A three -part Netflix documentary, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing , paints a troubling picture of the no-rules world of child influencing.

The online ecosystem of kids making content from as young as their toddler years, stage-managed by their parents.

There are zero existing child labour laws in the UK to protect child influencers in their workplace.

Audiences’ interest in kidfluencer content means we are turning a blind eye to another major form of online harm.

Without a cultural shift, we will continue to hear more stories like the Squad’s.

As the journalist Taylor Lorenz says at the end of Bad Influence: “Until we start seeing influencing as labour, these kids are screwed”.

Now That You’ve Left is a Slate column from noted ex-wife Scaachi Koul .

Koul: My ex said they were betrayed when I spoke up and told them that their depression was making me concerned about our future and chances at starting a family.

Now That I've Left: What is to do?.

Ex-partner who made you feel insufficient, incomplete, and incompatible can make them silently rue the loss of you.

This kind of conversation between exes only goes a few places, and one of them is an affair.

The romanticism of looking back, the tingling possibilities of a rekindled friendship are fantasies for Normal People adaptations.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ’s announcements about immigration have been shown on TV in the last few days .

They go like this: Thank you, President Donald J. Trump , for securing our border and putting America first .

President Claudia Sheinbaum also vowed to send legislation to Congress that would ban the commercial and others that are similar.

The Mexicans argue that they've been very helpful in keeping fentanyl from crossing the border.

Donald Trump has said that tariffs on China will “come down substantially,” with an aide floating rollbacks as high as 65 percent .

But the proposed tariff cuts would only come as part of negotiations, not unilaterally.

China now knows it has a paper tiger across the negotiating table, and can hold out for the best deal.

Ruben Navarrette : It's not possible to backfill the volume of canceled orders from China and elsewhere in such a short period of time.

He says the real impact would be visible not just to trucking and shipping CEOs, but every consumer trying to buy things this summer .

The effective embargo would create other shortages in critical components, such as parts for transformers and air conditioners, he says.

There isn’t true self-sufficiency yet in U.S. solar, but we’re headed in that direction, forestalling a situation where our dependence on OPEC is traded for a Chinese cartel dominating our energy needs.

Yet all of this progress is at risk if Trump cancels the IRA subsidies for solar.

A Texas bill would carve out an exemption in mortgage origination laws for Texas residential real estate developers, threatening to embolden developments like Colony Ridge that cater to illegal aliens and foreign nationals.

The legislation has already passed through the House Committee on Pensions, Investments , and Financial Services but is still under consideration in the Senate ’s Business and Commerce Committee .

The bill would strip the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending's authority to regulate residential developers who provide mortgage loans.

Rep. Ryan Guillen , a Democrat -turned- Republican , received $ 14,000 from the now-defunct Texas Land Developers Association PAC.

The legislation is now being carried in the Texas House by a representative who’s accepted $ 20,000 .

The bill has a companion legislation sponsored by Sen. Adam Hinojosa of the 27th district in the Senate .

Ziyad was sleeping at home in Khan Younis refugee camp when the bombs fell just before midnight on Friday .

After they heard the explosion, my cousins Mohammed and Moatsem ran to save him, but he had already died in his bed.

The night before he was killed, he visited the wounded and sick, including my uncle, Kamal .

According to Unicef , 15,600 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 .

Ghada Ageel is a third -generation Palestinian refugee from Khan Younis .

Her family was killed in a bomb attack on 26 October 2023 , killing more than 60 people.

To demand justice is not to ask for charity it is a moral obligation, she says.

Part three of a six -part series by pollster Brent Buchanan on the politics of the American South .

This week , he breaks down the unique features, and critical importance, of the Southern suburbs.

While many of the country’s suburbs are rapidly shifting, voting behavior and partisanship in Southern suburbs are remarkably stable.

This “stuck in neutral” dynamic is shaping the political battlegrounds of tomorrow .

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears shows the most promising signs to galvanize a broad base of support and carry on the progress of widely popular outgoing Governor Glenn Youngkin .

North Carolina is a tougher story for Republicans because of proximity to the Sweet Tea Suburbs .

Southern cities like Memphis mix heavily with the Big Sky South and Soulful South, keeping it politically stagnant and resistant to major partisan shifts.

COMING UP NEXT: All eyes are on Georgia and North Carolina ahead of the 2026 midterms. As two of the most prominent Democratic holdouts in the South , parts four and five of this series will delve into the extent of their influence and whether they’ll remain regional hegemons or embrace the coming red wave of longstanding conservative control..

Kat Abughazaleh, 26 , is running for Illinois ’s Ninth District in the Ninth District .

Jan Schakowsky , 80 , has served in the district since 1999 , the year that she was born.

She raised more money for the race, over $378,000 , in just one week as a candidate, than she did in the 90-day quarter .

Rep. Jan Schakowsky , whom Abughazaleh had intended to challenge in Illinois ’s Ninth District , plans to retire from Congress .

David Hogg , the 25-year-old Parkland mass shooting survivor and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee , feels similarly.

Hogg's PAC will funnel $20 million to younger candidates taking on House incumbents in safely blue districts.

Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in the 2026 midterms.

She says she's hoping to continue reaching people where they are, whether at a knitting circle in Evanston or an online video criticizing Trump .

After the Nazi march in Charlottesville , she made a video breaking down Trump ’s comments.

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A bomb threat at Barnard College coincided with a pro-Palestine student protest last month .

Nine protesters were arrested after a bomb threat was made at the college's Milstein Center .

Students and faculty are now being interrogated by school officials about the threat.

The revelation has alarmed faculty and students.

School administrators and NYPD gave no indication that the threat had been made against pro-Palestine protesters.

Students are now being interrogated about the threat threat in mandatory meetings with Columbia ’s ex-NYPD officer Gary Rosenbury .

Rosenbury is now being questioned about that threat, according to emails reviewed by The Intercept .

Barnard College dropped from lawsuit over government's efforts to access student protesters' disciplinary records.

Barnard dropped from suit against Columbia and Barnard to turn over information to Congress .

At least 27 students have been called into inquiry meetings for protests last month .