🚨🇮🇷🇶🇦 Patriot missiles lighting up the sky over Doha, Qatar. This has been the view from Qatar all week.

I just got off the air at MSNow for @11thHour. And that was weird. I’m not sure what it looked like in the broadcast, but it was definitely unexpected for me and all of us in studio. But also important. As I was talking, it sounded like we got shut down or shut off. 📺🚨🇺🇸

The idea is good but the text itself was rushed and not thought through. It violated a lot of standard practices to protect survivors and due process: 1. It also released documents related to allegations found to be false or unsubstantiated, not just verified violations or settlements. So innocent people would get lumped in with violators. 2. To our knowledge, there was zero victim consent or consultation on this text. That is very different than with Epstein, where victims are centered and consulted at every step. Here, victims offered all their statements with the promise of protection and anonymity. The text gave them no way to have a voice in what information of theirs or their accounts they wanted public or keep private. That is important because… 3. Although there was a throwaway line about redacting victim names, I do believe full witness or victim statements would have been released. With the way employment at the House works (offices are small, time periods of staff employment are publicly disclosed, etc) it means that even with names redacted you can definitely track details in witness statements and use that to ID victims without their consent. And there was zero mechanism for victims themselves to assert their privacy. Originally we were supposed to debate the details of the text over two days but for some reason they rushed the vote so we couldn’t iron out any of these details to get this information properly disclosed in a way that guarantees victim safety. If the text was clean I think you’d get a lot more support. As a survivor, I know why the vast majority of women never report at all and a lot of those reasons, even if unintentionally or inadvertently, were included here. For me at least, guaranteeing the safety and agency of victims and survivors would get me to a YES.

The psychological backdrop here is the worst case scenario. Trump is rapidly declining due to dementia AND he is a malignant narcissist in full collapse over Epstein. He’s reached the stage where destruction of the world is better than suffering further ego-injury—and he’s lost the physical machinery to use his frontal lobe to regulate his emotional decisions. Our collective ignorance about his pathologies—in large part due to smears on professionals like Bandy Lee who warned us about this a decade ago—has left us well and truly fucked. Today, in his one appearance, Trump was apathetic, mumbling, slurry, and totally disinhibited. He has every symptom of either Alzheimer’s or FTD. The decline is real. The trajectory is in one inevitable, accelerating direction. “I have to go back and look at the war” is exactly how he thinks of it. For him, war has always been something to look at. War is just another TV show where the poors entertain the elites. Captain Bone Spurs learned that 60 years ago. Psychologically, Trump went to war because it gave him an escape from the prison of his own shame—because he’s now in control. Even if his arson burns down the whole world, at least he will be the one to have done it. The situation has reached a critical point because it is increasingly hard for him to back out, both mentally and logistically. The entire region is aflame. He can’t undo what he’s done. Without intervention, Trump’s going to do to Tehran what Netanyahu did to Gaza, not because of a nuclear program, but because Trump needs a grandiose gesture to restore his grandiose self-image. TACO is not an option for him here. But Iran is not Venezuela. It’s not going to go quietly. While it has been led by an odious, theocratic, terrorist regime for 47 years, we’re still talking about Persia—which has been there for five millennia. It’s not going to turn into a puppet state to Trump. Trump has no idea what he’s done, or who he’s dealing with. And neither does anyone around him. All they know is they have to WIN, even though they can’t define what that actually means. It’s going to take something way outside the box to escape a historic calamity here. He’s already covering up the murder of hundreds of kids—and demanding that the press stop covering the death of American soldiers so much. I’m trying to find a silver lining or something to hang hope on, but I just don’t see how we get out of this one. Trump is a bad man, surrounded by bad people, determined to do bad things.

BREAKING NEWS: Timothy Parsons, a long time employee of the U.S. Department of Justice, has been arrested and charged in a child pornography case. The people who are supposed to be prosecuting the pedophiles are the pedophiles. This is America.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “If your church leaders and elected leaders tell you the way to bring Jesus back is by killing innocent children of innocent foreign people, in a foreign land you’ve never been to, then you’re believing the lies of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing.”

Congress just voted to kill the bill that would expose slush funds used to pay off sexual harassment cases by members of Congress The results were 357-65 Both parties voted to cover up these slush funds The resolution would have required the Ethics Committee to publicly release all reports related to investigations into sexual harassment or misconduct involving members of Congress or their aides “We know that members of Congress are using taxpayer dollars to pay off sexual harassment. We just had a member of Congress literally sexually harass a woman that then lit herself on fire and you guys all protected him.”

HOLY FUCK it wasn't even close. I'm going to tell my kids this is Epstein Island

holy shit. this drunk rapist douchebag thinks he’s going to be president so he’s skipping out on doing “war secretary” things during a fucking war. he’s one of the most dangerous, delusional freaks to ever be in the cabinet.

Y’all do know our state department just abandoned our citizens in a war zone with no plan to get them out after they started a war and no warning for them to leave before starting a war? I’ll be looking forward to Rubio’s 12 hour deposition on this.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Democrat Alex Holladay has defeated Republican Bryan Renshaw in the Arkansas State House District 70 Special Election. This is a flip from 🔴 to 🔵.

Becky and I are heartbroken over the American service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Their loss will never be forgotten. We’re praying for their families and for the safety of all our troops.

Load up the cannon! The Dow "Joans" dropped more than a 1000 points. 👏 🥳 🎉

President Trump will not get the United States into a years-long conflict with no clear objective. Iran can never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. That is the goal of this operation and President Trump will see it through to completion.⁩

The Speaker should immediately cancel Congress recess break next week! We are only working 2 days this week and then we go on break for 10 days. But the Speaker of the House did cancel our foreign affairs committee meeting so that we didn’t discuss Iran.

I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Administration about the war in Iran. I was worried before, but I’m more worried now.