Sunday Snippets: No Kings Day

Make sure (if you're able) to attend a protest on 6/14!

You are not your job. And soon, you won't have one.

The Coyotes of San Francisco

FEMA cancels $1 billion for flood prevention projects in Chesapeake Bay region

The trendy second-hand clothing market is huge and still growing – yet nobody is turning a profit

They Invented the Game. Will They Be Allowed to Play It in the Olympics?

Social media is influencing how authors promote their books. Here's how

Starvation in Gaza

How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail

Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a long legal battle

STATEMENT: Rejecting Government Speech Doctrine in Public Libraries in Little v. Llano County

AP PHOTOS: Hundreds scale Mount Everest in a weather-hit climbing season

My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.

Sunday Snippets: Keep Up the Pressure

Those in power don't get to remove our protections. Keep calling, keep protesting.

Working Homeless in America

Hospitals in Ruins

NYC public school teacher ditches her classroom to pursue a lifelong dream — and is making bank

A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target

At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays

Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds

Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers

No One Talks About the Mental Health Impact of Being Undocumented

Denied, detained, deported: the faces of Trump’s immigration crackdown

How the Klamath Dams Came Down

The GOP’s Resurgence Of Pro-Natalism Looks A Lot Like The Past

Sunday Snippets: Stand with Ukraine

That shitshow of a 'great tv appearance' show how those morons were treating President Zelensky and how much they just played into Daddy Putin's hands. It was beyond shameful. We stand with Ukraine.

When is it time to have the courage to quit?

Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

Remembering Arlington’s long lost Black community of Queen City

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed

Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen read

Shoppers are avoiding certain brands over politics: poll

If you were rich, would you fold laundry?

Murmurations: Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology

The Craftsman

For one husband, caregiving came easier when he learned to 'shut up and listen'

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died

People are calling into right-wing radio shows to voice frustrations with the Trump administration

Boycotts, Echo Chambers, and the Illusion of Power: Why Symbolic Resistance Falls Flat

GOP reps encouraged to do town halls virtually rather than in-person after fiery meetings with constituents

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: 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: Almost August

I love August. But am also confused at how quickly we approach it every year.

Slow Productivity is Already Here

Oh dear: Photos show what humans have done to the planet

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Vet Side-Eyes Disney CEO’s Slighting of Past Marvel Series

She saved the diary of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russia. Then she was killed, too

‘I want to be left alone’: 93-year-old Hilton Head Island woman is in a legal battle over her family’s land

The Best Way to Find Out If Someone Is a Trump Voter? Ask Them What They Think About Manhood.

Milan Kundera’s Stubborn Struggle for the Survival of Literature

Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission

They marched for desegregation — then they disappeared for 45 days

The Linden Oak was spared during Metro construction. Now it will be chainsaw art

What You Didn’t Know About Bruce Lee’s Life In Los Angeles

Sunday Snippets: Writing

So much great reading in this blog post; the first few links are essays on motherhood that I really enjoyed.

Motherhood is Time Travel

On Not Pretending

Grace, Eleven Ways

This is Love

Indoor air is full of flu and COVID viruses. Will countries clean it up?

‘We’re book nerds’: the female friends opening bookshops together

ACLU, protestor sue D.C. National Guard over helicopter use in 2020 protests

Making Space for Doing Nothing Helps My Artistic Practice

Denver donates 35 bison to Native American tribes

How to organize your books, according to people with thousands of them

Sunday Snippets: 2023

Let's all hope that this year is gentler than the last few years have been.

A gray whale gave birth as a whale watching tour looked on

Real home: this 1700s former laundry and dairy has had an award-winning transformation

Who We Follow

The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits

Iran demonstrators vow to continue protests despite ongoing crackdowns

Five Democratic politicians' homes or offices have been shot at in Albuquerque

An artist's remote Lapland cabin painstakingly built by hand

Security forces regain control after Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil's Congress

A collector was 'bitten by the postcard bug' 80 years ago; see some of his favorites

Maryland girl finds ancient tooth from a 50-foot-long megalodon in the Chesapeake Bay

Why I don't write during naptime

1880 VICTORIAN FOR SALE IN LEE MASSACHUSETTS This is totally the Practical Magic house.

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: Fighting back

Again and again and again. Donate to Everytown and Moms Demand Action if you can. Bug the ever loving shit out of your reps.

No sea serpents, mobsters but Tahoe trash divers strike gold

Book bans in prison cut inmates' lifeline to outside world

on daily grief-work

I, Too, Have a Human Form In Justice Alito’s draft opinion, the pregnant body is erased.

Ada Limón on How to Write a Poetry Collection

‘I yearned for a deeper, slower, more useful existence’: dispatches from the Great Resignation

Sunday Snippets: Almost summer!

Summer is coming.....along with the humidity.

Black Trans Teen Girl Ariyanna Mitchell, 17, Murdered in Virginia

668: Lament

‘No reward or recognition’: why women should say no to ‘office housework’

Researchers Pinpoint Reason Infants Die From SIDS

A passenger makes an emergency airplane landing in Florida

A lost dog crept into a couple’s bed overnight. She didn’t want to leave.

