Vox Sentences: The wonk’s guide to the Rio Olympics

Something for everyone at the Rio Olympics; the GOP establishment strikes back?

TOP NEWS

An Olympics without GIFs

Getty / Clive Rose

• The 2016 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio is tonight. Here's your how-to-watch guide for the whole Olympic shebang, which promises something for everyone.

  [Vox / Tara Golshan]

• If you really liked City of God: Watch tonight's opening ceremony, which is directed by the same dude. (Yes, that sounds oddly on the nose to us, too.)

  [Reuters / Mary Milliken and Brad Haynes]

• If you are a Very Serious Policy Nerd who enjoys rooting against things: Watch to see how much of a disaster the Rio Games really are (you might be disappointed) — then keep paying attention to Rio after the games are over to see how badly the Olympics has damaged the city in the long run (maybe a lot).

  [Vox / Libby Nelson]

• If you are a Very Serious Policy Nerd who enjoys rooting for people: Watch the events that the first Refugee Olympic Team is competing in — then pay attention to next month's UN summit to see if the Olympics actually get countries to step up on welcoming refugees.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• If you just want to know what everyone else is watching so you can understand Twitter: These are the most popular Olympic events among thousands of FiveThirtyEight readers, who in my (Dara's) opinion badly overstate the telegeneity of volleyball.

  [FiveThirtyEight / Walt Hickey]

• If you want to feel great about America: Follow these nine athletes (including swimmer Katie Ledecky and gymnast Simone Biles).

  [SB Nation ]

• If you want to feel lousy about America: Watch the gymnastics events — but only after reading this Indianapolis Star investigation about sexual abuse by coaches within the USA Gymnastics organization, and the subsequent cover-up.

  [Indianapolis Star / Marisa Kwiatkowski, Mark Alesia, and Tim Evans]

• If you just want to complain on the internet: The International Olympic Committee is trying to keep everyone from using the words "Olympic Games" unless they're sponsors, basically. It's also banning GIFs. Go get it trending.

  [McClatchy / Kate Irby]

Paul Ryan vs. Paul Nehhh-len. (This is not a joke, it is the actual primary.)

CQ Roll Call / Bill Clark and AFP / Molly Riley

• Donald Trump is expected to endorse Paul Ryan tonight.

  [CNN / Dana Bash, Jim Acosta, and Eric Bradner]

• Thus ends 72 hours of speculation Trump could easily have avoided had he not essentially told a Washington Post reporter to ask him on Wednesday whether he'd endorsed Paul Ryan, then said he hadn't yet.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• The weird thing isn't the trolly pre-non-endorsement. The weird thing is that Trump has praised Ryan's primary opponent, Paul Nehlen, and that Trump allies Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter have been stumping for Nehlen in the last weeks of the race.

  [NBC News / Alexandra Jaffe]

• Nehlen, after all, is a member of the Trump wing of the party. (Key quote: "Why do we have Muslims in the country?")

  [Vox / Tara Golshan]

• But maybe the establishment is finally striking back! After all, earlier this week, "firebrand" (read: conservative, but also a Ted Cruz–like pain in the butt to his colleagues) Rep. Tim Huelskamp got successfully primaried by an establishment, business-supported challenger.

  [NYT / Carl Hulse]

• At very least, it appears, Trump and the GOP end the week in a state of detente. There will likely be a reckoning between the party's various wings, but it won't happen just yet.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

Great jorb!

Getty / Win McNamee

• The US economy had another strong month in July, adding 255,000 jobs (beating expectations of around 180,000).

  [CNN Money / Patrick Gillespie]

• Predictably, this was very good for stocks and bonds, which are responding extremely well to good jobs news these days.

  [WSJ / Riva Gold and Alex Bitter]

• Also predictably, it substantially raises the possibility that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates when it next meets in September (which is something the markets don't appear to be thinking much about).

  [CNBC / Ron Insana]

• Donald Trump put out a statement about the report. Well, sort of. He put out a statement about the economy, on the morning of the jobs report, and therefore presumably reacting to the jobs report ... that talked about how terrible the economy was and didn't mention the jobs report.

  [NY Daily News / Denis Slattery]

• But if the Fed does raise rates in September — and the economy slows down as a result — it could be a nasty surprise for Hillary Clinton.

  [Politico / Ben White]

MISCELLANEOUS

Imagine Seinfeld still on TV after 9/11. [Splitsider / Adam Frucci]

• What happens when you actually offer to test people's drugs at a music festival.

  [The Influence / Henry Fisher]

• One of the best stories written so far about the current opioid epidemic.

  [Washington Post / Eli Saslow]

• This article greatly understates the weirdness of the stuff people are creating with Microsoft's Project Murphy chatbot.

  [TheNextWeb / Abhimanyu Ghoshal]

• What books New York Times writers around the country think you should read about the regions they cover.

  [NYT]

VERBATIM

"The problem wasn’t that Italians did not want to become part of American society, to work hard or participate in the political process. It was that they did." [BuzzFeed News / Adam Serwer]

• "Nuisance and an easy remedy are not enough to justify dialing 911 in an age of police brutality."

  [The American Conservative / Bonnie Kristian ]

• "A shockingly high number of readers told me to pry their cargo shorts from their 'cold, dead legs.'"

  [WSJ / Nicole Hong]

• "You should always skip Shouts and Murmurs unless explicitly told not to."

  [Tilly Minute]

• "For real, though, this doesn't sound like a tech problem."

  [Farhad Manjoo to BuzzFeed News / Katie Notopoulos]

WATCH THIS

Olympics 2016: What Rio doesn't want the world to see [YouTube / Vox]

Vox / Johnny Harris