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Aengus Kane (he/him)
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Just a guy in Treaty One from Whitbourne, Newfoundland & Labrador by way of Kenora, Ontario and Fukui City, Japan.

Reading, talking and listening sets the table. Doing makes the meal.

Humanity. Empathy. Compassion. Agape Love.
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Aengus Kane (he/him) @aenguskane.bsky.social · Sep 30
Just reclaiming my family name from birth. 🥚

www.adoptee-identity.com
Adoptees are everywhere. They are out students, our patients, our colleagues, and our family members. The common adoption narrative doesn't account for the nuance and the identity development challenges adoptees face. 17 million people in the US are estimated to be adopted. 50% are estimated to be adopted from the foster care system. 2X as likely to develop a substance use disorder. 4X great risk for attempting suicide than non-adopted peers. Adoptee Identity reveals the layers than others often overlook. *Source: National Institutes of Health
aenguskane.bsky.social
I grew up being told I was Welsh, Scottish, UEL & Pennsylvania Dutch.

I knew none of it was true but felt I couldn’t say anything until my parents were gone.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

#NAAM
‘Inconvenient Indian’ Author Thomas King Reveals He Has No Cherokee Ancestry
His shocking admission follows a 2020 documentary adaptation of his 2013 book being pulled from the Sundance Film Festival after the director’s own Indigenous identity was called into question.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
aenguskane.bsky.social
1) In Canada, being denied access to our full adoption files runs counter to our needs for identity.

It’s a violation of Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ie "security of the person.”

Security of the Person protects our bodily integrity.

www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/...
Constitution of Canada Canada’s constitution is supreme law and any law passed by any federal, provincial or territorial government that is inconsistent with the constitution is invalid.
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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volts.wtf
Texas would rather women die than get abortions.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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volts.wtf
Biden commuted their death sentences, so Trump retaliated by making their lives living hell, putting them in the country's most brutal prison, where they "spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space."

Pure, pointless cruelty.
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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volts.wtf
A theory about vibes:

Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
aenguskane.bsky.social
1) Olmo (Santiago) Gómez Aldaz is a man who tried to get his adoption annulled due to being trafficked in a fraud scheme as a baby in Franco's Spain.

He now has a legal relationship with both his biological parents and his adoptive parents.

🥚
memoriarepressiofranquista.blogspot.com/2025/07/una-...
Una sentencia inédita devuelve la filiación biológica a un hombre adoptado a través de una trama de bebés robados
https://www.publico.es/politica/tribunales/sentencia-inedita-devuelve-filiacion-biologica-hombre-adoptado-traves-trama-bebes-robados.html ...
memoriarepressiofranquista.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
i speak, as always, for precisely one #adopted person when i say that i cannot muster a feeling of gratitude for having been the product of a system so corrupt and so unjust that i believe it should not exist.
notalegalrecord.net Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 6d
here are 5 screenshots of a post from a social media campaign called “I’m Adopted.” It’s as finely crafted a piece of pro-adoption propaganda one could wish for: an adoptee who claims to honor the complexity of the experience but still manages to find a place in his heart for deep gratitude. 🥚
I'm Adopted * 11h • 4 I was born in Athens, Greece, in June 1963 to an unwed mother named Georgia Korakis. On paper, l was deemed "illegitimate." I was simply a baby boy who arrived in the wrong era for a woman to raise a child alone. After a week in the hospital, my mother handed me over to the authorities. At the time, Greece did not support single mothers. There was no safety net, no housing, no real path for a woman like her to keep a child like me. Instead, there was a system. Looking back now, we know it became one of the largest adoption scandals of its time. Between the late 1950s and 1960s, thousands of Greek children were sent abroad, many to the United States. The numbers vary, but estimates often range from 5,000 to 7,000. I am one of those children. For the first 16 months of my life, I was in care-unnamed, in an orphanage and foster care-waiting. In 1964, I was adopted by Greek American parents who brought me to Southern California. They gave me a name, a home, and a life I could never have imagined from that hospital ward in Athens. I grew up in Granada Hills, in the San Fernando Valley, with a backyard, a pool, a dog, and two loving parents who did their best, even through their own struggles. I was raised Greek in all the ways that matter: faith, food, family, and a healthy dose of guilt and humor. But I was also raised American, with opportunity and freedom I never take for granted. At 13, I stumbled onto a TV set as an extra in an ABC Afterschool Special, and something sparked. That one experience turned into a 40-year career in television and film production. I've worked my way up from production assistant to producer, served two terms on the National Board of the Producers Guild of America, and am a member of the Television Academy and BAFTA's Academy Circle. None of that happens if I'm not adopted. None of it. I am deeply pro-adoption because I am living proof of how transformative it can be. My adoption took me from an uncertain beginning in Athens to a life in Los Angeles that allowed me to build a career, raise three daughters, and tell stories for a living. I recognize that not every adoptee feels that way. Adoption is complicated. It carries grief, loss, identity questions, and, in my case, a whole country's painful history. I honor that complexity. I respect every adoptee's experience, especially those whose stories look very different from mine. Like many of us, I searched. I did DNA testing, hired a genealogist, chased leads, and pulled every thread I could find. I never found my father. I never found my mother either, beyond her name: Georgia Korakis. Today, based on what l've learned, I believe she has passed away. I never got to go back, look her in the eyes, and say the words that sit in my heart every day: "Thank you. You saved my life." So l'm doing the next best thing I know how to do: I'm telling her story. I'm currently developing a short film called Georgia, based on the true event of my mother going to court to say goodbye to me before I was released for adoption. I was a baby. I remember none of it. But I have carried the weight of that moment my whole life. The film is set against the backdrop of the Greek adoption scandal of the late '50s and '60s, when vulnerable mothers were pushed into impossible decisions and children were shipped abroad, often without full consent or transparency. Georgia is my way of honoring the woman who chose life for me, even at great personal cost. It is also my way of shining a light on a chapter of history that affected thousands of us and is only now starting to be fully acknowledged. I share my story here, with I'm Adopted, because this community understands the layers. We know what it means to be both grateful and grieving, both "chosen" and carrying questions that may never be answered. We hold the tension between loving our adoptive families and wondering about our first families. We know what it is to live between worlds. As World Adoption Day approaches, I want to say this to my fellow adoptees around the world: Your story matters. Your questions are valid. Your gratitude, your anger, your confusion, your peace-all of it belongs. There is no one "right" adoption narrative. There is only your truth and the courage to live it.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
one of the biggest lies people believe about #adoption is that it is a solution for people who do not want to raise their children instead of being a system designed to extract children from those who do.
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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brentasnavely.bsky.social
One of the biggest #adoption secrets is that it allows those who impregnated the mothers to remain hidden from view.

