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More parents refusing vitamin K shots for newborns, study finds
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/parents-refusing-vitamin-k-shots-newborns-study-finds-rcna247580

Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kid…

The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail https://www.404media.co/the-screen-time-panic-sets-parents-up-to-fail/

Apparently ICE abducted parents and just left their young kids just sitting there alone, unassisted and unattended — in not one but •two• separate incidents in the Twin Cities in the last few days.
In one case, they left school-age kids alone in the house after a pre-dawn raid. In another, they snatched a father driving his kids home and just left the kids there in the car.
In both cases, the kids are OK — but only because strangers came along to help.

I guess one type of topic that resonates with me is the dynamic between parents and children. Which is an incredibly common, relatable, prevalent, popular theme. Especially since Shane #HeatedRivalry is an only child, who, it’s arguable, is highly protected by his parents.
1/2

Yesterday, after a mild query by some parents, my daughter’s primary school sent out a notice to say they were going to stop using their X account for comms.
It’s as simple as that. There are plenty of alternatives.
But even if there weren’t you can’t contribute to that.
And it can be as simple as
asking to prompt a change.

Student loan debt tops $1.6 trillion
The average tuition has doubled in the past 30 years.
At the same time, new federal caps on how much parents can borrow for college placing higher education further out of reach for some families.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of schools are making college more affordable
by providing free tuition to undergraduate students from low- and middle-income families.
The movement dates back 20 years but has gained momen…

Man accused of killing parents to fund Trump assassination plot pleads guilty (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5679010-wisconsin-man-guilty-plea-homicide-trump-plot/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p128#a260108p128

Famous parents defending their children when they are labelled as "nepo babies" aren't really doing them any favours.
#NepoBabies
#Nepotism

As Australia enacts the world's first under-16 social media ban on December 10, a look at the implications, reaction from parents and teens, and more (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e93ab2b2-868f-441f-bbec-0af4fa3edeb5

Mais en fait, qu'est-ce que la OKC, alias Ogyen Kunzang Choling ? Comment des adeptes-parents endoctrinés ont été manipulés pour abandonner leurs enfants Š 2000 km dans le sud de la France, où des sévices et des abus sans nom leur ont été infligés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/la-okc-pour-

https://theonion.com/local-teen-walks-in-on-family-masturbating-1819575823/

RE: #America! 😔

RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-m0lUre2_R8C0pAztDyEEDA:a:3807498986-/0
"MTA Chair Janno Lieber said it's important for kids to stay really close to their parents …

im letting you know right now you will be seeing jerseys in my wedding photos. if you don't wanna marry me in a football kit you are not marriage material

Former NFL player Greg Olsen answers questions on youth sports: Should parents watch practices? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6858406/2025/12/04/greg-olsen-nfl-youth-sports-parents-questions/

As Australia prepares to enact the world's first under-16 social media ban on December 10, a look at the implications, reaction from parents and teens, and more (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e93ab2b2-868f-441f-bbec-0af4fa3edeb5

People are constantly saying everyone has a podcast. But only two of the parents from Kid1's sportsball team do. That's like only one out of twelve. Shows what people know.

Increasingly the victims of the administration's campaign of terror are people just trying to survive when their daily life is upended by the presence of masked federal agents.
Those agents are ambushing immigrants after court appearances,
crashing into drivers while trying to escape protestors,
or abducting children if they seemingly impede the arrest of their own parents by dint of simply existing;
The people in the cities in which this is happening are just t…

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

Dutch Meteorological Institute @… issues an orange warning for 3-5 cm of snow tomorrow (locally 5-7!).
I'm afraid my parents would be ROFL ;)

I was on vacation the last two and a half weeks and I did NOT do any work, not even a little bit, for 14 days. Not finishing a paper, not grading, no grant applications, no reviews. This is what it was like and it was glorious. Special thanks to my parents-in-law for the all-inclusive pampering #academicChatter #break

"He said chain migration is a “dirtier” way of characterizing what he called “a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregio

i agree that this is depressing, but i don't think AI is the _cause_. this problem started when we collectively decided to gatekeep social and physical mobility with higher education
i went to university ~15 years ago. a naive idiot, i thought that i'm there to learn. eventually one of my parents casually admitted that university is for getting connections--i think the parent who was doing a PhD at the time, too

@… If you’ll permit me to regale you of a tale:
At Thanksgiving 10 years ago, I first met my wife’s parents. They’d traveled to Las Vegas where she lived at the time, so we’d gone out to a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner.
Now, this was no low end joint. It was one of those places where there’s a gentleman in the bathroom whose job it is to d…

@… Editor with properly set language server is key here, then jumping between "nodes" (or however editor will name it), go outside, inside, to siblings, parents etc.

