Update: An Appeals Court Just Sided with Indiana's Student Voter Suppression Law The Seventh Circuit reinstated Indiana’s student ID ban after college students are allowed to vote with them. Early voting is underway. The harm is immediate.

Update: An Appeals Court Just Sided with Indiana's Student Voter Suppression Law
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The Night the Government Closed the Skies Over El Paso

The Senate Should Reject the SAVE Act: It Suppresses Young Voters and a Federal Court Just Proved It An Indiana judge just blocked a state law that targeted student voters. The SAVE Act has the same problem but at a national scale.

The Senate Should Reject the SAVE Act: It Suppresses Young Voters and a Federal Court Just Proved It
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Missouri's Parental Rights Bills: Treating Children as Property The Show Me State's bills strip minors of the right to consent to their own personal care, and handing parents a private cause of action against the government when it acts to protect children.

Missouri's Parental Rights Bills: Treating Children as Property
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Missouri's Parental Rights Bills: Treating Children as Property The Show Me State's bills strip minors of the right to consent to their own personal care, and handing parents a private cause of action against the government when it acts to protect children.

Missouri's Parental Rights Bills: Treating Children as Property
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Tax Day Tragedy: Congress Cut Taxes for the Wealthy and Left 19-20 Million Kids Behind The Research Is In: The Child Tax Credit Congress Gave Us in the So-Called “One Big Beautiful Bill” Leaves Behind the Children Who Need It the Most

Tax Day Tragedy: Congress Cut Taxes for the Wealthy and Left 19-20 Million Kids Behind
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Tax Day Tragedy: Congress Cut Taxes for the Wealthy and Left 19-20 Million Kids Behind The Research Is In: The Child Tax Credit Congress Gave Us in the So-Called “One Big Beautiful Bill” Leaves Behind the Children Who Need It the Most

Tax Day Tragedy: Congress Cut Taxes for the Wealthy and Left 19-20 Million Kids Behind
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Hillary Clinton: How to Fix Affordability - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

“We know what works. We know how to help families. If we’re serious about making this election about affordability, then kids should be front and center.”

Yes! Children are not abstract vessels of government interest. Children are people with rights and humanity.

Birthright Citizenship: Three Justices Saw the Babies and Their Fundamental Rights For a change, the rights of kids were addressed in Trump v. Barbara oral arguments related to birthright citizenship.

Birthright Citizenship: Three Justices Saw the Babies and Their Fundamental Rights
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How Federal Spending is Distributed by Age | Penn Wharton Budget Model American retirees receive over twice as much in total federal outlays as working-age adults and six times more than children and young adults. These ratios are even larger on a per-capita basis.…

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#InvestInKids #StopShortchangingChildren

‘All These Little Scams’: Trump's Latest War on Child Care and Medicaid “The United States can’t take care of daycare… It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… All these little scams.”

🥗 “You … cannot demand work while dismantling the very conditions that make work possible.”
Thank you for your wise words @firstfocus.bsky.social @brucelesley.bsky.social

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‘All These Little Scams’: Trump's Latest War on Child Care and Medicaid “The United States can’t take care of daycare… It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… All these little scams.”

‘All These Little Scams’: Trump's Latest War on Child Care and Medicaid
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ICE Arrests in Texas Leave Children to Raise Their Siblings After Parents Are Detained - The New York Times

How Medicaid Contractors Stand To Gain From Trump’s Policy - KFF Health News Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.

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BruceLesley.bsky.social and I on Chiles v. Salazar.

TLDR: the SCOTUS majority got this very, very wrong. But Colorado can still win at trial. Don't sleep on that.

The Invisible Child: How the Supreme Court Erased Children from a Case About Their Own Harm The SCOTUS decision in Salavar v. Chiles tragically ignores the grave harm to kids from conversion therapy.

Agree with #Champion4Children @pattymurphy.bsky.social, as always.

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The Invisible Child: How the Supreme Court Erased Children from a Case About Their Own Harm The SCOTUS decision in Salavar v. Chiles tragically ignores the grave harm to kids from conversion therapy.

Agree with #Champion4Children @warren.senate.gov.

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The Invisible Child: How the Supreme Court Erased Children from a Case About Their Own Harm The SCOTUS decision in Salavar v. Chiles tragically ignores the grave harm to kids from conversion therapy.

Agree @gavinnewsom.bsky.social.

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The Invisible Child: How the Supreme Court Erased Children from a Case About Their Own Harm The SCOTUS decision in Salavar v. Chiles tragically ignores the grave harm to kids from conversion therapy.

The Invisible Child: How the Supreme Court Erased Children from a Case About Their Own Harm
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Opinion | The Birthright Con

No paywall on the important topic of @jamellebouie.net's column: birthright citizenship.
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From Prenatal to Infancy: Why Birthright Citizenship Matters in the Earliest Phases of Life | CLASP Birthright citizenship as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution has ensured the clarity and stability babies and their families need, and those protections should remain.

As #SCOTUS considers birthright citizenship today, see my blog uplifting an amicus brief @clasp.org submitted to SCOTUS w/ @firstfocus.bsky.social, @theyoungcenter.bsky.social, and others. We detail the harms to all babies should this fundamental right be rolled back. www.clasp.org/blog/from-pr...

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One set of schools recruit, the only doesn’t. They should not be competing against one another in state playoffs.

Oh, loo. Netflix is going to raise prices again. I guess someone needs a new yacht.

#MOLeg is proposing bills that weaponize "parental rights" to dismantle public education & endanger children.

Send a predrafted letter to your MO Rep, Sen, & Gov Kehoe to oppose these bills.

Follow me or text FOLLOW MOResist to 50409 to get updates on future petitions.

#Missouri #ResistBot

Centering Children: Challenging the 'Parental Rights' Narrative for the Sake of Our Kids What Ryan Stollar’s Kingdom of Children Teaches Us About Prioritizing Children’s Rights and Protections

"As @rlstollar.bsky.social incisively notes, the parental rights movement does not simply want to elevate parents: it wants to deny children their own rights."

~ @brucelesley.bsky.social

Will Congress attack hungry children again, this time to pay for one hour of war in Iran? Republicans in the House and Senate are seriously considering a second budget reconciliation bill. Though hundreds of billions more dollars dedicated to

Congressional Republicans appear ready to put SNAP benefits even MORE at risk for kids and their families for the next 10 years, in order to pay for ONE HOUR of war in Iran.

I wish I were making this up. firstfocus.org/update/will-... 1/7

Babies are an afterthought in the birthright citizenship case, advocates say An end to birthright citizenship would mean a new layer of bureaucracy for all babies born in the U.S. and could cause delays for health insurance and other benefits.

Pleased to talk to @selenasd.com with @npr.org about this important issue about the health and well-being of babies.

If the Supreme Court ends birthright citizenship, what will it mean for newborns? - NPR www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

The National ID Card Congress Has Rejected Is Back Again From a midnight House vote in 1990 to the SAVE America Act today, the fight over who controls your identity and your data has never been more consequential.

The National ID Card Congress Has Rejected Is Back Again
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