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: 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: 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: 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

Ceasefire is direly needed. Far too many people have died.

A friend's overdose death turns high school students to activists

Philadelphia workers have to show up in the office today, flying birds or not

A stegosaurus fossil fetched a record $44.6M at Sotheby's. Should they be auctioned?

Paid or unpaid, child care is vital to the economy. This program recognizes that

Need a new outfit? Try the library.

CRAFT & SUSTAINABILITY

Is summer peak weaponization of the notion of "The Village"?

Where There’s Smoke… How Wildfires Across North America Are Making Children Sick

How Sexist Men See Themselves As the ‘Good Guys’ — & Why So Many Boys Are Listening

Evangelical Christians Are Throwing Their Support Behind Israel. They’re Partly Driven By Antisemitism.

Judge dismisses Trump documents case over special counsel appointment

The Hunt: The Search for Sappho’s Lost Poetry Awaits a New Chapter

Nobody Puts Motherhood in the Corner

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. Why the fuck haven't we done this?! People were burned alive in Rafah and children are starving to death. In the name of humanity, how can this continue?

The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a fundamental right. What’s next for voters? WHAT

What Do You Think Happens When You Die?

Intersectional Bears

After leaving a so-called 'abortion desert,' this doctor worries about what's next

Women Reading

Ada Limón couldn't get pregnant, then realized: 'What if my body was only my body?'

The Mummy: Modern Movies Would Kill for Chemistry Like Rick and Evie

My MS Forced Me To Model Slowness & Care for My Kids

They Bought a New DC Luxury Condo. It Could Collapse.

School choice programs have been wildly successful under DeSantis. Now public schools might close.

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire, now!

Scientists restore brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder

‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago

A freed Israeli hostage waits with hope for her husband, still held by Hamas in Gaza

If it can’t kill you, it isn’t wilderness — interview with Sarah Bessey

How some faculty members are defending student protesters, in actions and in words

Fine-tuning immunity

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BODKIN ISLAND IN EASTERN BAY

Tackling long-haul diseases

Embracing intimacy and uncertainty: At work with Oregon’s poet laureate

Reverse: A Lynching

Nowhere to Live, Nowhere to Die

They were shot at the Chiefs Super Bowl parade — and might live with bullets in their bodies forever

Will Americans Ever Get Sick of Cheap Junk?

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. Permanent ceasefire now.

The Poet Whose Writing Will Be Launched Into Space

The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Was a Pilgrimage Site in the Wilderness. Can It Hold Up in a Museum?

A child's dream to 'drive' a space shuttle propels him toward a historic NASA mission

This Navajo musician's song lasts four-and-a-half years

Missouri law says pregnant women can’t get divorced

A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

These companies tried a 4-day workweek. More than a year in, they still love it

Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change

Sunday Snippets: June

This month has been so peopley. I am looking forward to a slower July.

Rage Against The Off-Site Storage

A Case for the Porch

On Her YouTube Channel, The Cottage Fairy Encourages Simple Living

What counts as enough? - #85

“Hard Labor,” a Poem by Rosanna Young Oh

He became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama. A white minority locked him out of town hall.

Family of Marion County mom fatally shot through a closed door calls for shooter's arrest

Atlanta City Council approves funding for controversial training center

To rebuild Notre Dame's fire-ravaged roof, carpenters use centuries-old techniques

The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History

Sunday Snippets: Summer?

It's been in the 80's already here. I'm dreading the summer and the bugs.

Camille T. Dungy Answers the Orion Questionnaire

Stationery in Motion: Letters from Hotels

A library went viral for having baby cribs attached to its desks. The single mom behind it says she wanted the library to serve entire families.

US Marine’s adoption of Afghan war orphan voided

Idaho Passes Law To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Care For Minors

A California bill would create an alert system for missing Black women and youth

A look at bills passed in the Maryland General Assembly

One camp at a time, a Seattle group is transforming its approach to homelessness

Clint Smith Returns to His Roots in Poetry

It's Pedro Pascal's World Now

Sunday Snippets: Trans Lives Matter

We need to pay attention the virulent and rampant transphobic bills in the US. We need to speak out and denounce it.

