Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

Always. Fuck ICE

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Maryland protesters call for state to cut ties with Avelo Airlines over deportation flights

Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice

Maryland Taps Affordable Care Act Fund To Help Pay for Abortion Care

As immigration arrests surge, so does number of Maryland sheriffs agreeing to work with ICE

A Week of Outfits: Sharon Beesley

‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina

Israel Announces Total Siege of Gaza City, Declaring Entire Area “Combat Zone”

DC Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Folk Hero Who Tossed Sandwich at CBP Officer

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

How ‘Fawning’ Is Ruining Your Relationships

With a Black governor, a powerful Black Caucus, and a lawsuit, Maryland reckons with reparations

Former Top Biden Spox Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed Hamas

Dozens of Countries Are Working Together to Plant ‘Great Green Wall’ Across Africa – and It is Holding Back Poverty

Estrangement as a Trauma-Informed Choice

How LA is uniting to provide mutual aid for those impacted by ICE raids

Sunday Snippets: Birthdays

Friday was my birthday and by the time this posts, I would have officially entered the last year of my 30's. I turned 30 three months before the 2016 election so it's been a....ride, to be sure.

Where are the queer divorce stories?

A former shed on the Cornish coast reconfigured into a charmingly warm cottage

Family Faces Heart-Wrenching Choice to Leave Beloved German Shepherd Behind While Self-Deporting (Exclusive)

“You Feel Like Your Life Is Over”

What's it like to have Frank Lloyd Wright design your house? This 101-year-old knows

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children.

Tennessee school won’t accept doctor’s notes for absences

Families in Gaza Are Starving. What Can We Do?

Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions

Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say

Their Superpower? Holding Things.

Hard Things Are Supposed to Be Hard

How Climate Change Is Raising Your Grocery Bill

Sunday Snippets: Community

Community aid and mutual aid is what is going to see us through. Where can you shop local? Can you use a local coffee shop rather than a chain? Are there community groups you join? Can you walk along your street and pick up trash? Can you help flag ICE in your neighborhood to protect others?

Why we need a solidarity economy now

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

How Far Would You Go (and How Much Would You Pay) to Get Away From It All?

A Week of Outfits: Kayla Sossin

‘A national movement’: More than a dozen states consider laws around menopause care and training for doctors

Inside the Scrappy Network of Volunteers Protecting Their Neighbors From ICE

Toward an Architecture of Belonging

AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Seven Days At The Bin Store

Maryland moves to recognize Black boys' unmarked graves near historic detention center

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

No ordinary solidarity — inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world

Chef José Andrés speaks out as World Central Kitchen forced to pause cooking in Gaza

US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say

Sunday Snippets: Just fuck

That fucking bill passed, ICE gets more fucking money and babies were swept away in Texas. Fuck.

It’s Time to Log Off

A Town’s Single Largest Taxpayer Is Also Its Biggest Headache

The Loyalist

Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera

First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages

A charming cabin on Sweden's west coast becomes an inspiring retreat for its creative owners

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported

Photos: Decades in, these women's love was 'Hidden Once, Hidden Twice'

He Made Gay Marriage the Law of the Land. Now He’s Fighting a Larger War.

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: Parts of France have banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria

Photos: Texas grapples with devastation from deadly flooding

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

In case it was unclear. Fuck ICE, stop fucking kidnapping people

 JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it

PHOTOS: Protests against Trump coincide with Army parade

9 Women Talk About Joint Custody — the Highs, Lows, and Surprises

Quick to break, hard to fix: Meet the Metro worker ensuring your bus doesn’t stall on the way to work

This photo of the nearby Sculptor galaxy spans 65,000 light years

E. Jean Carroll’s new book is her refusal to let Donald Trump’s abuse define her

‘By Chance, Did You Win a Cottage in Ireland?’

Texas judge strikes down federal health privacy rule for legal abortion care

What It Would Take to Set American Kids Free

Black plastic spatulas, anti-vaccine fears, and the illusion of control

Websites expand ancestry records of enslaved people

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

Detention and Deportation as Seen Through a Family Group Chat

Archaeologists Are Recreating the Long-Lost Recipe for Egyptian Blue, the World’s Oldest Known Synthetic Pigment

Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge

Sunday Snippets: Keep Using Your Voice

Our voices helped get food back into Gaza (not that it shouldn't be an issue in the first place...), it's keeping the horrors at bay. Keep at it.

