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: NO FUCKING KINGS

I hope you had a chance to get out to a #NoKings protest yesterday. They matter. We matter.

How high school students are organizing walkouts against ICE

The Scottish island that bought itself

This Pill Treats Postpartum Depression. So Why Don’t More People Take It?

Ireland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck

Ohio bill would require fetal life and death certificates

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands

The LA wildfire survivors still living in toxic homes: ‘We have nowhere else to go’

Maryland sheriffs are considering taking legal action against the State over ICE 287(g) ban

It’s time to oust Stephen Miller

Native American tribes in the West are trying — and succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein

USPS cutting delivery days ‘on the table,’ as agency runs out of cash, postmaster general tells lawmakers

Bill bans those convicted in the Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol from serving on Maryland boards

YouTube Face Has Infected the Internet

‘No Kings’ protests erupt across the US, with a Minnesota focus

Sunday Snippets: Summer

Let's hope this summer is kinder than last.

My Year of Selfies

I took anger management classes. Here’s what they get wrong about the world

Kate Baer has always been a writer

A lot of offices are still empty — and it's becoming a major risk for the economy

Heaven has a bathrobe-clad receptionist named Denise. She's helping TikTok grieve

'People need to know the history': Osage citizens excited, nervous as 'Killers of the Flower Moon' hits the big screen

Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?

How a little more silence in children's lives helps them grow

‘My heart will be rejected’: Jacksonville man dies after missing doses in jail

Bowie State student’s class project turns into Maryland state law

Why I Always Visit Bookstores When I Travel

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: On a Friday!

Posting this a few days early for the holidays! 

Vatican defrocks an anti-abortion priest who once placed an aborted fetus on an altar

Montgomery Co. comes together for first night of Hanukkah, lighting the way forward

Africa’s biggest photography library opens in Ghana

Harvard Museum Reverses Course, Admits NAGPRA Applies to Collection of Hair Clippings from Native American Children

Homeward Bound! Dog, found 1,600 miles away, will be home for Christmas

Sunday Snippets: 11 years

Celebrated 11 years of marriage last week with the best guy I know. I'm so grateful for him and his love.

You Have to See Inside This Teeny Tiny NYC Rooftop Studio

Mazie Hirono Is Okay With a Little Confrontation

These Native American women are reclaiming a ‘stolen’ part of their identity: Their language

Elizabeth Warren says the government should fire student loan servicer Navient, which should fire its CEO

7-Year-Old Jaslyn Adams Shot And Killed In McDonald’s Drive-Thru: ‘That Baby Should Not Have Gotten Killed’

Harriet Tubman’s lost Maryland home found, archaeologists say

ON EASING YOUR FOOTPRINT THIS EARTH DAY

Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

The Secret Mission To Unearth Part Of A 142-Year-Old Experiment

The Vitality of Ordinary Things

Why Women Do the Household Worrying

George Floyd Was Also a Father

Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course

Diaspora and My Unpackable Library

VACCINE SIDE EFFECT, OR HAVE YOU JUST BEEN ALIVE FOR 40 YEARS?

I’m not languishing, I’m dormant

Work Isn’t Fulfilling Because Capitalism Is a Death March

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: Finding Hope

Where I can these days: dropping my ballot off a local ballot box, reading like crazy and making sure to rest.

 Congress Finally Passes Bill To Address Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women

Trump Supreme Court favorite Amy Coney Barrett would be the ultimate insult to RBG

Clear Language on Slavery

10 Ways to Find Stillness in Turbulent Times

Kentucky’s Only Black Female State Lawmaker And ‘Breonna’s Law’ Author Arrested

10 things you need to know to stop a coup

Sunday Snippets: Reparations

The linked article below, What is Owed, is so very much worth your time.

Native American tribal nations take tougher line on COVID-19 as states reopen

In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both.

Chrystul Kizer, A 19-Year-Old Sex Trafficking Victim Who Killed Her Abuser, Has Been Released From Jail

Parents Can’t Wait Around Forever

The Grim History Hidden Under a Baltimore Parking Lot

After the Pandemic, We’ll Finally Have to Address the Impossible State of Motherhood

CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported

COVID’s Lowered Meat Production Leads to Decline in Pollution, Waste and Greenhouse Gases

Nicole Beharie on ‘Miss Juneteenth’ and the Danger of Labels

What is Owed

"At least 6,500 black people were lynched from the end of the Civil War to 1950, an average of nearly two a week for nine decades. Nearly five black people, on average, have been killed a week by law enforcement since 2015."
"Darity has been studying and advocating reparations for 30 years, and this spring he and his partner, A. Kirsten Mullen, published the book “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century.” Both history and road map, the book answers the questions about who should receive reparations and how a program would work. I will not spend much time on that here, except to make these few points. Reparations are not about punishing white Americans, and white Americans are not the ones who would pay for them. It does not matter if your ancestors engaged in slavery or if you just immigrated here two weeks ago. Reparations are a societal obligation in a nation where our Constitution sanctioned slavery, Congress passed laws protecting it and our federal government initiated, condoned and practiced legal racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans until half a century ago. And so it is the federal government that pays."

