Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/22/22)

Today is Thursday and I have lots of baking and knitting to do!

Volodymyr Zelenskiy channels Churchill to briefly unite a polarised US Congress (The Guardian)

Coalition Deal Puts Netanyahu on Brink of Power in Israel (NYT)

Coronavirus: China's hospitals seem to be filling up - WHO (BBC)

American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades (NPR)

Awful: City and state officials clear three Concord encampments, leaving dozens without shelter (NHPR)

Success of ‘slavery on the ballot’ measures could help incarcerated pregnant people of color (The 19th*)

US Postal Service fulfills top Biden climate goal with deployment of 66,000 electric delivery trucks (CNN)

Davante Lewis is the first out LGBTQ+ person elected to statewide office in Louisiana (LGBTQ Nation)

You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Real ID Deadline for Domestic Fliers Is Extended. Again. (NYT)

Oh NO. (Luckily it sounds like she didn't lose too much work.) Ann Cleeves loses laptop containing draft of new book in Shetland blizzard (The Guardian)

And some longer reads:

Why Germany and Japan are rebuilding their military power 8 decades after World War II (Grid)

A Tour Of Ukraine's Battle-Scarred Snake Island (RFE)

A Look Inside New York’s Swirling Kaleidoscope of Faiths (NYT)

The ‘Perpetual Broths’ That Simmer For Decades (Atlas Obscura)

The Best Crime Movies of 2022 (CrimeReads)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/21/22)

Today is Wednesday and I am on vacation to do ALL the Christmas prep! I have to go to the post office and grocery store. Remember me fondly.

Zelensky Will Meet With Biden in Washington and Address Congress, Officials Say (NYT)

House committee votes to make public Trump’s tax returns (WaPo)

Decoding every Jan. 6 committee criminal referral against Donald Trump (Grid)

Taliban ban Afghan women from university education (The Guardian)

UGH: U.S. Supreme Court extends border restrictions just before they were set to end (NPR)

And: Rwanda migrant plan is lawful, High Court rules (BBC)

Uhh … What’s Going to Happen to All That Money Sam Bankman-Fried Gave Politicians? (Slate)

Biden’s judicial nominations have set records for diversity, but dozens remain unconfirmed (The 19th*)

Korean War soldier who went missing identified, buried in Littleton (NHPR)

Long Covid: the patient who’s made an app to track symptoms (The Guardian)

And some longer reads:

An Alternate Reality: How Russia’s State TV Spins the Ukraine War (NYT)

Even after the FTX scandal, Washington is bamboozled over how to regulate crypto (Grid)

This is a really good list! 9 Last-Minute Gifts You Can Buy at CVS (The Takeout)

Thomas Paine on Popular Government in America: Evolution of a Radical's Thinking (JAR)

8 Mythology Books for Adults (Book Riot)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/20/22)

Today is Tuesday and it's my last day of work before Christmas!

The Jan. 6 Committee Recommended Charges for Donald Trump. Now We Wait And See. (Slate)

In Capitol Attack, Over 900 People Have Been Criminally Charged (NYT)

Putin’s mission to Minsk raises fears he will drag Belarus into Ukraine war (The Guardian)

Irmgard Furchner: Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders (BBC)

Harvey Weinstein Convicted on Three Charges of Rape and Sexual Assault (Variety)

AGREED: New Hampshire is not entitled to hold the first primary (NH Bulletin)

LGBTQ discrimination is illegal in Colorado — but other states don’t have similar laws in place (Grid)

Actors’ Equity Members Approve New Three-Year Contract For Broadway, Sit-Down Productions (THR)

FTC fines Fortnite maker Epic Games $520M over children’s privacy and item shop charges (TechCrunch)

Ooh: ‘Oppenheimer’ Trailer: Destruction Looms In Christopher Nolan’s Atomic Bomb Pic Starring Cillian Murphy (Deadline)

And some longer reads:

A century and counting: Ukraine's ongoing fight to free itself from Russia (NPR)

Military Spending Surges, Creating New Boom for Arms Makers (NYT)

The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline (The Atlantic)

A new museum and clinic will honor the enslaved “Mothers of Gynecology” (The 19th*)

The Best International Crime Fiction of 2022 (CrimeReads)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/19/22)

Today is Monday, and it's the last work week before Christmas! Here's my weekly TV news roundup at The Televixen.

