Sunday Snippets: 40

Turned 40 yesterday. I'm so excited to see what this new decade holds (she says with an asterisk since she said the same thing in December 2019.....)

Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead

Entire police department relieved of duty in West Virginia town

Maryland teen killed at Battle of Camden identified 246 years later through DNA

Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

Why don't men read books written by women?

Solar energy from railways shows first positive results in Switzerland

How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?

Climate groups concerned by proposed Maryland building code

The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

Meet the People Protecting the Night Sky

Welcome to 1953

Enshittification Isn’t Limited to the Digital World

Nara Smith, Lindsay Clancy, Max Miller—and Our National Reckoning on Motherhood

ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”

Sunday Snippets: August and the wheel toward the end of the year

I love that quote about August being the top of the Ferris Wheel and we descend toward the end of the year.

Israel’s New Lynching Law Was Inspired by America’s Death Penalty

ICE shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine. This is the 2nd time in a week the agency used deadly force

Rereading Mark Twain While Everything Else Burns

Emily Atkin Is Not an Optimist

The case for optimism

Nicaragua's President Ortega says no more elections, extending his 20-year rule

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest 12-month level since 2014, show Brazilian data

The Extremist in the Family

Mr. Trash Wheel keeps cleaning up Baltimore’s messes

GLP-1s are shrinking bodies. Cadaver fat is plugging the gap

Every dog has its day, and Jonah makes the most of his with Marlins

The Forgotten Bombing of LaGuardia Airport

EU ban on destroying unsold clothes takes effect

'Don't dig up the dead' | Stafford County woman fights to protect historic cemetery from proposed data center development

We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?

I Am Launching an Analog Newsletter!

Sunday Snippets: Almost August

August is one of my favorite months. It's a liminal month.

Ukraine approves 80 km/h electric motorcycle that defeats thermal imaging and acoustic detection. It carries two soldiers in full gear

A textile designer’s charming cottage in Portugal, layered with vibrant colour and pattern

The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency

The Architecture of Detention and Deportation: From War-housing to Warehousing

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

The Netherlands is sending its worn-out wind turbines to Ukraine instead of the scrapheap

Tending to Paradise

The View from the Tents: Caring at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment

Workers Dredging the Savannah River Stumbled Upon 19 Cannons That Had Been Underwater Since the Revolutionary War

Dingus of the week: Schrödinger’s Mitch McConnell

Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down 13 Police Cameras Says They're Unconstitutional

Detroit artist rescues century-old Flint Faience tiles from abandoned Highland Towers before demolition

Disaster declarations ripple through South Texas amid water crisis

Sharks Have Individual Personalities, and One Naps on His Favorite Toy

I See My Father in the Fathers Killed by ICE

Notes from a burning Paris

Black Books Matter Fest returns to MahoganyBooks with a lineup of award-winning authors

Sunday Snippets: Kitty and a foiled bank robbery!?

It's not every day that my town shows up on The Guardian and NBC 4 News.

Losing Paradise

Spotlight on Asia’s vultures 20 years after game-changing drug ban

Letters from Delaney Hall

‘Cloud-milking’: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive

Maryland’s first ‘human composting’ facility is open for business

These Black Georgians Refuse to Be Silenced

Men Are in an Epidemic, Just Not the One You Think

Construction is a man's game. These women are demolishing the barriers

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

“That Guy Is Still Out There”

Scientists who identified remains of Revolutionary war soldier from Maryland hope to name others

Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail

House passes bill to ‘ditch the switch’ and make daylight saving time permanent

Too Many Books?

Sunday Snippets: Hot Socialist Summer

Here for it. I love how each summer gets it's own theme now.

Democratic socialists ride wave of momentum in primaries from New York to Colorado

Laura K. Sayers’ Vibrant Postage Stamps Celebrate the Beauty of Everyday Moments

Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet that are lighter than cotton candy

Inside Long Island’s Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant

Welcoming Claude Into the Classroom Risks the Soul of Education

The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

How the modern world turned gray (and why color may be coming back)

My breakup with Amazon

Tangier Island: rising waters, eroding shores, dwindling time

Why AI is Bad for Women Workers

The gas industry is sneaking into kids’ science classes

Trump administration sues the state over passage of the Community Trust Act

Sunday Snippets: 250 Years

I mourn the idea and not memory of what celebrating 250 years would have been, had the election gone the other way. I mourn a lot in the last two years, the last ten years.

