Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2026

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, 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.”




Sunday, March 9, 2025

Sunday Snippets: Stand with Ukraine

That shitshow of a 'great tv appearance' show how those morons were treating President Zelensky and how much they just played into Daddy Putin's hands. It was beyond shameful. We stand with Ukraine.

When is it time to have the courage to quit?

Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

Remembering Arlington’s long lost Black community of Queen City

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed

Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen read

Shoppers are avoiding certain brands over politics: poll

If you were rich, would you fold laundry?

Murmurations: Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology

The Craftsman

For one husband, caregiving came easier when he learned to 'shut up and listen'

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died

People are calling into right-wing radio shows to voice frustrations with the Trump administration

Boycotts, Echo Chambers, and the Illusion of Power: Why Symbolic Resistance Falls Flat

GOP reps encouraged to do town halls virtually rather than in-person after fiery meetings with constituents





Sunday, January 12, 2025

Sunday Snippets: Finding your people

One of the biggest ways we survive is finding our people. Working in community, finding a good friend to vent to, etc. 

The hidden costs of chronic accommodation

These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024

Far from the front lines, Ukrainians fight a war to preserve their culture

‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

Cux-Ajtzalam spoke in Spanish, saying she didn’t know English. There were other things she also said she didn’t know, having never had any sex education. It wasn’t until seven months after she claims a relative entered her room one night and raped her that she realized she was pregnant, she said.

“I never told anyone anything. I was ashamed,” she said, crying. (The man denied wrongdoing during an interview with The Post. He has not been charged.)