Tariff troubles: A rubber duck museum is migrating to Canada to stay afloat

Quakers march against Trump’s crackdown on immigrants carrying on their long faith tradition

New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories

Arlington approves plan to scale back cooperation with ICE

Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan is indicted on accusations she helped a man evade immigration agents

How to Not Get Poisoned in America

Women Have Always Done Society’s Heavy Lifting — Literally

Inside the Indigenous ‘land back’ movement in Colombia

“A Mockery of Due Process”: The Men Who Could Be Sent to El Salvador Next

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

Decades-long mystery of ginger cats revealed

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety

Sunday Snippets: June 14th

We march again. June 14, No Kings Day!

With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission

4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'

Trump is jailing immigrant families again. A mother, father and teen tell of ‘anguish on a daily basis’

NHS to test all ‘trans’ children for autism

Death doula to a dying empire

The Future of the Fetal Personhood Movement

‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects

An Update on Abrego Garcia

‘They disappear them’: families of the detained see grim echo of Latin American dictatorships in Trump’s US

The Trump Administration Is Not Just Erasing History, They're Rewriting the Future and Attacking Democracy | Opinion

The United States is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment

Trump orders reopening of "enlarged" Alcatraz prison

Wisconsin governor says he’s not afraid after Trump official suggests possible arrest

Nearly half of Americans breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants – report

Newark mayor released after arrest at immigration facility protest, says, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong’

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is fired by Trump

Sunday Snippets: Keep Calling, Keep Showing Up

Telsa stock is down, poll numbers down, we are making a difference!

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

Tucson lawyer receives letter from DHS, telling her to leave the United States

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

Is a Journaling Club a Brilliant Way to Make Friends?

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

U.S.-Born Doctor Speaks Out After Getting Email From ICE Demanding She Leave The U.S. Immediately

Photographer in disbelief after eerie beach discovery raises questions: 'I recovered clothing ... from different eras'

Last-minute change to human sexuality bill removes requirement to teach topic of consent

The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to Team Trump

Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”

People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds

“It’s About Him”: Renowned White House Photographer Pete Souza on How Trump Is Perverting the Presidential Photo Stream

Pete Hegseth says he will end a Trump-backed Pentagon program for women

Sunday Snippets: Federally sanctioned kidnapping

I'm so glad that my senator went to El Salvador. We need all Dems to step up like this!

USDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’

Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration

Titanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours

What would a general strike in the US actually look like?

Let's claim the term "prosocial"

Bread Lines, Empty Shelves, Bombed Farms — This Is How Starvation Feels in Gaza

DOGE is About Sex

How Much Do I Really Need to Know?

Why is Congress So Afraid of Moms?

Trump takes aim at the people who protect national parks from climate change

Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI

ICE came for their neighbor, so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

Photos: Two years of war in Sudan

Sunday Snippets: Birthdays

My son turns 7 this week and it's absolutely bonkers how weird time is.

These Palestinian and Israeli women are showing how to stand up for peace

We are stronger than we think

Snapshots: I spoke with 20 people in Gaza after the ceasefire. My heart broke 20 times

The world has probably passed “peak air pollution”

While we fight the good fight, take care of each other

An ancient Roman basilica has been discovered below London's financial district

Your anger is legitimate

11-year-old took her own life after classmates threatened to call ICE on her family, devastated mother reveals

When Your Only Job Is to Cuddle

Our Children's Bodies

Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land

Chaos erupts at Idaho legislative town hall, woman pulled from seat and dragged out

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services

Israelis hold a mass funeral for Shiri Bibas and her two sons killed in Gaza

Withholding As A Conscious Act.

50 Black Heroes From Maryland You Need To Know

Sunday Snippets: Keep Calling

Apparently, some Dems are sad and annoyed about the incessant calls. *tiny violin* FUCKING DO YOUR JOB THEN

What a Bunch of Monkeys Taught Us About Motherhood—and Why It’s All Wrong

A Ceasefire Is Not Enough

How to organize under authoritarian creep in a closing civil society

Wild Clocks

the lai see project

The Apoplexy of Apocalyptic Adam

Nice Time: MacKenzie Scott Pissing Off Elon Musk With The Billions For The DEIs And Abortions

Nerds are an oppressed class

NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications

Historic Black church given 'Proud Boys' trademark calls for stand against hate

Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.

