Regardless of how you feel about the debt ceiling deal, this is a superlative accessory.
Slate’s homepage editors spend a lot of time looking for photos to put on our site. Those searches sometimes yield unexpected results: random, perplexing, and mesmerizing photos that don’t belong on the homepage, but that are too good not to share.What were you hoping to find?
A dramatic photo of some of the key players in the debt ceiling negotiations, such as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, ideally immersed in a media scrum in the halls of Congress.A close-up shot of a one-of-a-kind pin on a suit jacket, presumably clipped to the pocket because it is too big for the traditional lapel placement. Like the world’s most active pedometer, the pin shows the U.S. national debt in blocky orange numbers, which stood at $31,479,587,574,033 when the photo was taken.
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