Morning Coffee (6/29/19)

GOOD: James A. Fields Jr., avowed neo-Nazi in Charlottesville car attack, sentenced to life in prison

Scenes Of Tearful, Flu-Stricken And Underfed Migrant Kids Emerge In New Accounts

Cold, cramped, filthy: Migrants describe border centers

At G20, Trump Seeks Fresh Start With Putin After End of Mueller Inquiry

Donald Trump Is Promising to Fight the Census Case. That Might Actually Work.

Just evil for the fun of it: Trump Wants To Withdraw Deportation Protections For Families Of Active Troops

Why E. Jean Carroll, ‘the Anti-Victim,’ Spoke Up About Trump

Amazing: Ocasio-Cortez invites Megan Rapinoe to the House of Representatives in place of the White House

The ‘Wife Guys’ of the 2020 presidential race

Not great!!! Picture This: Diversity in Children’s Books 2018 Infographic

Morning Coffee (12/12/18)

Time got person of the year right this time.

The fiery meeting between Trump, Schumer, and Pelosi about the border wall, explained

Trump Can’t Stop Confessing

Paul Ryan's long con

Not to be a buzzkill, but that viral story about gay WWI soldiers buried together is fiction.

Ooh, good finalists for the Morris award!

Investigation of generic ‘cartel’ expands to 300 drugs

British politics has worst record for antisemitism in Europe, poll says

The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what’s to come

Putin's East German identity card found in Stasi archives – report

Morning Coffee (12/1/18)

In case you missed this overnight: George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Moscow project

Related and useful: Everyone Who’s Been Charged as a Result of the Mueller Investigation

The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow

Phew: Republican Senator Kills Nomination of Judge Who Defended Voter Suppression

Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched in Money Laundering Investigation

Not good! Sheryl Sandberg Asked for Soros Research, Facebook Acknowledges

Whoa: ‘Tangled web’ in Bladen County has questions swirling about votes in the 9th District

The Invisible American in a Saudi Prison Cell

Wow! Powdered polio vaccine brings hope to Nigeria and Pakistan

Morning Coffee (8/20/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

This is a big, important report: Ambushed at Home: Children poisoned by lead on U.S. Army bases as hazards go ignored

Putin Is Building a Bosnian Paramilitary Force

Nothing matters! “Truth isn’t truth”: Rudy Giuliani offers a new explanation of why Trump shouldn’t talk to Mueller

Appeals board says woman who disparaged Mexicans can't claim jobless benefits by citing Trump

The audience at my screening went WILD for this, as well they should: Crazy Rich Asians’ mid-credits scene is brief, but very revealing

Well this is terrible! New Service Promises to Manipulate Your Wife Into Having Sex With You

I don't usually watch talk shows but I LOVE HER: Busy Philipps' Talk Show Busy Tonight to Premiere Oct. 28 on E!

Where's The Beef? Wyoming Ranchers Bet On Blockchain To Track It

Interesting: Disney Finds It's Not So Easy to Sue Over Knockoff Characters at Birthday Parties

‘Death and Nightingales’: First-Look At BBC Two Period Drama Starring Jamie Dornan & Matthew Rhys

Morning Coffee (7/23/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week, with lots from Comic-Con this week!

I wish I thought it would change anything, but I'm glad they're saying it: GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick: 'The President Was Manipulated By Vladimir Putin'

Newly Disclosed FISA Applications Disprove ‘Witch Hunt’ Claims From Trump, Nunes

Of course he did: Trump supreme court pick called Nixon Watergate tapes ruling 'erroneous'

Different nominee, but again, of course: Trump Nominee Is Mastermind of Anti-Union Legal Campaign

Steve King Is A White Supremacist, And The GOP Doesn’t Care

Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It’s Having a Major Revival.

Author Suzanne Brockmann gave a great speech about romance and inclusivity and politics at RWA.

Wow: Bodies believed to be those of 95 black forced-labor prisoners from Jim Crow era unearthed in Sugar Land after one man’s quest

Aaah, new Doctor Who trailer with Jodie Whittaker!

