Notations From the Grid (Special Friday Edition): On Our World.....

The Financial Times of London had a recent depiction of the State of the Republican Party as the anniversary of President Trump's 1-Year Election:

This is as the Haaretz' Chemi Shalev laid out a "State of the Presidency" Report:

The post-traumatic year since Donald Trump’s inconceivable election as U.S. presidenthttps://t.co/ew7DaSjWwp

— DailyOutsider (@ordinaryfaces) November 2, 2017

Interesting times indeed Especially as the Economist of London declared Social Media to be the key threat to Democracy in the aftermath of information that has come out about how Facebook, Twitter and Google were manipulated by the Russians:

Our cover this week looks at how social media harm democracy. Twitter, Facebook and Google were supposed to improve politics. Instead, from Russian meddling in America’s election to political manipulation in South Africa, they are spreading fake news, partisanship and mistrust. They need to change