Morning Coffee (10/10/16)

Me elsewhere: Your TV news for the week.

Trump, companies accused of mistreating women in at least 20 lawsuits

Her love of research is one of my favorite things about her: Hillary Clinton Already Knows The Bad Thing You Said

From before the debate, but still: Inside Trump Tower, an Increasingly Upset and Alone Donald Trump

Charting Boko Haram's Rapid Decline

Hillary Clinton and the Resurrection of Old-School Hysteria

That Seventh-Grade Bully Is Running for President

The Definitive Map of America’s Creepy Clown Epidemic

Huh: Amazon Prime Now Offers Magazines

This piece about the creation of Addy Walker (the first black American Girl doll) is fascinating.

George Washington's 'racy' letter about a donkey goes on sale

Morning Coffee (10/9/16)

"Mr. Trump is rape culture’s blathering id, and Sunday night Hillary Clinton (who, no doubt, has just as many man-made scars as the rest of us) has to stand next to him on a stage, and remain unflappable as she’s held to an astronomically higher standard, and pretend that he is her equal while his followers persist in howling that sexism is a feminist myth."

“Shame On You!”: Trump Supporters Clash With Republican Leaders

Why Republicans Are Probably Stuck With Donald Trump

Mike Pence enabled Donald Trump. Stop saying he’d make a good president.

Here's Lin-Manuel Miranda's Saturday Night Live monologue. It's pretty adorable. I know, you're shocked.

"This is about 'lesser evil' Hillary Clinton. But what if I don’t think Hillary Clinton is 'evil' at all? What if I like her real good???"

The Horror Is Everything the GOP Could Tolerate About Trump, and Why

"These rhetorical time bombs, in other words, could be the catalyst for actual intimidation and violence, before and after Election Day. And if that violence and intimidation strikes, it will be against the chief targets of Trump’s campaign: people of color."

Oh: US protests over Russian 'harassment' as diplomats allegedly given date rape drug

Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn’t Need Them

Morning Coffee (10/8/16)

In case you have been away from all media for the last day, a tape surfaced with Trump talking about routinely sexually assaulting women.

In light of this, the Times published Nick Kristof's column early: Donald Trump, Groper in Chief

And the editorial board is going all in: "And so we have now heard the Republican nominee for president of the United States bragging about repeated sexual assault."

Yes, it's too late to get Trump off the ballot (if normal rules still apply, to anything). Here's Vox's solution.

And here's how the tape came to light.

ALSO YESTERDAY: Russia filed a complaint with the UN about an official saying bad things about Trump. For real.

Speaking of Russia, ALSO YESTERDAY: U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections

ALSO YESTERDAY: Donald Trump Says Central Park Five Are Guilty, Despite DNA Evidence Because he is racist.

MEANWHILE: President Obama just signed a "bill of rights" for survivors of sexual assault

The lesson of Hillary’s secret speeches is she’s exactly who we already knew she was

How Donald Trump Supporters Attack Journalists

Morning Coffee (10/7/16)

Time for some happy Friday links!

Me elsewhere: I was not impressed by the Conviction pilot.

Ooh, National Book Award finalists!

I am so excited about this YA arranged marriage rom-com.

In case you missed it, Netflix released a very cute Gilmore Girls featurette.

Prince Harry and James Middleton are having a beard-growing contest?!?!

A Guide to the Real-Life Homes of the Heroes of Children's Literature

Let's look at some pretty coats.

Star Trek corn maze!

This 1856 review of Clara Schumann is fascinating.

Stark, Spare, Beautiful Midcentury British Safety Posters

A Field Guide to Wodewoses

Morning Coffee (10/6/16)

Me elsewhere: Timeless was fun!

N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets

The best piece on the VP debate I've found: This Wasn’t a Debate. This Was a National Gaslighting.

The Atlantic has only endorsed presidential candidates twice: in 1860 and 1964. And now this year.

Get to know António Guterres. He'll be running the UN for a while.

Inside Planned Parenthood's $30 Million Ground War to Stop Trump-Pence

Donald Trump's Tax Records: A Tale of Business Failures

A civil rights museum refused to close for five hours so Trump could have private access to tape ads, so now people are threatening to burn it down.

Eric Trump being sleazy about his father’s tax returns, an annotated guide

How Donald Trump Ditched U.S. Steel Workers in Favor of China

Fox News Outdoes Itself With a Ridiculously Racist Segment About Trump and Asians

Morning Coffee (10/5/16)

This exit interview that President Obama did with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is worth a read.