! Cat Power to Release First Album in Six Years, Featuring Lana Del Rey

Morning Coffee (7/21/18)

Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model

Trump to Invite Putin to Washington, Blindsiding His Intelligence Chief

From the Start, Trump Has Muddied a Clear Message: Putin Interfered

The Midwest eases its Trump swoon and flirts again with Democratic candidates

Of course: Law That Saved the Bald Eagle Could Be Vastly Reworked

Once partners, ‘Game Change’ authors feuding over their shattered franchise

Alexander the Great hopes dashed as massive black coffin in Alexandria turns out to contain mummified family

Two men charged with stealing more than $8 million in rare books from Carnegie Library

WHAT: Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Ian McKellen to Star in 'Cats' Movie Adaptation

Interesting: Germany Ends Pre-Orders for Games Without Set Release Date

Morning Coffee (7/18/18)

Detaining Migrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry

Obama Warns In Mandela Speech That ‘Strongman Politics Are Ascendant’

It’s time to take Trump both seriously and literally on Russia

Rebecca Solnit: They Think They Can Bully the Truth

New Hampshire: Ground Zero in the War on Voting Rights

Yay! Puerto Rico Begins Allowing Transgender People to Change Their Birth Certificates

Record Number Of Native Americans Running For Office In Midterms

UGH: Police are protesting two novels on a school's summer reading list that grapple with police brutality

Perfect: 17 Real-Life Would-You-Rathers I, a Woman, Have Had to Ask Myself

Ooh: Les Misérables Photos: Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins Star in PBS Adaptation — First Look

Morning Coffee (7/17/18)

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and America’s “geopolitical suicide”

Trump and Putin vs. America

Feds Charge Russian Student, Linked To NRA, With Conspiracy

Inside Mueller's New Army

Made to Suffer for Her Sins: The Trump administration’s policies on family separation and abortion are driven by one view: A woman’s pain is fitting punishment.

4,500 Tech Workers, 1 Mission: Get Democrats Elected

UGH: Increasingly Agitated Elon Musk Labels Diver Who Mocked His 'Submarine' a 'Pedo Guy'

GOOD: Yankees Suspend Relationship with Papa John's After Founder's Racist Comments

Yay! J.K. Rowling's next Cormoran Strike novel Lethal White coming in September

Good for her: Seeking Pay Equity, Female Flutist Sues Boston Symphony Orchestra

Morning Coffee (3/22/18)

The Statesman continues to have good coverage of the Austin bombings.

Peru president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns amid corruption scandal

Quite the story: Kidnapped Royalty Become Pawns in Iran’s Deadly Plot

EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say

The Strange Tale of Trump's Phone Call to Putin

There’s Never Been a Native American Congresswoman. That Could Change in 2018.

Good for Julie Plec: Former 'Vampire Diaries' Writer Details Harassment on Set

Artifacts Stolen in Massive Archaeological Theft Recovered in Canterbury

Interesting: Google plans to boost Amazon competitors in search shopping ads

This sounds right up my alley: Lionsgate to Develop World War II Story ‘How the Girl Guides Won the War’

Researchers Create Simulated Exoplanet Atmospheres

Morning Coffee (3/13/18)

These package bombings in Austin are scary - stay safe, friends! The Austin Statesman is posting updates here.

Russia tries to entice voters to polls to prop up Putin's legitimacy

WHAT A SHOCK: Despite Mueller’s Push, House Republicans Declare No Evidence of Collusion

Trump administration broke the law by failing to implement smog rule, federal court rules

After Bragging About Broadcom Jobs, Trump Kills Its Qualcomm Deal Over 'National Security' Risk

James Levine’s Final Act at the Met Ends in Disgrace

Hubert de Givenchy Dies at 91; Fashion Pillar of Romantic Elegance

NASA’s Juno Probe Peers Into Jupiter’s Mysterious Atmosphere and Polar Regions

This sounds interesting: ‘Half the Picture’ Documentary on Female Directors Sells to Gravitas

