It’s a Republican administration which means a magazine publisher and a bunch of activists cosplaying as atomic scientists will emerge on cue with a fake clock and announce that the DOOMSDAY CLOCK is even closer to midnight.

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock.

The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight this week. The clock now stands just 89 seconds away — its first move in two years and the closest the clock come to midnight in its nearly eight-decade history.

“The 2025 Clock time signals that the world is on a course of unprecedented risk, and that continuing on the current path is a form of madness,” announced the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the nonprofit organization that sets the clock each year.

Helpful reminder. It’s all still fake.

Rachel Bronson, the executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has a degree is in political science and her social media feed is filled with childish anti-Trump rants. She is less of an “atomic scientist” than your Aunt Sally.

Rachel is supposed to step down as soon as the Bulletin of Non-Atomic Non-Scientists can find an equally qualified activist.

John Mecklin is the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. John Mecklin’s qualifications for warning that the world is about to end can be found in his past as editor of High Country and Key West. Key West is “a high-end, monthly city magazine devoted to documenting the rich, quirky stories of the Florida Keys.” He is not an “atomic scientist”.

The governing board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Activists includes former Gov. Brown and assorted wealthy people.

Bryan Baconm, a senior vice president and senior portfolio manager at Northern Trust, Virginia Berkeley, the former Executive Vice President of CoBiz Bank, and, most of all, Cyndi Conn, “the Founder and President of LaunchProjects LLC, a creative consulting firm with a track record of engaging and inspiring organizations, influencers, and leaders.”

Let’s also not forget Melissa Harris, a business columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Joanne Po, “the head of multimedia content and executive producer at CoinDesk, the most trusted and influential media and events platform covering the global emergence of the blockchain, crypto and Web3 economy.”

I’m more of an atomic scientist than they are.