Morning Coffee (8/31/17)

Oh no: Explosions Reported At Flooded Arkema Chemical Plant In Crosby, Texas

Some GOOD news: Federal Judge Blocks Texas’ Ban on ‘Sanctuary Cities’

Reports: Mattis froze the transgender military ban. Reality: no, he didn’t.

Nice! Canadian Passports Will Now Have a Gender Neutral Option

The race to rescue Cambodian children from orphanages exploiting them for profit

Stormfront: 'murder capital of internet' pulled offline after civil rights action

I love this: Thanks to Maggie Hassan, Little Girls in New Hampshire Think Only Women Can Be Governors

This headline was horrifying but then I saw it's what he WANTED: Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller

Theft is bad but I would watch this heist movie: Thieves bore into cellar from Paris catacombs to steal €250,000 of wine

Found: The Remains of Chinese Laborers Interred on a Peruvian Pyramid

Morning Coffee (2/4/17)

Good for Senator Hassan: Why I Won’t Vote for Betsy DeVos

And Senator Murphy: A Reckless Slide Toward War With Iran

How Assad Is Winning

Uh... Justice Dept. lawyer says 100,000 visas revoked under travel ban; State Dept. says about 60,000 Either way, that's way more than the supposed 109 people affected.

Wow: Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump’s immigration order

Kellyanne Conway made up a fake terrorist attack to justify Trump’s “Muslim ban”

Dear Lord: White House Aide Won’t Say If Trump Even Considers Islam A Religion

Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Endorsements by Churches

Hee: Sweden trolls Trump with all-female legislator photo

I can't believe this is a real headline: At the last reading of exiled Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi before he is barred from the U.S.

Curiosity Finds Fossilized Slab of Cracked Mud on Mars

Archaeologist defies sceptics in pursuit of lost city of Trellech