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KayelaWrites @kwrights.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Saw a post in an adoptee group asking "how many times has anyone asked you how it feels to be adopted?" I knew the answer would be 0. But still amazing reading the replies confirming this reality. No one has ever asked me how it feels to be adopted, but they all sure assume to know how we feel! 🥚

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

2026 marks 5 years of the #blackmothersmarch to end family policing! Join us on Mother’s Day (may 10) in Washington, DC to fight for a future where black mamas & families can thrive. Learn more, RSVP, get organizing tools, & support the march: BlackMothersMarch.com

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KayelaWrites @kwrights.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I understand this so well. I'm of one family and part of another, but not really connected to either in the way I crave to be. 🥚

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The thought of ICE workers using those big checks to buy properties, and then retire as landlords so they can continue making money extracting from poor, displaced, and financially insecure communities. This hypothetical been pissing me off all day. I just know ICE agents would enjoy evicting ppl

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Do you remember when serial adopter and white savior Mia Farrow shared a happy birthday post with “Mia farrow and her black children” in the search bar, and then she blamed it on someone else?

Tweet - “Happy birthday to my daughter, Quincy Farrow”
Screenshot - “Mia farrow and her black children”

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 13/03/2026

It is common? One estimate is that in Minnesota alone, over 17,000 people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora lack US citizenship because of their adopters’ negligence. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

americancommunitymedia.org

More than 10,000 Adoptees in US Lack Citizenship. Many Live in Minnesota.

For the more than 15,000 Korean adoptees in Minnesota who lack citizenship, recent immigration raids have caused immense fear and anxiety.

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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This 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. 🥚

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"The [Utah] state legislature passed a bill late last month with a veto-proof supermajority that will increase oversight and transparency of the [adoption] industry and introduce protections for birth parents. Gov. Spencer Cox is expected to sign the legislation into law this month." 🥚

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Mary Bowers @eatbemary.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Archivists around the world are invited to join ongoing advocacy efforts to preserve historical adoption records in Korea. Your expertise, integrity, and care help safeguard truth and inspire future generations. earsonncrc.org

earsonncrc.org

Ears on NCRC - Support for Adoptees

Professional information and post-adoption care on behalf of Ears on NCRC.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 13/02/2026

roses are red candy’s an option i’ve love for my family but not for #adoption

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

New episode out today! In Losing Isaiah, a Black mother says, “Look at my face. I’m his mother.” She’s answered with: “An animal giving birth doesn’t make it a mother.” That’s not a debate. It’s dehumanization. Episode co-hosted with J (@itsjway.bsky.social).

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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Just found out a friend of mine, an Iranian adoptee, has been given notice by DHS to report to court to justify her stay in the states. She's lived here all her life, but her parents never finalized her citizenship, so she's targeted. I hate this country. Pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act! 🥚🤬🤬

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 09/02/2026

Listen to intercountry #adoptees, who for years have been telling us about the abject powerlessness and dependence of being adopted, and who have been warning us about the capriciousness with which the state judges who counts as “belonging” to this country.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Adoption -- the promise of a *different* (not Better) life... Pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act! 🥚

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 07/02/2026

The second fact is that almost no one would choose to relinquish their own child if they did not feel cornered into it, overwhelmingly because of poverty and lack of social support. +

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I feel very blessed to have friends who see the media bullshit and adoptaganda for what it is

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Losing Isaiah relies on a familiar image: the “unfit” Black mother. What gets erased is poverty, lack of support, and a system that separates families first. Most removals are for “neglect,” not abuse. New episode Friday. Episode co-hosted with J (@itsjway.bsky.social).

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 30/01/2026

“would you rather have been aborted/left in a dumpster?” this is an astonishingly cruel thing to say to someone, and the intensity of it arises from the belief that to attack adoption is to conduct a different existential assault: on adoptive parents’ parenthood.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 30/01/2026

anyone who doubts this has never looked at the comments on any article at all that explores #adoption from anything except adoptive parents’ point of view. adoptees willing to go on the record about their critiques of the system are absolutely savaged.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 30/01/2026

every person who is adopted is a person who has undergone and experienced family separation. the fact that Western culture valorizes #adoption as a system for family creation cannot alter this fact, though it does create a taboo against acknowledging it and against hearing dissenting voices.

