Vox Sentences: Your woke Canadian bae Justin Trudeau elbowed a woman in the stomach

What we actually know (not much) about the disappeared EgyptAir flight; Congress makes a deal to save Puerto Rico; a very un-Canadian fracas.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

Trump and Clinton both need to take a chill pill on this

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• An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared about 10 miles into Egyptian airspace early Thursday morning. The crew and 66 passengers are missing, presumed dead.

  [Vox / Tara Golshan]

• We don't know why the plane crashed. An Egyptian official said the odds it was a terror attack are higher "than the possibility of having a technical failure," since the plane had no known errors. But what does that mean?

  [Chicago Tribune / News sources]

• Egypt's had problems recently with mysterious, possibly-terroristic plane crashes. In October, a Russian plane leaving Cairo crashed, killing over 200 people — and causing Russia to start flying its citizens out of the country itself, alleging Egyptian aviation couldn't be trusted.

  [The Atlantic / Krishnadev Calamur]

• But even though Russia and the US attributed the October crash to terrorism quickly — and even though ISIS has claimed the attack — Russia is now trying to claim it was Turkish nationalists who brought down the plane, which, erm, calls the basis for its speculation into question.

  [The Observer / John R. Schindler]

• Those who can't be stopped from speculating include, shockingly, Donald Trump — who was happy to chalk the disappearance up to terrorism even before any officials had discussed it.

  [Washington Post / Ishaan Tharoor]

• Trump blamed the attack on the plane's departure from Paris, whose airport has aggressively stepped up security after attacks in Brussels earlier this year, because Donald Trump has rarely contented himself with speculation when outright error will do.

  [The Guardian / Luke Harding, Kim Willsher and Helena Smith]

• In fairness to Trump, his presumptive Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton is also saying that the plane crash "does appear" to be an act of terrorism.

  [Huffington Post / Willa Frej]

• Trump and Clinton might be right. But remember: In the first 24 hours of a breaking news story, things are often reported that turn out to be wrong. (This WNYC guide is a very good thing to have on hand whenever there's speculation afoot.)

  [WNYC / On the Media]

• We could illustrate the point by observing that EgyptAir officials thought they'd found the wreckage of the flight Thursday, then had to retract the claim. Or we could point out that one "expert" speculated on Egyptian TV that the real cause of the crash was electromagnetic superpower.

  [Rawya Rageh via Twitter]

A lifeguard, not a bailout, for Puerto Rico

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• Congress and the White House have finally come to a deal on a bill to guide Puerto Rico through its massive debt crisis.

  [WSJ / Nick Timiraos]

• The country owes $2 billion in payments on July 1. And, as Vox's Matt Yglesias has explained, the federal government deserves a lot of the blame to begin with.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• The bill wouldn't allow Puerto Rico to declare bankruptcy (something US cities, but not territories, can do). Instead, it would defer bond payments for several months, and create an oversight board that would have some economic and fiscal control over the territory, including the authority to ask a judge to restructure the state's debts.

  [Bloomberg / Laura Litvan and Billy House]

• Some bondholders are wary of any bill that might let Puerto Rico pay less of its debt. And since many bondholders are US citizens whose retirement funds bought US bonds, they have a powerful voice in Congress (in the person of a former House Republican from Florida).

  [Reuters / Daniel Bases and Susan Heavey]

• Some Democrats, meanwhile, think the federal government-appointed oversight board smacks of colonialism.

  [The Atlantic / Vann R. Newkirk II]

• The bill would alleviate Puerto Rico's current crisis. But it would neither offer federal support for economic development, nor assuage the concerns of companies considering investing on the island.

  [WSJ / Nick Timiraos]

• As a result, it's hard to imagine that it would slow Puerto Rico's population loss to the mainland — a place where nobody knows Puerto Rico's in America.

  [Huffington Post / Nick Visser]

When Canada stops being polite and starts getting real

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• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in huge trouble over an incident on the floor of the House of Commons Wednesday, in which he elbowed an opposing member of Parliament (a woman) in the stomach, while reportedly shouting "Get the fuck out of the way."

  [CBC]

• The fracas came at the climax of a tense cloture vote on the government's bill to legalize assisted dying — a bill written by Trudeau's Liberal government that was brought up for debate suddenly by the opposition earlier in the week, leaving the Liberals struggling to keep it alive.

• In an attempt to gain control of the agenda, the Liberals had proposed a motion to give them unprecedented control over the Commons. In the wake of Trudeau's outburst, they had to eggfacedly withdraw that motion.

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• The act of aggression was very un-Canadian. (In fact, the Canadian politics magazine Maclean's has helpfully assembled a slideshow of parliamentary fights in other countries, presumably to assure mortified readers that Canada hasn't done something unprecedentedly gauche.)

  [Maclean's]

• But it appears to have been a real setback for Trudeau and his government. While non-Canadians continue to swoon over Trudeau, the opposition in his own country appears to feel empowered to come out swinging (figuratively!) against him.

  [CBC / Aaron Wherry]

• Ironically, the parliamentary setup is a lot of why American liberals adore Trudeau so much — it makes it easier for him to get things done.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

• Even by those standards, though, Maclean's Paul Wells argues that the Liberals overpromised when they came to power last year. It's a lesson Trudeau's counterpart Barack Obama also learned only after getting in office: You can't accomplish as much as you want to and still be nice about it.

  [Maclean's / Paul Wells]

MISCELLANEOUS

An oral history of "Potato Chip," perhaps the finest SNL sketch of the 21st century. [Uproxx / Mike Ryan]

• The era of Peak TV — where there are dramatically more shows in production, and many more of them are good — is fundamentally changing the economic layout of the industry, in good ways and bad.

  [NY Mag / Josef Adalian and Maria Elena Fernandez]

• The drone war is not exactly popular in Pakistan. But in tribal regions where most drone strikes happened, they have a surprising amount of support.

  [Washington Post / Aqil Shah]

• Male IMDb users are tanking the ratings of TV shows with female protagonists.

  [FiveThirtyEight / Walt Hickey]

• One simple way to encourage apple consumption: Sell them in slices.

  [Washington Post / Roberto Ferdman]

VERBATIM

"I do want to point out, that Finland has perhaps the most heavy metal bands in the world, per capita, and also ranks high on good governance. I don't know if there's any correlation there." [President Obama via NPR]

• "I’m sorry daytime television. I’m sorry for the realness."

  [Kanye West on The Ellen DeGenres Show, via AV Club / Katie Rife]

• "As a high schooler, I honestly couldn’t care less which bathroom somebody uses if they’re using whichever one matches their gender identification. I believe that the whole freakout on this issue is a ploy to distract people from the real issues that face us, like childhood poverty, undue corporate influence in politics and income inequality."

  [Andrew Figueiredo to New York Times]

• "It’s interesting to watch people discuss the future Mrs. Angela Renée Kardashian as if she’s somehow not worthy of a family name that was built using the same tools she used to join them."

  [BuzzFeed / Sylvia Obell]

• "During a taping in 2007, Berg sat down next to the actress Patricia Heaton, who was promoting a new sitcom. Before he could say anything, Heaton leaned over and said in a playfully conspiratorial tone, 'I hear you’re a conservative.' … 'How did you know?' he asked. Heaton wouldn’t say but told him about a group starting up where he could speak freely. 'We’re going to have a meeting at my house,' she said. 'Would you like to come?'"

  [California Sunday Magazine / Andy Kroll]

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