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It has finally happened. The fight for "the wall" has now extended beyond a debate about Mexico and immigration, Tennessee Republican, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, tweeted that Tennessee wants a wall on "our southern border." Such a border would stop crossings into Tennessee by Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and technically, North Carolina.

Presumably, Blackburn meant that her state wants a wall on the southern border of the United States, but her dangling modifier left people breaking into hysterics.

Sweden and Finland have been rushing to ensure they're affiliated with NATO as Russia's attacks on Ukraine continue. It was reported by NBC News on Monday, that there is a good reason for the countries to panic. Russia has started jamming GPS signals from global satellites, including those used by private pilots in countries like Finland.

Gen. David Thompson at the Pentagon revealed the interference to NBC, but noted that Russia has not directly attacked U.S. GPS satellites that are in orbit. It's unclear if that's something they anticipate.

Far-right activist Ali Alexander went into hiding after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but he did publish a video in which he claimed he met with GOP lawmakers such as Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Mo Brooks (R-AL) ahead of the riots.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Monday, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman explained that Alexander is cooperating with the Justice Department because, if he refuses, he could get as much as 10 years in jail.

It was revealed last week that Elon Musk purchased a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter for nearly $3 billion. Since then, he has been spinning ideas around with Twitter polls and comments about how to change the website, which has blocked white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Donald Trump after they violated the site's terms of service.

Now, however, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is revealing that Musk won't have anything to do with the board after all.

The far-right television station OAN is suing DirectTV parent company AT&T after they were dropped from the cable package. They're not suing because they're being dropped, instead, they're suing for violations of a non-disparagement clause.

In a kind of legal do-si-do, OAN explained that DirectTV is owned by AT&T, which was going through a merger with HBO. John Oliver's show is on HBO, so OAN decided that because the "Last Week Tonight" host has spent many episodes mocking them, it violates the non-disparagement agreement that OAN signed with DirectTV.

In his video blog Sunday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained that progressives shouldn't be concerned about whether the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 referring former President Donald Trump for criminal charges.

In a detailed explanation about his faith in the committee's lead lawyer, Kirschner said that even if they did refer to the Justice Department that doesn't mandate that the attorney general do anything. All the DOJ would do in response is thank them for the information and move forward with their own probe.

This week, former communications chief Stephanie Grisham revealed that Ginni Thomas, wife to Justice Clarence Thomas, would meet with Donald Trump to dictate who got fired, hired or outed as a Never Trumper. As CNN reported, Sunday, however, those she demanded be hired clearly weren't people she'd researched.

"Multiple sources on the receiving end of such pleas recalled that several candidates who Thomas sought to install in the administration had previously failed background checks or turned down lower-level positions that they were ultimately offered," said the report. According to one former official, there was one candidate of Thomas' who "didn't believe women should serve in the military."