Sunday Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

How many more lives have to be lost?

Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often

A downed power line is officially blamed for last year’s Maui wildfire

It's harder to pay and travel for abortion care, but support funds are struggling

Shovel by shovel, N.C. towns dig out from Helene mud and debris

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction with his essay collection 'The Message'

How Do You Forgive the People Who Killed Your Family?

Trump-endorsed Bibles meet requirements laid out for Oklahoma schools

Genuine Connection is Ease

Mount Vernon’s massive new library is a ‘national model’ for rural development

Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names

Photos: Hurricane Milton slams Florida

Lynx, tiger and tadpoles, oh my: See the Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

A ceasefire is still desperately and urgently needed.

This prison newspaper has been publishing for more than a century

Spark Bird

Read the letter that landed Donald Sutherland his role in 'The Hunger Games'

This Brooklyn Home Feels Like a Book-Filled Cabin in the Woods

She thrifted this vase for $4. It turned out to be an ancient Mayan artifact

How the pandemic led this documentary photographer to make her work more collaborative

What It’s Like To Come Out Later In Life, According To Real Women (Who’ve Been There)

House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court’s immunity decision

Rachel Maddow Q&A: MSNBC star dishes on the rise of authoritarianism and her worries about becoming a Trump target

Meet the North Koreans who haven't been able to return home in over 70 years

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. This has got to stop.

The Cloud Under the Sea

Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting

Woman Reading

Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence

She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists

Largest-ever marine reptile found with help from an 11-year-old girl

Atomic vets are on the verge of losing federal benefits. Congress hasn't helped

Here’s how a Prince George’s Co. facility is making better, safer batteries

Climate change

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. Ceasefire. Ceasefire.

substack f***'d up and now we have to talk about it

Photos: Documenting the war in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passes 25,000

Cold War Bunker Turned Mansion In Missouri Can Be Yours

New fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the seas for at least 32 million years

World groundwater levels showing 'accelerated' decline - study

Tiny Flying Rainbows

Japan's village with the oldest population is wooing young residents to survive

Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why

Is it normal to cry over rotten produce?

Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE

The Subversive Act of Photographing Palestinian Life

How to Save Corporate Modernist Architecture

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

It was so wonderful to see folks on both sides being returned to their families. But we need a permanent ceasefire. 

A novel prison program for pregnant women and their babies

The day Gaza got an airport and a presidential visit, fueling dreams of statehood

Why a single 'Inverted Jenny' stamp sold for $2 million at auction

Oklahoma restricted how race can be taught. So these Black teachers stepped up

What fossilized poop can teach us about dinosaurs

Backlash to affirmative action hits pioneering maternal health program for Black women

To save axolotls, a campaign in Mexico asks people to virtually adopt them

How to break the cycle of childhood trauma? Help a baby's parents

New ALA report: Gen Z & Millennials are visiting the library & prefer print books

Bird Landing on Bride’s Head During Vows Wins International Photo Award

Sunday Snippets: Kindergarten

My baby starts big kid school tomorrow. I can't believe it.

Storm Hilary slams Southwest US with heavy rain

I’m a climate scientist. Here’s how I’m handling climate grief

An 1837 Portrait of an Enslaved Child, Obscured by Overpainting for a Century, Has Been Restored and Acquired by the Met

This video from a humpback 'whale spa' shows skin care is serious — and social

Monster hunters are conducting the largest search of Loch Ness in more than 50 years

PRISON CAN BE A HOSTILE PLACE. THEN THE BIRDS CAME.

"We Can Do Something Different": Andrea Ritchie and Mariame Kaba on Their New Book "No More Police"

Sunday Snippets: Cicadas

It doesn't feel like summer until I hear their song. It's so comforting.

How Women In States That Ban Abortion Are Re-Thinking Their Baby Plans

9 Funny Bird Nest Pictures You Need to See

Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal”

Domestic terrorism charges in Georgia are prompting concern over political repression

What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy

Someone Like Me

In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths

A Couple Renovating Their Kitchen in Denmark Found an Ancient Stone Carved With Viking Runes

Parts of a Munich synagogue demolished by Nazis are found in a river 85 years later

A Virginia Museum Repatriated a Nigerian Sculpture and Received a High-Tech Replica in Return. Could the Exchange Shape Future Restitutions?