Long live the patriarchy !

🥚
notalegalrecord.net Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 6d
one of the biggest lies people believe about #adoption is that it is a solution for people who do not want to raise their children instead of being a system designed to extract children from those who do.
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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democracydocket.com
BREAKING: A federal judge blocked Arkansas from enforcing a set of laws designed to suppress ballot initiatives — including ID checks, reading-level rules and a so-called “cool off” period for canvassers.

The judge found the laws were already creating a climate of fear and intimidation.
Federal Court Shuts Down Arkansas Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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theecologyprof.bsky.social
Canada is a fully-fledged #Petrostate run by a #Petrocacy that bends the knee to Big Oil for their petrobucks. For those not paying attention, petrostates have the SAME moral equivalency as narcostates, profiting from the misery of others. #FossilFuelPhaseout
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Ottawa, Alberta close to deal that includes oil pipeline to B.C. coast, sources say
Privy Council Clerk Sabia playing key role in brokering accord that would involve tanker ban exemption
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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scottsantens.com
BREAKING: Marshall Islands becomes the first country to launch a Universal Basic Income program. Every resident (about 33,000 people) will receive $200 every 3 months. This works out to being about 11% of GDP per capita. If the US did that same percentage, the UBI would be about $770/mo.
Marshall Islands Launches Nationwide Universal Basic Income Program Using Digital Infrastructure
Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands — November 19, 2025. The Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has introduced a nationwide Universal Basic Income (UBI) program, marking the...
www.koreaittimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
That moment followed by his calling a reporter "insubordinate" while shrugging off the murder of a journalist would have ended other presidencies. "Piggy" enraged me less than the silence that followed--the indifference, the cowardice, the collective shrug is what enables the eradication of decency.
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 7d
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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geoffypjohnston.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥😅😅😅
Epstein Files Vote Is A Huge Loss For Trump | "Quiet Piggy" | Dictator Besties | A Flying McDonald’s - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbi...
Epstein Files Vote Is A Huge Loss For Trump | "Quiet Piggy" | Dictator Besties | A Flying McDonald’s
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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aljazeera.com
An Israeli air attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded several.
Israeli air attack on refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13 people
An Israeli air attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded several.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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ingerandersen.bsky.social
Reducing methane emissions is one of the most immediate and effective steps to slow the climate crisis.

The latest Global Methane Status Report, launched today at #COP30 by @unep.org @ccacoalition.bsky.social, shows progress, but more is needed to deliver global goals.

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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keeptroyblue.bsky.social
Remember that time New York elected a Muslim mayor and MAGA shit their pants saying Sharia law was coming to NYC, and then like a week later Trump gave F-35's to Saudi Arabia, the capital of Wahabbi fundamentalist Islam, where 17 of 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens? Just to open Trump Tower Riyadh?
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
aenguskane.bsky.social
The versatility of one word is astounding.

youtu.be/f2L47_W2mFs

#WordsMatter
Using Proper English: The F Word
YouTube video by Sara
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
New Mexico's free universal child care program is a model for the nation.

www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
5,000 New Mexico kids enroll in first two weeks of universal free childcare
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
aenguskane.bsky.social
If I’m filling out official forms and there’s a section for former name(s), I put my birth name in.

It confuses some people and I’m told it’s not necessary because there’s no record of that name.🥚

#NAAM
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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donnagratehouse.bsky.social
In his 1971 book Blaming The Victim, William Ryan wrote about how public hospitals had to report the "legitimacy" status of infants but not private ones. That was how many affluent white families hid unwed mothers and kept the children. It also skewed data racially and scapegoated Black mothers.
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM