Morning Coffee (6/23/18)

A Jury May Have Sentenced a Man to Death Because He’s Gay. And the Justices Don’t Care.

This is terrifying: The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids

Families will no longer be separated at the border. But where are my clients’ kids?

First Step to Helping Children Sent to New York: Find Them

Governor orders probe of abuse claims by immigrant children

Melania Trump wears “I really don’t care, do u?” jacket on trip to migrant children

But I thought they cared so much about the troops?!?! The Military Drinking-Water Crisis the White House Tried to Hide

Whoa! Macedonia and Greece Sign Historic Deal on Name Change

Obviously New Hampshire is freaking out about this Supreme Court ruling about sales tax and online shopping.

Hadrian’s ​Wall being damaged by illegal metal detectorists

Morning Coffee (6/5/18)

In Narrow Opinion, Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Baker Over Same-Sex Couple

Protesters Demand Audit of Hurricane Maria Death Toll in Puerto Rico

Oh good: Judge orders Maine to implement voter-approved Medicaid expansion

This is terrible: Police investigated Bruce McArthur for months before telling public there was no evidence of serial killer

Good for them: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students to embark on summer tour

Amazing: Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then reveals it was Obama

Wow: Howard Schultz, architect of modern Starbucks, to step down as executive chairman

WHAT: Woody Allen Says He Should Be ‘Poster Boy for the #MeToo Movement’

I wish this were more surprising than it is: Researcher finds skull in Philadelphia Quaker library display case

Who Owns the New Land Created By a Volcano in Hawaii?

Morning Coffee (5/18/18)

Whew, time for a break for some happy Friday links.

Awesome: GLAAD to Publish LGBTQ Children’s Book Series, Starting With ‘Prince & Knight’

Whoa: While out for a jog, she discovered a baby buried alive. Twenty years later, they reunite

She's amazing: Katie Ledecky broke her own 1500m world record by 5 SECONDS like it was nothing

Scholastic to publish original Riverdale fiction and companion books

What . . . year is it? Backstreet Boys say fans 'might get two albums this year'

THIS IS SO CUTE (but I hope she still got her couch): How Two Writers Fell in Love on the 2007 Writers Strike Picket Line

Jasmine Guillory wrote a royal wedding-inspire short story.

And here's a very cute map of the royal wedding procession.

This is fun every year: Find Out What Your Name Would Be if You Were Born Today

Storybook Cosmetics Is Launching Star Wars Makeup Brushes That Look Like Little Lightsabers

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

Morning Coffee (4/4/18)

ICYMI, yesterday Amy Spalding stopped by to talk about her new book!

Lawyer Alex van der Zwaan jailed for 30 days in Mueller's first conviction

Oh: Trump Plans to Send National Guard to the Mexican Border

"More than an event involving four heads of state, Donald Trump’s press conference with the three Baltic leaders on Tuesday resembled a concert by a hastily assembled Motown covers band."

UK archaeologists help Iraqis restore their Isis-ravaged heritage

Meet the Teenager Organizing the First LGBTQ Pride Festival in Mike Pence's Hometown

Hubble space telescope captures image of most distant star ever seen

Why Cricket's Ball-Tampering Scandal Is Such A Big Deal

The World's Smallest Computer Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Faced With Drought, the Pharaohs Tried (and Failed) to Adapt

Interesting: Skincare Obsessives on the Products They Think Are Scams

Afternoon Tea (4/3/18)

David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone

Meet the Woman Who Won’t Let Mexico Forget A Massacre

James Ivory: why Ismail Merchant and I kept our love secret

The Joys and Sorrows of Finishing a Series

Wow: Love and tragedy in the British Library: The story of Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling Part 1 and Part 2

Afternoon Tea (2/23/18)

This is lovely: The Bittersweet Beauty of Adam Rippon

Perfect: If Literature's "Complicated Men" Were on Tinder

I'm excited to finally see this show, and Todd's take is great: 2018’s hottest show debuted in 1994. It’s called ER, and it’s awesome.

Finding Produce in Alaska’s Long Winter Takes Wiles and Luck

Ooh, here are 538's data-driven (obviously) Oscar predictions.

Morning Coffee (2/20/18)

ICYMI, yesterday's Oscar Project posts: Traffic Stop, The Florida Project, The Insult

Former Trump aide Richard Gates to plead guilty; agrees to testify against Manafort, sources say

Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity

Awesome: Jacinda Ardern becomes first New Zealand PM to march in gay pride parade

I understand what they mean but can anyone ever be STUNNED by Russian doping? Olympic curling world stunned by Russian doping scandal

Oh, I was wondering how this worked! Beyoncé Songs Come to the Olympics. But Who Pays for the Rights?

Change is terrible: MLB Introduces New Pace Of Play Rules Limiting All Those Damn Mound Visits

Stop Saying Breast Milk Is Free

Whoa: This Roman 'gate to hell' killed its victims with a cloud of deadly carbon dioxide

Artwork hidden under Picasso painting revealed by x-ray

I've started using Do Not Disturb much more liberally recently and it's GREAT: Turn on 'Do Not Disturb' During the Day to Be More Productive

Morning Coffee (1/25/18)

ICYMI, I wrote about my favorite movie of the year.

In Davos, Merkel Warns Against 'Poison' Of Right-Wing Populism

Also: In a first, only women will lead Davos — an elite meeting of mostly men

THIS IS NOT NORMAL: Trump asked the acting FBI director how he voted during Oval Office meeting

Female journalists kept at back of Pence’s visit to Western Wall

GOOD: Larry Nassar Sentencing: ‘I Just Signed Your Death Warrant’

An important read: I Was Tortured in Gay Conversion Therapy. And It’s Still Legal in 41 States.

Pro-Trump Maine Town Manager Fired After Touting ‘White Civil Rights’ Views

How Russia’s Hilarious, Homoerotic “Satisfaction” Became a Nationwide Meme of Solidarity

Chinese Scientists Clone Monkeys Using Method That Created Dolly The Sheep

Ooh: Collection of Sylvia Plath's possessions to be sold at auction

Morning Coffee (1/11/18)

In a first, Burmese military admits that soldiers killed Rohingya found in mass grave

Awful: Measure to Ban Discredited ‘Conversion Therapy’ Fails in New Hampshire

Tuesday’s DACA negotiation stunt showed how dangerously we’ve lowered the bar for Trump

A bit of good news: Partisan gerrymandering: Republican map of North Carolina ruled illegal

Moira Donegan is very brave: I Started the Media Men List

Women Say a Rigged System Allows Wall Street to Hide Its Sexual-Harassment Problem

I mean... Remember Dogecoin? The joke currency soared to $2 billion this weekend

Whoa: Indian Jewels Swiped From Venice Museum in “Movie-Worthy” Heist

Quite a life: Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic Victor of a Cold War Showdown, Dies at 94

Huh: A French startup made a wine gadget that’s supposed to decant for hours in an instant

Morning Coffee (12/31/17)

Happy New Year's Eve! I've got a bunch of year-end roundups for you; please note that much of the year was not, uh, cheery.

Wow: How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt

More Than a Thousand Days of War in Yemen

The Year Russian L.G.B.T. Persecution Defied Belief

What we learned about Trump, Russia, and collusion in 2017

The political lesson of 2017: resistance works

Trump’s strange handshakes baffled world leaders this year. They learned fast.

