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: FUCK ICE

FUCK ICE FOREVER AND EVER

Say Goodbye to Water Pipes: Japan Built a Machine That Purifies and Recycles Every Drop of Water in Your Home

If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?

Clitoris Researcher Wants You to Know Everything This Sex Organ Can Do

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

Tribune photographer describes capturing viral image from recent ICE protest

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say

I grew up with Alex Pretti

Study shows your genes determine how fast your DNA mutates with age

The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

‘We have to go out and touch people’: how activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic

‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels

This photographer was tackled by ICE

Researchers find trees could spruce up future water conservation efforts

Emergency legislation seeks to block ICE detainment facility in Elkridge

Maryland House, Senate pass bills to end 287(g) law enforcement partnership with ICE

Sunday Snippets: Good Trouble

Find a place on the 17th to get into good trouble.

Climate change is boosting the risk of sleep apnea

It’s Not Burnout — It’s Grief.

A sculptor's spectacularly creative farmhouse in Mallorca

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing

‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield

In One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Communities, Trump Terminates Funding for Air Monitoring

How sleeping in old schools is reviving rural Japan

A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like ‘a hole in one from the moon.’

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”

Afford to live & afford to dream

I'm a uni prof and here's what your kids are actually "learning" with AI

A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town

A private prison firm wants to detain immigrants in this Kansas town. Its residents are pushing back

What one town learned by charging residents for every bag of trash

Sunday Snippets: Tired

Bingo time: is it spring allergies, perimenopause or the horrors that make me wake up feeling more tired than when I went to bed?

K-12 schools must sign certification against DEI to receive federal money, administration says

Perfect poem

Pro organizers as capitalism therapists

Teaching in a ‘Sanctuary City’ Under Siege

“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

Stories of Resistance: Mothers of Argentina’s 30,000 disappeared half-century struggle for justice

Instagram and the Creative Process

Who Gets to Define Divorce

I spent four decades not sleeping a wink – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously

The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador

Chosen Places: Kamikatsu Village, Japan

Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia

Major deal wipes out $30 billion in medical debt. Even backers say it's not enough

Roberts temporarily halts deadline for Trump administration to return mistakenly deported man

A Maryland mother was detained by ICE nearly two weeks ago. So far, no evidence has been provided

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. Ceasefire. Ceasefire.

substack f***'d up and now we have to talk about it

Photos: Documenting the war in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passes 25,000

Cold War Bunker Turned Mansion In Missouri Can Be Yours

New fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the seas for at least 32 million years

World groundwater levels showing 'accelerated' decline - study

Tiny Flying Rainbows

Japan's village with the oldest population is wooing young residents to survive

Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why

Is it normal to cry over rotten produce?

Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE

The Subversive Act of Photographing Palestinian Life

How to Save Corporate Modernist Architecture

Sunday Snippets: Good news

Good vaccine news, CDC guidelines and the warmer weather have been such gifts this week.

In the Russian woods, a feminist retreat from Putin’s pressures

Idaho rejects $6 million in child care funding, sparking protests from women

Soulwork

Texas Won't Reduce $16 Billion In Electricity Charges From Winter Storm

COMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment

Workers Are Moving First, Asking Questions Later. What Happens When Offices Reopen?

10 Years Later, The Rescued Snapshots Damaged In Japan's Tsunami

St. Louis paraplegic inmate has been denied shower for months, suit says

Texas GOP lawmaker attempting to make abortion punishable by death penalty

Sunday Snippets: 200,000

200,000 dead Americans from a pandemic that could have been averted almost entirely.

I hope Trump burns in hell for it.

 Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office

#Tally14 Community Support Fund

Ted Cruz and a Bunch of GOP Senators Are Trying to Ban the Abortion Pill

The ripple effects of closed office buildings

Labor Day is the end of summer. But COVID-19 meant we didn't really have one this year.

The Ghost Towns Behind The Gates

2020 Comedy wildlife photography award finalists

Articles Round-Up: Japan Updates Edition

For Japan:

From Design Crush

Satellite Photos from the NY Times

From Shakesville Pt. I

From Shakesville Pt. II

Another from Design Crush

From Racialicious

From Tiny Papercuts  This one broke my heart just a little more than it already was.

Someone posted a video of the waves beating down a modern Japanese street on Facebook and I could barely watch any of it. My heart goes out to the Japanese people. Especially when we have asshats here that post horrible things on Twitter (no, I won't link to them, but it's easy enough to find if you wish).

In other news...

What a charmer Speaking as someone who has a mental illness, I'mma just take a moment to say Fuck you!

And another hearty Fuck you to Glenn Beck

Yes, because our toys aren't giving our kids enough of a complex already...

Really good read on breastfeeding within the African American community If the mom is able to, breast feeding is one of the best things you can do for your kids. I have a few international blogs on my reader and the mom who writes one of them breast fed her daughter until she was 3 1/2.

And for something completely different...

How cool is this?