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[Who Was That Masked Man?🇺🇸🦅 @WasMasked]

@atrupar @GettyImages

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Again and again, Trump continues to pardon fraudsters and let corrupt politicians out of prison.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Freudian slip

[Lawrence O'Donnell @Lawrence]

Trump pardoned himself.

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

So... you can't draw a district that gives black voters voting power but you CAN draw a district that takes their power away?

Got it.

[HiphOperaGanda @hiphoperaganda]

@atrupar @xenn1al “Payless Putin,” his fake assassination, and Bullshit Ballroom can go to hell.

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

Resurrecting this classic in light of today’s news. 🧡✝️

#Trump #PoliticalSatire #Comedy #Parody #RandyRainbow #throwback

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

Hakuna Spraytana! 🚫👑🦁 #nokings #parody #tbt

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Not that anybody asked, but…

The first 13 months of Reagan’s second term the stock market (DJIA) rose 33%, setting a record high closing of 9 times

The first 13 months of Clinton second term the stock market rose 25%, setting a record high closing of 5 times.

The first 13 months of Bush’s Second term the stock market rose 5%, setting a record high closing of 0 times.

The first 13 months of Obama’s second term, the stock market rose 20%, setting a record high closing of 12 times.

The first 13 months of Biden’s term, the stock market rose 12%, setting a record high closing of 11 times.

The first 13 months of Trump’s second term, the market rose 10%, setting a record high closing of 10 times.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

New details are emerging about a heated meeting on Saturday afternoon at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich between several senators and members of Congress and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, along with Greenland’s Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

It was during this meeting that Senator Lindsey Graham reportedly went completely off the rails.

The American outlet Puck had previously described how so-called “f-bombs” (f short for the word “fuck,” ed.) were thrown around the room.

“Imagine Graham on his worst day,” a source told Puck.

But Berlingske can now reveal that events unfolded even more violently than previously reported — and that Graham’s outburst was directed in particular at Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

“He called her ‘little lady,’” a source who was in the room told Berlingske.

However, the prime minister did not appear affected by what everyone present perceived as extremely degrading and outright sexist.

“She seemed cool,” the source said.

When Graham had finished, Frederiksen simply responded:

“When you’re done with that, the meeting can continue.”

Earlier, Graham had also stressed to Frederiksen and Nielsen that Donald Trump was the President of the United States — and thus the most powerful man in the world.

The implication: neither Denmark nor Greenland should believe they are anything in comparison with the mighty United States.

This “rant,” as a Danish source who was present in the room described it, came across as extremely demeaning toward Denmark and Greenland — particularly after the “little lady” remark directed at Mette Frederiksen.

Graham’s behavior was described by a source as outright “disturbing,” “shocking,” and “extremely inappropriate.”

An almost theatrical scene also unfolded between Graham and Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

“Graham yawned directly in his face in a way that could only be interpreted as mocking,” the source told Berlingske.

It became too much for some of the American participants at the meeting, and Senator Elissa Slotkin (Democrat) was reportedly so shocked that she stood up and left the meeting.

In a sense, the meeting marked the culmination of Graham’s angry outbursts.

Already on Friday, he had stunned observers on live television when asked about Greenland.

“Who the hell cares who owns Greenland?” Graham said, according to CSPAN.

Participants at the meeting described his conduct as “completely out of line.”

According to Berlingske’s information, there was quiet speculation afterward as to whether the senator from South Carolina had lost his composure entirely — whether he was not in his right mind when meeting the Danish and Greenlandic leaders.

Only Graham himself likely knows the answer to that.

—Berlingske

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

This DHS tool that's mistakenly accusing US citizens of being non-citizens is the same system that states would be required to use under the GOP's 'SAVE America Act' that was passed this week in the House.

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

scoop: Kristi Noem has more than $1 billion in disaster prevention projects piling up on her desk.

Somehow, three states w/ powerful GOP politicians have escaped the logjam — Georgia, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.

Everyone else left begging for help.
https://t.co/yuHrOBYVSf

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

My big takeaway from Trump's lengthy Air Force One gaggle is that he's talking about shredding the Constitution by being in office for a third term increasingly openly.

If you don't think he'll try it, you're in denial.

[AnnAnne 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍🌱 @AnnAnne700]

@Acyn This is the test Trump took. It's a 10 minute screening test for dementia.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

What’s it called when the government owns the means of production?

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

a little hard to communicate to normies just how bad/dangerous this is! but yeah

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

They're bragging about how much they're taxing Americans, which is, I gotta say, something I've literally never seen a politician do.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster https://t.co/2gyqKzDhNP

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

There will be people who simply cannot obtain the funds to go to medical school, but I suspect demand will still be high enough to prevent med schools from having to lower tuition to compete. Med schools receive hundreds, if not thousands, of applications every year. This will just shift the admissions process to favor applicants from high SES backgrounds who can pay cash or have the means to qualify for private loans. This moves medicine away from a meritocracy toward pay for play. We need to rein in the cost of graduate education somehow. I don't think capping federal loans is gonna do it, but I hope I'm wrong.