The Day’s Reading, August 7, 2017

Jason Wojciechowski
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

Today I had an errand to run.

Movies

Richard Kuipers, Variety, Film Review: ‘Birdshot’ (August 8, 2017)

Alan Scherstuhl, LA Weekly, Simplified Onscreen, The Glass Castle at Least Boasts Strong Performances (August 7, 2017)

Murder

Gabrielle Bell, The Paris Review, Little Red and Big Bad (August 7, 2017)

Home

Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, This is what the first month in Congress was like for Rep. Jimmy Gomez of L.A. (August 7, 2017)

Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, What will Los Angeles transportation be like when the Olympics arrive in 2028? (August 7, 2017) — hopefully halfway decent

Philippines

Jonathan Kaiman, Los Angeles Times, Philippine police killed a mayor and much of his family. Was it a raid gone wrong, or a massacre? (August 7, 2017)

Josh Lederman | AP, The Washington Post, Philippine’s leader on human rights: “Don’t go there” (August 7, 2017)

Trump

Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress, Trump, who has repeatedly claimed he doesn’t watch CNN, angrily live-tweets CNN segment (August 7, 2017)

John Wagner, The Washington Post, Trump says his political base is ‘stronger than ever’ despite polling to the contrary (August 7, 2017)

John Wagner, The Washington Post, Trump renews attack on Democratic senator, calling him a ‘Vietnam con artist’ on Twitter (August 7, 2017) — he knows precisely one thing about Blumenthal, and even as to that thing, he exaggerates

Democracy

Bernard Grofman & German Feierherd, The Washington Post, The U.S. could be free of gerrymandering. Here’s how other countries do redistricting. (August 7, 2017)

Police

Brentin Mock, The American Prospect, Ignoring Police Violence (August 7, 2017)

Russia

Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker, The U.S. Has More to Lose Than Russia in Spy Expulsions (August 7, 2017)

Healthcare

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, In a rebuke to the GOP, a federal judge orders the government to pay Molina Health $52 million in Obamacare funds (August 7, 2017)

Diplomacy

Michael Gerson, The Washington Post, Rex Tillerson is a huge disappointment (August 7, 2017) — but a predictable one, if you had any sense

Pence

Erik Wemple, The Washington Post, Why is Vice President Pence so bothered by the New York Times’s reporting? (August 7, 2017) — tbf, another reason he might be so mad even if it’s not true is that Trump is a fucking lunatic and won’t hesitate to freeze Pence out, try to get him to resign, whatever, if he gets a whiff of disloyalty. Pence has a vested interest, whether or not the reporting is accurate, in Trump not thinking it’s accurate.

Antitrust

David Dayen, The Intercept, Orrin Hatch, the Original Antitrust Hipster, Turns on His Own Kind (August 7, 2017)

Republicans

Prachi Gupta, The Slot, RNC Hires Trump Superfan Kayleigh McEnany as National Spokesperson (August 7, 2017)

Capital

Matt Bruenig, Jacobin, The Problem Is Capital (August 7, 2017)

Comedy

Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, The Cosmic Rightness of Pauly Shore Imitating Stephen Miller (August 7, 2017) — do I talk like Stephen Miller? I hope not.

Jason Wojciechowski

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Union lawyer, A's ESPN SweetSpot blogger. Bow ties, bright pants, hella cats. I dissent.

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