"The Trump administration has wrapped its military bombardment in the language of holy destiny, with 'Secretary of War' Pete Hegseth offering a horrendous Pentagon prayer for 'overwhelming violence' against those who 'deserve no mercy,' a stark departure from Christian traditions that are centered on mercy, justice, and peace."

#Trump #Hegseth #PopeLeo #WhiteChristianNationalism #Iran #war #morality #death #violence
/5

"Pope Leo XIV stepped into the international political arena at evening prayers in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Saturday, saying prayer for peace is 'a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.'”

~ Edward Helmore

#Trump #Hegseth #PopeLeo #WhiteChristianNationalism #Iran #war #morality #death #violence #destruction #WarCrimes
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/pope-leo-us-israel-iran-war

"The first US-born pope said: 'Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death.'

Addressing world leaders who decide to go to war, Leo said: 'To them we cry out: stop! It is time for peace! Sit at the table of dialogue and mediation – not at the table where rearmament is planned and deadly actions are decided.'"

#Trump #Hegseth #PopeLeo #WhiteChristianNationalism #Iran #war #morality #death #violence #destruction #WarCrimes
/2

'Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life,' he added.

While the pope did not explicitly mention the US-Israeli war with Iran, or name any single country or president, his words will be read as his strongest condemnation yet of a conflict the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has cast as a sacred struggle."

#Trump #Hegseth #PopeLeo #WhiteChristianNationalism #Iran #war #morality #death #violence
/3

John Casey notes thatright-wing US Catholics have prayed for an American pope. But now that their prayers have been answered, they’re not at all sure they like what they’ve gotten.

"What makes this clash so jarring is not a single Christian narrative, but a struggle between radically different ones."

#Trump #Hegseth #PopeLeo #WhiteChristianNationalism #Iran #war #morality #death #violence
/4

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-holy-war-is-waging-between-trump-and-the-pope/

"One minute, we’re being told that nuclear annihilation is on the table – that entire regions could be wiped off the map, that escalation is imminent, that the United States is ready to unleash hell – and the next, it’s 'productive negotiations,' a 'ceasefire,' a 'great conversation' with the same people we were on the brink of sending to the afterlife."

~ Evan Fields

#Trump #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/20

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-day-of-terror-melanias-peculiar

"He is a master of chaos. That’s where he finds meaning and strength. His supporters also thrive in the wake of his psychological and cultural whirlwind."

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/19

"While pundits and politicians ponder the ultimate objectives of the war on Iran which Donald Trump, in league with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launched on 28 February, it is worth putting this tumultuous moment in context against the rationale of the American President’s career so far – which has always been a deep and dynamic relationship with the irrational."

~ Peter Jukes

#Trump #war #death #destruction #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/18

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-iconography-of-destruction

"As the Trump era winds down, the country may relearn something that never should have been forgotten. Institutions need to be reformed, not destroyed; governing well requires skill and careful attention to detail rather than leaders acting on impulse and ignorance; and character and mental stability matter perhaps most of all."

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/17

"It feels like something shifted in the United States this week after President Donald J. Trump threatened on Tuesday that 'a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.'”

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-10-2026

"It was a week like no other—and we appear to be in for more of the same until the US, Israel, and Iran reach a lasting peace agreement."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/2

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-week-like-no-other

"The political landscape shifted this week, not with a policy debate, but with a six-minute press conference that perfectly illustrated the 'Streisand Effect.' ...

The most telling data isn’t in Trump’s rants, but in the comments section of Truth Social itself."

~ Danielle Moodie

#Trump #Melania #Epstein #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/3

https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-streisand-effect-when-magas-owned

"The base is talking back. They feel 'rug-pulled.' ... As the movement begins to disassemble at the seams, we are witnessing the end-stage of an era."

#Trump #Melania #Epstein #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/4

"Now we might soon be referencing the Melania Trump effect: the phenomenon where holding a surprise press conference to state that you did not have a relationship with a dead paedophile, and would like people to please stop speculating about the matter, immediately causes people to start speculating about the matter. ...

I have another possible explanation."

