Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: children

For immigrant children, empathy is not enough

These children deserve our tears, too.

Humanity’s ‘dirty little secret’: Starving, enslaving, raping, torturing and killing our...

Each one of us has an important choice. We can acknowledge the painful truth that we inflict enormous violence on our children and respond powerfully to that truth. Or we can keep deluding ourselves and continue to observe, powerlessly, as the violence in our world proliferates until human beings are extinct.

‘This is what solidarity looks like:’ Mass demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport...

"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them."

Report from McAllen, Texas: No one knows what will happen now...

"So it might be many months, and in some cases maybe over a year ... before parents before they even get a chance of sponsoring and seeing their children again."

Trump’s war on children is an act of state terrorism

The time has come for the American public to make clear that resistance to the emerging fascism in the United States is not an option.

Caged children and terrified infants: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee describes ‘acts...

"So what I saw was a crisis continuing. Not in the making – a crisis continuing."

The Bible’s message on separating immigrant children from parents is a...

Scripture commands Christians to help the poor, to recognize the importance of the family, and to criticize unjust laws.

Democratic lawmakers join family separation protests at detention centers from Texas...

Protests have erupted nationwide against the Trump administration’s new policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Myths and facts: Trump’s separation of families and detention of children...

Media Matters has gathered and debunked the most common strains of misinformation attempting to whitewash the cruel and unusual practice.

A vile act of inhumanity: Splitting up families like the slave...

Immigrants are an easy scapegoat for a deteriorating society. Stripping them from their children is the vilest act of inhumanity.

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Hogs in a confinement barn. Hog operations account for nearly 60 percent of the manure produced by Iowa's mapped livestock facilities, Sentient Media found. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The Royal Courts of Justice in London, where the high court issued its ruling. Photo: The wub / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Carter-Ruck ruling could leave legal watchdog ‘toothless’ against SLAPPs

The ruling also threatens six unrelated SRA investigations into fraud and dishonesty that relied on the same privileged material.
A patient room and bed. Photo: Diane A. Reid, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Nursing Home Beds Are Becoming More Scarce

As the oldest baby boomers turn 80, researchers worry there won’t be enough room in nursing facilities for a rapidly graying nation.
A guided bomb unit JDAM kit, the same guidance kit at the center of the proposed Saudi sale, is assembled by U.S. partner-nation forces in the Middle East. Photo: U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Staff Sgt. Jovante Johnson (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Senators move to block $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia

The bombs would arm Saudi jets as senators also demand to see classified side letters on a separate nuclear deal.