Heather is a midnight writer

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.

Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

Yes in this particular moment the blame is 99.9% on Republicans. A dozen R’s in Congress could together end this presidency now

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

One woman hit her head on Epstein's island, and instead of taking her to an ER, Epstein had a doctor come to his home and give her 35 stitches on his dining-room table.

Multiple doctors disclosed women's private medical info to Epstein.

Epstein controlled what medical care they could receive.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

* The women we were able to identify in the specific incidents described in this story (we're not naming them for obvious reasons) were young but not minors. For example, one was a college undergrad, around 20. Obviously, many other Epstein victims were underage and properly called girls or children

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.

Gift link:

That's the plan, and to the extent the Trump admin even wanted to help (they don't), they illegally dismantled the mechanisms for it, like USAID.

It would've served our strategic interests greatly for millions of Iranians to see boxes and crates of vital supplies with U.S. flags on them. Oh well.

It is very striking that, in the modern era, everyone turns into children when bombs begin dropping. It's a good reminder that, in fact, the arrangement between 1945 and present, whatever you want to call it, has been so successful for so long people have forgotten what war is like.

Ivanka and Trump Organization linked to Suleimani's front company: New Yorker writer New Yorker writer Adam Davidson tweeted Sunday that when Iran leaders set up front companies to try and acquire weapons of mass destruction that the Trump Organization met with one of those front grou...

Breaking news (for Republicans):

Your felon leader was so busy warning Fox viewers how evil, corrupt and dangerous Iranian general Soleimani was, that he "forgot" to mention his family did business with him.
www.rawstory.com/2020/01/ivan...

Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.

A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

> @jimlaporta.bsky.social

Fairly amazing that these people just...don't do counterintelligence at all? Any adversary worth their salt knows everything that's happening at one of these little executive watch parties.

i'm still thinking about how DOGE set up a starlink terminal inside the WH complex and were plugging unsecured commercial devices into every server they could get access to

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

What the F*** Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

Heather and I had a LOT to say this morning about the attack on Iran.

www.youtube.com/live/yiFHTyw...

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

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#epstein #releasethefiles #war #resistance #iran #peace

#VisibilityBrigade #co #colorado #usa #democracy #epstein #PeacefulProtest
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Tulsi Gabbard: "A war with Iran would make the war in Iraq look like a cakewalk. The devastation and the costs would be far greater than anything we've ever experienced before."

Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

Iran Thoughts I woke up this morning and my wife informed me that we were at war with Iran, and my response was “why?” That’s a bad sign.

This is an excellent piece by Michael Wood—and, for what it’s worth, captures as well as anything I’ve read my “strange mixture” of reactions and thoughts.

open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

BalancedWx Science Video: Discussing the new Storm Prediction Center's Conditional Intensity forecasts with Dr. Sean Ernst Understanding the how and why of SPC's new intensity forecasts

On Monday, the Storm Prediction Center will be starting new "conditional intensity" forecasts for severe t-storms and tornadoes, and today I was lucky to chat with @sean-ernst-wx.bsky.social about his social science research in support of this effort. Watch/listen here: tinyurl.com/ymjx7s6e

Mental heat in MEXICO:
Records have been shattered,locally shot above March AND APRIL records
41.0 Hermosillo
39.3 Empalme
39.2 Ciudad Victoria
39.0 Ciudad Constitucion
39.0 Loreto
36.6 Mexicali
Min 26.0 Santa Rosalia

Temperatures have reached 43C/110F.
Full update tomorrow.