Day 1,462: suppleness

Having encountered resistance from his previous attorneys-general, the prime criterion for Mr Trump’s next one would be a suppleness of spine: a willingness to quash investigations into the president and his allies and to authorise them against his long list of real and perceived political enemies.

How MAGA Republicans plan to make Donald Trump’s second term count

Artwork of the day 
Soft roughness
Wassily Kandinsky
Date: 1933; Paris, France
Style: Abstract Art
Genre: abstract
Media: cardboard, tempera
Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Dimensions: 41.8 x 57.5 cm

Word of the day 
suppleness: the quality of being able to bend easily or be bent easily

Quote of the day
“Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”
― Lao Tzu