Andy Watson

Happy to visit with the world. Living in Victoria smelling the roses.

[Bradley Warren @bradmwarren]

Every time the wind blows, we watch the cloud get bigger.

Congressman Baumgartner tells me the VA hospital is being evacuated as it’s under level 3 notice.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

This thing rolled right into town.

The Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Washington now 2,500 acres with VLATs requested.

2 other fires have started nearby, one in Mead and one near Nine Mile Falls.

All evacuees in and around Spokane should move EASTbound, per authorities.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Bill Maher: Rand Paul was always a libertarian, and yet he released Doctor Fauci's personal diary. Next week, I'm going to tear you a new asshole for that.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

New Start: Just outside Grants Pass, Oregon.

Resources responding. Very active fire behavior. Additional resources have been requested, including two Type 1 helicopters.

60+ acres.

[Tom Engel @TomEngel18]

@edmontonpolice thanks for allowing the loud racing on 114 Street this long weekend and @YEG_Commission for condoning that.
#vehiclenoise #Police #ScoffLaws
#yegcc

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

This is Dr James Hansen, the then NASA scientist who woke the world up to climate change in 1988.

He warns here that climate change will be the equivalent devastation to a direct hit from an asteroid.

The media doesn’t believe this and so won’t make it clear to you.

They think they know better.

The media are the problem.

[Jonathan Pulley @WhidbeyWXGuy]

🚨#BREAKING the Old Trails Fire has CROSSED the Spokane River and is now threatening many structures. In addition to that, another fire exhibiting extreme fire behavior has started on the *north* side of Spokane. This is an extremely dangerous situation!! Numerous Level 3 GO NOW evacuations orders have gone out.

[Brad604 @Brad604]

Haven't seen a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Red Flag Warning issued since September 2020 around here. If a fire gets going today in the red and especially the pink areas. There will be no stopping it from becoming out of control in a matter of seconds. Very strong winds will push in, and we aren't immune here in BC just because we don't have these Warnings in Canada. Southern BC is in for just as bad of a day. Strong winds push in, but we also have the threat of Lightning to boot. Be safe out there today in Fire prone areas! In terms of potentially catastrophic Fire Weather, today is maxed out on the charts in BC/WA/OR. #bcstorm #wawx #orwx

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

How soon people forget or do humans just deny what they see when it’s truly awful?

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Scott Galloway: Senator Paul, who filibustered the Patriot Act for ten hours complaining it was a surveillance state, is fine with the surveillance state when he's holding a flashlight.

The bumper sticker America needs isn't prosecute Fauci, it's prevent fucking measles.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. https://t.co/7hxuP9yOfi

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Or, as a member of the bipartisan COVID Crisis Group noted in a 2023 study on the pandemic, a "key predictor of infections and total COVID deaths" in each state during the pandemic "was the share of people that voted for Trump in 2020," and that "Trump was a comorbidity."

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

Dem Rep. Madeleine Dean calls Trump “unserious” as CNN learns the US is planning a wave of new strikes on Iran: “This president doesn’t know what the heck he’s doing.”

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

As Danielle Smith moves on her plan to expand private, for profit healthcare...

Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists is raising the alarm over the fact that they weren't even consulted on the changes.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

I’m done honouring the rights of antivaxxers to express their ignorant and malicious opinions. They need to be charged with spreading dangerous health disinformation. We’ve been treating them like they’re mildly amusing.

[The Political Globe 🌐 @ThePolitics76]

My entire family and I survived COVID because of Dr. Fauci and his tireless work.

So I will stand with him 💙✊

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Trump is unreliable and Ukraine will never get enough Patriot batteries or PAC interceptors.

It should be obvious to Europeans: if we care about Ukraine, we need to order 10+ SAMP/T NG batteries and 1,000+ Aster interceptors. If we don’t do it, we simply don’t care

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

The map keeps filling in.

West Virginia is the latest state to report measles.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

And just like that, Danielle Smith appoints Kristin Nelson Marciano, wife of long time Wildrose/UCP operative and current Chief of Staff to Brian Jean, Vitor Marciano to the board of Grant MacEwan University.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Russia is providing valuable satellite and signals intelligence to Iran that is likely helping it to pinpoint U.S. military forces across the Middle East as well as jam American-made aircraft and munitions used in strikes against Iran, U.S. and European officials with knowledge of the matter have told NBC News.