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: Ceasefire

My continual prayer is one for a ceasefire. I hope we achieve it in 2024, along with peace for the Palestinian people.

A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a toxic stretch of highway

New Michigan law means people leaving prison will automatically be registered to vote

After 38 years on the job, Santa Luke still has time for everyone. Yes, you too

solstice

Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: Unseen life in the world's largest refugee camp

2023 in photos: NPR station photographers share memorable moments

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

It was so wonderful to see folks on both sides being returned to their families. But we need a permanent ceasefire. 

A novel prison program for pregnant women and their babies

The day Gaza got an airport and a presidential visit, fueling dreams of statehood

Why a single 'Inverted Jenny' stamp sold for $2 million at auction

Oklahoma restricted how race can be taught. So these Black teachers stepped up

What fossilized poop can teach us about dinosaurs

Backlash to affirmative action hits pioneering maternal health program for Black women

To save axolotls, a campaign in Mexico asks people to virtually adopt them

How to break the cycle of childhood trauma? Help a baby's parents

New ALA report: Gen Z & Millennials are visiting the library & prefer print books

Bird Landing on Bride’s Head During Vows Wins International Photo Award

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Keep fighting, keep innocent civilians in your thoughts and prayers, but in your actions as well.

“All Things Knolled”: 50 Images To Soothe And Satisfy Your Need For Order

The 4-day workweek: How one Ohio manufacturer is making it work

FDA approves first ever vaccine for chikungunya virus, which is seeing a global surge

Americans home from Gaza can't stop thinking about who — and what — they left behind

We were interviewing a Palestinian farmer. Then the drone and soldiers appeared

Roland Pattillo helped keep Henrietta Lacks' story alive. It's key to his legacy

Colorado banned forced prison labor 5 years ago. Prisoners say it's still happening

Woman Who Died From Cancer Helps To Erase Millions In Medical Debt

One woman's controversial fight to make America accept drug users for who they are

A disappearing island: 'The water is destroying us, one house at a time'

Sunday Snippets: Rain

Finally got rain last week after a few weeks without it. Even the humidity feels nice after the hot crispyness.

Photographer finds herself surrounded by wolf pack in Arctic

Missouri prisons ban friends and family from sending books to prisoners

Nick Ray: Kayaker inspires hope with journey around Scotland

‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan

How to leave a life

Rare painting bought for $4 at a thrift store may fetch a quarter million at auction

Oddly satisfying: what’s behind our drive to collect useless items?

Imprisoned for abortion: Many Rwandan women are now free but stigma remains

Why a 4-day work week is on the table for auto workers

Photos: See the aftermath of the earthquake in Morocco

The Summer After 9/11, A Photographer Documents A City's Healing

Sunday Snippets: Almost Halloween!

It's spooky time, y'all.

Slavery descendants fight to memorialize a cemetery in Maryland

A public payphone in China began ringing and ringing. Who was calling?

Around the world, protesters take to the streets in solidarity with Iranian women

Ohio legislators pledge anti-abortion measures at March for Life

‘I believe in second chances’: Youngest sniper survivor, 20 years after Lee Boyd Malvo shot him

In a Sign of Worsening Conditions, Understaffed King County Jail Has Lacked Water for a Week

The entire Uvalde school district police department has been suspended

‘THERE IS NO SCENT!’ WHAT YANKEE CANDLE REVIEWS CAN TELL US ABOUT COVID-19 TRENDS

Terrible Memories

Ohio 'incel' pleads guilty to plotting mass shooting against women at university: DOJ

How this Brazilian doc got nearly every person in her city to take a COVID vaccine

Sunday Snippets: Fall adjacent

The mornings are getting cooler. Much as I love summer, I do love the anticipation of fall.

The Work-From-Home Revolution Is Also a Trap for Women

She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?

