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Pete Davidson has had several tattoos inked across his body in honor of girlfriend Kim Kardashian despite the fact theyve only been dating for four months but shes not the first lover he boldly etched on his skin.

With references to exes, his late father and his favorite film, the SNL stars tattoos tell his life story with some chapters being written before the publics eyes.

Kardashian, 41, revealed the news of multiple tats during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, saying her favorite of Davidsons inkings is an inscription that reads: My girl is a lawyer.

She also confirmed her comedian beau, 28, has had the word KIM branded across his chest with a hot iron.

He wanted to do something that was really different [for me], Kardashian cooed, claiming Davidson told her: I dont want to be able to get rid of it or to cover it up, and I just wanted it there as a scar on me.

Indeed, the funnyman has been getting some of his tattoos removed in recent years including odes to his former fiance Ariana Grande.

According to Insider, Davidson had more than 70 tattoos in total before he began getting them burned off by laser in late 2020.

Last July, the Saturday Night Live star spoke about removing the body art, saying he hopes to have most of his tattoos removed by the time he turns 30.

But while dozens of Davidsons inkings appear completely random, including images of a white unicorn and Winnie the Pooh, many others are extremely sentimental.

Getting inked is an entirely emotional process for the candid comedian, who has struggled with mental health issues.

The Staten Island native told Inked magazine back in 2019 that he gets tattoos because its just a release and a way of stopping self-harm.

When [Im] so manic and upset, sometimes thats the only thing that will work for me, he declared.

Here are some of Davidsons most prominent and outlandish inkings that reflect his turbulent and colorful past.

Davidsons whirlwind romance with Grande began in May 2018, with the pair getting engaged the following month.

Almost immediately, the funnyman headed to the tattoo parlor to have his affection for the pop queen emblazoned on his body.

Grande famously wore distinctive bunny ears on her Dangerous Woman album cover, prompting Davidson to have the design tattooed below his left ear.

He also decided to have the French phrase Mille tendresse meaning a thousand tendernesses inked across the back of his neck.

Grande herself had the exact same tattoo in the exact same location, with Davidson believing his matching design was a cute way to show his love for the God Is A Woman crooner.

But tattoo artists warned Davidson against getting the impulsive ink.

Manhattan-based Jon Mesa who has tattooed the comedian multiple times allegedly told Davidson: Hey, dude, lets just stop with the girlfriend tats until after [Grandes] your wife.

Mesa later spilled to Page Six: Relationships come and go, and Pete is a really young man. [But] I think that went in one ear and out the other.

Indeed, the relationship between Davidson and Grande ended after just three months, with the funnyman forced to cover up the tattoo tributes he had done.

He turned the bunny ears into a love heart, while he poignantly had the word CURSED scrawled across the back of his neck to obscure the matching Mille tendresse inking he got for Grande.

While romantic relationships come and go, Davidsons admiration for his late fireman father has been unending so it seems unlikely hell laser off a tattoo he had done in his dads memory.

On his left bicep, Davidson has a drawing of a firefighter crouched on his knees with his head in his hand a tribute to his father Scott, who died on 9/11.

Davidson was just seven years old at the time of his dads untimely death, and the openly-emotional actor has admitted that his grief spiraled into a depression that affected him for close to two decades.

It was really so hard for him [Peter] to recover, and I would even say that its just been recently that hes finding his way and being okay, Davidsons own mom, Amy, said of her son in an interview in 2020.

In addition to the drawing of a firefighter, Davidson also has his fathers badge number 8418 tattooed on his left forearm.

Given Davidsons battle with anxiety and depression, its no surprise he finds solace in inspirational quotes.

Like many Millennials, the comedian grew up reading Harry Potter and has a quote from Albus Dumbledore inked on just below his dads firefighting badge number.

The quote, which comes from Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban reads: Happiness can be found, even in thedarkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Meanwhile, on his back, Davidson has a quote inked in cursive from one of his favorite films Rocky.

Its not about how hard you hit, the tattoo states. Its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.

On his left bicep, Davidson has another motivational phase which also doubles as a tribute to his dad.

The quote, Enable me to be alert and hear the weakest shout, comes from The Firemans Prayer a manifesto for those who work in the profession.

