Sunday Tabs
TNR, “Trump’s FBI Raid of John Bolton’s Home Looks Like a ‘Five-Alarm Fire’” tl;dr: Another escalation of authoritarian abuse of power.
WaPo, “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown” tl;dr: The administration is planning for “mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September to what is the third most populous city in the United States.”
Mother Jones, “The Resistance is Active in DC—You’re Just Not Looking Closely Enough” tl;dr: A tiny number of people are making nuisance-level noises that will have no impact whatsoever, so it’s all good.
Rolling Stone, “Who Killed the Narrative Podcast?” tl;dr: They’re expensive to make and ad revenue is paltry, rewarding generating lots of cheap content.
KHOU, “Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks claiming to be officers, HPD says,” tl;dr: Nobody could have predicted this. Oh, wait.
WaPo, “‘The city is dead’: D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdown” tl;dr: The combination of the President calling the place an unsafe hellhole and armed troops everywhere is bad for business.
The Atlantic, “The End of Niche College Sports” tl;dr: If the cost of paying college football and basketball players a lot of money is that sports played by rich white kids go away, that’s just too bad.
From the KHOU story,
Don’t expect that defense to work if you shoot a masked, unidentified ICE officer.
@gVOR10: Yup. There’s a reason police wear uniforms. Even plainclothes officers typically wear a jacket with POLICE on it when conducting a raid, for precisely this reason.