Vox Sentences: Maybe don’t go to Trump rallies over the next few days

A jobs report that will make you long for Donald Trump to say more dumb things.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

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Violence is bad

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• At a Donald Trump rally in San Jose on Thursday night, protesters punched and threw things at Trump supporters, which is a bad thing to do.

  [ABC News / John Santucci, Candace Smith, and David Caplan]

• This has been the real upshot of Trump's campaign in California: It's brought out a level of aggression in his protesters that wasn't present in the rest of the country.

• Although given that Trump supporters at another rally Thursday calmly pepper-sprayed protesters in the face, it's really more that both sides are getting increasingly violent.

  [Sam Biddle / Gawker]

• This is not going to get better. It's going to get worse. The more this happens, the more people who are spoiling for a fight — on both sides — will come to Trump rallies looking for one.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• And given that both supporters and protesters see the other as an existential threat, on one level this is just the fight they both knew was coming.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• What was weird in San Jose was the police response. Police have been aggressive toward nonviolent protesters. But faced with violent ones, they totally failed to intervene.

  [KGO-TV / Matt Keller]

Racism is bad

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• Donald Trump himself is busy attacking federal judge Gonzalo Curiel, the judge in the class-action suits against Trump University.

  [WSJ / Brent Kendall]

• In Trump's eyes, Curiel is unforgivably biased toward Trump because Curiel's parents were born in Mexico and Trump wants to build a wall there.

  [Sopan Deb via Twitter]

• (Reminder: Curiel literally spent years as a prosecutor fighting drug smuggling across the border.)

• Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who endorsed Donald Trump just yesterday, was appalled by the Curiel attacks. He said they came "out of left field," indicating that he reads neither Vox Sentences nor any of the other outlets that were reporting similar Trump attacks on Curiel earlier this week.

  [WSJ / Siobhan Hughes]

• With each attack, Trump makes it more explicit: He is, in fact, saying that a proud Latino can't be a proud American.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• He also makes it more apparent that he has absolutely no desire to defer to the federal judiciary, leading the NYT to report out a piece with the characteristically understated headline "Donald Trump Could Threaten U.S. Rule of Law, Scholars Say."

  [NYT / Adam Liptak]

• John McCain — another recent Trump endorser — says he can support Trump because there are systems in place to restrain him from doing what he wants. Donald Trump, for all the world, appears to be asking, "Wanna bet?"

  [AP / Steve Peoples and Scott Bauer]

The jobs report is bad

Vox / Soo Oh

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the US economy added only 38,000 jobs in May — about 130,000 less than expected, and the fewest it's added since the end of 2010.

  [NYT / Patricia Cohen and Binyamin Appelbaum]

• What does that mean? Well, for one thing, it means the Federal Reserve is a lot less likely to raise interest rates than it was earlier this week.

  [Reuters / Lucia Mutikani]

• Beyond that, it's hard to tell. It's possible (especially given margins of error) that this is simply a statistical blip.

  [Washington Post / Matt O'Brien]

• That's especially plausible since the jobs report counted 35,000 striking Verizon workers as out of work — they've since returned to their jobs.

  [LA Times / Jim Puzzanghera]

• But it's also plausible that the economy is doing as badly as, say, Donald Trump says it is. That's certainly what Trump is saying about the jobs report.

  [Business Insider / Myles Udland]

• If you're of a pessimistic turn of mind, this is the number to worry about: 458,000 people gave up on looking for work in May.

  [LA Times / Jim Puzzanghera]

MISCELLANEOUS

Fifty years after Indonesia's horrific anti-communist mass killings, the Indonesian government is finally investigating what happened, much to military elites' dismay. [BBC]

• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend isn't just an unusually sharp portrayal of mental illness. It's the best critique of contemporary pop music around.

  [A.V. Club / Joshua Alston]

• The universe is expanding faster than we thought. And, y'know, the universe is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart, and that would be the end of everything!

  [Washington Post / Rachel Feltman]

• Today I learned that "I'm Lovin' It," the McDonald's jingle, was written by Clipse's Pusha T, better known for lines like, "I was just assumin' you'd keep the coke movin'," and, "Don't ask what I sell, shit, I'm Betty Crocker."

  [Entertainment Weekly / Derek Lawrence]

• Dylan just joined LearnedLeague; Dara has been a member for years. We can attest it is exactly as cool as this makes it sound.

  [Washington Post / Adam Kushner]

VERBATIM

"You know that character on ‘Game of Thrones,’ Tyrion? He says at one point, something to the effect of, ‘You’ve got to own your weakness, and then nobody can use it against you.’ Well, I’m trying to figure out how to do that." [Paula Broadwell to NYT Mag / Jessica Bennett]

• "The owner of Nick's Riverside Grill is now apologizing to the woman his staff wrongly accused of pooping in her pants after she left a one-star Yelp review."

  [Washington City Paper / Jessica Sidman]

• "How, we ask, could our society have regressed to the point where a bridge that could be built in less than a year one century ago takes five times as long to repair today?"

  [Boston Globe / Larry Summers and Rachel Lipson]

• "As for the risk that the technology to synthesize a bespoke genome and insert it into an early human embryo might get 'into the wrong hands,' he said, 'any proposed new technology has the potential to be misused, and this is one of them.'"

  [Jef Boeke to STAT / Sharon Begley and Ike Swetlitz]

• "in the Rocky Mountain West the tamale trade was dominated by men from Afghanistan. Specifically, it was dominated by men from Afghanistan with the surname Khan. (The men were generally unrelated; the name is extremely common.) In the first two decades of the twentieth century, tamale-selling Afghan Khans could be found in Deadwood and Fargo and Reno; in Seattle and Spokane and Wenatchee, Washington; in Butte, Montana, which boasted eighteen such tamale men by 1913, and all over the rest of the state as well—in Flathead, Fort Benton, Silver Bow, Anaconda, Havre, Great Falls, Red Lodge, Miles City, Chinook, Billings. Starting in 1908, you could buy tamales in Alaska from a Buhadin Khan, a Habib Khan, an M. Khan, and a guy called Tamale Joe, whose real name was likely also Khan."

  [New Yorker / Kathryn Schulz]

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