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: 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: No Kings Day

I hope you were able to attend a protest, if you were able, yesterday.

How to Endure

A meeting with the MAHA grassroots

Small Hands

I'm not doing the best I can

How to Practice

Real Estate

21 observations from people watching

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

Trump administration plans to eliminate the Energy Star program after 3 decades

Maryland fails to protect young inmates in adult jails

Second Circuit rejects challenge to NY abortion law

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Cracking the Red-tail Code: Exploring the Diversity of America’s Most Widespread Hawk

Diabolus Ex Machina

The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs

Making space for politics at work

Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

Sunday Snippets: Keep Up the Pressure

Those in power don't get to remove our protections. Keep calling, keep protesting.

Working Homeless in America

Hospitals in Ruins

NYC public school teacher ditches her classroom to pursue a lifelong dream — and is making bank

A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target

At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays

Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds

Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers

No One Talks About the Mental Health Impact of Being Undocumented

Denied, detained, deported: the faces of Trump’s immigration crackdown

How the Klamath Dams Came Down

The GOP’s Resurgence Of Pro-Natalism Looks A Lot Like The Past

Sunday Snippets: Tired

Bingo time: is it spring allergies, perimenopause or the horrors that make me wake up feeling more tired than when I went to bed?

K-12 schools must sign certification against DEI to receive federal money, administration says

Perfect poem

Pro organizers as capitalism therapists

Teaching in a ‘Sanctuary City’ Under Siege

“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

Stories of Resistance: Mothers of Argentina’s 30,000 disappeared half-century struggle for justice

Instagram and the Creative Process

Who Gets to Define Divorce

I spent four decades not sleeping a wink – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously

The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador

Chosen Places: Kamikatsu Village, Japan

Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia

Major deal wipes out $30 billion in medical debt. Even backers say it's not enough

Roberts temporarily halts deadline for Trump administration to return mistakenly deported man

A Maryland mother was detained by ICE nearly two weeks ago. So far, no evidence has been provided

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: May We All Survive

Tomorrow is that day and my only wish is that we all survive. Sending love to those who need it.

every day is all there is 🫡

The Lie That Won't Die

How Sailor Poets Take Over U.S. Navy Deck Logs On New Year’s Day

What the Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong

As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed'

A Return to Leftist Self-Defense

therapy "greatest hits"

How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published

Is Everyone Doing No Buy 2025??

INDIVISIBLE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEMOCRACY ON THE BRINK

Hundreds of years after they were prosecuted, exoneration sought for Md. ‘witches’

Israel Killed 74 Children in Gaza in First Week of 2025

It's Not Just Stuff

History echoes: Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision meets Trump’s America

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

Sunday Snippets: Bracing

Bracing for the start of the new year, but trying to enjoy the holidays.

Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use

‘I Don’t Want to Forget Who I Am’

Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people, the largest act of clemency in a day

Through 'The Loss Mother's Stone,' mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth

People in colder countries understand the magic of winter. What's their secret?

The woman who invents cheeses in her mountain hideaway

I hope Assad pays the price, says mother whose son's death inflamed 2011 Syrian revolution

About 3 dozen high-rise buildings in South Florida are sinking, a study finds

This weightlifting gym helps older people build more than just strength

Some people need abortions later in pregnancy – many come to Maryland

'I knew they were something special': New York homeowner discovers mastodon jaw fossils in backyard

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men?

Sunday Snippets: Nikki Giovanni

We lost a beautiful amazing soul this week. I have been reading her work for many years and even included her poem, Resignation, when I got married. It sucks so much that she's gone.

Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option'

‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year

I'm 45 And I Look My Age

On Having Expectations – Even When Doing Things for Free

What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

      Dominique Pelicot now bemoans the way the trial has destroyed his life and seeks forgiveness from his family. When asked by his defense lawyers about the possibility of winning back his wife, he said: “It is important to have hope,” and again emphasized his own trauma.

America’s Sickness

The year of hetero discontent

Supreme Court term-limits amendment proposed by Sens. Manchin, Welch

Some good climate news, for once: Md. leads in carbon emissions reductions

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

Archaeologists Work with Indigenous Peoples, Department of Natural Resources to Uncover History at Chapel Point State Park

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

Sunday Snippets: Arms Embargo

Palestine still matters. The people still matter.

In an Internment Camp, All They Had Was Baseball. A New Generation Is Back to Play.

Resolve: 8 Reasons That Keep Me Going

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s

After 15 years, Megan Atherton reunites with her 'Unsung Hero'

The American Nightmare Is A Rerun

School Shooter Drills Are Getting Stricter Guidelines In Maryland

Lawsuit challenges Minnesota abortion access in federal court

PHOTOS: A drone's eye view of 'foodscapes,' from cattle to soybeans to shrimp

The ‘Internet of Animals’ Could Transform What We Know About Wildlife

Photos: See inside the Bidens' last White House Christmas

Sunday Snippets: The Road Ahead

We lean into community, we don't obey in advance, we rebuild the world we want. This will take all of us.

Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck

How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

Strata: Layered Watercolor Gradients

"My Project 2025" A New Poem By Me

LaTonya Yvette’s Brooklyn Home Feels Like a Soft Place to Land

Maryland Is Training More Health Workers To Offer Abortion Care

'I want my womb removed but doctors say I'm too young'

Dorothy Allison, Your Florida Is My Florida

As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

The fight for Alex Jones' Infowars company heats up as Jones sues to hold on

Cold, dark... and not remotely miserable: How to live your best winter life

Sundays Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

There needs to be an arms embargo. Now.

Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it

Trump White House curtailed FBI's Kavanaugh probe, report finds

Menopause tests and anti-ageing face oils: welcome to midlife consumerism

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war

Helene, climate disasters, and what we owe to each other

Poem of the Week | October 14, 2024

'My losses started the day I was born': A poet on what it’s like to call Gaza home

Helene’s damage to North Carolina’s Green River affects businesses that depend on it

New set of Megalodon teeth discovered in Maryland

Sunday Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

Gaza, West Bank, now Lebanon. When will it fucking stop? We are approaching the anniversary of the horrific Hamas attack and people are still dying.

These women are trying to humanize the climate crisis

Writing the Weather

Maryland seemed poised this year to legalize medical aid in dying. What happened?

California Gov. Newsom vetoes AI safety bill that divided Silicon Valley

'The Power Broker' at 50 — and what author Robert Caro is still uncovering

Hala Alyan: Why must Palestinians audition for your empathy?

Dockworkers go on strike, snarling traffic at East and Gulf Coast ports

'America's Nobel' goes to a power couple who made a startling discovery about HIV

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

It has been almost a year of this round of bloodshed and it has to fucking stop.

Let Inner Healing Shape Your Outer Spaces

Killed in her pink roller skates, a Palestinian girl’s photo in Gaza goes viral

Unreasonable Love

Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say

650-foot tsunami in Greenland fjord made waves that lasted 9 days, scientists find

Neighbors and city leaders voice ongoing concerns about public safety as career firefighters are still on reallocation assignments

Sins of the Father

Suck It Up, Buttercup

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Watching day in and out, fathers and mothers and aunts and uncles and families killed in front of one another. This has to fucking stop.

Americans released in Russian prisoner swap are back in the U.S.

Cannabinoid CBG reduces anxiety and stress in first human clinical trial

The Joy of Staying Put

The Newest National Parks Feature? Poetry.

on the new moon in leo and simone biles

Historic federal aid addresses discrimination for thousands of Black farmers after years of delay

A federal appeals court has upheld Maryland's ban on assault-style weapons

Prosecutors say they plan to charge former police chief over Kansas newspaper raid

Staff and residents are ‘scared to death’ of violent patients at dementia care homes

Valerie Castile says the state’s new school-meals law is an investment in Minnesota’s kids—and a tribute to her son, Philando

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Permanent ceasefire now. This needs to stop.

The Feminine Urge

College student explores rare mental health condition in award-winning podcast

This government memo warned of climate change in 1969

Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

Goodbye, carpet on Metro. Oldest trains in system to be removed

As a brutal genocide raged around her, Josephine smuggled 12 people to safety

Their first baby came with medical debt. These Illinois parents won't have another.

‘I will return to the US in an urn’: She moved to Portugal with her husband, and this American says she’s never coming back

Women Reading

Collapsed Baltimore bridge span comes down with a boom

Thawing permafrost threatens Alaska's rural villages. And time is running out

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. Always.

The High Highs and Low Lows of Alan Ritchson

A rare solar eclipse darkened skies and dazzled viewers across the U.S.

Why I Swear by ‘My Year of No’

Real-life 'Rosie the Riveters' reunite in D.C. to win the nation's top civilian honor

Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility

Women Reading

Lessons of the Line

Celebrate poetry month with People’s Book and Takoma Park's poet laureate

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire NOW. Rafah is being bombed when that's where Palestinians were told to go. This is war crimes.

Tennessee law denied Allie Phillips an abortion. So she's now running for office

Why we're pushing for the 1970s conversation pit to make a comeback

Cool house in New York

Man accused of putting abortion-inducing drug in wife's water takes deal, to serve 180 days in jail

Missouri Republican candidate torches LGBTQ-inclusive books in viral video

Their journey to unearth a cemetery for enslaved people led to communitywide interest

honesty is a craft issue: lyz lenz in conversation with jeanna kadlec

Core Library Memories

What is 'domicide,' and why has war in Gaza brought new attention to the term?

THE WORK OF THE WITNESS

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: Mother's Day

Love to those for whom this day is hard. Especially when some folks are seeking to make it mandatory for everyone in the US.

What Monet’s Water Lilies Taught Me About Beauty’s Proximity to Violence

Meet the painter behind the iconic covers for ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’

She ripped up her manicured lawn and challenged the norms of gardening stories

A Win for Birds in Maryland

Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. Then Tennessee Outlawed Abortion.

Quitting is a wildly underrated life strategy. Here’s why.

‘Mommunes’: Mothers Are Living Single Together

Flowers and Cards Are Nice. I'd Rather Have Bodily Autonomy