Brent Snavely
@brentasnavely.bsky.social
Domestic Transracial Adoptee
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Brent Snavely
@brentasnavely.bsky.social
· Jun 13
World Religions Tree
000024.org
Start about 1/2 way down and a bit to the right-of-center of the linked material to find branches of Xianity. Members of each branch are likely to say *they* are "the real Xians." If they are fully open, they would express doubts about all the others >because there are reasons the branches exist<.
It's just The Whipping Boy [as an example of what they'll do to you if you don't comply]...
“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library.”
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It's just The Whipping Boy [as an example of what they'll do to you if you don't comply]...
"I love the smell of an orange man's ass crack in the morning."
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"I love the smell of an orange man's ass crack in the morning."
If you punish unwed mothers in the right way, you can boost the domestic supply of infants for the use and enjoyment of society's most deserving...
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this is from a comparatively old source, but as long as we permit the existence of a marketplace in children that exploits the desperation and misery of the unlucky ones among us, its statement about the ordering of societal concern will not stop being true. 🥚
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you punish unwed mothers in the right way, you can boost the domestic supply of infants for the use and enjoyment of society's most deserving...
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...for when you continuously circle your anus looking for klingons...
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
...for when you continuously circle your anus looking for klingons...
Adding to the American Myths of Unity, Equality, Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, Individualism, The American Dream, and America’s “free enterprise” system, we can safely add the *Myth of Childbirth-by-Paper*.
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when certain celebrities state that adopting a child is “no different” from birthing a child, note that this is the legal structuring that makes that pretense possible 🥚
yes, that, which is part of the grand fantasy of #adoption, which is at the core of its appeal for many adopters
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Adding to the American Myths of Unity, Equality, Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, Individualism, The American Dream, and America’s “free enterprise” system, we can safely add the *Myth of Childbirth-by-Paper*.
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Alice Wong had a huge heart. Known foremost for her fierce eloquence for disability justice, she saw all struggles for justice as interconnected, from Palestinian liberation to even my small corner: #adoptee rights. She reached out to encourage me to keep speaking. I never knew her, but I loved her.
I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Alice Wong had a huge heart. Known foremost for her fierce eloquence for disability justice, she saw all struggles for justice as interconnected, from Palestinian liberation to even my small corner: #adoptee rights. She reached out to encourage me to keep speaking. I never knew her, but I loved her.
Just like Vegas, doin' it with Satan costs extra...
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Just like Vegas, doin' it with Satan costs extra...
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Fostered and adopted people who are part of the LGBTQIA community are more likely to experience abuse, abandonment and institutionalization at the hands of their religious(usually Christian) guardians. So how, exactly, are those people qualified to provide care? #fostercare #adoption #lgbtqia
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Fostered and adopted people who are part of the LGBTQIA community are more likely to experience abuse, abandonment and institutionalization at the hands of their religious(usually Christian) guardians. So how, exactly, are those people qualified to provide care? #fostercare #adoption #lgbtqia
Are they testing for *honesty* or for *loyalty* ?
The FBI has recently used polygraph tests to ask senior employees if they have said anything negative about FBI Director Kash Patel or had spoken to the media.
Separately, Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other staffers, exempting them from passing polygraph exams.
Separately, Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other staffers, exempting them from passing polygraph exams.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Are they testing for *honesty* or for *loyalty* ?
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They did so good the last time
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic
A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
They did so good the last time
Lookit -- all of those vaccines are dangerous. You should instead try mainlining this stuff I concocted at home in my basement lab... 🤡
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Lookit -- all of those vaccines are dangerous. You should instead try mainlining this stuff I concocted at home in my basement lab... 🤡
This "faith based" shit is founded upon white xian supremacy.
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I do not believe you are qualified to foster or adopt if your religious beliefs lead you to deny a persons right to live as who they are. Thats child abuse, not care. #fostercare #whitehouse #erasure #childabuse #religion #evangelical #lgbtqia #adoption #adoptee #adopteerights
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This "faith based" shit is founded upon white xian supremacy.
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the orange reality tv host has polluted our nation
My one hot take: All that vitriol aimed at Monica Lewinsky back in the day should be aimed at Orange is the new Throat goat
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
the orange reality tv host has polluted our nation
...AND even if they were landlubbing cartel gunslingers Each of them are entitled to a fair hearing before an impartial tribunal before being executed...
Even if they were delivering drugs, they were still fishermen, NOT “narcoterrorists.” Traffickers aren’t going to trust their cargo to landlubbing cartel gunslingers who are useless at sea. They are going to hire fishers who’ve spent their lives on the water & understand the currents, weather, etc.
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
...AND even if they were landlubbing cartel gunslingers Each of them are entitled to a fair hearing before an impartial tribunal before being executed...
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Hey liberals and progressives and all those who claim to support reproductive justice
I'm talking to you!
If most kids in foster care are there due to poverty, and most people who relinquish their kids for adoption do so because of a temporary crisis,
why are you still supporting these systems?!?