Huh: Scientology TV Network Sets Launch On DirecTV, Apple, Roku And Amazon

Morning Coffee (3/12/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Putin: Maybe ‘Ukrainians, Tatars Or Jews’ Meddled In American Election

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ White House spokesman does not deny that Carl Icahn was tipped off

Woman Who Was Forced to Marry Her Rapist at 11 Finally Changes Florida Marriage Law

Humans — Not Bots — Are Largely Responsible for the Proliferation of Fake News

FBI arrests CEO of company selling custom BlackBerrys to gangs ... of course they were BlackBerrys.

Ursula Marvin, Geologist of the Extraterrestrial, Dies at 96

Whoa: RIP Claire's and Thanks for All the Piercings

Good for them: Riverdale's Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes Slam Cosmopolitan Philippines for Photoshopping Their Bodies

Interesting: A24 Buys Horror Spec From ‘Cat Person’ Author

A Tiny Book Written for Dolls, Commissioned by a Queen of England, Is Now for Sale (They certainly write off Vita Sackville-West easily here...)

Afternoon Tea (1/30/18)

This is wild: The Literary Intrigues of Putin’s Puppet Master

Well, I'm now a fan: Jamaica Has Never Had Olympic Synchronized Swimmers. These Girls Want to Change That.

How I, Tonya’s effects crew captured the film’s impossible skating shot

How ghee, turmeric and aloe vera became India’s new instruments of soft power

Some of this photography is gorgeous, which is weird to say about the subject, but you know what I mean: A century of cities at war – in pictures

Morning Coffee (9/6/17)

Why ending DACA is so unprecedented

And here's Obama's statement.

Spotify Creates Playlist in Support of DACA

This seems like very normal language: Trump ‘is not my bride’: Putin wades into diplomatic row with U.S.

Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Help Steal Signs Against Yankees

The Vanity Fair Meghan Markle cover story is worth reading, and I think the Fug Girls are right on in their analysis of it.

!!! RFK Limited Series Starring Chris Pine In Works At Hulu

Hong Kong Broadcaster's Decision To Drop BBC Prompts Anger

Interesting: Conservative Publisher Stops Branding Its Writers As ‘NYT Best-Selling Authors’

Traces of 6,000-year-old wine discovered in Sicilian cave

Morning Coffee (7/6/17)

‘Scarred and broken’: children escaping Isis in Mosul suffer waking nightmares

WHAT A SHOCK: White House gender pay gap more than triples under Trump

Months of Russia controversy leaves Trump ‘boxed in’ ahead of Putin meeting

The Media’s Unacceptable Silence on the Republican Health Care Bill

What happens to America if Justice Kennedy retires

This was quite something: NPR’s tweet of Declaration Of Independence angers Trump supporters

Tchaikovsky Hated The ‘1812 Overture,’ Which Sucks Because He Also Wrote It

Oh interesting: Tolkien Estate and Warner Bros. Settle Lawsuit Over Licensing

Ooh: British Museum to bring back Reading Room as part of revamp

Ha, poor kid: Sophie Turner Says She Found Out About Oral Sex From Her Game of Thrones Scripts

Morning Coffee (6/24/17)

A must-read: Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault

Intel chiefs tell investigators Trump suggested they refute collusion with Russians

If you're looking for a good summary: The Better Care Reconciliation Act: the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, explained

Republicans’ Obamacare repeal would be one of the biggest cuts to the social safety net in history

Saudi Arabia's Game of Thrones

Heh: WhatsApp: the go-to messaging tool for parliamentary plotting

TV in breakaway Ukraine has a distinct Soviet tint to it

Does NASA not have enough to worry about?? NASA Calls Bullshit on Goop's $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs

Why the Los Angeles Times Accidentally Tweeted About an Earthquake That Happened 90 Years Ago

Archaeologists unearth prehistoric ritual area around Bryn Celli Ddu

Morning Coffee (6/19/17)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Mosul's Library Without Books

Whoa: Masquerading as Reporter, Assassin Hunted Putin Foes in Ukraine

In South Sudan, Fake News Has Deadly Consequences

How Autocratic Is He?