~ Arwa Mahdawi

#Trump #Melania #Epstein #war #death #destruction #chaos #violence #MadKing #MentalHealth
/5

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/11/melania-trump-epstein-lebanon-ireland

"That is that the Trumps aren’t just morally bankrupt, they’re also very, very stupid. A lot of people seem reluctant to acknowledge this about the president; they will tie themselves into knots trying to argue that his erratic actions actually represent a genius playing four-dimensional chess. He’s not really a madman, they insist, he’s just playing one on Truth Social!"

#Trump #Melania #Epstein #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/6

"I understand why people want to believe this: it’s comforting to think there’s some sort of method behind the madness. But if there is any sort of method, I certainly can’t see it. All I can see is a man who thinks he can bully his way through life."

#Trump #Melania #Epstein #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/7

Judith Levine noted that Trump posted the following on Thursday evening:

“'Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not the agreement we have!'

But a few hours after that, the commander-in-chief’s attention had already begun to stray from these mundane hassles toward his loftier legacy."

#Trump #Melania #Epstein #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #MadKing #MentalHealth
/8

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/11/trump-hegseth-iran-war

"At 1.13 on Friday morning, he reposted a story from the right-leaning publication justthenews.com: 'With Trump at the joystick, moon mission launches patriotism ahead of America’s 250th.' By afternoon, he was releasing the designs for his triumphal arch."

#Trump #Melania #Epstein #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/9

"Washington itself has become a performance of governance rather than governance itself. The corruption is no longer even hidden; it’s aestheticized in Trump’s White Trash ballroom, his triumphal arch, his grubby merch, all branded and sold as strength, honor, patriotism, but leaving a ghoulish, shameful stain."

~ Rick Wilson

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/10

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/we-can-still-do-this

"A senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has formally requested that the White House physician conduct a cognitive exam of Donald Trump. The request cites Trump’s recent public statements, social media posts, and behavior at events as evidence of possible cognitive decline."

~Aaron Parnas

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/11

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-major-epstein-developments-trump

"The lawmaker argued that experts have raised concerns about signs consistent with dementia and described Trump’s recent rhetoric as increasingly erratic and concerning. The move adds to growing political scrutiny over the president’s fitness for office."

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/12

"It has been clear for a long time that President Trump is a person with a disorganized mind and a disordered personality. What the past few months and especially the past few weeks have brought into focus is how the president’s pathologies have cascaded downward and outward through his administration. They have become institutionalized."

~ Jonathan Rauch and Peter Wehner

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #MadKing #MentalHealth
/13

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/opinion/trump-iran-psychotic-state-institutions.html

"It is the Iran war that has most vividly demonstrated the scope of the problem. In this conflict, the most potent antagonist has been the administration’s own incoherence.

The Trump administration chose to wage a war without deciding on its aims, mapping out a strategy, planning for contingencies or even being able to explain itself. The goal was regime change — until it wasn’t."

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/14

"The demand was unconditional surrender — until it wasn’t. Deadlines were issued and then erased. Threats of total destruction were made and then pulled back. Iran’s nuclear program was a casus belli in February despite that fact that we were told by Mr. Trump that it had been ;obliterated' last June."

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/15

"The president called for an international coalition to open the Strait of Hormuz, then said the United States could go it alone, and then said the waterway would somehow 'open itself.' He claimed that the United States had already won the war, that the war would end soon, and that the war would end 'when I feel it … in my bones.'”

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
/16

Marty Kelley reports on the breaking news that Trump-Hegseth's Pentagon has tried to strongarm Pope Leo into remaining silent about moral teachings prohibiting unjust wars, and has threatened the pope with brutality if he refuses to comply. Pentagon goons issued the threats to the Pope's diplomat Cardinal Pierre in a January meeting.

#Trump #Hegseth #PopeLeo #Pentagon #war #death #violence #destruction #WarCrimes #morality
/1

https://www.wonkette.com/p/and-how-many-divisions-has-pope-bob

"Normal life will continue. It’s going to be a really weird thing to be out there, you know, grocery shopping and taking the subway and all of those things. But this is, in a way, the defining moment. The fate of the whole American idea is on the line.

I have no idea how this ends."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/30

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-darkest-hour

"The foundation of Trump’s movement, and the thing that made him so appealing to all the worst people in America, was the promise of liberation. No longer would you be constrained in what you can say or do by society and its rules, by 'political correctness,' by women and minorities and liberals, by the annoying demand to consider the wishes and feelings of those around you. By becoming your worst self, you would at last be free."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes
/29

"Militarily it’s been one of the best Easters."