The Museum of Joanna Goddard

Important Progress on AI Data Centers in Maryland

How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days

The ‘Tincture’ of Time

Plan to auction over 100 Titanic artifacts faces US government opposition

Gov. Beshear posthumously pardons 43 people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom

Cozy Backyard Reading Retreat That Looks Like an Amazing Tiny House

How Hollywood Does Abortion: Not Well, Expert Says

Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military

Ancient DNA helps identify bones of a lost governor and his family

The Feeding

Is a Bike Bus the Most Joyful Way to Get to School?

Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark

Happy Fucking Birthday

Native Americans celebrate victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, 150 years later

Finding real national pride on America’s 250th birthday

Sunday Snippets: Algae

The drain the swamp jackass made a swamp. If this were in a novel, no one would believe it.

5.5M ground nesting bees make home in Ithaca cemetery

8 Ways to Display Art in Your Kitchen

How Great Are These Wedding Photos?!

Are all husbands "Strangers"?

Cat ladies aren’t that ‘crazy’ after all – the social science behind the stereotype

Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis

AP exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a ‘dig of the century’ unearths 1,700 years of history

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

It's Time For a Shademaking Movement

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

Plans for Maryland vineyard, resort raise neighbors’ concerns

America’s Marriage Historian Says We’re in a Tug-of-War With the Past

Debugging on a major scale: Google seeks to unleash millions of sterile male mosquitoes

18th-Century Shipwreck Discovered in Deep Water Near Norway

Sunday Snippets: Almost Solistice

Halfway through the year and it's been a year for sure!

The nation holding back the sea

Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS

Inside and outside

The Spanish Exception

Why rescue donkeys are wearing donated socks from a pro soccer team

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

Resistance is only half the equation

The ripple effects of organizing against data centers

Senate panel pans DHS plan to stop customs processing at blue-city airports

For Black Women in Abusive Relationships, Gun‑Control Loopholes Can Engender Deadly Disparities

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

Trump plan would reopen Western Maryland coal plant

Rising costs of fuel, other goods squeeze already strained abortion funds

This Heat

The Biggish Picture

As Capitalism Gasps for Breath I Watch the Knicks Game

Plans for Maryland vineyard, resort raise neighbors’ concerns

Sunday Snippets: Crumbling

The shit is crumbling. The dynasty he wanted ain't gonna happen.

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

We love Olivia Benson

Residents fear Frederick County will be the new ‘data center alley’

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.

When ICE arrests you, what happens to your car?

I Fed the People Building the Metaverse

                  "The machine inherits its makers."

Troubled Water

Designer Sam Masters Waited 16 Years to Land His 420-Square-Foot Apartment

What I Witnessed In Palestine Made Me Think About My Gun

                “You like geese?” he asks with a smirk.

                 “No, I’m more of a birds of prey guy,” I reply, still staring at the geese.

                  “Ah,” he clicks his tongue. “You Americans, you always like things that kill.”

More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

Trump admin is terminating a vast network of ocean monitors

New research connects climate change to increasing heat-related heart disease nationally

'It's so chaotic': Humpback whales are forming super-groups

Sleep is delicious

"This celebration of sleep evokes recent critiques of unbridled capitalism – a rejection of hyper-productivity, often associated with exploitative labour practices. In his Aeon essay, the political theorist Jonathan White has shown that sleeping in sync with our natural circadian rhythms is a matter of political justice. Not only does poor sleep often accompany socioeconomic inequality, it also detracts from the capacity to cope with difficult life circumstances. ‘Poor sleep is a corrosive disadvantage – one that yields more of the same,’ he writes. White advocates for what he calls ‘circadian justice’, which would require a radical, but not impossible, restructuring of society so that everyone’s circadian rhythms are respected, and people are free to choose work schedules that suit their needs."

Sunday Snippets: June

Not sure how we are halfway through the year already. Time feels like it's galloping like a cheetah these days.

D.C. Third-Party Power Customers Paid 70 Percent More Than Pepco Rates, Costing Households Millions

Free grocery market set to open inside Prince George’s County library to fight food insecurity

‘You cannot unbird yourself’: Black Birders Week and the appeal of the outdoors for all

A 185‑year‑old diary is the center of the Anacostia Community Museum’s new exhibit

Georgia uncorks the value of Stalin's 40,000-bottle wine collection

NJ Senate approves bill to protect reproductive, transgender healthcare

Erin Brockovich Targets AI Industry With New Data Center Map

The Hard Truth My Party Needs to Face

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

What ‘Special Needs Mommy’ Influencers Get Wrong About Parenting Disabled Kids: Opinion

Pizza Hut owner pushes classic vibe, open to DC expansion

FDA moves ahead with safety study of abortion pill mifepristone