The Morning News

I normally ignore presidential tweets. This one requires attention, because it could genuinely produce a crisis with the Justice Department and the FBI.

A thoughtful Twitter thread to help you understand Trump’s latest tweeting about the Justice Department.

↩︎ Benjamin Wittes / Twitter

10h

Chinese publishers keep maps out of books, mostly because they're so difficult to get approved by the government.

↩︎ The South China Morning Post 10h

Estonia is about to become the world's first free public transport nation.

↩︎ Pop Up City 10h

We don't often post John Oliver videos, no matter how good they are, but this one's smart and succinct about America's rehab problem.

10h

Thanks to the mafia, almost 200 journalists in Italy live under police protection.

↩︎ The New York Times 10h

A sidewalk brawl between two drug dealers in Ohio was resolved "simply by flipping on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons."

↩︎ The Los Angeles Review of Books 10h

Here is probably the most detailed map of medieval trade routes you can find online.

↩︎ Merchant Marines 15h

Actually, forget the 9.9%: a doctor who makes $400,000 is a hell of a lot richer than a doctor who makes $120,000.

↩︎ Slate 15h

Forget the 1%: America's "9.9% class" can't look away from its own success to fight for other people's children.

↩︎ The Atlantic 16h

A good summary of Gaza's horrible, no good, very bad situation—how it became that way and who's to blame.

↩︎ The Economist 19h

The CIA's former "Chief of disguise" says the only show or movie to get spying right is The Americans.

↩︎ The Washington Post 19h

We may not realize it, but the Amish are using us in an experiment: testing new technologies for effect and failure.

↩︎ Quartz 19h

Neuroimaging studies suggest that if you engage in catastrophizing thoughts, it amplifies pain processing—“so you’re unwittingly pouring gasoline on the fire,” Darnall says.

Many people suffering from chronic pain “catastrophize” it to even worse degrees. Psychotherapy can help.

↩︎ Vox

19h

Just as the customary greeting of hello has been replaced with what the fuck is going on, and you grab your friend’s arm almost against your will and shake her a little bit and say no seriously, what the fuck is happening.

In light of news exhaustion and political turmoil, Patricia Lockwood’s advice on how to write poetry right now.

↩︎ Tin House

19h

A history of fingerprints and fingerprinting technology, currently on its second wind.

↩︎ The Paris Review 19h

Snapchat has become an internet ghost town, rendering it all the more enjoyable for those still sticking around.

↩︎ The Verge 19h

This year has seen an average of slightly more than one school shooting per week in the United States.

↩︎ CNN 3d

“It’s been happening everywhere. I’ve always felt it would eventually happen here too.”

Three months after Parkland, America grieves yet another massacre of children by a young man with guns.

↩︎ The Hill

3d

A divorced American biracial actress is disrupting the British monarchy, much to the world's delight.

↩︎ Vox 3d

We've created over 6.9 billion tons of plastic waste. Most of it will live nearly forever as landfill or litter.

↩︎ National Geographic 3d