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 (6/12/18)

So much terrible news, I barely know where to start!

Sessions Says Domestic Violence Is Not Grounds for Asylum

Supreme Court upholds Ohio’s way of removing infrequent voters from rolls

Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign

A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: ‘We’re America, Bitch’

Turns out I'm not actually unshockable yet: "But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law."

Flu Season Breaks Record As Deadliest for Children, Most of Whom Weren't Vaccinated

The Reporter Who Exposed New York Times Star Glenn Thrush's Sexual Misconduct Says She Was the Victim of a Smear Campaign

Sweet Talk: FDA's 'Added Sugar' Label Hits Sour Note With Maple Syrup Makers

Two in one: a newly-identified bilingual papyrus

Heh: Of Course A Yankees Batter Found The Open Bullpen Door In The Mets Outfield

Morning Coffee (5/29/18)

Asylum seekers have flooded into Canada. The government is putting them to work.

After Ireland Abortion Vote, Northern Irish Ask, ‘Why Not Us?’

North Korea Nuclear Disarmament Could Take 15 Years, Expert Warns

This sounds like the worst TV season ever: ‘The only one’: In new West Wing season, Trump calls the shots and aides follow

The NFL’s “take a knee” ban is flatly illegal

Three Younger Veterans Stake a Generational Claim on the Democratic Party

Interesting interview: Chelsea Clinton: ‘I’ve had vitriol flung at me for as long as I can remember’

SO EXCITED: Tana French previews her thrilling new mystery The Witch Elm

‘Sesame Street’ Has Filed A Lawsuit Against The Raunchy Puppets Of ‘The Happytime Murders’

Heh: Rudy Giuliani went to watch baseball on his birthday and Yankees fans gave him the gift of boos

Morning Coffee (4/28/18)

Hmm: North and South Korea Set Bold Goals: A Final Peace and No Nuclear Arms

All 4 service chiefs on record: No harm to units from transgender service

Bill Cosby Found Guilty Of All Charges In Sexual Assault Retrial

Charlie Rose Is Getting A New Show Because We Don't Care About The Women He Hurt

This is good in THIS case but... not great as precedent in general: Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA's office says

This case is so terrible in so many ways: Hart Family, Before Driving Off Cliff, Hid Dark Home Life From View

Conventions are NOT AN EASY THING TO PULL OFF and I don't know why people keep thinking they are: Universal Fan Con: Peeling Back the Layers

I hate him so much! Bernie Sanders Is Quietly Building a Digital Media Empire

Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre

Guys. Yankees Spell Didi Gregorius' Name Wrong While Promoting Bat Day Giveaway

Morning Coffee (4/15/18)

Don't Absolve Trump of His Impeachable Offenses

This is awful: Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds

It’s in the data: Tronc underpays women and people of color at the L.A. Times

Chinese Sperm Bank Seeks Donors. Only Good Communists Need Apply.

Wow: 8-Year-Old Girl Thwarts Attempted Kidnapping at US-Mexico Border

The Women Who Get Paid to Apologize

Bad Blood Between the Yankees and the Red Sox Is Good for Baseball

Hot Summer Nights Trailer: It’s Timothée Chalamet in a Sexy ’80s Drug Romp!

Ooh, Adam Rippon, Mirai Nagasu, and Tonya Harding will be in Dancing with the Stars.

BY GIANTS, obviously (no, this is interesting): Scientists solve mystery of how Giant's Causeway was formed

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 (2/20/16)

ICYMI: I loved Stutterer until I hated it.

Everything's kinda terrible today, guys, sorry . . .

Sad day in the book world yesterday: Umberto Eco and Harper Lee have both died.

How We Failed to Protect Kesha

And... the flip side, sort of: Aroldis Chapman Has Reported for Spring Training. Now What?

Donald Trump Escalates Rhetoric Before South Carolina Primary (which is now today; I kept forgetting to give you this link earlier in the week.)

How badly is Bush getting owned in this primary? JebBush.com goes to DonaldJTrump.com.

Of course: Texas health official out after study on Planned Parenthood

Well: The Official Currency of ISIS’s Caliphate: the U.S. Dollar

This is very interesting and important: America's unlearned lesson: the forgotten truth about why we invaded Iraq

Shocker: Study: men think their male classmates are smarter, even when they're not

...timely, with the Kesha news: Studio Heads of the Classic Era, In Order of Personal Awfulness