Sunday Snippets: God, this week

All the lives lost. Nepal. The pain. The heaviness.

As youth sports costs soar, one Oakland neighborhood tries a creative solution

It's Fucked That I Have To Think About AI

I watched my village disappear in an instant

ICE investigators want to buy voter data from every state

These former NBA players are cruelly treating trans rights like a game

Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meet in NYC to discuss how Democrats and Trump could cooperate

The Right Word is Wrongness

What we learned from a US bus tour of judges

In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

Maryland Hispanic student enrollment declines amid immigration fears

The Annunciation Diaries

Better Call Mom: Schools Still See Mothers as the Default Parent to Contact

Fun with numbers

The Lawyer Working to Nip Pregnancy Criminal Charges in the Bud

Minnesota Diary: Notes from a Somali Mother During ICE’s Winter Invasion

Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be

The Corals That Shouldn’t Exist

A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea

Healing the Waters Poisoned by Wars

From History to Headlines

The largest CMHC funded Indigenous led development project in Canadian History.

Sunday Snippets: Third grade

My son starts third grade this week. Time is a fickle goddamn thing because he was just a baby.

Take Five

Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war

What Is Freedom: Elissa Altman

Dog Days

State fairs forever (data centers never)

Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff?

Sherrill Administration Announces Statewide Housing Resources Ensure No Veteran Has to Go Homeless

The Family Physician Talking You Through Your Abortion

A Year of Confinement in Delaney Hall, With No End in Sight

I went to more than 20 yard sales last weekend

Cumulative access to print books improves literacy achievement: Evidence from a five-year randomized trial in high-poverty schools

Air Florida Flight 90 Tragedy: Blizzard, Heroism, and the Potomac’s Icy Waters

Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires

A Federal Judge Says the Constitution Still Protects Abortion

AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone

When data centers come knocking, counties should have a ‘wish list,’ officials say

If one thing was clear after the second major panel focused on the issue at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference, it was that data centers are not going anywhere — at least not any time soon. So counties should start preparing.

“Counties willing to negotiate can extract meaningful investment in their community’s futures while mitigating impact to their communities and residents,” Ullman said. “New schools, road upgrades, community centers, long-term support packages for local initiatives — it’s all on the table.”

Sooooo we just negotiate with captors in hopes of better cages? The fuck is this bullshit?

Sunday Snippets: I've watched The Terminator

Why are we just okie doke with AI programs invading and running wild? Have none of you fuckers watched any 90's movies?

Prince George’s police warn staffing shortage is straining neighborhood patrols

Farm's delight after six white owlets found nesting

July Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline

Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue

North Carolina just voted to protect animals in the Great Smokies with historic investment in wildlife crossings

No Batteries Required: Cranks, Gears, & Other Small Miracles

Country music stars unite against data centers spreading across rural America

No, Todd Blanche Didn't Promise a National Abortion Ban—But He Did Vow Something Else

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the Bipartisan Allure of Toxic Men: Opinion

Climate change threatens Amazon plants and culture

The findings offer a warning: Indigenous cultures in Amazonia could lose an average of 28 to 34 percent of the plant species they use by 2080. Many of the plants people rely on most are already rare, confined to just a few places — and are increasingly at risk from climate change. The losses would be local — plants disappearing from the specific areas that cultures depend on.

Abortion Had a *Great* Night

These Fires Will Burn for 100 Years

What D.C.’s election defense under occupation can teach us

Sunday Snippets: 250 Years

I mourn the idea and not memory of what celebrating 250 years would have been, had the election gone the other way. I mourn a lot in the last two years, the last ten years.

The Museum of Joanna Goddard

Important Progress on AI Data Centers in Maryland

How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days

The ‘Tincture’ of Time

Plan to auction over 100 Titanic artifacts faces US government opposition

Gov. Beshear posthumously pardons 43 people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom

Cozy Backyard Reading Retreat That Looks Like an Amazing Tiny House

How Hollywood Does Abortion: Not Well, Expert Says

Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military

Ancient DNA helps identify bones of a lost governor and his family

The Feeding

Is a Bike Bus the Most Joyful Way to Get to School?

Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark

Happy Fucking Birthday

Native Americans celebrate victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, 150 years later

Finding real national pride on America’s 250th birthday

Sunday Snippets: Almost Solistice

Halfway through the year and it's been a year for sure!

