Sunday Snippets: 25 years

Twenty five years since we saw the horrors in New York, in DC and in Pennsylvania. I still struggle seeing the footage of 9/11.

11 Fixable Things that Make Life Harder for the Elderly, the Sick, and the Poor

A year in, the data center/AI battle starts to clarify

What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?

National Geographic unlocks rare 9/11 footage

Stuff

Pep Talk

It's been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back?

PUERTO RICO DOES NOT HAVE A WATER CRISIS — IT HAS A COLONIAL CRISIS

This is so neat!

Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday

Are We Outsourcing Our Intuition To Apps?

Billions of sea stars have died. A Northwest tribe is trying to save the species

Mister Anthony

We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil

Mobile detention sites, courtrooms inside the jails, and a clause saying state law does not apply. What ICE's new detention solicitation reveals

The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing

'84th floor... 12 people trapped': 9/11 widow's heartbreak as she's handed blood-stained note revealing husband's final moments in burning tower decade after his death

America’s Loneliness Trap

Sunday Snippets: God, this week

All the lives lost. Nepal. The pain. The heaviness.

As youth sports costs soar, one Oakland neighborhood tries a creative solution

It's Fucked That I Have To Think About AI

I watched my village disappear in an instant

ICE investigators want to buy voter data from every state

These former NBA players are cruelly treating trans rights like a game

Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meet in NYC to discuss how Democrats and Trump could cooperate

The Right Word is Wrongness

What we learned from a US bus tour of judges

In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

Maryland Hispanic student enrollment declines amid immigration fears

The Annunciation Diaries

Better Call Mom: Schools Still See Mothers as the Default Parent to Contact

Fun with numbers

The Lawyer Working to Nip Pregnancy Criminal Charges in the Bud

Minnesota Diary: Notes from a Somali Mother During ICE’s Winter Invasion

Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be

The Corals That Shouldn’t Exist

A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea

Healing the Waters Poisoned by Wars

From History to Headlines

The largest CMHC funded Indigenous led development project in Canadian History.

Sunday Snippets: Third grade

My son starts third grade this week. Time is a fickle goddamn thing because he was just a baby.

Take Five

Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war

What Is Freedom: Elissa Altman

Dog Days

State fairs forever (data centers never)

Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff?

Sherrill Administration Announces Statewide Housing Resources Ensure No Veteran Has to Go Homeless

The Family Physician Talking You Through Your Abortion

A Year of Confinement in Delaney Hall, With No End in Sight

I went to more than 20 yard sales last weekend

Cumulative access to print books improves literacy achievement: Evidence from a five-year randomized trial in high-poverty schools

Air Florida Flight 90 Tragedy: Blizzard, Heroism, and the Potomac’s Icy Waters

Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires

A Federal Judge Says the Constitution Still Protects Abortion

AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone

When data centers come knocking, counties should have a ‘wish list,’ officials say

If one thing was clear after the second major panel focused on the issue at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference, it was that data centers are not going anywhere — at least not any time soon. So counties should start preparing.

“Counties willing to negotiate can extract meaningful investment in their community’s futures while mitigating impact to their communities and residents,” Ullman said. “New schools, road upgrades, community centers, long-term support packages for local initiatives — it’s all on the table.”

Sooooo we just negotiate with captors in hopes of better cages? The fuck is this bullshit?

Sunday Snippets: I've watched The Terminator

Why are we just okie doke with AI programs invading and running wild? Have none of you fuckers watched any 90's movies?

Prince George’s police warn staffing shortage is straining neighborhood patrols

Farm's delight after six white owlets found nesting

July Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline

Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue

North Carolina just voted to protect animals in the Great Smokies with historic investment in wildlife crossings

No Batteries Required: Cranks, Gears, & Other Small Miracles

Country music stars unite against data centers spreading across rural America

No, Todd Blanche Didn't Promise a National Abortion Ban—But He Did Vow Something Else

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the Bipartisan Allure of Toxic Men: Opinion

Climate change threatens Amazon plants and culture

The findings offer a warning: Indigenous cultures in Amazonia could lose an average of 28 to 34 percent of the plant species they use by 2080. Many of the plants people rely on most are already rare, confined to just a few places — and are increasingly at risk from climate change. The losses would be local — plants disappearing from the specific areas that cultures depend on.

Abortion Had a *Great* Night

These Fires Will Burn for 100 Years

What D.C.’s election defense under occupation can teach us

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