Migrant Sex Workers’ Resistance Offers a Blueprint for Fighting Authoritarianism

Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary

How to defend your neighbors (or yourself) from ICE enforcement in D.C.

Why are Abortion and Pregnancy Standards Defined by How Men Typically Experience Reproduction?

Thousands of people protest in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. on Presidents Day

Sunday Snippets: Yes, it's a coup

It's absolutely an coup.

Israel’s Killing of Hind Rajab 1 Year Ago Is a Stain on Our Collective Humanity

USDA inspector general escorted out of office after defying Trump order

Pritzker says Illinois won’t hire Jan. 6 rioters

How US activists are infiltrating Israeli events selling Palestinian land

You might just have to be bored

Quakers Sue Trump Admin Over Policy Allowing ICE Raids on Churches

2. "Private" Tyranny: Resistance and "Not Obeying In Advance" Start at Home

Creative Nonfiction: The Improbability of Fossils by Callie Dean

“Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear

Keep a Copy of Your Tribal Identification Card On You

Parenting In the Age of Trump

Archiving as resistance to genocide denial in Gaza

Maryland senators hear from federal workers and others on Trump impact

USAID staffers describe colleagues abandoned in violence in Congo as DOGE ends assistance programs

Sunday Snippets: A whole whole lot

Drink water, donate to mutual aid groups, don't talk to ICE and fuck those billionaires.

How to build a village

Fairfax Co. teachers worry about possibility of immigration arrests in their classrooms

How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools

Here’s how Maryland schools will respond to potential immigration enforcement on campuses

‘I can’t do that’: DC Episcopal bishop says she won’t apologize for upsetting Trump during sermon

Abolish rent. Yes, for real.

She’s Raising Her Daughter in Her Own Childhood Apartment

I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exclusively supports local bookstores

Advocates urge Maryland lawmakers to protect ‘sensitive locations’ from immigration raids

NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar

Sunday Snippets: Have you contacted your reps yet?

For those in the US, have you contacted your state and federal reps lately? To ask them to vote against that man's cabinet picks? To help continue to fund climate change efforts? We may be stuck with that man, but we have ways of fighting back.

Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

How do you love your neighbors when your houses are on fire?

How these suburban moms in Ukraine manage grief by training to down Russian drones

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?

Why are so many Indigenous Panamanians contracting HIV — and dying of AIDS?

How dare women go to college? DeSantis' new university trustee pick will fix it. | Opinion

This is What it's Like to Be A Medical Student at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza

Canadian man's home security camera captures the sight and sound of a meteorite strike

The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone

Beyond Doomscrolling

Flowers For Rosa

Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump

Sunday Snippets: Springtime

I get up for work early when I don't telecommute and this past Friday was such a lovely morning. The warm air at the edge of the crisp morning and the bird chirping. Taking the small joy where I can.

Rwanda genocide: Orphans' search for family continues

A Border Patrol Protest Resulted in Criminal Charges for Three University of Arizona Students

The nurse tracking America's 'epidemic' of murdered women

Mom delivers her own baby by C-section—and the pictures are simply amazing

Coke can from 1988 washes up on Cramond beach

Sunday Snippets: Kiddo Update

After the utter fecal covered dumpster fire that was the Supreme Court nominee process, I can happily share my kiddo is crawling. Brb, baby proofing the cats.

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

Migrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City

PLAY TO STAY Undocumented Immigrant Faces a Choice: Become an Informant for ICE or Be Deported

As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide

Who’s Up for Burning It All Down?

Pro-Kavanaugh Councilman: ‘Better Get Your Coat Hangers Ready’

Sunday Snippets: 2017

I heard it phrased that 2016 was five years long and 2017 has been five months long. Seems accurate.

Also, this:

Utterly adorable

Year One: My Anger Management

Gender Nation Glossary

17 Husbands Who Are Proof That You Can't Win Against A Pregnant Woman

This shit is too real

Shitty assholes in my state

This utter badass

Kentucky's 20-week abortion ban: A ticking clock on a complex pregnancy

German pilots ground 222 flights after refusing to deport asylum seekers