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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still the one Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich discovered)why do people fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation”
DELEUZE
DELEUZE
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A July 2025 YouGov poll for the University of Exeter indicated that Reform UK has significant support among Catholics 28% of Catholic with Reform surpassing the Conservatives, who held 22% of Catholic voters. This is absolutely depressing. It presents us with the challenge we face in our community!
February 18, 2026 at 11:45 AM
A July 2025 YouGov poll for the University of Exeter indicated that Reform UK has significant support among Catholics 28% of Catholic with Reform surpassing the Conservatives, who held 22% of Catholic voters. This is absolutely depressing. It presents us with the challenge we face in our community!
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“as thou are in church or cell, that same frame of mind carry out into the world”
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
February 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM
“as thou are in church or cell, that same frame of mind carry out into the world”
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
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🗳️ POLL | Reform lead by 5pts
➡️ Ref: 24% (-3)
🔴 Lab: 19% (=)
🔵 Con: 18% (=)
🟢 Grn: 17% (+1)
🟠 Lib: 13% (-1)
-- Seats --
➡️ Ref: 278
🟠 Lib: 84
🔴 Lab: 74
🟢 Grn: 65
🔵 Con: 60
🟡 SNP: 44
Poll: @YouGov, 15-16 Feb (+/- vs 9 Feb)
➡️ Ref: 24% (-3)
🔴 Lab: 19% (=)
🔵 Con: 18% (=)
🟢 Grn: 17% (+1)
🟠 Lib: 13% (-1)
-- Seats --
➡️ Ref: 278
🟠 Lib: 84
🔴 Lab: 74
🟢 Grn: 65
🔵 Con: 60
🟡 SNP: 44
Poll: @YouGov, 15-16 Feb (+/- vs 9 Feb)
February 17, 2026 at 9:45 AM
🗳️ POLL | Reform lead by 5pts
➡️ Ref: 24% (-3)
🔴 Lab: 19% (=)
🔵 Con: 18% (=)
🟢 Grn: 17% (+1)
🟠 Lib: 13% (-1)
-- Seats --
➡️ Ref: 278
🟠 Lib: 84
🔴 Lab: 74
🟢 Grn: 65
🔵 Con: 60
🟡 SNP: 44
Poll: @YouGov, 15-16 Feb (+/- vs 9 Feb)
➡️ Ref: 24% (-3)
🔴 Lab: 19% (=)
🔵 Con: 18% (=)
🟢 Grn: 17% (+1)
🟠 Lib: 13% (-1)
-- Seats --
➡️ Ref: 278
🟠 Lib: 84
🔴 Lab: 74
🟢 Grn: 65
🔵 Con: 60
🟡 SNP: 44
Poll: @YouGov, 15-16 Feb (+/- vs 9 Feb)
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Food banks are a lifeline. But they’re not a long-term solution to hunger.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
February 16, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Food banks are a lifeline. But they’re not a long-term solution to hunger.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
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Yvette Cooper's ban of Palestine Action was based on a pack of lies.
Absolutely devastating from Huda Ammori
Absolutely devastating from Huda Ammori
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Yvette Cooper's ban of Palestine Action was based on a pack of lies.
Absolutely devastating from Huda Ammori
Absolutely devastating from Huda Ammori
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Join the Pax Christi community every week during Lent for a brief prayer service, starting next Monday -- we'll share Scripture readings, short reflections, prayers of the faithful, and more. 8:30-9 PM Eastern/5:30-6 PM Pacific. All are welcome! Find the registration link on our website.
Join us Monday evenings in Lent for a short Lenten prayer service with the Pax Christi USA community
All members of the Pax Christi USA community are invited to join us for the Pax Christi USA community weekly Lenten prayer service, Mondays, 8:30-9 PM Eastern // 5:30-6 PM Pacific, beginning on February 23 and continuing until March 30. The prayer service, with Scripture readings, short reflections, prayers of the faithful, and more, will be approximately 30 minutes and help us to focus on our own participation in being the peace of Christ in a world shattered by chaos, war, violence, suffering and greed.
paxchristiusa.org
February 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Join the Pax Christi community every week during Lent for a brief prayer service, starting next Monday -- we'll share Scripture readings, short reflections, prayers of the faithful, and more. 8:30-9 PM Eastern/5:30-6 PM Pacific. All are welcome! Find the registration link on our website.
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“This additional £130bn per year [of military spending] ... has not been set by Britain's security needs ... it was set by the US and will mean we have fewer resources for other key priorities ... mak[ing] our country weaker over the long run.”
Khem Rogaly on LBC News. 👇
Khem Rogaly on LBC News. 👇
February 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
“This additional £130bn per year [of military spending] ... has not been set by Britain's security needs ... it was set by the US and will mean we have fewer resources for other key priorities ... mak[ing] our country weaker over the long run.”
Khem Rogaly on LBC News. 👇
Khem Rogaly on LBC News. 👇
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REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat.
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
Meet the racists and far-right activists campaigning for Matt Goodwin in Gorton and Denton – HOPE not hate
On 26 February, a parliamentary by-election will be held in Gorton and Denton and Reform UK has put up the far-right provocateur Matt Goodwin as...
hopenothate.org.uk
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat.
