Sunday Snippets: 40

Turned 40 yesterday. I'm so excited to see what this new decade holds (she says with an asterisk since she said the same thing in December 2019.....)

Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead

Entire police department relieved of duty in West Virginia town

Maryland teen killed at Battle of Camden identified 246 years later through DNA

Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

Why don't men read books written by women?

Solar energy from railways shows first positive results in Switzerland

How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?

Climate groups concerned by proposed Maryland building code

The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

Meet the People Protecting the Night Sky

Welcome to 1953

Enshittification Isn’t Limited to the Digital World

Nara Smith, Lindsay Clancy, Max Miller—and Our National Reckoning on Motherhood

ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”

Sunday Snippets: Crumbling

The shit is crumbling. The dynasty he wanted ain't gonna happen.

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

We love Olivia Benson

Residents fear Frederick County will be the new ‘data center alley’

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.

When ICE arrests you, what happens to your car?

I Fed the People Building the Metaverse

                  "The machine inherits its makers."

Troubled Water

Designer Sam Masters Waited 16 Years to Land His 420-Square-Foot Apartment

What I Witnessed In Palestine Made Me Think About My Gun

                “You like geese?” he asks with a smirk.

                 “No, I’m more of a birds of prey guy,” I reply, still staring at the geese.

                  “Ah,” he clicks his tongue. “You Americans, you always like things that kill.”

More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

Trump admin is terminating a vast network of ocean monitors

New research connects climate change to increasing heat-related heart disease nationally

'It's so chaotic': Humpback whales are forming super-groups

Sleep is delicious

"This celebration of sleep evokes recent critiques of unbridled capitalism – a rejection of hyper-productivity, often associated with exploitative labour practices. In his Aeon essay, the political theorist Jonathan White has shown that sleeping in sync with our natural circadian rhythms is a matter of political justice. Not only does poor sleep often accompany socioeconomic inequality, it also detracts from the capacity to cope with difficult life circumstances. ‘Poor sleep is a corrosive disadvantage – one that yields more of the same,’ he writes. White advocates for what he calls ‘circadian justice’, which would require a radical, but not impossible, restructuring of society so that everyone’s circadian rhythms are respected, and people are free to choose work schedules that suit their needs."

Sunday Snippets: A whole whole lot

Drink water, donate to mutual aid groups, don't talk to ICE and fuck those billionaires.

How to build a village

Fairfax Co. teachers worry about possibility of immigration arrests in their classrooms

How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools

Here’s how Maryland schools will respond to potential immigration enforcement on campuses

‘I can’t do that’: DC Episcopal bishop says she won’t apologize for upsetting Trump during sermon

Abolish rent. Yes, for real.

She’s Raising Her Daughter in Her Own Childhood Apartment

I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exclusively supports local bookstores

Advocates urge Maryland lawmakers to protect ‘sensitive locations’ from immigration raids

NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar

Sunday Snippets: November light & voting

The sunrises in the fall are just so lovely, glinting off the colorful leaves.

ALSO VOTE!!!!

Are we entering the Great Disengagement? Women and millennials are feeling the biggest disconnection from their employers—but a looming recession is preventing people from quitting

My Friends’ Brooklyn Apartment Has the Coolest DIYs (and the Cutest Dog)

At 18 weeks pregnant, she faced an immense decision with just days to make it

Two Moms Harnessed The ‘Productive Rage’ Of Roe To Open An All-Trimester Abortion Clinic

5 Reasons I Don’t Want a Bigger Home

Tat London Founder Charlie Porter Married Her Boyfriend Of 10 Years In A Fuchsia Carolina Herrera Gown

COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab

‘Fast Furniture’ Is Cheap. And Americans Are Throwing It in the Trash.

Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters

Sunday Snippets: Fake Spring

When it's in the 60's in February, it's torture (and awful for the climate too).

In Baltimore's streets, interrupters face danger to stop a cycle of violence

Artwork from the Black Lives Matter memorial has a new home: the Library of Congress

Determined to say “I do,” Salinas couple fights marriage penalties

Police launch internal affairs investigation into baby injured in Pensacola Police custody FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE. FUCKING BULLSHIT

NOW WE KNOW THEIR NAMES Always read Clint Smith.

An 'antiwork' management strategy is going viral for describing perks like optional Mondays and 10% pay raises, and claiming there was 'no decline in revenue'

A granddaughter passes on the legacy of 'Granny Hayden,' a midwife born into slavery

Cristina Calderón, Chile's last known Yaghan speaker, dies at 93

An interior designer imbues his tiny, efficiently designed Stockholm apartment with joyful colour and pattern

The Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record Was Just Confirmed in The North Pacific

PHOTOS: Teen dreams and disappointments after the world's longest COVID school closure

Life’s a Party, Not a Race

Ukraine’s Jewish President Zelenskiy asks Putin: ‘How could I be a Nazi?’

1928 MANSION FOR SALE IN WINDSOR ONTARIO CANADA

Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling

Putin’s Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal

Hundreds are arrested as shocked Russians protest Ukraine attack