Morning Coffee (11/30/16)

This is an important photo essay: Black Skies Above Mosul

Donald Trump Wants You to Burn the Flag While He Burns the Constitution

Good for them: Kellogg Pulls Ads From Breitbart Over 'Values As A Company'

2016! Kremlin Spokesman Says He's "Proud" of Wife's Holocaust Ice-Skating Number

Trump’s lies have a purpose. They are an assault on democracy.

Well, there's plenty to be worried about here: The Disruptive Career of Michael Flynn, Trump's National-Security Adviser

Donald Trump tweeted Britain asking for a crony as ambassador. That's a problem.

The lesson of Trump University: how little Trump’s supporters mean to him

"A certain kind of liberal makes me sick. These people traffic in false equivalencies, always pretending that both nominees are the same, justifying their apathy and not voting or preening about their narcissistic purity as they cast their ballot for a person they know cannot win."

This saga just keeps going: More Fresh Hell for Theranos

Louisa May Alcott on Little Women: “I grow tired of providing moral pap for the young”

Morning Coffee (11/29/16)

Obama Expands War With Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia

The Last Hospital In Eastern Aleppo Is No More

Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won

Fact-check: Did 3 million undocumented immigrants vote in this year's election? (No. But it's worth paying attention to where this nonsense came from.)

Nate Silver: Why I Support An Election Audit, Even Though It’s Unlikely To Change The Outcome

The Times profile of Bannon is a bit too... mild, maybe, but it includes some interesting and alarming things.

And: Steve Bannon’s disturbing views on ‘genetic superiority’ are shared by Trump

Maybe You Should Show Some Empathy for the Flesh-Eating Blob Monsters

Interesting: A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning.

The Ottoman Turkish Zenanname (ʻBook of Womenʼ)

Morning Coffee (11/28/16)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Syria war: Key Aleppo rebel area captured by forces

Good for them: ThinkProgress will no longer describe racists as ‘alt-right’

And them: Facing a massive boycott, Target CEO doubles down on support of LGBTQ rights with these words

"It is unconscionable, this know-better recrimination, directed at the very people who just put the most work and energy into defeating Trumpism, coming from those who will be made least vulnerable by Trump’s ascension."

This is really good and important: Progressive fundamentalism: how Hollywood and the media fortify the bubbles we all live in

What the alt-right really wants, according to a professor writing a book about them

How the DNC chair election works

China is trying to counter the West’s influence in Africa by exporting its literature there

In Praise of Paris Geller and Her Anger

Morning Coffee (11/27/16)

The Clinton campaign is participating in Stein's Wisconsin recount. Here's the statement.

It would have been great if we could have had this reporting earlier, but here we are: Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President

Trump Tower security may take over 2 floors — and cost millions

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say

11 things we learned from Donald Trump’s meeting with the New York Times

"There’s a fine line between whipping up panic and informing the citizenry so that people can respond in orderly, considered fashion. But this is an emergency and people need to be prepared for it—even if, in the end, the category-five hurricane is downgraded."

Gender Colors Outrage Over Scandal Involving South Korea’s President

This looks extremely useful: Kayak’s App Will Now Help You Navigate the Airport

133-Million-Year-Old Pebble Discovered to Be First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain

Hahaha: I Can’t Be a Jerk, I Was a Geek in High School

Morning Coffee (11/26/16)

Whoa: Castro died. The Times obituary is quite good.

A relief, given everything else going on in the world! Angela Merkel to Seek 4th Term as Germany’s Leader

Well this isn't worrisome or anything: Trump turning away intelligence briefers since election win

Trump Foundation admits to violating ban on ‘self-dealing,’ new filing to IRS shows

Can Anything Stop the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions?

Trump's Hamilton outburst ignores the theater's history as a place for political protest

Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots

Eight steps reporters should take before Trump assumes office

Fascinating: For Deaf Tennis Player, Sound Is No Barrier

Cool: Slo-Mo Video Reveals How WW1 Fighters Didn't Shoot Their Propellers Off

Morning Coffee (11/25/16)

Time for some happy Friday links. And pie for breakfast. Don't forget the pie for breakfast.

