Europeans: ““He [Mamdani] promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Europeans: ““He [Mamdani] promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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.
04.11.2025 08:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Potentially 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.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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.
29.10.2025 06:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
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your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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?
22.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0U.S., take note!
22.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amen!
22.10.2025 05:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 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!
19.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Five 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.
19.10.2025 23:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The 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.
15.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 4827 🔁 1835 💬 69 📌 51« 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
Nowadays…
08.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My grand-mère was right. #Food is always the solution!
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...
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
«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.
02.10.2025 03:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0May she rest in peace !
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
"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-...
29.09.2025 06:43 — 👍 95 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 3#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! 🙌🏾🎉👏🏽🇭🇹