Black shelter animals weren't getting adopted. A photographer had an idea: glam shots

New York Bans Most Prison Care Packages from Family and Friends

Why My Husband and I Gave Our Daughter My Last Name

Emma Straub’s Brooklyn Family Home Is a Book Lover’s Dream

Parents Adopt A Strange Dog, Find Out It’s Actually A Wolf Hybrid, It Turns Out To Be The Most Wholesome Dog Ever

For two years, this Washington island has grappled with the long reach of COVID

It’s Time to Destigmatize Talking Openly About What’s Going On Down There

Sunday Snippets: Abortion

Abortion is healthcare. We should not try to make Mother's Day a forced holiday.

1790 HISTORIC ESTATE FOR SALE IN KING FERRY NEW YORK

High school students raise funds for Afghan refugees living in D.C. area hotels

Polish women band together to give Ukrainian women car rides to safe refuge

Will COVID ever end? A forgotten pandemic from the late 1800s might offer some clues

An ancient Sussex farmhouse filled with inherited furniture and flea-market finds

Louisiana’s Terrible New Bill Might End Abortion Rights for Minors

“I Tried Slow Living in a Remote Welsh Cottage, and This Is What I Learned”

How to Come Out of Lockdown

Florida man asks schools to ban the Bible following the state's efforts to remove books

Many Americans Are Celebrating the End of COVID-19. Here's What It Feels Like When You're Not

Interior Designer Simplifies Her Life in Her Own Tiny Home

POET OF THE WEEK EUGENIA LEIGH

Italian children should not automatically receive their father's surname, court says

In 'Belonging' Black environmentalists show off their favorite local parks

212: HOW TO WALK OUT OF A ROOM

Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone

Sunday Snippets: Holidays

I'm hunkering down with my family and being thankful for what I've got this year, especially after this year. Hope y'all are doing the same.

 'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon

The sheriff fired her because she’s a lesbian so she ran against him. She’ll be the new sheriff now.

Cori Bush said shopping for Congress is too expensive. Members of ‘the Squad’ had tips.

U.S. Billionaires Grow Wealth By Over $1 Trillion Since Pandemic Began: Report

The U.S. Should Be Paying Parents to Stay Home

Coronavirus Was In U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says I've felt this way for a while. I had what I thought was a rapid onset, severe case of the flu with chest tightness late October last year. And then it was gone rapidly and I was fine. I never figured out what caused it, but when COVID started spreading, I did wonder.

7 Native American Inventions That Revolutionized Medicine And Public Health

Sunday Snippets: What a goddamn week

It was THAT fucking week last week. Loved ones in pain, lots of emotional labor, etc. I hope this week is better.

ICE agents arrest 680 undocumented workers in Mississippi

The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures From al Qaeda Can we please have a movie about this?!?!

Prince George’s Co. police chief ends unauthorized incentive program

Elderly couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide, left notes about high medical bills

A needed laugh

Another needed laugh

Top Books from 2008-2017

I've kept records on the number of books I read starting in college (2011-I apparently read 144. Ah, the joys of working a low stress retail job that let me read at the register.)

And with the end of the year coming faster than ever, here are some recs if you need some good reading.

2008
1. The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?-Leslie Bennett
2. On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance-ed. Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar
3. She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband-Helen Boyd
4. The Little School-Alicia Partnoy
5. Krik? Krak!-Edwidge Danticat
6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle-Barbara Kingsolver

2009
1. Babylove: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence-Rebecca Walker
2. This Common Secret: My Life as an Abortion Doctor-Susan Wicklund
3. Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics-Jennifer Baumgardner

2010
1.The Prisoner’s Wife-asha bandele
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows-J.K. Rowling

3. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart-Maria Alexandra Vettese
4. Are Prisons Obsolete?-Angela Y. Davis
5. Room: A Novel-Emma Donoghue

2011
1. American Vampire Series-Scott Synder/Rafael Albuquerque/Stephen King
2. Haiti Noir-edited by Edwidge Danticat
3. Locke & Key Volume Series-Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
4. Are You My Guru? How Medicine, Meditation, & Madonna Saved My Life-Wendy Shanker
5. the terrible stories (American Poets Continuum)-Lucille Clifton
6. Fat! So? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size-Marilyn Wann
7. Shit My Dad Says-Justin Halpern

2012
1. Built Like That: The Word-Alix Olson
2. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World-Vicki Myron & Bret Witter
3. Etched On Me-Jenn Crowell
4. The Hunger Games series-Stephanie Collins

2013 

1. The Zero Waste Home-Bea Johnson
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks-Rebecca Skloot

2014
1. Tiny Beautiful Things-Cheryl Strayed
2. You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too-Tammy Strobel
3. The End of Eve-Ariel Gore
4. Wild-Cheryl Strayed

2015
1. Dark Sky Society-Ailish Hopper
2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up-Marie Kondo

2016
1. Spark Joy-Marie Kondo
2. Here’s the Plan-Allyson Downey
3. How to Have Your Second Child First: Kerry Colburn

2017
1. When Breath Becomes Air-Paul Kalanithi
2. March-Series-John Lewis
3. Cabin Porn
4. Station Eleven-Emily St. John Mandel
5. About What Was Lost-Jessica Berger Gross
6. Beautiful Ghetto-Devin Allen
7. Life’s Work-Willie Parker
8. We Were Witches-Ariel Gore
9. Expecting Better -Emily Oster
10. The Liberal Redneck Manifesto

December Reads

November Reads

October Reads

September Reads