But while Davidson may have literary quotes across his frame, he memorably had far more random phrases tattooed near his left nipple.

In a 2018 shirtless GQ photoshoot, the actor could be seen sporting the inking, which stated: Jokes come and go, but swag is forever.

The inking didnt last long, and he soon had an image of a shark tattooed over the top.

Meanwhile, the shark isnt the only animal seen on Davidsons frame. The actor appears to house an entire zoo on his pale skin, with a leopard, a crab, a pig named Piggie Smalls and a drawing of Winnie the Pooh all etched onto his flesh.

Davidson stunned fans back in 2017 when he debuted a leg tattoo of failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

The image which appeared to have been copied from a 90s-era photograph of the former First Lady even prompted a reaction from Clinton herself.

After Davidson uploaded a photo of the body art to his now-defunct Instagram page, Clinton responded: Thanks, @petedavidson. This makes it significantly less awkward that Ive had a Pete Davidson tattoo for years.

However, Clinton isnt the only female icon that the funnyman has on his frame.

Eager to flaunt his feminist credentials, Davidson also has an inking of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on his right shoulder.

The legal eagle is seen sporting a crown atop her head in the tattoo, with the image seemingly inspired by the Notorious RBG drawing originally created by Shana Knizhnik.

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The Indian National Congress, long helmed by the Gandhi family, has been in a steady decline since its disastrous showing in the 2014 general elections. This has extended to last months elections, which was capped by a stunning loss of the INCs incumbent Chief Minister in Punjab to an upstart Aam Aadmi Party. Thus, over this stretch, the INC has gone from controlling half of Indias states to only Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The INC convened a post-mortem meeting of its Congress Working Committee on Sunday. Rather than question its disastrous leadership of the Gandhi triumvirate, the Committee unanimously reaffirmed its confidence in the family.

Such levels of sycophancy would seem to be out of place in the worlds largest democracy and more akin to the political climate of North Korea. Perhaps part of the problem can be attributed to the fact that the Congress Working Committee members havent been elected to their positions since 1997. One of the most prominent and accomplished members of the Committee, Shashi Tharoor, went out of his way to deflect criticism of Gandhi-family mismanagement of the 2022 elections.

Hence, the INC has become an entity that has completely lost touch with the average Indian voter. Its a political party that doesnt even seem to be concerned with winning. Rather, its beholden to a core tenet of the Gandhis as divinely-ordained monarchs. This belief is perpetuated by palace nobles like Tharoor, whom, it would appear, are so satiated by their privileged existence that they dont even harbor the ruthless instinct to usurp sickly superiors thats common in politics.

The Gandhi-family personality cult political party is reminiscent of the Clinton family in the United States. Bill and Hillary Clinton were the center-of-gravity of the Democratic Party for almost a quarter-century. Domestically, they served as one of the partys bastions of political fundraising, while overseas they maintained extraordinary influence through the Clinton Global Initiative and Hillarys (unelected) tenure as Secretary of State. The 2016 Wikileaks drop helped to reveal the extent to which the Clintons and underlings such as Huma Abedin ran Democratic Party operations from behind the scenes.

The Democratic Party unflinchingly continued to follow the Clintons into their historic 2016 defeat to Donald Trump, despite many warning signs from the masses. Notably, there was Hillarys stunning loss in the Democratic Party presidential primaries to a completely unknown and inexperienced figure in Barack Obama, in 2008. This loss was attributed in large part to voter apathy for the status-quo that the Clinton family had come to represent (versus Obamas platform of change) and Hillarys completely out-of-touch campaign outreach.

The Democratic Party didnt learn their lesson in 2016. Rather, the party went out of its way to ensure that Hillary won the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination, instead of the captivating upstart Bernie Sanders, as was later revealed in party-leadership emails leaked to Wikileaks. This, despite increasing criticism of her husbands tenure and sexual improprieties by Democratic voters and Hillarys extremely controversial tenure as Secretary of State, which consisted of geopolitical disasters (the collapses of Yemen, Libya and Syria) and actions like the Iran nuclear deal, which were widely disliked by American voters as a whole. This culminated in the Democratic Party losing the presidency to a completely unqualified and politically divisive figure, in Donald Trump.

