The Day’s Reading, August 7, 2017
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.
