"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

"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."

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"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

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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

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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."

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"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."

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"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

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