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Dr. Chris McDermott

@dharmadude54.bsky.social

Anglican priest and Soto Zen Buddhist. Associate Researcher with Office of Religion and Foreign Policy Initiatives @ University of Sussex. Interested in dual /multiple religious belonging - the subject of my Ph.D. research.

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Friends, I'm here to bear witness, to tell you what's happening on-the-ground here in Minneapolis. A taste: ➡️ A fundraising comrade reported she had long guns pointed at her while she was ... Friends, I'm here to bear witness, to tell you what's happening on-the-ground here in Minneapolis. A taste: ➡️ A fundraising comrade reported she had long guns pointed at her while she was in an ar...

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16.01.2026 13:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Keep Hope Alive | Dr. Christopher McDermott Keep hope alive - in our hearts and in the world!

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16.01.2026 09:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No words. (Though several four letter words and other expletives are reeling in my brain!! ) Very sad to follow my earlier new year’s greeting and wishes for peace and hope in 2026 with this post. Renee Nicole Good, rest in peace. 😢

08.01.2026 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” (Meister Eckhart) Hope it’s not too late to wish everyone much light, peace & hope for the new year ahead.

08.01.2026 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings! We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...

We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

23.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop Trump exporting bigotry and hate | Good Law Project

Donald Trump is waging war on our hard-won rights – it’s time to fight back.

Join me and Good Law Project and say loud and clear: not in our country. goodlawproject.org/s/c22468

04.08.2025 15:29 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Some reflections from this ex pat on the current political landscape in the USA - still my beloved original home - in the light of some thoughts from the late British philosopher and political theorist Gillian Rose. www.linkedin.com/pulse/gillia...

06.05.2025 12:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apologies to actual pumpkins! 😎

10.04.2025 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Signs of the times!

07.04.2025 09:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On the train and heading for the ‘hands off our democracy’ rally in Trafalgar Square. Hope to some of you if you are there! #ResistFascism

05.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The London rally will happen 3-5pm Saturday 5th April. I will be there. www.facebook.com/632801748/po...?

28.03.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gannet owned newspapers removed the Doonesbury cartoon from their 18th Feb Sunday editions. So, in case you missed it!

20.03.2025 08:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had the camera crew wandered into the Oval Office early and caught VP Vance shagging a couch while Donald Trump spanked his bare arse with a rolled up copy of the NY Post, it would have been less shameful a moment than what transpired during President Zelensky’s visit. SHAME!!!!!

01.03.2025 05:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A real existential shift for USA! America voting with Russia, Belarus, and N. Korea against a UN resolution that acknowledges Russia’s role as aggressor in Ukraine war. MAGA joining what Bush labelled ‘the axis of evil’.

25.02.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump negotiating a peace deal with Russia w/out including the Ukraine in the process would be like Roosevelt negotiating peace and the future of Europe with Hitler w/out including the participation of the UK, France and other WW2 allied nations. #SHAME

19.02.2025 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump blaming Ukraine for war with Russia is like blaming the victim of domestic abuse for their partner’s or spouse’s violence. The USA of MAGA becoming a vassal to Putin’s Kremlin. :(

19.02.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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May all beings be well and may their deepest, ‘divine’ natures flourish in each and every one.

13.02.2025 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edolf von Muskler and his DOGE team of teenage mutant incels!

07.02.2025 10:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes.

05.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump and his MAGA heads now working on plans to dismantle the Dept. of Education. Oh the irony!

05.02.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@judemills.bsky.social good to find you here on Bluesky! xxChris

05.02.2025 13:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Very kind of Canada and Mexico to help the bloviating pumpkin skinned blob to save face by agreeing to do things they had already done much earlier.

04.02.2025 16:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With tyranny becoming the trademark of the Trump regime, it’s good to remember this.

02.02.2025 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What you can do Ten ways to resist Trump II

substack.com/@robertreich... Mock and hurl satire and invective at the Felon in Chief as you vent your angst. But in accordance with the American tradition of dissent and its legacy of resistance to injustice amid threats to democracy, human dignity and rights. #love #resistance #rage

23.01.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If she can do it, we can all do it.

22.01.2025 10:43 — 👍 93934    🔁 13329    💬 1678    📌 835
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Still pictures of Kamala etc.. caught in mid movement does not equate to the kind of nazi salute - repeated twice and including a hand thump to the breast. People who are not Nazi know better. Check out the attached guide!

22.01.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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