Morning Coffee (8/3/19)

Sigh: Lewandowski confirms he's 'very seriously' considering 2020 US Senate run

Oh THIS is what happened with that whole weird thing: Pence Canceled New Hampshire Trip to Avoid Meeting a Drug Trafficker

Enough with "Novelty Candidates"

There's hope: Only 8 Candidates Have Qualified for the Next Democratic Debate

The Trump Strain in American History

Moves to improve press freedom in Malaysia met with cautious optimism

New Documents Raise Ethical and Billing Concerns About the NRA’s Outside Counsel

Could a PrEP implant change the fight against HIV infection forever?

Triceratops Skull, 65 Million Years Old, Unearthed by College Student, 23

Study Asks If War Makes A Person More ... Or Less ... Religious

Morning Coffee (8/2/19)

The Ripped Bodice Bookstore Announces New Award for Romance Fiction

Pioneering Investigative Journalist Nellie Bly Gets Her Own Monument

Watch the trailer for the lush adaptation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon

Lizzo: Tiny Desk Concert

Ooh: PBS Orders Rita Moreno Documentary from Norman Lear and Lin-Manuel Miranda

Helen Mirren wields 'absolute power' in HBO's Catherine the Great trailer

Sandhya Menon's New YA Series Kicks Off With A 'Beauty & The Beast' Retelling Titled 'Of Curses And Kisses'

Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth wage war in gripping 1917 trailer

‘They’re coming to you’: A man played his sax for a herd of cows, and they loved it

10 Adorable Bookish T-Shirts for Your Casual Friday Attire

Morning Coffee (7/29/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Trump says Daniel Coats, director of national intelligence, to step down

‘I Have a Moral Responsibility to Come Forward’: Colonel Accuses Top Military Nominee of Assault

A controversial deal between US and Guatemala could reshape the asylum process

In Congo, a New Plan to Fight Ebola Follows a Government Power Struggle

RT fined £200,000 for breaching impartiality rules

Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of Climate Risks

Sen. Chris Murphy announces new book on violence and guns

Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You

Nasa fast-tracks habitation module for planned moon landing

A Shipwreck, 500 Years Old, Appears on the Baltic Seabed

Morning Coffee (7/28/19)

Adam Serwer on the Mueller reactions: The Press Has Adopted Trump’s Reality-Show Standards

SIGH: Trump: Obama’s Book Deal Way Sketchier Than Potential Obstruction of Justice

Libyan officials say fighting rages near capital

The Fallout From A Seemingly Sweet Oil Deal For Venezuela's Neighbors

What Kamala Harris Believes

Texas Has Generated More Electricity From Wind Than Coal So Far This Year

Handmaid's Tale sequel leads 'exacting' 2019 Booker prize longlist

A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory

Amazing headline: Pompeii row erupts between rival scientific factions

Investigators Say a Ring Smuggled $145 Million in Ancient Artifacts

Morning Coffee (7/27/19)

No shower for 23 days: U.S. citizen says conditions were so bad that he almost self-deported

Of course this administration is doing this: U.S. to Resume Capital Punishment for Federal Inmates on Death Row

Bear Witness Faithfully

How Trump ended up in front of a presidential seal doctored to include a Russian symbol

SOME OF US DID: Joe Biden says he didn't think anyone thought Trump 'would be as bad as he is' during the 2016 presidential election

Treasury Department Launches Investigation Into Delays Behind Harriet Tubman $20 Bill

'No doubt left' about scientific consensus on global warming, say experts

What a headline: French Rock Star’s Instagram Defeats His Widow in Inheritance Battle

Were U.S. Diplomats Attacked in Cuba? Brain Study Deepens Mystery

Fear of Foreign Food May Have Led to the Death of This Crusader King

Afternoon Tea (7/24/19)

This is long but really worth your time: How America Got to ‘Zero Tolerance’ on Immigration: The Inside Story

Stop Demanding People of Color to Show ‘Gratitude’

How the moon landing shaped early video games

The first Iranian newspaper: Mirza Salih Shirazi’s Kaghaz-i akhbar

What It Is To Wake Up

Afternoon Tea (7/18/19)

THE JOURNALISM WE'VE BEEN CALLING FOR: Sufjan Stevens and the Curious Case of the Missing 48 States

You’re Not Sticking To Sports When You Stick To Sports

A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.

Genealogy Sites Have Helped Identify Suspects. Now They’ve Helped Convict One.

