Sunday Snippets: Almost 2026

A month till the new year. Somehow and already

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

We know, from our collective experience, that once you become accustomed to the hyperefficient cybersphere, the friction-filled real world feels harder to deal with. So you avoid phone calls, use self-checkouts, order everything from an app; you reach for your phone to do the maths sum you could do in your head, to check a fact before you have to dredge it up from memory, to input your destination on Google maps and travel from A to B on autopilot. Maybe you stop reading books because maintaining that kind of focus feels like friction; maybe you dream of owning a self-driving car. Is this the dawn of what the writer and education expert Daisy Christodoulou calls a “stupidogenic society”, a parallel to an obesogenic society, in which it is easy to become stupid because machines can think for you?

My Wheelchair House

Maryland students work to preserve a unique bit of animal history about Greenbelt

US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island

A City Hall Wedding With a Special Guest in Tow

Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE

Why can’t you deduct the cost of child care as a business expense?

Maryland returns parcel of land to historic Black cemetery

Meet the Veteran Who Chases ICE on a Scooter

There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business

Sunday Snippets: What even is this shit?

This fucking season of the US is in-fucking-sane.

We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons

Why a bulldozer to the White House is a fat middle finger to America.

‘America is more divided than ever — but how is it affecting our love lives? I spent a year dating conservative men to find out’

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

The Acceptable Face of Need

This is 57: Bestselling Author Catherine Newman Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity

Tell Students the Truth About American History

Contract proposals show possible increase in ICE presence coming to Baltimore

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

US Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years

Sunday Snippets: Check in on your neighbors

Black People: Healing Justice Demands Borderless Struggle

Book Math!

A classic children's book series has me questioning my parenting

Check on your neighbors. Donate to local food banks. Set up a food pantry in your front yard.

For years, men controlled one village's coffee industry — but one woman changed that

What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?

The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia

“No Kings” in the Land Where Trump Is King

the mystery of the viral book flyer

48 Hours to Total Meltdown: This is Your Body on No Sleep

Texas Supreme Court rules that judges can refuse to marry same-sex couples

Moments of Connection

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

Meet the Volunteer Pilots Flying Patients From Red States to Reproductive Care

About half of all states now ban or severely restrict abortion, and some advocates worry that those aiding folks who travel for one could face legal repercussions. "You could see an aggressive prosecutor trying to say, under the current laws, that, 'We are going to charge this pilot with being an accessory to murder or an accessory to abortion,'" David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University, told NPR in 2023. "We haven't seen prosecutors try that yet. But there's good reason to believe that's on the horizon."

It’s an occasional topic of conversation in the Elevated Access chatrooms, but for the most part, E. says, these pilots have a very “come and take it” attitude.

“There’s some people who are worried about it, and there’s a lot more people who are like, ‘Nah, let ‘em try,’” she says. She thinks it’s indicative of how important this work is to people, how much they’re willing to fight. “I think sometimes certain entities in power underestimate how much this matters to people.”

Sunday Snippets: No Kings in the US

I was delighted to attend a #NoKings protest in my small town and we only got two middle fingers and one thumbs down!

In Mexico, New Mothers Are Seeking Out Old Rituals

Firm's robot boats used in 'hurricane alley'

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag

How Kenyan Villagers Saved Their Sacred Caves From a Mining Company

Does Channing Tatum Know How Good He Is?

Judge denies government’s request to delay Abrego Gargia’s legal proceedings

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

They Got to Live a Life of Luxury. Then Came the Fine Print.

The GOP’s Problem With ‘No Kings’? It Still Wants Subjects | Opinion

No One Will Trust the United States Again After Rubio Betrayed Informers Who Trusted Us

Sunday Snippets: No Kings 10/18

We must continue to speak out and make noise!

Resistance is respect for life

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

Community outraged after ICE arrest caught on video in Prince George’s County

Meet Dallas’s “Bubbliest” Wedding Officiant

How Jessica Reed Kraus Went from Mommy Blogger to MAHA Maven

How ‘The Pitt’ Gets Death Right

This Pennsylvania settlement could set the standard for preventing tiny plastic pellet pollution

Childhood Heat Risk is Rising

Chocolate City

Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation

Demand Your Voice

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

In case that was unclear

This Back-to-School Season, Teachers and Parents Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened

Should Kids Be Seen and Not Heard?

Q&A: How a Community Clinic is Overcoming a Political System that Left Behind Patients in Need

In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

I Can't Tell You What's Coming

Here’s What Life Is Like Inside One of Gaza’s Last Remaining Hospitals

Herbal Abortion Is Making a Comeback. So Are the Dangers.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

A Week of Outfits: Samantha Elise

Why is Barnes and Noble buying up another indie chain?

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and southern China

Sunday Snippets: Violence

I won't say anything about that murder, only to say political violence has existed for a long long time and it's been harnessed and fomented by many people.

Five Answers for the Modern Child

We can tell a different story about Hurricane Katrina and who we are in disasters

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

On the Edge of What Comes Next

Moms in the Picture

New Federal Harm Registry Invites Marylanders to Call Out Damage from Harmful Federal Policies

A 'last-ditch effort' to save death row inmate Robert Roberson includes author John Grisham

What to know about the mass Gen Z protests in Nepal

Dr. Peter Hotez takes the war against science very personally

Workers taken to hospital after FBI uses furnace to burn seized meth

An Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expands across the Amazon

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE Speaks Out

The World Has Failed to Stop Israel. Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die.

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen

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: Again and again and again

When are we going to stop being ok with kids being murdered by guns?

I'm so tired of gun toys

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

ReFED’s Sara Burnett: ‘GLP-1 Drugs & AI Will Have Profound Impacts on US Food Waste’

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.

Bush Lawyers’ Legal Arguments for Guantánamo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT

‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements

13 Readers Share Their Best Summer Moments

The Free Press Reports Gaza’s Starving Children Have Pre-Existing Condition Of Being Bombed By Israel

Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).

ID lost to Hurricane Katrina is returned 20 years later

These investigators patrol Las Vegas looking for one thing: water waste

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

GOP-authored Michigan bill would legalize discriminating against women who receive abortions

Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

In case that was unclear

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England

133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations

Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster

The Red Onion Font

D.C. has been under tighter federal control before. Here's what it looked like

Israel Reportedly Discussing Expelling Palestinians to War-Torn South Sudan

An SF startup is pitching Trump on militarizing humanoid robots

Texas lawmaker stuck in House floor over GOP 'permission slip' rule

Too much to pack, not enough hugs: A Kenyan man's last 48 hours in America

New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel

First We Gave AI Our Tasks. Now We’re Giving It Our Hearts.

Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why

Who Says You Can’t Live Off the Grid in Manhattan?

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”