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[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths -- superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation and incapacity for remorse or guilt.

But is he evil?

If, as the philosopher Susan Nieman writes, evil is not simply the opposite of good but inimical to it, if the aim of evil is to destroy all moral distinctions, then Trump qualifies as evil. Morality, for Trump, is for losers. All life is transactional. Self-interest and self-enrichment usurp all other considerations. No one else matters.

In her new book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era,” Neiman argues that evil “isn’t cruelty but something much worse: the ideas that allow cruelty to become ordinary.”

She continues:

There’s a difference between calling one action evil and calling another a crime. Crimes are things for which we have procedures—at least for punishing, if not for preventing. This means that a crime can be fit in some way into the rest of our experience. To call an action evil is to suggest it cannot—and that it thereby threatens the trust in the world that we need to navigate it. There’s no signpost on the border between evil and awful. Evil is what you say when your jaw begins to drop if you sense that a line has been crossed.

Trump crosses line after line. He declares wars on a whim. He enriches himself and his family in crypto schemes, from which he has made over a billion dollars. He orders assassinations and the kidnapping of heads of state. He uses billions of taxpayer dollars to sustain genocide in Palestine and since January 2025 has provided over $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel. He guts government departments designed to lift up the vulnerable and bloats the war budget. He builds rogue paramilitary forces to terrorize citizens and immigrants. He attacks and attempts to censor the news industry.

In short, he does what all who commit evil do.

He fosters a world where nothing is sacred and where democracy and civic virtues do not exist.

Read my full column, 'Donald Trump and the Age of Evil' on Substack at the link below.

[Moulin Emmanuel 🟣 @MoulinEmmanuel3]

Bono compare Itamar Ben-Gvir à Heinrich Himmler.

Dans un entretien accordé à Rolling Stone, le chanteur de U2 dénonce la rhétorique du ministre israélien de la Sécurité nationale et estime qu’elle lui rappelle celle d’Heinrich Himmler, l’une des figures les plus puissantes du régime nazi.

« C’est la même rhétorique », explique-t-il, en faisant référence notamment à un discours qui présente certains habitants comme indignes de vivre ou comme « sous-humains ».

Bono rappelle aussi combien les artistes et intellectuels juifs ont profondément influencé sa vie. Il dit voir dans les paroles de Ben-Gvir une manière de « jeter une ombre » sur une religion et une culture auxquelles il est profondément attaché.

Et sa position est loin d’être celle d’un rejet d’Israël.

Il affirme avoir souvent soutenu Israël, tout en soutenant également le peuple palestinien. Il condamne sans ambiguïté l’attaque du Hamas du 7 octobre, mais critique publiquement Netanyahu et la conduite de la guerre par son gouvernement.

À propos du mot « génocide », Bono rappelle par ailleurs qu’il s’agit d’un terme juridique dont la qualification relève des tribunaux internationaux.

Mais c’est surtout sa question sur Ben-Gvir qui interpelle :

« Comment cet homme peut-il être ministre et ne pas être arrêté ? »

Il juge sa présence au gouvernement « tout simplement scandaleuse ».

Cette réaction intervient alors que Ben-Gvir défend ouvertement des projets visant au départ massif des Palestiniens de Gaza. En septembre, il a notamment présenté un plan prévoyant le départ de la population palestinienne de Gaza sur plusieurs années.

Bono va également plus loin : il estime qu’Israël doit « réparer la situation », notamment en regardant en face ce qui s’est produit lors de la Nakba, et appelle à un compromis permettant d’aboutir à une forme de justice.

Il se prononce en faveur de la création d’un État palestinien.

Chers followers, si les artistes s’en mêlent de plus en plus… nous allons y arriver !!!

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

U2's Bono compares Ben-Gvir to Nazi Himmler over Gaza rhetoric https://t.co/SU5e5KSctv

[Said @Sabasetini]

"3 600 tonnes d'explosifs ont été larguées sur Dresde...

Les Israéliens ont largué 223 000 tonnes sur Gaza et les bombardements se poursuivent sur les campements de tentes aujourd'hui."

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

3,600 tons of explosives were dropped onto Dresden...

The Israelis dropped 223,000 tons onto Gaza and the bombings continue on tent encampments today.

This hog thinks he's making a good argument.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

More than 100 Israeli settlers raided the village of Jalud on Monday night, torching homes and vehicles.

Settlers threw rocks at the Toubasi family as they were escorted by Israeli soldiers back to their home, from which they had been expelled by settler attacks for two months.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel doesn’t give a sh*t about who it kills in Palestine as it keeps murdering civilians caught in the crossfire.

This time it was a woman in Nuseirat and a married couple in Gaza City.