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
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"I didnt know anything about this investigation"
Starmer says he doesnt know anything about Labour Together investigating & smearing journalists. A reminder that this is the organisation founded by McSweeney & other senior Labour right figures that masterminded his rise to power
Starmer says he doesnt know anything about Labour Together investigating & smearing journalists. A reminder that this is the organisation founded by McSweeney & other senior Labour right figures that masterminded his rise to power
February 16, 2026 at 2:29 PM
"I didnt know anything about this investigation"
Starmer says he doesnt know anything about Labour Together investigating & smearing journalists. A reminder that this is the organisation founded by McSweeney & other senior Labour right figures that masterminded his rise to power
Starmer says he doesnt know anything about Labour Together investigating & smearing journalists. A reminder that this is the organisation founded by McSweeney & other senior Labour right figures that masterminded his rise to power
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Violence against women and girls – the systematic rape and trafficking of children at the hands of wealthy, elitist men – is a much bigger concern than political melodrama.
There. I said it. Unsure why it was that difficult.
@rozfoyer.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social
There. I said it. Unsure why it was that difficult.
@rozfoyer.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social
'Protecting women must come before the political drama of the Epstein fallout'
The protection of women and girls from systemic abuse must outweigh the political melodrama triggered by the Epstein files fallout, says Roz Foyer
www.heraldscotland.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Violence against women and girls – the systematic rape and trafficking of children at the hands of wealthy, elitist men – is a much bigger concern than political melodrama.
There. I said it. Unsure why it was that difficult.
@rozfoyer.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social
There. I said it. Unsure why it was that difficult.
@rozfoyer.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Yet Latin America's "religiously unaffiliated" aren't European atheists. Most still believe in God and pray daily—as much as practicing Christians do here. They've rejected structures, but not faith. It's a distinctly Latin American form of secularisation. 6/7
February 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Yet Latin America's "religiously unaffiliated" aren't European atheists. Most still believe in God and pray daily—as much as practicing Christians do here. They've rejected structures, but not faith. It's a distinctly Latin American form of secularisation. 6/7
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For fifty years, Latin America's big religious story was straightforward: Catholics were becoming Pentecostals. But recent data suggests things have changed. Catholicism continues to decline, but the recent beneficiary may not be Protestantism, but the religiously unaffiliated. 1/7
February 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM
For fifty years, Latin America's big religious story was straightforward: Catholics were becoming Pentecostals. But recent data suggests things have changed. Catholicism continues to decline, but the recent beneficiary may not be Protestantism, but the religiously unaffiliated. 1/7
We still need a politics that speaks TO peoples’ needs and speaks FOR both radical redistribution of wealth and radical redistribution of democratic decision making A renewed politics of solidarity/subsidiarity that allows people to believe in and defend both Democracy and the Common Good once again
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 AM
We still need a politics that speaks TO peoples’ needs and speaks FOR both radical redistribution of wealth and radical redistribution of democratic decision making A renewed politics of solidarity/subsidiarity that allows people to believe in and defend both Democracy and the Common Good once again
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A thing folks often forget about Revolution-era America is there were pockets of Catholics who’d effectively had their faith suppressed *in America* and, also, French Huguenots who were only here because Catholics in France massacred thousands of them and threw their bodies into the Seine River.
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 2:49 AM
A thing folks often forget about Revolution-era America is there were pockets of Catholics who’d effectively had their faith suppressed *in America* and, also, French Huguenots who were only here because Catholics in France massacred thousands of them and threw their bodies into the Seine River.
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My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social
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“The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening."
Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across th...
www.democracynow.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:36 PM
“The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening."
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Why are Scottish schools still using Twitter when the site was used to create deepfake sexual images of children? Why is the Scottish government permitting this? Why are councils permitting this? Why are teachers permitting this? If you care about the safety of children get off that site right now.
February 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Why are Scottish schools still using Twitter when the site was used to create deepfake sexual images of children? Why is the Scottish government permitting this? Why are councils permitting this? Why are teachers permitting this? If you care about the safety of children get off that site right now.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
I told my political representatives that I want them to oppose the Trump administration's imposition of collective suffering on Cuba
How about you?
Violets are blue
I told my political representatives that I want them to oppose the Trump administration's imposition of collective suffering on Cuba
How about you?
February 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I told my political representatives that I want them to oppose the Trump administration's imposition of collective suffering on Cuba
How about you?
Violets are blue
I told my political representatives that I want them to oppose the Trump administration's imposition of collective suffering on Cuba
How about you?
Looking at the world today I agree with historian Leszek Kolakowski, who argued forcefully against Marx’s view that ALL human shortcomings are rooted in social circumstances,arguing that evil is not contingent but an irredeemable fact in human beings!The same for goodness no less however I would add
February 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Looking at the world today I agree with historian Leszek Kolakowski, who argued forcefully against Marx’s view that ALL human shortcomings are rooted in social circumstances,arguing that evil is not contingent but an irredeemable fact in human beings!The same for goodness no less however I would add
“Every aspiration to contain human experience in a unified theory,every urge to order mankind in neat rows,every codified system of belief that despises dissent, involves some inward violence”
RAFAEL BEHR
RAFAEL BEHR
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“Every aspiration to contain human experience in a unified theory,every urge to order mankind in neat rows,every codified system of belief that despises dissent, involves some inward violence”
RAFAEL BEHR
RAFAEL BEHR
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Happy Valentine's Day! Here's the skull of St. Valentine in Rome.
February 14, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! Here's the skull of St. Valentine in Rome.