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âShortly after posting a screed against Pope Leo XIV, Trump shared an AI-generated image in the style of a painting, depicting him in a long white robe. In one hand was an orb glowing with light; Trumpâs other hand rested on the forehead of a man.â
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Trump post appearing to depict himself as Jesus sparks backlash from religious right
Evangelical and Catholic allies call the post âblasphemousâ and urge its removal in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/13/trump-jesus-religious-conservatives/
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Iran war live: Trump says US to begin naval blockade of Iran's ports in the Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. military said it will begin a âblockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday, after weekend talks failed to reach a deal to end the war with ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-trump-says-us-begin-naval-blockade-irans-ports-strait-hormuz-2026-04-13/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
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Rick Perlstein
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I've finished "The Infernal Triangle: How America Got this Way." Farewell to the 5-book project that consumed some 30 years, over half my life! For the nonce, writing deadline-free on this Substack. First 50 subs get signed books or personal Zoom greetings. PAY ME!!!
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Rickipedia | Substack
Occasional reflections, mostly personal. Click to read Rickipedia, by Rick Perlstein, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Trump is managing by comparison to the US to make Iran seem like a reasonable country who can play the honest broker throughout the world and it is a disgrace.
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Matt Gabriele
about 7 hours ago
Hi new followers I have a podcast
@americanmedieval.bsky.social
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American Medieval Podcast
A podcast about the Middle Ages (with an American twist), hosted by Professor Matthew Gabriele.
https://AmericanMedieval.com
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James Ball
about 7 hours ago
This was over the sketch / poem for Epstein's birthday that Trump claim didn't exist. I'd imagine one issue with the lawsuit is that the sketch definitely exists:
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Carl Quintanilla
about 7 hours ago
The letter âwarns that merging two of Hollywoodâs major studios will result in âfewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher costs and less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world.ââ
#$PSKY
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...
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This is why heâs so weak. He is âtoughâ with friends â yes Democrats are actually friends in a global context â but helpless against a determined enemy like Iran. All he can do is perform dominance and once that fails, he has nothing left. Weak.
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Larry Glickman
about 11 hours ago
Once again, the Times uses a âTrump says with great forceâ formula for the hed and highlights the supposed intensity of how he says it in the subhedâusing their tried-and-true Trumpian catchphrase, âlashed out,â which, I noted the other day, theyâve used more than 60 times in headlines.
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Has any president put himself on the other side of the pope?
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âI will not shy away from announcing the message of the Gospel and inviting all people to look for ways of building bridges of peace and reconciliation, and looking for ways to avoid war any time thatâs possible.â
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Pope Leo says he does not fear Trump, citing Gospel as he pushes back in feud over Iran war
Pope Leo XIV has responded to President Donald Trump's criticism over the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, saying the Vatican's peace appeals are rooted in the Gospel.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-leo-xiv-02f6b4554ea4b83af02af15987ae1f2d
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âAll of Trumpâs weaknesses as a negotiator are now on display: His refusal to comprehend the substance, his childish understanding of the nature of power, his inability to grasp the perspective of his opponents, and his belief that anything can be accomplished with sufficient threats and violence.â
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Mikhail Gorbaechev
about 9 hours ago
If I'm Dems, I'm already spending 5+ million on organizing Black voters in Mississippi to try to get Presidential-year or more turnout. White voters will do what they're gonna do, but if we can push the Black share of the vote into the low 40s....
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
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this is what the bottom falling out would look like
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www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fail...
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The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations
Forget the "Art of the Dealâ myth.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-failed-iran-negotiations?publication_id=501423&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=5msd&utm_medium=email
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Judd Legum
about 22 hours ago
Vance has never âopposedâ the war an Iran! He has publicly supported it from the beginning and every step along the way. The idea that he privately opposed it and that should be considered his official position is absolute garbage.
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Jonathan Ladd
about 24 hours ago
People who lived their lives enjoying the gifts of the American republican government under the great U.S. Constitution, yet became enthralled by Orban's authoritarian government, should feel profound regret and rethink some things.
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Mark Chadbourn
about 23 hours ago
Magyar: âNo mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.â
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Mark Chadbourn
about 23 hours ago
Heâs announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.
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Mark Chadbourn
about 23 hours ago
Magyarâs speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: âHeâs basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.â
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Doghouse Reilly
about 22 hours ago
âracial entropyâ is a concept which hinges on the idea that Black people in general have dysfunctional and dysgenic DNA.
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David DeWitt
about 22 hours ago
Higher gas prices could extend into next year, says Trump administration energy agency
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Higher gas prices could extend into next year, says Trump administration energy agency ⢠Ohio Capital Journal
Gas prices âwill rapidly come back down,â when the Iran ends, President Trump claimed. But his own Department of Energy is saying that even if hostilities in the war were to stop by the end of April,âŚ
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/higher-gas-prices-could-extend-into-next-year-says-trump-administration-energy-agency/
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Jeffrey Lewis
1 day ago
So, letâs game this out. A Chinese flagged tanker pays the toll and transits the strait. We interdict it? What if the tanker is escorted by a Chinese warship?
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Leah McElrath
1 day ago
Donât miss this part: Trump is threatening to interdict EVERY VESSEL in international waters who paid a toll to pass through the Strait of Hormuzâwhich would include CHINESE ships.
