Morning Coffee (7/22/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever

Puerto Rico’s week of massive protests, explained

Ocasio-Cortez calls for an independent investigation into child separation policies

Extradition and independence: What’s behind the continued protests in Hong Kong

Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On

Elizabeth Warren’s latest Wall Street enemy: private equity

!!! New Kinks Music is Underway After More Than Two Decades Apart, Dave Davies Confirms

Into this: Natalie Portman will take up Thor’s hammer in Thor: Love and Thunder

What: Paul McCartney Has Been Secretly Writing an ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Musical

Picard's dog's name in 'Star Trek' spin-off is confirmed, and it's perfect

Afternoon Tea (5/15/19)

Argentina’s Economic Misery Could Bring Populism Back to the Country

How Casey Cep Wrote the True-Crime Book Harper Lee Couldn’t

In African Villages, These Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners

This is such a tough aspect of apartment living: Listening to My Neighbors Fight (...I just realized I have two Maris Kreizman pieces linked in this post but I DON'T CARE, Maris is great.)

Discovering Cheese and Tradition in the Swedish North

Morning Coffee (3/9/19)

This is bad! Source: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database

So is this! Trump Mar-a-Lago Buddy Wrote Policy Pitch. The President Sent It to VA Chief.

Asylum-Seekers Can Appeal Fast-Track Deportations, Court Rules

Leaked Chats Reveal White Nationalist Plot To Keep Steve King In Office

The House easily passed Democrats’ anti-hate resolution, with some Republicans dissenting

Welp: Two lawmakers just debated the merits of Nickelback on the House floor

This story just keeps getting wilder: Crypto Mystery: Quadriga's Wallets Are Empty, Putting Fate Of $137 Million In Doubt

Good: Virgin Atlantic flight attendants no longer have to wear makeup and skirts

lolol: Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn't him

Ancient Angkor’s mysterious decline may have been slow, not sudden

Morning Coffee (3/4/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

This makes interesting points about both Cohen and Netanyahu: The week democracy struck back

Sign Falsely Linking Muslim Congresswoman To Sept. 11 Sparks Outrage In West Virginia

Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen

What’s Missing From The Most Important Debate On The Left

Labour faces new row over efforts to curb antisemitism

SpaceX and NASA Launch Is First Step to Renewed Human Spaceflight

This is great and/but made me wonder what U.S. hospitals do! England to Offer Hospital Patients Free Sanitary Products

SIGH: Oscars: Steven Spielberg to Express Netflix Concerns at Upcoming Academy Meeting

The Cut Expands Into Fiction

Heh: Either Johnny Manziel's Wife Is The Fastest Runner In Recorded History Or She Cheated At A Half Marathon

Morning Coffee (2/21/19)

‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says

Anti-Semitic Attacks Fuel Continuing Rise in Hate Crimes in New York

Trump is exploiting the Venezuela crisis in order to win the 2020 presidential election

Reports say Robert Mueller could conclude his Trump-Russia investigation next week

Northern Ireland police accused of concealing data on loyalist killings

Welp: Fox News Rejected an Oscar-Nominated Documentary’s Ad Over Nazi Imagery, but It Doesn’t Always Seem to Bother Them

America’s Insanely Expensive Child Care Is a Serious Economic Problem

Amazon’s $0 corporate income tax bill last year, explained

Good! #OscarsSoWhite Creator April Reign to Attend Academy Awards: "I Feel Immense Pride"

Women in Music? The Song Remains the Same, Annenberg Study Shows

Afternoon Tea (2/6/19)

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

A Syrian Chocolatier's Legend Lives On In Europe — But Stays Close To Its Roots

A fascinating photoessay by a firefighter: To Smolder, Burn Slow

What Soybean Politics Tell Us About Argentina and China

Unlocking Access to Ancient Science in Renaissance Italy: the vernacularization of Pliny’s ‘Historia Naturalis’

Morning Coffee (1/14/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration

An Ocean Engineer and a Nuclear Physicist Walk Into Congress …

On The Navajo Nation, 5,000 Workers Dependent On A Federal Paycheck

Who’s disproportionately prosecuted for human trafficking? Young black men.

GOOD: DNA discoverer James Watson loses honors over views on race

These women survived domestic abuse, now they're sharpshooters protecting animals from poachers

Millennial Women Are Pouring Into Jobs, Fueling U.S. Labor Gains

Ooh: Netflix's 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Leads to "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark Lawsuit

Welsh farmstead is rare medieval hall house, experts confirm

Hmm: Movies Are Getting Better And Better, Those Rising RottenTomatoes.com Scores Say

Morning Coffee (11/22/18)

Happy Thanksgiving! We're on a holiday schedule of one post a day until Monday; today I've got a few pieces of news and a bunch of Thanksgiving-related links, and then tomorrow will be Friday happy links as usual.

