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”

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: Birthdays

Friday was my birthday and by the time this posts, I would have officially entered the last year of my 30's. I turned 30 three months before the 2016 election so it's been a....ride, to be sure.

Where are the queer divorce stories?

A former shed on the Cornish coast reconfigured into a charmingly warm cottage

Family Faces Heart-Wrenching Choice to Leave Beloved German Shepherd Behind While Self-Deporting (Exclusive)

“You Feel Like Your Life Is Over”

What's it like to have Frank Lloyd Wright design your house? This 101-year-old knows

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children.

Tennessee school won’t accept doctor’s notes for absences

Families in Gaza Are Starving. What Can We Do?

Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions

Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say

Their Superpower? Holding Things.

Hard Things Are Supposed to Be Hard

How Climate Change Is Raising Your Grocery Bill

Sunday Snippets: Community

Community aid and mutual aid is what is going to see us through. Where can you shop local? Can you use a local coffee shop rather than a chain? Are there community groups you join? Can you walk along your street and pick up trash? Can you help flag ICE in your neighborhood to protect others?

Why we need a solidarity economy now

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

How Far Would You Go (and How Much Would You Pay) to Get Away From It All?

A Week of Outfits: Kayla Sossin

‘A national movement’: More than a dozen states consider laws around menopause care and training for doctors

Inside the Scrappy Network of Volunteers Protecting Their Neighbors From ICE

Toward an Architecture of Belonging

AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Seven Days At The Bin Store

Maryland moves to recognize Black boys' unmarked graves near historic detention center

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

No ordinary solidarity — inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world

Chef José Andrés speaks out as World Central Kitchen forced to pause cooking in Gaza

US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say