Michele Kayal
@mkayal.bsky.social
Recovering reporter. VP of Media and Communications at First Focus on Children. Butterflies (is that what we call them here?) my own. @firstfocus.bsky.social @campaign4kids.bsky.social
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Good for Bill Gates
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
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May 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Good for Bill Gates
Head Start, the program that has provided care and early learning for low-income children for decades, is now in the sites of the Trump Administration. See what @firstfocus.bsky.social had to say about that today. firstfocus.org/news/killing...
Killing Head Start bad for kids, bad for America | First Focus on Children
Program doesn't give kids "special favors" In response to reports that President Trump plans to eliminate the Head Start program, First Focus on Children
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April 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Head Start, the program that has provided care and early learning for low-income children for decades, is now in the sites of the Trump Administration. See what @firstfocus.bsky.social had to say about that today. firstfocus.org/news/killing...
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Cuts to SSBG & TANF would eliminate child care for 40k children & disrupt care for millions more.
Child care is already significantly underfunded – don’t let cuts further restrict access to care
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Child care is already significantly underfunded – don’t let cuts further restrict access to care
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An Assault on Children: The Devastating Impact of Proposed Budget Cuts on America's Kids | First Focus on Children
House Leadership’s Budget Proposal Harms Children Children represent approximately 23% of the U.S. population, yet they received just 8.87% of the federal
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April 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Cuts to SSBG & TANF would eliminate child care for 40k children & disrupt care for millions more.
Child care is already significantly underfunded – don’t let cuts further restrict access to care
firstfocus.org/resource/an-...
Child care is already significantly underfunded – don’t let cuts further restrict access to care
firstfocus.org/resource/an-...
Add measles to the list of things for which we offer thoughts and prayers.
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Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles
The health secretary has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the outbreak, embrace of alternative treatments and tepid endorsement of vaccination.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Add measles to the list of things for which we offer thoughts and prayers.
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This is madness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Measles Attacks an Unvaccinated Child
With falling vaccination rates and outbreaks that have caused more than 580 U.S. cases and at least two deaths, health experts expect hundreds or even thousands more to be infected in the coming month...
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April 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is madness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@firstfocus.bsky.social president @brucelesley.bsky.social talking LIVE with @lesliemarshallshow.bsky.social about the oh-so-many ways that cutting $880B from Medicaid will hurt kids AND the country.
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Medicaid/CHIP Cuts Threaten One-Third of All School Age Children
Leslie… | Leslie Marshall
Medicaid/CHIP Cuts Threaten One-Third of All School Age Children
Leslie is joined by Bruce Lesley, President of First Focus on Children.
They discuss how the…
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April 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@firstfocus.bsky.social president @brucelesley.bsky.social talking LIVE with @lesliemarshallshow.bsky.social about the oh-so-many ways that cutting $880B from Medicaid will hurt kids AND the country.
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“Missouri is not functioning well enough to meet the basic needs of its children and their caregivers. There’s nothing ‘pro-life’ about our legislators signing on to make things worse.” - @bridgettedunlap
Tax proposals would make Missouri even more anti-life and anti-child • Missouri Independent
Missouri Republicans do a whole lot of grandstanding about being “pro-life,” but consistently refuse to put our money where their mouth is.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Missouri is not functioning well enough to meet the basic needs of its children and their caregivers. There’s nothing ‘pro-life’ about our legislators signing on to make things worse.” - @bridgettedunlap
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Josh is the former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
They’re not cutting “waste fraud and abuse”. That’s the cover story.
It’s a con.
They’re not cutting “waste fraud and abuse”. That’s the cover story.
It’s a con.
March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Josh is the former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
They’re not cutting “waste fraud and abuse”. That’s the cover story.
It’s a con.
They’re not cutting “waste fraud and abuse”. That’s the cover story.
It’s a con.
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Imagine that. 💰
March 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Imagine that. 💰
Including eggs. Which reached an all time high last week: $4.95 per dozen. USDA says that will go up another 40% this year. I can't believe he lied.
Good morning from the United States of America, where thanks to a plurality of our dumbest citizens, the “price of eggs” felon they voted for has just made everything we buy much, much more expensive.
March 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Including eggs. Which reached an all time high last week: $4.95 per dozen. USDA says that will go up another 40% this year. I can't believe he lied.
No. Just......NO. campaignforchildren.org/resource/let...
Letter of Opposition: FY2025 budget resolution (H.Con.Res.14) - Campaign For Children
Today, First Focus Campaign for Children sent a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to express our strong
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February 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
No. Just......NO. campaignforchildren.org/resource/let...
The House votes today on whether to cut kids off from health care. @campaign4kids.bsky.social and our fellow advocates have been pushing lawmakers to vote a big, fat "NO." More here campaignforchildren.org/news/vote-no...