Ukraine Says Russia Uses Iranian Kamikaze Drones In Early Morning Attack (RFE)

What Can We Expect From the Jan. 6 Committee’s Big Finale This Week? (Slate)

Proud Boys Trial Is Set to Open, Focusing on Role in Jan. 6 Violence (NYT)

Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 (The Guardian)

New models predict at least 1 million deaths in China amid covid surge (WaPo)

Sri Lanka's children go hungry as food prices soar (BBC)

N.H. to receive $15 million from Walmart for opioid crisis recovery and treatment (NHPR)

Here’s how states plan to limit abortion — even where it is already banned (The 19th*)

And: In North Carolina, more people are training to support patients through an abortion (NPR)

LGBTQ Representation in Film Rises While Racial Diversity and Screen Time Decline, Per GLAAD Report (THR)

And some longer reads:

I haven't had time to read through all of this yet, but it's definitely on my list for today: Putin's War (NYT)

QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter (WaPo)

Artificially (un)intelligent: An AI search engine for science spits out climate denialism and covid misinformation (Grid)

The Romano-British Writing Tablets of Vindolanda (Antigone)

Fun Books to Read During Hanukkah (Book Riot)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/18/22)

Today is Sunday and somehow there is only ONE WEEK until Christmas?? Who allowed this???

Russia ‘may try to re-enact its early invasion plans of Ukraine on anniversary of war’ (The Guardian)

Henry Kissinger Wrote a Peace Plan for Ukraine. It’s Ludicrous. (Slate)

Protesters in Peru refuse to back down as political crisis deepens (WaPo)

Tunisia: President Saied urged to resign after 'fiasco' election (BBC)

Congress Is Considering Financial Help for Parents. Here Are Details. (NYT)

Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports (NPR)

In my more politically anxious moments, it IS comforting to know I could literally walk across the border to Vermont from my house. Ban on slavery and right to abortion officially added to Vermont Constitution (Vermont Public)

Go check and apply if you're eligible! Governor says fewer people than expected have applied for energy assistance program (NH Bulletin)

ChatGPT shows how far AI has come and its acute limitations — like being right (Grid)

Hmm: With a big budget, Manchester wants to revitalize its brand (NHPR)

And some longer reads:

‘Wiped out’: War in Ukraine has decimated a once feared Russian brigade (WaPo)

What would success look like for the protests in China and Iran? (Grid)

YOU DON'T SAY. (Also, this is a gift link - if you're not a subscriber it doesn't count against your article limit - so please read it!) Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises (NYT)

Light fantastic: neon nights – in pictures (The Guardian)

This is delightful, if you're still shopping: The CrimeReads 2022 Holiday Gift Guide (CrimeReads)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/17/22)

Today is Saturday and it's still snowing!

Ukraine warns of long outages after wave of Russian strikes hit power grid (The Guardian)

Jan. 6 Panel Plans Vote on Referring Trump for Insurrection and Other Charges (NYT)

GOOD: U.S. appeals court ruling means border expulsions on track to end Dec. 21 (WaPo)

The lame-duck Senate has a new bill to protect the census after Trump's interference (NPR)

Twitter reinstates banned journalists' accounts (BBC)

A Christmas covid surge is looking more likely, again. But getting sick isn’t inevitable. (Grid)

Good! New Hampshire becomes latest state to ban TikTok from government devices (NHPR)

Harvard University appoints Claudine Gay as school’s first Black president (CNN)

Fancy! Ancient barn conversion with steam room found at Roman villa in Rutland (The Guardian)

Brisbane nativity camels returned safely after stroll (BBC)

And some longer reads:

This is truly terrifying. This is how genocide starts. Texas attorney general’s office sought state data on transgender Texans (WaPo)

Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness (NPR)

I can't stop thinking about this extremely wild story: I Think I Found Kyrsten Sinema’s Side Hustle (Slate)

For your planning purposes: The 22 Most Popular Holiday Appetizers (Half-Baked Harvest)

The Best Historical Fiction of the Year: 2022 (CrimeReads)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/16/22) - Friday Happy Links!

It's a very snowy Friday here, and it's time to take a break for some happy links!

King Arthur Wants You to Love Holiday Baking (Eater)

This looks fun: Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux's Watergate Series Sets HBO Premiere: Watch the Star-Packed Trailer (TVLine)

This made me kind of want one: Squishmallows Are Taking Over the World (Slate)

Ooh, some good ideas here: Fug Nation Loves “Last Minute” Stocking Stuffers/Gifty Things (GFY)

The Best Cakes for the Holidays Are Also the Simplest (NYT)

Fave Five: Queer YA Set in the 1930s (LGBTQ Reads)

Best New Baking Cookbooks for Holiday Gifting (Book Riot)

The Best Nonalcoholic Spirits for Mixing, According to Bartenders (Punch)

Archaeologists say find near Stonehenge is ancient goldsmith’s toolkit (The Guardian)

Word Search for the Winter Solstice and Beyond (Autostraddle)

And some longer Friday reads:

Some great choices here: The Best Romance Novels of 2022 (NYT)

And here: The Best Crime Novels of the Year: 2022 (CrimeReads)

2022 Christmas Cookie Box (Half-Baked Harvest)

31 Christmas Movies With Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer or Trans Characters (Autostraddle)

The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022 (NPR)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/15/22)

Happy Thursday! We're getting ready for a snowstorm here!

No Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine, Russia says, as winter deadlock sets in (The Guardian)

Good!! You can order free COVID tests again by mail (NPR)

Lawmakers grapple with sheer size of FTX’s missing billions (WaPo)

Of course: Twitter Trust and Safety Council members describe weeks of radio silence from the company and Musk (Grid) 

That's something: Congress Set to Replace Dred Scott Author’s Statue With Thurgood Marshall (NYT)

Social media influencers charged with $100m stock scheme (BBC)

N.H. hospitals are seeing a sharp rise in flu cases (NHPR)

Patient mistrust and poor access hamper federal efforts to overhaul family planning (The 19th*)

Propaganda or Protest? Hans Baumann’s ‘Alexander’ (BL European studies blog)

Meteorite that landed in Cotswolds may solve mystery of Earth’s water (The Guardian)

And some longer reads:

Whew, an essential Kyrsten Sinema read: ‘She Made an Idiot Out of Me’ (The Atlantic)

The 80-year-old book that explains Elon Musk and tech’s new right-wing tilt (Vox)

Inside Wuhan: How China’s ground zero for covid hit its zero-covid tipping point (Grid)

Can a National Museum Rebuild Its Collection Without Colonialism? (NYT)

Simonen in America (CrimeReads)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/14/22)

Today is Wednesday and my dad's birthday! Yesterday he (mostly) cheerfully spent his day driving me to a medical appointment across the state, waiting, and driving me home. ("Mostly" because we hit some completely ridiculous traffic and neither of us were cheerful.) Happy birthday, Dad!

Generators ‘as important as armour’ to Ukraine surviving winter, says Zelenskiy (The Guardian)

The Special Counsel Investigating Trump Is Wasting No Time (Slate)

Good for her: Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state's death sentences (BBC)

I see: Amazon launched a driver tipping promotion on the same day it got sued over tip fraud (NPR)

Acknowledging ‘the promise of equal justice falls short’ for some, N.H. courts aim to become more inclusive (NHPR)

This is so great! Definition of ‘Team’ updated to reflect gender diversity across the Podium Pathway (Skate Canada)

!!! Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers (NYT)

What holds women back from the tech industry? Girls Who Code report assesses gender gap (The 19th*)

History Is Shouting... All You Need to Do Is Listen (CrimeReads)

Hand of Irulegi: ancient bronze artefact could help trace origins of Basque language (The Guardian)

And some longer reads:

‘We’re not going back’: Hillary Clinton on the message of the midterms and women’s rights (The 19th*)

They brought their sick baby to the hospital. Three days later, the state took their kids away. (WaPo)

Can police use facial recognition as probable cause? Probably not, but some are doing it anyway (Grid)

Close Encounters of the Fishy Kind; or Oppian’s Maritime World (Antigone)

Seven Wildly Entertaining Books About Agatha Christie and Her Characters (CrimeReads)

Morning Coffee Link Roundup (12/13/22)

Good morning! Today is Tuesday!

Ukrainian forces damage key bridge near Melitopol, reports say (The Guardian)

India and China troops clash on Arunachal Pradesh mountain border (BBC)

I see: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Jan. 6 Insurrection Should Have Been Armed (Slate)

Bankman-Fried, disgraced former CEO of FTX crypto exchange, arrested in Bahamas (NPR)

The cheapest World Cup seats cost more than a week of wages for the migrant workers who built them (Grid)

Karen Bass’s First Act as L.A.’s Mayor: Declaring Homelessness an Emergency (NYT)

In the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting, two LGBTQ+ lawmakers talk policy priorities (The 19th*)

Go Deb!! (Don't worry, I know her, I'm not just being overly familiar.) Head of N.H. teachers’ union sues top education official over Education Freedom Accounts (NHPR)

That's great: Nielsen-Owned Gracenote to Track Disability Representation on TV (Variety)

This is fun: What is the sound of Facebook’s value crashing? Noisycharts turns news into noise (The Guardian)

And some longer reads:

A Putin nuclear strike on Ukraine? A Chinese attack against Taiwan? How the US prepares for global nightmares. (Grid)

She Wrote the Memo That Helped Take Down Harvey Weinstein. She’s Finally Ready to Talk. (THR)

Big Oil Companies Are Selling Their Wells. Some Worry Taxpayers Will Pay to Clean Them Up. (ProPublica)

The Columbus Clippers Made Public Sports Ownership Work. Can Anyone Else? (Defector)

Martin Edwards On E. C. R. Lorac's Delightful Whodunit, These Names Make Clues (CrimeReads)