Via The Morning News, satellite imagery of the crowd(s) on the National Mall for yesterday’s ceremonies. What’s interesting about the picture is that you can see that people were clumped at the big video screens: it wasn’t the solid mass of people that it looked to be, foreshortened, from the Capitol. Also note the lack of bodies on the downhill slope west of the Monument, where the view would have obstructed.
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