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Kinship care is where a lot of people assume the story ends. It doesn’t. Let's see what actually happens when families step in — and what support looks like when it’s treated as an afterthought instead of a priority. #adopteesky

Light blue gradient graphic with bold black text reading, “Families step in. The state largely steps aside.” Below, smaller text reads, “In South Carolina, more than 57,000 children are being raised by relatives.” Source text at the bottom cites WCSC News (2026) reporting on an AmeriHealth Caritas Foundation grant supporting HALOS kinship caregivers. The handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Light blue gradient graphic with bold black text reading, “Most kinship caregivers in the Lowcountry are Black women over 45.” Below, text explains they are often raising children with limited income, chronic health conditions, and housing instability. Additional text states they are expected to absorb this responsibility with little support because kinship care is framed as “family duty” rather than something worthy of public investment. Source text appears at the bottom. The handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Light blue gradient graphic with bold black text reading, “The family policing system depends on relatives to absorb crisis without power.” Below, text lists that kinship caregivers are often denied legal authority, financial support, access to attorneys, and clear paths to stability. The text concludes that this is not a system failure but a design meant to minimize cost and avoid accountability while maintaining control over families. Source text appears at the bottom. The handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Light blue gradient graphic with bold black text reading, “A new grant will expand legal and navigation support for kinship caregivers in the Lowcountry.” Below, text explains this matters because legal support reduces system involvement and stability requires resources, not sacrifice. A highlighted line reads, “If we truly cared about children, we’d fund families, not surveillance.” Source text appears at the bottom. The handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/01/2026

Tapping the fucking sign again 🥚

Sign at a subway entrance in New York:

they separate children at the
border of Harlem too

#AbolishNYCACS

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🥚 Exerpts of the message from Paul Kimball of the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights: www.change.org/p/provide-un... "Jan 27, 2026 SB 381 - Wahab passed the Senate this morning. 35-0. Myself and Lori Schultz were in the Capitol building and watched it happen! + 1/3

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Monumental News! SB 381 Passed the Senate today!!!!

SB 381 - Wahab passed the Senate this morning. 35-0. Myself and Lori Schultz were in the Capitol building and watched it happen! In this world of political divide, I found it heartwarming that our Aut...

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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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You know, I had one physician in it was a German physician in Spain who told me that he likes to recruit South African donors because South Africans have a pure, you know, racial lines, you know. And I'm like, Well, you know this, these, these fantasies about, you know, what people really are and how, how genes work, even in the medical system, still prevail. And he was saying that his South Africa, his South African donors, were more popular and more affordable than donors in the United States that were white, because the donors in the United States were more more mixed and less racially pure than than the South African White donors, and also more expensive. So, you know, he could pay a South African donor $2,000 whereas a US donor might be 10. So, so these, the way that these dynamics surrounding really is sort of a eugenic mission, in some cases, not across the board, but in some cases, it can be that.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/01/2026

the fact that Rosie O’Donnell taught her adopted kid to refer to his own mother as a “tummy lady” is a perfect illustration of the actual role of #adoption in Western societies, as opposed to the moralized image it projects. It is about socially engineering a perfect substitute for natal parenthood.

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎉 California's original birth certificate bill just passed the State Senate 35 to 0, with 5 senators not voting. (Some are those who had objections in committees earlier.) The Assembly may not vote on SB 381 until June but this is a good start! Thank you to CAAR for their all their hard work. 🥚

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I love adoptee spaces, but I’m firm on the belief that adoptee-rights advocacy should be led by Black women. They’ve been doing this work long before it had language or platforms. Black families also remain disproportionately impacted by family separation and legal adoption.

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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If you ever wonder why adoptees struggle with their own narrative, even after they have stepped out of the "adoption fog", then it's because they have been spoon-fed and gaslit with this shit their entire lives. 🥚

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Jessica Jones (she/they) 🍉📚 @jessicaljones.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I got my original birth certificate from Colorado in 2018 after years of being shut out by the agency that facilitated my adoption. I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 27/01/2026

adopters have all kinds of opinions on behalf of adoptees about what does and does not matter in #adoption

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

#Adoptees! The California state Senate just began livestreaming at 2:08 pm. The adoptee bill is third; it might be heard today if there is time! Observing a moment of silence for Alex Pretti. Just starting. . . www.senate.ca.gov/calendar

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Senate Events | California State Senate

Note: Dates without current Senate events will not display in results.