The nation holding back the sea

Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS

Inside and outside

The Spanish Exception

Why rescue donkeys are wearing donated socks from a pro soccer team

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

Resistance is only half the equation

The ripple effects of organizing against data centers

Senate panel pans DHS plan to stop customs processing at blue-city airports

For Black Women in Abusive Relationships, Gun‑Control Loopholes Can Engender Deadly Disparities

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

Trump plan would reopen Western Maryland coal plant

Rising costs of fuel, other goods squeeze already strained abortion funds

This Heat

The Biggish Picture

As Capitalism Gasps for Breath I Watch the Knicks Game

Plans for Maryland vineyard, resort raise neighbors’ concerns

Sunday Snippets: June

Not sure how we are halfway through the year already. Time feels like it's galloping like a cheetah these days.

D.C. Third-Party Power Customers Paid 70 Percent More Than Pepco Rates, Costing Households Millions

Free grocery market set to open inside Prince George’s County library to fight food insecurity

‘You cannot unbird yourself’: Black Birders Week and the appeal of the outdoors for all

A 185‑year‑old diary is the center of the Anacostia Community Museum’s new exhibit

Georgia uncorks the value of Stalin's 40,000-bottle wine collection

NJ Senate approves bill to protect reproductive, transgender healthcare

Erin Brockovich Targets AI Industry With New Data Center Map

The Hard Truth My Party Needs to Face

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

What ‘Special Needs Mommy’ Influencers Get Wrong About Parenting Disabled Kids: Opinion

Pizza Hut owner pushes classic vibe, open to DC expansion

FDA moves ahead with safety study of abortion pill mifepristone

Sunday Snippets: May

Somehow already May in this year that feels 10 years long.

Who Is L.A.’s Hero Posting Up These Anti-ICE Parking Signs?

Anti-data center measures gain traction at state, local level

Researchers have spent decades breeding better potatoes for chips, and their work isn’t done

An Exclusive First Look at Deesha Philyaw’s The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman 

Summons

How Ann Arbor, Michigan, is creating its own clean energy utility

Meet These Delightful Bookshop Cats (and One Dog!)

This common plant could clean microplastics from your drinking water

Endometriosis Is Often Excruciating. Pelvic Floor Therapy Can Help Some Patients.

When will men carry the weight of their own violence?

We're About to Enter A Thrifting Golden Age

Guerrilla Battle Over Padlocks and Tourist Trash on the Brooklyn Bridge

The Trump Admin Wants To Test Drinking Water For Abortion And Birth Control Pills

Love Poem to Taco Bell

'A remarkable time capsule': The enchanting history of Oxford University's 750-year-old medieval library

Why weekends are under threat

Sunday Snippets: FFS

Just what the fuck.

Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross-national analysis

How Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan

Woman Buys Cat Ornament for $25 at Estate Sale—Then Realizes Its True Value

She filed a discrimination lawsuit for endometriosis. She won.

A Look at the History of Racial Violence in Montgomery County

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed About Abortion Access—Research

Accidental Bookmarks

Ancient bacteria strain discovered in ice cave is resistant to some modern antibiotics

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China’s Wind and Solar Buildout

Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests

Amid Trump’s War on Antifa, Activists Face Arrest for Zines and Group Chats

The Heart in the Hand

Community saddened after Little Free Library is stolen from outside Park Heights salon

A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her

Burning Down the House

Alison Piepmeyer’s House Is Filled With Books and “Dramatic” Paint

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

They need to get the hell out of our streets.

She was denied a legal abortion and sent to prison over an illegal one. Now she tells her story

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review

Pam Bondi Belongs on the List of the Scariest White Women to Ever Hold Power

Maryland sheriffs vow to fight bill banning 287(g) agreements with ICE

Searchers find wreck of luxury steamer lost in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago

Farewell pocket books

When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk

Moore says Democrats need to ‘stop being the party of no and slow’

A Chapter A Day

The New Turing Test

Deadly ICE chase crash in Savannah: Here's what we know

This Colorful L.A. House Will Make You Want Green Floors

There's a Reason Women Aren't Swooning Over AI Like Men Are

Russian woman carried Ukraine placard at Winter Olympics opening ceremony

‘Clean air should not be a privilege’: how Bogotá is tackling air pollution in its poorest areas

Grant will fuel probe of deaths, unmarked graves at former reform school for Black boys

Who does your moral algorithm and imagination see?

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month

Sunday Snippets: Check in on your neighbors

Black People: Healing Justice Demands Borderless Struggle

Book Math!

