Morning Coffee (7/25/19)

Phew: Federal judge in California halts Trump’s latest asylum ban

Mueller’s testimony, and what it means for President Trump, explained

Boris Johnson: new PM takes his revenge and sacks over half the cabinet

Sudan army chief among senior officers arrested in coup plot

Good: Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns After Protests

Trump vetoes Congress’s attempt to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia

Transgender people in North Carolina just won a victory against HB2 in court

Ha: Less ado: Boris Johnson's Shakespeare book delayed for 'foreseeable future'

Edith Irby Jones, Barrier-Breaking Doctor in the South, Dies at 91

More Than 50 Lakes Found Under Greenland Ice Sheet

Morning Coffee (7/16/19)

Trump Administration Implementing '3rd Country' Rule On Migrants Seeking Asylum

ICE Launches Raids Targeting Migrant Families

Vital, from Adam Serwer: Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is

Trump says he’s not concerned about being racist because “many people agree” with him

Hundreds of leaked chat messages show Puerto Rico’s governor using vulgar antigay slurs repeatedly

American Federation of Teachers sues Betsy DeVos over public service loan forgiveness program

Good! Britain’s £50 Note Will Honor Computing Pioneer Alan Turing

Glacial melting in Antarctica may become irreversible

Fair Trade Helps Farmers, But Not Their Hired Workers

Found: The Original Home of England’s Doomed ‘9-Day Queen’

Morning Coffee (7/3/19)

GOOD: Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration Policy of Arbitrarily Jailing Asylum-Seekers

DHS Inspector General Finds 'Dangerous Overcrowding' In Border Patrol Facilities

Border agents confiscated lawmakers’ phones. Joaquin Castro captured photo and video anyway.

Phew: 2020 Census Won’t Have Citizenship Question as Trump Administration Drops Effort

Woww: Navy SEAL Acquitted Of Murder After Witness Claims To Have Killed ISIS Captive

About time: House Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Trump Tax Returns

Kamala Harris Doesn’t Have to Believe in Joe Biden’s Innocence

Amazing: Suspicious substance mailed to 'Straight Pride' organizers turns out to be … glitter

Good for him: Adam Scott Calls Out Mitch McConnell’s Social Media Team for Using His Image on Twitter

Lee Iacocca, Visionary Automaker Who Led Both Ford and Chrysler, Is Dead at 94

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 (6/23/19)

Trump postpones ICE’s planned deportation raids in 10 big cities

What I Saw at the Dilley, Texas, Immigrant Detention Center

Bolton Warns Iran Not to ‘Mistake U.S. Prudence and Discretion for Weakness’

READ: Hannity, Manafort messages released by judge

Wow, good for Ravelry: New Policy: Do Not Post In Support of Trump or his Administration

How A Baby Caused A Revolutionary Change In Pakistan

Three Democrats Have A Big Built-In Advantage in New Hampshire

Vaccine Injury Claims Are Few and Far Between

Soaring Temperatures Speed Up Spring Thaw on Greenland’s Ice Sheet

Uh: Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens

Morning Coffee (6/22/19)

Do not ignore what is going on at the border or with ICE all over the country. Call your reps.

ICE raids targeting migrant families slated to start Sunday in major U.S. cities

Immigration Agency Says It Plans Deportation Operation Aimed at Undocumented Families

‘There Is a Stench’: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children

4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility

Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids

Children at the Homestead Migrant Shelter Share Stories of Grief, Trauma, and Fear

I’m a Jewish historian. Yes, we should call border detention centers “concentration camps.”

In other news another woman has come forward about the President raping her.

