Morning Coffee (7/8/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

DRC rebel chief 'the Terminator' convicted of war crimes

Greece Liked to Underestimate Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Now He’s Prime Minister.

Justice Dept. to Replace Lawyers in Census Citizenship Question Case

ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases

A Crime by Any Name

US women’s soccer team wins its fourth World Cup

USA's formidable women's soccer team is no accident. It's a product of public policy

Elizabeth Warren Unveils Plan for Getting Women of Color Paid More Fairly

Women's Health Providers Say Impasse After Sununu's Budget Veto Will Hurt Patients

João Gilberto, Father of Bossa Nova, Dies at 88

Morning Coffee (7/6/19)

Another, stronger quake in Ridgecrest shakes Southern California, causing more damage

Sudan Power-Sharing Deal Reached by Military and Civilian Leaders

Phew: The Alabama woman indicted after a miscarriage will not be prosecuted

After removing a citizenship question on the 2020 census, the DOJ is trying to put it back on — at Trump’s request

Republicans dominate state legislatures. That decides political power in America.

This is a good piece on corporations that say they support LGBTQIA+ rights but also give money to politicians who don't: AT&T Against Gay Rights

The new GOP attacks on Mueller will backfire on Trump — bigly

Ha: If The Democratic Primary Field Was a University History Department

Megan Rapinoe isn’t here to make you comfortable

3,400-year-old Palace Emerges From the Tigris River After Drought in Iraq

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 (6/5/19)

An Urgent Mystery: Who's Attacking Ebola Responders In Congo — And Why?

This is more well-reported and important (beyond this one case) than the headline sort of implies: Trump Pardoned Billionaire Conrad Black but Left His Prison Buddy Behind

The Atlantic has a great special section for the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage: Votes for Women

When It Comes to Birth Control and Eugenics, Clarence Thomas Gets It All Wrong

Some great recommendations for kids here! 7 New and Upcoming Reads Perfect for Pride Month

Morning Coffee (5/20/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

What a shock: Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts

This is bad on... several levels: Trump May Be Preparing Pardons for Servicemen Accused of War Crimes

Rebecca Traister, great as always: Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysterical

Stacey Abrams: We Cannot Resign Ourselves to Dismay and Disenfranchisement

Trump’s puzzling trade war with China, sort of explained

Yay! In first for Asia, Taiwan lawmakers back same-sex marriage

Where Will Measles Break Out Next? Chicago, Los Angeles or Miami, Scientists Predict

Maya's a pal of mine and also Julian Castro's campaign manager and this is a great interview: ‘You Can’t Always Be Exactly Who You Are’: A Chat With Maya Rupert

Eeeee: See exclusive new photos from the upcoming 'Veronica Mars' revival on Hulu

Oh: Man killed by crossbow in Germany led 'medieval cult'

Afternoon Tea (5/16/19)

The Birth-Tissue Profiteers

Wow, imagine being these guys: Why Apollo 10 Stopped Just 47,000 Feet From the Moon

Why It's So Hard To Stop Women From Sleeping In A Menstrual Shed

Australia’s Politics May Be Changing With Its Climate

Stumbling Into Identity: Casey McQuiston on Writing About Bisexuality

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

Morning Coffee (5/9/19)

Donald Trump Jr. Is Subpoenaed to Testify to Senate Panel on Russia Contacts

The House Judiciary vote on contempt of Congress and what it means for William Barr, explained

Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison.

Vatican establishes new rule for sexual abuse complaints and coverups involving bishops

Awful: Jewish Family Loses Legal Battle To Recover Painting Stolen By Nazis

Is Biden Really the Most ‘Electable’ Democrat?

The Man Who Made Your iPhone Wants to Run Taiwan. A Sea Goddess Backs Him, He Says.

Jacinda Ardern Got Engaged. New Zealand Almost Didn’t Notice.

He ruins everything! How Donald Trump ruined a space art project

Battle for .amazon Domain Pits Retailer Against South American Nations

Morning Coffee (4/20/19)

Robert Mueller Gave Us Everything We Need to Know

The best defense of Trump is still a damning indictment

This is just horrifying: Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint

Trump’s Pick for Interior Dept. Continued Lobbying After Officially Vowing to Stop, New Files Show

What Changes When the Presidential Field Is Full of Mothers, Not Just Fathers

Ohh, this does not seem like a good road to go down! Complaint from Manchester teachers union after dozens request Good Friday off and are denied

Sex, alcohol and violence collided in murder case ensnaring SEALs and Marines

Teen Dating Violence Can Lead To Homicide — And Girls Are The Most Common Victims

Three Endangered Right Whale Calves Spotted in New England Waters

Germany welcomes back priceless books lost in second world war

Morning Coffee (4/11/19)

Julian Assange was just expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested by British police

Brexit: UK and EU agree delay to 31 October

The U.S. Is Tracking Migrant Girls' Periods to Stop Them From Getting Abortions

Ex-Obama Counsel Expects to Be Charged Soon in Mueller-Related Case

In case you still thought they cared about life at all: Texas lawmakers consider the death penalty for abortion

Why I Am Stockpiling Insulin in My Fridge

GOOD: Washington corrections officials reverse ban, will allow prisoners to get used books in the mail

Yes, Democrats need to beat Trump. But that shouldn’t give Joe Biden a pass.

