Sharing the best of humanity with the world, one story at a time.Entire family secretly raids Grandma's closet on Thanksgiving and her reaction is so wholesome
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/family-raids-grandmas-closet-thanksgiving
The Wild Hunt NewsStorm Faerywolf sends off the Samhain season with a tribute to his grandmother, whose spirit has guided, protected, and urged him onward on both sides of the Veil.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/11/the-power-of-beloved-dead.html
#pagan #witchcraft #ancestors #beloveddead #samhain #themightydead #grandmothers
Catherine Schmidt
Andrew ShieldsThere were hundreds of them, all in period costume
Day of the Dead
Ben Banyard
#Poetry #BenBanyard #DayOfTheDead #InkSweatAndTears #Ancestors #Grandmothers
DoomsdaysCW#Volunteers flock to #ImmigrationCourts to support #migrants arrested in the hallways
By MARTHA BELLISLE, CEDAR ATTANASIO and COLLEEN SLEVIN
Updated 8:38 AM EDT, July 20, 2025
SEATTLE (AP) — "After a Seattle immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against a Colombian man — exposing him to expedited removal — three people sat with him in the back of the courtroom, taking his car keys for #SafeKeeping, helping him memorize phone numbers and gathering the names of family members who needed to be notified.
"When Judge Brett Parchert asked why they were doing that in court, the volunteers said Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers were outside the door, waiting to take the man into custody, so this was their only chance to help him get his things in order. '#ICE is in the waiting room?' the judge asked.
"As the #MassDeportation campaign of President Donald #Trump focuses on cities and states led by Democrats and unleashes fear among asylum-seekers and immigrants, their legal defenders sued this week, seeking class-action protections against the arrests outside immigration court hearings. Meanwhile, these volunteers are taking action.
"A diverse group — #FaithLeaders, #CollegeStudents, #grandmothers, #retired #lawyers and #professors — has been showing up at immigration courts across the nation to escort immigrants at risk of being detained for deportation by masked ICE officials. They’re giving families moral and logistical support, and bearing witness as the people are taken away.
"The #NorthwestImmigrantRightsProject was inundated by so many community members wanting to help that they made a volunteer training video, created '#KnowYourRights' sheets in several languages and started a Google sheet where people sign up for shifts, said Stephanie Gai, a staff attorney with the Seattle-based legal services non-profit.
" 'We could not do it without them,' Gai said. 'Some volunteers request time off work so they can come in and help.'
"Robby Rohr, a retired non-profit director said she volunteers regularly.
" 'Being here makes people feel they are remembered and recognized,' she said 'It’s such a bureaucratic and confusing process. We try to help them through it.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-court-arrests-ice-bd145fae56c0d493ba52418cc66ef3b7
FMI about #NWIPR:
https://www.nwirp.org/
#ResistICE #USPol #BuildingCommunity #NoHumanIsIllegal #WeKeepOurselvesSafe #WeKeepEachOtherSafe
Volunteers help migrants at hearings where ICE agents detain them
A diverse group of volunteers from faith leaders to grandmothers to retired lawyers have been escorting people to immigration courts across the country. They provide moral support and bear witness if people are taken away by masked ICE officers. The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle had so many wanting to volunteer that they created an online signup sheet, a training video and multilingual “Know Your Rights” sheets to hand out. As President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign unleashes fear among asylum-seekers, immigrants and their families, these volunteers are helping families as people disappear into detention.
Joe B. Wall46 or so years after being chided by my born-in-1899 grandmother for my unsavory love of chewing gum, I have to admit that everyone really does look less intelligent when their mouth is flappin' away at a wad of gum like a cow chewing its cud.
#STOPTHEGENOCIDEThe elderly #Palestinian lady's name who posed as a model for this series "Our Mother Palestine" is Karima Shaheen. She died during the #genocide. In honor of her and all #grandmothers of #Gaza here's another piece by #digital #artist Read Al Qatanani (*1973)
[#mastodonart #art #mastoart]
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theNameless600 #CHILDREN KILLED IN A MONTH!!! 0NE MONTH!!!
...AND THESE #NUMBERS DONT EVEN ACCOUNT FOR THE #ELDERS SHOT, #GRANDMOTHERS RUN OVER BY TANKS, #MOTHERS AND #FATHERS BURNED IN THEIR TENTS, OR #YOUNG #MEN BURNED ALIVE IN THEIR #PATIENT BEDS, OR THE ENTIRE #FAMILIES BOMBED AND #MURDERED DURING #PRAYERS EARLY AF IN THE MORNING!!!
THIS ISNT A FUCKING #WAR!!!
THIS IS #TERRORISM FLAT OUT!!!
#STOPTHEGENOCIDE #genocide #palestine #mastodonart #art #mastoart #gaza #palestinian #mothers #aunts #grandmothers #pain #loss #suffering #trauma
Another #painting by the talented young #Egyptian #artist Abdullah Wgih.
Never forget about the #women of #Gaza and #Palestine who lost their #children, #grandchildren, #nieces, and #nephews!
#STOPTHEGENOCIDE #genocide #palestine #mastodonart #art #mastoart #gaza #palestinian #mothers #aunts #grandmothers #pain #loss #suffering #trauma
Another #painting by the talented young #Egyptian #artist Abdullah Wgih.
Never forget about the #women of #Gaza and #Palestine who lost their #children, #grandchildren, #nieces, and #nephews!
