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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 54m

Another important article by @mikehixenbaugh.com that highlights why we desperately need an independent Children’s Commissioner to investigate and put a stop to the cover-up and failure to protect children from child sexual and physical abuse by institutions in this country.

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Pastor Mark Vega, a former Yankees chaplain, received reports of sex abuse in his church in 2019 and 2022. But rather than go to police, Vega came up with a plan to handle it internally by…

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 3h

This piece by @mikehixenbaugh.com highlights two critically important issues facing children:

1) the threat people like Robert Morris pose to public education
2) the cover-up of sexual and physical child abuse that institutions in our country repeatedly engage in

This must be stopped. ✋

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Got to see where the filmed “Killers of the Flower Moon” and write this update on a story I started covering a little over a year to go.…

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5h

Leo Garcia Venegas, a US citizen and construction worker in Alabama, was wrongfully detained not once but TWICE.

“I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction.”

Kavanaugh stop in action👇🏽

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 23h

Justice Kavanaugh compared wrongful stops of U.S. citizens to a mild inconvenience. Tell that to those terrorized in a raid in Chicago

As @tusk81.bsky.social noted, "This chaos has not been isolated to major American cities where the admin is engaged in the political targeting of perceived enemies"

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 1d

Who Deserves to See a Doctor? Health Coverage, Immigration, and the Real Stakes of the Government Shutdown
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Who Deserves to See a Doctor? Health Coverage, Immigration, and the Real Stakes of the Government Shutdown

The fight in Washington isn’t about giving undocumented immigrants free health care. It’s about whether we will take health care away from more than 14 million people, including millions of children.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 5d

Children Deserve Political Commitments, Not Political Theater

After Congress and the White House spent the year slashing pediatric cancer research and Medicaid, cancer survivors were given a photo-op.

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Children Deserve Political Commitments, Not Political Theater

After Congress and the White House spent the year slashing pediatric cancer research and Medicaid, cancer survivors were given a photo-op.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 8d

How the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Fuels Presidential Power and a Government Shutdown brucelesley.substack.com/p/how-the-su...

How the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Fuels Presidential Power and a Government Shutdown

Washington is back at the brink.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 11d

When Child Death Was Everywhere - The Atlantic

When Child Death Was Everywhere

RFK Jr.’s health policies stem from the idea that the past holds the secret to health and happiness.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 11d

Check out this thread by Texas Kids Can’t Wait.

Sorry it is on Twitter/X, but it is a comprehensive takedown of the enemies of public schools and teachers. —> x.com/txkidscantwa...

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 11d

A good news update: Sinclair has now agreed to restore @jimmykimmel.com @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social to the airways with its local affiliates.

A step forward for #FreedomOfSpeech and, as I wrote, for children, who Kimmel has championed!

Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 17d

Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too

Jimmy Kimmel has often spoken for kids when other voices were missing.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 12d

First Focus on Children (@firstfocus.bsky.social)

Urging you to follow and subscribe to our President @BruceLesley’s Kids Can’t Wait blog on Substack. He provides the “child and family” perspective on policy issues before Congress and in the news.…

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12d

This is what unity looks like.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Harry Enten: "The more RFK Jr is trying to implement his policies, the further down his net approval rating goes. And at this particular point, 21 points underwater is not a place you want to be."

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 14d

Millions of Children Left Behind: The Truth About the Latest Child Tax Credit
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Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' fails children, and nobody should be fooled otherwise.

Millions of Children Left Behind: The Truth About the Latest Child Tax Credit

Don’t Be Fooled: The One Big Beautiful Bill Fails Our Children

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 15d

Agree!

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 15d

This is how they’re gonna strip voting rights for women

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16d

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 15d

So much for independence in anything. Congress needs to transition as much of that as they can to congressional control in Project 2027.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15d

Kristi Noem shocks with out-of-control 'screaming' at DHS staff meeting: insiders

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Kristi Noem shocks with out-of-control 'screaming' at DHS staff meeting: insiders

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stunned department officials with profane outbursts reacting to a series of critical news reports examining her chaotic leadership.The former South Dakota gover...

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 16d

Moms For Liberty Chapter Chairperson Takes Off Clothing At School Board Meeting

Beth Bourne, who has in the past come under fire for over-the-top anti-LGBTQ+ stunts, removed her pants and top at a Davis school board meeting.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 17d

Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too

Jimmy Kimmel has often spoken for kids when other voices were missing.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 18d

Chaos and Confusion: The future of childhood vaccines in an anti-vax Administration
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Chaos and Confusion: The future of childhood vaccines in an anti-vax Administration

The Advisory Council of Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets tomorrow and many experts fear it will vote to remove or delay recommendations for the hepatitis B vaccine. This action would be the latest ...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20d

Republican support for school vaccine requirements dropped from 79% before the pandemic to 57% four years later.
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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 20d

A Superintendent Speaks Out from the Front Lines of Our Public Schools
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Thanks Dr. John Kuhn!

A Superintendent Speaks Out from the Front Lines of Our Public Schools

I have long been a fan of Dr.

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 21d

Republicans Say Their Big Bill Is Family Friendly. Not So Fast … – Chad Bolt - DC Journal - InsideSources dcjournal.com/republicans-...

Republicans Say Their Big Bill Is Family Friendly. Not So Fast … – DC Journal - InsideSources

The White House has told Republican lawmakers to get out there and start selling the “One Big Beautiful Bill” as chock-full of family-friendly

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 22d

Advocates warn child poverty could rise again after federal cuts to social programs - WMNF 88.5 FM

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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 23d

Last week, HHS released its Make Our Children Healthy Again strategy. We should be stunned by what it included, but more so, by what it ignored.
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What’s Missing from the MAHA Report? Real Health Care Solutions for Children

“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

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