Preaching to the fire.

In a victory for the impeachment inquiry, a federal judge ruled the Justice Dept. must supply Mueller's grand jury materials to the House Judiciary Committee. 1/18

The US government's annual budget deficit widened to $984 billion—its largest since 2012 and the first time since the early 1980s the gap has increased over four consecutive years. 2/18

Giuliani butt-dialed an NBC News reporter, leaving a voicemail of a conversation discussing a need for money and lambasting the Bidens. 3/18

A report from Nashville's Little Kurdistan about what many perceive as an ethnic cleansing campaign by Turkey. 4/18

As wildfires continue burning in Southern California, Pacific Gas & Electric says as many as two million people could be affected by precautionary power shutdowns. 5/18

"We are creating a fire age that will be equivalent to the Ice Age." The highly flammable state of California is entering "the Pyrocene." 6/18

One wonders about environmental and labor regulations when one reads that Tesla went from obtaining permits to hooking up the power at a brand new plant in Shanghai in 168 working days. 7/18

A good profile of David Attenborough, who's lately pushing for radical action to tackle the climate crisis. 8/18

Historically, empathy wasn't integral to medical training. The process of teaching doctors hasn't changed much since then. 9/18

Not everyone knows about Bach's love of beer, his 20 children, or the time he pulled a knife on a musician during a street fight. 10/18

See also: A resource for all things shoegaze and dream pop. 11/18

Brooklyn may have "a very urban sound," but linguistically there's no evidence of any kind of specific borough accent. 12/18

There are less than 400 public statues of women in the United States. In New York City, only five of 150 statues are real women. 13/18

Six lazy mistakes in the latest New York Times article about gentrification in Los Angeles. 14/18

Related: Shopping a Oaxacan market with a Oaxacan restaurateur. 15/18

Some photographs from the week: Finalists from a photomicrography competition, and hazy surprises in pictures by Will Warasila. 16/18

"I collect numbered White Albums and currently have 2,435 copies." 17/18

A round-up of influential comedy sketches from the last 20 years reminds us that, yes, Paul does have to marry his mother-in-law. 18/18

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