I'm talking to you!
If most kids in foster care are there due to poverty, and most people who relinquish their kids for adoption do so because of a temporary crisis,
why are you still supporting these systems?!?
Stop trying to "save the children" and support families instead. I guarantee most kids will be alright if we just help families in temporary crisis.
No need to separate families via the family policing system or the adoption industry.
Support families.
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No need to separate families via the family policing system or the adoption industry.
Support families.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hey liberals and progressives and all those who claim to support reproductive justice
I'm talking to you!
If most kids in foster care are there due to poverty, and most people who relinquish their kids for adoption do so because of a temporary crisis,
why are you still supporting these systems?!?
I'm talking to you!
If most kids in foster care are there due to poverty, and most people who relinquish their kids for adoption do so because of a temporary crisis,
why are you still supporting these systems?!?
just a white jesus woman doing white jesus woman shit (which is covering for her patriarchs)
"I certainly believe in spiritual warfare. ...And I think that the president was saved by the grace of God on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, and he's in this moment for a reason."
"I certainly believe in spiritual warfare. ...And I think that the president was saved by the grace of God on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, and he's in this moment for a reason."
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
just a white jesus woman doing white jesus woman shit (which is covering for her patriarchs)
"I certainly believe in spiritual warfare. ...And I think that the president was saved by the grace of God on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, and he's in this moment for a reason."
"I certainly believe in spiritual warfare. ...And I think that the president was saved by the grace of God on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, and he's in this moment for a reason."
Mike Johnson is #Lying4HisJesus
He looks so happy when he lies. Like every time he lies a christofascist angel gets its wings.
Mike Johnson accuses Democrats of "trying to manufacture some sort of hoax that the president something to do with Epstein. It is absurd ... they have Trump derangement syndrome."
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Mike Johnson is #Lying4HisJesus
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Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
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November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
Think again.🧵
Think again.🧵
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
it's a matter of finances
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November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
it's a matter of finances
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there's a huge-assed cultural* assumption that "saving" infants and children requires that they be separated from their close and extended families
*I'll leave it to you to figure out what culture is being referenced.
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*I'll leave it to you to figure out what culture is being referenced.
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the right loves #adoption for all the reasons you would guess: an “alternative” to abortion; an alternative to social support for people in crisis; a general disregard for human rights; MONEY; profit-seeking from gross social & material inequality.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
Look, we know this man has a deep and abiding interest in trafficking children.
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
there's a huge-assed cultural* assumption that "saving" infants and children requires that they be separated from their close and extended families
*I'll leave it to you to figure out what culture is being referenced.
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*I'll leave it to you to figure out what culture is being referenced.
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---> when the fish realizes it is in water <---
seriously, though. #adopted people use the phrase “out of the fog” to refer to an experience that we could also describe as an awakening to the truth.
i’m testing the hypothesis that an opinion can be both extremely woke and extremely unpopular
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
---> when the fish realizes it is in water <---
stealing children = "saving" them
1. Try to kill 'em
2. Try to remove 'em
3. Try to educate 'em
4 Steal their children
--the colonists' pattern--
1. Try to kill 'em
2. Try to remove 'em
3. Try to educate 'em
4 Steal their children
--the colonists' pattern--
plenary #adoption, and the industry that brokers adoptions, are capitalism’s way of exploiting, rather than addressing, morally inexcusable social inequality and precarity to provide affluent people a marketplace to acquire a coveted source of social wealth: children.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
stealing children = "saving" them
1. Try to kill 'em
2. Try to remove 'em
3. Try to educate 'em
4 Steal their children
--the colonists' pattern--
1. Try to kill 'em
2. Try to remove 'em
3. Try to educate 'em
4 Steal their children
--the colonists' pattern--
In connection with children, "parental rights" is directly tied to *ownership rights* over chattel property.
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children constitute a crucially important test case for the thesis that powerless people have rights too, and liberals’ track record is far from perfect.
it’s not lost on #adopted people that the ACLU is deliberately silent on whether we have a right to know our own identities.
it’s not lost on #adopted people that the ACLU is deliberately silent on whether we have a right to know our own identities.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In connection with children, "parental rights" is directly tied to *ownership rights* over chattel property.
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I was raised in a white jesus household (minister/missionary) -- Shortly before he died, he-who-raised-me said, "When you were adopted, it was 'kill the Indian to save the man'."
There are multiple reasons to diverge from white jesus people's path toward their [ongoing] "manifest destiny."
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There are multiple reasons to diverge from white jesus people's path toward their [ongoing] "manifest destiny."
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November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I was raised in a white jesus household (minister/missionary) -- Shortly before he died, he-who-raised-me said, "When you were adopted, it was 'kill the Indian to save the man'."
There are multiple reasons to diverge from white jesus people's path toward their [ongoing] "manifest destiny."
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There are multiple reasons to diverge from white jesus people's path toward their [ongoing] "manifest destiny."
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