A US college student who grew up with few books returned to her native Afghanistan to build a library

Whoa: Harvard Researchers Print World’s First Heart-on-a-Chip

50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever

Hedgehog-Based Authentication Is the Only Way to Be Truly Secure

I love holiday gift guides. Here's Vox's, which is always a treat.

I still wish Legends of the Hidden Temple was coming back as a game show, but this clip of the movie made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

NBC’s The Good Place knows nothing's as simple as good vs. evil. It’s perfect for 2016.

15 of the world’s most beautiful train stations

Lipstick shaped like wine bottles!

Mysterious Items Found in 2000-Year-Old Cooking Pot

Morning Coffee (11/24/16)

Happy Thanksgiving! In honor of the holiday I wrote a thank you note to Hillary Clinton.

On its 80th anniversary, the perfect Thanksgiving reading takes on a melancholy note

Basically everything Todd VanDerWerff writes is brilliant, including this: Don’t avoid politics this holiday season. Use these 5 tips for productive conversations.

How to talk to your climate denier uncle this Thanksgiving

Showing Up for Racial Justice Thanksgiving Toolkit (PDF)

Thanksgiving tech support survival guide

This was unexpectedly moving: My Day at the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line

Use Two Quarters to Measure Perfect Pie Dough Thickness

Don’t use your drone to cook Thanksgiving dinner

6 states produce almost all the turkey in the US

The Plymouth Hero You Should Really Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving

Morning Coffee (11/23/16)

Some good news! Turkey withdraws child rape bill after street protests

ISIS Used Chemical Arms at Least 52 Times in Syria and Iraq, Report Says

Whoa: Pope Francis Extends Priests’ Ability to Forgive Abortion

Oh, sad: William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88

Why Jared Kushner is Donald Trump's truest heir and most trusted adviser

This is fascinating: Covering Trump: An oral history of an unforgettable campaign

Long but worth reading: Shirtless Trump Saves Drowning Kitten: Facebook's Fake-News Problem and the Rise of the Postmodern Right

Was Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s Attack Dog, Paid Illegally?

Hahaha: Oracle Just Bought Dyn, the Company That Brought Down the Internet

Now We’ll Finally Get to See the American Revolution Through the Eyes of King George

Morning Coffee (11/22/16)

Important! Throw That Sabra Hummus in Your Fridge Away Right Now

ISIS demolished a 2,900-year-old Assyrian ziggurat

This is extremely troubling: For foreign diplomats, Trump hotel is place to be

Related: A running list of how Donald Trump’s new position may be helping his business interests

And... um. Trump spokeswoman says Americans should ignore conflicts-of-interest, focus on Trump’s ‘sacrifice’

"Warren and Sanders are wrong, and in a way that signals a significant misreading of the landscape on the part of the most influential Democrats."

Donald Trump’s feud with the cast of Hamilton, explained

Why Keeping Only the Popular Parts of Obamacare Won’t Work

This is so cool: Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak Uses Satellites to Uncover Ancient Egyptian Ruins

The Russian Schools Training Women To Be Housewives

Morning Coffee (11/21/16)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

In case you missed it over the weekend, here's the Hamilton cast's statement to Mike Pence.

Obama Is Warning America About Trump’s Presidency. Are You Listening?

Let's make sure we're all aware that Trump's tax plan means single parents can't file as head of household.

There are a lot of scary things in here: Anti-Defamation League decries Stephen Bannon, while many other Jewish groups stay silent

Why misogyny won

Inside the fight to save Obamacare: how one longtime advocate plans to fight repeal

!!! Congressional panel calls for new Smithsonian museum of women’s history

Welp: Oxford Dictionaries announces 'post-truth' as its word of the year

What's Life Really Like For Women In Russia?

Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses