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: Ceasefire

Ceasefire NOW. Rafah is being bombed when that's where Palestinians were told to go. This is war crimes.

Tennessee law denied Allie Phillips an abortion. So she's now running for office

Why we're pushing for the 1970s conversation pit to make a comeback

Cool house in New York

Man accused of putting abortion-inducing drug in wife's water takes deal, to serve 180 days in jail

Missouri Republican candidate torches LGBTQ-inclusive books in viral video

Their journey to unearth a cemetery for enslaved people led to communitywide interest

honesty is a craft issue: lyz lenz in conversation with jeanna kadlec

Core Library Memories

What is 'domicide,' and why has war in Gaza brought new attention to the term?

THE WORK OF THE WITNESS

Sunday Snippets: Writing

So much great reading in this blog post; the first few links are essays on motherhood that I really enjoyed.

Motherhood is Time Travel

On Not Pretending

Grace, Eleven Ways

This is Love

Indoor air is full of flu and COVID viruses. Will countries clean it up?

‘We’re book nerds’: the female friends opening bookshops together

ACLU, protestor sue D.C. National Guard over helicopter use in 2020 protests

Making Space for Doing Nothing Helps My Artistic Practice

Denver donates 35 bison to Native American tribes

How to organize your books, according to people with thousands of them

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: Reshuffled

I moved my half of my shared office around recently so I can look out the window whilst at my desk and it has made all the difference.

The Tension

It’s Never Too Late to Uproot Your Life and Open an Inn

Whatever happened to the 'No Sex for Fish' women after the flood? Hint: It's 'amazing'

Meet the strippers working to unionize a Los Angeles dive bar

Trump warns of 'problems' like 'we've never seen' if he's indicted

Falling Bird

Ohio state school board to consider anti-transgender resolution

Dreaded Side Effect Rears Its Ugly Head in Latest COVID Variant

MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN MATT BIRK WARNS ABORTION LEADS TO WOMEN HAVING CAREERS, CLAIMS PRO-CHOICE ADVOCATES ARE ALWAYS PLAYING “THE RAPE CARD”

GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women’s suffrage and praised organization trying to repeal 19th Amendment

Sunday Snippets: Wedding anniversary

Celebrating 12 years with my husband this weekend!

The photographer with 60,000 undeveloped images of rock history ‘waiting to come back to life'

Study: White People Cared Less About COVID After Realizing It Hurt Blacks the Most

Married Poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris Prepare for News from Ukraine and to Find Out If Her Cancer Has Returned

A record number of Yellowstone wolves have been killed. Conservationists are worried

Maryland Becomes the Tenth State to Pass a Paid Family Leave Law

Mystery sarcophagus found in Notre-Dame to be opened NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

A Russian woman is jailed for replacing store price tags with anti-war messages

Trans woman's harassment on Metro is latest incident targeting LGBTQ+ people

Let This Be the Last Time

Ghosts at the Liquor Store

Sunday Snippets: End of the year

Almost three weeks until 2022. I'm almost more ready to say goodbye to 2021 than I was for 2020.

Man embraces minimalism and cuts down his possessions to just 44 things

Ann Patchett on Creating the Work Space You Need

People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021

I'm Black. My Son Is White. Here's What We Deal With When We Leave The House.

Poland plans to set up register of pregnancies to report miscarriages

Why Archaeologists Have Long Been Interested in Trash

Sunday Snippets: Vaccines

My mom already has hers and our state opens up to all at the end of April. I can't wait to get it in my arm!

Molly Crabapple on New York City Before—and One Day, After—COVID-19

The new stimulus bill includes a groundbreaking basic-income policy — parents can receive up to $3,600 per child this year

Becoming a Parent During the Pandemic Was the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done

The Coziest Apartment in Chicago

Japan says married couples must have the same name, so I changed mine. Now the rule is up for debate.

Maryland Officers Deescalate Situation, Offer Compassion to Man in Behavioral Crisis

Witnesses: Elderly Asian Woman Assaulted; Fights Off Attacker In San Francisco

He’s Hollywood royalty and now a movie star in his own right — but he made sure to take a long, hard road to success

Grown Up Words

Visualizing Gentrification In 'Remnants Of An Exodus'

Evie From "The Mummy" Franchise Is One Of The Most Underrated Characters Of All Time, Fight Me

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

Writing

Mmm, the possibilities...

I like #12, it's one of my goals for this year. There is a Barnes and Noble a mile from my office (yes, I'd prefer a local bookstore, but it's Bethesda, I'm taking what's out there) and I decided, every Wednesday, I try to write for two hours there. I've only done one session so far but I felt like I could fly. I forget the high that writing gives me.

These dates will be especially helpful, since I'm writing a new book this year. MG is still there, but I needed space from it, to let it breathe and decant.