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The legislative session in Minnesota opened Tuesday to a brutal proxy fight and a Democratic-led boycott over who will control the House chamber after voters in November sent an equal amount of Democratic and Republican lawmakers to the state House.

Democratic state representatives refused to show up to the state Capitol in Saint Paul after negotiations collapsed over a “power-sharing agreement” for how to manage the tied chamber, NBC News reported. Their shunning of the first day of the state’s legislative session effectively denied the state House the quorum it needed to elect a new speaker.

A Fox News segment mocked Iowa Republicans dancing to the Village People's YMCA and suggested "white America" needed a "rhythm counselor."

Fox News host Martha MacCallum seemed taken aback after playing a clip of Republicans in Iowa dancing out of sync to President-elect Donald Trump's signature song.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) has softened her objections to some of President-elect Donald Trump's appointees, and one international affairs expert thinks he knows why.

Retired U.S. Naval War College professor Tom Nichols told MSNBC that Ernst may simply be waiting for Defense secretary appointee Pete Hegseth to "implode" so she can take over his job.

Special counsel Jack Smith's report on the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election only serves to underscore how badly the system failed to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable, conservative analyst David Frum wrote for The Atlantic on Tuesday.

Trump has spent much of the morning raging against this development — but, Frum noted, all the report really shows is that he won.

President-elect Donald Trump's jokes about the U.S. taking over Canada as a potential state or issuing high tariffs on imports has turned the government into complete "disarray," The Guardian reported Tuesday.

While Trump gleefully watched Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relinquish his hold on the national government, Canada’s provincial premiers are now sharply divided over how to respond to Trump's tariff threats.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman believes that President-elect Donald Trump's economic policies are likely to leave many of the people who voted for him significantly worse off financially than they are right now.

In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent, Krugman wrote that Trump's twin policies of tariffs and mass deportations were going to hit many of his own voters while at the same time making the country as a whole poorer.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) ranted during Pentagon nominee Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing against the expansion of the military bureaucracy, but he left out some key context.

The Alabama Republican, who infamously blocked military promotions for months to protest a Pentagon rule on service members seeking abortion care, complained during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the number of civilian employees working for the Department of Defense over the past quarter century, according to MSNBC's Hayes Brown.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) shamed Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) for using a poster that misspelled the word "military" to demand high standards in the Department of Defense.

During a Tuesday confirmation hearing for defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, Schmitt complained about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the military.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) called out defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth for "genuflecting" to President-elect Donald Trump instead of saying he would obey the U.S. Constitution.

During Tuesday's Senate confirmation hearing, Slotkin noted "that no president has the right to use the uniform military in a way that violates the U.S. Constitution and further taints the military as that apolitical institution that we all want."

President-elect Donald Trump may have escaped most legal consequences in his raft of criminal cases, but he's still enraged about the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the plot to overturn the 2020 election — and that should tell you everything you need to know about the man, conservative analyst Bill Kristol wrote for The Bulwark on Tuesday.

The incoming president spent much of the morning raging about how unfair everyone was being to him, noted Kristol, including posts to Truth Social in which he said that "Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his 'boss,' Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another 'Report' based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were."

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