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Grieving Iranian mother tells UN about children before school attack | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/27/grieving-iranian-mother-tells-un-about-children-before-school-attack

Back when the Polish TV introduced the Dragon Ball series (in the late 1990s, IIRC), my parents were perplexed. How could you create a children's animated movie (because obviously animated movies must have been for children) with so much violence?
On the other hand, I'm worried about modern animated series (these formally classified as appropriate for children). They are specifically designed to keep children overstimulated, addicted to nonstop action, thirsty for more.
My brother recently told me that he set a Disney animated movie from the era of our childhood to his children. They simply didn't want to watch it, they found it so boring.
PS. I actually find these modern animations tiresome. I mean, why do things have to move that fast all the time?!

Jury deliberations begin in New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta over children's safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-trial-child-sexual-exploitation-5ad9…

New Mexico trial nears end over children's safety risks on Meta
Closing arguments are underway in a landmark trial where New Mexico prosecutors are accusing social media conglomerate Meta of misleading people about the safety of its platforms for children. Meta denies violating state consumer protection laws. Nationwide, social media companies are contending with lawsuits that allege the platforms harm children. Closing arguments in the New Mexico case were being delivered Monday after six weeks of testimony from scores of witnesses that included teachers, …

American dream: "The sad thing is it’s tough but it’s not a surprise. We’ve been furloughed over 90 days. That’s ridiculous. Right now, I’m missing two and a half checks. Some people have taken out unemployment assistance. Some people have relied on predatory loans to get by. You have to pay off your car, you have to pay your mortgage. I had to apply for food stamps a couple weeks ago. It’s embarrassing as a federal employee for ten years. And I don’t even have children."

A TSA Agent Tells Us What’s Happening at La Guardia Airport
A fatal crash and government shutdown has made La Guardia a mess. We spoke to a TSA officer about what it’s like to work in the airport right now.

chatcontrol e oscuramento: la guerra alla crittografia è in aumento. A causa di una losca collaborazione tra Stati Uniti e Unione Europea.
Sorveglianza di massa statale
Dopo la denuncia di Snowden nel 2013, ampie porzioni di Internet sono diventate crittografate, consentendo comunicazioni private e sicure. Non tutti hanno accolto con favore questo cambiamento. In particolare, l'FBI e altre agenzie governative statunitensi hanno combattuto quella che viene spesso definita la &q…

A Forbes story about a Louisiana man killing 8 children contained a ForbesPredict box asking readers to predict whether Congress would pass new gun safety laws (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefi…

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.

A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefies-story-about-mass-shooting-of-8-children/

Ukraine returns 2 children from Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/21/ukraine-returns-children-from-russianoccupied.html

RFK Jr. Confronted Over Statement That
Black Children Should Be ‘Re-Parented’
Because They’re All On ADHD Meds
‘What is clear is that the white man President Donald Trump tapped to serve as the nation’s highest health authority, wanted to take Black children out of their homes and away from their parents based on racist non-statistics he pulled directly out of his ass.’

RFK Jr. Confronted Over Statement That Black Children Should Be ‘Re-Parented’ Because They’re All On ADHD Meds
A federal administration full of proud white nationalists has no business taking it upon itself to assess Black health.

Oh ffs, people, it’s not hard.
The Israeli government is an apartheid regime perpetrating a genocide on the Palestinian people and waging illegal wars against Lebanon and Iran.
No jew can be held responsible for the actions of that government just because they’re a jew. No human being is worth less than any other because of their religious beliefs (no matter how hard the religious extremists of all faiths try to convince us this is so).

"GiveWell has long recognized the potential for highly cost-effective vaccine programs. We started supporting #vaccination programs in 2015 and have made over $200 million in vaccination-related grants to date. For example, New Incentives, one of our Top Charities, aims to increase routine childhood vaccinations in northern Nigeria by providing small cash incentives to caregivers who brin…

Podcast Episode 24: Testing New Strategies to Increase Vaccination Coverage - The GiveWell Blog
In this episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Natalie Crispin about how our research approach has evolved and what it means for helping more children access life-saving vaccinations.

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat…

How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

This x1000.
For every "[corporate] social media harms kids because" comment, I see the exact same concern for adults that we're doing NOTHING about.
Facebook has literally promoted a genocide in Myanmar, but for some reason they're still in business and probably promoting another genocide somewhere. How many kids got butchered in that massacre? These toxic cesspools of hate are a problem for ALL age groups, but targeting kids is only pretending to do something a…

I just came across "On encule le monde" by Les Guignols.
"We are the world" will never be the same anymore.

