Sunday Snippets: Fall

Less than four months till 2027 and we are sliding from summer to fall. Summer is my favorite season but with each summer getting hotter, it's hard to enjoy it as I once did.

Summerween, Augtober, and the Death of Summer

There’s a recurring theme rolling through social media, where the solution is to ‘disassociate from extreme heat…’

And in order to do that, you need to run-not-walk to target, marshalls, homegoods, and michaels to buy fall themed items.

So, we’re disassociating from extreme heat by enabling systems (consumerism and fossil fuels) that perpetuate EXTREME HEAT.

[stage directions: SCREAMING OFF STAGE LEFT]

Does Meat Make the Man?

25 Years Since 9/11, When Will The Immigrant Victims Be Remembered?

Gate A-4

We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.

The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed

Officials demand answers after violent ICE confrontation with Frederick protesters

How To Love The World When It’s Like This

Op-Ed: ICE Is Building the Future of Immigration Enforcement

Oil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weakness

College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

Trump’s female army

Lifeguards and Angels

"we are not the dam trying to stop the river; we are the river that they are trying to dam, and whatever they build we will overtop it and flow in in the end."

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Abolition After Katrina

Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily

She Was Absolved of a Heinous Crime. Why Won’t They Leave Her Alone?

Lovely Dolly-isms

Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

Could Heat Disasters Kill 100,000 People This Year?

NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll

Baltimore’s Poe House launches emergency $50K fundraising campaign

Peekaboo island: the floating forest confounding nature watchers in western Canada

ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back

People talked about this rural ranching dire need for medical services, and the medical service or hospital could also provide jobs, could also treat people that need medical services in the town. So trying to think about actually what the needs of a community are can only be answered at the local level, but just one example of there are desperate needs for things that are not extractive, that are not just a new national retailer coming in. National retailers, the Walmarts, the Dollar stores, they actually have a lot in common with immigration camps or prisons that they come in, they promise jobs. They promise bright new funds that are going to be spread out through your community, but they don’t actually work....We don’t need mass investment in better prisons. We need mass investment in our communities.

Sunday Snippets: August and the wheel toward the end of the year

I love that quote about August being the top of the Ferris Wheel and we descend toward the end of the year.

Israel’s New Lynching Law Was Inspired by America’s Death Penalty

ICE shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine. This is the 2nd time in a week the agency used deadly force

Rereading Mark Twain While Everything Else Burns

Emily Atkin Is Not an Optimist

The case for optimism

Nicaragua's President Ortega says no more elections, extending his 20-year rule

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest 12-month level since 2014, show Brazilian data

The Extremist in the Family

Mr. Trash Wheel keeps cleaning up Baltimore’s messes

GLP-1s are shrinking bodies. Cadaver fat is plugging the gap

Every dog has its day, and Jonah makes the most of his with Marlins

The Forgotten Bombing of LaGuardia Airport

EU ban on destroying unsold clothes takes effect

'Don't dig up the dead' | Stafford County woman fights to protect historic cemetery from proposed data center development

We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?

I Am Launching an Analog Newsletter!

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

AND WE DON'T NEED TO INVADE GREENLAND FFS

Crews reconstructing tidal system in South Baltimore in effort to bring back vibrant ecosystem

Honoring the many responses to Renee Nicole Good’s murder

What We Do in Winter

Fierce, Maternal, Communal Love

Chloe Fox shares the hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream

A novel sanctuary in Antarctica is preserving ice samples from rapidly melting glaciers

What is happening in Iran? Internet blackout continues after widespread anti-regime protests

We're all just content for ICE

The Unspeakable, Enabled

Meet Our Tiny Terrapin Hatchling

Bearing Witness Without Burning Out

Why Winter Fatigue Is Not the Right Problem To Solve

ICE seeks to open detention facility in Washington County, lawmakers say

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

Those bastard Nazi kidnappers. Renee Good and Keith Porter should still be here.

ROAR celebrates Baltimore’s lowest homicide rate in nearly 50 years, while remaining cautious about the challenges ahead

Delegate proposes barring Trump hired ICE agents from ever becoming Maryland police officers

ICE Is a Virtual Secret Police

She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.

Are Contemporary Fridges the Problem, or Is It Us?

‘Poet, writer, wife, mom’: who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent?