The Must-Read YA Anthologies of 2019

Morning Coffee (7/2/19)

Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

Agents feared riots, armed themselves because of dire conditions at migrant facility, DHS report says

No thank you: Trump Says Tanks Will Be on Display in Washington for July 4

These people should all be ashamed of themselves. This is how evil regimes take hold. Alabamians Defend Arrest of Woman Whose Fetus Died in Shooting

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Transform American Elections

Good: Twitter Conspiracy Theorist Charged With a Felony in Lynch Threat Against Muslim Candidate

Oh no: Center for American Progress Puts ThinkProgress Up for Sale

This is the minimum any decent person should say, but given his position, it's still important and great that he said it: The Duke of Cambridge: ‘absolutely fine’ if children are LGBTQ

Eee, good winners! 2019 Locus Awards Winners

In Hawaii, Construction to Begin on Disputed Telescope Project

Morning Coffee (6/27/19)

Investigators Found Immigrant Kids And Families Locked In Disgusting Conditions In Border Camps

Elizabeth Warren proved she’s ready for the big show

Our next election is dangerously vulnerable, a top Democrat warns. Does Trump care?

This is horrifying and a very very very worrisome sign of things to come: Woman indicted in shooting death of her unborn child; charges against shooter dismissed

Elizabeth Warren says she would ban private prisons and detention facilities as president

I love her: Out soccer star Megan Rapinoe says she’s ‘not going to the f–king White House’ after World Cup

By pushing for revote in Istanbul, Erdogan gambled — and lost

Wow: A trans Starbucks employee was misgendered on the job. Starbucks says it isn’t harassment.

A Former Republican Operative With Ties To White Nationalists Has Been Publishing Opinion Pieces In The Wall Street Journal

NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life

Afternoon Tea (6/25/19)

This is great: Naked, Afraid and Transgender: ‘The Wilderness Couldn’t Care Less’

The Wild Ride at Babe.Net

Can ‘Big Data’ Help Fight Big Fires? Firefighters Are Betting on It

I FEEL ATTACKED but no, this is important: You Are Doing Something Important When You Aren’t Doing Anything

6 YA Books About Thorny Female Friendships

Morning Coffee (6/25/19)

Doctor compares conditions for unaccompanied children at immigrant holding centers to 'torture facilities'

Migrant Children Moved From Border Patrol Center After Outcry But. "It is not clear where the children formerly detained at the Clint facility have been transferred" is a CHILLING statement.

White House moves to bar counselor Kellyanne Conway from testifying to Congress about alleged violations of Hatch Act

Trump will never be held accountable for his treatment of women

It’s time for a reckoning for journalists who boosted false narratives about Donald Trump’s LGBTQ policy positions

A good step: A Message From the Billionaire’s Club: Tax Us

What Is Joe Biden Hiding About What He’s Hiding From the New York Times?

Wow: Over 40% of newly elected Indian lawmakers facing charges

Rising Temperatures Ravage the Himalayas, Rapidly Shrinking Its Glaciers

Giant Squid Reappears on Video, This Time in U.S. Waters

Morning Coffee (6/9/19)

In case you weren't sure he was lying: Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal

Refugee Resettlement In N.H. Plummets Under Trump Administration

Gay Israelis hold mass wedding to campaign for same-sex unions

Yay! Elizabeth Warren says she’s ‘proud’ her campaign workers unionized

Also yay! Vox Media and employees reach deal on a union contract

Ugh, this stuff should be regulated! Cannabis Companies Push F.D.A. to Ease Rules on CBD Products

Someone who should not be a teacher: Indiana teacher awards autistic boy 'annoying male' trophy

Oh interesting! Barry Jenkins To Direct Alvin Ailey Movie For Fox Searchlight

Nut of note: 70% of world's macadamia can be traced back to single Australian tree

Ancient Fingerprints Show Men and Women Both Made Pottery in the American Southwest

Morning Coffee (6/5/19)

Horrifying: Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight

Uh: White House instructs Hope Hicks, former McGahn aide not to comply with congressional subpoenas

Senator: Oligarch linked to Kremlin earned millions while fighting extradition to U.S.

Russian trolls fueled anti-vaccination debate in U.S. by spreading misinformation on Twitter, study finds

Very glad she was fired: A teacher asked Trump to round up ‘illegal students’ — in tweets she says she thought were private

Trump Is Using His Pardon Power to Reward Violence and Cruelty

Adam Serwer, great as always: A White Man’s Republic, If They Can Keep It

The Trump Administration’s Self-Defeating Policy Toward the Guatemalan Elections

Everyone knows headlines are broken. Here's how news organizations can start fixing them.

