Sunday Easter Cartoons
Posted: April 5, 2026 Filed under: just because 8 Comments
Happy Easter to those who celebrate.
For some of us…we prefer to think of the holiday weekend in the old ways…
They didn’t invent resurrection.
They rebranded it.
The story your culture gave you every spring, the death, the waiting, the return, was already ancient by the time anyone decided it belonged to one man.
It belonged to goddesses first. Plural. Across languages, continents, and millennia.
Each one descended.
Each one waited in the dark.
Each one came back.And the world bloomed because she did.
The word “Easter” doesn’t come from the Bible.
In French, Pâques. In Swedish, Påsk. In Spanish, Pascua. All derived from Pesach, the Hebrew word for Passover.
But in English and German, something older lived inside the word itself.
The name Easter is believed to derive from Ēostre, a spring dawn goddess.
Bede, writing in 725 CE, is our only ancient source for her. He documented that Anglo-Saxons held feasts in her honor during the spring month named after her: Ēosturmōnaþ. That month’s name became the English word for the Paschal season, what the rest of Europe still called Pâques. The new feast inherited the old name.
In his own words: “Eosturmonath was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honor feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new festival by the time-honored name of the old observance.”
In French, Spanish, and Swedish, the Church replaced her entirely. In English, the word kept the goddess in it.
She didn’t disappear. She went underground, and every spring the language says her name again.
Please take a look at the rest of the post at the link here. It is truly fascinating.
Well, this is making noise:
We can only wish…
But be sure…he is still around:
Now…after reading that, note this from last night: Heather Cox Richardson
Trump did post on social media. Yesterday, while the search for the airman was underway, his account posted: “With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE. IT WOULD BE A ‘GUSHER’ FOR THE WORLD??? President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
At 10:05 this morning, Trump posted: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out—48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Economist Paul Krugman noted today that this post didn’t sound like Trump. His speech on Wednesday was low energy and delivered in a monotone. It suggested Trump was abandoning the idea of reopening the Strait of Hormuz and handing off the problem to other countries. Now he is threatening to “reign”—he meant “rain”—down “all Hell” on Iran to get it to restore the conditions that existed before he attacked. And then, as Krugman noted, he added “Glory be to GOD!” which sounds a lot more like Hegseth’s Christian holy war language than Trump’s.
Krugman says, “[I]t sounds like he’s…going to try and do something truly awful in an attempt to somehow redeem himself and the situation” in Iran.
Michael R. Gordon and Alexander Ward of the Wall Street Journal reported today that Trump’s aides have been telling him Iran’s civilian infrastructure is a legitimate wartime target, despite the understanding among experts that such attacks are illegal. The journalists say Hegseth has embraced the aides’ argument that attacking infrastructure would make it more difficult for Iran to transfer the materials they need to develop nuclear weapons. A White House official added that destroying electric plants could foment civil unrest, which would in turn make it more difficult to produce a nuclear weapon.
Ryan Goodman of Just Security commented: “That would be an F on a bar exam.” He observed, “This isn’t legal analysis. It’s idiocy.”
If you all have been following the eagles Jackie and Shadow and the Friends of Big Bear Valley, the eaglets are breaking out of their eggs! Now that is an Easter birth I can celebrate with pure joy.
Look at that cute little head.
Cartoons via Cagle website:
From Charlie Pierce at Esquire:
I have watched as the entire world has responded to his appeals to help him bail himself out in his very excellent Iranian excursion by telling him that, no, can’t make it, gotta grout the tub. I have seen that the United States has been downgraded in the democracy index, a respected international survey, based partly on the administration’s continuing assault on free expression and the First Amendment generally. I have heard the president trying the blackmail Denmark into surrendering Greenland; and his towering foolishness regarding Canada, including referring to the country’s prime minister as “Governor Carney”; and how he should be “involved” in picking the next leader of Iran; and, most recently, how he could “do anything I want with Cuba.” The Emperor of Adderall, he brings to mind the passage from Exodus:
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
And there arose up a new president over the United States, who did not give a flying…
All of this I followed as part of my professional obligation, but watching my new friend Dennis on Tuesday and seeing the contempt on his face and in his voice drove the new reality home like nothing had before.
We are hated as a nation now.
One man has done this.
Yup.
Stay safe today.
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We are so fucked
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
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TRUMP PLANS TO CUT MEDICARE!
They took the video down as soon as they realized that he said it out loud, but I grabbed it, and confirmed it, and here is the part where he says it out loud. This will be (needs to be) the straw that broke the camel’s back and takes him down, because everybody knows that you don’t touch Medicare. It will affect his base just as much as any other group. EVERY legislator needs to hear from the angry hordes about this!!
“It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing, military protection. We have to guard the country. But all these little things, all these little scams that have taken place, you have to let states take care of them.”
Politics Trump, 79, Drops F-Bomb in Unhinged Easter Morning Threat
Donald Trump began the holiest day on the Christian calendar with a profanity-filled Truth Social tirade in which he praised Allah.
The president, a Christian, kicked off Easter Sunday with a threatening message to Iran at 8:03 a.m.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Trump, 79, began.
“Open the F—n’ Strait, you crazy b—–ds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!” he raged. “Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
This is one of the bleakest videos I’ve ever seen. We are living in very scary times. If I were a believer in a higher power, I’d be praying right now. Try to take care of yourselves. (Posted by Beata)
“The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It”
Timothy Snyder
Apr 04, 2026
“We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Pete Hegseth are stuck in the logic of escalation, according to which the feeling of defeat today can be reversed by doing the first thing that comes to mind tomorrow. Trump is surrounded by people who are making money from the war; each day of war strengthens a warmongering lobby with personal access to the president. As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.
Trump tells us that he is chiefly concerned with the permanence of his own comfort and power (think about ballroom and bunker), much of which he will lose when his party is defeated decisively in the midterms. He regularly declares his intention to meddle in the elections. His party backed a bill which would have turned elections into a sham. Trump wants to increase the defense budget by nearly 50% without any review of what the money is for; this is strategic nonsense, and has to be understood as a payoff for the men who, as he imagines, will help him install a dictatorship. Hegseth is meanwhile purging the highest officer ranks of people of principle.
It is up to us to put two and two together: Trump will seek to exploit the war (or the next one) to alter the elections. We bear responsibility for what comes next.
The eventuality can seem frightening, but Trump’s position is weak. The gambit of turning a foreign war into a domestic dictatorship is complicated and difficult. Its success depends on us. If the possibility of such a coup is not anticipated and the variants of the gambit are not called out as they emerge, he can succeed. He has attempted a coup (or, technically, a self-coup) once, in January 2021 — there is no reason to think that he will not try to do so again.
As always, history can help us to imagine the immediate future. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. We know that war offers at least five kinds of opportunities for aspiring dictators. Let us consider the moves that Trump could make, and how they could be stopped. I offer them as five clear types; in practice, of course, they will be mixed and matched from day to day. But if we have the concepts in advance, we can recognize the threat, and turn any sort of coup attempt against Trump.
We are not spectators of this unfolding drama. We are actors inside every scenario. And “we” means journalists who report, judges who follow the law, servicemen and servicewomen who follow the Constitution, and above all citizens who organize, protest and vote. If we know the coup scripts in advance, we know when to take the stage — and where to take the rage……”