Renee's Poem

The birth of the climate doula

My "Convalescence Craft": Weaving Potholders

Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them

Inflatables, rainbow crosswalks, flooding snitch lines — creative action was off the charts in 2025

Diverging transposon activity among polar bear sub-populations inhabiting different climate zones

‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE

Sunday Snippets: What even is this shit?

This fucking season of the US is in-fucking-sane.

We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons

Why a bulldozer to the White House is a fat middle finger to America.

‘America is more divided than ever — but how is it affecting our love lives? I spent a year dating conservative men to find out’

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

The Acceptable Face of Need

This is 57: Bestselling Author Catherine Newman Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity

Tell Students the Truth About American History

Contract proposals show possible increase in ICE presence coming to Baltimore

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

US Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

I want the Harris/Walz campaign to take the Uncommitted movement seriously. Because literal lives have been lost.

Family of explorer who died in Titan submersible sues Oceangate for more than $50M

Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here's what that means

Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it’s over

Project 2025 & Abortion

10 years after Michael Brown's death, police killings are not going down

Like Paris, Baltimore knows the struggle of cleaning up water for swimming

Leaders of the movement that protested Biden on Israel express some hope on Harris

Do cats experience grief? New research suggests they might

The Capital Beltway turns 60: This was the original name

An insect's eye and a poppy seed: Fossils found in ice deposit rewrite Greenland's geological past

That Feeling You Recognize? Obamacore.

She was on the surgical table just once but was billed for two operations

Two Thoughts From the DNC

 

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

We need to press and INSIST that if Harris and Walz want our votes, they need to stop the goddamn genocide going on in Gaza. Yes, Trump is a fucking goblin from the deep but Harris and Walz aren't entitled to anything.

Baltimore DPW workers have no water or AC during dangerous heat advisory

Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface

Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope

Why many scientists fear a second Trump term

A flood of emotions in these stoic portraits of people returning home after a deluge

Hopescrolling

Grief is not a process with five stages. It is shattered glass

The Belgian town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions

A photographer captured the perfect shot of an Olympic surfer's record-breaking ride

Gangsta rapper to grandfather: The Olympic gold rebranding of Snoop Dogg

Disposable Heroes

With attention on Gaza, Jewish settlers expand in the West Bank

Sunday Snippets: Heaviness

In addition to the absolute ceasefire that must happen, hearing that the supposedly 'non partisan/political' court has ruled that presidents can be awarded kingly power which is already having ripple effects has led to the week before our actual birthday feeling raw and painful.

Alito neighbor gives detailed account of 'nasty' dispute that became national news

Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger

About 100,000 people are missing in Mexico. These mothers are trying to find them

Wreck of famed explorer Shackleton's last ship has been found off the coast of Canada

A jet missing since 1971 has been found at the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain

PHOTOS: 18th-century bottles of preserved fruit unearthed at George Washington's mansion

In Baltimore, nurses go door-to-door to bring primary care to the whole neighborhood

25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone as Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site

Oklahoma state superintendent Ryan Walters announces mandate on Bibles in classrooms

In Lebanon, the 'Amber Man' digs up golden time capsules from the age of the dinosaurs

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Sending love and solidarity to those on college campuses protesting; all the professors and students and allies.

These dreamy photos of historical Cairo will transport you to another time

Now That We Do Everything Else From Home, Why Don't We Try Living In It?

These Breathtakingly Beautiful Small Towns Will Make You Want to Go Off the Beaten Path

Military families in Hawaii spark trial over 2021 jet fuel leak that tainted water

Dali ship that wrecked Baltimore bridge was 'unseaworthy' before it left port, city claims

The Perfect Origin for Walking Dead's Zombie Virus Is from an Underrated Stephen King Book

Should Writers Have a Newsletter?

Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

Photos of a 3-year friendship that ended with an unsolved murder in New Mexico

Photos: Campus protests continue nationwide as some turned violent

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire. And thinking of those World Central Kitchen aid workers and their driver, who didn't have to die but were targeted, for the crime of giving food to hungry people.

