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<p>Illinois Has Virtually No Homeschooling Rules. A New Bill Aims to Change That.<br>—</p><p>Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker introduced legislation that aims to protect homeschooled students from abuse or neglect.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-homeschool-regulations-bill?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/illinois-homeschool-regulations-bill?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ill</span><span class="invisible">inois-homeschool-regulations-bill?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/homeschool/" rel="tag">#Homeschool</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign a bill that bans anonymous complaints to the state child abuse hotline. The law would still maintain the confidentiality of callers.</p><p>The change comes in the wake of a 2023 ProPublica investigation that showed how the hotline had been weaponized by people endlessly calling in baseless allegations against exes or rivals.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/new-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/new</span><span class="invisible">-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/newyork/" rel="tag">#NewYork</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a></p>

<p>Newborn babies have been exposed to measles at a Texas hospital and are receiving antibodies to protect them, NBC reports. The virus was brought into the University Medical Center Children&#x27;s Hospital by a mother in labor — doctors didn&#x27;t realize until after her admission that she was infected, and it&#x27;s unclear when she tested positive. The immunoglobulin injections have been given to babies as young as three days old. A 2021 study found this therapy is highly effective in protecting exposed newborns who are too young to be vaccinated. Emergency masking procedures have also been implemented. </p><p><a href="https://flip.it/0.ZRbx" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/0.ZRbx</a></p><p><a href="/tags/measlesoutbreak/" rel="tag">#MeaslesOutbreak</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/vaccination/" rel="tag">#Vaccination</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a></p>

<p>Loud vehicles cause harm to <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a>, <a href="/tags/pedestrians/" rel="tag">#pedestrians</a> and <a href="/tags/bicyclists/" rel="tag">#bicyclists</a> on a daily basis, yet <a href="/tags/tinakotek/" rel="tag">#TinaKotek</a> and her administration look the other way out of fear of Harley owners, who can &quot;customize&quot; without regard to those exposed.</p><p>There are vehicles, with no <a href="/tags/deq/" rel="tag">#DEQ</a> inspection, yet they abuse those condemned to use public throughways with egregious, otherwise illegal in a *workplace*, noise levels.</p><p>Healthy <a href="/tags/noise/" rel="tag">#Noise</a> level laws are being flaunted by those via exception:</p><p>It&#x27;s an in-use vehicle.</p><p><a href="/tags/pdx/" rel="tag">#PDX</a></p>

<p>Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities:</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://dads.cool" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dads.cool</a></p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://cooler.mom" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cooler.mom</a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://dads.cool/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dads.cool/about</a> and <a href="https://cooler.mom/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cooler.mom/about</a> or contact the admins <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dads.cool/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alex</span></a></span> &amp; <span class="h-card"><a href="https://cooler.mom/@sydney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sydney</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/kids/" rel="tag">#Kids</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/families/" rel="tag">#Families</a> <a href="/tags/hometown/" rel="tag">#Hometown</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>

<p>Introducing the July/August 2025 issue of our magazine, with reporting from Sandy West on predatory adoption agencies, Chilton Tippin on international <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> and natural resources, and much more.</p><p>Become a member of the Texas Observer and get the best of our journalism, starting at just $3/month: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join </p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/water/" rel="tag">#water</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/unicef/" rel="tag">#UNICEF</a>, the <a href="/tags/un/" rel="tag">#UN</a> Children&#x27;s Fund, is providing <a href="/tags/humanitarian/" rel="tag">#humanitarian</a> support for <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> world-wide, and also in <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> and <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#Ukraine</a>.</p><p>If you can afford it, consider to donate</p><p>for children in Gaza:<br><a href="https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-need-lifesaving-support" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-need-lifesaving-support"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.unicef.org/emergencies/chi</span><span class="invisible">ldren-gaza-need-lifesaving-support</span></a></p><p>for children in Ukraine:<br><a href="https://help.unicef.org/ukraine-emergency" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="help.unicef.org/ukraine-emergency"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">help.unicef.org/ukraine-emerge</span><span class="invisible">ncy</span></a></p><p>Please note that depending on your country, directly above the &quot;Donate&quot; button, there may be a tiny link &quot;Designate to children in…&quot;. Make sure the selected region reflects your preferences, or pick &quot;globally&quot;. No wrong choices here.</p>

<p>One father who was acquitted of causing his son’s death said that Dr. Nancy Harper’s abuse diagnosis attached a stigma to him, caused him and his wife PTSD and robbed them of the chance to say a proper goodbye to their son.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/chi</span><span class="invisible">ld-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/pediatrics/" rel="tag">#Pediatrics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a></p>

<p>New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/republic</span><span class="invisible">ans-immigrant-children-budget-court/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/refugees/" rel="tag">#refugees</a></p>

<p>A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to “fall in line” with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team.</p><p>Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-minneapolis-nancy-harper-cps?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-minneapolis-nancy-harper-cps?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/chi</span><span class="invisible">ld-abuse-pediatrician-minneapolis-nancy-harper-cps?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/pediatrics/" rel="tag">#Pediatrics</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a></p>

<p>“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility<br>---</p><p>ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We&#x27;ll let their words speak for themselves.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ice</span><span class="invisible">-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center<br>---</p><p>ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/lif</span><span class="invisible">e-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.</p><p><a href="/tags/auspol/" rel="tag">#auspol</a> <a href="/tags/australia/" rel="tag">#australia</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/erotica/" rel="tag">#erotica</a> <a href="/tags/pornography/" rel="tag">#pornography</a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114830436092858870" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114830436092858870"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114830</span><span class="invisible">436092858870</span></a></p>