Good for her for coming forward: Figure Skater Bridget Namiotka Accuses Dead Partner John Coughlin Of Sexual Abuse

Morning Coffee (5/29/19)

Evil: Trump Administration Separates Some Migrant Mothers From Their Newborns Before Returning Them to Detention

Good news! Supreme Court rejects transgender bathroom case, allowing transgender students to use bathroom of choice

Of fucking COURSE he would: In reversal from 2016, McConnell says he would fill a potential Supreme Court vacancy in 2020

This is awful: Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Could Stop Providing the Procedure This Week

New Hampshire Prisons Ban Books Critical of Prison System, Award Winners

Right-wing media's anti-abortion misinformation playbook for 2020

5G could mean less time to flee a deadly hurricane, heads of NASA and NOAA warn

Denied graves by Nazis, resistance fighters finally buried

Murray Gell-Mann, Who Peered at Particles and Saw the Universe, Dies at 89

Research Says Having Fresh Flowers in Your Home Can Actually Reduce Levels of Pain

Morning Coffee (5/28/19)

Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science

The ‘Enemy of the People’ Is the Real Target of the Assange Prosecution

This sounds bad! Hungary far-right party forms uniformed ‘self-defense’ group

The Myth of the “Personally” Anti-Abortion Politician

Breaking: Nobody Knows What’s Going to Happen in 2020

Young people, women, voters in cities: how Democrats won in 2018, by the numbers

‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects

Baby Anacondas Born At New England Aquarium — Without Any Male Snakes Involved

I feel so vindicated: Anxious People Quicker to Flee Danger

Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity

Morning Coffee (5/18/19)

Toddler apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border dies after weeks in hospital

The House just passed a sweeping LGBTQ rights bill

Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Have No Idea How Women’s Bodies Work

Motherhood in Alabama, by the Numbers

Trump administration showers Brazilian crooks with $62M bailout money meant for struggling U.S. farmers

White House declines to back Christchurch call to stamp out online extremism amid free speech concerns

This is gross: NH lunch lady fired for feeding student who couldn't pay; vendor accused her of $8 theft

Good for them: Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment

The king of Thailand married his bodyguard and made her queen

Huh! Makers Of Sam Adams And Dogfish Head Beer Announce Merger Deal

Morning Coffee (5/16/19)

This is horrifying: Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens

Skeptical U.S. Allies Resist Trump’s New Claims of Threats From Iran

This headline is, uh, mild; this is definitely added restrictions to legal immigration: Trump Immigration Plan Emphasizes Immigrants’ Skills Over Family Ties

Trump administration cracks down on giant Chinese tech firm, escalating clash with Beijing

Anti-Abortion Laws Will Put Women in Jail

The Senate Is as Much of a Problem as Trump

Biden Is (Still) Leading Cable News Coverage

The Met Will Turn Down Sackler Money Amid Fury Over the Opioid Crisis

Uh: Mel Gibson’s Rep. Claims Controversial ‘Rothchild’ Movie Is ‘Completely Unrelated’ to the Rothschild Family

Shrinking and Quaking Hint at Moon’s Tectonic Life

Morning Coffee (5/15/19)

Alabama Lawmakers Vote to Effectively Ban Abortion in the State

White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War

What Democrats Can Learn About Impeachment From the Civil War

Good for her: 'A hate-for-profit racket': Warren refuses Fox town hall invite

“Am I a bad person?” Why one mom didn’t take her kid to the ER — even after poison control said to.

Bill Nye says "the planet's on f****ing fire" and we need to "grow the f*** up"

Welp: Disney takes over full control of Hulu

How Volunteer Sleuths Identified a Hiker and Her Killer After 36 Years

Royal burial site ‘UK’s answer to Tutankhamun’s tomb’

Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician With Broad Impact, Is Dead

Afternoon Tea (5/14/19)

This is riveting: What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right

Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise.

Robert Caro’s Blind Spot

Images from Nigeria, land of the 'inseparable two'

Script, history and ideology: German fonts and handwriting

Morning Coffee (5/12/19)

Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent

There is the WILDEST anecdote in here: How golf explains Trump. Seriously.

The White House revoked my press pass. It’s not just me — it’s curtailing access for all journalists.

Pete Buttigieg Confronts Race and Identity in Speech to Gay Group

Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy

Ireland’s Church Homes Gave Children’s Bodies to Medical Schools for Dissection

Dutch family in cash plea to save ancestor’s tulip mania paintings

PERFECT: Kristin Scott Thomas Joins Ben Wheatley's 'Rebecca' Adaptation for Netflix

Producer Greg Berlanti Sets New Series Record With Another Strong Upfront