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 (7/13/19)

Thousands Are Targeted as ICE Prepares to Raid Undocumented Migrant Families

Trump’s mass arrests are set to begin. Here’s the Democratic answer.

House Democrats Approve Subpoenas for Who’s Who of Mueller Witnesses

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is resigning

Trump's 'Acting' Cabinet Grows With Acosta Departure

This is going exactly the way we thought: Every member of Trump’s new human rights commission is an anti-LGBTQ activist

Robert Foster, GOP governor candidate, denies woman reporter access because of her gender

R. Kelly has been arrested on federal sex crime charges, including child pornography

Wow: F.T.C. Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion

I’m Trans. The 2020 Candidates Don’t Know How to Pander to Me.

Morning Coffee (7/11/19)

Of course: Gov. Sununu Issues 10 New Vetoes But! Buried in there is that he DID let the non-binary gender marker bill pass into law without his signature, so that's good news, NH!

And another of course: Trump labor secretary who cut Epstein deal plans to slash funds for sex trafficking victims

ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress’ Limits

Ilhan Omar calls Tucker Carlson a ‘racist fool’ after he describes her as a threat to U.S.

E. Jean Carroll Told Her Story Anyway

An Executive Order Can’t Fix Trump’s Census Problem

SIGH: Tom Steyer Will Run for President and Plans to Spend $100 Million on His Bid

Hahaha: Megan Rapinoe would beat Donald Trump in 2020 election according to new poll

The Future of Ebook Pricing

13-Year-Old Scientist's Research Shows Hand Dryers Can Hurt Kids' Ears

Morning Coffee (7/10/19)

Migrant kids in overcrowded Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from U.S. agents

Judge Rejects Justice Dept. Request to Change Lawyers on Census Case

"It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein."

President Trump cannot block his critics on Twitter, federal appeals court rules

A new human rights commission sounds nice but don't be fooled: this administration is redefining human rights and probably who gets to be human.

And in gross local news: Sununu Auctions Copy Of His Paid Family Leave Veto At Republican Fundraiser

Warren Rising: Massachusetts Progressive Announces $19 Million Fundraising Haul

Ross Perot, Brash Texas Billionaire Who Ran for President, Dies at 89

Support for legal abortion matches its 24-year high: Poll

Everything in this article is great: In 2003, an 8-year-old Rose Lavelle dressed as Mia Hamm for a third-grade book project

Morning Coffee (7/9/19)

Jeffrey Epstein: Seizure of Photos of Nude Girls Deepens Questions About Earlier Deal

Trump Lied to the Supreme Court, and Four Justices Don’t Care

Trump tweets “we will no longer deal” with UK ambassador after leaked cables

E. Jean Carroll and the ‘Hideosity Bar’

Please Stop Thinking This Will Be a Fair Election

...at least it's one in, one out? Billionaire Tom Steyer May Enter the 2020 Field as Rep. Eric Swalwell Bows Out

Principal Who Tried to Stay ‘Politically Neutral’ About Holocaust Is Removed

Trump’s corruption is getting worse. He has a hidden enabler.

This is a thoughtful piece on health care policy and the questions we should be asking 2020 candidates: Abolish private insurance? It depends.

Mickey Kapp, Who Made Mixtapes for Astronauts, Dies at 88

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 (6/19/19)

U.N. Report Calls for Investigation of Saudi Crown Prince in Khashoggi Killing

Patrick Shanahan withdraws from consideration as Trump’s secretary of defense

SCOTUS Just Killed Off Virginia’s Racial Gerrymander. Its Decision Will Affect Elections for Years to Come.

Trump’s 2020 message: “Depraved” Democrats “want to destroy you”

Mitch McConnell, Too, Welcomes Russian Interference

Joe Biden's Approach to Governing Won't Work

Eight Women Accuse Hollywood Filmmaker Max Landis of Emotional and Sexual Abuse: ‘We’re Not People to Him’

ABOUT TIME: Carnegie medal goes to first writer of colour in its 83-year history

NOPE: Facebook Plans Global Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency

It looked like a simple domestic murder. Then police learned about the alien reptile cult.

Morning Coffee (6/10/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

The border is in crisis. Here’s how it got this bad.

Company part-owned by Jared Kushner got $90m from unknown offshore investors since 2017

SIGH: Joe Biden Worked to Undermine the Affordable Care Act’s Coverage of Contraception

Swastikas and Burning Pride Flags: Hate Crimes Spike in N.Y.

