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Saturday O’Brien

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Adoptee. Science and reality. Fairness and decency for all.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/12/2025
crisis pregnancy centers, which receive public funds alongside private donations, are designed to extract children from pregnant women. It’s a prolonged psyop aiming to strip their sense of self-worth to the point that they will feel totally incapable & unworthy of keeping their own children. 🥚
This kind of situation is one that is "ripe for coercion," said Ann Fessler, who describes adoption coercion as much more subtle than that of the Baby Scoop Era but still prevalent. Women who encounter pressure from CPCs to relinquish can face a process that Fessler likens to stepping on a conveyor belt, funneled from CPCs to maternity home or host family situations to adoption agencies, urged to make "the right decision" and sometimes subjected to both moralistic and financial intimidation if they waver. Sometimes women are warned that if they don't give up their babies, they'll have to repay the financial help or housing they have received.
Women are routinely given a façade of legal representation in the form of a lawyer paid by the agency and the prospective adoptive parents in an obvious conflict of interest that the American Bar Association's ethics committee has explicitly condemned. Most information women receive comes from people with an agenda, said Fessler. "There's no uninterested party in adoption."
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 23/12/2025
Kathryn Joyce published these words a dozen years ago. The women who suffered under the Baby Scoop know now that no formal acknowledgment is coming; none likely ever will. They were brutalized. We, their children, were failed. And the forces that were arrayed against them persist today. 🥚
The mothers of the Baby Scoop Era are aging, and more than one shared the concern that Sandy Young articulated: "We're getting older, and we're terrified we're going to die ... without getting some acknowledgement that a crime was committed against us... six million of us," she continued. "The industry's biggest fear is that someone's going to listen to us. We don't want this to happen to another generation."
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Canada joined WWII Sep1933 while America was celebrating with huge Nazi parades. US joined Dec 1941 & only after Pearl Harbour was bombed & you needed allies. We fought in your Afghanistan war. We were with you on 9/11 In other words, you have never once had to protect us militarily.
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Megs 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️⚓ @megs.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Fuck Preston Manning #cdnpoli
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Megs 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️⚓ @megs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pierre Poilievre, who has spent his entire adult life getting a paycheque from Canadian taxpayers, said "Income tax is the fine you pay for the crime of working hard.” For successful people, taxes are how you contribute to the democratic, civil society you are privileged to be part of. #cdnpoli
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Anyone watched this? I was sniffing around for something to watch on Kanopy and this came up…🥚
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 07/01/2025
the culture 🥚
Many microphones meme. Two people at a table. On left, with one microphone off to the side, a man. Label: "I'm adopted." On right, with about a dozen microphones crowding her, a woman. Label: "I adopted."
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 10/12/2024
to put it crudely: doctors are affluent professionals; affluent professionals love adoption; people who love adoption are disinclined to acknowledge its structural harms; ergo
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Here it is🥚 The comments, my god🤦🏻‍♂️ Lots of bingo square gaslighting bullshit in response to me in there too. #fuckadoption 😒 www.facebook.com/share/v/19Vi...
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Redirecting...
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Had a kept AP get offended at me calling out a toxic positivity reel on adoption and tell me I’m “privileged”. Sigh🙄🥚
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A sad anniversary in Canada today. Misogyny is every kind of wrong😞
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#Shrinking is doing a very poor job with #adoption. It’s truly cringeworthy.
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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Remember, folks- "just adopt!" means "just buy someone else's kid!".
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 06/12/2024
no one is entitled to another person’s child to fulfill their personal goals 🙃 🥚
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words, this is spot on. Do not obey in advance!
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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Watching Shrinking for something light and up comes adoption with the classic HAP wants and zero focus on us. Even a “joke” about a stock of babies in the trunk of the car. A show about therapists too! Fuck. Me.😑
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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Always worth another read. #adoptionistrauma 🥚 @notalegalrecord.net www.notalegalrecord.net/archive/four...
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Fourteen Propositions About Adoption
These propositions are grounded in reflection on my experience as someone who was relinquished in a closed, same-race, same-religion domestic adoption in the...
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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#adoption 🥚
“If I offered you $50,000 for your child right now, you’d probably call the cops on me. But if I gave that money to an agency so they could take a child from a poor family (while keeping the money for themselves), you’d call it #adoption.”
