Vox Sentences: Greece reached out and shouted, "Save us!" Angela Merkel looked down and whispered, "no"

Greeced lightning

Anti-EU graffiti in Athens. (Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

• Greece asked other eurozone members to temporarily extend their bailout, to provide some breathing room for renegotiating its terms.

  [NYT / Jim Yardley and James Kanter]

• The rest of eurozone said no, and the bailout will expire.

  [FT / Peter Spiegel and Kerin Hope]

• Absent European support, Greece is flailing. It missed a payment today to the International Monetary Fund, which, while not technically a default, is still very bad.

  [BBC]

• Despite the government placing strict limits on banking, ATMs are running out of money, and pensioners are having trouble accessing funds.

  [FT / Kerin Hope]

• The European Central Bank meets tomorrow. There are rumblings that it will take a chunk of the collateral Greek banks have put up in exchange for emergency loans, a move that could shutter at least one bank.

  [NYT / Claire Jones and Alex Barker]

• Greece will vote Sunday on whether to accept the most recent bailout offer European lenders made. The government wants voters to reject it, but more than 10,000 people supporting a "yes" vote rallied in Athens despite a thunderstorm today.

  [AP]

• It's unclear what a "yes" vote would actually mean, since the deal is no longer technically on the table. It could mean Greece still has to stick it out with no European support.

  [FT / Wolfgang Münchau]

• Those are the most recent developments. But if you want a more holistic view of how Greece got to this point, and what comes next, try our explainer.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

• Alternately, try "11 facts about the Greek crisis you should know."

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• The core problem: the euro was just bad policy.

  [Vox / Timothy B. Lee]

Jeb! paying taxes!

Jeb Bush, surrounded by punctuation. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

• Jeb Bush has released 33 years of his tax records.

  [Jeb 2016]

• He combines the documents with a long essay detailing how the poor, downtrodden son of a president and grandson of a senator somehow managed to become a multimillionaire.

• This is a verbatim quote from a Reuters article: "'It's not a life that has been scripted to run for president. I've led a life with ups and downs,' said Bush, who comes from a family of means and whose father George H.W. Bush and brother George W. Bush were elected president."

  [Reuters / Steve Holland and Linda Stern]

• His income since leaving the Florida governorship dwarfs that of any previous period in his life. In 2013, the last year for which he released a return, he made over $7 million.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• His net worth is between $19 and $22 million, more than 14 times what it was when he left office in 2007.

  [Bloomberg / Richard Rubin and Michael Bender]

• Most of the money ($5.8 million in 2013) comes from his consulting and speaking business, along with some investment and positions on comporate boards.

  [NYT / Gerry Mullany]

• He won't release a full list of his consulting clients, citing confidentiality agreements.

  [Bloomberg / Richard Rubin and Michael Bender]

• But some businesses he's known to have worked with have shady pasts. InnoVida Holdings, for example, paid Bush $15,000 a month to be a board member and consultant. It then collapsed due to fraud, and its CEO received a 12.5-year prison sentence.

  [AP / Ronnie Green]

• Bush gave a pitiful 1.5 percent of his income to charity in 2013.

  [Bloomberg / Richard Rubin and Michael Bender]

• Jeb tweets: "If you have questions about my tax returns, email me directly – Jeb@Jeb2016.com."

  [Jeb Bush]

Time for some traffic problems in Iowa and New Hampshire

Chris Christie croons. (Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)

• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced he's officially running for president.

  [Washington Post / Robert Costa]

• The New York Times' Michael Barbaro sums it up well:

  [NYT / Michael Barbaro]

• "Mr. Christie, whose dazzling rise as a national Republican in his first term was matched only by his spectacular loss of stature at home in his second, entered the presidential race bearing little resemblance to the candidate he once expected to be. The economic recovery he promised has turned into a cascade of ugly credit downgrades and anemic job growth. The state pension he vowed to fix has descended into a morass of missed payments and lawsuits. The administration he pledged would be a paragon of ethics has instead conspired to mire an entire town in traffic and the governor’s office in scandal."

• Christie is toward the hawkish end of the GOP presidential field, but he really stands out for the ardor with which he advocates cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• He called for raising the full retirement age to 69 and the early age to 64 (which disproportionately hurts the poor) and limiting benefits to retirees with non-Social Security income over $80,000 a year.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• These policies are unpopular, not just among the public at large but among older Republican voters who Christie needs to win.

  [FiveThirtyEight / Harry Enten]

• Then again, Christie probably doesn't need to worry about winning. He's currently coming in sixth in New Hampshire, tenth in Iowa, ninth in South Carolina, and ninth nationally,

  [RealClearPolitics]

Misc.

• Indonesia's brutal drug crackdown has claimed 14 lives so far, and shows fews signs of abating.

  [Open Society Foundation / Claudia Stoicescu & Naomi Burke-Shyne]

• European quails are not to be fucked with.

  [Slate / Megan Cartwright]

• How Miami beat gentirification: taller buildings.

  [Governing / Scott Beyer]

• This is a well-written but kind of unintentionally hilarious paeon to the glory days of music piracy, back when listening to music for free wasn't so "corporate."

  [Slate / Stephen Witt]

• Nodding off to sleep accidentally leads brain activity to spike, dramatically — and going to sleep intentionally doesn't.

  [NY Mag / Christian Jarrett]

Verbatim

• "I spoke to a friend who has a flower shop on the street and he said that it’s a window, and if you leave your shades open, you should expect people are watching you. And then I realized it was so much less lonely knowing people were watching me."

  [Albert Halaban to Slate / David Rosenberg]

• "We’re all trying to get through it all, and the fact that life isn’t perfect is somewhat important to document."

  [Buck Wolf to Pacific Standard / Daniel Engber]

• "One former staff member I spoke with, who developed an ulcer while working there, called The Huffington Post 'a jury-rigged, discombobulated chaos machine.'"

  [NYT / David Segal]

• "The mom stiffened up, raised her chin, and asked pinchedly, 'Did the slaves here appreciate the care they got from their mistress?'"

  [Vox / Margaret Biser]

• "Over the past several decades the caciques–local elites who wield economic and political power and control the soft drink concession–have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with Coke or Pepsi, depending on who is doing the proselytizing. They say the cola induces burping, which releases evil from the soul."

  [In These Times / Beverly Bell]

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