My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice

The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'

Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime

A man who held up a bank demanding his own money becomes an unlikely hero

What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars

The old Capitol stones hidden away in Rock Creek Park are being moved

How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

SERENA, THE EVOLUTIONARY

What It’s Like to Parent in Canada

Female Saudi activist gets record 34 years in prison for critical tweets

Judges who got kickbacks for sending kids to for-profit jails ordered to pay $200 million

Vance, DeSantis rally puts ‘highly unusual’ restrictions on press

History for Sale

Sunday Snippets: Almost summer!

Summer is coming.....along with the humidity.

Black Trans Teen Girl Ariyanna Mitchell, 17, Murdered in Virginia

668: Lament

‘No reward or recognition’: why women should say no to ‘office housework’

Researchers Pinpoint Reason Infants Die From SIDS

A passenger makes an emergency airplane landing in Florida

A lost dog crept into a couple’s bed overnight. She didn’t want to leave.

Black shelter animals weren't getting adopted. A photographer had an idea: glam shots

New York Bans Most Prison Care Packages from Family and Friends

Why My Husband and I Gave Our Daughter My Last Name

Emma Straub’s Brooklyn Family Home Is a Book Lover’s Dream

Parents Adopt A Strange Dog, Find Out It’s Actually A Wolf Hybrid, It Turns Out To Be The Most Wholesome Dog Ever

For two years, this Washington island has grappled with the long reach of COVID

It’s Time to Destigmatize Talking Openly About What’s Going On Down There

Sunday Snippets: Four Day Weekend

My job gave us the Friday so we have a four day weekend and yes, thank you for the extra time to sleep!

It Turns Out, All Those 'Woke' White Allies Were Lying

It’s Okay to Outgrow the Life You Thought You Wanted

PROSECUTORS IGNORED EVIDENCE OF HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND’S ABUSE. SHE FACES 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MURDER.

What if Remote Work Didn’t Mean Working from Home?

Get Sober Curious with Ruby Warrington - Radically Rethinking How You Drink

National Endowment for the Arts Podcast

Paintings by Marolize Southwood

215 bodies discovered at former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada

On Plans, Potential, And Success

Sunday Snippets: Vaccinations

The husband got his yesterday and I get my second in a few weeks. God bless science

On making work that matters

Zero Waste Doesn't Have to Be Expensive

One weird trick to fix our broken child care system

Easter Rebellion at the St. Louis City Jail

Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot-Reuters/Ipsos poll

Three-finger salute: Hunger Games symbol adopted by Myanmar protesters

HOW MATURE ARE YOU? A QUIZ

Let Me

We’re at the Beginning of the End of Covid-19. Now What?

How You Can Tell Larry Hogan’s Decision to Kill the Red Line Was Racially Discriminatory

Israel's Medieval, Anti-woman Party Is More Powerful Than Ever, and Channeling Erdogan

Americans Are Obsessed With Money But Rarely Talk Honestly About It

Sunday Snippets: Good news

Good vaccine news, CDC guidelines and the warmer weather have been such gifts this week.

In the Russian woods, a feminist retreat from Putin’s pressures

Idaho rejects $6 million in child care funding, sparking protests from women

Soulwork

Texas Won't Reduce $16 Billion In Electricity Charges From Winter Storm

COMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment

Workers Are Moving First, Asking Questions Later. What Happens When Offices Reopen?

10 Years Later, The Rescued Snapshots Damaged In Japan's Tsunami

St. Louis paraplegic inmate has been denied shower for months, suit says

Texas GOP lawmaker attempting to make abortion punishable by death penalty

Sunday Snippets: Three

My kiddo turned 3 last week. I can't believe it.

How Fast Are Oceans Rising? The Answer May Be In Century-Old Shipping Logs

Sexual Violence in Women’s Prisons Reaches “Constitutional Proportions.” Will Lawmakers Step In?

Prince George’s Co. interim chief details how hiring roots out white supremacists

Email is Making Us Miserable

Rare 'locked' letter sealed 300 years ago is finally opened virtually

Lawyers Have Found the Parents of 105 Separated Migrant Children in Past Month

What The Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls Have To Tell Us

The Cost of Miscarriage is High — Not Just Emotionally, But Financially

Day Care Makes The World More Tender

No I'm Not Ready

How to Practice

Sunday Snippets: Birthdays

Turned 34 yesterday. What a helluva year.