The strange origins of the GOP ideology that rejects caring for the poor

Interesting: Modern Wars Are a Nightmare for the Army's Official Historians

Huh: The Manhattan Street (Still) Named After a Soviet Spy

Ooh: NBCUniversal Sets Launch Date for The Olympic Channel

Here's an interesting look at social media ghostwriters.

Alien megastructures – where we should look next

Morning Coffee (6/3/17)

I know there's SO MUCH to keep up with right now, but please read about this manmade famine if you haven't: 20 million starving to death: inside the worst famine since World War II

Related: Girls are increasingly being married off in war-torn Yemen

This has more signatories each time I look. As of this writing: 180 US Climate Mayors commit to adopt, honor and uphold Paris Climate Agreement goals

An incredibly telling thing Trump said at today’s Paris event wasn’t about climate at all

Haha of course: Nigel Farage is 'person of interest' in FBI investigation into Trump and Russia

Maybe Private Russian Hackers Meddled in Election, Putin Says

WELP: The Coat of Arms Said ‘Integrity.’ Now It Says ‘Trump.’

This story is hilarious because everyone's fine, and it includes the most Tony Kanaan quote ever: Teenagers arrested after Indy 500 pole winner Scott Dixon held up at Taco Bell

White supremacists love Vikings. But they’ve got history all wrong.

JFK's Russian Conspiracy

Morning Coffee (5/21/17)

Just out of spite: Trump tells advisers he wants to end key Obamacare subsidies

Vladimir Putin took time at a press conference to gloat about Trump

Everything Feels Like It Happened Forever Ago

The new CBO score for AHCA is a big deal. Here are 4 reasons why.

Alex 'I’m Not Backing Down' Jones Quickly Backs Down When Confronted by Greek Yogurt Company

Washington Post Story on Trump Giving Classified Intel to Russian Officials Breaks a Record

This sounds like it could end terribly in so many ways: A&E Orders Docuseries That Embeds Young Adults In High School

I assume someone - Varian Johnson? - is working on the fictional version of this right now: 5th Grader Uses Teddy Bear to Hack Cybersecurity Conference

Found: Earliest Evidence of Humans Living on the Australian Coast

The Librarian of Congress Weighs In on Why Card Catalogs Matter

Morning Coffee (4/30/17)

Turkey’s Wars: Quelling Kurdish Uprisings, and Suffering From Terror Attacks

It’s now illegal in Russia to share an image of Putin as a gay clown

The Far Left Is Still Out Of Touch With Black Voters

Quite a story: First, She Survived a ‘Cult.’ Now She’s Running for Office.

Trump is vowing to fix a problem that hasn’t existed for a decade

The Alt-Right of the Ozarks

A Mysterious Case Involving Turkey, Iran, and Rudy Giuliani

Cellphones in Hand, Saudi Women Challenge Notions of Male Control

No Bones About It: Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt

Found: World War I Training Tunnels Full of Live Grenades

Morning Coffee (3/28/17)

What Russia's Latest Protests Mean for Putin

Uh: Venezuelan troops invaded Colombia this week. But just a little bit.

Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Scaring Eligible Families Away From the Safety Net

I just... Trump Reportedly Handed Merkel a $374 Billion Invoice for NATO

Donald Trump is extremely bad at making deals

Trump’s Terrifying Comey Tweet

Hee: BUY THE BOOK: Trump Got To Sit In A Big Boy Truck Because Today Was A Special Day!

Oh hey, we haven't had a Theranos update in a while! Theranos offers shares to investors if they promise not to sue

At Muirfield, the World’s Oldest Golf Club, Women Can Join. Finally.

CAN YOU IMAGINE being isolated for a year filming a British reality show and coming back to find out about Brexit AND Trump???

PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN: Did Senator Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling Just Set Up a Real-Life Date Over Twitter?

Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland