“I continue to speak out because the kids are counting on us,” she said. “I continue because I would want people to speak out if it were my kids. It’s my calling to care about all children. It’s just who I am and I can’t not care.”

The current moment builds on decades of work – mothers harnessing their organizing power, meeting up with each other to keep their communities safe, launching and supporting campaigns, advocating for changes in public policy and getting out the vote. Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images

 

‘I see every child like I see my children’: why US mothers are on the frontlines of resistance movements

Mothers’ experiences often intersect with federal policy battles over gun violence, immigration and childcare

Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis and Ankita Rao in Washington

Sun 10 May 2026

Sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. On the day Renee Good was killed by a federal agent after dropping her son at school, she too had been surrounded by agents who screamed that they were the good guys.

On the other side of the metropolis, Linsey Rippy showed up daily to a church, ready to assemble and distribute boxes full of produce, beans, rice, cereal, sometimes adding in formula for babies stuck at home with their parents because it wasn’t safe to go out during “Operation Metro Surge”, the Trump administration’s widespread and violent immigration enforcement crackdown.

Mothers built the backbone of the resistance in Minnesota, quickly setting up networks to get kids to school and feed people, march and protest, monitor immigration agents, give rides, protect school grounds and fundraise for rent – a revolution made of caregiving and community. The movement accelerated nationally when millions saw a now iconic photo of five-year-old Liam Ramos, who was detained in the state along with his father and taken to the Dilley immigration processing center in Texas.

Rachel Accurso, the popular children’s show host and advocate known as Ms Rachel, ramped up a campaign on social media and across TV networks to end immigration detention for children. She described a video call with a nine-year-old, Deiver, a spelling bee winner who was also held at Dilley detention center in Texas who wanted to be released so he could go to the state bee, as “devastating and surreal”.

“I see every child like I see my children and I think about their mothers having to see them suffer,” Accurso said. “It breaks me.”... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/10/mothers-resistance-protest-movements

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To see humanity in everyone and want everyone to thrive is a beautiful way to live... Ms. Rachel

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To see humanity in everyone and want everyone to thrive is a beautiful way to live.    https://x.com/msrachelforlitt/status/2000641931504754821/photo/1

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“I never thought I’d go on TV and beg for children not to be intentionally starved and that would be controversial.” Ms Rachel 

GLAMOUR: Ms. Rachel’s Dress at the Glamour Women of the Year 2025 Awards Has a Special Meaning

"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them. I want my taxes to feed children, not starve them. I want to build a better world, not bomb it." Ms Rachel 

"Admirers from UNICEF leaders to Hollywood actors have praised her for saying what many politicians won’t. Critics, meanwhile, accuse her of politicizing childhood. She doesn’t flinch. “I have to just remind myself that kids’ lives are more important than my reputation,”" Ms Rachel, Glamour magazine's Women of the Year

"Imagine slashing SNAP, the program that helps children in the U.S. not go hungry- while sending billions in weapons to another country to kill other children" Ms Rachel for Littles

YouTube Star Ms Rachel Sings with 3 Year Old Double Amputee From Gaza

“What does it say about these times that the world trusts Ms. Rachel more than the New York Times?” Mo Amer in The New Yorker

Dear America- "ISRAEL SAYS" is not God talking.

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“I never thought I’d go on TV and beg for children not to be intentionally starved and that would be controversial.” Ms Rachel

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 Rachel Accurso

Rachel is a passionate educator who creates research-based videos to help toddlers and their families learn, bond, and thrive. Her videos infuse songs, games and nursery rhymes with strategies from experts to help children reach important milestones in the crucial early years of learning. Rachel believes all children are capable, brilliant and important. She loves learning from them and being around their contagious joy and wonder. 

 Rachel has two master’s degrees in education. She has one in early childhood development and one in music education. She is an advocate for children’s rights and works to ensure that all children have access to high quality early childhood education. She is an ambassador for Save the Children and Room to Grow.

​Her sweet little boy inspired the show and continues to inspire her work every day! She is married to the amazing, Mr. Aron, AKA HERBIE!     https://www.msrachel.com/

 

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A Palestinian child in Gaza wearing a Ms Rachel shirt

 "I want my taxes to help children, not KILL them."  Ms Rachel 

moh.art_ "To the wonderful Miss Rachel, From the hearts of the children of Gaza and everyone who still believes in hope — thank you. You are not only a teacher or a creator, but a mother to every child, spreading joy and strength where pain lives. The dress you wore, made from the drawings of Gaza’s children, is more than fabric — it is a message of love, resilience, and peace from small hearts that still dare to dream...."

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To the wonderful Miss Rachel,  

From the hearts of the children of Gaza and everyone who still believes in hope — thank you. You are not only a teacher or a creator, but a mother to every child, spreading joy and strength where pain lives.
The dress you wore, made from the drawings of Gaza’s children, is more than fabric — it is a message of love, resilience, and peace from small hearts that still dare to dream.
I am a graphic designer from Gaza, the eldest in my family after losing my father. I draw from my heart — and I create art for anyone willing to support me, so I can provide for my loved ones.
Thank you for standing with us, for being our voice, and for bringing light to Gaza’s children ❤️
@msrachelforlittles

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“What does it say about these times that the world trusts Ms. Rachel more than the New York Times?” Mo Amer in The New Yorker

Photograph by Natalie Naccache for The New Yorker

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Mo Amer Has Survived by Being Funny

The comedian discusses flying in Jimmy Kimmel’s jet, beefing with Jerry Seinfeld, and the “weight” of talking about Palestine on his new standup special, “Wild World.”