~ Donald Trump quoted by Jasper Nathaniel

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/1

https://xcancel.com/infinite_jaz/status/2041220939568828727#m

"At the traditional White House Easter Egg roll this morning, Trump, whose right hand was swollen and covered with makeup after his weekend away from the cameras, stood with First Lady Melania Trump on a White House balcony, accompanied by a human-sized Easter Bunny. ...

Then he launched into a speech about Iran and wars and bombing and rescues."

Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/2

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-6-2026-monday

"The Easter Bunny’s blank eyes seemed first shocked and then desperate. It was a scene out of a surreal movie: the president of the United States describing a war next to a giant rabbit with big, vacant, eyes. Charlotte Clymer of Charlotte’s Web Thoughts wrote: 'Every day, I think: there’s no possible way it can get dumber and more embarrassing. And then Trump does something like this.'"

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/3

"'And yes, this is real. It is all too real.' …

A later press conference at the White House continued the wild lies and non sequiturs. Trump began the conference by greeting the reporters with 'Happy Easter. We had a great Easter. This is one of our better Easters, I think, in a lot of different ways. I can say, militarily, it’s been one of the best.'”

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/4

“'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,' Trump posted this morning. 'I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”'

~ The Bulwark

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-thing-trump-is-dying-to-break-elections-mail-voting-executive-order-dhs-post-office-fbi-fulton

"Donald Trump has issued a direct threat of mass killing, stating that if no deal is reached tonight, an entire civilization will die. This is not abstract rhetoric. It is a stated willingness to carry out catastrophic violence against a civilian population. ...

The threat is not hypothetical."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/6

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-says-a-whole-civilization

"It is paired with active military escalation and a declared timeline. If carried out, it would constitute a war crime in the clearest possible terms. Even issuing such a threat signals a collapse of legal and moral restraint at the highest level of power."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/7

"The news on Monday was dominated by Trump’s renewed threats to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/7

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-doubles-down-on-war-crimes

"WHAT AMERICAN READERS NEED TO KNOW: Iran’s railways are going to be struck today. That is what the IDF’s pre-dawn warning means, and it is consistent with every previous use of this warning mechanism in this war. Separately, Trump’s 8pm ET deadline — the third such deadline, each previously extended — expires tonight."

~ Rudy Martinez

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/8

https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-april-9ca

"Pakistan says negotiations are at a 'critical, sensitive stage.' Iran is defiant. The operational plan is ready. If the deadline passes without a deal, the strikes on power plants and bridges follow. If it passes without action, the war continues at the highest strike volume since it began. Either way, today is not a quiet day."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/9

"What we are hearing from Trump and his ilk is not just a threat—it also reveals a disturbing mindset.

He thinks that way, like Hitler did. The Fuhrer, a mediocre painter, could not draw people because he could not see people. He saw architecture."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/10

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/will-today-be-taco-tuesday

"If Trump does what he threatens to do, it would kill and maim tens of thousands of civilians, and likely end the lives of vastly more over time through disease and hunger as the country bleeds. It would make Trump a war criminal, an international pariah, and would make this country a rogue state supported only by opportunistic autocracies — the way North Korea is."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/11

"Between standing alongside his wife and a staffer in a bunny costume for the White House Easter Egg Roll, and standing alongside fellow alleged sexual abuser and war criminal Pete Hegseth for a press conference, Donald Trump had a busy Monday. And at each stop, he delivered remarks that contributed to one of his most bizarre, dangerous, and outright vicious days as president yet."

~ Prem Thakker

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/12

https://zeteo.com/p/a-full-list-of-trumps-unhinged-threats

"No wonder all his children turned out to be sociopaths."

~ Gary Legum

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/13

https://www.wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-has-great-insight-into

"Somebody go get grandpa. Grandpa is crazy."

~ Joy-Ann Reid

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/14

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/trumps-war-lies-and-california-chaos

"Today Trump has said he:

-Doesn't know if the Iran War is almost over or he's about to destroy the entire country.

-Killed Osama bin Laden.

-Will learn Spanish very quickly because he...

