Vox Sentences: Hillary and Jeb agree: Let Puerto Rico go bankrupt

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Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion

• While you were busy watching the Greek debt crisis, Puerto Rico announced that it is officially not going to be able to pay back its creditors. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• But Paul Krugman doesn't think you should call Puerto Rico "America's Greece."

  [NYT / Paul Krugman]

• Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush both say Puerto Rico should be eligible to file for bankruptcy, just as US cities can.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• What about granting the island statehood, as San Juan's former mayor has suggested?

  [The Hill / Hernán Padilla]

• The specter of America's imperialist history remains a sticking point within Puerto Rico.

  [The Guardian / Alan Yuhas]

• Puerto Rico is also suffering from a population exodus, which has weakened the country's economy.

  [Pew / Jens Manuel Krogstad, Mark Hugo Lopez and Drew DeSilver]

• Officials in Guam, a fellow US territory, are calling for decreases in spending and borrowing to avoid Puerto Rico's fate.

  [Pacific Daily News / Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno]

• Presidential candidates may go easy on Puerto Rico, not wanting to alienate Puerto Rican voters in Florida.

  [Washington Post / Janell Ross]

• Here's a brief but informative explainer on the crisis.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

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Reddit under heavy load

• Reddit is in revolt against the site's executives right now. Several sections temporarily shut down in protest. An attempt by interim CEO Ellen Pao to apologize was met with a lot of angry downvoting.

  [BuzzFeed / Charlie Warzel]

• Disgruntled Redditors are calling for Pao to be fired — and a lot of other things that are much less polite.

  [Fast Company / Pavithra Mohan]

• The proximate cause of the so-called #RedditRevolt is the firing of Victoria Taylor, who coordinated Reddit's much-loved Ask Me Anything threads.

  [Washington Post / Hayley Tsukayama]

• Even cool-girl musician Lorde is calling for Taylor's reinstatement.

  [The Verge / T.C. Sottek]

• A recent AMA thread with Jesse Jackson went pretty badly — but a journalist who was with Jackson at the time says it wasn't bad enough to fire Taylor over.

  [Mother Jones / Josh Harkinson]

• A deeper issue here: Many Reddit users are upset with Pao over her efforts to curb harassment on the site. Her recent decision to shutter r/FatPeopleHate, which had promoted real-world harassment, was extremely unpopular.

  [Vox / Alex Abad-Santos]

• Before going to Reddit, Pao was best known for her (failed) discrimination lawsuit against venture firm Kleiner Perkins. The suit raised uncomfortable questions about sexism in tech, a sensitive topic on Reddit, which has a not-great record on its treatment of female users.

  [The Guardian / Chitra Ramaswamy]

• A former social media company CEO explains some difficulties Reddit and similar sites face in constructing an open but respectful online community.

  [Re/code / Gina Bianchini]

• BuzzFeed's Charlie Warzel has a more depressing take: "Reddit Is A Shrine to the Internet We Wanted."

  [BuzzFeed / Charlie Warzel]

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US/Iran deal hits the snooze button again

• The deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran has again been pushed back, this time to July 10.

  [CNN / Jeremy Diamond and Deirdre Walsh]

• A State Department spokesperson emphasized that negotiators are "more concerned about the quality of the deal than we are about the clock."

  [WSJ / Laurence Norman]

• If the talks fail, it could be good for Russia and China.

  [Al Jazeera / Camelia Entekhabifard]

• If a deal is reached, on the other hand, it could help lower oil prices.

  [MarketWatch / Myra P. Saefong]

• Here's Vox's explainer on the nuclear talks, so you can get caught up by the next deadline.

  [Vox / Max Fisher ]

Misc.

• Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he bought Quaaludes to use on young women "that [he] wanted to have sex with," according to unsealed court documents.

  [NPR / Eyder Peralta]

• Dylann Roof, the suspected Charleston shooter, has been indicted on three addtional charges of attempted murder.

  [Vox / Timothy B. Lee and German Lopez]

• As a begrudging user of Boston's archaic public transport system, I'm looking forward to a new wave of "Uber for buses" startups.

  [Vox / Joseph Stromberg]

• A Hood County, Texas, clerk tried to avoid issuing a same-sex marriage license on religious grounds, and failed badly.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Nearly everything you thought was a berry is not a berry. And there are lots of fruits and vegetables that you had no idea were berries.

  [Wikipedia]

Verbatim

• "Kodak's film was so bad at capturing the different hues and saturations of black skin that when director Jean Luc Godard was sent on an assignment to Mozambique in 1977, he flat-out refused to use Kodak on the grounds that its stock was 'racist.' Only when the candy and furniture industries began complaining that they couldn't accurately shoot dark chocolate and brown wood furniture did Kodak start to improve its technology."

  [Racked / Morgan Jerkins]

• "If you’re a cinephile with hoarding tendencies, the Packard campus is pretty much heaven on earth."

  [Wired / Bryan Gardiner ]

• "More than one study has suggested that writing by hand helps both retention and understanding. It is a question of pace and focus — of the fact that the mind simply cannot consciously recognize individual letters typed out at normal speed, but can when one writes."

  [Hazlitt / Navneet Alang]

• "I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else, and I don't see that gay marriage damages anyone else."

  [Jimmy Carter to the Huffington Post / Ryan Buxton]

Song of the day

• West Side Story, "America"

  [Youtube]

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