 

By Andrew Marantz

October 26, 2025 

On billboards for the second season of the Netflix show “Mo,” the comedian Mo Amer wears a kaffiyeh and a cowboy hat. “Mo” is a semi-autobiographical, semi-absurdist dramedy, in the tradition of “Louie,” “Maron,” and “Ramy”; in the show, and also in his standup, Amer, who is forty-four, recounts slightly heightened anecdotes from his life, which was already heightened enough. He was born in Kuwait, to Palestinian-refugee parents. When he was nine, the Iraqi military invaded, sparking the Gulf War, and Amer’s family had to flee. His father was being held mistakenly as a political prisoner, and his mother sewed wads of cash into the lining of a purse and a suitcase and led her children across the border to safety. “My mother is a gansta,” Amer says in his first standup special, “The Vagabond.”

The family ended up in Houston—hence the cowboy hat, the name of Amer’s second standup special (“Mohammed in Texas”), and Amer’s onstage persona, which combines Southern charm, streetwise acuity, and an impressive range of accents from both Gulfs. In one special, Amer tells a story about going to rural Louisiana for a standup show shortly after 9/11, and almost getting arrested; in another, he tells a story about performing for American troops in Iraq, in which he almost gets shot.

Amer told me that he has always felt an obligation to speak not only as a Muslim or as an Arab but from the more specific perspective of a Palestinian American comic... READ MORE  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/mo-amer-has-survived-by-being-funny

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GLAMOUR: Ms. Rachel’s Dress at the Glamour Women of the Year 2025 Awards Has a Special Meaning

GLAMOUR: Ms. Rachel’s Dress at the Glamour Women of the Year 2025 Awards Has a Special Meaning- Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Get exclusive details behind her incredible look.

 

By Anna Moeslein

November 4, 2025

Ms. Rachel’s dress at the Glamour Women of the Year 2025 Awards proves that she wears her heart on her sleeve—sometimes literally. Rachel Accurso (or as you know her, Ms. Rachel) continued her advocacy work for the children of Gaza by attending the 2025 Glamour Women of the Year Awards in a dress that had a very special meaning behind it.

Glamour has learned exclusively that ahead of the event, which took place on November 4 at the Plaza in New York City, Ms. Rachel asked kids from Gaza to make artwork that told their stories, and then had their pictures embroidered onto an upcycled dress that she purchased for the event. We’re told she knows the meaning behind each artwork, and her hope is that she will elevate these children’s stories, and so many others, by wearing them tonight.

“I’m thinking about all the little ones there and what we can do for them,” she told livestream hosts Brooks and Grace Ann Nader on the red carpet, adding that she also has pictures of all the children with her.... READ MORE 

 https://www.glamour.com/story/ms-rachel-dress-at-the-glamour-women-of-the-year-2025-awards

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"Admirers from UNICEF leaders to Hollywood actors have praised her for saying what many politicians won’t. Critics, meanwhile, accuse her of politicizing childhood. She doesn’t flinch. “I have to just remind myself that kids’ lives are more important than my reputation,”" Ms Rachel, Glamour magazine's Women of the Year

Women of the Year

The Meaning of Ms. Rachel

She redefined children’s media—and built her empire—by centering empathy. Now she’s channeling that same ethos into activism.

By Samantha Barry  Photography by Caroline Tompkins and OK McCausland

October 27, 2025

"...Today she presides over a global media empire—13 billion YouTube views, more than 17 million subscribers, nine books, a line of toys that sells out within hours, and a Netflix series with four episodes in its first season that pulled in more than 53 million views, making it the platform’s seventh most watched series in the first half of 2025 and the most watched kids program of the same period. Oh, and she just had her second child.

And then there’s the other side of Ms. Rachel: the advocate. She’s spoken openly about postpartum depression. She’s brushed off conservative backlash for posting a Pride Month message to her followers. And most recently, she’s become one of the loudest American voices for the children in Gaza. Fundraising, posting, and bringing Rahaf, a three-year-old double amputee, onto her show. Admirers from UNICEF leaders to Hollywood actors have praised her for saying what many politicians won’t. Critics, meanwhile, accuse her of politicizing childhood. She doesn’t flinch. “I have to just remind myself that kids’ lives are more important than my reputation,” she tells me..."

https://www.glamour.com/story/ms-rachel-women-of-the-year-2025?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us 

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"Imagine slashing SNAP, the program that helps children in the U.S. not go hungry- while sending billions in weapons to another country to kill other children" Ms Rachel for Littles

 

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This is why Ms Rachel is Woman of the Year.

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YouTube Star Ms Rachel Sings with 3 Year Old Double Amputee From Gaza

YouTube star and children’s educator Rachel Accurso  [ https://www.msrachel.com/ ] , whose “Songs for Littles” have been viewed billions of times, meets and sings one of her trademark songs with Rahaf, a 3-year-old double amputee from Gaza evacuated by Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Accurso, who has millions of followers across social media, has been outspoken about her views that the children in Gaza face a humanitarian crisis, and says she has received both support and bullying for her posts. CNN