A Daughter Unearths And Remembers Trauma In 'Memorial Drive'

COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Heads To Widespread Testing In U.S.

COVID-19 in ICE detention: An asylum-seeker on getting coronavirus in a for-profit immigration jail

US Senator Tom Cotton defends slavery remarks

We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver

How America weaponizes motherhood

U.S. Missionary With No Medical Training Settles Suit Over Child Deaths At Her Center

The Pandemic Isn’t Forcing Moms Out of the Workforce — Dads Are

Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time

Scientists have unraveled the riddle of a real-life sea monster

Why Your Digital Detox Didn’t Work — & What To Do Instead

Sunday Snippets: *sigh*

This image is so fucking true.

Searching For The American Dream On Paradise Road

Migrant Mother Given A Choice: Leave Her Newborn In U.S. Or Return To Mexico Together

Supreme Court Deals Major Blow To Felons' Right To Vote In Florida

The Chicks Look Back And Laugh

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Sues Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Over Face Mask Order YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKWAD YOU STOLE THAT SEAT AND THIS IS HOW YOU'RE SPENDING YOUR TIME?!?

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: Headaches

Over the past few years, my migraines have gotten worse and even more so after I gave birth to my son. I get a terrible headache/PMS fog two/three days before my period.

But I never heard about that possibility after giving birth. There is so much not talked about for those carry a pregnancy and give birth, the 4th trimester and beyond.


PEOPLE KEEP DYING IN MISSISSIPPI PRISONS, BUT THE GOVERNOR WANTS TO MOVE ON

Trump’s legal team gave thousands in contributions to Republican senators ahead of impeachment trial

The hardest decision of my life: to end a pregnancy because I had no paid leave

WHY I DECIDED NOT TO HAVE AN OBGYN AND LET WENDY FROM WORK HANDLE MY PRENATAL CARE INSTEAD

‘Dad Naps’ for Everyone

Republicans think tampons need to be taxed to limit women from buying too many

Don’t Marry a Man Who Doesn’t Vacuum

Yusef Salaam Of The Exonerated Five: Pay Attention To 2020 Candidates’ ‘Track Record’

Sunday Snippets: 2019

We have three more months left in this decade and it blew my mind when I realized it.

“You’re Doing It Wrong”: the century-old roots of mom-shaming

Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago

Shuping Wang: Whistleblower who exposed HIV scandal in China dies

GEO Group Runs Out of Banks as 100% of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector

The Toll of Me Too Assessing the costs for those who came forward.

“EMERGENCY POET” OPENS LITERARY PHARMACY TO SUPPORT MENTAL WELLBEING

Everything you need to know about Trump's plan to pull back from Syria

She Wanted An Abortion. Feds Say Her Ex Threatened to Bomb the Clinic.

Greta Thunberg Heads to Standing Rock to Support Indigenous Activists

This asylum seeker was shot in the head. Ice jailed him and gave him ibuprofen

Donald Trump Allegedly Hid Behind a Tapestry to Grope a Woman at Mar-a-Lago in the Early 2000s

China is killing religious and ethnic minorities and harvesting their organs, UN Human Rights Council told

Sunday Snippets: Impeachment

About. Fucking. Time.

How Ava DuVernay Made When They See Us, the Year’s Best Miniseries

Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke program portrays Islam too positively

Teaching Kindness Isn’t Enough

Teaching 6-Year-Olds About Privilege and Power

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.

Child Immigration Detention is Not Only Wrong, It Is Ineffective

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: Kavanope

This man doesn't deserve to be elected to anything.

To The Non-Racist White People, Please Just Be The First

Why White Parents Need to Do More Than Talk to Their Kids About Racism

Hundreds Of Roman Gold Coins Found In Theater Basement

Maryland is taking the EPA to court over air pollution coming from upwind states

Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities

Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Connection With Murders of 4 Women

House Farm Bill could prevent formerly incarcerated individuals from obtaining food assistance