I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again. Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed. 🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...

Nice thread on consultation re: UK social media ban for children <16. A blanket ban means children lose access to …

Restricting children’s access to social media is just a politically palatable way to avoid (badly needed!) regulation of tech companies. As this example shows, it can do active harm to privacy interests.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

Some people like to attribute things to "policy failures" rather than to simply say that the root of the problem is actually CAPITALISM.

Violences sexuelles sur les enfants : « Il n’y a pas un dossier aujourd’hui qui est traité correctement » Par À l’air libre

In Mexico City, as all eyes turn to the start of the 2026 World Cup, the mothers of the disappeared and missing are staging demonstrations to draw attention to their loved ones' cases.

Well he knows how quick it can get hot now

This is a devastating, devastating read. It is so hard to engage with. But we must.

While I have no expertise in youth trans care, several of my closest friends & colleagues provide such care—& over & over they’ve explained to me how astonishingly cruel it is to deny kids this care. Forcing a child to be someone they are not, with the attendant suffering this causes, is inhumane.

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

Violences sur les enfants : « La brigade des mineurs de Paris arrive à peine à gérer un tiers des dossiers qu’elle reçoit. (…) Evidemment que nos représentants connaissent la situation » www.liberation.fr/societe/poli...

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You know what's crazy? This guy sells almost everywhere in the US EXCEPT MINNESOTA. Minnesota's public health dept is famous in the food safety world for being #1 at tracking down the source of outbreaks- way faster than any other state. What an interesting coincidence!

Not that we need more evidence of genocidal intent to recognise what we are seeing. But deliberately shooting children? That's about as clear as it gets. #Gaza www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Climate change and health… we’re only beginning to apprehend the damage that is coming.

The beginning of wisdom in empirical social science. Science before statistics, as they say.

Devastating numbers. Necropolitics at work.

Hard to believe I’m even writing this. Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C than its annual average.

Israel has killed or injured 11 children in Lebanon every day, as it expanded strikes across the country despite a ceasefire.

Please read this thread and write a comment!!! Agencies have to read and take seriosuly these comments. The comments matter. Also, call your reps. www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Each of these flights represents so much human suffering imposed in the name of making the USA whiter and more ethnically “pure.”

Submissions wanted! 🎨 If your child/ pupil is aged 9-13, we’d love to receive their artwork submissions to help us create a short animated video about #ecocidelaw. Get involved by Sunday, 6 June: www.stopecocide.eart...#ecocidelaw. #StopEcocide #Ecocide

If only this guided policymaking... #PoliticsOfDesert #Stigma

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

There’s no such thing as parental rights. Parents have responsibilities. *Children* have rights.

Amidst hantavirus & Ebola outbreaks, the world has not paid much attention to this devastating (and totally preventable) outbreak of measles in Bangladesh Since mid-March, the country has seen more than 60,000 suspected cases and 528 suspected measles-related deaths!! www.npr.org/2026/05/24/g...

#AfricaDay calls for celebrating heroes. Here is to Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Congolese doctor who discovered the ebola virus, and later pioneered its first therapy, which was ignored for many years. He's still battling on during the current outbreak. #AfricaSky #heroes www.huffpost.com/entry/ebola-...

What the actual fuck

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Long COVID is costing children their friendships. A new analysis of the NIH RECOVER pediatric study of nearly 2,000 kids, coauthored by LCF President Megan Carmilani, found children with #LongCOVID were significantly more likely to have diminished peer interactions. Link to article below.

I’m also very proud of her sister

1. #WHO has declared the #Ebola #Bundibugyo outbreak in NE DRC a public health emergency of international concern, aka a PHEIC. Yet another sign this is likely to be a very challenging outbreak. So far there've been 8 confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases & 80 suspected deaths.

I visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge as part of a “historical” tour of the fight for Black voting rights, smdh Bless these heroes for keeping up the fight.

"The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association today called on the UK to uphold its international human rights obligations following the adoption of restrictive legislation and political calls for a blanket ban on pro-Palestinian demonstrations."

Yeah, I agree with this. I’m hoping this period of fake citations will be a blip before we figure out a solution, whether technological (like for spam email) or human (maybe @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s “bring back shame”) …

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

In March 2026, the Pasteur Institute of Iran sustained considerable damage from airstrikes, representing a severe threat to public health infrastructure. In a letter, authors urgently call for international support in its restoration. Read this & more: spkl.io/63329ACiA1

Crimes against the innocent

Not satire, factual:

This, here, is one of the most devastating statistics in global child health:

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

This is where hate speech, inevitably, leads:

“The age of French imperialism is over” *Proceeds to behave imperially*

The US’s lack of a social safety net kills is so many ways 😔

Add this to the list of reasons I am skeptical about social media bans for children and teenagers:

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Good read. The links between pain, exploitation and violence are universal, here is how they are playing out in West Africa 💊 :

#MayDay is a reminder for workers to stand together. If you’re going to a May Day event, you can download this graphic and use it as a sign.

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