Journalist. Critic. Blogger. Member Journalists Hall of Fame. Lover of pelicans, cats, spiders & truth.
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Joined March 2008
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Samela Harris retweeted
Wishing all my friends in the United States of America a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, but we do have a National Cat...
(Pic @PjrFoto)
Samela Harris retweeted
J’ai 82 ans.
4 enfants, 11 petits-enfants, 2 arrière-petits-enfants…
Et une chambre de 12 m².
Je n’ai plus ma maison.
Plus mes meubles, ni mes souvenirs autour de moi.
Mais j’ai quelqu’un qui fait mon lit, me prépare à manger,
et prend ma tension chaque matin.
Je n’entends plus les rires d’enfants,
je ne prépare plus mes boulettes, ni mes œufs mimosa.
Je ne tricote presque plus.
Certains passent me voir tous les quinze jours.
D’autres, tous les trois mois.
Et puis… certains ne viennent plus du tout.
Alors je fais mes sudokus.
Je vais en ergothérapie.
Je parle avec ceux qui restent… mais pas trop.
Parce qu’ici, les liens se brisent vite.
Ils partent souvent sans prévenir.
On dit que la vie dure plus longtemps qu’avant.
Mais pourquoi, si c’est pour la finir si seule ?
Il me reste mes photos.
Quelques objets ramenés de “chez moi”.
Et le silence, parfois trop lourd.
Si quelqu’un me lit…
J’espère que les générations futures comprendront une chose :
La famille, ce n’est pas que des débuts.
C’est aussi des retours.
C’est prendre soin de ceux qui nous ont aimés les premiers.
Prendre soin de ceux qui ont pris soin de nous…
C’est peut-être ça, le vrai respect.
— Une maman, une grand-mère…
Ou peut-être toi, un jour
Samela Harris retweeted
They left yesterday.
None in the garage last night.
8,000miles, bound for southern Africa.
I always feel melancholy when they leave.
Safe journey, you wee beauties.
See you next year. 💙🙏🌍
Samela Harris retweeted
A male always handles the childcare in the emu world.
Here is one protecting three stripeys (not necessarily his babies, btw). That's what baby emus are lovingly called, for obvious reasons.
Credit to Rhonda for spotting these as we travelled along Flinders Ranges Way yesterday.
Samela Harris retweeted
A new Mongabay investigation reveals that Vantara, the private Indian zoo run by Anant Ambani, has engaged U.K. lobbyists with strong ties to European pro-hunting organizations and the Trump administration.
Lobbyist Tristan Breijer of Checkmate Government Relations, who has represented European hunting associations, organized a private roundtable for Vantara on the sidelines of a recent CITES meeting in Geneva. Checkmate was founded by a close hunting associate of Donald Trump Jr., and its client list includes Reliance Industries, the oil and gas giant owned by the Ambani family.
The lobbying efforts come as CITES scrutinizes the origins of some of the endangered animals imported by Vantara. India is expected to report to the CITES Standing Committee in November on the due diligence and oversight of its wildlife import processes.
Conservationists point out that hiring commercial lobbying firms tied to trophy hunting raises critical credibility questions for an institution that claims to operate purely as an animal rescue facility.
Read the full report on the network of political connections and lobbying activities surrounding Vantara.
👉 mongabay.cc/ePaiey
Samela Harris retweeted
"Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States that loves us so much he can't even breathe" -- in extremely culty scene, Trump has his supporters pledge to him that they will vote, then tells them they will "go to hell" if they don't
Here's the full sequence:
Samela Harris retweeted
NEW: Every week, a Philadelphia nun drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas, to sit beside unaccompanied children, some as young as four, who face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent.
This week, an undocumented migrant who is facing imminent deportation called Sister Rose Kuhn his “angel.”
This comes as Catholics across the nation, inspired by Pope Leo XIV, are standing up to the White House’s immigration policies.
Samela Harris retweeted
We CAN do something. Check your labels. Boycott palm oil, force industry to stop committing ecocide.
60.2% of Bornean orangutan habitat was burned by wildfires over the past three months.
(geopix.id/2026/09/03/alerta-…)
Samela Harris retweeted
As an American Jew devoted to Judaism, I ask one thing:
Please stop calling Israel a “Jewish state.”
Call it a Zionist state.
Call it Herzl’s project.
Call it whatever you want but do not place the name of an entire religion on a political entity.
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