Sunday Easter Cartoons

Posted: April 5, 2026 | Author: Mama Lopez | Filed under: just because |6 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:

Trump has not been seen publicly since his primetime speech on Wednesday. 72 hours and counting despite the fact he hasn’t left DC.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-05T01:33:25.647Z

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:

We Are Hated as a Nation. There’s One Man to Blame.www.esquire.com/news-politic…

— JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2026-04-04T16:18:26.402Z

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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