The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty

Photos: Baltimore's Key Bridge collapses; search and rescue efforts continue

As cranes arrive at Baltimore bridge collapse site, governor describes daunting task of cleaning up

21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie

Perimenopause has brought chaos to my life – but also peace

From longshoremen to charter boats, Baltimore's port closure means lost work

Barnes & Noble workers plan union drive at largest US bookstore chain

This 104-year-old Vermonter will enjoy twice-in-a-lifetime eclipse

A mayor in Ukraine aids his town's few remaining people, as Russia closes in

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

My continual prayer is one for a ceasefire. I hope we achieve it in 2024, along with peace for the Palestinian people.

A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a toxic stretch of highway

New Michigan law means people leaving prison will automatically be registered to vote

After 38 years on the job, Santa Luke still has time for everyone. Yes, you too

solstice

Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: Unseen life in the world's largest refugee camp

2023 in photos: NPR station photographers share memorable moments

Sunday Snippets: Snow?

Seven years ago this month, we had over 20 inches of snow in our area. My kiddo is sad about the lack of snow so far this winter.

What the love of cats taught me about myself

How one photographer is using his camera as a weapon against poverty and racism

No more Fridays

The Life-Changing Magic of “Knolling”

A New Jersey woman bought a rustic private island in Maine not fit for 'man or beast' in winter, and Stephen King says it's worthy of a novel

In some states, an unpaid foster care bill could mean parents lose their kids forever

Peru is on edge as protesters converge on the capital

NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

My Father’s Changing Hands

Alabama man secretly helped pay strangers' prescriptions for years

A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found

A Professional Lady Correspondent Stares Down Motherhood

Lawmakers seek to prohibit insurrectionists from holding public office One would think this didn't need to be said and yet...

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

Sunday Snippets: President Biden & Vice President Harris

Spent most of 1/21 in an emotional hangover after watching most of the inauguaration on Wed. We have a lot to fix and still need to beat back biogtry and folks who want to play nice and have unity when they refuse to apologize for trying to eradicate democracy....but Wed felt good.

Dante Barksdale, ‘heart and soul’ of Safe Streets, is shot to death Sunday in Baltimore, officials say

Poet Amanda Gorman to read at Biden’s inauguration

A Traveling, Pop-Up Library Holds Exclusively Books Written by Black Women

It’s Not That Hard to Buy Nothing

Attorney Roberta Kaplan is about to make Trump’s life extremely difficult

Mothers Neglected In Childhood May Pass On Imprints Of Fear To Their Children

Breonna Taylor grand jurors file petition to impeach Attorney General Daniel Cameron

Sunday Snippets: Reparations

The linked article below, What is Owed, is so very much worth your time.

Native American tribal nations take tougher line on COVID-19 as states reopen

In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both.

Chrystul Kizer, A 19-Year-Old Sex Trafficking Victim Who Killed Her Abuser, Has Been Released From Jail

Parents Can’t Wait Around Forever

The Grim History Hidden Under a Baltimore Parking Lot

After the Pandemic, We’ll Finally Have to Address the Impossible State of Motherhood

CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported

COVID’s Lowered Meat Production Leads to Decline in Pollution, Waste and Greenhouse Gases

Nicole Beharie on ‘Miss Juneteenth’ and the Danger of Labels

What is Owed

"At least 6,500 black people were lynched from the end of the Civil War to 1950, an average of nearly two a week for nine decades. Nearly five black people, on average, have been killed a week by law enforcement since 2015."
"Darity has been studying and advocating reparations for 30 years, and this spring he and his partner, A. Kirsten Mullen, published the book “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century.” Both history and road map, the book answers the questions about who should receive reparations and how a program would work. I will not spend much time on that here, except to make these few points. Reparations are not about punishing white Americans, and white Americans are not the ones who would pay for them. It does not matter if your ancestors engaged in slavery or if you just immigrated here two weeks ago. Reparations are a societal obligation in a nation where our Constitution sanctioned slavery, Congress passed laws protecting it and our federal government initiated, condoned and practiced legal racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans until half a century ago. And so it is the federal government that pays."

Sunday Snippets: Books

I splurged on some books from indie bookstores and have been gorging myself on them. One small bright spot in what's going on.

Dispatches From the Gender Gap: Work-From-Home Moms in the Time of Coronavirus

FIRST RIKERS VIRUS-POSITIVE FATALITY WAS JAILED ON TECHNICALITY

When will the normalcy return in Maryland? Coronavirus modelers suggest it will be awhile.

