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.
"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
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-good-news-update-and-calling
Good morning, everyone.
"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’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
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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."
"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."
"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
War crimes coming: A horrifying update
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."
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-thing-about-the
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