A classic children's book series has me questioning my parenting

Check on your neighbors. Donate to local food banks. Set up a food pantry in your front yard.

For years, men controlled one village's coffee industry — but one woman changed that

What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?

The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia

“No Kings” in the Land Where Trump Is King

the mystery of the viral book flyer

48 Hours to Total Meltdown: This is Your Body on No Sleep

Texas Supreme Court rules that judges can refuse to marry same-sex couples

Moments of Connection

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

Meet the Volunteer Pilots Flying Patients From Red States to Reproductive Care

About half of all states now ban or severely restrict abortion, and some advocates worry that those aiding folks who travel for one could face legal repercussions. "You could see an aggressive prosecutor trying to say, under the current laws, that, 'We are going to charge this pilot with being an accessory to murder or an accessory to abortion,'" David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University, told NPR in 2023. "We haven't seen prosecutors try that yet. But there's good reason to believe that's on the horizon."

It’s an occasional topic of conversation in the Elevated Access chatrooms, but for the most part, E. says, these pilots have a very “come and take it” attitude.

“There’s some people who are worried about it, and there’s a lot more people who are like, ‘Nah, let ‘em try,’” she says. She thinks it’s indicative of how important this work is to people, how much they’re willing to fight. “I think sometimes certain entities in power underestimate how much this matters to people.”

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

In case that was unclear

This Back-to-School Season, Teachers and Parents Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened

Should Kids Be Seen and Not Heard?

Q&A: How a Community Clinic is Overcoming a Political System that Left Behind Patients in Need

In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

I Can't Tell You What's Coming

Here’s What Life Is Like Inside One of Gaza’s Last Remaining Hospitals

Herbal Abortion Is Making a Comeback. So Are the Dangers.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

A Week of Outfits: Samantha Elise

Why is Barnes and Noble buying up another indie chain?

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and southern China

Sunday Snippets: Again and again and again

When are we going to stop being ok with kids being murdered by guns?

I'm so tired of gun toys

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

ReFED’s Sara Burnett: ‘GLP-1 Drugs & AI Will Have Profound Impacts on US Food Waste’

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.

Bush Lawyers’ Legal Arguments for Guantánamo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT

‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements

13 Readers Share Their Best Summer Moments

The Free Press Reports Gaza’s Starving Children Have Pre-Existing Condition Of Being Bombed By Israel

Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).

ID lost to Hurricane Katrina is returned 20 years later

These investigators patrol Las Vegas looking for one thing: water waste

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

GOP-authored Michigan bill would legalize discriminating against women who receive abortions

Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

In case it was unclear. Fuck ICE, stop fucking kidnapping people

 JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it

PHOTOS: Protests against Trump coincide with Army parade

9 Women Talk About Joint Custody — the Highs, Lows, and Surprises

Quick to break, hard to fix: Meet the Metro worker ensuring your bus doesn’t stall on the way to work

This photo of the nearby Sculptor galaxy spans 65,000 light years

E. Jean Carroll’s new book is her refusal to let Donald Trump’s abuse define her

‘By Chance, Did You Win a Cottage in Ireland?’

Texas judge strikes down federal health privacy rule for legal abortion care

What It Would Take to Set American Kids Free

Black plastic spatulas, anti-vaccine fears, and the illusion of control

Websites expand ancestry records of enslaved people

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

Detention and Deportation as Seen Through a Family Group Chat

Archaeologists Are Recreating the Long-Lost Recipe for Egyptian Blue, the World’s Oldest Known Synthetic Pigment

Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge

Sunday Snippets: No Kings Day

I hope you were able to attend a protest, if you were able, yesterday.

How to Endure

A meeting with the MAHA grassroots

Small Hands

I'm not doing the best I can

How to Practice

Real Estate

21 observations from people watching

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

Trump administration plans to eliminate the Energy Star program after 3 decades

Maryland fails to protect young inmates in adult jails

Second Circuit rejects challenge to NY abortion law

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Cracking the Red-tail Code: Exploring the Diversity of America’s Most Widespread Hawk

Diabolus Ex Machina

The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs

Making space for politics at work

Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

Sunday Snippets: June 14th

We march again. June 14, No Kings Day!

