Day 1,298: defang, soliciting

A new law aimed at defanging it and similar groups came into force last week: it bars them from soliciting donations through fear.

Abe Shinzo’s assassin achieved his political goals

Artwork of the day 
Solicitors Head
Lucian Freud
Date: 2003
Style: Expressionism
Genre: portrait

Word of the day 
defang: to make someone or something less harmful, so that he, she, or it is no longer dangerous
soliciting: the act of offering to have sex for money

Quote of the day
“There is nothing that defangs a woman quite like being called beautiful,”
― Laura Thalassa, A Strange Hymn