Sunday Snippets: Caitlin Doughty

If you have a few hours to spare, please go binge her channel on YouTube "Ask a Mortician". Super informative, respectful and hilarious. Seriously. I'm also gulping down her first book when I have five mins before bed that isn't filled with toddler antics.

Trevor Noah Is Paying Daily Show Crew Furloughed by COVID-19 Out of His Own Pocket

The Restaurant Bail-Out Won't Save My Pop-Up. The Government Won't Save Black America.

No phone or email for nearly 4,000 inmates at three federal prisons in effort to fight virus

Irish dig deep to support virus-hit native Americans, repaying 150-year-old debt

Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree.

French Doctors Find COVID-19 Case From December — A Month Before 1st Known Case There

A 355-Square-Foot Apartment That Makes the Most of Every Inch

Alison Roman, the Colonization of Spices, and the Exhausting Prevalence of Ethnic Erasure in Popular Food Culture

Native American health center receives body bags instead of coronavirus supplies

‘The grief is so unbearable’: Virus takes toll on Navajo

30 Things Your Home Doesn’t Really Need

Sunday Snippets: Breathe

I keep trying to remind myself.

Our Say: This is how Maryland’s mass violence threat and red flag laws should work

Four automakers bucked Trump policy on emissions. Now they are under antitrust investigation

Why are all the motherhood memoirs so white?

Save Hia-Ced O'odham territory!

Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance They did this shit decades ago too, going after black activists and the Panther party in the 60s and 70s.

Interview: Photographer Documents 33 Women Before and After They Became a Mom

Sunday Snippets: Cool mornings

I love the cool mornings. And the still shifting seasons. With climate change, I don't know how many more years I'll have of that. Or if my son even will.

What is a ‘red flag’ law and how has it worked in Maryland and elsewhere?

The Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress, taking the US government up on a promise it made nearly 200 years ago

Eduard Pernkopf: The Nazi book of anatomy still used by surgeons

The mystery photos of a 1957 gay wedding

A Young Italian Woman Fought a Centuries-old Cruel Sicilian Tradition and Won

The 'Strange, Unduly Neglected Prophet'

The most effective ways to curb climate change might surprise you

‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble

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: Don't look away

Refugees need all of our love, support, money and help. I can't stop thinking about the photo of a dad with his 11 month old daughter strapped to him, both drowned in a river trying to reach the US.

They deserve safety, sanitation, water, food, a warm bed. The rage at this situation, caused by this horrid administration and state sanctioned racism and xenophobia, overwhelms me.

THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY.

Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate

Vibrant Photos Capture the Electric Energy of Tokyo at Night

The tradition of taking a man’s last name is ‘unquestionably sexist.’ This new trend could be the solution.

Goucher College trustee reportedly spent millions to fund anti-vaccination movement

Science confirms you are a different person after giving birth

Sunday Snippets: Unofficial start of summer

Ahhh, summer.

Mistakenly Jailed Pretrial, an Ohio Mother Lost Her Job and Kids

This breastfeeding mother was asked to leave a courtroom—and we’re feeling confused + angry

German pigeon flashed by speed camera goes viral

UN Report Says Indigenous Sovereignty Could Save the Planet

DC ‘most dangerous place to give birth in the US' for black women

Community Outraged After Police Shoot 3 Children in the Head

The Marsha P Johnson Institute

Jordan Adlard Rogers inherits Penrose Estate after DNA test

The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic

A third black transgender woman was murdered this week

Sunday Snippets: Summer songs

There are so many great summer songs I love, I play them all Memorial Day weekend.

A Native American woman's brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law

A homeless Oakland couple moved into a $4 million Piedmont home. Then came the calls to police

Toronto Restaurant Fights Waste By Chopping Menu Prices Till Food Is Gone

University of Cambridge to look into how it benefited from slavery

Rebecca Solnit: Unconscious Bias is Running for President

Sunday Snippets: Christmas music

Now that's actually the christmas season, nothing puts a smile on my face faster.

Love Knows No Species: Emu And Donkey Have Fallen For Each Other, Caretakers Say

Finland: Where second-hand comes first

Ikea has a plan to fix the pollution crisis in India's cities

The thrill of watching Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bring her whole self to Congress

A soaring maternal mortality rate: What does it mean for you?

Three Years Later, Sandra Bland's Family Still Want Answers Surrounding Her Death

‘Rejection Killings’ Need to Be Tracked

Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning

A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday

Sunday Snippets: Every day is a dumpster fire

photo source

DOOMSDAY PREP FOR THE SUPER-RICH Intriguing article

FLINT MI NEEDS FUCKING CLEAN WATER

Republicans pass sweeping bill to reform 'abusive' U.S. regulation

And there it is

 How to Fight Trump’s Racist Immigration Policies

Tracking Trump’s Agenda, Step by Step

Scientists stepping up

African Union criticises US for ‘taking many of our people as slaves’ and not taking refugees

Twitter rewrote 'Goodnight Moon' for Trump's America

Fucking here for the National Park Service

He said: “To assume that just because of someone’s age and gender that they don’t pose a threat would be misguided and wrong.” A FUCKING FIVE YEAR OLD?!?!

Wow, he sounds like such a prize

The top photo actually made me cry

Whoop, there it is