In python, it's useful, but not necessary, here is starting to be necessary to don't get lost...

At least with fmt you don't need to care about those…

Hands down parents is the only reason why I hesitate to coach my daughter's softball teams:
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47765578/survey-managing-parents-top-reasons-youth-coaches-quit
It just kills the…

“[Florida's education commissioner] encouraged families to have conversations with students about the ‘importance of not allowing civic engagement to detract from time in the classroom.’”
AKA asking parents in a so called “parental rights” state to help suppress their children’s 1A rights to freedom of speech and assembly
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/02/03/florida-education-commissioner-gives-guidance-on-student-ice-protests/88495396007/

It’s clear that some people have not been parents. @… https://mastodon.social/@emaytch/116013867611808407

Hackers attempt to extort parents after school refuses to pay ransom fee https://therecord.media/hackers-attempt-to-extort-parents-after-school-refuses-ransom-demand

So horrible to allow measles to break out at a facility with parents and children.
#ice

Château de Soleil
Dans les années 70, Robert Spatz achète le « Château de Soleil » dans le sud de la France.
Les parents-adeptes rénovent.
Puis, dans les années 80, les enfants sont laissés seuls.
Ils font tourner le monastère : cuisine, potager, bois, boulangerie…

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snapchat-gives-parents-n…

How ICE enforcement stress affects kids -- and what parents can do (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/30/ice-trump-children-mental-health-parents-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p125#a260130p125

Propaganda in Russia is passed down from parents to children #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/30/propaganda-in-russia-is-passed.html

When youngsters are talking about DDR, and you're like "oh, yes, ze Demokratische Republik".
(Seriously, I find DDR as an acronym for Dance Dance Revolution weird, as my parents always used that acronym to refer to East Germany.)

"When she was young she rescued spiders": Here’s what parents wish folks knew about their trans kids - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/when-she-was-young-she-rescued-spiders-heres-what-parents-wish-folks-knew-about-their-trans-kids/

Clinician's Guide To The First 2000 Days
From preconception to when a child starts school presents a critical window to establish healthy behaviours in parents and children...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/clinic

Well, it is less than a year until the Nov 2026 mid terms.
And, assuming that those elections are actually held and not manipulated under martial law or some such fabricated emergency, I am not at all sure that the D-party will be even close to ready to win.
I've taken classes of 3rd graders on camping trips (to Joshua Tree and Catalina). I've seen how those 3rd graders, when out of their parents' sight, run around like Brownian Motion in small human form.
From…

When we close streets to cars and open them up to people, we can't just leave them as-is for half a decade. We need to build infrastructure to ensure that cars *can't* come back. Otherwise, it's too tempting for drivers who see a pristine stretch of unclogged road to be like, "hey I could be breaking the speed limits or storing my car there for free!", lobby their local weak-spined politicians, and reclaim the road for SUVs.

It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your parents will
not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and
because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature
human beings.
The worst kind of friend to take home is a girl, because in that case,
there is the potential that your parents will lose you not just for the
duration of the visit but forever. The worst kind of girl to take home is one
of …

RE: https://climatejustice.global/@parents4future/115819295338773286
...also known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy, the systematic destruction of streetcar-based public transportation in 45 cities in the United States under the lead…

A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/2006065989511750010

For parents, what are you doing to prepare your kids to build a better world? Partially rhetorical, partially looking for advice.

AT&T launches amiGO Jr., a mid-tier Samsung-made smartphone for kids with parental controls on contacts, app access, screen time, and more, for $2.99 per month (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

She was allowed a phone call to her parents, who contacted a lawyer.
The next day, a federal judge issued an emergency order barring her removal from the US for at least 72 hours until her case could be reviewed.
But the next morning, she was shackled at her wrists, ankles and waist and deported to her native Honduras,
a country which she left at the age of seven and of which she has virtually no memory.

Not to speak ill of the newly-deceased, but holy cow 😮

School is keeping kids till 8pm so parents can have a - early - date night. Pretty cool school.

Successfully switched an old Chromebox to running Ubuntu Server last night. This one will probably wind up at my parents' place, and I'll grab another mini PC for here, so I'll have geo-redundant, ISP-redundant backups that don't require a cloud, on hardware low-power enough that electricity use is a rounding error.

@… I dream, quite regularly, of a friend I lost touch with decades ago. In these dreams, I am often lost at his parents' home.
I awoke from one such dream an hour or so ago. Very lost. Every time this happens, I resolve to make contact. Each time, the resolution becomes a little stronger.
I know what my New Year's Resolution is.
May…

Were they perchance inspired by the Dutch government? (The shameful false accusations of childcare benefit fraud, which all but ruined numerous families, known in the Netherlands as the #toeslagenaffaire – still not fully resolved and remedied.)