Using the trendy example of Russia, one can see another catastrophic example of dynasty politics. Russias last raj, Nicholas II, was allowed by the yes-men in his court to drag the Russian Empire into two suicidal wars over the span of twelve years This on top of many domestic political fumbles of his, such as Bloody Sunday, constant protests and acts of civil disobedience by the masses and genocidal violence against Jews. Nicholas IIs Kremlin nobles didnt turn on him until it was too late, when the Empire was in the midst of an irreversible collapse.

The fact that the Gandhis have assembled around them a team that refuses to challenge them at all is of grave concern to Indias multipolar democracy. The non-Gandhi INC apparatchiks are either lacking in any leadership qualities or theyre too enamored with the Nehru-Gandhi brand to even think to either usurp the tottering leadership or flee the sinking ship. To reiterate, this isnt an overreaction, based solely on the latest election results. Since 2014, the INC has been getting annihilated in local, state and federal elections. In many of these races, the triumphant BJP had little or no prior history of electoral success. With regards to the 2022 races specifically, the INC squandered the chance to cultivate an anti-insurgency platform based on the BJPs bungling of COVID-19, the farm law protests and persistent unemployment. Subtly calling out the INC, Prem Shankar Jha writes that a successful political party needs to craft campaigns that arent predicated on, loyalty to community leaders or in memory of the nations founding fathers. At the rate the electoral results are going, the BJP will become the INC of Nehru/Indira/Rajiv yore, in that they will be able to run the country for decades.

Russell Whitehouse is Executive Editor at International Policy Digest. Hes also a Bollywood film critic and freelance policy essayist whos written about topics such as US electoral politics, China, Myanmar and economics.

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The UK, US and EU on Tuesday expanded economic and personal sanctions on Russian goods and key oligarchs.

Russia responded to the new sanctions by announcing personal sanctions against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and others

Hillary Clinton responded to the sanctions: I want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award.

I want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award. https://t.co/4og9S3OCEp

Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 15, 2022

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Bill and Hillary Clinton made MILLIONS off of foreign governments after leaving the White House in 2000 (read Peter Schweizers Clinton Cash for the full, untold story).

All Russian roads lead to Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State at the same time the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investments UNANIMOUSLY approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear company Rosatom, ultimately giving Russia 20% of U.S. Uranium.

Nine shareholders in Uranium One just happened to provide more than $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation in the run-up to State Department approval.

The Clintons took the cash from Uranium One officials before the deal was approved by Hillary Clintons State Department. The Clintons hid the donations which is a clear violation of the Memorandum of Understanding Hillary Clinton signed with the Obama administration wherein she promised and agreed to publicly disclose all donations during her tenure as Secretary of State.

The Bidens were also paid millions of dollars from Russians.

Hunter Biden was paid $3.5 million from the former mayor of Moscows wife.

Perhaps thats why Biden has been so slow on the draw with Russia. This is a really bad conflict of interest that will, perhaps now, be fully and finally revealed! Trump said on Tuesday in response to Russias personal sanctions against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton.

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Russia announced sanctions against top U.S. officials in retaliation for American sanctions against Russia. Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Russia announced sanctions against top U.S. officials in retaliation for American sanctions against Russia.

As sanctions imposed by the U.S., the European Union and allies continue to roil Russia's economy, Russia responded by issuing sanctions of its own against top American officials.

Russia's foreign ministry said it was issuing a "stop list" to prevent members of the Biden administration from entering Russia.

"This step, taken as a response measure, is the inevitable result of the extreme Russophobic policy of the current US Administration, which, in a desperate attempt to maintain American hegemony, has abandoned any sense of decorum and placed its bets on the head-on containment of Russia," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The list includes President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, CIA Director William Burns, press secretary Jen Psaki, deputy national security adviser Daleep Singh, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo and U.S. Export-Import Bank President and Chair Reta Jo Lewis.

Hillary Clinton and President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, are also on the list.

Psaki downplayed the significance of the announcement Tuesday, saying "none of us are planning tourist trips to Russia, none of us have bank accounts that we won't be able to access, so we will forge ahead."

The U.S. and allies have sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov personally over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia said it would soon announce more sanctions on U.S. officials, lawmakers, business people and media personalities that the country accuses of "Russophobia."