-Is running for President of Venezuela."

~ Patrick S. Tomlinson

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/15

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6nwm2iwjuw265xm5az2pekby/post/3miu3o6yzh22n

"How can you be proud of a country that is represented by Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, J.D. Vance?"

~ Stuart Stevens

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/16

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/my-conversation-with-stuart-stevens

"We still don’t understand why he’s done this - take the oil, regime change, kill bad guys, prevent nukes - other than as he told us in that infamous NYT interview there were no longer any checks on his power other than his 'own mind' and thus could just do whatever he wanted, everywhere."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/17

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-failed-war-keeps-failing-vance

"The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, normalizes him, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of this president’s behavior. Ten years of sane-washing have had their effect. He remains in power, reelected, undeterred. ...

And now, with this horrible Easter morning development, we’ve entered new territory."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity #media
/18

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-the-media-must-cover-this-madman

"But let’s get real. If traditional techniques and language (“emphatic threats”) aren’t getting it done, what actually would work? I’ll make three suggestions, and would be happy to hear yours.

First, show the primary document — yes, publish an image of the actual social-media post — even if that means breaking with the tradition of standards and practices."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity #media
/19

"Second, use headline language and story placement to get across how truly radical Trump’s behavior is. ...

Third, break with tradition and put a strong opinion column or editorial — or even a very direct news analysis piece — at the top of the online home page, or on the print front page."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity #media
/20

“'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.'

These are not the words of Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao, or Pol Pot, or Assad, or Putin. These are the words of the president of the United States, today."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity #genocide
/21

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-president-speaks-genocide

"Whatever happens tonight, the president, by saying such things, has already changed the world for the worse, and made acts of mass violence more likely."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity #genocide
/22

"Best case scenario right now: Trump is deranged.

Because it’s either that or he’s stone-cold evil. Or both.

Our country’s news organizations can no longer afford to beat around the bush about this. An entire civilization lies in the balance."

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity #genocide #media
/23

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/acknowledging-trumps-derangement

"I long ago moved away from leading Morning Memo with crazy shit Trump says, but over the last 48 hours he’s become so unhinged, erratic, and cartoonishly bombastic about an ongoing regional war in one of the cradles of civilization that it feels worth noting for posterity’s sake."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity #genocide
/24

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-a-whole-civilization-will-die

"The president’s menacing threats to wipe out Iran have prompted an unseen level of backlash across the American political spectrum. Everyone from far-right conspiracists Alex Jones & Candace Owens, to former MAGA loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene, to Never Trumper Bill Kristol, to progressive lawmakers Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, is now calling for Trump’s removal from office."

~ Zeteo

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/25

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-iran-war-genocidal-threats-civilization

"Senior U.S. officials are now describing Donald Trump as 'bloodthirsty' and a 'mad dog' as the clock ticks toward an 8 PM deadline for potential strikes on Iran. Even some Republicans are openly hoping he does not follow through—despite Trump insisting the deadline still stands."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/26

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-us-officials-describe-trump

"At the same time, calls to invoke the 25th Amendment are growing louder across the political spectrum, as fears mount that the situation is spiraling toward something far more dangerous."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/27

"This is one of the most horrifying things: When Trump is told that his current plans would make him a war criminal, that may make him even more likely to raise the stakes higher, bring more destruction, kill more people, and cause more global instability."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarCrimes #Easter #insanity
/28

Read AFTER THE FUNERAL, I STAYED • by Nashra Wynter -- Horror -- #death #grief #houses #NashraWynter https://everydayfiction.com/?p=24145

(continued from /33)

"and how far off the rails the war with Iran has gone as Trump flails about with no plan, no strategy, no exit, and a global economy that day-by-day is reeling from the biggest geopolitical oil shock in history. It sets the next 36 or so hours up as one of the weirdest and scariest moments in geopolitics of our lifetimes."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/34

"Advisers, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, are reportedly telling Trump that civilian targets like power plants and bridges are fair game in Iran, despite legal and ethical restrictions that considerably narrow the circumstances in which such infrastructure can be legitimately targeted, the WSJ reports."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/35

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/new-video-of-ice-shooting-undermines

"The $64,000 question is whether the Iran war is merely a case of reality finally catching up with a bullshit artist, or if the American president has become either a madman or a dementia patient."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/37

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-bullshit-on-iran

"An absolute insane person. My god."

