Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/12/2025crisis 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. 🥚 413041
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 23/12/2025Kathryn 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. 🥚 1347
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienMarlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Canada 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. 149629
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienMegs 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️⚓ @megs.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Fuck Preston Manning #cdnpoli 142
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienMegs 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️⚓ @megs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Pierre 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 2154
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Anyone watched this? I was sniffing around for something to watch on Kanopy and this came up…🥚 2111
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 10/12/2024to put it crudely: doctors are affluent professionals; affluent professionals love adoption; people who love adoption are disinclined to acknowledge its structural harms; ergo 0141
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Here 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...facebook.comRedirecting... 320
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Had a kept AP get offended at me calling out a toxic positivity reel on adoption and tell me I’m “privileged”. Sigh🙄🥚 180
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 06/12/2024A sad anniversary in Canada today. Misogyny is every kind of wrong😞 040
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienJoanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 06/12/2024#Shrinking is doing a very poor job with #adoption. It’s truly cringeworthy. 7154
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienOuaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Remember, folks- "just adopt!" means "just buy someone else's kid!". 0247
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 06/12/2024no one is entitled to another person’s child to fulfill their personal goals 🙃 🥚 2477
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBrian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words, this is spot on. Do not obey in advance! 754297827676
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Watching 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.😑 280
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBaby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Always worth another read. #adoptionistrauma 🥚 @notalegalrecord.net www.notalegalrecord.net/archive/four...notalegalrecord.netFourteen Propositions About AdoptionThese propositions are grounded in reflection on my experience as someone who was relinquished in a closed, same-race, same-religion domestic adoption in the... 0237
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienAnn Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024The new Canadian passport design is gorgeous, by the way. That it's also more secure just makes me love it more. 1186
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024From 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. 🥚 35220
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienDame 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. #LongCovidmedia.tenor.coma 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 . '' 18450162
Reposted by Saturday O’Brien𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024😍 okay.. I love this and that will be surprising to exactly no one who knows me. 5502
Reposted by Saturday O’Brienkwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 21/11/2024she 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? 🥚 3211
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...m.imdb.comArchie (TV Mini Series 2023) ⭐ 7.0 | Biography, Drama| TV-14 000
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienOuaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 11/11/2024I'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. 4369
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Been years since I got a tattoo, but recently I’ve been mulling the idea of getting one of The Joker…👀 #adopteesky…. 2110
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/11/2024Among 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. 151665550
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienJoanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Sex therapist, feminist writer and #adopteepsychologytoday.comAdoption Is Not a Family Planning ToolFraming adoption as a family planning tool decenters the needs of adoptees and the rights of birth parents. 87118
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienMindy Stern @minster12.bsky.social · 17/11/2024After 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...mindystern.medium.comNavigating Adoption Reunion: Learning To Live In The Now.My first father arrived the day after Election Day. How much could my nerves take? 0101
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 17/11/2024I 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.” 🥚 4767
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienSusan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 17/11/2024My 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. 79625
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienLibby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If your favourite news outlet didn’t report this, then your “news” might actually be propaganda. 051
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienViorica @booblessadoptee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Adoption is trauma 💅🏻 0245
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienLibby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024My prediction is that by 2030 The Onion will be more respected for truth, accountability, and accuracy than the NYT. 032
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienLibby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Just 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. 031
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienHarrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Re-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 6849
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Glad to be here with friends old and new. #adopteesky and others. 2450
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienTracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Reupping. #adopteesky 0173
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 11/11/2024So, 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 6410550
Reposted by Saturday O’BrienAnn Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 08/11/2024And 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. 68540
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 29/10/2023I love seeing bears this time of year - just hanging out, looking for dish to fatten up on before layin’ low for the winter months🙂 140
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 20/10/2023Wonder if we’ll get a DM feature here… and if they’ll open it up to join without an invite…👀 000
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Saw 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 070
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Adoption always starts with tragedy and trauma… 041