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: 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

It's unconscionable that we don't have a ceasefire. Ceasefire now!

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #2: Lyz Lenz

Compare the Two Speeches

The enduring story for Underground Railroad Quilts

Getting off fossil fuels is hard, but this city is doing it — building by building

With a million cases of dengue so far this year, Brazil is in a state of emergency

Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net

70 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton discovered by a man walking his dog

Single dose of LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, study says

Heinz rolls out newly designed ketchup bottle that could set new standard for packaging

A branch of the flu family tree has died and won't be included in future US vaccines

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US

India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims

Sunday Snippets: July

Humidity is here, along with mosquitos. It's summertime proper now.

Could access to child care be the key to helping parents clear arrest warrants?

Crews unearthed a historic Texas cemetery. Five years later, bodies still haven't been ID'd

The world's worst industrial disaster harmed people even before they were born

Drone Photo Award winners capture the extraordinary beauty of the ordinary

Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that

Central Park birder Christian Cooper on being 'a Black man in the natural world'

“Cooking Them to Death”: The Lethal Toll of Hot Prisons

A historically Black community in Montgomery County works to cement its legacy

The Supreme Court’s latest opinion means innocent people must remain in prison

He saw the ghost of his racist grandfather. It helped lead to meaningful healing

GEORGIA TEACHER FIRED FOR READING CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE IN CLASS

Sunday Snippets: February

Already February somehow.

Shelter Reunites Homeless Woman with Her Dog and Vows to Help Both After Finding Pet with Note All the feels

When gun violence ends young lives, these men prepare the graves Also feels

Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

A project collects the names of those held at Japanese internment camps during WWII

Prompt 227. The Shape of Goodbye

A Total Amateur May Have Just Rewritten Human History With Bombshell Discovery

The Minimalist Photography Awards for 2022

North Dakota weighs ban on 'sexually explicit' library books

Opinion: Maryland is striking a blow at the absurd culture of over-work

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

This Nurse Wanted to Help Women Avoid Abortions. Then She Saw Infection Control Problems at a Crisis Pregnancy Center.

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: Tomato vines

There is something quintessential summer about snipping tomato vines and the smell they leave on your hands.

How the COVID pandemic redefined ambition

WORK: THE AMBITION AND ACCOUNTABILITY CONVERSATION

You Need A Better Out Of Office Message

A Complicating Energy

Living Memory

‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise

How the #FreeBritney Movement Is a Disability Rights Issue

Wait For It

Atikamekw families in Quebec still haunted by dozens of stories of ‘ghost babies’

Cancel Amazon Prime

Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations

Sunday Snippets: Texas

There are lots of ways to help folks. Especially since their fucking senator couldn't give a shit. Check out the work Beto and AOC are doing too.

Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It

Tennessee Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Allow Fathers To Veto Abortions I think the fuck not

Fear Is a Virus

Gorgeous house

Less Is More: Why 4 Women Decided to Downsize Their Homes and Declutter Their Lives

'I get better sleep': the people who quit social media

Black troopers accuse Maryland State Police of racism and discrimination, state senator says

Searching for Gwendolyn Brooks

Roxane Gay on How to Write About Trauma

Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like Catering to the Right Wing Elite

Almost A Year Into The Pandemic, Working Moms Feel 'Forgotten,' Journalist Says

There can be no more waiting

Allegations of shackled students and gang rape inside China's detention camps

GOP state lawmakers and election officials launch commission to examine voting laws

Sunday Snippets: Finding Hope

Where I can these days: dropping my ballot off a local ballot box, reading like crazy and making sure to rest.

 Congress Finally Passes Bill To Address Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women

Trump Supreme Court favorite Amy Coney Barrett would be the ultimate insult to RBG

Clear Language on Slavery

10 Ways to Find Stillness in Turbulent Times

Kentucky’s Only Black Female State Lawmaker And ‘Breonna’s Law’ Author Arrested

10 things you need to know to stop a coup

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: February

Trying to still savor the quieter pace of winter.

'Just Mercy' Attorney Asks U.S. To Reckon With Its Racist Past And Present

Martin Luther King Jr. Was More Radical Than We Remember

Maryland leads the nation in incarcerating young black men

DeVos compares abortion rights debate to slavery

Trump Administration Cuts Back Federal Protections For Streams And Wetlands

A Cop Was Just Charged With Murder Less Than 24 Hours After He Shot and Killed a Black Man Handcuffed in a Police Cruiser

The racism in healthy food

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: Summer songs

There are so many great summer songs I love, I play them all Memorial Day weekend.

A Native American woman's brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law

A homeless Oakland couple moved into a $4 million Piedmont home. Then came the calls to police

Toronto Restaurant Fights Waste By Chopping Menu Prices Till Food Is Gone

University of Cambridge to look into how it benefited from slavery

Rebecca Solnit: Unconscious Bias is Running for President

Sunday Snippets: So tired

Kiddo has been sick all last week. The week before that, we had food poisoning and one of our beloved kitties died. It's been a rough couple of weeks.

Equal-Opportunity Evil

Sharon Bottoms Mattes, who lost gay rights custody battle to her mother, dies at 48

As a New Rembrandt Show Opens, This Dutch Charity Is Bringing Terminally Ill Patients to See It

Police raid home of suspected German paedophile

Trump’s Pick to Lead the Office of Violence Against Women Believes Guns Can Reduce Domestic Violence