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
More Moms Deported:
An exclusive data analysis found Trump has deported moms of U.S. citizens at four times the rate of his predecessor.
Left Stranded:
Because American-born kids can’t legally join their parents in immigration detention, some end up with friends or strangers when their parents are detained or deported.
New Directive:
Trump administration officials revised a document advi…

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

Several Ukrainian children abducted to Russia returned in initiative backed by Melania Trump, White House says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/several-ukrainian-children-abducted-to.html

Despite the hot air from government about protecting children, they've voted down our Bill to turn off the toxic algorithms.
These algorithms push toxic content promoting eating disorders, self harm, misogyny and hate.
Big Tech profits should not come before children's health.
— Paul Murphy, Member of the Irish Parliament for the party People before Profit.

Vía @ireallyhateyou on Twitter:
Roald Dahl, 1983, about Beirut under Israeli bombs:
"One finds it almost impossible to believe that a civilised people could perform such acts of fiendish barbarism upon women and children and patients in hospitals... The Israelis pinpointed and hit no less than thirteen out of the seventeen hospitals in Beirut, one of them a mental hospital and many of the others full of children."

Did you know the average human large intestine is about 1.5 meters long? [1]
#SuperBowelFacts
[1] https://www.chp.edu/our-services/transplan

Differences in Small & Large Intestines | Children's Pittsburgh
Do you know the main differences between the small and large intestines? Learn exactly how your body absorbs nutrients from your food on a daily basis.

Newsom demands answers from RFK Jr. over past comments about Black children on ADHD meds being 're-parented' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5837359-newsom-demands-kennedy-answers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p5#a260418p5

#Friday afternoon - make it look like Im #working
1. movie about some kids and buffalo and at the end one of them gets tragically shot: `Bless The Beasts & Children`
2. had Bruce Glover. hrmm, I wonder
3. yes, that's Crispin Glover's father. He was Mr. Wintt in Diamonds Are Forever. Bruce…

The discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922

A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex
where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food,
with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals.
Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day.
South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of #Dilley a few dozen miles from …

“I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico, detains an estimated 3,500 people, more than half of them children. “I have never …

Remembering when I got booked to do a tedx talk about algorave and went on and on about maypole dancing

Study finds dangerous lead levels in children’s clothing #children

Study finds dangerous lead levels in children’s clothing
Fast fashion might come with a hidden danger: lead. Researchers testing children’s shirts from multiple retailers found every sample exceeded U.S. safety limits, raising concerns about toxic exposure—especially since young kids often chew on clothing. Brightly colored fabrics like red and yellow showed particularly high levels, likely due to chemicals used to fix dyes. Simulations suggest that even brief mouthing could expose children to unsafe amounts of lead, a substance known to harm bra…

Wow does the AI-BAD crowd who moans like children about these really great AGENTS.md files and how bros aren’t writing docs for humans but for AI instead get butt hurt when you point out those are written by AI and not humans.

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-facebook-tr…

Closing arguments begin in landmark social media trial set in Los Angeles
After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury will listen to closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide whether social media companies should be liable for harms caused to children using their platforms. Closing statements in the trial will begin Thursday at the Spring Street Courthouse in Los Angeles. Lawyers representing the plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman, and those representing …

With all the Government talk around the western world about Internet "safety", and using the tired old lines about "protecting the children" when in reality they just want to lockdown the Internet like they've wanted to from the start. Just remember these words.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Today…
“The speaker of the House was tweeting about transgender athletes. The Republican senator who leads oversight of the Pentagon was promoting Trump-branded investment accounts for children. The chairman of the main foreign affairs panel in the House was posting photos of newborn bald eagles.”
…

As Trump Swings on Iran War, Republicans Leaders in Congress Are Largely Silent
In a week in which President Trump has veered from threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization to declaring a cease-fire, Congress is out of session and lawmakers with the power to declare war are mostly in the dark.

I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

Putin wages war on CHILDREN & RESCUERS! Russia launches cynical double strike on Ukrainian cities: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/putin-wages-war-on-children.html

OH, 10-yr-old boy at a birthday party: “Why do people have to be complete man-children about stuff all the time?”

US strike likely hit Shajareh Tayyiba school in Minab, Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/politics/us-iran-school-strike-civilians

US strike likely hit a school in Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say
The US military accidentally struck an Iranian elementary school, in an attack that state media said killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, likely due to outdated information about a nearby naval base, according to two sources briefed on the preliminary findings of an ongoing military investigation.

New information published Friday by the New York Times further suggests that
the U.S.military may have lied when it tried to pin the blame for a February airstrike that killed 21 people in Iran on the Iranian government,
with evidence indicating that the U.S. carried out the attack with a new missile designed to inflict maximum casualties

New Evidence Bolsters Claim That US Lied About Another Iran Airstrike Massacre | Common Dreams
Munitions experts and The New York Times say a US missile designed to inflict maximum casualties was used in a February bombing that killed 21 people, including at least five children.

