Scorched Earth and Corn Husk Miracles

From Trump’s teenage target practice to a rediscovered bird and a teen science prodigy, America stumbles through cruelty, collapse, and glimmers of grace.

Good morning! On this Wednesday in the United States of Whatever, the gears of power continue to grind with all the grace of a malfunctioning combine harvester, as Donald Trump spends his week alternately torching democratic norms, targeting teenagers, and rewriting the laws of arithmetic, poorly.

Let’s begin in Arizona, where the Supreme Court has offic…