Trump’s own Defense Department directly contradicts his claim about transgender troops

A Scandal in Austria and the Far Right’s Fortunes in Europe

!!! Big news up here in NH: Three Bear Brook Murder Victims Identified; Citizen Sleuth, Genetic Genealogy Provide Key Clues

This is awful: MSU Wants To Pay Nassar Survivors A Fraction Of What It Paid Those Who Sued Earlier

Guys. JUST DON'T BE CREEPY. 60% of male managers now say they’re uncomfortable mentoring women

Elephants May Sniff Out Quantities With Their Noses

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 (4/24/19)

Oh, very normal: In Push for 2020 Election Security, Top Official Was Warned: Don’t Tell Trump

Leader of Right-Wing Border Militia Allegedly Said the Group Was Training to Assassinate Obama, Clinton, and Soros

‘Please god let there be a race war.’ Coast Guard officer’s ‘views on race’ drove his plans to launch terrorist attack, prosecutors allege

Navy SEALs Were Warned Against Reporting Their Chief for War Crimes

Is Obstruction an Impeachable Offense? History Says Yes

Sigh: Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Attended Closed-Door Meeting With President Trump

The Supreme Court case over adding a citizenship question to the census, explained

More than 12,000 Boy Scout members were victims of sexual abuse, expert says

We Asked the 2020 Democrats About Climate Change (Yes, All of Them). Here Are Their Ideas.

A World War I Soldier’s Cholera Seemed Odd. 100 Years Later, Researchers Have Sequenced His Bacteria’s Genome

Morning Coffee (3/20/19)

US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children

I've seen Sirota's now-deleted tweets and THIS IS SO GROSS: Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog

It is wildly unclear whether Beto O’Rourke supports Medicare-for-all

PBS Chief Paula Kerger Responds To Third Donald Trump Push To De-Fund

Whoa: Nowata County Sheriff, Deputies Resign Over Jail Concerns (EVEN THE K-9. What a good boy.)

lol: Devin Nunes Suing Twitter, Twitter Accounts 'Devin Nunes' Mom' & 'Devin Nunes' Cow'

Baltimore mayor resigns from board of U.-Md. Medical System FOR HAVING THEM SPEND $500k ON HER SELF-PUBLISHED KIDS' BOOKS.

After Years Of Abuse By Priests, #NunsToo Are Speaking Out

Good for them: WNBA stars respond to homophobic SNL skit

US detects huge meteor explosion

Morning Coffee (3/19/19)

It still has to go through the Senate, but yay! N.H. House OKs Birth Certificate Changes in Transgender Cases

This is an important, moving read on the Christchurch attacks and Islamophobia in general: Our Brother, Our Executioner

Exclusive: 7 U.S. Military Members Identified As Part Of White Nationalist Group

Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe

The Summer Zervos sexual assault allegations and lawsuit against Donald Trump, explained

The headline sort of obscures that the prosecutor picked an older victim among DOZENS OF OPTIONS to lessen the punishment: Age of victim in prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, long a source of confusion, eased his obligations to register as a sex offender

Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

lol: France’s EU minister names her cat ‘Brexit’ because ‘he meows loudly to be let out but won’t go through the door’

Ohh: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, 90, ‘Nate the Great’ Author, Dies

DNA on ancient tobacco pipe links Maryland slave site to West Africa

Afternoon Tea (3/14/19)

When a Dissident Becomes a Collaborator

I Found Healing With A Famed Spiritualist. Then He Was Arrested As A Sexual Predator.

Hayley Wickenheiser longs for the day we’ll ‘stop including gender’ as a qualifier

Sexing up history: how to study and tell the history of sex

Icebergs Can Be Surprisingly Colorful

Afternoon Tea (3/4/19)

What's Next For New Yorker Reporter Jane Mayer?

Leaving Neverland Puts Victims First

One Twin Committed the Crime — but Which One? A New DNA Test Can Finger the Culprit

I’m a Journalist. Apparently, I’m Also One of America’s “Top Doctors.”