~ Sarah Longwell quoted by Greg Dworkin

P.S. Are we really going to play the purist CW labeling games — US Pol — when the fate of the WHOLE WORLD is at stake as a madman with his hand on the nuclear button threatens to rain down destruction on a nation he's targeting?

Do we really have the luxury of that kind of purism right now?

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/1

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/2376433/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Trump-s-unqalification-to-lead-is-on-full-display

“I know all of you [fellow Republican leaders] and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit."

~ Marjorie Taylor Greene quoted by Lucy Campbell

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/2

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions

"This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn't belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/3

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-trump-needs-to-be-removed

"President Donald John Trump, madman constrained by only the morality of his own mind, TruthSocialed his genocidal intentions towards Iran on the most holy day of the Christian calendar."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/4

https://www.wonkette.com/p/but-at-what-pentecost-tabs-mon-april

"The reality is that this president is mentally ill. The expletive-filled outrage shows a puerile, uncontrolled and vulgar behavior that will alienate many Americans and do nothing to affect the Iranian strategy, which is to tough it out.

There is no plan but bluster and hope."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/5

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/bombast-as-war-policy-it-wont-work

"He's seriously out of his mind. And the Iranians know it ...

The easiest explanation is the simplest: Trump is cornered, and he’s going stark-raving mad."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/6

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/final-thought-hes-seriously-out-of

"Regardless of the inspiration for Trump’s post, by itself it tells a very clear story. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s former assistant director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi posted: 'The American president has lost his mind.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/7

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026

"Imagine Joe Biden, or worse still, Barack Obama, saying that [i.e., praise be to Allah] 'in jest' and how Republicans would have responded. Trump is completely off the rails and Republicans are turning a blind eye, pretending it’s not happening."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/8

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-0b4

"Earlier this week, Trump’s 'spiritual advisor' Paula White-Cain compared him to Jesus. Trump, too, was 'betrayed and arrested and falsely accused,' she said. No one in the Republican Party seems to have believed they need to strenuously resist that characterization.

And so, we enter the new week with an unstable president at the helm in wartime."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/9

"For the moment we are all waiting to see just how mad Donald Trump is. Not how angry — we know that — but whether he is actually mentally deranged enough not only to announce he is going to commit war crimes, which he has done, but to then commit them, in a war of his own impulse against a country with which we were negotiating peace."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/10

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/but-what-if-its-a-tie

"Also, he seems to be hinting at the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

That is what we do now in the United States: Wait to see how bad it will be."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/11

"The horrible but undeniable fact right now is that America has a terrorist president. And the whole world knows it. But we still have a chance to show the world that he is an aberration, that we are not a terrorist nation. And we can do that by standing up for the values that have always defined us."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/12

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-terrorist-in-chief

"In a healthy democracy, Trump would be impeached by the House and convicted and removed by the Senate, or replaced under the procedures of the 25th Amendment.

Will either remedy happen? Not likely, but that does not mean we should refrain from stating the obvious:"

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/13

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-is-unfit-for-office-he-should

"No other president would remain in office for a week after issuing such lunatic, reckless statements. ...

Trump is unfit to hold the office of president, dangerously so. We should say so, preferably in words of one syllable."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/14

"The media is covering his social media threats as if he is simply moving a perfunctory deadline back 24 hours, from Monday to Tuesday, but what Trump is discussing is his own pledge to pointlessly commit war crimes against Iran’s civilians – who knows how many? Millions? Tens of millions? – by a certain time."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #media
/15

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-threatens-war-crimes-iran

"That the American commander-in-chief is doing this in broad daylight is a scandal of monumental proportions."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #media
/16

"Donald Trump spent today threatening and bullying and blaspheming the Iranians, trying to get them to give him an ending to his war that he can call a victory. The Iranians know something that Donald Trump does not know."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/17

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/im-going-to-punch-you-in-the-nose

"They have been smugglers and traders and storytellers which has given them a rich tradition that has carried them through centuries of invaders and bullies who killed far more of them than Trump’s missiles and bombers have. The Iranians know from their own very, very long history that they can outtalk and outwit and outwait him."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/18

