Weekly Report: October 2, 2022

Observations

• I received my “Official Voter Information Guide” this week for the November 8 midterm elections. It’ll be the first general election I’m eligible to vote in. The guide is 127 pages, with information about 7 propositions for new California laws (including the text of those laws, legislative analysis, and arguments and rebuttals from each side), candidate statements for state and federal office, information about various California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal justices to be confirmed, and information on how to vote. That’s a lot of information to process if you want to make an informed decision about everything that’s up for a vote, but it’s great that it’s there.

Articles

• Putin Frames Illegal Annexation as Part of Existential Battle With West (New York Times)
• UK Pensions Got Margin Calls (Bloomberg)
• Truss learns the hard way that Britain isn’t America (FT) ($)
• I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry (Fortune)
• In Brazil’s heated presidential election, anything could happen (CNN)
• What Jair Bolsonaro did to the Amazon rainforest, in 2 charts (Vox)
• Gerrymandering Isn’t Giving Republicans the Advantage You Might Expect (New York Times)
• What Many Progressives Misunderstand About Fighting Climate Change (The Atlantic)
• The Humiliating History of the TSA (The Verge)
• The Last, Painful Days of Anthony Bourdain (New York Times)
• How Spam Became Cool Again (CNN)

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