Spoelstra pointed to defensive breakdowns and lack of consistency over recent weeks. He said, “I’ve never been a part of something like this. So we just have to put our our heads together and commit, you know, it’s about committing to doing really tough things in this league.”
Friday, April 10, 2026
Q: Ira, so If you feel that the Heat’s 10th-place position is based on 10th-place talent and not on Erik Spoelstra (and now four straight years in the play-in), the blame must fall at the feet of Pat Riley. – Joel, Plantation.
A: Or at the feet of an institutional mindset of refusing to step back to step forward. Say what you want about the personnel moves of Pat Riley and his staff, but also look at how almost every elite contender has been built, as in with lottery-level talent, players picked at the top of respective drafts, players such as Cade Cunningham (No. 1 overall), Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown (each a No. 3), Evan Mobley (also a No.3) in the East, Victor Wembanyama (No. 1), Chet Holmgren (No. 2), Jamal Murray (No. 7), Amen Thompson (No. 4) in the West. Now, in some cases, teams have traded up for such picks by moving off proven talent, so perhaps that is what Pat Riley and the Heat have to consider next. But this is more an institutional approach, one that transcends merely Riley, one that only truly can be set at the top, by the Arisons.
Man. that's kicking the can uphill. Beyond Stand Pat? He's the president of BASKETBALL operations. He's part-owner (20%) too. You gonna lay the blame at the feet of the Carnival owners????
Thursday, April 09, 2026
Gotta give a consolation prize to my favorite Heater, Davion Mitchell
15 pts tonight, 11 asts to 3 t.o.s, almost a 4-1 ratio. In this soul-searing season he has been the brightest, steadiest-burning bulb on a dimly-lit tree.
You got it, 45.
Well, Elles and Gees...
Ontario State crushed the Hi-Cs again, 128-114. We're 41-39. Two games left.
The play-in matchups are set. Next Tyoosday, Phila. (7th) will host Disney (8th). The winner becomes the seventh team in the playOFFS. Charlotte (9th), home, vs. Miami (10th) is Wednesday. The loozer enters the draft lottery. The winner of 9-10 will play the loser of the 7 vs 8 game for the eighth playOFF spot. The loser will also enter Lotteryville.
There will be no 10th-to-finals runs for Miami this season. The best result is that we lose to Queens. We will then have a slight, but not zero, chance of getting a high draft pick in the deepest (~ seven-deep) draft in years.
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Trump Lashes Out at Prominent Conservatives Over Iran War Criticism
In a lengthy social media post, the president attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others in starkly personal terms. He also criticized the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.
I read his post earlier. He is unwell. Here's the WHOLE thing.
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Erik Spoelstra resides on an outer planet close to Trump's
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Erik Spoelstra believes the Heat would have a "damn good record" if they hadn't gone winless against the Magic, Celtics, and Raptors 👀
(Via IraHeatBeat)
Public Occurrences April 9, 2026
Israel Kills Over 300, Wounds 1,150 in Lebanon Today
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s intense barrage of airstrikes on Wednesday hit without warning deep inside the Lebanese capital of Beirut, blowing buildings open to the elements and reducing apartment blocks to rubble in parts of the city that have traditionally escaped attack.
It was not immediately clear what was targeted.
[Civilians.]
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The areas targeted in this wave of Israeli strikes included busy commercial strips, crowded residential neighborhoods and upscale districts along the city’s seafront...
One deadly strike hit along Corniche al-Mazraa, a main artery of the city, razing an apartment building near a popular shop selling nuts and dried fruit and setting parked cars ablaze, some with drivers inside.
Another crashed into the hilly residential district of Tallet El Khayat, flattening a multi-story building near an upscale mall — among those killed, residents said, was an award-winning Arabic poet and her husband.
Yet another struck the seaside district of Ain el Tineh, pulverizing an apartment building also home to an exotic plant shop right near the speaker of parliament’s residence and overlooking the city’s only public beach.
Further strikes blew up apartments near a well-known chocolate shop in the mixed commercial and residential area of Mar Elias, wiped out part of a building that housed a snack shop and hair salon in the Caracas district, destroyed the lower floors of a building along Beirut’s coastal corniche and left smoldering ruins in the densely populated neighborhood of Basta near a school sheltering displaced people in an attack that killed, among others, a young mother and her two sons.
5:05 pm:
Mrs. Trump’s name appeared in the Epstein files, too — another matter she evidently wanted to clear up on Thursday. In a 2002 email written to Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman named “Melania” wrote to Ms. Maxwell to praise a profile of Mr. Epstein in New York magazine. Ms. Maxwell called “Melania” “Sweet pea,” and “Melania” signed her email “Love.”
Mrs. Trump’s name appeared in the Epstein files, too — another matter she evidently wanted to clear up on Thursday. In a 2002 email written to Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman named “Melania” wrote to Ms. Maxwell to praise a profile of Mr. Epstein in New York magazine. Ms. Maxwell called “Melania” “Sweet pea,” and “Melania” signed her email “Love.”
People call me "Sweet pea" all the time!
Could I borrow your suit for my own summoning of reporters?
Melania Trump summoned reporters to the White House Thursday afternoon to give a surprising statement about Jeffrey Epstein. She said she had no relationship with him, was not a victim of his and had no knowledge of his crimes. She said she wanted to clear “my good name”...
She talked about “numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me” that “have been percolating for years now.”
I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence.”
“My polite reply to her email doesn’t amount to anything more than a trifle,” she said.
Exactly! A trifle! I'm polite, too! Shut up before I punch you in the face.
Among the documents released by the Justice Department was a brief email from 2002 with the sender and recipient blacked out. It begins, “Dear G!” and ends “Love, Melania,” and compliments the recipient on a magazine article about “JE.”
"G"--could be anybody! Gloria, Grace. Doesn't have to be Ghislaine. "Melania"--lots of people in Slovenia are named Melania. "JE"--I was referring to JOHN EDWARDS.
“I know you are very busy flying all over the world,” it says. “How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY.”
Yes, YES! I shall summon reporters too!
Melania Trump summoned reporters to the White House Thursday afternoon to give a surprising statement about Jeffrey Epstein. She said she had no relationship with him, was not a victim of his and had no knowledge of his crimes. She said she wanted to clear “my good name”...
She talked about “numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me” that “have been percolating for years now.”
Mine too! All FAKE PERCOLATING!
It was not clear why she chose to speak out now, or to what reports she was referring.
It was not clear why she chose to speak out now, or to what reports she was referring.
“Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time, since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City,” Mrs. Trump explained to the small group of stunned reporters arrayed in the entrance hall of the White House. The first time she ever “crossed paths with Epstein” was in 2000, she said, “at an event Donald and I attended together.”
Reading an extraordinary statement at the White House, Melania Trump said she and her attorneys were fighting back against “unfound and baseless lies” in regards to her connections to the late financier...
Yes, I TOO want the lies linking me to the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein to stop.👀
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Melania Trump holds extraordinary White House event to deny ties to Epstein, knowledge of his crimesReading an extraordinary statement at the White House, Melania Trump said she and her attorneys were fighting back against “unfound and baseless lies” in regards to her connections to the late financier...
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The extraordinary and seemingly out-of-the-blue message came as her husband, President Donald Trump, and his administration had finally seemed to move past more than a year of controversy surrounding Epstein...
10:49 am:
The extraordinary and seemingly out-of-the-blue message came as her husband, President Donald Trump, and his administration had finally seemed to move past more than a year of controversy surrounding Epstein...
The first lady’s comments almost assuredly served to push the story back into the political spotlight even as the president urged the public and media to move on from the case.
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It was not immediately clear what prompted the first lady to speak out about this issue now.