Well, this is a delightful relief: Interpol presidency vote: Russia in surprise loss to South Korea

Good: John Roberts is mad at Trump for attacking an “Obama judge”

Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades

America’s two economies remain far apart

This is great: How to Cope with Holiday Panic

Jamelle Bouie took over Dear Prudence for a special Thanksgiving edition!

A wonderful piece about refugees: The First Thanksgiving

I love this: I should spare my loved ones from the most annoying Thanksgiving host in the world: me

A message to men (other than my father and brother who are very good about this!): This Thanksgiving, Just Do the Dishes

Heh: 9 Breezy Responses to Those Awkward Family Holiday Questions

Morning Coffee (8/7/18)

Rick Gates just testified that he committed crimes with Paul Manafort

This isn't SURPRISING but seeing it all laid out there is... big: AP investigation: Yemen war binds US, allies, al-Qaida

Good for them: Transit Union Refuses to Bring White Nationalists to 'Unite the Right' Rally

...of course? Sen. Rand Paul goes to Moscow and invites Russians to Washington in unofficial bid to boost ties

The US has reimposed sanctions on Iran. Here’s what that means.

YouTube Bans InfoWars Following Removals From Apple, Facebook, and Spotify

MoviePass Cuts Plan to Three Movies a Month

I'm so glad Moulin Rouge got a great review in the Times.

The Book Everyone in the Netherlands Is Talking About Is Finally Coming to the U.S.

Indian warrior king's rocket cache found in abandoned well

Morning Coffee (7/26/18)

Doing another ALL TERRIBLE NEWS post to clear the decks for happy Friday links tomorrow. Sorry! But this stuff is important!

Government: 463 migrant parents may have been deported without their children

Separated migrant family of six faced one hurdle after another after immigration crackdown

Ugh: Justice Department: Use 'illegal aliens,' not 'undocumented'

All the President’s Hush Money

Trump-Cohen tape: the conversation, controversy and key claims

Good: Jason Spencer, Georgia Lawmaker Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen, to Resign (The issue, of course, isn't BEING DUPED but rather the things he was willing to do/say.)

Great: Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says

University Student Accused of Raping Woman After Quoting Donald Trump

How Prisons Are Poisoning Their Inmates

Venezuela Inflation Could Reach One Million Percent by Year’s End

Morning Coffee (7/25/18)

Israel just shot down a Syrian fighter jet

lolol Trump, Now Acknowledging Russian Interference, Claims It's Aimed At Helping Dems

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Russia slams US general, says he 'discredited' Trump

Sure: Trump: “Tariffs are the greatest.” Also farmers need $12 billion in aid because of tariffs.

Of course: Jeff Sessions Laughs and Echoes ‘Lock Her Up’ Chant With Conservative High Schoolers

The Man Booker longlist includes the first graphic novel!

Eleven babies die after Dutch women given Viagra in drug trial

Archaeologists have found the remains of one of Jamestown’s early settlers. Now they have to prove he is who they think he is.

'Supergirl' Casts First Transgender Superhero On Television

First edition of Ada Lovelace's pioneering algorithm sold for £95,000

Afternoon Tea (7/20/18)

How Climate Change in Bangladesh Impacts Women and Girls

Anne Helen Petersen's celebrity analyses are always fascinating: The New Gwen Stefani Is A Lot Like The Old One

Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

Heh: The 10 Horniest Men in Literature

Funding Victory: French posters from the end of the First World War

Morning Coffee (7/11/18)

Trump Administration Returns to ‘Catch and Release’ of Migrants

In part because: Judge Rejects Long Detentions of Migrant Families, Dealing Trump Another Setback

ICE Officers to Asylum Seekers: ‘Don’t You Know That We Hate You People?’

How Brett Kavanaugh Will Gut Roe v. Wade

And from an actual news story about Kavanaugh: "I call him Lord Voldemort," said Professor Snape.

What a shock: Trump Voters May Be the Biggest Losers From Trump’s Auto Tariffs

Well! Support for immigration is surging in the Trump era

Young Women Could Redefine The Women’s Vote

All Things Ill-Considered: NPR’s Sexist Blunder

Headless Pompeii Victim Wasn't Crushed to Death, After All

Morning Coffee (7/9/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Essential reading from Jamelle Bouie: White Fight: Donald Trump is leading the Republican charge to preserve a shrinking white majority.

Why Europe Could Melt Down Over a Simple Question of Borders

Twitter is finally addressing fake accounts. Trump wants it to go after two specific real ones.