!!! Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole

Charles Van Doren, a Quiz Show Whiz Who Wasn’t, Dies at 93

Morning Coffee (3/31/19)

Mueller Report Exceeds 300 Pages, Raising Questions About Four-Page Summary

Heh: Attorney General William Barr Summarizes Famous Broadway Musicals

Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes

The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court

The demobilization of the resistance is a dangerous mistake

Businessman detained at Gatwick over anti-Brexit badge

The warped history that fuels right-wing terrorism

Airlines damage or lose an average of 26 wheelchairs a day, report finds

Some of the science here seems far from conclusive, but... huh: Girls who share a womb with boys tend to make less money than those with twin sisters

How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement

Morning Coffee (3/17/19)

New Zealand shows willingness to curb guns after one, not 1,981 mass shootings

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations

This is awful: Hate crimes unit investigates Ginsburg poster graffiti

AS IS THIS: GOP Tries To Gut Protections For Native Women In Violence Against Women Act

One British Ex-Soldier to Be Prosecuted in ‘Bloody Sunday’ Shootings

Beto O'Rourke Would Make an Excellent Mix Tape. But He Shouldn't Run for President (Yet).

How Trump’s Brand of Grievance Politics Roiled a Pennsylvania Campaign

W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91

Actually, Women Do Ask for Money. They Just Don’t Get It.

New Study Shows Lack of Equity And Advancement For Diverse TV Writers

Morning Coffee (2/10/19)

Uh, wow: France Recalls Ambassador to Italy, Revealing Strains at Europe’s Core

Schultz's toxic investments: For-profit college, tax shelter for the rich

HHS Office of Population Affairs removed Affordable Care Act content from Title X website (about contraception and women's health, obviously)

Smithsonian Staffers Scramble to Make Up Time Lost During Government Shutdown

New Research Explores the Ongoing Impact of Racism on the U.S. Farming Landscape

Adam Targum Fired at NCIS: New Orleans, Where Morale Problems Still Linger

Rosamunde Pilcher, author of The Shell Seekers, dies aged 94

Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours

SIGH: Delta pulls napkins encouraging passengers to slip their number to their 'plane crush'

The Rumors Aren’t True: Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt Will Still Flow

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 (10/11/18)

This is horrifying and evil: AP Investigation: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption

Also evil and racist: Supreme Court Ruling Suppresses Native American Votes Ahead of Crucial Midterm Election

UGH: Fact-checking President Trump’s USA Today op-ed on ‘Medicare-for-All’

Planned Parenthood Announces Multi-Million Dollar Plan to Protect and Expand Abortion Access In Face of Hostile Supreme Court

I'm tired: Michael Bloomberg is a Democrat again, fueling speculation about 2020 aspirations

National Book Foundation Announces Finalists for 69th Annual Award

Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

WHAT!!! Real life Nashville nightmare: Man stabbed at haunted house in Madison

Genetics research 'biased towards studying white Europeans'

Ooh: Introducing the New Intelligencer

Morning Coffee (9/16/18)

‘Never give an inch’: Trump keeps touting perceived failures as successes

This full story is actually much worse than this headline makes it sound! Somehow! Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

White people make up largest proportion of British terror arrests

This has been updated to seem... maybe less bad than it initially did... but still: State Department Changes Passport Website Language for Transgender People

Anne Thériault: What Women Want From Jian Ghomeshi

Nearly 40% of female suicides occur in India

Here's the National Book Award fiction longlist!

Pretty much the least surprising thing: The Other Side of the Spider-Man Proposal Story

This honestly doesn't seem like the worst idea? Maybe. Depends on how it was implemented. Corporate Sponsors for NASA? Agency to Study Making Space for Brands

Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave

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 (7/17/18)

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and America’s “geopolitical suicide”

Trump and Putin vs. America

Feds Charge Russian Student, Linked To NRA, With Conspiracy

Inside Mueller's New Army

Made to Suffer for Her Sins: The Trump administration’s policies on family separation and abortion are driven by one view: A woman’s pain is fitting punishment.

4,500 Tech Workers, 1 Mission: Get Democrats Elected

UGH: Increasingly Agitated Elon Musk Labels Diver Who Mocked His 'Submarine' a 'Pedo Guy'

GOOD: Yankees Suspend Relationship with Papa John's After Founder's Racist Comments

Yay! J.K. Rowling's next Cormoran Strike novel Lethal White coming in September

Good for her: Seeking Pay Equity, Female Flutist Sues Boston Symphony Orchestra

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