The Onion, but WHERE IS THE LIE? Nation’s Women Fantasize About Some Future Election That Isn’t Absolutely Pivotal To Their Well-Being

This was pretty funny: The RNC accidentally put up its “Mike Pence won the debate” post early

Donald Trump is toying with refusing to concede if he loses. That’s horrifying.

Grading the Presidential Candidates on Science

Whoa: British book dealer slain for his first edition of 'The Wind in the Willows,' prosecutors say

Oh: The Wave of Evil Clown Sightings Is Nothing to Worry About. It Happens Every Few Years!

The Not-So-Wholesome Reality Behind The Making of Your Meal Kit

He really has a lot to answer for: Yes, It Was Donald Trump Who First Introduced Pizza Hut's Stuffed Crust to the World

Chasing the Sun: The woman forgotten by science

Morning Coffee (10/4/16)

I'm probably not going to have time to write about it - I'm focusing on network premieres - but I really liked Westworld on HBO. Check it out!

Strange matter wins physics Nobel

Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising by N.Y. attorney general’s office

Sad news: Neville Marriner, Prolific Musician and Acclaimed Conductor, Dies at 92

This is important: Why Every Woman Should Be Mad That People Are Treating Kim Kardashian's Holdup Like a Joke

!! Drink Free Coffee Like a Gilmore Girl at Hundreds of Luke’s Diner Pop-Ups Across America

"If you believe this election is basically a lock, or you happen not to live in a battleground, and are thus flirting with the idea of abstaining or of voting for a third party, ask yourself if you want to live in a country that has established proof of concept for a more polished racist demagogue."

This paper is long but worth reading: Fanning the Flames: Reporting on Terror in a Networked World

Pepe The Frog’s creator is voting Hillary, isn’t sure what the hell happened either

Oh: Stephen King's 'It' Movie Producer Denies Creepy Clown Sightings Are Marketing Stunt

Postcard from the past: a nostalgic glimpse into holidays of yesteryear

Morning Coffee (10/3/16)

Me elsewhere: Your TV news for the week.

There was some big news over the weekend, in case you were offline. First, I feel like this barely made a ripple, because of everything else going on: Colombia referendum: Voters reject Farc peace deal

And now what everyone's talking about: Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades

As news of Trump’s taxes breaks, he goes off script at a rally in Pennsylvania

The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump’s tax return

The Time I Found Donald Trump’s Tax Records in My Mailbox

LeBron James: Why I'm endorsing Hillary Clinton

Part of this story takes place at my local yarn store! I'm so mad I wasn't there. Trump has a challenge with white women: ‘You just want to smack him’

I don't think Elena Ferrante has some divine right to anonymity or anything, but this piece claiming to unmask her is icky on a number of levels.

!! Missing piece of lost Magritte painting is discovered in Norwich

Here's a great profile of our new Librarian of Congress.

Morning Coffee (10/2/16)

Well this isn't alarming at all: Donald Trump Tells Those Who Are Not Conservative Christians To Identify Themselves At Rally

Undecided voters: Not who people often make them out to be.

Trump wanted to fire women who weren't pretty enough, say employees at his California golf club

Brian Beutler makes good points about conservative newspaper endorsements of Clinton.

Stein: Also not great at naming world leaders.

Oh: Anger as Churchill's home turned into Hitler HQ for Transformers 5

The Brangelina divorce and Hollywood’s ‘marriage of equals’ fantasy

James Patterson needs a get-a-grip friend.

The Forgotten History of Florence’s Mixed-Race Medici

YES: It’s Sherbet, Not Sherbert, You Dilettantes

Morning Coffee (10/1/16)

It's October!

ICYMI, I wrote about The Lost Tudor Princess yesterday and I had some issues with it.

This is important and more complicated than you probably think: What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server

Also important: Thousands of immigrants who thought they'd done everything in time to get citizenship to vote probably won't be able to because of a backlog.

The key question on the Clinton Foundation is whether it saved lives. The answer is clearly yes.

David Fahrenthold continues to do great work: Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money

Also: Trump's campaign paid his businesses $8.2 million

The GOP’s Jewish Donors Are Abandoning Trump

The myth of Gary Johnson

UGH New Hampshire: Calling for a Coup - State Rep Candidate McCoole Wants Military to Take Obama Into Custody

I. WHAT. Grumpy Cat Is Joining the Cast of Cats

Human Remains Found at Ancient Roman-Era Shipwreck