Sunday Snippets: Finding your people

One of the biggest ways we survive is finding our people. Working in community, finding a good friend to vent to, etc. 

The hidden costs of chronic accommodation

These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024

Far from the front lines, Ukrainians fight a war to preserve their culture

‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

Cux-Ajtzalam spoke in Spanish, saying she didn’t know English. There were other things she also said she didn’t know, having never had any sex education. It wasn’t until seven months after she claims a relative entered her room one night and raped her that she realized she was pregnant, she said.

“I never told anyone anything. I was ashamed,” she said, crying. (The man denied wrongdoing during an interview with The Post. He has not been charged.)

Louisiana’s Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans’ Decaying Water Infrastructure Until Women Who Seek Abortions Are Prosecuted

Disability advocate Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone

You Turned a Mall Into Housing?

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term

Photos: Thousands in Los Angeles evacuate as wind-fueled Palisades Fire quickly worsens

The #Resistance Is Dead. Welcome to the #Surrender.

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: Slow

I keep hearing this word, being drawn to it this year. Not sure why yet.

Step Inside Bill and Hillary Clinton's Deeply Personal Washington, D.C., Home

US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”

'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies

Before, and After, the Jogger Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.

A ‘Central Park Five’ Survivor’s Tear-Filled Plea: ‘Trump Put a Bounty On Our Heads’

Sunday Snippets: We are so totally fucked

Insects are going ka-poof, countries are literally sinking, etc. Just fucked.

Environment in multiple crises - report

Terry Crews Refuses To Be 'Shamed’ Over Alleged Sexual Assault In Powerful #MeToo PSA

‌’Social Justice’ Author Faces ‌Ba‌ckl‌a‌sh Over Tweets‌ ‌‌A‌tta‌c‌‌k‌i‌‌ng Marie Kondo for Not Speaking English

Baltimore will no longer prosecute marijuana possession cases, state's attorney says

SENTENCED TO LIFE AT 16 IN SLAYING OF MAN WHO SHE SAID PULLED A GUN ON HER

ACTION ALERT! SUPPORT SB0196/HB0421 – MODERNIZE STATE IDS

Sunday Snippets: Shutdown

At least it's over. Until February 15th. Christ alive.

Children of the Night This is insane, I had no idea.

Woman sued over death of babies, faking qualification WHAT THE FUCK

I’ve Talked With Teenage Boys About Sexual Assault for 20 Years. This Is What They Still Don’t Know

Sunday Snippets: Mueller Christmas

Please Mueller. Please.

Christine Blasey Ford Is Donating Her GoFundMe Money To Sexual Assault Survivors

ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees

TERRY CREWS IS A MODEL OF A MAN

I have forgotten how to read

We broke down what climate change will do, region by region

Rare white reindeer calf spotted on camera in Norway

Sunday Snippets: BLESS YOU FALL

THE BUGS HATH DIED FOR ANOTHER YEAR

Love Scully

Wendy's Twitter is brutal

True story of cats

Here for this

Report: More Than 150 Land Defenders Murdered So Far This Year

WOMEN SHOULDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE, SAYS ‘ALT-RIGHT’ LEADER RICHARD SPENCER Well, Dick, I think you should hide in a cave, but here we are.

#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism Goddamit

Hork

Sunday Snippets: Heat hath returned

Along with bugs, sadly

I'm not anti-police — I'm anti-police brutality and corruption YES. Distinction is important!

This shit is terrifying

I love this idea

This is how you fucking get zombies But no, climate change, totes not real.

Fucking cruel Because Flint hasn't suffered enough

This is one of my many fears if/when I get pregnant

TW for sexual assault  My god, the people laughing as this is happening. Horrifying.

Dinosaurs are awesome

Beautiful 22-year-old mother Symone Marshall dies in Texas police custody after weeks of neglect

Jeff Sessions decision to re-up in the drug war won't work

Law enforcement priorities exacerbated this problem. African Americans are four times as likely as whites to be arrested for drug offenses despite the fact that whites and blacks use drugs at roughly the same rate and that people who buy drugs usually purchase them from sellers of their own racial or ethnic background. 

This is heartwarming

Sunday Snippets: Savoring

I really miss being a kid sometimes. When I could actually savor/enjoy the fall holidays, rather than having them as placeholders for the Christmas season.

It makes me so sad that I can't get into the Halloween or even Thanksgiving spirit because I'm being smacked upside the head with all things Christmas.

Yay adoption! And fostering! I wish it weren't so damned expensive. I would love to adopt.

Whoop, there it is

*snorts*

*hides in a bottle of whiskey* I'm fucking scared.

Bless this man

Love this So very accurate, especially for me with anxiety

America 2016, same as it ever was.

A white police officer in Baltimore violently dragged a Black teen out of his home after he requests a warrant, and the whole wrongful arrest is caught on video.

With Standing Rock

I really hate people sometimes. It gets worse around Halloween.

No Need to Reply

RIP Abe

Sunday Snippets: Cleaning

I've cleaned out one office and my closet. I has a tired.

Is the Library of Things an answer to our peak stuff problem? 10000000% love this idea!

Hate Crime Charge Considered Against White Supremacist Who Ran Over Black Teen Fucking yes, he should be charged with a hate crime.

Seriously? Goddamn white people

#DarrenSeals

It Happened (TW)

Funny how that works

Hear hear

So freaking cool Moar science news plz and less Cheeto Hitler?

HANG THIS IMAGE IN ALL THE DAMN CLASSROOMS. I’M DONE.

God bless Terry Crews I adore him.

#GynnyaMcMillen #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceBrutality

Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester

YES NESSIE! Huge Nessie fan.