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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Sunday Snippets: Palestine

We love Ms. Rachel. And it fucking breaks my heart that Pink is on the wrong side of history. I have literally listened to her for decades but if you can't fucking denounce a goddamn genocide, out you fucking go.

Plans for Six Flags site in Prince George’s County reignite Belt Woods concerns

I Lost My Dad on 9/11. He Loved His Office With a View.

Cancer Cases Explode Among WTC Health Patients, Underscores Ongoing Crisis 25 Years After 9/11

Helping the Terrorists to Win

Mississippi police arrest a man in the death of Tasia Fortune

Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place

Rooftop solar meets 99.9% of South Australia electricity demand

Passengers

Remembering Flight 93 through the lens of healing

Macklemore Stands Up For Palestine & Ed Sheeran Stands Down for Billionaires

25 years after 9/11, how do we build a movement to stop endless wars?

Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone

Man who died in Sacramento County Highway 50 standoff had stalked woman he executed, sheriff says

Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem

Spice Girls tease an announcement for their 30th anniversary

The Labor that Labor Day Doesn’t Count

Ground Zero - Then and Now

Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands

Artemis II moonshot commander and pilot are hanging up their astronaut suits at NASA

San Francisco's AI-run store is losing money fast. After a visit, I'm not surprised.

Thankful Thursday | Thank You, Tonya Sweat: This Fight Is Bigger Than One Candidate

A Maryland military mystery: Museum tries to identify soldiers in Civil War tintypes

The Beauty of the Gaza Encampment at Columbia

Oklahoma’s Next Gov. Wants to Jail Abortion Patients

Butts on Fire

We’re Seeing More A.I. Everyday, But It Still Sucks

A is for Airtight Categories, B for Blanket Statements, C for Cherrypicking....

They will call you "crazyyyy"

Why too many women are prescribed antibiotics for UTIs they don't have

We Asked Women to Share Private Texts, Searches, and Notes From Their Darkest Postpartum Days

My Typical Day as a Teenager in the Box on Rikers Island

Sunday, September 13, 2026

Sunday Snippets: Fall

Less than four months till 2027 and we are sliding from summer to fall. Summer is my favorite season but with each summer getting hotter, it's hard to enjoy it as I once did.

Summerween, Augtober, and the Death of Summer

There’s a recurring theme rolling through social media, where the solution is to ‘disassociate from extreme heat…’

And in order to do that, you need to run-not-walk to target, marshalls, homegoods, and michaels to buy fall themed items.

So, we’re disassociating from extreme heat by enabling systems (consumerism and fossil fuels) that perpetuate EXTREME HEAT.

[stage directions: SCREAMING OFF STAGE LEFT]

Does Meat Make the Man?

25 Years Since 9/11, When Will The Immigrant Victims Be Remembered?

Gate A-4

We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.

The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed

Officials demand answers after violent ICE confrontation with Frederick protesters

How To Love The World When It’s Like This

Op-Ed: ICE Is Building the Future of Immigration Enforcement

Oil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weakness

College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

Trump’s female army

Lifeguards and Angels

"we are not the dam trying to stop the river; we are the river that they are trying to dam, and whatever they build we will overtop it and flow in in the end."

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Abolition After Katrina

Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily

She Was Absolved of a Heinous Crime. Why Won’t They Leave Her Alone?

Lovely Dolly-isms

Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

Could Heat Disasters Kill 100,000 People This Year?

NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll

Baltimore’s Poe House launches emergency $50K fundraising campaign

Peekaboo island: the floating forest confounding nature watchers in western Canada

ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back

People talked about this rural ranching dire need for medical services, and the medical service or hospital could also provide jobs, could also treat people that need medical services in the town. So trying to think about actually what the needs of a community are can only be answered at the local level, but just one example of there are desperate needs for things that are not extractive, that are not just a new national retailer coming in. National retailers, the Walmarts, the Dollar stores, they actually have a lot in common with immigration camps or prisons that they come in, they promise jobs. They promise bright new funds that are going to be spread out through your community, but they don’t actually work....We don’t need mass investment in better prisons. We need mass investment in our communities.

Sunday, September 6, 2026

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, August 30, 2026

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, August 23, 2026

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, August 16, 2026

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, August 9, 2026

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.”