10:49 am:
European Leaders Demand That U.S. Cease-Fire With Iran Include Lebanon
Britain, France and European Union condemn Israel
Ceasefire at risk with Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Iran’s closure of Strait of Hormuz
AP8:54 am:
Vance: Israel offered to restrain strikes in Lebanon during U.S.-Iran talks
The Israeli military's renewed attacks in Lebanon posed an immediate challenge to the stability of the ceasefire and led Iran to threaten to pull out of negotiations with the U.S. planned for Saturday. At least 254 people have been killed in Israel's strikes, according to Lebanese Civil Defense.
Stopping the Israeli strikes against Hezbollah, Tehran's proxy in Lebanon, was one of Iran's key demands for the ceasefire.
The Iranians are now threatening to resume the fighting and close the Strait of Hormuz if the fighting in Lebanon continues.
"The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose— ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both. The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X.
Egypt, which helped mediate the ceasefire, accused Israel of a "premeditated" attempt to undermine the truce.
That is what it is. I agree with "Egypt." Netanyahu stated after the October 7 attacks that he intended to remake the entire Middle East. When he went to the White House before the War, he was determined to undermine the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks. He wants Palestine and Palestinians, Iran and Iranians, Lebanon and Lebanese, territory and people alike, utterly destroyed. It's genocide.
On the volume of calls Members of Congress were getting on Trump's Removal posts
It was simply the “horror” of what Trump was saying, the strategist said, and the scale of the president’s threats, that appeared to have sparked the mobilization.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2026
Public Occurrences April 8, 2016
Ceasefire is threatened as Israel expands Lebanon strikes and Iran closes strait again
IZ ATTACKS CIVILIANS IN LEBANON KILLING 182, WOUNDING HUNDREDS
...the deadliest day in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Wednesday that the ceasefire deal doesn’t cover fighting against Hezbollah, contradicting what Pakistan, the deal’s broker, and other nations had said. Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, and the U.S. demanded that Iran immediately reopen it.Iran accuses US of violating parts of deal framework, says ceasefire is ‘unreasonable’
LOL!
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Wednesday that a ceasefire and negotiations with the U.S. on ending the war is “unreasonable” as he accused the U.S. of violating three of Tehran’s 10 conditions for an end to the fighting. It comes as the not yet day-old ceasefire appears at risk of fraying over significant disagreements between the parties.
Talentless, Now Cultureless
The "Heat" were blown out up Ontario State way last night 121-95.
The players have given up. Trust/belief is broken. Management-->coaches<-->players.
Tuesday, April 07, 2026
Public Occurrences April 7, 2026
Florida Criminal's Removal Posts
1) "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.[1] President DONALD J. TRUMP
Apr 05, 2026, 8:03 AM [2]
2) "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change,[3] where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.[4] 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!" [5]
April 7, 8:06 am [6]
85 Democrats have called for impeachment or application of the 25th Amendment. One of them is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wrote today,
"This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.
"To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat."
Similar characterizations of the Florida Criminal's mental state are below. I bolded one clause above ([3]), aside from the biblical, koranic threats, that illustrates to my mind that Trump's perception of reality is compromised. Notes [1], [4], and [5] show an End of Days intrusion. People who lose their minds sometimes reach a point where they have religious ideas of reference. Not uncommonly they thing of themselves as a God-like figure. The point is that when compromised individuals get to that point, it's an ominous sign.
Note the times of the two Removal posts [2] and [6]: almost identical, 8:03 am on Easter Sunday (Easter: the Resurrection of Christ. Hmm hmm hmm), and 8:06 am today. I don't know what, medication wearing off ?, medication kicking in?, but something.
Of course the efforts at removal will fail. The Grand Old Phascists in Congress will hide their eyes and do nothing. Of course, he should be removed. He is the most unfit person ever to hold the office. An unusually large number of folks have noticed this dark, darker than dark, turn.
And the war with Iran is NOT over. There will be other, several other, many other, points at which Trump could tip. And push the nuclear button. AOC anticipates: It is the duty of all those receiving illegal orders to refuse to carry them out. Trust them? I don't.
