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: Violence

I won't say anything about that murder, only to say political violence has existed for a long long time and it's been harnessed and fomented by many people.

Five Answers for the Modern Child

We can tell a different story about Hurricane Katrina and who we are in disasters

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

On the Edge of What Comes Next

Moms in the Picture

New Federal Harm Registry Invites Marylanders to Call Out Damage from Harmful Federal Policies

A 'last-ditch effort' to save death row inmate Robert Roberson includes author John Grisham

What to know about the mass Gen Z protests in Nepal

Dr. Peter Hotez takes the war against science very personally

Workers taken to hospital after FBI uses furnace to burn seized meth

An Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expands across the Amazon

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE Speaks Out

The World Has Failed to Stop Israel. Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die.

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen

Sunday Snippets: DC

He doesn't just get to turn the American military against its own citizens. And now he wants to come for Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago. You think he's going to stop with those cities? You think he's going to stop if people keep rolling over for him? We have to stop him.

Epstein and Oedipus

The Mamdani effect: how his win spurred more than 10,000 progressives to consider run for office

"How Can I Write At A Time Like This?"

Trump administration asks judge to end policy on protections for immigrant children in custody

Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It'd be unprecedented

Former acting FBI director involved in Jan. 6 investigations fired

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’

Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic

'Link in Bio' Ruined All Our Brains

       It’s more a metaphor for the current state of our collective psyche that Instagram has spent the last decade-plus shaping: smoother, less literate brains are just better for business. (Absolutely sad but true!)

Poetic murals, haiku recordings among laureate's plans for Detroit

Twenty Years After the Storm

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

The antisociality of the trad wife

3 Businesses Transforming Food Waste into Profit

Sunday Snippets: Ugh, body

I had grand plans for this weekend (raking leaves, cutting up the old christmas tree, turning compost, etc) and instead my uterus decided it was the Kraken.

Some important images:

(photo credit: http://i-am-a-child-of-time.tumblr.com/post/80113430293)

What fresh fucking hell is this shit?! No, of course we don't have a problem with race/racism in this country.

(photo credit: http://i-am-a-child-of-time.tumblr.com/post/80379417141)

Never more true than this weekend

God, I love cats, so very very much

I laughed so hard. To be fair, earthquakes are scary as hell. When we have the one in August 2011, the floor was rolling in my office and I got knocked into walls trying to make it to a doorway.

One of the cutest cats I've ever seen.

Yes. To all of this

Go Read This

I need white people to stop pretending consent was possible during slavery.

Stop lying to yourselves that those black cousins are the result of illicit love affairs & grasp that slaves could not say no.

When consent is not an option, when you’re only seen as 3/5ths of a human being & you have no legal standing? You can’t say yes.

I need white America to sit down for a sec. Look into the faces of black Americans with the same last names & figure it the fuck out.
“Hurricane Katrina shrank the Black population in New Orleans by 57 percent.”