, will allow Utah residents to access ...

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 25/02/2025

never forget that if #adoption “saves orphans,” it does so by *making* orphans. I had two living parents. I still do. I was “orphaned” not by an act of god but by an act of *law*. The absolutely overwhelming majority of adoptees are likewise orphans on paper only.

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I finally got diagnosed with hypothyroidism! It’s nice to know that I’m not making up my symptoms 😭

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

these passages from a “how to adopt” book make it clearer than any ranting of mine that adoption treats pregnant women—who in this book are termed “birth mothers” despite not even having relinquished their children—as nothing more than brood mares for baby buyers. 🥚

One of the nicest parts about independent adoption is that it normally allows you to bring the baby home directly from the hospital. There is virtually never an intermediate foster parent placement while you wait for the birth mother's consent to become irrevocable, or other procedural steps to be satisfied. (The popularity of immediate placements in independent adoption has caused many private agencies to duplicate the practice of immediate placement in their adoptions.) Most states allow the birth mother to release her child directly into your physical custody immediately upon the hospital's discharge of the baby, usually when the baby is one to three days old.

There is a great benefit to you in taking your baby home immediately.
Every new parent, adoptive or otherwise, knows the early days of a child's life are precious and irreplaceable. Naturally, the child also benefits from being with you immediately as his or her future parents, rather than foster parents. But there is also a disadvantage. There is always a possibility you will bond to a child the birth mother has not yet permanently released for adoption and that she may seek to reclaim.
This is because often the child is released from the hospital before the consent to adoption is signed, as many states require a specific number of days to pass before the consent can be signed, or she has to be discharged from the hospital. (In most states, the consent is signed within just a few days of birth. The state-by-state review in Chapter 15 details the laws of each state.

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“They are too young to articulate what is going on inside them, but adult adoptees looking back in sorrow as much as in anger, understand what they did to survive.” That hits like a Mac truck going 70 down the freeway. 😭

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Adoptee Rights Law Center @adopteerights.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We're halfway toward the goal. Funds needed so I can be at my client's naturalization interview in Los Angeles. My services are free, the travel not so much, and my client is homeless and obviously deserves to secure citizenship. Info: adopteerightslaw.com/intercountry...

adopteerightslaw.com

Aid Request: Travel Costs for Naturalization Interview

It is essential that I appear for this naturalization interview so that my client is approved for US citizenship.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 11/02/2025

an analogy, fwiw. 1. your privacy entitles you to conceal your bank account number from me. 2. your privacy does not entitle you to conceal *my* bank account number from me. 3. nor does your privacy entitle you to conceal our *shared* bank account number from me. OBC access is like # 3.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025

This is a great question I'll answer in a thread. If I miss any details hopefully someone else will chime in (1/x)

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s meme’n time. *memes all over the place*

A picture of a hampster with the water dispenser deep in its cheek. The hampster is labeled “your girl” and the water dispenser is labeled “me”

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Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization @realbastardnation.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Utah House betrayed Utah adoptees today by passing a last- minute amendment to the clean OBC bill with a Disclosure Veto that allows bparents to petition court to keep document sealed. I will have more later.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 08/02/2025

people would rise up in fury over the idea of the state taking a person’s house or car and giving it to another private citizen, but they don’t bat an eye at the state’s doing this with “undeserving” people’s children. This is the reality that liberals and conservatives have built in the USA. 🥚

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Liberals are really saying “you have to compromise your morals to vote for a candidate who has been supporting an active genocide, otherwise the genocide will continue.” There is literally ZERO incentive to vote for you. The democrats wanted to court the right wing and they failed.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 05/02/2025

Opinion | Donald Trump is doing fascism. Here is why it’s the fault of a few hundred communists that told us to stop committing genocide

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/02/2025

Since evidently we're doing this AGAIN. Arab and Muslim Americans deserve the dignity of not being coerced or forced into endorsing with their votes the genocide of their friends and family. Telling people to ignore the deaths of their loved ones because they're going to die anyway is evil.

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Calling criticism of the Democrats from bluesky lefties "infighting" sort of fails to recognize that neoliberalism is a right wing movement

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🥚 One of the things that drives me insane about talking to kept people is the willful lack of empathy for adoptees. How do I know it’s willful? (1/8)

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Mutual aid time! Adoptees are severely marginalized and we need as much support as possible.

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

As an adoptee and autistic person, I can say that parents often greatly underestimate how much pain we go through on a regular basis. The focus is always on the parent’s suffering and how to get the kid under control. We need to be more focused on autistic voices and adoptee voices. 🥚

Two hands shaking, one hand says “autistic people” the other says “adoptees” the middle says “Our parents speaking over our lived experiences”

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

To liberals everywhere who promote #adoption as a line of defense against the elimination of abortion access: Fuck you. I see your greed underneath it.

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

I’ve seen people suggest that racists & fascists take a racist view of #adoption, which is putatively politically neutral in itself—e.g. that they only want white babies. These people are terribly confused. The extreme right LOVES adoption and will gladly take babies from the groups they hate.

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

hey, to all the hopeless fuckwits who think they looking cool calling “adoption is a tool of genocide” a “bad take”: start with learning at the most basic level about the Indian Child Welfare Act and get back to us 🥚

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Adopting children from a warzone is a human rights violation and a war crime. I don’t want to keep arguing with people about this. It’s illegal because it’s genocide.

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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

i’m so tired of “adoption is necessary because there are tons of kids whose parents are dead or abusive drug addicts” because no actually and i thought leftists were against privatized solutions that enrich corrupt middlemen by exploiting the poor and working class. 🥚

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Dear fellow #adoptees Inclusion matters. Use alt text.

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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Adopting a child from a different country, race, and religion is a lifestyle change that is extrememly traumatic for the child. People who adopt internationally are not required to maintain the child’s unique heritage, which is a form of genocide. Don’t let this go unnoticed. 🥚

The text reads: Taking international adoptees from their homes, families, communities, and language is a silent genocide. All children have a right to know their true heritage and to keep their family traditions. No amount of economic stability can erase the pain of loss.
The background is various hues of yellow blended together.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I've found that Kept compared to adoptees 🥚 and FFY tend to take things we can't take for granted, a lot more for granted. For example, when my grandmother was getting more and more sick, I spent some time recording the old stories she liked to tell in her own voice.

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