My high school photo teacher May he rest in peace

Baltimore Officer Appears to Intentionally Cough on Black Public Housing Residents

A Woman Gave Birth In A Border Patrol Station Still Wearing Her Pants. Now The Agents Involved Are Being Accused Of Abuse.

Italian Lockdown: Images Of Life In Isolation

New York Is Silent

Prison uprising put down as US inmates demand protection from coronavirus

Sunday Snippets: August already

I'm going to blink and it's going to be Christmas.

GOP senators block election security legislation hours after Mueller warns of Russian interference

Leaders In Baltimore And Maryland Denounce Trump Tweets Attacking Elijah Cummings

Residents Form Human Chain To Protect Neighbor From ICE Agents

ACLU says over 900 children separated from families at US border since last summer

Ex-McConnell staffers lobbied on Russian-backed Kentucky project

A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself

A Ray Of Hope For The Children Of Sex Workers

Prince George’s Co. announces new approach to juvenile offenders

Let’s have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct

Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a Record

Want to Change the World? Talk to Kids

The Trauma of Teen Mothers Held in Border Patrol Lockups

Sunday Snippets: And it's almost March and still a dumpster fire

Googly-Eyed Trash Eaters May Clean a Harbor Near You

ACOG Finally Recommends What Many Moms in Labor Had to Fight For Really glad to hear this.

This is super cool

Albert Einstein

Horrifying

5 accidentally transphobic phrases allies use — and what to say instead

Exactly When I have to use the I have a husband because you won't respect my no excuse

Same sex marriage laws associated with drop in suicide rates among high school students, Hopkins study finds

Fourth Wave of Bomb Threats Targets 10 Jewish Community Centers in at Least Six U.S. States

Yup yup

Sunday Snippets: Valentine's Day

Spending the weekend with friends and going to see Deadpool. Because nothing says I love you better than headshots.

And there it is

Love Audre Lorde

Truth

And there it is

Here are ten things that you probably don’t know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late, can only process so much.  This monster needs to be arrested.

A hidden world: Desperation for hundreds of homeless families in D.C. motels

Horrible

Right?!

Rest in peace, Kayden Clark

Derick Ebert, Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate I'm excited for his book.

During his confession, O’Kroley told the police “it was easy to kill” Nosal because “she had ruined my life.” ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU A GODDAMN THING.

I would adopt this bunny in a heartbeat

Da faq? Man, if this was a thing, I'd've been in jail a long time ago.

FINALLY Maryland’s legislature voted on Tuesday to override Gov. Larry Hogan (R)’s veto of a bill to give more than 40,000 ex-offenders in the state the right to vote while still on parole or probation.

One of the few times I have ever wished to live in Florida This poor little guy.

Gobsmacked

GOLDEN So much truth

Sunday Snippets: I'm tired

I'm tired of reading of another black person shot by police, another trans* person murdered, another woman ignored in death.

Fucking stop it, goddammit.

Fucked up

Why Protestors Turn Violent

When you saw "The Hunger Games," who did you root for? Katniss and her beleaguered community? Or people in the Capitol wearing pink eyelashes and obliviously eating until they vomited while the people in other districts starved? I'm going to assume the former because the movie makes it clear: The government is oppressing the people in District Twelve, and we are supposed to cheer for them as they attempt to overthrow a structure that is unfair to them.

Ok, next question: When you saw the protests in Baltimore, who did you feel for? Because if what you did was look down on the protestors for disturbing the peace, break out the rainbow wigs and sparkle mascara because you might be from the Capitol.

Huh, what a notion

School to prison pipeline facts

Cool shots over Lake Michigan

Horrifying (TW)

"Where’s all the anti-choice, I mean, “”pro-life”“ activists"

#SayHerName

“On May 20, 2015 the African American Policy Forum, the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia University and Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and expert on policing of women and LGBT people of color released #SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women, a document highlighting stories of Black women who have been killed by police and shining a light on forms of police brutality often experienced by women such as sexual assault.” Please Read this Important Report: http://bit.ly/1cR27AO via AAPF

Cleveland Police Filed Charges like “Aggravated Menacing” & “Inducing Panic” On Tamir Rice To Justify Shooting Him

A moment of levity Bless you good sir.