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Rosie O Donnell is not a leftist icon, she’s a washed up capitalist scumbag whose only relevance comes from hating trump, having a gender-queer adopted child, and treating TikTok like therapy to air her families dirty laundry. I say this as a queer leftie, she is nothing but a NARCISSIST. okbye.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 25/01/2026

i’m a librarian and i really love archivists and their mission. we librarians serve the people of the present. archivists serve posterity.

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🥚 Californians! Contact your state senator before Monday and urge them to vote YES on SB 381, "Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates" when it is voted on next week, Jan. 26-29, 2026. This link lets you look up your state reps by entering your home address: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov 1/5

findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov

Find Your California Representatives

Use your residential address to find your California State Senate and Assembly representatives.

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Why are adoption and foster care movies always framed as feel good stories? This one shows the process. It shows the struggle. And it still ends with savior narratives intact. What did this movie want you to feel good about? #adopteesky

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The adoption parallel to "copaganda" is "adoptaganda" -- it builds, shores up, and maintains the belief that some parents should not raise children because: 1) they are bad humans; and, 2) other would-be parents are more deserving. See, too Eugenics, Socioeconomic Class, and Scientific Racism.

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Love the term “adoptaganda.” Hollywood doesn’t ask us to interrogate our feelings; it reframes injustice to uphold systems. it tells us how to feel. Olivia Benson becomes our lens of “law and order,” not our friends and neighbors harmed by these systems… shame for victims, praise for police

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

That couch scene wasn’t about care. It was about control, fear framed as concern, surveillance framed as help. This is how the family policing system shows up early. If you’ve lived this, you’re not imagining it. Hosted with (@itsjway.bsky.social)

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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I think it's totally fine and healthy to take puppies and kittens away from their mother immediately after birth and give them up away to a new family.

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Since 2016, Arizona’s Department of Child Safety has paid out $30 million in settlements, most for wrongful child removals. These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re proof that the family policing system causes harm and then makes taxpayers pay for it. #adopteesky

Light blue background with curved white shapes. On the left, black serif text reads:
“Arizona Pays $30 Million to Settle Child Welfare Lawsuits.”
Below the text is an image of floating $100 bills.
On the right, smaller text says:
“Since 2016, Arizona’s Department of Child Safety (DCS) has paid out over $30 million in settlements involving children—most often for wrongful removal cases.”
APA citation appears at the bottom.
Top right corner includes @adopteescrossinglines and a white arrow pointing right.

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Title reads: “What the Records Show.”
To the right, there’s an icon of a yellow and red file folder with blue papers inside.
Below, the text lists settlement data:

$6.8 million in 2021 for permanent injury to a child.

$750,000 in 2024 for wrongful removal and abuse of a child with autism.

$50,000 in 2022 for the family of T’revonsay Sales, killed in a group home.
It notes that it takes an average of 4 years to settle claims, and the most common allegation is wrongful child removal.

Light blue background with white rounded rectangle.
Left side reads: “The Agency’s Response.”
Below:
“DCS says lawsuits are ‘common’ across high-risk agencies and that settlements don’t reflect poor quality of care.
Lawmakers and families call the system ‘broken’ after multiple child deaths under DCS supervision.”
On the right, a black and white icon shows a paper and pen with an arrow symbolizing sending or forwarding.
A white curved arrow at the bottom points to the next slide.

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Body text reads:
“Save this post and share it to raise awareness about how states use taxpayer dollars to fund harm instead of care.
Families deserve transparency, accountability, and real support, not settlements.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/10/2025

Michigan invalidates advance directives and living wills when women are pregnant. Residents have filed a lawsuit challenging this pregnancy exclusion, arguing it violates the right to reproductive freedom in the state constitution.

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Michigan women, doctors sue over end-of-life choices during pregnancy

Nine Michigan residents are suing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and other state officials over a law that voids a pregnant patient’s health care advance directive.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Trump rewarded Changpeng Zhao, a business partner who boosted his crypto venture, with a pardon for crimes that Zhao pleaded guilty to. Trading presidential favors for self-interest. You can’t get more classically corrupt than this.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

lots of people on the verge of a menty b without access to a therapist or other mental health tools like behavior coaching and are picking fights online because it's easier than mentally processing $20 billion to Argentina, endless tariffs, a recession, and the East Wing at the WH being destroyed

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