NIH cuts department that campaigned to reduce baby sleep deaths : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5383871/trump-cuts-safe-sleep-sids-baby

Trump just deported 3 US citizen children, including a 2 year old with #cancer. https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-deports-american-children

#deportation #autocracy

#silentsunday

Yes. This shouldn't be controversial.

Exclusive: #Trump administration directs #ICE to #deport unaccompanied migrant #children

The Trump administration is directing #immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the #UnitedStates without their parents, expanding the president's #MassDeportation effort, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.

#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteSupremacy #HumanRights #Humanity #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-directs-ice-agents-find-deport-unaccompanied-migrant-2025-02-23/

Colorado nonprofit allowed to continue helping immigrant children after Trump administration rescinds order

https://coloradosun.com/2025/02/21/immigrant-children/

Trump administration halts support for representing unaccompanied children in immigration court
https://apnews.com/article/trump-legal-aid-unaccompanied-children-immigration-court-6ffbad896e86080765699d208980dbd0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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As always, my last post of the year reminder...

Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by https://globalcarbonbudget.org

Thank you all for sticking by in 2024! 🙂

#silentsunday #sandiego #coronado

Time lapse of the Del Coronado Christmas tree #christmas #sandiego

#silentsunday #sandiego

#silentsunday #sandiego

#silentsunday #bambooforestkyoto

If anti-vax policies take root in the new US administration, kids & families could pay a toll, senior government officials warn. "The natural consequences of not believing in science or the potential benefit of these vaccines may be that we have unnecessary deaths."
https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/13/vaccines-public-health-mandy-cohen-peter-marks/

They're not coming after your guns. They want your kids and your 1st amendment. #MAGA #DisabilityRights #PublicEducation #evangelical

#israel #lebanon : #war / #hezbollah / #children / #traumata / #civilianwarvictims

„With more strikes on homes and in residential areas, doctors are seeing more children affected by the violence. More than 100 children have been killed in Lebanon in the past six weeks and hundreds injured. And of the 14,000 wounded since last year, around 10% are children. Many have been left with severed limbs, burned bodies, and broken families — scars that could last for a lifetime.“

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/traumatized-by-war-hundreds-of-lebanons-children-struggle-with-wounds-both-physical-and-emotional/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all

#silentsunday #sandiego

@jciv I think that you are correct - and, in an amusing way, that gives me hope! Looking forward, is it possible that whoever identities and responds best to the root causes of our nation’s fear and anger, while inspiring us reach for justice and solidarity, will remain in power for more than a single election cycle?

#ClimateCrisis!!
Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report
Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says UNICEF
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/07/severe-drought-children-food-water-school-amazon-climate-rivers-transport-unicef