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Kai Ryssdal
1 day ago
Not that I expect him to know this, but a blockade is an act of war
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Thomas Zimmer
1 day ago
Sunday reading - I wrote about the coherence fallacy: The MAGA regime will continue to escalate because they are ideologically, temperamentally, and psycho-politically incapable of anything else. But there is no strategic genius at work here.
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Donald Trump Does Not Have a Plan
He has dictatorial desires. But not everything is a brilliant distraction or part of a cunning masterplan. Incompetent agents of malice are not omnipotent supervillains.
https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/70c12168-9b07-44a1-aadc-a4ced5a2d5aa
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Victor Ray
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Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
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Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting âintellectual freedomâ
Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism
https://www.ms.now/opinion/iowa-intellectual-freedom-christopher-rufo-republicans
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Andrew Lawrence
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one reason you dont elect racists is they think âit will be so easyâ to win a war in the middle east based on nothing more than what they believe is their superior dna
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Grudgie the Whale
3 days ago
Quite literally the only reason to tell people this is to convince them to commit crimes
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This is not winning.
apnews.com/article/iran...
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Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement
President Donald Trump says the U.S. Navy will immediately start a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-12-2026-a8a0d22918fc3fb30bc3abf1cd5c5a13
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Larry Glickman
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âWe win, regardless.â
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Solomon
1 day ago
This is what i mean when i say âyou are running a valueless propositionâ
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Charles Gaba âĄď¸
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đŁ NEW: Final 2026
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Open Enrollment Report: Household income 200 - 400% FPL Short version: Several hundred thousand middle-income Americans have been forced into taking a perfectly legal but risky gamble this year...
charlesgaba.substack.com/p/final-2026...
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Final 2026 Open Enrollment Report: Household Income (200 - 400% FPL)
Several hundred thousand middle-income Americans are taking a perfectly legal but risky gamble...
https://charlesgaba.substack.com/p/final-2026-open-enrollment-report-781
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Liberals usually avoid moral judgments. We are supposed believe in the inherent goodness of the American people. We are supposed to believe that if voters had good choices, they would make the right one. Thatâs all propaganda. Alan is there with real talk.
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Alan Elrod
3 days ago
When I say this, what Iâm trying to get at is that breakdown in democratic society is about a lot more than voting. I donât think any of us can escape some responsibility for a country where 50% say they feel isolated and 74% say they barely know their neighbors.
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Alan Elrod
3 days ago
Itâs been a dark week. Our president is mentally and morally deranged. But the truth is we put him there. In this moment, Americans need to face hard truths. And thatâs what Jimmy Carter tried to offer back in 1979. Maybe this time, weâll listen. My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...
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After a Dark Week, Americans Should Turn to Jimmy Carterâs Malaise Speech
Carter was panned at the time and long after, but has been vindicated.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark-week-americans-should-turn-to-jimmy-carters-malaise-speech/
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Iâm reminded that America is a big place. In fact, itâs not one country. Itâs a federation in which freedom and oppression exist in varying degrees across the spectrum.
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Matthew Gertz
4 days ago
CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself."
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When it comes to âleftistsâ like Hasan Piker, and there are many online, we are not talking about people involved in competing factions across the spectrum of American left-liberalism.
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Fettermanâs approval isnât in the toilet because of the animosity of his supporters toward Trump. Itâs in the toilet because he didnât mean what he said. He sold himself as a man of principle who refused to engage in bad faith. He broke his promise, resulting in lost faith.
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Fetterman's story is a warning about the price of bad faith
United States Senator John Fetterman is not going to switch political parties. Thatâs not how politics works in America. While itâs true that the Democrat has seen his favorability rise among Pennsylvania Republicans, they are not going to vote for him. Heâs a Democrat. His fate will
https://www.editorialboard.com/fettermans-story-is-a-warning-about-the-price-of-bad-faith/
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Jonathan Ladd
4 days ago
Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac.
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Again, the impression is that Iran is the honest good faith dealmaker while Trump and Netanyahu are not. I donât know much about international relations but thatâs gotta to be a BFD.
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Threatening genocide is a form of tyranny. I wish the Democrats would use the language of liberation to face that aspect head on. We all suffer from oppression when a madman vows annihilation. Human beings endowed by their creator with inalienable rights should not tolerate it.
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davidrlurie
4 days ago
Nixon pretended to be a madman. But Trump IS a madman, both morally unhinged and incapable of elemental strategy. The nation is now realizing the full cost of the Republican Party's fashioning itself into an obeisant tool for this nihilstic fool.
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Greg Sargent
4 days ago
The reprehensible story that Trump and Hegseth are now telling about this war is that threatening genocide and civilizational erasure is *good,* because it bends the world to Trump/American will. We need to take this on directly. Some thoughts on this idea here:
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Sailor Michael
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Americans quit streaming services as cost of living continues to climb, report finds
About 40 percent of Americans have cut back on streaming services in the last three months because of financial concerns, according to a recent report
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/streaming-services-cancel-cost-living-increase-b2954213.html
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Niko Bowie
4 days ago
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But weâve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
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Normal respectable Americans do not understand the existence of an underclass of Americans that longs for and looks for signs of the end of the world.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/evangelicals-amplify-trumps-religious-framing-iran-war-2026-04-08/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
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So the threat of genocide was just a ploy to sucker the markets?
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