Morning Coffee (6/2/19)

THIS IS BAD: US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants

Uh, so is this: Justice Department does not comply with court order to release transcripts of Michael Flynn’s conversations with Russian ambassador

Good for Elizabeth Warren: No President Is Above the Law

Unhappy With Findings, Agriculture Department Plans to Move Its Economists Out of Town

Their families fled Spain for Venezuela. To escape Maduro, they’re returning again.

These Rape Victims Had to Sue to Get the Police to Investigate

Good news: Transgender no longer recognised as 'disorder' by WHO

Half of H.I.V. Patients Are Women. Most Research Subjects Are Men.

Yay!! Netflix Options Sarah Dessen YA Novels, Sets 'Along for the Ride' Adaptation (Exclusive)

A Signal in Giant Earthquakes That Could Save Lives

Morning Coffee (8/22/16)

Me elsewhere: The week's TV news!

Whoa: Publisher wins rights to Voynich manuscript, a book no one can read

This seems like a perfectly reasonably goodbye request from Gawker.

The final insult: Donald Trump is a bore

Ken Starr Leaves Baylor After Complaints It Mishandled Sex Assault Inquiry

Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but I knew nothing’

This is scary: Chinese Court Upholds Ruling Against Historian Who Questioned Tale of Wartime Heroes

Sarah Dessen has a new book deal!!

The legal drama with the Rebecca Broadway show continues!

This story is insane: The Gucci wife and the hitman: fashion's darkest tale

'Mystery Monster' Found in Siberian Mine

Morning Coffee (5/6/15)

Kensington Palace has released Princess Charlotte's birth registry form. Awww.

Whoa. A signed first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude was stolen from the International Book Fair in Bogota.

Anyone who is running for president OR watching this season of The Good Wife should know better than to do this, Mike Huckabee.

Boston Magazine has an important overview of what started GamerGate: "What if a stalker had an army?"

Espresso in space!

"This week, the governor of Texas announced he was putting a special watch on U.S. military exercises this summer, due to public speculation that the soldiers might take over the state and confiscate everyone’s guns. Also, the Idaho Legislature recently killed a bill that would have provided federal aid in tracking down deadbeat dads, due to concern that it might involve the use of Shariah law. I do not want to hear you calling Bernie Sanders an extremist."

Sarah Dessen has a new novel out this week, and a good piece about dating an older guy at 15.

"You misunderstand yourself entirely. You have never been Elizabeth Bennet. No one in your entire acquaintanceship – in your entire life – has for even one second considered you to be the Elizabeth Bennet of your social circle."