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Israel has killed on average a child every hour for past 23 months.
– Save The Children
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/8/headlines/save_the_children_israel_has_killed_on_average_a_child_every_hour…

Save the Children: Israel Has Killed on Average a Child Every Hour for Past 23 Months
Save the Children reports that Israel has killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children over the past 23 months — this means at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces. The group said, “If the international community does not step up, an entire generation of children in Gaza will be lost.” Meanwhile, another six Palestinians have died from “famine and malnutrition,” bringing the total to almost 400, including 140 children, who have starved to…

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished,
far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition,
a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed.
The study, published on Wednesday, and led by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa),
offers a month-by-month breakdown through much of the two-year conflict,
and shows for the first ti…

Worth reading. #ai https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsaltzman/p/whos-flirting-with-your-children?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=e…

Who’s Flirting With Your Children?
An Empty Machine With No Mind, No Empathy, No Care

How Children Are Influenced by Their Neighborhoods https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_children_are_influenced_by_their_neighborhoods?utm_s…

How Children Are Influenced by Their Neighborhoods
A new study looks outside the home to see how children's surroundings impact their cognitive and emotional development.

Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellog\'in, Dominik Kowald, Maria Soledad Pera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06596

Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Children are often exposed to items curated by recommendation algorithms. Yet, research seldom considers children as a user group, and when it does, it is anchored on datasets where children are underrepresented, risking overlooking their interests, favoring those of the majority, i.e., mainstream users. Recently, Ungruh et al. demonstrated that children's consumption patterns and preferences differ from those of mainstream users, resulting in inconsistent recommendation algorithm performance a…

Poll: Gen Z's gender divide reaches beyond politics and into its views on marriage, children and success (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-gen-zs-gender-divide-reaches-politics-views-marriage-children-suc-rcna229255
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p42#a250908p42

New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15171489/two-men-arrested-hackers-stole-pictures-addresses-8000-children-nursery.html
Two men are arrested after hackers stole pictures, names and addresses of …

Two men are arrested after hackers stole pictures, names and addresses of 8,000 children from nursery chain database
Met Police officers confirmed they had taken a 17-year-old and 22-year-old into custody where they remain for questioning.

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-serves-potentially-contaminated-shark-meat-to-children-in-public-schools/…

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools
Brazil has ordered at least 5,600 metric tons of potentially contaminated shark meat to serve in schools and other public institutions since 2004, a Mongabay investigation has revealed. Shark meat tends to have higher concentrations of toxic heavy metals, as top predators accumulate contaminants like mercury from lower down in the food chain. The contaminants […]

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning. "
https://southsideweekly.com/federal-ag…

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children's Stories
Donya Rooein, Vil\'em Zouhar, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07908 https://

Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children's Stories
Stories play a pivotal role in human communication, shaping beliefs and morals, particularly in children. As parents increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to craft bedtime stories, the presence of cultural and gender stereotypes in these narratives raises significant concerns. To address this issue, we present Biased Tales, a comprehensive dataset designed to analyze how biases influence protagonists' attributes and story elements in LLM-generated stories. Our analysis uncovers stri…

I hold deep contempt for the adult, powerful, wealthy politicians who saw the opportunity to single out four children in the entire state of #Utah and keep them from enjoying their sport.
This is a story that radicalized me, and whenever I'm reminded by the bullies gloating over the pain of literal children, I'm going to share it again.

UNICEF: Two years of hellish war have devastated Gaza’s children.
“For more than 700 days, children in Gaza have been killed, maimed, and displaced in a devastating war that is an affront to our shared humanity. Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. The world cannot, and must not, allow this to go on.

Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold | AP News #hunger

Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. But in Myanmar, families tell The Associated Press their loved ones have died as a direct result of the aid cuts. In one case, the father of a 2-year-old boy says his son died in May of malnutrition after the family's food rations stopped arriving as a result of the aid cuts. In more than 60 interviews, the AP documented widespread suffering across M…

'This is child trafficking' — Russia launches 'catalog' of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-launches-catalogue-of-ukrainian-children-for-adoption-sorted-by-eye-and-hair-color/

Sources: Rupert Murdoch forced the $3.3B succession deal through sheer will, placing enormous pressure on his adult children during negotiations over months (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cca18dc3-92a6-420e-a5ce-534c0b6a48fa

When women on the train are talking about their children staying up late, then themselves having to get up, turn the lights off and lock the doors behind them, and you're realize you're in the same situation… except, in your case it's the parents staying up late.

It's been ages since I posted any donkey content. So here's a still from a short film from the early 60s about Philippe, a 5 year-old boy imagining what it would be like to live the story his mother reads to him. The film is held by the Archives de Montréal.
"Philippe au Jardin des merveilles" (1963?)
https://youtu.be/8GNhvU…

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

Justice for Survivors – Help Us Break the Silence
For decades, the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult, led by Robert Spatz, harmed children and families across Europe under the guise of Tibetan Buddhism. Survivors have fought for years to bring the truth to light.

One place where you CAN donate to support people in Gaza:
https://chuffed.org/project/allchildrenareourchildren

@… @… it’s the next sentence that intrigues me now.
If we don’t need to remove the content, just not use an algorithm to show it to children in a “feed”, then the content still exists, is still indexable etc.
Non…

"But AI tools will be just like calculators..."

Ukraine brings back 22 children from Russian-occupied territories: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/ukraine-brings-back-children-from.html

🧲 Coffee fortified with iron—new microparticles can be added to food and beverages to fight malnutrition
... who'd a thought metal organic frameworks could be edible?
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-coffee-fortified-iron-microparticles-added.html

Coffee fortified with iron—new microparticles can be added to food and beverages to fight malnutrition
Around the world, about 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead to anemia, impaired brain development in children, and increased infant mortality.

‘Horrific’ report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities
The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody,
physical and sexual abuse of detainees,
mistreatment of pregnant women and children,
inadequate medical care,
overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions,
inadequate food and water,
exposure to extreme temperatures,
denial of access to attorneys,
and child separation.
The report, compiled by t…

Day 17 (oops; a bit early): Angie Thomas
Can hardly believe it's taken me this long to get to Thomas, and I haven't even read "The Hate You Give" which is probably her most popular book. I did read "Concrete Rose" and was duly blown away by her craft: the use of vernacular, the love she has for the community she writes about, the honesty with which she grapples with the bleak details of the setting, and her stubborn and inescapable portrayal of a human being where our society has taught us to see only perpetrators and victims. CW for family member death and gun violence that I can think of; it's not light reading.
As the parent of two children, Thomas' descriptions of baby care ring true, and drew me into the book more than any other factor, and her vision of a positive masculinity among so much pain is breathtaking. "Concrete Rose" is a brilliant novel, and Thomas richly deserves a spot on this list.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Announcing Prairie Voice: Where Yesterday’s Wisdom Meets Tomorrow’s Questions
Prairie Voice launches today, not because the world needs another website, but because the present has become incomprehensible without the past. We live in an age of unprecedented change, facing questions that feel entirely new: How do we maintain human connection through screens? What does work mean when we produce nothing tangible? How do we raise children when childhood itself has been…

Announcing Prairie Voice: Where Yesterday’s Wisdom Meets Tomorrow’s Questions | David Boles, Blogs
Prairie Voice launches today, not because the world needs another website, but because the present has become incomprehensible without the past. We live in an age of unprecedented change, facing qu…

The #Chicago Tribune Tower 100 year anniversary. Excerpt from Sunday's Tribune story.

Josh Allen's unique Bills hats to benefit Buffalo children's hospital this season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6613161/2025/09/09/josh-allens-tunnel-hats-charity/

“They (the government) are fanatic. They are doing things against the interests of the country,” said Rami Dar, 69-year-old retiree, who travelled from a nearby suburb outside Tel Aviv, echoing calls for Trump to force a deal for the hostages.
“Frankly, I’m not an expert or anything, but I feel that after two years of fighting there has been no success,” said Yana, 45, who attended the rally with her husband and two children. “I wonder whether additional lives for both sides, not just …

If the US government *actually* cared about children they'd refer to abuse suspects as "paedo-terrorists" and livestream their extra-judicial executions.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children (South Side Weekly)
https://southsideweekly.com/federal-agents-storm-south-shore-building-detaining-families-and-children/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p130#a251007p130

You Keep Using That Word
I'm being pedantic this week over a touchy subject.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/you-keep-using-that-word/

You Keep Using That Word – Bob Mueller
Words matter. How do you refer to explicit images of children?

A look at China's AI toy boom, which builds on decades of consumer electronics designed for children, as AI toy companies expand into the US and other markets (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/07/1125191/ai-toys-in-china/…

AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too
Competition is heating up, with Mattel and OpenAI expected to launch a product for kids this year.

Mind Bubbles: Exploring Children's Big Feelings In A Fun Way
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mind-bubbles-exploring-childrens-big-feelings-in-a-fun-way/

War on Want:
"WHO says Israel is causing 'man-made mass starvation'. At least 66,000 children are now suffering from severe malnutrition – and more than 100 people, including dozens of children, have already died from hunger.
"And yet, while Israel continues to commit genocide, the UK government is still arming Israel, maintaining close military and trade ties, and turning a blind eye to Israel’s war crimes."

Join War on Want as a member.
Together, we won’t stop while fighting human rights abuses across the globe. Join us.

Just like the United States basically outlasted the USSR, the CCP must just be dying laughing as we dismantle ourselves.
It's not enough that we have existential challenges to face in the future, let's also bring back problems from the past.
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115151

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Gaze-Performance Link in Children with ASD through Dual-Level Visual Guidance in MR-DMT
Weiying Liu, Yanran Yuan, Zhiqiang Sheng, Dandan Lian, Sheng Li, Yufan Zhang, Yulong Bian, Juan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03724

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Gaze-Performance Link in Children with ASD through Dual-Level Visual Guidance in MR-DMT
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is marked by action imitation deficits stemming from visuomotor integration impairments, posing challenges to imitation-based learning, such as dance movement therapy in mixed reality (MR-DMT). Previous gaze-guiding interventions in ASD have mainly focused on optimizing gaze in isolation, neglecting the crucial "gaze-performance link". This study investigates enhancing this link in MR-DMT for children with ASD. Initially, we experimentally confirmed the weak link:…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip: Ten children were killed in an IDF attack while waiting to receive nutritional supplements in Deir al-Balah.
According to sources at a hospital in the area, 16 people were killed in total in the attack, and some of the bodies arrived in a battered state and difficult to identify.

“An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said … four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship”: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025…

Israeli drone strike kills 5, including 3 children, in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship. Two others were wounded, including the mother in the family. Officials at the U.S. […]

Hacked Crimean servers reveal information about abducted children, Ukraine says https://therecord.media/hacked-crimean-servers-abducted-children

Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 Save the Children
#MarvinGaye
https://remioz.bandcamp.com/track/marvin-gaye-save-the-children-remi-oz-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1RpoUhwpD8ZtpJhq41EU9k

de Adder. 🎯

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

Justice for Survivors – Help Us Break the Silence
For decades, the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult, led by Robert Spatz, harmed children and families across Europe under the guise of Tibetan Buddhism. Survivors have fought for years to bring the truth to light.

alright im going through my old files again and rediscovered a shitty unfinished sci-fi epic poem thing i was writing sometime when i was 14/15/idfk. all i remember about it is that it was gonna keep doing this countdown and changing structure accordingly for a really long time, i was thinking of depicting the character finding love in an ethereal sorta way for the ending, and it was gonna incorporate a enochian number square for some reason.

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
CALLY: So what's Orac's dispassionate assessment? A trap?
AVON: We haven't got that far.
ZEN: Distress signal from Auron.
CALLY: Details.
ZEN: Signal faint and intermittent.
CALLY: Come on, come on.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/249

Next week, on the 14th of October, the EU will attempt to push through a new law called "Chat Control." They claim this law is necessary to protect children from harmful individuals—and let’s be clear, protecting children is crucial. But here’s what’s really happening: the EU wants to scan every phone, tablet, and computer. This includes your photos, files, and every message you’ve sent or will send. 448 million people will be under 24/7 surveillance.
You might say, "I ha…

Tactile Comfort: Lowering Heart Rate Through Interactions
Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper St{\o}y, Maja Matari\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04372 https://

Tactile Comfort: Lowering Heart Rate Through Interactions
Children diagnosed with anxiety disorders are taught a range of strategies to navigate situations of heightened anxiety. Techniques such as deep breathing and repetition of mantras are commonly employed, as they are known to be calming and reduce elevated heart rates. Although these strategies are often effective, their successful application relies on prior training of the children for successful use when faced with challenging situations. This paper investigates a pocket-sized companion robot…

"Let me say this clearly: nobody in this country is safe."
"Federal agents detained American citizens without individualized probable cause this week. They handcuffed children. They sorted people by race. They treated an American city like occupied territory."
"This happened. In Chicago. In America. This week."

The Sufferable Evil
Chicago and the End of American Liberty.

Women in Physics in the United Kingdom: A Review of Recent Policy and Initiatives
Sally Jordan, Sarah Bakewell, Holly Jane Campbell, Josie Coltman, Wendy Sadler, Chethana Setty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06825

Women in Physics in the United Kingdom: A Review of Recent Policy and Initiatives
Across the United Kingdom, initiatives designed to increase the participation and outcomes for women in physics continue, working with children of various ages as well as with adults. Improvements have been achieved by a combination of these initiatives and an accompanying strengthening of policy, but significant gender imbalances remain.

im tired, boss

Zach Bryan, one of the biggest stars in US country music, has been criticised by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over a new song in which he sings about immigration raids by Ice.
The DHS’s assistant secretary of public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, told Bryan to “stick to Pink Skies, dude,” referring to one of his previous hits, in comments reported by the Independent.
The DHS also made a provocative post on X, laying another Bryan song, Revival, over footage of Ice office…

"At around 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, armed federal agents rappelled from helicopters onto the roof of a five-storey residential apartment in the South Shore of Chicago. The agents worked their way through the building, kicking down doors and throwing flash bang grenades, rounding up adults and screaming children alike, detaining them in zip-ties and arresting dozens, according to witnesses and local reporting."

‘Military-Style’ ICE Raid On Chicago Apartment Building Shows Escalation in Trump’s Crackdown  
Chicago ICE raid saw children taken from their homes unclothed and separated from their parents, according to witnesses.

Justice for Survivors – Help Us Break the Silence
For decades, the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) network, led by Robert Spatz, harmed children and families across Europe under the guise of Tibetan Buddhism. Survivors have fought for years to bring the truth to light.

Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-abducted-children-putin-russia-b2820836.html

'Horrific': report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/physical-sexual-abuse-pregnant-women-children-immigration-centers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p2#a250807p2

Wait... In Florida-speak, wouldn't that mean vaccines were a GOOD thing? 😏
Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate
…

📉 More Michigan children are losing parents to overdose, suicide, homicide
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-michigan-children-parents-overdose-suicide.html

More Michigan children are losing parents to overdose, suicide, homicide
The number of Michigan children whose parents died from overdose, suicide, homicide or other substance-related causes has surged since 2000, accounting for 2 in 5 parental deaths, a new University of Michigan study found.

Legal teams in Chicago are mobilizing to educate children on their rights and document any coercion.
But make no mistake
—this is cruelty by design.
https://immigrantjustice.org/press-release/operation-freaky-friday-what-you-need-to-know/

Operation “Freaky Friday”: What You Need To Know - National Immigrant Justice Center
Operation “Freaky Friday” appears to affect a limited group of children who arrived in the United States as "unaccompanied children.” It does NOT appear to target all immigrant children more broadly.

'Carried off for the crime of saying "don't kill children".'
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/9/7/uk-protesters-are-not-backing-down-over-palestine#flips-6378709756112:0

UK protesters are not backing down over Palestine
UK Police arrested nearly 900 protesters during another rally against the UK’s ban on activist group Palestine action.

Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/02/disney-ftc-settlement-lawsuit-youtube-video-child…

Exclusive: Disney will pay $10M to settle children's privacy lawsuit with FTC
Disney conceded it made an administrative error in how it characterized videos it uploaded to YouTube.

The account at https://troet.cafe/@m7moodfamily (@m7moodfamily@troet.cafe) is a scam. It’s got hundreds of posts even though it joined yesterday and it links to gaza-verified.org even though we have not verified it.
I’m also seeing copies of the account on troet.cafe and elsewhere. Be careful with any a…

Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉 (@m7moodfamily@troet.cafe)
152 Beiträge, 0 Folge ich, 0 Follower · I’m Mahmoud from Gaza, a father of three children. We are going through very hard times, and your support means so much to us. Even the smallest donation can make a big difference. Please consider helping through the link. https://tinyurl.com/MhmoudFamily

Roblox to verify ages of all gamers who use chat and text features https://therecord.media/roblox-age-verification-text-chat-users-adults-children

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jamie xx feat. The Avalanches:
🎵 All You Children
#Jamiexx #TheAvalanches
https://jamiexx.bandcamp.com/track/all-you-children
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zYuc5YFYlFfSSq6IslHVY

Octo's Heartland: Supporting Children with Congenital Heart Disease through Digital Health Education
Irene Zeng, Neda Barbazi, Ji Youn Shin, Gurumurthy Hiremath, Carlye Anne Lauff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02537

Octo's Heartland: Supporting Children with Congenital Heart Disease through Digital Health Education
Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) often face challenges that require them to understand complex medical information from an early age in order to support lifelong care and improve health outcomes. However, prior research has rarely included young children in designing and evaluating digital tools to support health education using developmentally appropriate strategies. This study is part of a multi-phase research involving participatory design (PD), user testing, and iterative develo…

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs.
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
She calls it “the final mission.”
But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down.
Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education,
she’s operated in what she calls
“a parallel universe”
to radically shift how children will learn for years to come.…

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Over 23,000 civilians, 113 children trapped in active combat zones in Donetsk Oblast, official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/over-civilians-children-trapped-in.html

Banning high-caffeine drinks for under-16s would be devastating to Prime, I imagine, since I can't imagine they sell much to people beyond that age.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/banning-the-sale-of-high-caffeine-energ…

Banning the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children
The government is seeking views on the proposed ban on the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children under the age of 16 years in England.

🤙 Sage iPhone for children review: ‘Would it make me want to divorce my parents?’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/sage-iphone-for-children-review-teenagers-internet-safe-smartphone

BBC Director of Children & Education Patricia Hidalgo says YouTube predominantly directs UK children to US content, weakening their ties to British culture (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Dancing with a Robot: An Experimental Study of Child-Robot Interaction in a Performative Art Setting
Victor Ngo, Rachel, Ramchurn, Roma Patel, Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukyilmaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05208

Dancing with a Robot: An Experimental Study of Child-Robot Interaction in a Performative Art Setting
This paper presents an evaluation of 18 children's in-the-wild experiences with the autonomous robot arm performer NED (Never-Ending Dancer) within the Thingamabobas installation, showcased across the UK. We detail NED's design, including costume, behaviour, and human interactions, all integral to the installation. Our observational analysis revealed three key challenges in child-robot interactions: 1) Initiating and maintaining engagement, 2) Lack of robot expressivity and reciprocity, and 3) …

Trump administration offering some unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 to self-deport, according to memo (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-offering-unaccompanied-migrant-children-2500-self-rcna235574
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p51#a251004p51

“We don’t take lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians and children standing in food lines.”
– Athens Mayor Haris Doukas
https://qudsnen.co/israeli-embassy-staff-evacuated-from-greece-as-protests-intensify-over-gaza-ge…

Israeli Embassy Staff Evacuated from Greece as Protests Intensify over Gaza Genocide
Athens (Quds News Network)- Israeli embassy staff in Greece have been evacuated from their homes in Athens. The decision follows protests and rising anger over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A senior Isra