7:43 pm:
Also not clear: What Iran means in referencing ‘withdrawal’ of US combat forces
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Iran did not define, however, what it meant by “combat forces,”...
...any step-down in troop levels in the region likely would anger the Gulf Arab states that have suffered through weeks of war.
AP
It isn’t clear if Iran will loosen its chokehold on the waterway that’s crucial to global energy supplies
[Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas] Araghchi wrote in a statement that: “For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.”
Before the war, there were no “technical limitations.”
The statement did not say whether Iran would seek to charge ships as it had been doing during the war.
7:29 pm:
Both the aggressors, HNUS and Izvassal, as well as the aggression victim, Iran, have agreed to the cease-fire, a Pakistani proposal, with Iran agreeing to open the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian military supervision.
6:55 pm:
Sorry to interrupt. TACO just arrived.
TRUMP PULLS BACK ON IRAN THREAT
3:29 pm:
Senator Patty Murray described Trump’s post as “the rantings of a bloodthirsty lunatic” while Senator Chris Coons said: “This is a threat to commit a war crime.”
Representative Joaquin Castro said the threat “suggests he’s either considering using a nuclear weapon or wants Iran to believe he would”.
“In just 48 hours, the president has gone from threatening war crimes to threatening genocide. He is clearly unstable and must be set aside [i.e. 25th Amendment].”
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman
“25TH AMENDMENT!!!
I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.
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This [is] NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most,” Greene wrote on Sunday. “This is not making America great again, this is evil.”
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
“One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday. These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. ..."
3:13 pm:
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” the US president posted on Truth Social about the country with more than 90 million people. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
The president’s own words, posted publicly and tied to a specific deadline and set of demands, provide unusually direct evidence of intent to violate international law...
The...immediate legal framework is the Geneva conventions of 1949 onwards, which both countries have ratified. Article 33 of the Fourth Convention explicitly prohibits collective punishment of a civilian population. Article 54 of Additional Protocol I – whose core principles are binding as customary international law even on states, like the US and Iran, that never ratified it – prohibits attacks on infrastructure indispensable to civilian survival, with only a narrow exception for objects used exclusively to sustain enemy armed forces.
The Guardian
The Guardian
11:31 am:
Trump Calls for Killing a ‘Whole Civilization’ as Iranians Reject Threats
The United States and Israel stepped up their attacks on Iran ahead of President Trump’s 8 p.m. Eastern deadline to make a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is said to withdraw from negotiations.
11:14 am:
War Crime, Inc. Israel’s military says it struck eight bridges in Iran10:29 am:
Trump Attacks Kharg Island Again on D-Day
8:51 am:
"rhetoric" and you would have been right for once, Kristol Ball
9:08 pm:
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
Trump's escalation from we're going to decimate them to we're going to destroy their country to we're going to wipe out their civilization seems to be classic escalatory behavior of an insane psychopath, no?
9:41 AM · Apr 7, 2026
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The "Heat" Were Closest. But Were They CLOSE?
After back-and-forth discussions -- including a meeting in Antetokounmpo's native Greece in late July [2025] after which the New York Knicks became the only team he'd play for other than Milwaukee -- and the Bucks refusing to move him, Antetokounmpo agreed to give the new roster a chance to grow.
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With the trade deadline [Feb. 5, 2026] just under two weeks away, more than a dozen teams reached out to the Bucks. The Timberwolves, Miami Heat and Golden State Warriors were among the leading suitors for Antetokounmpo. League sources said executives from each of those teams believed that Horst was genuine in his conversations about moving Antetokounmpo in a proposal that met the Bucks' criteria of a young blue-chip talent and/or a surplus of draft picks.For some teams, however, Horst and the Bucks took days responding to messages and calls, leaving those execs to believe that Milwaukee was not ready to pull off a franchise-altering move. For others, the Bucks' asks proved to be too high: Milwaukee wanted Evan Mobley from the Cleveland Cavaliers and VJ Edgecombe from the Philadelphia 76ers, in addition to other assets from both teams, as ESPN's Ramona Shelburne reported March 20.