9 bizarre things Trump did on the world stage in 2017 you probably forgot

Good advice, actually: Spend Your New Year's Eve Alone

Sad news: Sue Grafton, Whose Detective Novels Spanned the Alphabet, Dies at 77

MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even if Theaters Aren’t Sold on It

Morning Coffee (12/4/17)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

This is actually a very good read: Billy Bush: Yes, Donald Trump, You Said That

Hmm: CVS agrees to buy Aetna in $69 billion deal that could shake up health-care industry

AWWW: Gay Australian Politician Proposes During Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Good for him: ‘Black Panther’ Actor Publicly Announces His DACA Status, Lending Voice to Immigration Fight

“She Didn’t Want This Come Hell or High Water”: Inside Melania Trump’s Secretive East Wing

Yuck: Met Opera Suspends James Levine After New Sexual Abuse Accusations

Pterosaurs: record haul of egg fossils from ancient flying reptile found in China

Found: 11 Iron Age Cauldrons and More Metalwork in an English Field

Energy Idea for Mars Yields a Clue for Powering Data Centers

I WAS wondering this: Answering Your Biggest Shape of Water Question: Does She F*ck the Fish-Man?

Morning Coffee (11/30/17)

223 Women Working in National Security Sign Open Letter on Sexual Harassment

Congratulations to Afghanistan's All-Girls Robotics Team, Which Trump Wouldn't Let Into the US

Uh... Autopsy Doctor Quits, Alleges Sheriff Interfered in Death Probes

The Trump Administration and Hoover-Era Paranoia

Ha: The Theme for the White House Christmas Decorations Is Fear!

More Than 180 Women Have Reported Sexual Assaults at Massage Envy

As Walmart Buys Online Retailers, Their Health Benefits Suffer

Meanwhile in Canada: Justin Trudeau apologizes for Canada's program targeting LGBTQ civil servants

This is hilarious: Trader Joe’s Wants You to Know Its Jingle Jangle Is, in Fact, Not the Drug From Riverdale

!! “Lost” 17th-Century Portrait by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Found in a Welsh Castle

Morning Coffee (11/15/17)

FIRST SOME GOOD NEWS: Australians decisively support same-sex marriage

Yesterday I'd bookmarked a piece for you about how what is happening in Zimbabwe isn't actually a coup, but, uh, I woke up to a bunch of news alerts and maybe it is a coup now? Unclear. Here's the Guardian's liveblog.

This is why everyone is making Bernie Bernstein jokes: He said he was a Washington Post reporter offering a reward for dirt on Roy Moore. It wasn’t true.

The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

This is horrible: Post Office Fails to Deliver on Time, and DACA Applications Get Rejected

This unqualified nominee is just the beginning of Trump’s efforts to remake the courts

One Group That Thinks Grown Men “Courting” Teen Girls Is Natural? Fundamentalist Home-Schoolers.

ALERT: NICOLE CLIFFE HAS A NEW ADVICE COLUMN.

Awwww: Olympic hockey legends, former rivals welcome baby

The Times did a thing where they made Thanksgiving in 8 hours on one stove/oven at one temperature and I'm fully in support of everyone posting their schedules all the time so I'm into it.

Afternoon Tea (9/20/17)

Romance Novelist Julia Quinn on What Makes a Character Sexy My favorite part: "In some ways, portraying a healthy relationship in literature is the most revolutionary thing you can do."

The Secret History of America's Oldest Tofu Shop

This is about the American Revolution, though it doesn't sound like it from the title: The French Bread Connection

The Making and Unmaking of Iggy Azalea

Aww: Two Pastors in Love, and Only God Knows

Morning Coffee (9/13/17)

Edith Windsor, Whose Same-Sex Marriage Fight Led to Landmark Ruling, Dies at 88

I haven't had time to watch Ezra Klein's interview with Hillary Clinton yet, but from the description it sounds amazing: "Not only does she refuse to paint an inspiring vision of a political process rid of corruption, partisanship, and rancor, but she’s also actively dismissive of those promises and the politicians who make them."

Sigh: Scandal-plagued foreign leader gets surprise invite from Trump, checks into Trump’s hotel

The most shocking political assassination of the past decade remains an utter mystery

This list is GREAT: The National Book Awards Longlist: Young People’s Literature

Aaah! Star Trek: Discovery reveals its theme song

Pluto's Features Just Got Some Seriously Metal Names From Mythology

For Qatari Network beIN Sports, Political Feud Spills Into Stadiums

Honestly, Walton Goggins was born to play a snake-handling preacher, and Olivia Colman is in this too so I'm VERY excited. (I was on a press call with Goggins once and I'm pretty sure we would have all joined his church by the end of it. Just saying.)

Heh: Declutter Your Chrome Browser Tabs or This Tamagotchi Clone Will Die

Morning Coffee (9/3/17)

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Oh. North Korea Says It Tested a Hydrogen Bomb Meant for Missiles

Wow: How Canada has been secretly giving asylum to gay people in Chechnya fleeing persecution

These people are doing amazing work: How the Houston Chronicle is covering the city's historic disaster

“Sexualized fascism”: how the taboo nature of Nazi imagery made the alt-right more powerful

The Fake-News Fallacy

Hedge funds: Game of Thrones location spurs rise of business empire

Life in Kyrgyzstan, 26 Years After the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Found: Hidden Examples of Long-Lost Languages in Centuries-Old Palimpsests

TRUE AND IMPORTANT: The Hayley Mills Parent Trap Is Way Better than the Remake

Heh: From Napkin to Notoriety: The Meteoric Rise of That Writer You Can’t Stand

Morning Coffee (8/29/17)

This is tough but a well-researched, important read: How Police Cracked Canada's Largest Child Pornography Ring

Good for the ACLU: We Are Taking Trump to Court to Stop His Illegal and Cruel Ban on Transgender Service Members

Of course he is: Racist Ex-Sheriff Pardoned by Trump Is Now Talking About Running for US Senate

Two Bankers Are Selling Trump’s Tax Plan. Is Congress Buying?

A good step! India's Supreme Court Determines Freedom of Sexual Orientation Is Constitutionally-Protected Right

Sexual harassment and the sharing economy: the dark side of working for strangers

Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Oh no: France faces worst wine grape harvest since 1945

!!! Collection of letters by codebreaker Alan Turing found in filing cabinet

Gunpowder looks fun and I'm amused that they're using "Autumn is coming" in the marketing.

Morning Coffee (8/26/17)

My chapter of the League of Women Voters is part of this lawsuit about voting rights: Pair of Lawsuits, One Backed by Priorities USA, Challenge Constitutionality of SB3

UGH: Trump just pardoned the infamous anti-immigrant ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio

I don't even know what counts as "good" at this point but... I guess? Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s most controversial national security aide, is out

I was hoping he'd lose interest before this actually happened: Trump Gives Mattis Wide Discretion Over Transgender Ban

Prosecutors to Seek Murder Charges Against Submarine Owner for Journalist Kim Wall's Death

This is a great investigative piece about a terrible incident: Hellfire from above

Ad Industry Watchdog Group Calls Goop's Health Claims 'Unsubstantiated' and 'Misleading'

!! Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000 year-old cemetery in Egypt

Aw: Google and Oreo Are Co-Branding Android’s New Operating System

Someone get Muse on the phone: Jellyfish Galaxies Are Feeding Supermassive Black Holes

Morning Coffee (7/31/17)

Today's my birthday, so after I post this I'm giving myself the rest of the day off. Afternoon links will return tomorrow!

Me elsewhere: Lots of TV news!

'Women will die': Trump leaves Ugandan women in jeopardy

Why Autocrats Fear LGBT Rights

Why Democrats are feeling optimistic about a local win in New Hampshire

Bleh: TSA Rolls Out New Electronics Rules for All U.S. Passengers

Heee: Napoleon’s Extracurricular Activities (A Comprehensive List)

Lovely and important: Magic Can Be Normal

This headline made my day: Robert Pattinson Says He Was Almost Fired From ‘Twilight’ for Not Smiling Enough

I'm excited to read The Force: ‘Information is Always Currency’: An Interview with Don Winslow

Unraveling the Mystery of the “Armenian Stonehenge”