<p>RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization<br>—</p><p>Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say.</p><p>“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rfk</span><span class="invisible">-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a></p>

<p>Farewell to a horse</p><p>Eugenie saying farewell to her favourite horse, Merriwa </p><p>Photograph: Thérèse Maher </p><p>@photography <br><a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <br><a href="/tags/horses/" rel="tag">#horses</a> <br><a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/unicef/" rel="tag">#UNICEF</a>, the <a href="/tags/un/" rel="tag">#UN</a> Children&#x27;s Fund, is providing <a href="/tags/humanitarian/" rel="tag">#humanitarian</a> support for <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> world-wide, and also in <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> and <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#Ukraine</a>.</p><p>If you can afford it, consider to donate</p><p>for children in Gaza:<br><a href="https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-need-lifesaving-support" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-need-lifesaving-support"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.unicef.org/emergencies/chi</span><span class="invisible">ldren-gaza-need-lifesaving-support</span></a></p><p>for children in Ukraine:<br><a href="https://help.unicef.org/ukraine-emergency" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="help.unicef.org/ukraine-emergency"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">help.unicef.org/ukraine-emerge</span><span class="invisible">ncy</span></a></p><p>Please note that depending on your country, directly above the &quot;Donate&quot; button, there may be a tiny link &quot;Designate to children in…&quot;. Make sure the selected region reflects your preferences, or pick &quot;globally&quot;. No wrong choices here.</p>

<p>“The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings.” </p><p>From Sandy West in our magazine: In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, adoptions are on the rise in <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a>. But some private foster care and adoption agencies may have crossed serious ethical lines. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/private-adoption-agencies-legal-custody-battles/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/private-adoption-agencies-legal-custody-battles/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/private-</span><span class="invisible">adoption-agencies-legal-custody-battles/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/roevwade/" rel="tag">#RoeVWade</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/adoption/" rel="tag">#adoption</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>

<p>Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities:</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://dads.cool" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dads.cool</a></p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://cooler.mom" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cooler.mom</a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://dads.cool/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dads.cool/about</a> and <a href="https://cooler.mom/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cooler.mom/about</a> or contact the admins <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dads.cool/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alex</span></a></span> &amp; <span class="h-card"><a href="https://cooler.mom/@sydney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sydney</span></a></span> </p><p>cc @parenting </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/families/" rel="tag">#Families</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/kids/" rel="tag">#Kids</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>

<p>When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-kenya-humanitarian-aid-starvation-families-children?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-kenya-humanitarian-aid-starvation-families-children?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-usaid-kenya-humanitarian-aid-starvation-families-children?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/kenya/" rel="tag">#Kenya</a> <a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/usaid/" rel="tag">#USAID</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/marciorubio/" rel="tag">#MarcioRubio</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a></p>

<p>Nothing better than lying on the bed resting and hearing my wife and son rave away happily on some topic in another language, while the other child is making the piano come alive with classical music. The kids are both around 30 now, so moments like this are rare and need to be treasured.</p><p><a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#family</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="/tags/peace/" rel="tag">#peace</a></p>

<p>Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others.</p><p>After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dil</span><span class="invisible">ley-detention-center-kids-art-removal?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a></p>

<p>A Minnesota senator wants to strengthen the state’s mandatory reporting laws, after a Minnesota Star Tribune-ProPublica investigation found that the leaders of a Duluth church failed to report a child sex predator for years.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-mandated-reporting-law-old-apostolic-lutheran-church?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-mandated-reporting-law-old-apostolic-lutheran-church?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/min</span><span class="invisible">nesota-mandated-reporting-law-old-apostolic-lutheran-church?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">#Church</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#Religion</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a></p>

<p>Lab practices at the drug testing company Averhealth have been faulted by its own accreditor, and the company has been targeted in lawsuits and dropped by two child welfare agencies, a ProPublica investigation found.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/averhealth-drug-testing-child-welfare-michigan?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/averhealth-drug-testing-child-welfare-michigan?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ave</span><span class="invisible">rhealth-drug-testing-child-welfare-michigan?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/testing/" rel="tag">#Testing</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/michigan/" rel="tag">#Michigan</a></p>

<p>Kennedy’s vaccine committee voted to change the children’s recommended vaccine schedule today—</p><p>voting 8-3 to no longer recommend children under four years old get the MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella) vaccine (😳)</p><p>The committee will vote tomorrow on its hepatitis B vaccine recommendation changes. It will also recommend who should be eligible for the latest <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> vaccine. </p><p>1 of 2🧵<br><a href="/tags/icymi/" rel="tag">#ICYMI</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#rfkjr</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#COVID19</a> <br>—</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5542082/cdc-acip-vaccine-hepatitis-b-mmrv" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5542082/cdc-acip-vaccine-hepatitis-b-mmrv"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5</span><span class="invisible">542082/cdc-acip-vaccine-hepatitis-b-mmrv</span></a></p>

<p>These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.<br>---</p><p>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.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/edu</span><span class="invisible">cation-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/public/" rel="tag">#Public</a> <a href="/tags/schools/" rel="tag">#Schools</a> <a href="/tags/teaching/" rel="tag">#Teaching</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a></p>