Horrendous.Russia’s war machine on the brink of collapse. Only Trump’s sanctions relief is keeping the money and drones flowing at this point. Women and children stolen from Africa being used to manufacture.
“The Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan region is the primary production site for the Geran family. The factory operates around the clock and has sought thousands of workers, primarily young women and girls — some as young as 15 — recruited from Africa. About 200 African women, mostly between 18 and 22 years old, are employed at the facility, with documented reports of workers describing the conditions as a trap, with costs for accommodation, airfare, and Russian-language classes deducted from their wages. In July 2025, multiple reports — including a documentary by the Russian defense ministry’s own Zvezda channel — indicated that Russia was using children and teenagers to assemble the Shahed drones used to attack Ukraine.”
#russiaUkraineWar #russia #usa #TheAmericanFascist

If I could change one thing about #Scotland it wouldn't be the weather (what would this place be like if it were warm?!) or independence (we'll get there, I'm sure). It's the religion. From the very first weeks I was here, I, and later my children and students, have confronted horrible prejudice at every turn. Colleagues have threatened to resign rather than "working with a Buddhi…

Based on anecdotal evidence it appears that resurrection of The Draft is a serious issue in retirement homes.
Older people (who have experienced eras in which the draft was active) seem to be becoming quite fearful that their grand and great-grand children will be swept into trump/hegseth wars.
But there is no sign that the D party recognizes the draft as an issue at all, much less how it could quite persuasive among older people (a demographic that tends to vote.)

Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies
Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about 23% of young Americans qualify.

the deontological shopping mall known as Lloyd Center in Portland Oregon

🤬 National poll: Less than half of parents say swearing is never OK for kids
#swearing

National poll: Less than half of parents say swearing is never OK for kids
Today's parents may be growing more relaxed about their children using curse words, according to a national poll.

This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote
based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside.
-- More than three dozen did.
One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia.
Her letter was written on…

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN INJURED! 💔 Russia began February with bloody terror in Zaporizhzhia!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/children-and-pregnant-women-injured.html

Fascist paramilitary invaders gassed thousands including children during the Labor Against I.C.E. Rally and March (Portland, OR - 1/31/26)
This was a mid-afternoon march with the Unions. It was peaceful and respectful until ICE got insecure and decided to be dicks about it. No warnings either.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1…

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement arm
is requesting unfettered access to what is considered to be the most comprehensive government database of people in the United States
and their most private information,
including sensitive details about individual children, according to six current and former federal officials.
It is called the "Federal Parent Locator Service", and it’s meant for finding people who owe child support.
Granting acc…

DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.

💔129-drone attack: Ukraine readies laser air defense; Russia killed a father and three children!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/drone-attack-ukraine-readies-laser.html

Ukraine war latest: Russian attack kills 11 in Kharkiv, including 2 children: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/ukraine-war-latest-russian-attack.html

"Climate change is forcing rice growers to abandon farming, says Mars"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Farming #Agriculture

Climate change is forcing rice growers to abandon farming, says Mars
New research has revealed that the majority of rice farmers in India and Pakistan do not want their children to enter the profession because of extreme weather reducing global yields every year, raising concerns about future supply.

The speaker of the House was tweeting about transgender athletes.
The Republican senator who leads oversight of the Pentagon was promoting Trump-branded investment accounts for children.
The chairman of the main foreign affairs panel in the House was posting photos of newborn bald eagles.
As Donald Trump swung this week from threatening to annihilate Iran to announcing a cease-fire whose terms and durability remain murky,
Congress
— the branch of government vest…

As Trump Swings on Iran War, Republicans Leaders in Congress Are Largely Silent
In a week in which President Trump has veered from threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization to declaring a cease-fire, Congress is out of session and lawmakers with the power to declare war are mostly in the dark.

What about all those kids who enjoy #Gladiators. It might finish after their bedtime now.
Won't somebody think of the children!

Russian drone strike on Zaporizhzhia kills 2, injures at least 8, including children: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/russian-drone-strike-on-zaporizhzhia.html

Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool,
is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn’t been eating well.
Javier Hidalgo, legal director at RAICES, has worked with families at the detention center for years.
“We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it,
half-frozen food being given,
gua…

“Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX
Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool, is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn’t been eating well. Javier Hidalgo, legal director at RAICES, has worked with families at the detention center for years. “We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it, half-frozen food being given, guards yelling at parents if their kid…

Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 4, injure 21, including children, over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/russian-attacks-against-ukraine-kill.html