With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission

4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'

Trump is jailing immigrant families again. A mother, father and teen tell of ‘anguish on a daily basis’

NHS to test all ‘trans’ children for autism

Death doula to a dying empire

The Future of the Fetal Personhood Movement

‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects

An Update on Abrego Garcia

‘They disappear them’: families of the detained see grim echo of Latin American dictatorships in Trump’s US

The Trump Administration Is Not Just Erasing History, They're Rewriting the Future and Attacking Democracy | Opinion

The United States is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment

Trump orders reopening of "enlarged" Alcatraz prison

Wisconsin governor says he’s not afraid after Trump official suggests possible arrest

Nearly half of Americans breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants – report

Newark mayor released after arrest at immigration facility protest, says, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong’

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is fired by Trump

Sunday Snippets: Finding your people

One of the biggest ways we survive is finding our people. Working in community, finding a good friend to vent to, etc. 

The hidden costs of chronic accommodation

These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024

Far from the front lines, Ukrainians fight a war to preserve their culture

‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

Cux-Ajtzalam spoke in Spanish, saying she didn’t know English. There were other things she also said she didn’t know, having never had any sex education. It wasn’t until seven months after she claims a relative entered her room one night and raped her that she realized she was pregnant, she said.

“I never told anyone anything. I was ashamed,” she said, crying. (The man denied wrongdoing during an interview with The Post. He has not been charged.)

Louisiana’s Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans’ Decaying Water Infrastructure Until Women Who Seek Abortions Are Prosecuted

Disability advocate Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone

You Turned a Mall Into Housing?

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term

Photos: Thousands in Los Angeles evacuate as wind-fueled Palisades Fire quickly worsens

The #Resistance Is Dead. Welcome to the #Surrender.

Sunday Snippets: Nikki Giovanni

We lost a beautiful amazing soul this week. I have been reading her work for many years and even included her poem, Resignation, when I got married. It sucks so much that she's gone.

Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option'

‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year

I'm 45 And I Look My Age

On Having Expectations – Even When Doing Things for Free

What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

      Dominique Pelicot now bemoans the way the trial has destroyed his life and seeks forgiveness from his family. When asked by his defense lawyers about the possibility of winning back his wife, he said: “It is important to have hope,” and again emphasized his own trauma.

America’s Sickness

The year of hetero discontent

Supreme Court term-limits amendment proposed by Sens. Manchin, Welch

Some good climate news, for once: Md. leads in carbon emissions reductions

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

Archaeologists Work with Indigenous Peoples, Department of Natural Resources to Uncover History at Chapel Point State Park

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

Sunday Snippets: Arms Embargo

Palestine still matters. The people still matter.

In an Internment Camp, All They Had Was Baseball. A New Generation Is Back to Play.

Resolve: 8 Reasons That Keep Me Going

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s

After 15 years, Megan Atherton reunites with her 'Unsung Hero'

The American Nightmare Is A Rerun

School Shooter Drills Are Getting Stricter Guidelines In Maryland

Lawsuit challenges Minnesota abortion access in federal court

PHOTOS: A drone's eye view of 'foodscapes,' from cattle to soybeans to shrimp

The ‘Internet of Animals’ Could Transform What We Know About Wildlife

Photos: See inside the Bidens' last White House Christmas

Sunday Snippets: The Road Ahead

We lean into community, we don't obey in advance, we rebuild the world we want. This will take all of us.

Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck

How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

Strata: Layered Watercolor Gradients

"My Project 2025" A New Poem By Me

LaTonya Yvette’s Brooklyn Home Feels Like a Soft Place to Land

Maryland Is Training More Health Workers To Offer Abortion Care

'I want my womb removed but doctors say I'm too young'

Dorothy Allison, Your Florida Is My Florida

As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

The fight for Alex Jones' Infowars company heats up as Jones sues to hold on

Cold, dark... and not remotely miserable: How to live your best winter life

Sunday Snippets: Moving Forward

I won't rehash the endless Twitter feeds/posts I've seen. We roll up our sleeves, we lean on and learn from community and we don't back down.

Israeli settlers in Gaza? Netanyahu’s allies lay out a strategy

How the Press Memory-Holed Trump’s Pandemic Train Wreck

DOJ lawyers slam 'glaring gap' in failure to investigate potential Israeli crimes

Meet America's secret team of nuclear first responders

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

Honoring Henrietta Lacks' legacy at Johns Hopkins University

Pregnant women and babies face 'terrifying' threat from xylazine addiction

Overdue book returned to Colorado library 37 years later

Leaving Rafah

A mother and baby from Gaza are reunited 11 months after being separated at birth

A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

What to the Arab American Is Election Day

When Food Doesn’t Taste Like Home