Useful: The US-China trade war, explained in under 500 words

This Woman Flipped Off Donald Trump’s Motorcade Last Year. She’s Still Paying For It.

A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill.

Someone Is Stealing Italy’s Most Precious Cheese

Time to put THAT myth to rest: Research: Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them

Anne Tolstoi Wallach, 89, Dies; Her Advertising Novel Caused a Stir

Aaah, I am very excited that Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine are making a crime show.

Morning Coffee (7/1/18)

It’s official: The Trump administration has replaced family separation with indefinite family detention

Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash

An ICE attorney made almost $200,000 stealing immigrants’ identities. Now he’s going to prison.

Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade

Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform

Supreme Court rules that warrant is needed to access cell tower records

Wow: Four to face trial over Hillsborough charges

ABC Pulls ‘The Proposal’ Episode After Woman Says Contestant Was Involved In Sexual Assault

Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools?

Morning Coffee (6/17/18)

How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families

ICE Detention Center Is Creating Obstacles to Ramadan Observance for Muslim Detainees, Lawyers Say

Jeff Flake’s criticism of Trump’s G7 antics is a sham

There’s actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion

Election Reformers Cheer As Maine Again Approves Ranked-Choice Voting

Also hopeful: Data Analysis: Influx of Democratic Women Could Spell the Hyde Amendment’s Demise

#MeToo goes to church: Southern Baptists face a reckoning over treatment of women

E-Commerce Might Help Solve the Mystery of Low Inflation

Some good advice in here: Just Write 500 Words

Brie Larson Promises ‘I Do Not Hate White Dudes,’ But Laments Lack of Inclusion Among Film Critics

Morning Coffee (6/16/18)

2,000 children separated from parents in six weeks under Trump policy

AAP Statement Opposing Separation of Children and Parents at the Border

Inside Casa Padre, the converted Walmart where the U.S. is holding nearly 1,500 immigrant children

Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids’ Detention

But at least THIS is good: Judge Orders Paul Manafort Detained Amid Witness Tampering Allegations

And this! New York's Attorney General Sues The Trump Foundation

What a shock: Workers’ wages fall after passage of GOP tax cuts

Also a shock, obviously: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers

Also... never mind: Movie Critics Are Largely White & Male, New Study Finds

3,000-year-old sculpture leaves researchers scratching their heads

Morning Coffee (5/23/18)

Congress Rolls Back Part Of Dodd-Frank, Easing Rules For Midsize, Smaller Banks

I love this Adam Serwer piece: There Is Only One Trump Scandal

The recent mass shootings in the US all have one thing in common: misogyny

Puerto Rico’s rocky recovery is distracting from its pre-existing struggles, residents say

Met Opera Accuses James Levine of Decades of Sexual Misconduct

"Mr. Batali, who has denied engaging in nonconsensual sex, has so far declined to send out another baked goods recipe."

"According to campaign spokesperson Arianna Jones, Sanders plans to seek the Democratic nomination in Vermont’s August primary. If he wins, she said, he would 'respectfully' decline the nomination and run as an independent in the general election." I hate him!

THIS IS NOT HOW YOU RUN A CONVENTION: My FanX craziness, annotated

Oh, Florida: Florida city warns of 'extreme zombie activity' during power outage

I'd still rather have a chronological timeline, but this is good: Instagram Is Finally Going To Let You Mute People

Morning Coffee (5/17/18)

! The Senate Just Voted to Bring Back Net Neutrality From the Dead

Michigan State University Reaches $500 Million Settlement With Nassar Abuse Victims

Pennsylvania Primaries Deliver Strong Wins for Democratic Women

The Trump Tower meeting at the center of the Russia investigation, explained

Tantalizing Testimony From a Top Trump Aide Sets Off a Search for Proof

In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega bends to Catholic Church

"Incels aren’t really looking for sex; they’re looking for absolute male supremacy."

Bitcoin is consuming as much energy as the country of Ireland

“Yanny” vs. “Laurel”: your reality is an interpretation

Ooh, trailer for the new Man City show.

Morning Coffee (5/10/18)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Made Payments to Michael Cohen

I hope she wins: The Texas Teacher Suspended For Being Gay Is Suing Her School District For Discrimination

These Families Of Parkland Shooting Victims Are Still Waiting To Hear From Trump

Uh... Bill O'Reilly Offered to Stand Next to Sarah Huckabee Sanders During White House Press Briefings

How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists

This is something! More than two-thirds of female House candidates won their primary races on Tuesday

Japan Seeks Its Economic Mojo in the Stuff That Makes the Stuff

96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million

Becky Hammon, Woman, Is Up for an NBA Head Coaching Job

This is - somehow - even worse than it sounds: my dad is dating my boss, and they want me to go to couples therapy with them