Antetokounmpo's desires in all of the trade talks mattered, too. He has the 2026-27 season guaranteed in his contract before a player option in 2027. He becomes eligible for a four-year, $275 million contract extension Oct. 1 if he is not traded, or six months after being traded with a new team.
"One of two things will happen: Either he will be extended, or he'll be traded," Edens told Shelburne.
But no team would give up the necessary players and draft picks without knowing Antetokounmpo has a long-term plan to stay.
As deadline day grew close, Minnesota and Golden State began to sense that Milwaukee was keeping Antetokounmpo, and both moved on to completing other deals. Team sources said the Bucks seriously considered the Heat's offer, which centered on Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, other players and multiple draft picks and pick swaps. Milwaukee contemplated moving forward with Miami on Feb. 4. Ownership, however, believed the best move would be to hold on to Antetokounmpo and receive better offers in the summer. The Bucks informed the Heat on the morning of Feb. 5 that they would not accept a deal.
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Sources close to the Bucks said Horst and Antetokounmpo have had friction in their longstanding relationship since the trade deadline.
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The Bucks will be open to trade talks regarding Antetokounmpo, and the highest levels of the organization have come to terms with the inevitability of a likely deal coming to fruition this offseason, sources told ESPN.
"This is as toxic of a team situation as any in the league," one source close to the team said. "They waited until the very end on Giannis, and now everyone knows."
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There is a slight contradiction in Shams' reporting: "No team", including Miami, would trade without knowing if Antetokounmpo would agree to a long-term contract with them. No team wanted to be in Ontario State's position of renting Kawhi Leonard for a season, even for a championship, and then losing him. So that is one side.
The other side is that Miami was the last org. standing on Feb. 4 and Beer had to "seriously consider" the Herro/Ware/picks offer. But ownership (Jimmy Haslam) decided to pass on the "Heat" offer until this summer.
This contradiction can be read two ways. One, Beer wanted more from Miami than Herro/Ware but had to seriously consider the offer because Ice and Peaceniks dropped out.
Two, the Miami offer did meet Beer's criteria but Beer ownership still punted on the last day.
What is missing in Shams's piece are Miami's position on rent-a-star, and whether Antetokounmpo wanted--or will want to--come to Miami. His only reported destination of preference other than Beer has been Mamdani City.
It is the undersigned's belief that Miami would not want to rent Antetokounmpo, that Antetokounmpo does not want to come to Miami, and that no one asked Antetokounmpo or his agent if he would sign long-term with Miami.
Therefore, I believe that if it is inevitable that Antetokounmpo is traded this summer, it will not be to Miami.
"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah," Trump posted on Sunday without censoring expletives.
“If I were in Trump’s Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He’s already killed thousands. He’s going to kill thousands more,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wrote on X.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) said the 25th Amendment “exists for a reason.”
“The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic, and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world,” she said on X.
Former Rep. Joe Walsh, a Republican turned Democrat, noted that Trump’s Easter post comes just days after a White House advisor compared the president to Jesus.
“He will forever be a stain on this country. And the world. 25th Amendment. Now. And to everyone else who, unlike Trump, understands & celebrates today - Happy Easter,” Walsh wrote.
Jon Favreau, an ex-advisor to former President Barack Obama, called Trump “a deranged lunatic.”
“[Trump] should clearly be removed from office. He’s only there because of Republican Members of Congress,” Favreau said.
“This is a deeply unwell man on a dangerous power trip, threatening possible war crimes. This is not how the President of the United States should be speaking about sending our servicemembers into harm’s way. Republicans should join Democrats to end this war immediately,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote on X.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Trump’s words “are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual.”
“Congress has got to act NOW. End this war,” Sanders posted.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called the message “Disgusting and unhinged.”
