Day 1,521: corrosive, rig

The corrosive idea that America’s presidential election in 2020 was rigged brought rioters to the Capitol on January 6th—but it was spread by Donald Trump, Republican elites and conservative mass-media outlets using conventional means.

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Artwork of the day 
Corrosive
Salvador Dali
Date: 1940
Style: Surrealism
Genre: symbolic painting

Word of the day 
corrosive: harmful and causing bad feelings
rig: to arrange dishonestly for the result of something, for example an election, to be changed

Quote of the day
“There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train