Quote of the Day

"All [Trump] brought to Puerto Rico were those napkins. And you know what everyone's wondering? What we're expected to wipe with them: our asses, or our tears."—Puerto Rican resident Carlos J. Soto Lopez, father of two teenage girls, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson in his heartbreaking piece for the New Yorker, "How Many Puerto Ricans Will Leave Home After Hurricane Maria?"

[H/T to Eastsidekate.]

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