"That is how you get to this madness, a group of bored, bloodthirsty, boisterous men who mistake firepower for strength, and bluster for wisdom. They do not understand how force and diplomacy can work in tandem to serve our national interests."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/19

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/the-warrior-ethos

"They are slavish to the allure of simplistic stereotypes, where the ideal warrior is a man, usually of European descent, with bulging biceps and a sneering grin. That is why they continue to purge women and minorities from positions of leadership, why they disdain expertise in anything more complex than an explosion, why they ignore the obvious need for nuance or complexity."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/20

"Theirs is a simple, mythical world where whoever has the most and the biggest bombs is destined to win. As we are now seeing, reality does not bend to their delusions."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/21

"In the United States today, right-wing leaders claim divine providence is behind everything they do, from their destruction of the environment to their ever-expanding militarism. ...

America’s new warrior ethos, ripped more from video games than from real life, was on full display this week."

Edwin Eisendrath

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity #WhiteChristianNationalism
/22

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/how-trump-perverts-the-holy-week

"We're now at the point where multiple lawmakers are calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked for the president of hte United States, following a day that was supposed to be peaceful, an Easter Sunday day that started off normal unti Donald Trump posted on Truth Social an unhinged message about Iran."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/23

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/urgent-update-several-lawmakers-call

"Since then, his rhetoric has only escalated throughout the day into the early evening hours tonight when it's gottewn to the point that he says he's just going to bomb everything."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/24

"With the House of Representatives back in session this morning, I think Hakeem Jeffries should force a vote on a privileged resolution to impeach Donald Trump as a first order of business.

Trump affirmed once again this Easter weekend that he’s a menace to the country and a threat to world peace."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/25

https://www.offmessage.net/p/impeachment-as-a-referendum-on-the

"And at the risk of boring readers with the rules of parliamentary procedure, Jeffries alone among Democrats is entitled to an immediate vote when he raises a privileged question on the House floor."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/26

"Resistance and impeachment. There may be convincing arguments against resorting to either or both these expedients. And there are of course many other important strategies for dealing with the situation we face. But the time to discuss all of them openly and candidly is now."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/27

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-him-again-resistance-executive-branch-congress-trump-corruption

"For Donald Trump to lose this war is not for America to lose. Indeed, it may be part of America winning, in the sense that America survives as a liberal democracy, and that America can move away from the kind of utterly nakedly, appallingly, grotesquely lawless and violent state that it’s become," (continued in /29)

~ Peter Beinart

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/28

https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-want-trump-to-lose-this

(continued from /28)

"and I think America is more likely to move away from that if Donald Trump loses this war than if he wins."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/29

"All of us are agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene."

~ Malcolm Nance

"When you're in agreement with MTG, then you know something has gone crazy."

~ Jacob Kaarsbo

See /2 above for context.

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/30

https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/us-iran-warcast-day-39-live-wmalcolm

"The world is on edge.

One minute, President Trump says the war in Iran is nearly over. The next he says it will continue for weeks. He brags that Iran has been “eviscerated,” but then vows that the fighting will go on. A huge bombardment, he says, might begin in five days, or 10 days, or on Tuesday at precisely 8 p.m. Eastern."

~ Michael D. Shear

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/31

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/world/europe/iran-trump-threats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y1A.t_rN._aioyD_sJlrz&smid=url-share

"If the president means what he says, the world could be about 24 hours from a devastating escalation in the war. But like the producer of a television cliffhanger, Mr. Trump seems determined to keep everyone off balance."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/32

"Is Donald Trump set to nuke Iran tomorrow night, Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET?

The chances at this moment are, at least, non-zero.

The simple fact that we can’t say 'definitely no, absolutely not, for sure' is an astounding commentary on how unhinged and dangerous his presidency has become" (continued in /34)

~ Garrett Graff

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/33

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-about-to-nuke-iran

With deep sorrow and immense pain, I must say that the war has returned. Just a short while ago, there was heavy bombing in the Sheikh Radwan area in Gaza. How much longer must we endure this relentless suffering? 💔🥺

#gaza #news #palstain #war #extermination #death #suffering #silence #Israel

For those with religious connections, this is a season of celebration of rebirth, with festivals including Eid, Passover, and Easter falling around the same time. For Christians, today is Easter Sunday.