And: Trump Says He Called Off Strike On Iran Because He Didn't See It As 'Proportionate'

Okay, we'll end on something better: Supreme Court Strikes Down Conviction Of Mississippi Man On Death Row For 22 Years

Morning Coffee (6/12/19)

Sudan Protesters, Devastated but Defiant, Regroup Underground After Crackdown

Saudi teenager could face execution for joining protests as child

In case the message wasn't clear enough: Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says photos of travelers were taken in a data breach

This is a great piece: Watching Elizabeth Warren Come Alive

Daughter of Fierce Kavanaugh Defender Amy Chua to Clerk for … Brett Kavanaugh

I'm not SURPRISED at all but it's still sad and disappointing: Vatican says people can’t choose their genders

Awful: Ali Stroker’s Tony Win Was Monumental… And A Huge Slap In The Face

!!! Not Too Little, Too Late: Unfinished Gaudí Basilica Gets Permit 137 Years Later

Egypt tries to stop sale of Tutankhamun statue in London

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 (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 (5/8/19)

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

Trump Administration Can Keep Sending Asylum Seekers to Mexico, Court Rules

Iran announces it will stop complying with parts of landmark nuclear deal

One student dead in shooting at suburban Denver school, police say; eight other students injured

Democrats Won’t Do the Right Thing Unless We Make Them

Ebola Deaths Top 1,000 in Congo Amid Clinic Attacks

This is fascinating: The Son Protested the Dictator. The Father Helped Throw Him Out.

Joe Biden Still Doesn’t Understand What He Did to Anita Hill

This Baker & Taylor news is... whew.

Black hole may have swallowed neutron star, say astronomers

Morning Coffee (5/1/19)

Mueller Objected to Barr’s Description of Russia Investigation’s Findings on Trump

Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching bail in 2012

Trump wants to make asylum seekers’ stay in the US harder — and shorter

Supreme Court’s Ruling on Making SNAP Retail Data Public Has Broad Public Health Implications

Ugh, of COURSE: Far-Right Smear Merchants Try to Slime Pete Buttigieg with Bogus Sex Assault Claim

Ashdown Forest: Fire breaks out in Winnie the Pooh wood

Belarus Building Site Yields the Bones of 1,214 Holocaust Victims

Justice prohibits sale of Brazilian books accused of plagiarizing Nora Roberts

Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals

Women, People of Color Make Progress as TV Writers But Still Underrepresented in Top Jobs

Morning Coffee (2/5/19)

This should be criminal: US sees limitations on reuniting migrant families

Italy Slides Into Recession as Europe Stalls, Stoking Global Fears

Trump to nominate David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist, as the next Interior secretary

On Well-Intended White Folks: Thoughts on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the Making of a Public Image

McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says

Not to make light of clients who were duped or anything but... lolol: Crypto Exchange Says It Can't Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password

Christian publishing company owned by News Corp found guilty of significant fraud and destroying evidence

A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report

Oh good: New York Joins Movement to Abandon Use of Student Tests in Teacher Evaluations

Ooh: Netflix Picks Up Indian Drama Series ‘Delhi Crime’ From Richie Mehta, Golden Karavan & Ivanhoe Pictures

Morning Coffee (1/19/19)

Thousands more migrant kids separated from parents under Trump than previously reported

Two interesting views on today: Don’t Give Up on the Women’s March

The Women’s March Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the ‘White Jews’ Are

Hoyer Calls Out GOP After Member Told Rep. Cardenas To ‘Go Back To Puerto Rico’

‘The Shutdown Makes Me Nervous’: Young People Caught Up in Impasse

The North Pole is moving, and the shutdown means we aren’t keeping up

Michael Cohen Reportedly Paid Someone to Create a Fake Twitter Account Calling Him Hot and Smart

Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who found solace in nature, dies at 83

'Look for Me, Please': How Indigenous Women Work to Help Each Other When Authorities Turn a Blind Eye

Anti-vax Movement Listed by World Health Organization as One of the Top 10 Health Threats for 2019

Morning Coffee (1/2/19)

Let's start with W.S. Merwin's "To the New Year."

Wow, what a story: Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path.

Meanwhile: U.S. Agents Fire Tear Gas Across Mexican Border

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu could be indicted. Here’s what you need to know.

Top Pentagon spokeswoman resigns amid internal investigation

The great Dahlia Lithwick on Brett Kavanaugh: What Goes Around Comes to a Halt

How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right

'Blatantly sexist': backlash against South Korea's sex education

Nancy Roman, ‘Mother of the Hubble’ Telescope, Dies at 93

Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street

Morning Coffee (12/23/18)

It’s official: the government is partially shut down

Supreme Court denies Trump administration request to immediately enforce new asylum rules

Trump call with Turkish leader led to US pullout from Syria

Does Trump think there are actual coyotes coming over the border?

The Battle to Stop Family Separation

The comically large 2020 Democratic field, explained

When Report Cards Go Out on Fridays, Child Abuse Increases on Saturdays, Study Finds

An Island Nation’s Health Experiment: Vaccines Delivered by Drone

Huge Martian Crater 'Korolev' Appears Topped With Miles Of Pristine Snow

Forgotten statue kept in a margarine tub is 2,000-year-old treasure

Morning Coffee (12/15/18)

Evil: 7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion

Almost 15,000 Migrant Children Now Held At Nearly Full Shelters

Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Investigation by Federal Prosecutors

Trump was in the room during hush money discussions with tabloid publisher

Trump Is Running Out of Alibis

Not great!! Hungary Creates New Court System, Cementing Leader’s Control of Judiciary

Okay, THIS is good, if mostly symbolic: Senate Votes to End Aid for Yemen Fight Over Khashoggi Killing and Saudis’ War Aims

Here is some exciting news I've been sitting on! Netflix Boards Christmas Rom-Com ‘Let It Snow’ From ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ Scribe & ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Producer

Yay, New York Magazine is unionizing!

Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists

Morning Coffee (12/11/18)

Theresa May halts Brexit deal vote to avoid defeat, throwing British politics into chaos

And DRAMA: MP causes uproar in parliament by grabbing mace in Brexit protest

To Protect Migrants From Police, a Dutch Church Service Never Ends

Phew: Supreme Court sides with Planned Parenthood, declines to take case

This is an important read: The Hardest Glass Ceiling in Politics

Good riddance to John Kelly

Rosanell Eaton, Fierce Voting Rights Advocate, Dies at 97

Good: YouTube Bans Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes

!!! John le Carré’s Next Novel to Land in 2019

Oh no! Change Brewing in Harvard Square: Tealuxe to Close by End of Month

Morning Coffee (12/10/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

An important refugee story: 'Death is waiting for him'

Republicans Are Using Potential GOP Election Crimes in North Carolina to Push for More Voter Suppression Measures

And: The Wisconsin power grab is part of a bigger Republican attack on democracy

Monumental Disaster at the Department of the Interior

Wow. Good for her for coming forward: Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers

Democrats need some 2020 Senate candidates

In case this applies to anyone who hasn't seen it yet: Infant ibuprofen recall: Walmart, CVS Pharmacy and Family Dollar lots impacted

He's stepped down but this is still important: Oscars host Kevin Hart's homophobia is no laughing matter

‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop

Aaah, the new Les Miserables miniseries trailer looks so good!

Morning Coffee (11/28/18)

Manafort’s Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller

Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy, sources say

We are Jamal Khashoggi’s daughters. We promise his light will never fade.

None of this is normal: White House denies Haspel prevented from briefing Senate on Khashoggi murder

FACT CHECK: What's Happening On The U.S.-Mexico Border?

This is horrifying: The Latest: US nixed FBI checks for teen migrant camp staff

In case you, like me, didn't manage to read this over Thanksgiving: U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy

Christine Blasey Ford Is Donating Her GoFundMe Money To Sexual Assault Survivors

Democrats smash Watergate record for House popular vote in midterms

Burial sites from 5th and 6th centuries yield unexpected treasures

Morning Coffee (11/27/18)

THIS IS STRESSFUL: Manafort Breached Plea Deal by Repeatedly Lying, Mueller Says

How a march at the US-Mexico border descended into tear gas and chaos

It’s Time to Face the Real Impact of Tear Gas Use on Migrant Children

This is what Trump’s caravan 'invasion' really looks like

This headline will make you say "yes of course" but the details are quite something! Revealed: Matthew Whitaker favors hardline anti-abortion policies

Of course: White House Asks Supreme Court To Fast-Track Ruling On Transgender Military Ban

In the United States, right-wing violence is on the rise

The White House Continues Its Tradition of Turning Christmas Into a Horror Film

Yay! NASA’s Mars InSight Mission Has Touched Down on the Red Planet’s Surface

GOOD: Graphic novel 'steeped in Islamophobia' pulled after protests