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The Daily Cartoon: Productive

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Two-panel cartoon: a reporter asks Hakeem Jeffries how his meeting with Jared Kushner went. He says: Productive. Cut to the two of them barefoot on a couch by the fireplace, wine in hand, Jeffries painting Kushners toenails red with a nail-polish brush, both of their own toes already painted red.
Two-panel cartoon: a reporter asks Hakeem Jeffries how his meeting with Jared Kushner went. He says: Productive. Cut to the two of them barefoot on a couch by the fireplace, wine in hand, Jeffries painting Kushners toenails red with a nail-polish brush, both of their own toes already painted red. Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · rendered with gpt-image-2 on fal.ai
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