The Doomsday Clock was reset Thursday to just 100 seconds before midnight — the closest we have ever been to the complete and total annihilation of the earth (well, at least metaphorically). https://t.co/paQF5Ghlza

— CNN (@CNN) January 23, 2020

Former California governor Jerry Brown: "The Australian government is in utter and complete denial.Australia is fostering denial in an incredibly mendacious way.Until Australians throw out their current leaders they will continue this way" https://t.co/ASUrqkuO7A #auspol

— Jim Pike (@JimPike50014283) January 23, 2020

I'm deleting my post on the Doomsday Clock because the last thing I need is a bunch of climate change hysterics making my TL unreadable. Short version: It never made sense, it's a political judgment, not a scientific equation, and adding climate to it makes it just silly.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 24, 2020

BREAKING: As the Doomsday Clock moves to within 100 seconds of midnight, Brexiteers launch campaign for it to bong next Friday.

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) January 23, 2020

NEW: Democrats hammer abuse of power charge, allege Trump put self over country in impeachment trial https://t.co/aKwoZMVgVF pic.twitter.com/tnIXnliCRk

— The Hill (@thehill) January 24, 2020

New – Growing GOP argument against subpoenas for witnesses and docs: Trump will cite executive privilege – and that will lead to a drawn-out court fight. “We can answer the question that they're asking us right now without having to go through all that.”https://t.co/HMBIElkVcG

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 23, 2020

The House has presented the core factual record of Trump's Ukraine scheme.

None of the facts can be seriously disputed.

"If the President had any exculpatory witnesses – even a single one – he would be demanding their appearance here." –@RepJerryNadler pic.twitter.com/49atRDpN0r

— House Intelligence Committee (@HouseIntel) January 23, 2020

Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News:

"What is required for removal of the president? A demonstration of presidential commission of high crimes and misdemeanors, of which in Trump's case the evidence is ample and uncontradicted."https://t.co/58ZEOvH199

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 24, 2020

Lindsey Graham: “All I can tell you is from the president’s point of view, he did nothing wrong in his mind.” https://t.co/wHiSRowbP0

— EssenViews – Silence Kills Democracy (@essenviews) January 23, 2020

One fascinating subplot of the impeachment saga is that Trump's demand for absolute, unwavering support, no matter how corrupt his abuses of power get, has essentially required Republicans to reveal their own profound corruption for all the world to see. https://t.co/maMvN2jBv4

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 23, 2020

>>> https://t.co/drR22jKu9R

— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) January 24, 2020

If Republicans in the Senate vote to block witnesses from testifying in Trump’s trial, their fate is sealed. They will forever go down in history as covering up the most corrupt American president of all time. But there is STILL TIME to do the right thing https://t.co/ZjxPHXd0D7

— Rio Tazewell (@RioTazewell) January 23, 2020

There is justice in John Roberts being forced to preside silently over the impeachment trial of President Trump, day after day. He is forced to witness the mess he and his colleagues on the Supreme Court have made of the U.S. political system. https://t.co/gGaWwiD63U

— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) January 23, 2020

For weeks, WH officials have told me its Alexander they’re watching, not Gardner. Good look at why > https://t.co/Vui02JsgYH

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 24, 2020

President Trump indicates that he is considering cuts to Social Security and Medicare. https://t.co/2oUj8RTYx2

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 23, 2020

Will working-class Trump supporters ever understand how completely and systematically he is betraying their trust? https://t.co/eMlMFdUtlY

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 23, 2020

If I owned a donut shop near the Navy base where I work, jacked up my prices, and then directed my staff to buy donuts for our meetings there, I would go to prison. https://t.co/WlzE00VxHJ

— David Burbach (@dburbach) January 23, 2020

BREAKING: Coronavirus cases rise to more than 800 worldwide as China confirms death toll has risen to 25. https://t.co/s5LiSOQm8E

— CNBC (@CNBC) January 24, 2020

'The Chinese food market at the centre of the deadly Sars-like virus outbreak has claimed they sold live koalas, snakes, rats and wolf pups to locals to eat.'https://t.co/wpGDdZfgIB

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) January 23, 2020

Numbers infected by mystery virus emerging in #China are far greater than official figures suggest, scientists have told the BBC. There have been more than 60 confirmed cases of new #coronavirus, but UK experts estimate a figure nearer 1,700. https://t.co/j2NXQu2XjC

— Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (@RSTMH) January 20, 2020

China coronavirus: four tested for virus in UK as first death confirmed outside Hubei province – live news https://t.co/uKchCwi6zM

— The Guardian (@guardian) January 23, 2020

Analysis: Why the Polish president boycotted the Jerusalem event commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz https://t.co/Q8hSgnWdcI

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 23, 2020

"The lessons of the Holocaust are searingly relevant to this day."

Prince Charles says "hatred and intolerance still lurk in the human heart" as he delivers a speech on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

More on #Auschwitz75 👉 https://t.co/oTJEiQCoFz pic.twitter.com/PNU9LJKSE4

— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 23, 2020

Prince Charles skips greeting US's Pence, shakes hands with Israel's Netanyahuhttps://t.co/mXvkSNVkDn pic.twitter.com/9RVBwVBkg4

— Yeni Şafak English (@yenisafakEN) January 23, 2020

It comes after governments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all voted against it https://t.co/UtwD5vuAnB

— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) January 23, 2020

Tory MPs fought for over two years to get their Brexit. But hardly any of them even bothered showing up for the announcement that it had entered into UK law.#BrexitBill #BorisJohnsonpic.twitter.com/xUgcyNTc2u

— Slough for Europe 🇪🇺🎪 (@SloughForEU) January 23, 2020

Excl: Boris Johnson planning to strike Britain’s first post-Brexit trade deal with Japan – dubbed an ‘EU++’ – in a bid to create a bandwagon effect https://t.co/KtGuHL2HZp

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) January 23, 2020

Are Brexiters having a competition to see who can be the most idiotic?

‘Tory MP wants fireworks display visible from France and ‘We love the UK’ banner on White Cliffs of Dover for Brexit day’https://t.co/XznQmVMTiY

— Damon Evans (@damocrat) January 23, 2020

Northerners always do it best! Bolton council leader David Greenhalgh confirms Bolton will ring the bells for Brexit, project the red, white and blue on the front of the town hall and fly Union flags from every civic building across the borough! Tremendous! 👏

— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) January 23, 2020

Jim is celebrating the new border in the Irish Sea with a fanta

Interesting https://t.co/yg3lFJwl5T

— MorpheusNI (@MorpheusNI) January 23, 2020

How Britain's friends and neighbours see us:
"Brexit is a collective English mental breakdown" https://t.co/MYpJpCxdaZ

— Matthew Hardy (@drmatthewhardy) January 23, 2020

This is shitty of me, I know, yet I can't help but derive pleasure from the travails of Britons newly discovering the exquisite torture of visas, work permits and hostile European migration regimes https://t.co/MPMRISDpqu

— Leo (@lmirani) January 23, 2020