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

Sunday Snippets: Are we great again yet?

We are pepper spraying senators trying to check on our most vulnerable and are installing a fighting ring that looks straight out of Idiocracy.

‘A mask can’t hide you from God’: can you shame an ICE agent into quitting?

New species of giant dinosaur identified from remains found in Thailand

New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling

‘Very demure, very mindful’: how Jools Lebron went viral – and her life fell apart

This woman found a 3-carat uncut diamond in an Arkansas state park

What ‘Childlore’ Do You Still Remember?

‘Here, I am shrinking.’ Can this teen poet find her place in America?

Lane County’s advanced recycling facility aims to generate renewable energy and lower landfill use

Moore won’t sign immigration bills, but lets them become law

Venezuelan makeup artist who was deported to El Salvador seeks asylum in Spain: ‘I feel safe here’

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

Women-led patrols and fire prevention restore forests in northern Thailand

Md. county sheriffs file lawsuit challenging Community Trust Act

From ICE to Iran, veterans are challenging US militarism

Rare plant discovered in Maryland added to state endangered list

‘I’m a rare bird, still’: Why Black bird watchers are celebrating their love of nature out loud

Watchdog group accuses Blanche of misconduct in Tennessee prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Sunday Snippets: Late May

How is it almost June?

DNA reveals identities of 4 sailors from doomed 1845 Franklin expedition

Blood, Sweat & Tears

America is giving dying mall vibes

A Community Takes a Data Center Colossus to Court

forget the dolls

Gotcha! Odd language mistakes may help identify fake papers

Metal detectorist 'could have found belongings of Iron Age queen'

What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

You & I Are Earth

‘Super fun’: The tale of how a prehistoric shark became Maryland’s official state shark

Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Metro: It's Not Easy Being Green

Sunday Snippets: Stephen Colbert

The fact that Trump, among his many fucking crimes, could just decide get someone fired for free speech, still boggles.

Precrime is no longer science fiction

A passage from Homer’s Iliad has been discovered inside the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

Inside a hidden summer camp where trans youth in the South thrive

For The First Time In More Than A Century, Baby Eaglets Hatch In Chicago

When the habitat of an endangered bat went up in smoke, this ecologist dedicated herself to ending wildfires

START HERE > The Houses That Knew How to Breathe

Recreating the smells of history

NASA Rolls Out Artemis III Moon Rocket Core Stage

Mothers are the most underestimated force for change

‘We laced Nicole into her corset and her rib broke again’: Moulin Rouge at 25 – an oral history by cast and crew

On Parenting and Consent: When Sharing Isn’t Caring

Let's TALK climate

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Condoms in Romance: Tracking Down Claims About Firsts

Does crying actually make you feel better? New psychology research shows it depends on a key factor

Sunday Snippets: Keep Pushing Back

I will not sit on my hands to watch shit go down in flames. Keep speaking out, keep calling your reps, keep donating (if you can!), keep making fucking noise.

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind

For The People Newsletter Vol. XXXVIII

Running Toward ICE

New Orleans program does free house calls for new mothers. It’s saving many from going over a postpartum ‘cliff’

What really happened during the Black Death

ICE Is Planning New Fast-Track Construction Contracts

Pizza Hut's 'BOOK IT!' Summer Reading Program Returns to Provide Voracious Young Readers with Pizza Parties and More

"Men Are Scary."

My Daughter Has Autism. Here’s What I Want You To Know.

How to Take Better Photos of Moms (Listen Up, Dads)

Palestinian students are fighting for their right to education

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight

To Battle Climate Change, a Baltimore Church Turns to Nature

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

NYC Intercoms

When will men carry the weight of their own violence?

Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass

But his longer-term concerns are about deeper matters than job losses. In a roughly 20,000-word essay about A.I. risks posted to his personal blog in January, he warned that A.I. may create “an unemployed or very-low-wage ‘underclass’” for people with “lower intellectual ability.” That group would grow to encompass more of the population as A.I.’s capabilities allow it to outpace more humans. In that world, what’s at risk is not only wages but democracy itself. “The balance of power of democracy is premised on the average person having leverage through creating economic value. If that’s not present, I think things become kind of scary,” Mr. Amodei said last year to Axios.

Sunday Snippets: May

Somehow already May in this year that feels 10 years long.

Who Is L.A.’s Hero Posting Up These Anti-ICE Parking Signs?

Anti-data center measures gain traction at state, local level

Researchers have spent decades breeding better potatoes for chips, and their work isn’t done

An Exclusive First Look at Deesha Philyaw’s The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman 

Summons

How Ann Arbor, Michigan, is creating its own clean energy utility

Meet These Delightful Bookshop Cats (and One Dog!)

This common plant could clean microplastics from your drinking water

Endometriosis Is Often Excruciating. Pelvic Floor Therapy Can Help Some Patients.

When will men carry the weight of their own violence?

We're About to Enter A Thrifting Golden Age

Guerrilla Battle Over Padlocks and Tourist Trash on the Brooklyn Bridge

The Trump Admin Wants To Test Drinking Water For Abortion And Birth Control Pills

Love Poem to Taco Bell

'A remarkable time capsule': The enchanting history of Oxford University's 750-year-old medieval library

Why weekends are under threat

Sunday Snippets: MEN

I grew up in a violent household. Seeing what happened to Cerina Fairfax and the beautiful children in Louisiana...it's so unbelievably fucked and so predictable in this misogynist society.

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

A Domestic Violence Center Needed a New Home. This Brooklyn Church Answered the Call

41 Ways Washington, DC Leads in Sustainability

If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore

Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

Beavers can turn riverbeds into powerful carbon sinks, new research shows

Citizen ‘Frog Patrol’ helps amphibians survive a dangerous road journey in Poland

ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily Lives

Black Professor Sews Quilt Honoring Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

Israel Has Buried Gaza in Rubble, But Our Love for the Land Will Always Survive

How a Navy photographer snapped an iconic Artemis II astronaut photo

100+ journalists applaud the Internet Archive's role In preserving the public record

Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks

The Onion reaches new deal to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars

Sunday Snippets: Healthcare not war!

The fuck are we doing in Iran? Oh, right, distracting from the files. We need fund healthcare and investigate the goddamn files.

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War

On Yellow

After harsh winter, Ukrainians find joy in releasing bats rescued from war

How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?

‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park

The Data Privacy Act Passes in the House and Advances to the Senate ahead of Crossover to Protect Immigrant Families from Online Stalking by ICE

How Our Grandmothers Made Us and Saved Us

Some IBS Treatments May Be Linked to Slightly Higher Risk of Early Death

Every Single Post on My Neighborhood Mom's Group

Man Arrested for Suspected Grand Theft After Allegedly Replacing Legos with Pasta Before Returning Them for Refunds

How a lush Miami park was designed to keep flooding at bay – in pictures

How a tiny Texas town is using wind energy to help out senior citizens