I'm So Sorry, But Here's How Some Male Authors For Really Real Described Women In Books

Morning Coffee (2/23/19)

New Election Ordered in North Carolina Race at Center of Fraud Inquiry

Saudi Crown Prince's Visit To India Signals Pivot Eastward For Riyadh

The frenzy over Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s solicitation charges, explained

Finally: R. Kelly charged with sexually abusing 4 victims, at least 3 of them minors

Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules

Elizabeth Warren Unveils Proposal To Ensure High-Quality Child Care For Every Family

The Lobbying Swamp Is Flourishing In Trump’s Washington

This is awful: Little, Brown to Publish Transphobic Novel That Erases Historical Trans Man

Abortion Access Improves Children's Lives

Found: A 50-Year-Old Scientific Message, Stuffed in a Bottle

Morning Coffee (2/17/19)

Mueller recommends a very lengthy sentence for Paul Manafort

Trump Isn’t Just Defying the Constitution. He’s Undermining SCOTUS.

Good for them: A Border Agent Detained Two Americans Speaking Spanish. Now They Have Sued.

This is horrifying: Kansas bill claims LGBTQ community is a religion to justify every kind of discrimination against it

I went to a house party for him yesterday and he was REALLY impressive: Pete Buttigieg's Quiet Rebellion

I'd almost forgotten about THIS crisis amidst everything else going on! Spanish government calls snap general election amid Catalan crisis

Pope Defrocks Theodore McCarrick, Ex-Cardinal Accused of Sexual Abuse

What a life: Lee Radziwill, Ex-Princess and Sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Dies at 85

GOOD: Academy reverses decision to give out 4 awards during commercial breaks at Oscars after outrage

Early pint: evidence of 'first British beer' found in Cambridgeshire

Morning Coffee (2/9/19)

Well! Brace yourselves.

John Dingell Jr., a House ‘Bull’ Who Served the Longest, Is Dead at 92

And: John Dingell: My last words for America

Good: The Supreme Court has blocked a Louisiana abortion law — for now

But: The Supreme Court just handed down a truly shocking attack on Muslims

Second woman accuses Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault

Virginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs

Virginia Police Sergeant Suspended After Antifa Group Identifies White Nationalist Ties

New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee

‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years

This is so gross of her: Phoenix Police Refute Cindy McCain’s Story of Human Trafficking at Airport

Morning Coffee (2/6/19)

“This is the next battle for our democracy”: Stacey Abrams answers Trump with voting rights

Trump is expected to call for an end to HIV in the US by 2030. That’s totally realistic. (Spoiler: The administration does not actually want to do any of the things that MAKE it realistic.)

Trump Inaugural Committee Ordered to Hand Over Documents to Federal Investigators

Trump’s Company Ramps Up Purge Of Undocumented Workers From Golf Clubs

Trump’s Pick To Replace Brett Kavanaugh Could Face An Ugly Confirmation Fight (because she's SUPER TERRIBLE)

Ralph Northam's Lasting Shame

Maduro issues threat to jail Venezuela’s opposition leader

Óscar Arias Sánchez, a Nobel Winner and Former President of Costa Rica, Is Accused of Sexual Assault

Senators reintroduce bill to protect Native American women, finish work started by defeated colleague

And in case you don't have enough to worry about: A hole opens up under Antarctic glacier — big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan

Morning Coffee (1/24/19)

Why thousands of protesters — and Trump — are demanding Venezuela’s president step down

Exclusive: Iraqi scientist says he helped ISIS make chemical weapons

4 Arrested and 23 Guns Seized in Plot Against Muslim Enclave in Upstate N.Y.

What the hell is going on with the State of the Union, explained

The Wheels of Justice Are Grinding to a Halt

This piece about the sexual abuse accusations against Bryan Singer is important (and timely given Bohemian Rhapsody's nominations): ‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’

The Voices of Indigenous People Continue to Be Silenced

I'm very impressed with what L.A.'s teachers got in their negotiations to end the strike.

This is awful: Trump Administration Grants South Carolina Foster Care Agencies Authority to Discriminate Against Jewish, Muslim Families (and Catholic and agnostic and...)

Gawker 2.0 Implodes as Its Only Reporters Quit

Morning Coffee (12/29/18)

Of course: Trump Accidentally Exposes the Location, Identities of U.S. Navy Seal Team 5 on Twitter

Trump administration to release hundreds of immigrant families from detention

The shutdown is intractable because Trump’s wall is ridiculous and Republicans know it

More evidence piles up in North Carolina election fraud scandal

Remember what it was like to have a smart president? Here are Obama's book, movie, and music recommendations for the year.

This is horrifying: ‘There was blood everywhere’: the abuse case against the Afghan FA president

China refuses to release detained Canadians, despite demands

Amos Oz, Israeli Author and Peace Advocate, Dies at 79

A Russian bank gave Marine Le Pen’s party a loan. Then weird things began happening.

This might be the first political assassination in human history