Marie-Rose Romain Murphy

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Europeans: ““He [Mamdani] promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,”

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From the Guardian…

Light in the dark.

This. Made. My. Day!

#Hope

The hardest thing about planting seeds of any kind is waiting to see if they will grow and bear fruit, or just die.

Potentially diseased lab monkey on the loose after truck crash in Mississippi Several rhesus monkeys escaped after the interstate crash, but all but one were reportedly ‘destroyed’ by late Tuesday

Potentially diseased monkey on the loose after a train accident? What kind of a disease/virus are we talking about?

Sometimes, I have to pinch myself to make sure that the reality we are living in is real.

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Communities in the Soutgern part of #Haiti have been battered by #HurricaneMelissa which has destroyed homes, crops and killed farm animals…One more too many disasters.

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Harvard Kennedy School:
“New research by Professor Erica Chenowth and the Crowd Counting Consortium has found that the 2025 No Kings protests in the United States have been more geographically diverse than any other in the country’s history.”

The normalization of evil?

U.S., take note!

Amen!

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Our baby girl!

Five years ago, she came into our lives. We had tried to adopt a dog without success. She was my birthday present, the perfect addition to our family especially as we faced the pandemic. She was smart,sociable, affectionate, bold, fearless, and made everyone in our house and neighborhood feel happy.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

« I wish none of this had happened. So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. »-JRR Tolkien

#Timely #ThoughtofTheDay

kermit the frog is sitting on a railing wearing sneakers ALT: kermit the frog is sitting on a railing wearing sneakers

Waiting to hear who gets the Nobel Peace Prize…

Nowadays…

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

My grand-mère was right. #Food is always the solution!

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When you realize that history is truffled with lies and that institutions and governments at all levels bury the truth to hide their failures and their crimes.

#systemic #pattern

#Cadras #Haiti

📸 : Nadia Torres

Opinion | Incompetence Isn’t an Upgrade Over D.E.I.

«Trumpism, by contrast, all too often denies the existence of systemic disadvantage (
…demolishes D.E.I. and replaces it with a degree of authoritarianism and incompetence that makes a mockery of the very idea of meritocracy»

://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/opinion/pete-hegseth-speech-dei.html

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

« I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. »

-Robert Frost

We need to remember where we came from and who we are, in order to become what we are meant to be.

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

May she rest in peace !

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The far right is acting as one party. When will we? | Euractiv Liberal institutions treat each surge of populism as a domestic challenge to be managed within national elections or courts. Meanwhile the far right amplifies each other’s victories, recycles each oth...

"AfD is not just Germany’s problem, Vox is not just Spain’s, and MAGA is not just America’s. They are expressions of a single political current, localised for context but feeding into the same transnational authoritarian project." www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...

#FCOCACB (Femmes Coopératives pour la Commercialisation Agricole Coordonnée de Belance)contributed 10% of their project cost in stones & gravel 4 it’s building a multi-purpose community & commercial center w/the help of the #HaitiCommunityFoundation

This was the building Inauguration Day! 🙌🏾🎉👏🏽🇭🇹