Living through the Trump administration is kind of like coming off a shipwreck in the middle of the ocean. You’re still stranded with nowhere to go for thousands of miles, and anything from sharks to the cold to the lack of food and water will kill you, but whenever you can find a solid piece of driftwood to cling to, you’ll take it.

All of this is to say that when dealing with an administration whose sole goal seems to be to hasten a global ecological crisis while torturing the people trying to escape it, national security advisor John Bolton’s firing — excuse me, resignation  — from the Trump White House is a rare bit of good news.