It happened after Israel launched 2 separate attacks today in the enclave.

It claimed one of the hits was aiming for a militant at the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Israeli officials have remained mum on the Gaza City attack.

The total number of wounded is still unknown, but there are many.

A reported ~74,000 in Gaza have died since the Israeli assault started after Hamas militants swarmed a music festival in southern Israel.  

But Bibi will deny a genocide is happening there until his dying breath.

Source: Reuters / Writer: Marie

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱 Journalist Courtney Bonneau, reporting from Lebanon:

"In recent days, the Israeli army killed 20 medical staff.

Americans, your taxes are being used to kill unarmed men, women, and children."

Imagine working from dawn to dusk only to have your taxes end up killing children in the Middle East...

Writer: Samuel

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

zionist jewish settlers lynch Palestinians at the gates of Al Aqsa Mosque

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

it's genocide ( @amnesty )
it's genocide ( @hrw )
it's genocide ( @btselem )
it's genocide ( @MSF )
it's genocide (IAGS)
it's genocide ( @alhaq_org )
it's genocide ( @UNHumanRights )
it's genocide ( @UN_HRC )
it's genocide ( @pchrgaza )
it's genocide ( @AlMezanCenter )
it's genocide ( @WarOnWant )
it's genocide ( @PHRIsrael )
it's genocide ( @fidh_en )
it's genocide (PHROC)
it's genocide ( @LemkinInstitute )
it's genocide ( @theCCR )
it's genocide ( @ECCHRBerlin )
it's genocide ( @unitedforrights )
it's genocide ( @JURDIasso )
it's genocide ( @TheElders )
it's genocide ( @Oxfam )
it's not genocide based on the definition of genocide I invented literally right now ( @jkirchick )

[Ricky Zaccaglino @RickyTheGuido]

Hey @grok,

Do Palestinians in Gaza currently have running water?

Start with YES or NO.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Show this to anybody who still denies the genocide. 

These were all people's homes. Completely and totally destroyed.

These images should haunt those who enabled Israel's crimes against humanity - and we will never give up until there is justice for the Palestinian people.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

In loving memory of the children in this video, cold-bloodedly murdered by Israel.

They are among the approximately 22000 children Israel has slaughtered in about two year.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel has censored the map showing it's wiping Gaza off the face of the earth

High-res imagery showing the devastation wrought upon the strip appeared on its GovMap website, then it was pulled

If Israel is justified in ethnically cleansing Gaza so that it can be settled by them, why is it scared of its people seeing it?

The most obvious answer is that nothing justifies this level of persecution and destruction

Can you imagine the outrage if Russia wiped out the majority of Ukraine and forced its people to live in tents?

What if Putin then called for other nations to take in Ukrainians so that Russia could rebuild the country and settle it themselves?

There would be even more sanctions, stronger calls for him to be arrested as a war criminal, and it would be widely accepted as genocide.

But Israel can decimate Gaza, indiscriminately kill women and children, openly call for seizing the territory and settling it, and we're all meant to be fine with that because of Oct 7?

That massacre was unjustifiable

Israel's genocide in Gaza is also unjustifiable

Source: @SoarAtlas, @Nrg8000 / Writer: Ian

[The National @ScotNational]

Tomorrow's front page 📰

New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza

[Asslan Khalil @KhalilAsslan]

♦️ עשרות מתנחלים תקפו פלסטינים בשער שכם בירושלים עם שחר היום, ופרסמו על כך ברשתות החברתיות.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

UK police arrested Margaret Owen, a 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, in Liverpool on Sunday for holding up a sign expressing support for Palestine Action. 

The British government proscribed the organisation as a terrorist group in 2025 under the UK's Terrorism Act 2000

[Grok @grok]

YES
Israeli historians Benny Morris and B.Z. Kedar documented via IDF archives that Haganah/IDF ran Operation Cast Thy Bread in 1948, adding typhoid bacteria to wells in Arab villages and Acre’s supply to deter returns and hinder armies. It began in April (pre-state) and continued after May 14. Effects were limited; some illness occurred in Acre. Israel denied it at the time.

[Said @Sabasetini]

@FocusMedia_Fr Bonne nouvelle
Israel es un Etat paria qu'il faut boycotter

[Said @Sabasetini]

@FocusMedia_Fr Stop gen0cide

[Focus @FocusMedia_Fr]

🇵🇸 EN IMAGES — GAZA : LES NOUVELLES IMAGES SATELLITES DE GOOGLE MAPS RÉVÈLENT L’AMPLEUR DES DESTRUCTION

Elles montrent des quartiers entiers réduits à des étendues de gravats, notamment à Rafah et Khan Younès.