February 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The House votes today on whether to cut kids off from health care. @campaign4kids.bsky.social and our fellow advocates have been pushing lawmakers to vote a big, fat "NO." More here campaignforchildren.org/news/vote-no...
"There is no act too small." Kindness is political. Bring someone bread. Or flowers. Or just a note that says "I got you."
February 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"There is no act too small." Kindness is political. Bring someone bread. Or flowers. Or just a note that says "I got you."
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Children need your help NOW!
Hours after Trump promised not to cut Medicaid, he supported the House budget proposal, which cuts Medicaid by as much as $880 billion and threaten the health of over 40% of children in this country.
Please demand that Congress protect the health of children.
Hours after Trump promised not to cut Medicaid, he supported the House budget proposal, which cuts Medicaid by as much as $880 billion and threaten the health of over 40% of children in this country.
Please demand that Congress protect the health of children.
February 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Children need your help NOW!
Hours after Trump promised not to cut Medicaid, he supported the House budget proposal, which cuts Medicaid by as much as $880 billion and threaten the health of over 40% of children in this country.
Please demand that Congress protect the health of children.
Hours after Trump promised not to cut Medicaid, he supported the House budget proposal, which cuts Medicaid by as much as $880 billion and threaten the health of over 40% of children in this country.
Please demand that Congress protect the health of children.
Fantastic read. Also worth noting that #Project2025 specifically targets low-income CHILDREN for health care cuts. bit.ly/419bhTc
February 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fantastic read. Also worth noting that #Project2025 specifically targets low-income CHILDREN for health care cuts. bit.ly/419bhTc
Wondering if/when this goes to SCOTUS. That seems to be the ultimate plan...
If not for 4 federal judges who ruled Trump’s Executive Order to gut birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional, EVERY BABY in the U.S. would have been born in legal limbo.
Nobody knows the rules, forms, bureaucrats, or process needed.
It would have been an absolute unconstitutional disaster.
Nobody knows the rules, forms, bureaucrats, or process needed.
It would have been an absolute unconstitutional disaster.
a sign that says " no one knows what they 're doing " on it
ALT: a sign that says " no one knows what they 're doing " on it
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February 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Wondering if/when this goes to SCOTUS. That seems to be the ultimate plan...
Why? Just.....why?? ICYMI, latest attempt to steal the child tax credit from U.S. citizen children. We're looking at you, Rep. @jeffvandrew.bsky.social lnkd.in/eiDujBYv (apologies if the owner of this account is not REP. Van Drew....)
February 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Why? Just.....why?? ICYMI, latest attempt to steal the child tax credit from U.S. citizen children. We're looking at you, Rep. @jeffvandrew.bsky.social lnkd.in/eiDujBYv (apologies if the owner of this account is not REP. Van Drew....)
More of this please.
I am honored that @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social's just-published journal article, "To Be Seen and Heard: Toward a Child Liberation Theology Framework for Contemporary Praise and Worship Practice," engages my work on child liberation theology.
Read it here:
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Read it here:
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February 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
More of this please.
Even as we speak here in butterfly land, lawmakers are debating trillions in funding cuts and many $$ will come from kids. Medicaid, food, education are all on the table. See @firstfocus.bsky.social's brief "What proposed federal budget cuts and policy changes will cost children."
bit.ly/4hD8iJO
bit.ly/4hD8iJO
February 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Even as we speak here in butterfly land, lawmakers are debating trillions in funding cuts and many $$ will come from kids. Medicaid, food, education are all on the table. See @firstfocus.bsky.social's brief "What proposed federal budget cuts and policy changes will cost children."
bit.ly/4hD8iJO
bit.ly/4hD8iJO
Both the House and Senate will hear testimony today about the cuts to USAID. DO NOT BE FOOLED. Here are five things you need to know: firstfocus.org/news/five-th...
Five things to know about USAID and children | First Focus on Children
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are set to review the Trump Administration’s dismantling of foreign aid during hearings tomorrow. Here are five
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February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Both the House and Senate will hear testimony today about the cuts to USAID. DO NOT BE FOOLED. Here are five things you need to know: firstfocus.org/news/five-th...
Must read from @brucelesley.bsky.social re: Medicaid cuts and the calculated effort to make them at the expense of children, who cannot, of course, advocate for themselves.
The House proposed $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid today. If past is prologue, children will absorb the brunt of these proposed cuts. (1)
a baby is covering his face and saying here we go again .
ALT: a baby is covering his face and saying here we go again .
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February 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Must read from @brucelesley.bsky.social re: Medicaid cuts and the calculated effort to make them at the expense of children, who cannot, of course, advocate for themselves.