But celebration and hope are difficult to sustain right now, due to the world situation indicated by the Guardian headline this morning — see the screenshot below.

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/1

Alt...

Today's Guardian headline noting that on Easter Sunday, Donald Trump threatens massive destruction of Iran and its people

"Before getting into the rest of the updates, I know many of you reached out about Trump’s Easter post this morning. I saw it, and I also saw how parts of the media covered it. In my view, there is a tendency to downplay or normalize behavior that is not normal. If any other president posted something like that, it would be treated very differently."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/2

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-good-news-update-and-calling

"That is exactly why independent journalism matters. I don’t have anyone telling me what I can or cannot say, and I will call things as I see them. And, this post was unhinged and beneath the office of the Presidency."

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/3

"This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/4

https://www.threads.com/@steven_beschloss/post/DWwBkjHFuqB

"Trump’s glorification of the destruction of civilian infrastructure—in Iran and Washington DC—is emblematic of those who seek to sabotage civilization because it threatens their unfair advantage over the population."

~ Jim Stewartson

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/5

https://www.mind-war.com/p/back-to-the-stone-age-the-iran-war

"Donald Trump wants to reverse the polarity of civilization. In a civilized country, the military exists to protect civilians. But in Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s America, civilians only exist to provide resources—and bodies—to the military."

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/6

"Civilization is not the accumulation of power, or the building of grand monuments to a leader or a nation. It is not creating the greatest capacity for violence, posting the highest number in a stock market’s history, or adding chatbots to the kill chain. To the contrary, it is the ability of a population to constrain those very powers that defines whether it is truly civilized, or merely a sacrificial battleground."

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/7

"It’s entirely possible that basically by this time Tuesday, America will have established itself as one of the world’s great villains. I don’t want to be here, but, you know, be warned. This is happening. This is real.

It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/8

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/living-in-hell

Noting that "we are much closer to nuclear war today than we were six weeks ago, Julie Roginsky says,

"There is a quiet, unsettling clarity settling over the world right now that has announced itself with a stark pattern. Watch closely, and you will see it.

It spans Ukraine, Iran, and most tellingly, the Korean peninsula."

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/9

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-thing-about-the

"Trump has taught the world something that decades of non-proliferation treaties have attempted to stave off: Nuclear weapons are the only reliable guarantee of survival."

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/10

"I’m going to choose to step away from my initial reaction — We have elected an actual madman.

We are in deep, deep shit. —

breathe, and focus instead on the also true that lunatic man knows he’s in big big trouble. Of course, that doesn’t mean the rest of us aren’t.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!"

~ Rebecca Schoenkopf

#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/11

https://www.wonkette.com/p/jesus-fcking-christ-is-fckin-risen

"On Easter Sunday, the president posted profanity and skipped church. The pope asked him to stop the war. …

The theological divergence between the two most prominent American Christians on the world stage is complete."

~ Rudy Martinez

#Trump #PopeLeo #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/12

https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-april-a42

"Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, asked Pentagon officials in March to pray for soldiers to wage 'overwhelming violence' in 'the name of Jesus Christ.' Leo responded from the pulpit the following Sunday: 'This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war.'"

#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/13

"'He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.' Archbishop Timothy Broglio — head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, one of the most conservative voices in the American Catholic hierarchy — told CBS that under just war theory, the war on Iran is not justified, and aligned himself explicitly with the pope."

#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/14

"The juxtaposition of Trump’s Easter Truth Social post and Pope Leo’s Urbi et Orbi message has dominated international coverage of Day 37, confirmed this session via Reuters, NBC News, Al-Monitor, and The National. The contrast between the two is being reported not as political commentary but as a documented factual record:"

#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/15

"one man posted profanity threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on the holiest morning of the Christian calendar; another man, also American, also Christian, speaking from the world’s most prominent religious platform, asked him to stop."

#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/16

Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, a close associate of Pope Francis, pointedly reads the Easter story as a "radical refutation" of the logic of blood and violence that drives so much of history:

"Easter is a radical refutation of the logic that governs history when it is driven by fear: the logic of blood, of sacrificing the other, of violence justified as necessary."