How corporate America is slashing DEI workers amid backlash to diversity programs

30-year-old who left the U.S. for Denmark says she’s ‘much happier’ now: ‘My salary goes way further’

Ukraine gets the attention. This country's crisis is the world's 'most neglected'

Against all odds, the rare Devils Hole pupfish keeps on swimming

‘Leverage: Redemption’: Christian Kane Explains Why Eliot Can Never Be Redeemed

Sunday Snippets: Mother's Day

Love to those for whom this day is hard. Especially when some folks are seeking to make it mandatory for everyone in the US.

What Monet’s Water Lilies Taught Me About Beauty’s Proximity to Violence

Meet the painter behind the iconic covers for ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’

She ripped up her manicured lawn and challenged the norms of gardening stories

A Win for Birds in Maryland

Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. Then Tennessee Outlawed Abortion.

Quitting is a wildly underrated life strategy. Here’s why.

‘Mommunes’: Mothers Are Living Single Together

Flowers and Cards Are Nice. I'd Rather Have Bodily Autonomy

Sunday Snippets: Fall adjacent

The mornings are getting cooler. Much as I love summer, I do love the anticipation of fall.

The Work-From-Home Revolution Is Also a Trap for Women

She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?

My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice

The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'

Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime

A man who held up a bank demanding his own money becomes an unlikely hero

What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars

The old Capitol stones hidden away in Rock Creek Park are being moved

How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

SERENA, THE EVOLUTIONARY

What It’s Like to Parent in Canada

Female Saudi activist gets record 34 years in prison for critical tweets

Judges who got kickbacks for sending kids to for-profit jails ordered to pay $200 million

Vance, DeSantis rally puts ‘highly unusual’ restrictions on press

History for Sale

Sunday Snippets: "Global Warming"

If we were to believe 45, it's totes a hoax because we're all so cold. May God have mercy on our souls.

America Is Ignoring The Gun Violence Epidemic Against Women & Nothing Is Being Done To Stop It
Cash for babies, $10,000 gifts, $1 homes: The battle for the soul of rural Italy

You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It.

Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania

US Sikh Community Distributes Gift Cards, Indian Food to TSA Employees Struggling After Partial Govt Shutdown

Toddler Separated From Family at Border Reunited with Mom in San Francisco

WHAT TO SAY WHEN SOMEONE HAS A MISCARRIAGE (AND WHAT NOT TO SAY)

Nakhane Is Sick of Your White Saviour Bullshit

Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes

Part of the problem is that the story of the massacre, if told accurately, would paint thousands of white people as pillagers and murderers. Black historical narratives that make it to the screen tend to incorporate a white savior — think Matthew McConaughey in Amistad or Brad Pitt in 12 Years a Slave. Those that don’t have one, like Danny Glover’s long-in-development film about the Haitian Revolution, can languish for decades.

Sunday Snippets: This spring is trying to keep me bedridden

Cold + post nasal drip in April. And now I am just getting over the flu. Sigh.

This Gorgeous Poster Contains Every Single Bird You'll See in North America

Well, this is horrible

Good for her!

We need to pay attention to what's going on in Venezuela

Juan Manuel Montes may be the first "Dreamer" deported under Donald Trump

Hell yes poets

Literally Just 35 Signs From The Science March That Will Make You Laugh

Transgender woman denied food at soup kitchen because she was wearing a dress

White House Opens New Office Devoted to Encouraging Fear of Immigrants
There is, however, a highly coherent political rationale for doing so: If you’re a reactionary nationalist looking to build popular support for your program of mass deportation, you’re gonna want to dehumanize your prospective deportees. Encouraging Americans to associate undocumented immigrants with violent crime is a handy way of doing so.

God bless these people
"There are certainly more constructive ways to make one's opinions heard than to prevent legitimate victims of crime from receiving the information and resources they seek because the lines are tied up by hoax callers," a spokesperson told Buzzfeed News
Meet the Woman Who Took Bill O'Reilly Down

Cause this makes fucking sense

Wyoming men wear tutus in protest of Senator’s victim-blaming comments

Sandra Bland Act gets nod from Texas Senate panel