Trump Wants Chaos. Don’t Give It to Him

It's terribly unfair, but protesters will have to deescalate the situation in the streets as best they can. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The President* Wants Chaos and Disunion. Don't Give It to Him.   In the last week, a protestor was shot to death in Austin, there were clashes with property damage in Seattle, Oakland, and Baltimore, and there was gunfire in Colorado. Portland continues to be a tinderbox. And Trump continues to incite violence as an advanced form of advertising for his re-election campaign. The need for de-escalation seems to be far past urgent, and the administration* doesn't seem inclined toward it. It's terribly unfair, especially when the national government seems unwilling to address the very real problems at issue. But rightly or wrongly, Charles P. Pierce argues that this puts the responsibility on the protestors themselves. Read More           The Best Linen Shirts to Help You Summon Big Bohemian Vacation Energy   The right linen shirt goes a long way in channeling the best kind of vacation energy from the comfort of your home. The best of 'em should be soft and fluttery, prone to swaying gently in welcome gusts of wind, especially when left half-unbuttoned as if casually thrown on as an afterthought. There's a reason linen shirts remain a perennial staple of summer style: They're super lightweight and immediately confer a certain degree of respectability on their wearer, regardless of whatever else he's got on. Avidan Grossman found 16 to help you summon the spirit of summer—no matter if you're hitting the beach or the couch. Read More           3 AM in Chicago the Night the Columbus Statue Came Down   It was the night the Columbus statue came down in Chicago, and in and around Grant Park, where the statue had presided for 87 years, it was a total shitshow. Around 3 a.m., as Jonathan Ballew saw the toppled statue of Christopher Columbus loaded up in the back of a flat-bed truck, still wrapped up from the week before, it looked like a body covered in a white sheet on the highway after a gruesome death. And as the flat-bed drove away from what will always be Native land, Ballew couldn't help but smile at the symbolic expulsion of Columbus, dead and driven from land that was never his. After witnessing the removal, Ballew was left wondering: Would the Native people on whose land the statue stood be proud of this moment? Would they even care? Read More           Everlane's Summer Sale Is Still Going Strong—and Not to Be Missed   When Everlane does the damn thing it does it right. Case in point: its annual summer sale, which is always cause for celebration. Right now, the brand is slashing prices across a select array of democratically priced staples—from near-perfect pocket tees to its signature slim chinos—all ready-made to cure any burgeoning mid-summer blues. Avidan Grossman scoured the sale so you don't have to—so shop now, friends, or forever hold your peace because these deals won't stick around long. Read More           99 Days from Election Night, a New Viral Video Asks America to 'Wake Up'. Who's Behind It?   On Sunday morning, a shadowy Portland-based production company called Pattern Integrity Films uploaded a video titled America Wake Up. And it's going viral in the Twittersphere. The clip plays an audio recording of the late comedian George Carlin over a dizzying montage of images from the news: sprawling tent cities; overcrowded hospital emergency rooms; MAGA hat-clad Trump supporters; and excerpts of the Dakota Access Pipeline nearing completion, among other representations of high-level collusion and government dysfunction. So who's behind the viral video? Here's what we know about Pattern Integrity. Read More           Do You Know How Much $1 Trillion Is, Really?   After months of resistance, even Senate Republicans are grasping the peril we're in due to the pandemic, and are set to unveil another $1 trillion in response spending. So it was strange to see this headline from NBC News on Sunday: "Preventing the next pandemic will cost $22,200,000,000 a year, scientists say." While it was probably just for dramatic effect, this is an exceedingly weird way to notate "$22 billion." The actual story, for instance, notes that the nations of the world have already spent $8.1 trillion ($8,100,000,000,000) responding to the current pandemic. There are always a lot of numbers flying around when it comes to government spending. But without context, it's nonsense. Politics Editor Jack Holmes puts this number in perspective, and afterward, it's hard to fathom a world where this proposal isn't worth the cost. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019