Vox Sentences: Greece voted no. Now what?

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Greece voted "no" in its austerity referendum. Here's what that means.

• Greece voted against the EU "troika's" austerity measures. Now other European leaders, particularly Germany's Angela Merkel, have some tough decisions to make.

  [NYT / Liz Alderman and Jack Ewing]

• Now that a Grexit is looking more likely, Vox's Matthew Yglesias breaks down how it would actually work.

  [Vox / Matthew Yglesias]

• Greece's finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, resigned this morning...

  [WSJ / Stelios Bouras and Nektaria Stamouli]

• ... and was replaced by Euclid Tsakalotos.

  [Reuters / Lefteris Karagiannopoulos]

• Celebrity economist Thomas Piketty argues that Germany has been hypocritical on the Greek bailouts by pointing out that Germany's own debt record isn't exactly spotless.

  [Vox / Margarita Noriega]

• If you want to point fingers, here's a short list of 11 folks you should blame first.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• Missed out on the Greece story? Read our "9 questions about the Greek crisis you were too embarrassed to ask."

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

• The New York Times has some nice graphic and video explainers for the visually inclined.

  [NYT]

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So long, Confederate flag

• The South Carolina state Senate voted this afternoon to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state's Capitol, probably about a century too late. The vote will now go to the state House of Representatives.

  [C-SPAN ]

• There was a brief interruption when state Senator Lee Bright attempted to switch gears and debate the validity of same-sex marriage.

  [FOX Carolina / Dal Kalsi]

• The Washington Post has a rundown of six major points in the debate over the flag, complete with some questionable letters from South Carolina constituents.

  [Washington Post / Amber Phillips]

• In related news, a Minnesota volunteer fireman has been suspended for flying the Confederate battle flag on a firetruck during a Fourth of July parade. His excuse: "I don’t see race."

  [Washington Post / Abby Ohlheiser]

• Although there have been calls to put the flag in museums, it's not entirely clear that museums actually want them.

  [NYT / Sheryl Gay Stolberg]

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America wins Women's World Cup

• The US women's soccer team beat 2011 champions Japan 5-2 on Sunday.

  [NYT / Jeré Longman]

• In response to the win, "Pearl Harbor" started trending on Twitter — so much for sportsmanship.

  [Slate / Jeremy Stahl]

• The match shattered viewership records — and skeptics' arguments that women's sports never amount to much.

  [SB Nation / Mark Hinog]

• Sports critic Dave Zirin: "I'm Done Defending Women's Sports."

  [The Nation / Dave Zirin]

• On a related note, a study from Public Radio International found a correlation between women's World Cup wins and a country's gender equality.

  [Vox / Sarah Kliff]

• Not that there was any shortage of sexist gender commentary from American sports pundits. This is the only rebuttal you need to that: "An Ode To Sydney Leroux's Eyelashes," which deconstructs the idea that a woman can't play hard and look good.

  [Deadspin / Rose Eveleth]

Misc.

• Because of the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marraige, Japanese LGBT group On the Ground Project has seen a increase in requests for same-sex relationship "certificates," which the nonprofit issues to couples looking to make their partnership more official.

  [Chunichi Shimbun via the Japan Times]

• On Fox News's "10 most popular candidates" approach to the first GOP presidential debate: "To a statistician it looks like they're just bumbling around in the dark."

  [Bloomberg Politics / Steven Yaccino]

• In 2004, scientists won custody of the 8,500-year-old "Kennewick Man" by arguing he was too old to be related to the Native American tribe that claimed him. The genetic tests are in: Native American oral tradition 1, scientists 0.

  [Pacific Standard / Michael White]

• Mixed-race folks seem to have a leg up in online dating.

  [Vox / Jenée Desmond-Harris]

• A little post-Fourth of July commentary on the heritage of white America: part letter, part memoir, Ta-Nehisi Coates's latest is a must-read.

  [The Atlantic / Ta-Nehisi Coates]

Verbatim

• "It means, very bluntly, that the manner in which you bring up your daughter with regard to sexual attitudes may very well determine whether or not she will develop breast cancer, among other things."

  [Bernie Sanders, via Mother Jones / Tim Murphy]

• "Being able to make people feel cold in the summer is a sign of power and prestige."

  [Richard de Dear to New York Times / Kate Murphy]

• "Only on the internet can Rihanna cast you in her music video from an Instagram photo."

  [Vice / Tasbeeh Herwees ]

• "I shouldn't say this about Her Majesty but we, as schoolboys, we said, 'Look at the fuckin' heave on her!'"

  [Paul McCartney to Esquire / Alex Bilmes]

• "The racial body in avant-garde poetry is: mere material to own; a site of violation; or simply something to instrumentalize if you want to flaunt your nihilist street cred and perform, one might say, your whiteness."

  [The Margins / Ken Chen]

Video of the Day

• Check out our take on why ISIS propaganda videos are so seductive

  [Youtube]

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