“Something is really wrong with this guy. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he added.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said: “Trump is clearly unfit to be President. But do not let that explain away the evil of his threatening war crimes against the Iranian people, on Easter Sunday no less. We cannot let Trump normalize this.”
“If I were in Trump’s Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He’s already killed thousands. He’s going to kill thousands more,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wrote on X.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) said the 25th Amendment “exists for a reason.”
“The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic, and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world,” she said on X.
Former Rep. Joe Walsh, a Republican turned Democrat, noted that Trump’s Easter post comes just days after a White House advisor compared the president to Jesus.
“He will forever be a stain on this country. And the world. 25th Amendment. Now. And to everyone else who, unlike Trump, understands & celebrates today - Happy Easter,” Walsh wrote.
Jon Favreau, an ex-advisor to former President Barack Obama, called Trump “a deranged lunatic.”
“[Trump] should clearly be removed from office. He’s only there because of Republican Members of Congress,” Favreau said.
“This is a deeply unwell man on a dangerous power trip, threatening possible war crimes. This is not how the President of the United States should be speaking about sending our servicemembers into harm’s way. Republicans should join Democrats to end this war immediately,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote on X.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Trump’s words “are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual.”
“Congress has got to act NOW. End this war,” Sanders posted.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called the message “Disgusting and unhinged.”
“Something is really wrong with this guy. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he added.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said: “Trump is clearly unfit to be President. But do not let that explain away the evil of his threatening war crimes against the Iranian people, on Easter Sunday no less. We cannot let Trump normalize this.”
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After he descended the steps to join the festivities, he detoured to speak with a group of reporters about the war, now in its sixth week.
The Easter Bunny kept its distance.
“We’re never going to let them have a nuclear weapon,” Mr. Trump said, squinting in the sunshine. “If we have to pay a little extra for fuel for a couple of months, we’ll do that — but we’re never going to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon because this beautiful White House wouldn’t look so good.”
He returned to the festivities to referee the Easter egg roll, at which point the Easter Bunny quickly reappeared at his side.
Mr. Trump turned his attention to mingling with his family members, staff and members of Congress, who eagerly greeted him with their children and babies in tow.
He socialized for some minutes, then joined the first lady, Melania Trump, to chat with elementary-school-aged children writing cards to members of the military. Squeezed onto a bench between a young boy and young girl, the president was captured on camera criticizing his predecessor, Mr. Biden.
“You know, Biden would use the autopen,” Mr. Trump said, referring to a typically uncontroversial method of affixing a presidential signature, which Mr. Trump has seized upon to criticize the former president. “He was incapable of signing his name.”
One child interjected, “What?”
Later, in the Rose Garden, Mrs. Trump read the classic children’s book, “The Runaway Bunny,” about a mother bunny who tells her son she will follow him if he runs away.
“It’s a beautiful story,” Mrs. Trump said, telling the children that all mothers could relate to the love the mother bunny felt for her baby.
But after about a half-hour, which included a bunny hop, cookie decorating and mini golf, the president made his way back to the reporters crowded on the periphery of the lawn. He talked there about the dangers of deploying American troops on the ground in Iran and reiterated that he could not allow the country to have a nuclear weapon.
As he spoke, just feet behind him, were half-dozen young children dressed in their Easter finest.
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I really like myself. Good morning.
*I do the right thing on most occasions when reasonably necessary.
Monday, April 06, 2026
Public Occurrences April 6, 2026
This has been a very darkly humorous day. Good night.
Well, not quite good night, and no humor:
Shooting by Israel-backed group at a shelter in Gaza is followed by an Israeli strike, killing 8
An Israel-backed armed group in Gaza kidnapped children from a school-turned-shelter on Monday, according to a witness, after which Israel launched an airstrike on the site, health authorities said.
The Israeli military had no response when reached for comment.
An anti-Hamas Palestinian group called Abu Nusseirah posted on social media that they killed five Hamas fighters at the shelter in Maghazi.
An elderly displaced woman sheltering at the school told the AP that dozens of men stormed the site, clashed with people there and forced kids — including girls — into vehicles. Speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals, she said her son was killed in the fighting.