A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer to adult detention centers that advocates said were planned for this weekend.
Under federal law, unaccompanied minors are housed in facilities overseen by the office of refugee resettlement,
which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services, not Ice.
On Saturday, US district judge Rud…

💸 Wealthy parents rush to give children their assets as tougher UK inheritance tax rules loom
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/13/wealthy-parents-rush-to-give-children-their-assets-as-tougher-…

Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary' (Asawin Suebsaeng/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/childrens-hosptial-chaplain-isolation-ice-deport-1235403224/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p128#a250807p128

Guatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the United States, the country’s president has said,
a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children.
Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday.
They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
On Monday, Guatemala’s president, Bernardo Arévalo, told j…

Lawsuit: ICE Agents Deported Citizen Children in Secret, Including 4-Year-Old on Chemo (Nicolae Viorel Butler/Migrant Insider)
https://migrantinsider.com/p/lawsuit-ice-agents-deported-citizen
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p137#a250807p137

Judge blocks deportation of Guatemalan children in 4 AM order - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/08/31/judge-blocks-deportation-of-guatemalan-children-in-4-am-order/

Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chatbot-children-ftc-safety-guidelines-202…

Leaked Meta guidelines show how it trains AI chatbots to respond to child sexual exploitation prompts
A leaked Meta document shows how its AI chatbot is trained to handle child sexual exploitation prompts as it faces FTC scrutiny.

Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said she learned from plaintiffs that
the administration was putting hundreds of unaccompanied minors onto flights on Sunday morning
-- despite an order she issued earlier in the day barring officials for 14 days from deporting 10 children named in a lawsuit.…

Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that the Trump administration was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday.

BREAKING: ICE Hunts Children in Twisted 'Freaky Friday' Operation (Pablo Manríquez/Migrant Insider)
https://migrantinsider.com/p/breaking-ice-hunts-children-in-twisted
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p91#a251003p91

UK-based Kido nursery chain was hacked by a ransomware gang called Radiant, which posted profiles of 10 children online and threatens to release more data (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/26/kido…

New York Times: Israel isn’t starving healthy children to death. Just the ones with preexisting conditions. – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/new-york-times-israel-isnt-starving-healthy-children-to-death-just-the-ones-with-preexisting-conditions/

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
-- Daniel Knowles
https://

Daniel Knowles (@dlknowles.bsky.social)
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Evidence is growing that
some HIV-infected infants,
if given antiretroviral drugs early in life,
are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels
and then come off the medicine.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-wide

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. (Hadeel Matar/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/israel-gaza-war-children-death-toll/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p63#a250731p63

Every year, hundreds of children in the United States gain access to loaded guns that are unsecured in closets and nightstand drawers, in backpacks and purses, or just left out in the open.
With tragic regularity, children pick up these unsecured guns and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
Everyone has a role to play in preventing these tragedies.
Although unintentional shootings by children are a heartbreaking part of America’s gun violence epidemic,
no…

We must make sure no more children are added to this list
Every year, hundreds of children in the US gain access to firearms and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. This is #NotAnAccident.

Judge blocks abrupt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/31/judge-blocks-deportation-guatemalan-children-00538395
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p63#a250831p63

Court hearing set Sunday on US efforts to deport some Guatemalan children (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/court-hearing-set-sunday-judge-blocks-guatemalan-children-deportation-rcna228290
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p93#a250831p93

Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/31/ice-deportation-unaccompanied-children-guatemala/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p98#a250831p98

The administration has identified more than 600 children from Guatemala
in the custody of the Health and Human Services Department,
which is charged with their care until they can be released
-- to potentially deport
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/mi

Exclusive: Trump administration plans to send hundreds of Guatemalan children in government custody back to home country
The Trump administration is moving to repatriate hundreds of Guatemalan children in government custody who arrived in the United States alone.

The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at over a dozen colleges,
accusing the schools of conflicting with the Trump administration’s polices by teaching young children about gender and race or prioritizing diversity in hiring.

Grants from the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program are a critical source of money for public colleges that educate large populations of students with limited financial means.
The $80 million …

Trump administration cuts grants for child care on college campuses
The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at over a dozen colleges, objecting to child care providers teaching young children about gender and race.