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The new Canadian passport design is gorgeous, by the way. That it's also more secure just makes me love it more.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
From 1977-2007, 30,000 kids from Guatemala were spirited away and adopted internationally. Human rights groups have documented corruption so systemic, it’s now being recognized as “legalized theft.” If you are defending privacy and sealed records in adoption practices, this is what you stand for. 🥚
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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“They wouldn’t let Covid spread if it was THAT bad” 🙄 It took authorities 5 YEARS to be honest about HIV and only because they couldn’t hide it anymore. See tobacco, asbestos, lead... Governments don’t give a shit about YOU. They only care about money & power. Read the studies FFS. #LongCovid
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a man in a chef 's uniform is making a funny face and says `` can you wake up . ''
Alt: Gordon Ramsay in a chef 's uniform is making a funny face and says `` can you wake up . ''
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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
😍 okay.. I love this and that will be surprising to exactly no one who knows me.
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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
she did admit something i already knew, which is that there is not much adoption-focused training in most post-graduate programs and when there is, a lot of the materials come from adoption agencies. it's a huge issue. adoptees need therapy but where can we get informed care? 🥚
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#adopteesky Anyone seen Archie - the man who became Cary Grant? He wasn’t an adoptee, but suffered similar trauma and resulting issues…👀 m.imdb.com/title/tt2163...
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Archie (TV Mini Series 2023) ⭐ 7.0 | Biography, Drama
| TV-14
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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I'm sure I'm gonna get blocked but it sure is something to see y'all understand family separation is a threat enough to make a "joke". Fwiw these are the adoption "jokes" I refer to when I say they fuel adoptees' 4x higher suicide rate. We see you. We hear you. We know what you think of us.
A post from Sweetie (pi symbol) @sixfeetofcandy, that reads "putting my kids up for adoption after they informed me the best part of the pancake is the crispy edge and not the butter soaked middle"
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Been years since I got a tattoo, but recently I’ve been mulling the idea of getting one of The Joker…👀 #adopteesky….
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/11/2024
Among the saddest things about this is that last time it happened—and it did happen, almost immediately—Trump deported a bunch of adoptees whose parents thought adoption gave them citizenship. It didn’t.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Sex therapist, feminist writer and #adoptee
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Adoption Is Not a Family Planning Tool
Framing adoption as a family planning tool decenters the needs of adoptees and the rights of birth parents.
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Mindy Stern @minster12.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
After 26 years of searching, in 2018, I found my first father. Navigating reunion is harder than I imagined, more rewarding than I can describe. Last week, he visited me for the first time. A story about staying the course. #adoptee #adopteevoices #adoption mindystern.medium.com/navigating-a...
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Navigating Adoption Reunion: Learning To Live In The Now.
My first father arrived the day after Election Day. How much could my nerves take?
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 17/11/2024
I have this “welp” expression where i pull the corners of my mouth back & down, and a habit of lip-twisting when I’m anxious. When I met my mother I noticed that she does them too, & we are lookalikes when we do them. Not understanding why this matters is part of what’s meant by “kept privilege.” 🥚
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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, came out last year with @ohiostatepress.bsky.social. It’s about being biracial, adopted, and Japanese American, about identity, family, reproductive stigma and more.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If your favourite news outlet didn’t report this, then your “news” might actually be propaganda.
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Viorica @booblessadoptee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Adoption is trauma 💅🏻
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My prediction is that by 2030 The Onion will be more respected for truth, accountability, and accuracy than the NYT.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Just watched the Martha Stewart doco (good watch) and it was Jim COMEY, H Clinton Slayer who took Stewart down? We need a documentary on that man, that’s what we need.
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Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Re-announcing my second memoir so I can pin it to my new account. Everyone act surprised. It’s called BITTERSWEET: A MEMOIR OF RECOVERY. It will be so good. Best book ever, some will say
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Glad to be here with friends old and new. #adopteesky and others.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Reupping. #adopteesky
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 11/11/2024
So, I’m putting an #adoptees starter pack into the world! Adopted people: PLEASE reach out if you would like to be added. This is just a list of recommended follows. The feed is a whole nother thing! go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
And the Dental Care plan opens open to everyone making $90k or less next year, which is huge, and yet it's not really being talked about.
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
@addiane.bsky.social Are you here?
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
I love seeing bears this time of year - just hanging out, looking for dish to fatten up on before layin’ low for the winter months🙂
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Wonder if we’ll get a DM feature here… and if they’ll open it up to join without an invite…👀
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Saw my adoption aware therapist this am. Been with her for 2 3/4 years and, well, I feel like it’s really paying off. Expensive, both $ and emotionally, but damn! Feels good to see real progress. #adoptionistrauma
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Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Adoption always starts with tragedy and trauma…
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