Bodies were taken to al-Aqsa hospital, where health officials said some had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the school after the clashes. AP footage showed dozens of mourners gathered at the morgue.
Many displaced Palestinians say they fear the Iran war has overshadowed Gaza’s dire humanitarian situation.
AP
And those Palestinians are correct. Israel's plan has been to operate in the fog of the U.S. war on Iran and in the fog of their illegal white phosphorous attacks on Lebanon's civilian population
And those Palestinians are correct. Israel's plan has been to operate in the fog of the U.S. war on Iran and in the fog of their illegal white phosphorous attacks on Lebanon's civilian population
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Trump added that the US expected to control Iran’s oil sector after the war. “To the winner belong the spoils.”
Florida Felon has plan to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran Tuesday night if no deal
At the Easter event, Trump said...“We are obliterating [Iran]… and they just don’t want… to cry ‘uncle,'”. But they will [cry ‘uncle’]. And if they don’t, they’ll have no bridges, they’ll have no power plants, they’ll have no anything.”
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At a White House Easter egg roll event, Trump was asked if his plans to blow up civilian bridges and power plants in Iran would constitute war crimes, and said they would not “because they [Iran] killed 45,000 people in the last month.”
The comments appeared to refer to Iran’s gunning down of thousands of protesters earlier this year amid a large-scale rebellion against the theocratic regime.
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“They asked for an extension of seven days [They did not.]. I said, ‘Give them 10 days,'” Trump said. He would go on to push it off by an additional 24 hours on Sunday.
“I thought it was inappropriate [to attack] the day after Easter. ..."
US President Donald Trump on Monday expanded his threat against Iran to include all of the country’s power plants and bridges...
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“We have a plan… where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again, I mean, complete demolition, by 12 o’clock, and it will happen over a period of four hours if we want that to happen,”We don’t want that,”
Lunatic Florida Man insists Iranian civilians want the US to keep bombing
Trump says everyday citizens are “willing to suffer ... in order to have freedom.”
“‘Please keep bombing. Do it,’” Trump claimed U.S. officials have heard Iranians say via “intercepts.”
“And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding,” he said.
“And when we leave and we’re not hitting those areas, they’re saying, ‘Please come back, come back, come back.’”
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It does. And he went even farther today: “The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night."
That would be genocide, and the highest order of war crime. But he is not concerned with being an international criminal in addition to a 34-time convicted felon. And the Commander-in Chief of the United States easily could totally destroy Iran, any country, or the entire world "in one night" if he is willing to use nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
Is he? He is counting on the threat working, and there are "hints" that it might be. Israel, the American partner in war crime, attacked the MIT of Iran yesterday. Each of the U.S., Israel, and Iran have committed war crimes including genocide since October 7, 2023, and Hamas committed war crimes on Oct. 7. But the U.S. and Israel started the war with Iran. It was a "war of choice" for Trump. Every U.S. or Israeli attack on civilians or civilian facilities is a war crime. But Trump is not concerned. We come full circle. I predict that there will be no "deal". I think Trump thinks that he has "no choice" here. He can't be TACO again. He has been humiliated when his deadlines have passed or been extended. Therefore, to a standard of more probable than not, I predict that Trump will massively attack Iran's civilian infrastructure with conventional weaponry but not with the atom or hydrogen bomb.
5:25 pm:
Iran Rejects Ceasefire Proposal, Will Only Accept End to War and No Future Attacks
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*It was the trade deadline. 3:00 pm was the close. The fan was emoting because, of course, the "Heat" stood pat. (Every single team in the NBA made a trade. Except the "Heat."
I saw this on Feb. 5 and screenshotted it from my 'puter:
Evidently after some particularly upsetting "Heat" loss lol.
For some reason, I then googled it. Google AI generated this response.
Then I googled it AGAIN. This one has the flat, muzak tone of Hal, the computer in 2001:
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