#Easter #violence #death #destruction #war #resurrection
/1

https://www.ucanews.com/news/the-easter-of-the-king-of-peace/112632

"The Easter story begins within this logic. The condemned man is eliminated 'for the greater good.' Conflict finds its oldest solution: removing the problem. The torment of the cross is the seal of this mechanism.

And yet Easter fractures it from within. The Risen One does not return violence. He does not demand revenge."

#Easter #violence #death #destruction #war #resurrection
/2

"He does not reopen the case. He returns with a simple word: peace.

Here lies the decisive point. The Resurrection is not the triumph of a greater force, but the end of the spiral of force."

#Easter #violence #death #destruction #war #resurrection
/3

"God has not come to kill and destroy, in order that only a few select white American Christians might rule in absolute power.

But God has come so that all may have life, and have it abundantly."

~ Angela Denker

#Easter #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #violence #death #destruction
/4

https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/sunday-stretch-easter-2026

"Dear Christians,

Jesus didn’t warn us about LGBTQI+ people or atheists. He warned us about religious people who love power more than the truth.

I hope this rings a bell."

~ Ortinel

#Trump #Hegseth #Easter #WhiteChristianNaitonalism #power #death #destruction #violence
/7

https://www.threads.com/@ortinel_g/post/DWtGaDTkneG

"His favourite term is 'lethality'; he loves telling the armed forces how 'lethal' they are. 'We are not defenders any more,' he announced gleefully. 'We are warriors: trained to kill the enemy and break their will.' (It might seem excessive to break their will after killing them, but why settle for half measures?)"

~ Steven Poole

#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity #lethality #violence #death
/9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/trump-using-dysphemism-language-against-iran

"He seemed to experience a sadistic pleasure in announcing the sinking of an Iranian warship by a US torpedo, enjoying the idea of the doomed crew’s 'quiet death'.

This sort of unabashed viciousness is part of the appeal of the Maga administration for its fans, and might seem like a refreshing return to plain speaking."

#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity #lethality #violence #death
/10

Been off here for a week since my Dad died last Saturday.

He was 83. His diagnoses of Alzheimer's was confirmed just after his death, so what with that and his frailty, his death was somewhat of a release.

Mum died over three years ago which makes me an 'orphan'. Not sure how I feel about that - ask me again later in the year.

Still, I'm ready to face the Mastodon world once more - and it's lovely just to see the great array of tooting from you wonderful people.

#Dad #Death #Loss

"It is worth remembering that these economic consequences are secondary effects. They stem from something far more immediate and devastating: the human cost of war itself. Acknowledging that reality does not diminish the pain people feel when their livelihoods are affected.

In war, lives are lost. Families are displaced. Communities are shattered."

~ Kyle Taylor

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #death #destruction #violence
/6

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/where-is-the-humanity

"In moments of crisis, we appear remarkably efficient at calculating the economic consequences of war. But we seem far less capable of keeping the human cost at the centre of the conversation.

Which raises a simple but uncomfortable question.

Where, exactly, is the humanity?"

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #death #destruction #violence
/7

Read FOWL PLAY • by Jennifer Peaslee -- Horror -- #AprilFools'Day #CarAccidents #co-workers #death https://everydayfiction.com/?p=24129

Bad timing. #grickledoodle #death #videogames #inevitable #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #horror #humor

Alt...

A cartoon illustration of a man playing a video game and being irritated by the appearance of the Grim Reaper at his door. Caption reads "Ahh jeez, can I at least finish this level I'm on?"

"Showing reporters on Air Force One a series of posterboard images of his new ballroom last night, Trump told them: 'I thought I’d do this now because it’s easier. I’m so busy that I don’t have time to do this. But, ah, I’m fighting wars and other things.'"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #death #destruction #ballroom
/9

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-30-2026

"'But this is very important ’cause this is going to be with us for a long time and it’s going to be, I think it’ll be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world.'”

#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #death #destruction #ballroom
/10

"Donald Trump is the…I hesitate to use this word…man who once said, 'We’re going to win so much that you’re going to be sick and tired. You’re going to say, "Please, please, Mr. President, we’re sick and tired of winning. Please let us have at least one loss."”

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #death #destruction #ballroom
/11

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-to-lose-three-wars-at-once