Maggie Monk

Retired District Nurse. Loving life, family, friends and retirement.

[Maggie Monk @supermum55]

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[Dr. Dame Katy Denise CH GBE 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇬🪑 @damekatydenise_]

Please don’t share this… @MetroUK

[Single Market Minded 🇪🇺 @SingleMarketPls]

A picture never lies.

#BinFarage
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#votebinface4clacton

[Stella Doves🦖 🇬🇧 💚🤍💜 @StellaDoves]

Looks like we are here again!

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex" ~Susan B Anthony 1872-1874

[Dr P. Accurate sex-recognition is a human right @Psychgirl211]

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[That's The Badger! @Thatsthebad]

This never fails to make me laugh 😂😂

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The Catholic Church HUMILIATES J.D. Vance and Mike Johnson by releasing a brutal statement explaining "just war theory" after they both tried to invoke it to defend Trump's illegal Iran War.

This is like arguing theoretical physics with Albert Einstein...

“For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war," Bishop James Massa, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, said in a statement.

"A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308)," he continued. "That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.’"

“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ," he added. "The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars.”

The statement offers a sharp rebuke to Vance, a man who claims to be a Catholic, after he argued at a Turning Points USA event that the pope was wrong to criticize the war.

“I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology‚” Vance, an adult convert to the faith, said. “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful, you’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth." He added that there is a “more than 1,000-year tradition of just war theory” within the Catholic Church.

Speaker Johnson, an Evangelical, echoed similar sentiments earlier today when he said that he was "taken aback" by Pope Leo's anti-war remarks.

“It’s a very well-settled matter of Christian theology. There’s something called the just war doctrine," said Johnson.

While Vance and Johnson are correct in the very narrow sense that just war theory exists, they are dead wrong in their application. The Iran War meets none of the criteria under the time-honored framework and in fact violates every single one of them.

According to the Catholic Catechism and traditions dating back to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, a war must have a "just cause," which this one clearly does not. Trump attacked Iran because Israel wanted to destabilize a regional adversary in order to make their territorial expansion easier.

It must be waged with "legitimate authority" but Trump didn't seek Congressional approval in blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution.

It must be motivated by "right intention" but the White House can't even articulate coherent goals for the conflict. One day they pretend it's about nuclear weapons (despite our intelligence agencies concluding that Iran was not seeking such weapons). The next day it's about bringing democracy to the oppressed Iranian people (a claim that's dramatically undermined by the killing of those very same civilians by American bombs).

It must have a "probability of success" which this war did not. Trump was never going to bomb Iran into submission and a ground war would end in unmitigated disaster for the United States. This war was always going to be a terroristic bombing campaign that resulted in nothing but the loss of innocent lives.

A war must have "proportionality," meaning that it prevents more harm than it causes. In the case of the Iran War, no harm has been prevented but mass suffering has been inflicted, not just in Iran, but also in Lebanon where Israel has launched a brutal invasion, slaughtering civilian populations and seizing land.

In other words, Pope Leo is absolutely right to condemn this war as a moral atrocity. Vance and Johnson have abandoned the true teachings of Jesus Christ to pander to the demented pedophile in the White House. They have chosen political power over truth and revealed themselves as fraudulent Christians in the process.

Please ❤️ and share if you staunchly oppose the Iran War!

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Britain’s Prime Minister Just Delivered a Br— And the Entire World Saw It.

A reporter threw Keir Starmer into the fire with one explosive question: “Tru.m.p is furious with you. Has your relationship completely fallen apart?”

Most politicians would have panicked. Dodged the question. Smiled awkwardly. Tried to calm the headlines.
But not Starmer. He stared straight ahead and said the one thing almost nobody in Washington has dared to say out loud:
“I act in the British national interest. My principles and values are what guide me. Nothing — but nothing — is going to deflect me from that.”

No apology. No fear. No desperate attempt to keep https://t.co/RZ6QpV1mUf happy. Just imagine that for a second.

While American politicians continue walking on eggshells around the man in Mar-a-Lago, Britain’s Prime Minister stood on a military base in Saudi Arabia and made it crystal clear:
“I do not govern for you.”

He refused to drag Britain into a war without legal approval. He demanded proof, legality, and accountability. For 39 days, he held his ground while https://t.co/M0hqPAI5Hc raged, threatened, and unleashed fury online.

And when asked if he regretted standing up to Tr.ump?
Not one second of hesitation.
Not one word of apology.
Not one inch of retreat.
This is what real leadership looks like.

Not angry social media posts before sunrise.
Just a leader who knows exactly who he serves — and refuses to bow.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

For me, this articulates perfectly why some women are angry about the situation with the endo charity ⬇️

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Excellent news for women! A man will be mansplaining Endometriosis on our behalf in Westminster.

What’s important here is that women recognise men are still better at being women than we are and their observations of female pain are more valid than our lived experience 🤡

(Disclaimer: for the avoidance of doubt this post contains sarcasm)

[PHB ☮️☘️💙☘️☮️ @WeTheSisters]

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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet.

Afroman had his house raided by Ohio Adam County deputies… who found absolutely nothing… broke his door, trashed his place, allegedly had $400 go missing… and then they refused to pay for the damages.

So, like any reasonable rapper would do…

He turned his home security footage into music videos, mocking them.

And then, the deputies sued him for FOUR MILLION dollars… because they didn’t like being made fun of.

And Afroman’s response?

He dropped ANOTHER music video.

In his own words:
“Unconfidential informant lied to Police to get out of some trouble. Adam County Sherriff officers made a mistake by believing the lie. Raided my house, found nothing, refused to pay for the damages and filed a lawsuit against me, Afroman, for exercising my freedom of speech! This is me holding trial in one song. I hope you enjoy it.”

They said his videos “ridiculed” them… so he decided to show them what that actually looks like.

And the best part?

A jury basically said… yeah… you don’t get to raid someone’s home, end up in their surveillance footage, and then cry because they used it to make fun of you.

[Maggie Monk @supermum55]

@TheRealJamieKay No

[Red Line Report 🇺🇸 @RedLineReportt]

No, no, you are not and you never will be!

What's your response?

[Sarah Champion @SarahChampion]

Happy International Women’s Day

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

"I think misogyny plays a really big part in this... That a man will be a better woman than someone who was born a woman."

— Germaine Greer, 2015

[Prince & Princess of Wales Fan @HRHCatherine]

John Davidson with Princess Anne today, there is no doubt in my mind his Tourette’s caused him to say something rude, but thankfully he is in a room full of adults and not professional victims.