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: 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: Second shot

Got my second shot last week! Thank you so much science.

How Donald Trump Wanted the End of History

How Audie Cornish Went From Feeling Like Journalism's 'Last Dinosaur' To Being One Of NPR's Top Hosts

    Here's the trick: You will be rewarded for working like an animal, but you also will be treated like an animal. People will keep hurling things at you. No one is going to ask you if you need help. No one's going to ask you if it's time to stop. When you're really ambitious, the only thing that's going to stop anything is you.

Back Draft: Clint Smith

In a First, Researchers Discover a Pregnant Egyptian Mummy

In McConnell’s boyhood town where his family owned slaves, the reparations debate thrives

Idaho Just Made It Illegal To Teach “Critical Race Theory”

The Republican War Against Trans Kids

Remains Found in North Carolina Storage Unit Identified as Turtle Mountain Chippewa Woman Missing for 15 Years

Lawsuit filed over Maryland’s last standing Confederate statue

The Sexist Backlash to Universal Day Care

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."