Sunday Snippets: Spooky season

I love summer, but fall is awesome because the bugs are dead.

A journey continues: migrants reflect one year after being flown to Martha's Vineyard

Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses

Man At Center Of Major Gun Rights Case Allegedly Shot At Woman In A Parking Lot

Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s Carbon Footprint

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building of 2018 Parkland shooting to be demolished

A Nobel prize-winning immigrant's view on American inequality

The Rezaians were wrongfully imprisoned 9 years ago. For Yeganeh, the pain is fresh

DC artist’s paintings were stolen, but she refuses to call police

In France, workers build a castle from scratch the 13th century way

In 1932, a Black man was killed in the Adirondacks. An artist aims to honor him

The Storm Pilot

Sunday Snippets: Spring!

Throwing open the windows and breathing in the fresh air before the humidity kicks us in the teeth.

Trump on the problems with wind power: The wind ‘only blows sometimes’

DHS to ask Congress for sweeping authority to deport unaccompanied migrant children

Maryland General Assembly overrides Gov. Hogan's vetoes of $15 minimum wage, comptroller's oversight

Mum's plea for girls to ditch leggings sparks protests

Why Gun Violence Is a Women's Issue

'We Are Running Concentration Camps': Images From El Paso Stir Outrage Over Migrant Treatment

Teen shot, killed after knocking on wrong apartment door, police say

'Death sentence for women': Alabama proposes law to make abortion punishable by up to 99 years in prison

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: Bebe!

Had my son on Monday and am pretty certain I've given birth to an air raid siren.

How to Raise a Sweet Son in an Era of Angry Men Something that I'm constantly thinking about.

Thank goodness Oregon Would love MD to do something similar as my estranged father has guns and sure as shit doesn't need them

Something I'm going to try this year

A Las Vegas Trans Bar Was The Target Of A Shooting Over The Weekend

Dammit Ina May

This is awesome

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