How did kids' fare in last week's election? Here is my quick analysis... Kids on the Ballot: What the 2025 Elections Said About America’s Priorities for Children open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

How Trump officials have transformed the EPA to weaken enforcement - The Washington Post

1 in 4 AZ kids relies on SNAP. State's dismal childhood poverty record leading to a perfect storm www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

As governor, lawmakers mull special session agenda, child advocacy groups have some ideas • Nevada Current nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/07/a...

‘This perfect storm:’ How Idaho Medicaid cuts could affect everyone’s health care access | Local | idahostatejournal.com www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/t...

The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People’s Health Around — and Got Killed - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Baby beaten and burned to death with hot liquid by parents - US News - News - Daily Express US www.the-express.com/news/us-news...

The impact of losing SNAP benefits and a Head Start school closure on this grandmother : NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...

Study: Louisiana’s child poverty rate increase leads US thecurrentla.com/2025/study-l...

This is must watch reporting by @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social on how ICE is separating babies and toddlers from parents and treating them while in custody. This must end now!

Sen. Durbin isn’t taking Kristi Noem’s crap. Nor should he!

This billionaire is trolling hardworking educators—and making jokes about gutting supports for special needs kids.

The Trump Admin must release the SNAP contingency fund today so that 16 million kids do not start going hungry tomorrow. It’s that simple.

Money Matters: The Nation’s Retreat from Kids brucelesley.substack.com/p/money-matt... First Focus on Children released our annual report yesterday, Children's Budget 2025. The findings show a 30+% decline in the share of federal funding to children from 2021 to Trump's FY 2026 budget proposal.

I try to be empathetic and see other people’s biases and mistakes and compare them to my own. We’re all human. But I find it really hard to understand taking Mel Gibson’s medical advice over my own oncologist. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I’ve had a chance to talk with @andybeshearky.bsky.social @robsandia.bsky.social and @jamestalarico.bsky.social over the past year. Their success shows Democrats how to run as guys defending public schools. My latest Substack👇 open.substack.com/pub/joshcowe...

Here is why Texas voters concerned about child abuse & safety should OPPOSE Proposition 15 and why child advocates nationwide should be concerned about the outcome of this vote. Parental Rights or Children’s Safety? Proposition 15 Has the Makings of a Texas Tragedy open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

A society that truly values families must see and value children as individuals with their own perspectives, vulnerabilities, and rights. Seeing Children: Why the Family Frame Isn’t Enough open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Fear and Harm as Policy: How the Feds Are Traumatizing Children open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Nearly Nine Months In: How The Administration Is Failing America’s Children open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Another important article by @mikehixenbaugh.com that highlights why we desperately need an independent Children’s Commissioner to investigate and put a stop to the cover-up and failure to protect children from child sexual and physical abuse by institutions in this country.

This piece by @mikehixenbaugh.com highlights two critically important issues facing children: 1) the threat people like Robert Morris pose to public education 2) the cover-up of sexual and physical child abuse that institutions in our country repeatedly engage in This must be stopped. ✋

Leo Garcia Venegas, a US citizen and construction worker in Alabama, was wrongfully detained not once but TWICE. “I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction.” Kavanaugh stop in action👇🏽

Who Deserves to See a Doctor? Health Coverage, Immigration, and the Real Stakes of the Government Shutdown open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Children Deserve Political Commitments, Not Political Theater After Congress and the White House spent the year slashing pediatric cancer research and Medicaid, cancer survivors were given a photo-op. open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

How the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Fuels Presidential Power and a Government Shutdown brucelesley.substack.com/p/how-the-su...

When Child Death Was Everywhere - The Atlantic

Check out this thread by Texas Kids Can’t Wait. Sorry it is on Twitter/X, but it is a comprehensive takedown of the enemies of public schools and teachers. —> x.com/txkidscantwa...

A good news update: Sinclair has now agreed to restore @jimmykimmel.com @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social to the airways with its local affiliates. A step forward for #FreedomOfSpeech and, as I wrote, for children, who Kimmel has championed!

This is what unity looks like.

Harry Enten: "The more RFK Jr is trying to implement his policies, the further down his net approval rating goes. And at this particular point, 21 points underwater is not a place you want to be."

Millions of Children Left Behind: The Truth About the Latest Child Tax Credit open.substack.com/pub/bruceles... Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' fails children, and nobody should be fooled otherwise.

Agree! Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

This is how they’re gonna strip voting rights for women

So much for independence in anything. Congress needs to transition as much of that as they can to congressional control in Project 2027.

Kristi Noem shocks with out-of-control 'screaming' at DHS staff meeting: insiders www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Moms For Liberty Chapter Chairperson Takes Off Clothing At School Board Meeting

Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Chaos and Confusion: The future of childhood vaccines in an anti-vax Administration open.substack.com/pub/firstfoc...

Republican support for school vaccine requirements dropped from 79% before the pandemic to 57% four years later. www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪

A Superintendent Speaks Out from the Front Lines of Our Public Schools open.substack.com/pub/bruceles... Thanks Dr. John Kuhn!

Republicans Say Their Big Bill Is Family Friendly. Not So Fast … – Chad Bolt - DC Journal - InsideSources dcjournal.com/republicans-...

Advocates warn child poverty could rise again after federal cuts to social programs - WMNF 88.5 FM

Last week, HHS released its Make Our Children Healthy Again strategy. We should be stunned by what it included, but more so, by what it ignored. open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Evergreen High School shooter embraced Columbine, antisemitism and white supremacy online - Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/2025/09/12/e...

This Is What Censorship Looks Like in a National Park: The First Park Sign That Came Down medium.com/@elizabethmi...

Previous HHS secretaries oversaw: ✅ The creation of Medicare and Medicaid, which was passed with the help of Secretary Kennedy’s father and uncle in the Senate (significantly cutting the uninsured rate for all Americans, particularly senior citizens) (1)

Exceptionally well-written by my friend @brucelesley.bsky.social this is the idiotic state in which I live these days. brucelesley.substack.com/p/from-idaho...

"This idea that parents’ control should be absolute runs directly against a long line of court decisions that affirm children are not just extensions of their parents. Children are rights-bearing individuals in their own right." ~ @brucelesley.bsky.social