Russia also said on Tuesday that it was sanctioning top Canadian officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and more than 300 lawmakers and officials.

Western countries have imposed a plethora of sanctions against Russian oligarchs and officials, Russian companies, Russian oil and Russian banks.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Sunday that the sanctions are having a severe impact on Russia's economy.

"We expect a deep recession in Russia," she told CBS.

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LocalBoston Mayor Michelle Wu smiles after being sworn into office at City Hall in November 2021. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Hillary Clinton and Mayor Michelle Wu certainly have things in common both broke gender barriers in politics and took unconventional routes to get there. But, they also shared the unique challenge of having to raise a family in the political spotlight.

In an episode of Clintons podcast You and Me Both this week, Wu shared with the former First Lady, senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate the challenges and surprises parenting her 4- and 7-year-old sons while in office has brought.

It has been such a test of parenthood raising kids in this time, Wu said. Its such a jarring experience to be working my hardest to raise boys who hopefully will turn into caring, kind, strong young men, concerned about the world, and ready to help their community, and then to have to explain to them what they are hearing when they wake up everyday outside their home.

Wu talked about how for months her family and neighborhood have been faced with 7 a.m. protests over the citys vaccine mandate. While she described a deep anxiety about raising kids in this time, she also said she is, in a way, grateful for the stage her children are at because they are full of joy and everything is an adventure.

A few months ago, when holiday cards were still coming in, Wus oldest son was helping sort the mail and exclaimed that he had found mail from the protestors. Wu said she rushed over, concerned about what it might say.

He gave a big sigh and said, Oh never mind, its to the honorable Michelle Wu, I thought it said to the horrible Michelle Wu, she said. He was truly disappointed because he was so excited that we were going to get this mail interaction. In some ways at the end of the day kids are kids and they have fun in any situation.

Clinton said she could relate and recalled the tough conversations she had to have with her then 6-year-old daughter Chelsea when Bill Clinton was running for governor of Arkansas.

The roughly half-an-hour conversation between Wu and Clinton didnt solely focus on parenting; the pair also touched on how Wu got into politics, the importance of prioritizing mental health, Wus impressions of being mayor so far, and affordable housing, among other topics.

Both Clinton and Wu took a more unconventional path into politics. Wu, who grew up in Chicago, said when she was younger she thought she would be a stay-at-home mom.

I had the opportunity of a lifetime to come to the Boston area when I got that scholarship to Harvard, but still in some ways was never thinking that far ahead and never saw people who looked like me in positions of power or in politics, Wu said. Its been a wild journey for me, unexpectedly into government, into public service, for the chance to try to shape our communities from someone who understands what its like from the outside.

When Wu was finishing college, her mother began struggling with mental health and Wu became her moms caregiver.

Theres really no way I would be where I am now in a position in government had it not been for my familys journey and for my moms experience with mental illness and hospital systems the many, many barriers that it felt like our family was always facing in the moments of greatest need, Wu said.

She said the most dehumanizing experience of all was when she finally convinced her mom to seek medical care and was in the emergency room.

In some ways that still drives me in what I do every day realizing how much it matters when government works but especially when government doesnt work for people, and the ways in which all the programming we create, all the funding we put to this, all the systems we are building, if it is not actually meeting people where they are in those moments then we arent delivering the impact that we could, Wu said.

Clinton and Wu went on to discuss how mental health will continue to be its own pandemic once COVID recedes.

Wu has been the target of criticism and hatred since taking office, especially regarding the vaccine mandate. Clinton asked how she is dealing with the constant criticism and attacks, especially in regard to the protests outside Wus house. Wu called this a difficult moment in our history, and said despite the protests, she sleeps well at night knowing her decisions were guided by experts.

I am lucky that Boston is home to such expertise, and the way that I like to lead and make decisions is to ensure that the people who are closest to the issue, with the greatest expertise on this, are informing the decision making, Wu said. At the end of the day this is not about vaccines to a lot of these people, this is about a changing country and power structure that sees women advancing in leadership, and women of color, we are here to stay.

After talking with Wu, Clinton spent the rest of the episode talking with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The podcast is available wherever podcasts are found, including on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart.

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