Sunday Snippets: Banned Books Week

I hope you read all the banned books this past week!

My Two Front Teeth

A human environmentalism

How the war in Sudan is teaching society to govern without the state

United States 2030 Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal

Rachel Hochhauser’s Home Office Makeover Made Our Jaws Drop

She Left After Waiting Hours in the Emergency Room. The ER Billed Her Anyway.

Not your everyday coffee in a Serbia cafe. Enjoy it in the company of alpacas

FBI Warns Women Are Pretending to Be Tradwives to Catfish and Dox ICE

Maryland, Delaware mobile book boutique spreads joy of reading

Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor links savanna elephants to rainforest

This Maine Family Home Has the Prettiest Paint Colors

Native American tribes wanted to join the Chesapeake Bay partnership. Not anymore.

Why a Baltimore teacher spent the summer catching sharks with scientists

19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body

This organ will play one composition until 2640. It's redefining how slowly music can be played

A beautiful merchant’s house in Greece that convinced one New Yorker to leave the city behind

Sunday Snippets: Spooky season

Trying to enjoy a good spooky season even when the world is so spooky and hard.

Ancient Rome’s biggest fresco and mosaic open to public for first time since discovery 3 decades ago

Bay Area power couple's historic Sausalito houseboat is for sale

DoorDash to pay $131.5m after underpaying New York workers

To Starve a Whale: Letter from a Hot Planet

Climate: Who Dies, Who Fights, Who Surrenders, Who Sabotages

City of Sweat

Doctors say children of immigrants are missing healthcare

Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year

The opposite of the apocalypse is a neighborhood

Landmark Study Finds Little Free Libraries Dramatically Improve Book Access and Reading in Indigenous Community

Ms. Rachel Will Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Gaza Aid

Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years

What if America Went Completely Dark?

Hold my (warm) beer

Moore proposes AI rules to protect Marylanders, wading into national debate

Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.

This Afro-Brazilian Photographer Preserves the History of Black Resistance in Bahia

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

This has to stop. It has to.

The Many Lives of My Zillow Alter Ego

Here Is the Speech That the Uncommitted Movement Wants to Give at the DNC

Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia

Germany's grandmothers take on the far-right ahead of key state elections

A Palestinian American’s Place Under the Democrats’ Big Tent?

Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart in Africa and South America

How the Heat Is Changing Us

Titanic research dive reveals discovery, decay and new photos

A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests

This boss vowed to help his workers with child care. It hasn't been easy

In a rural small town, a group of locals steps up to support senior health

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: 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: 9/11

21 years. A horrible day, but also horrible for the Islamphobia that targeted so many people.

An all-trimester abortion clinic prepares to open in Maryland, one of few nationally

PHOTOS: A third of Pakistan is under water in catastrophic floods

Whatever happened to the Kenyan farmer who turned a dump into a garden of giveaways?

Watering flowers while Black: A pastor shares his story of wrongful arrest

Sundown Towns Across the US

Forehead thermometer readings may not be as accurate for Black patients, study finds

AOC's Fight for the Future

Pregnant women held for months in one Alabama jail to protect fetuses from drugs

Rising seas fueled by climate change to swamp $34B in US real estate in just 30 years, analysis finds

A skateboarding accident led this photographer to find his passion

A Federal Judge Ruled Religious Employers Shouldn't Have To Provide HIV Prevention Medicine

Pfizer isn’t sharing Covid vaccines with researchers for next-gen studies

Sunday Snippets: Almost my birthday!

I'm at the age where I have to stop and think how old I'll be. Oof.

In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine

A great white shark jumped in front of a boat near Cape Cod, surprising those on board

First Came Kidney Failure. Then There Was The $540,842 Bill For Dialysis

Don't Have Lunch Money? A Pennsylvania School District Threatens Foster Care

Stepping Into The Sun: A Mission To Bring Solar Energy To Communities Of Color

7 States Step Up Efforts To Fight Violence Against Indigenous Women

'A Small Part Of A Serious Problem': Criminals Hired As Police Officers In Alaska

Sunday Snippets: Summer

It feels like once I hit August, I both hit the stride, the sweet spot of summer and try to clutch the sand from running out too fast.

National study puts timeline on impact of sea-level rise in Maryland and Virginia

This is beautiful. Prepare to waste an hour reading this.

This dude terrifies me

Horrifying Just because people are in prison doesn't mean they aren't still human beings.

Go Maryland!

Of Course Abortion Should Be A Litmus Test for Democrats The ever amazing Lindy West

In pictures: Travel Photographer of the Year 2017

Sunday Snippets: A Day Without Women

(Image credit: http://cupofjo.com/2017/02/illustration-funny-mari-andrew/)

I was so happy to see all the strikes (in all their forms-no judgement here) for International Women's Day.

Befriending Becky: On The Imperative Of Intersectional Solidarity Really good read.

Undocumented woman with brain tumor seized by federal agents at Texas hospital, family fears she will die Beyond enraging. And I bet most of these Repubs believe themselves to be Christian.

Underground network readies homes to hide undocumented immigrants It's like I'm reading the fucking prequel to The Diary of Anne Frank.

I remember being so sad when I first heard about that fire

TRUE fucking story The amount of rage and anger I've swallowed over the years....

Thank goodness

Alt universe

Young Justin Trudeau

Cause this isn't worrying at all

Sure, we'll go with that.

Jesus fucking christ

True story. Jesus was a cool dude.

Scenes from the women’s strikes and rallies taking place all over the world

Sunday Snippets: Summer Swampiness

Every summer I tell myself I'm going to move. I could bathe in the humidity this week. But avoiding the outdoors for the most part meant I got all the things done. So that's the good flipside.

Love old places

Ah, yup

(TW) Heartbreaking

Her aunt, Beatrice Loggins, spoke lovingly of Shancez, citing her uniqueness as a person. "Nobody deserves that. Straight, gay, purple, pink, white, black. Nobody...There will never be another T, you couldn't clone her, couldn't mold her."

*insert gif of Shut up and Take my Money*  Alternatively, why aren't we funding this? Oh, right, oil companies.

Yup, because cats I do this when I see dogs or cats out on the street.

Two Sides of Baltimore-GO read now.

My black friends call it Baldamore, Harm City or Bodymore Murderland. My white friends call it Balti-mo, Charm City or Smalltimore while falling in love with the quaint pubs, trendy cafés and distinctive little shops. I just call it home. 

Well, that's completely adorable

Fucking preach Especially important after this week

LOL

Because kitties & No matter their size, they all love to cuddle Gah. Want to pet.

People wonder why I'm terrified of deep water It's because if I saw this, I would bend over and kiss my own ass goodbye.

Very important. Words do matter.

AWESOME photo & Buh. What?!?

The hell? Not that I'm surprised or anything

Awesome idea. Props to these guys

Hells yes

When was the last time you put yourself out there? I have found the more you do it, the easier it is. Promise. Try it. It's secretly addicting!




Anthony Weiner being correct and relevant? Huh?

All aboard that Nope train to Fuck It Ville


Yup. Ruth Bader Ginsberg for the win