Our 25 favorite photos from the 2023 Iditarod ceremonial start

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger

How (and why) this man plans to live underwater for 100 days

No One Tells You the Full Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

At Home with Poet Kate Baer

Girls in Texas could get birth control at federal clinics — until a dad sued

The Ghosts in My Home

That Really Happened

Big Feelings

Texas man sues ex-wife's friends for allegedly helping her get abortion pills

On 3/11/20, WHO declared a pandemic. These quotes and photos recall that historic time

Sunday Snippets: 2023

Let's all hope that this year is gentler than the last few years have been.

A gray whale gave birth as a whale watching tour looked on

Real home: this 1700s former laundry and dairy has had an award-winning transformation

Who We Follow

The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits

Iran demonstrators vow to continue protests despite ongoing crackdowns

Five Democratic politicians' homes or offices have been shot at in Albuquerque

An artist's remote Lapland cabin painstakingly built by hand

Security forces regain control after Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil's Congress

A collector was 'bitten by the postcard bug' 80 years ago; see some of his favorites

Maryland girl finds ancient tooth from a 50-foot-long megalodon in the Chesapeake Bay

Why I don't write during naptime

1880 VICTORIAN FOR SALE IN LEE MASSACHUSETTS This is totally the Practical Magic house.

Sunday Snippets: October

It's officially spooky season!

Dodging Russian bombs, these volunteers risk it all to save Ukraine's animals

Americans are paying more and getting less as inflation hits home

Saeed Jones confronts the end of the world in new poems

COVID raises risk of long-term brain injury, large U.S. study finds

How to Invite a Disabled Friend Over

An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance

‘It’s a miracle’: Gran Abuelo in Chile could be world’s oldest living tree

The Abortion Crisis Manager

At Least 2 More Underage Rape Victims, 2 Pregnant Cancer Patients Denied Abortions in Ohio

Prince George's County Schools settle discrimination lawsuit with transgender teacher

Brooklyn Taxi Driver Sues NYPD Alleging Retaliatory Arrest Inside His Mosque

At Freedom House, these Black men saved lives. Paramedics are book topic

Sunday Snippets: September!

The cool September air is a welcome relief after the chaos of this summer.

How gorgeous are these?

Conservative activists want to ban 400 books from a library — but they aren't even on shelves

This story hits right in the feels

Md. family, community plead for end to gun violence a year after 8-year-old’s killing

A rare, first-of-its kind Chicago license plate is up for auction

Whatever happened to ... the caring Ukrainian neurologist who didn't let war stop her

POETRY, MISOGYNY, AND WOMEN’S UNPAID LABOR

Saeed Jones Explores Grief and Other Themes in “Alive at the End of the World”

The last member of a tribe in Brazil has died, pulling Indigenous rights into focus

A Black pastor was watering his neighbor's flowers. Then the police showed up

Sunday Snippets: Summer

Summer is my favorite season, despite the bugs. Trying to enjoy as much of it as I can.

A remote Swedish family home full of craft, colour and pattern

The World Needs Uncles, Too

Now that's an obituary

The Dapper Daredevil Who Documented America’s Skyline in the Making

Many try to return to normal from COVID, but disabled people face a different reality

A hidden self-portrait of Van Gogh has been discovered. Here's what you can see so far

A self-serve grocery store helps feed a small Minnesota town

Uyghur Poems From a Chinese Prison

Sunday Snippets: Fighting back

Again and again and again. Donate to Everytown and Moms Demand Action if you can. Bug the ever loving shit out of your reps.

No sea serpents, mobsters but Tahoe trash divers strike gold

Book bans in prison cut inmates' lifeline to outside world

on daily grief-work

I, Too, Have a Human Form In Justice Alito’s draft opinion, the pregnant body is erased.

Ada Limón on How to Write a Poetry Collection

‘I yearned for a deeper, slower, more useful existence’: dispatches from the Great Resignation

Book Review: The Hurting Kind

 

The Hurting Kind is Ada Limón's latest collection of poetry and to say it's timely would almost be a cliché at this point.

In the poem, "Not the Saddest Thing in the World", she writes

"Once it has been witnessed/and buried, I go about my day, which isn't/ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary/now even when it is ordinary. Now something's/breaking always on the skyline"

The pandemic that is still gripping most of the world runs as an undercurrent throughout nearly every poem in the book. As does war and pain. It's a weary, a knowing weary, collection of poems. But there is hope in the weariness. In another poem: 

"I trust the world to come back./Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned"

The title poem, which is six parts, hits like a well timed shock to the system. The book builds to it and the line "I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof" is so beautifully put.

A worthy and deserved addition to anyone's bookshelves and an even more amazing book from the author!