There were all kinds of skaters on the ice. Little kids were learning to skate using walkers. Hockey players drilling. Parents chatting.
One ~6yo with a full hockey helmet was by •far• the fastest skater on the ice, and also one of the best in control. Amazing speed and technique.
A late teenage figure skater was doing some eye-popping spins, and drew a small crowd. She picked up some of the littlest kids one at a time and spun with them in her arms, to shrieks and giggles.
It was •so• Minneapolis. Except…
3/

UK rejects visa for Lati-Yana Brown, a girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa | Home Office | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/28/uk-home-office-rejects-visa-young-girl-destitute…

It is literally impossible to prove that Harry Potter wasn't just in his parents basement on acid the whole time

#Nebraska parents, take note. As a parent of 7 homeschooled kids, I don't see anything wrong with this bill.
https://mailchi.mp/responsiblehomescho

Support Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
(original: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSFUcy_jKU7 by zapatistasolidaritynetwork)
On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc

This is a tragic but also very touching story about life and how people deal with conventions and tradition in a way you would probably not expect:
after my dad died, we found the #love letters
https://www.je…

Hey kids! Are you bored? Here's a tip: annoy your parents! It's the hottest new trend. Your parents weren't actually doing anything important. Get all up in their personal space, ask endless questions, babble if you can't think of anything to say, fight with your sibling(s), accidentally knock over or break whatever thing your parents were trying to fix or make! It's fun! And remember, your parents are, like, REALLY old; so you need to take advantage of the time you have …

Minor kerfuffle with #evlife charging at my parents means it's going to be a two stop strategy getting home today. At least my policy of always having my #steamdeck when travelling pays off. To get to 80% charge is about one round of Vampire Survivors 😉

U.S. Department of Education Finds California Department of Education Violated Federal Law by Hiding Students' "Gender Transitions" from Parents (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-finds-california-department-of-education-violated-federal-law-hiding-students-gender-transitions-parents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p116#a260128p116

ICE is hostage taking, taking young 4 or 5 year old kids to compel parents to do things.
In russia from late 1918 thru 1922, the Bolshevik secret police waged the Red Terror, modeled on the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, and designed to repress dissent.
Their methods included confiscations, fines, executions, and hostage-taking.
Ice helps themselves to groceries, devices and more from captives, charges fines, kills people in the street and now: takes hostages.…

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

I fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…

Mais en fait, qu'est-ce que la OKC, alias Ogyen Kunzang Choling ? Comment des adeptes-parents endoctrinés ont été manipulés pour abandonner leurs enfants Š 2000 km dans le sud de la France, où des sévices et des abus sans nom leur ont été infligés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/la-okc-pour-

The Family Tree
A podcast for parents who want grounded conversations without the overwhelm, hosted by Jess and Bree...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-family-tree/

I'm preparing the third batch of cookies to bring over to my parents' house.
#Cookies #Food #EndlessCookies

La culture de la manifestation, ça s'apprend et en famille.
Souvenir d'il y a trois ans où nous protestions contre les oligarques du Charbon Mongol.

Salam 🖖@… war, no matter the reason, is evil .
I have parents, and their parents which have to live in destroyed cities, die the imperial, racist policy of Hitler, some Jews are fled into Your region, and history repeats; War & displacement

Wrt to a certain article going around today:
I think if your parents are abusive and/or say or do certain abominable things and you don’t cut them off, there’s something wrong with you.
Which would make perfect sense being raised by people that were abusive to you.
Gotta break the cycle. If you don’t do it for yourself, think about how it affects people you love like your partner or children.

Mage session:
The un-awakened teenager, whose brother had been abducted and imprisoned by their parents, has just spotted them for the first time since her brother vanished. She runs at them, yelling a battle cry on the top of her lungs.
Storyteller: »Is somebody trying to stop her?«
The Euthanatoi social worker: »Can I possess her with a spirit of vengeance?«
#rpg

The school year began with a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in South Minneapolis,
where two children died and at least 24 others were injured.
Local families barely had time to process those deaths — only five years after the killing of George Floyd rocked their city — before their daily lives were upended by the chaotic presence of federal officers harassing citizens under the guise of immigration enforcement.
A teacher named Sarah in the Twin Cities told me tha…

We've had a really cold January and it's not over yet. So, if I may, I'd like to offer a general thanks to all the parents for all the wool socks and all the long Johns.

Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests (The Colorado Sun)
https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/colorado-parents-minneapolis-protester-shot-killed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260124/p79#a260124p79

This new Icelandic film looks like a winner. I love their films - so much dry wit and such an interesting culture and language! https://thelovethatremains.film/trailer

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

YouTube now lets parents set time limits on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from 15 minutes to two hours, with an option for zero minutes coming soon (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861804/youtube-shorts-teen-time-…

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remaking of childhood vaccination policies
is fueling resistance in labor and delivery wards, where doctors say parents are increasingly hesitant to allow other routine care for new babies.
Half a dozen pediatricians in five states said they are spending more time talking to parents about standard treatments given to newborns,
including vitamin K to prevent dangerous bleeding and a topical antibiotic that protects against …

A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram (Libby Brooks/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/d

The strangest Xmas present I ever got was a full on drum kit when I was 5. Can’t imagine what my parents were thinking on that one. As I recall it didn’t last long. I am not blessed with any sense of rhythm.

No, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886

They say it's a faith thing, but I've read the book and didn't find any mention of this 'requirement' anywhere. Instead, there is that 'love thy neighbor as thyself' thing, and this ain't it:
Conservative Christians beg Supreme Court to let teachers out trans kids to their parents - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/conservative-christians-beg-supreme-court-to-let-teachers-out-trans-kids-to-their-parents/

Meerilinga - Positive Childhoods And Parenting
We equip parents with strategies and techniques on how to create positive childhoods...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/meerilinga/

Mais en fait, qu'est-ce que la OKC, alias Ogyen Kunzang Choling ? Comment des adeptes-parents endoctrinés ont été manipulés pour abandonner leurs enfants Š 2000 km dans le sud de la France, où des sévices et des abus sans nom leur ont été infligés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/la-okc-pour-

It's so funny when friends from Before Times visit and tell stories, and my kids are like, "wait... our parents did THAT? OUR PARENTS? and they threw PARTIES??"
#parenting

YouTube now lets parents set time limits on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from 15 minutes to two hours, with an option for zero minutes coming soon (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861804/youtube-shorts-teen-time-…

Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s
“care for others”
led the intensive care nurse
to protest immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota.
Federal agents shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis
-- prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.
Pretti, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.
Pretti’s parents said that politicians were telling “sickening lies”,
adding: “Please get the trut…

A: "Alright kids, just a reminder that there's school.."
13yo: "STOP REMINDING US OF THAT"
(after a week off of school, we parents are excited..)

When school counselors must decide which children get to eat,
it’s time to acknowledge we’re in a national affordability crisis.
The problem is the economy itself
— not just its current condition, but the underlying unfairness of how it is organized.
A friend's elderly parents live near an elementary school not far from the nation’s capital.
For several years, they had been quietly raising money to provide groceries and basic supplies for families whose child…

What Parents in China See in A.I. Toys - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000010595407/china-ai-toy-chatbot.html

PG-rated movies dominate the US Box Office, driven by films like A Minecraft Movie; an NRG study finds kids want a social experience with friends and family (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/wicked-

When you're a kid, you want to talk about things without your parents, teachers, principals, or (some of) your peers or siblings listening in.
You want to plan things without these people listening in, because they might try and stop you from doing them, or punish you if you succeed.
So, it's worth figuring out how to use new technologies, because the existing ones are riddled with censorship and surveillance back-doors ("parental controls") that can be deployed …

ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like "hanging" and "suicide" very often, say family's lawyers (Washington Post)

More Republican lawmakers join calls for full investigation into Alex Pretti’s killing
Some elected officials condemn Trump’s federal surge in Minnesota and say DHS agents should leave state
Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Calls mount on Trump administration to fully investigate killing
Minnesota workers pressure employers to take action against ICE operations
Vermont’s governor Phil Scott earlier issued a statement calling…

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…

Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html

"Terrible things are happening outside.
Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.
Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated.
Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
- Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

The Christian right will never turn down an opportunity to make false accusations of religious persecution.
These days, they’re especially eager to play the victim.
Doing so allows them to distract from the ugly reality that they,
in voting for Donald Trump, have helped to unleash in Minnesota:
A woman killed in front of her wife,
children ripped from their parents,
a baby nearly killedby Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents firing tear gas at a fam…

“Alex was a kindhearted soul
who cared deeply for his family and friends
and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.”
“Alex wanted to make a difference in this world.
Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.”
“I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly.
However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
🔥The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehe…

Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday
behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where
a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week
after being detained in Minnesota.
Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press
showed children and parents at the
"South Texas Family Residential Center"
clad in jackets and sweaters,
some of them holding signs that included
“Libertad para los niños,”
or “Libe…