Shock and Awful

“We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.” Naomi Beinart, a high school junior, on what it felt like on campus last week. NYT (Gift Article): I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.

+ And David Remnick on what it feels like at The New Yorker (and a lot of other places) this week as the cabinet picks are made. Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Wonders. “Trump’s nominations—in their reckless endorsement of the dangerously unqualified—look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet. But it is a trolling beyond mischief. All these appointees are meant to bolster Trump’s effort to lay waste to the officials and the institutions that he has come to despise or regard as threats to his power or person. These appointees are not intended to be his advisers. They are his shock troops.”