An Unexpected Birthday Journey of 2026
Travel along through this story to uncover what led to an unexpected birthday celebration full of relaxation, exploration, and good times.
Edited 17d ago
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Many years ago I was estranged by my human #family
This is my only family now and i love them, they visit me every evening!
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A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #SocialSecurity #Disability #Family
🫶🏻 Artist: #HERA ( #HerAkut ) in City: #SaintAndré /Avenue de Bourbon/ La #Reunion Island 🇷🇪 12/2024 - Title: "We don't have to look the same to be family" ("Wir müssen nicht gleich aussehen, um Familie zu sein") - (📷 by Nika Kramer) - #Art #Streetart #Mural #Artist #Bird #Family #SprayArt #Painting #GoodMorning !
Shaken #Baby Syndrome Has Found New Life in Courts as Abusive Head Trauma. One Family Is Fighting Their Son’s Diagnosis.
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Exonerations and new #science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny while leaving #parents vulnerable to criminal charges.
#News #Parenting #Children #Family #Hospital #SocialWork #Police #Crime
Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.
Our most-read story of 2024: https://propub.li/3W5ooDd
#News #Abortion #Healthcare #RoeVWade #Pregnancy #Family #Parenting
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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A pregnancy center can bill the state $14 for distributing diapers that cost the center just over $.25. And before parents can get those diapers, they must take a class that the center can bill the state $30 for each hour of class a client attends.
(Published July 2024)
https://propub.li/3PvTPmw
#Texas #Pregnancy #Family #Government #Accountability #Abortion
We spoke to the relatives of three immigrants transferred to Guantanamo, who said they’ve been left in the dark about their loved ones.
“To me it’s the desperation, the frustration that I know nothing of him. It’s a terrible anguish. I don’t sleep.”
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services reports that it misses a 90-day deadline to approve child care licensing applications about a third of the time. In regions with severe staffing shortages, that rate can rise above 50%.
#News #Illinois #Rural #Children #Family #Parenting #Education
Reminder: Salmonella — even the most dangerous strains — perishes at 165 degrees Fahrenheit, and a meat thermometer is the only surefire way to tell if your turkey has reached that temperature.
🦃 Stay safe this Thanksgiving: https://www.propublica.org/article/protect-yourself-from-salmonella-this-thanksgiving?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Children #Family #Trump #USPolitics
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.
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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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.
#News #Children #Family #Doctors #Pediatrics #Law #Minnesota
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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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'll let their words speak for themselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law
Summer was coming to a close but it hadn't walked completely away yet. On one of the last warm and glorious days at the beach, they found a spot in the grass to read a book together: they traveled to a magical imaginary story world at the same time that they immersed themselves the real, magical world that surrounded them.
Seaside Story canvas print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
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Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight
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After a ProPublica and CBS News investigation revealed that Texas’ funding pipeline for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers is riddled with waste, nonprofits in the program must now provide a detailed accounting of their expenses.
Idaho Gave Families $50M to Spend on Private Education. Then It Ended a $30M Program Used by Public School Families.
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A Republican lawmaker said ending an Idaho program that helped public school students buy laptops and other materials wasn’t linked to the creation of a private school tax credit. The state’s most prominent conservative group says it should be.
For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.
For decades, the government cleaned it up.
But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nebraska #Environment #Health #PublicHealth #Safety #Family
Over the past four months, I documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions.
This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cecot-released-family-reunions-photos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Trump #Immigration #Family #Photography #Photo #Venezuela #ElSalvador
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.
Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others.
After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
#News #ICE #DHS #Texas #Immigration #Children #Immigrants #Family #Art
Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-charter-superintendent-pay-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Education #School #Parents #Family #CharterSchool #Superintendent
A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon