85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT (or: US senators can't stop smiling)

Tune in for a joyous episode of Monday Mourning (as long as you’re a United States senator)! A bipartisan crew of senators including Dem Mark Warner and Republican Lindsey Graham are pushing Trump to bomb Iran and break free of the New Start nuclear arms treaty which caps the number of nukes a country can have.

And now the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been. Three cheers! (if you’re a United States senator)

Also in this Monday Mourning:

* Putin is controlling Trump again (somehow that one’s back in full force)

* Dr. Oz claims Trump is making healthcare more affordable by reinstating a part of the ACA that he himself cut in his first term

* Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales feels really bad about 5-year-old Liam Ramos being kidnapped by ICE (but he gets over it very quickly)

* A Republican is calling out Trump officials named in the Epstein Files

* And so much more madness

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