Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/17/22)

Today is Saturday and it's still snowing!

Ukraine warns of long outages after wave of Russian strikes hit power grid (The Guardian)

Jan. 6 Panel Plans Vote on Referring Trump for Insurrection and Other Charges (NYT)

GOOD: U.S. appeals court ruling means border expulsions on track to end Dec. 21 (WaPo)

The lame-duck Senate has a new bill to protect the census after Trump's interference (NPR)

Twitter reinstates banned journalists' accounts (BBC)

A Christmas covid surge is looking more likely, again. But getting sick isn’t inevitable. (Grid)

Good! New Hampshire becomes latest state to ban TikTok from government devices (NHPR)

Harvard University appoints Claudine Gay as school’s first Black president (CNN)

Fancy! Ancient barn conversion with steam room found at Roman villa in Rutland (The Guardian)

Brisbane nativity camels returned safely after stroll (BBC)

And some longer reads:

This is truly terrifying. This is how genocide starts. Texas attorney general’s office sought state data on transgender Texans (WaPo)

Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness (NPR)

I can't stop thinking about this extremely wild story: I Think I Found Kyrsten Sinema’s Side Hustle (Slate)

For your planning purposes: The 22 Most Popular Holiday Appetizers (Half-Baked Harvest)

The Best Historical Fiction of the Year: 2022 (CrimeReads)