Sunday, November 30, 2025

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, November 9, 2025

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.”