Sunday Snippets: Nearly 2027

This year has felt ten years long and yet in three months, it will be 2027. Time is such a weird thing.

I have lost everything

These NY Teachers Are Ditching Screens. Lawmakers Want Others to Follow.

What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder?

The opposite of the apocalypse is a neighborhood

Knocking for Help: A Pelican’s Unlikely Rescue

It's illegal for armed federal officers to be at polls. Lawsuits seek to ensure that

Reality intrudes

Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women

He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.

It All Turns On Affection

Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales

In Reversal, James Talarico Says He Opposes Trans Athletes in Girls’ Sports ‘If it Risks Safety or Fairness’

I read the new UN climate report so you don’t have to.

The open houses at the edge of disaster

Manhattan’s flood walls are almost done. What will Mamdani do next?

I bet there’s a story there

After years of trying, months of delays, Reparations Commission may start soon

82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984

Costa Rica to require wildlife crossings for roads when they impact fauna

Argentina’s solar train brings zero-emission travel to an ancient trade route

AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk

Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious

They’ve Been Screwed Over for 160 Years. Trump Is Screwing Them More.

270,000 Square Miles Around Easter Island to Become Indigenous-Managed Ocean Reserve

Consider the Dandelions

Poetry: “They cut off part of my lip today in order” by Ron Riekki

Concrete towers on the seabed scupper Cambodia's illegal trawling

Teeming with turtles: Cabo Verde island sees 80-fold increase in nesting loggerheads

The Tree in the Square

French Polynesia Protects Biodiverse Ocean Area Twice the Size of Arizona Teeming with Life

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes

Go North, Young Turtle

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: 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: FUCK ICE

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species

Point Lookout State Park To Adapt Facilities, Build Living Shoreline for Climate Resilience

Which Companies are Turning Food Waste Into Profit, How, and Why

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled

linework architecture

To see how Koreatown has changed over the years, look at its restaurant menus

Actress Says She’s Found Her Secret Online Abuser: Her Husband

The Nap Room Didn’t Love Me Back

Suleika Jaouad’s Love Letter to a Two-Hundred-Year-Old Farmhouse

Being Alone is a Pleasure – Not a Virtue

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

the things we should never find.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway.

The Case for Making Some Things Harder

I’m Not Done with You

How detention causes long-term harm to children

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care

In Gaza, education is a daily act of quiet resistance

Sunday Snippets: Again and again and again

When are we going to stop being ok with kids being murdered by guns?

I'm so tired of gun toys

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

ReFED’s Sara Burnett: ‘GLP-1 Drugs & AI Will Have Profound Impacts on US Food Waste’

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.

Bush Lawyers’ Legal Arguments for Guantánamo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT

‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements

13 Readers Share Their Best Summer Moments

The Free Press Reports Gaza’s Starving Children Have Pre-Existing Condition Of Being Bombed By Israel

Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).

ID lost to Hurricane Katrina is returned 20 years later

These investigators patrol Las Vegas looking for one thing: water waste

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

GOP-authored Michigan bill would legalize discriminating against women who receive abortions

Sunday Snippets: DC

He doesn't just get to turn the American military against its own citizens. And now he wants to come for Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago. You think he's going to stop with those cities? You think he's going to stop if people keep rolling over for him? We have to stop him.

Epstein and Oedipus

The Mamdani effect: how his win spurred more than 10,000 progressives to consider run for office

"How Can I Write At A Time Like This?"

Trump administration asks judge to end policy on protections for immigrant children in custody

Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It'd be unprecedented

Former acting FBI director involved in Jan. 6 investigations fired

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’

Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic

'Link in Bio' Ruined All Our Brains

       It’s more a metaphor for the current state of our collective psyche that Instagram has spent the last decade-plus shaping: smoother, less literate brains are just better for business. (Absolutely sad but true!)

Poetic murals, haiku recordings among laureate's plans for Detroit

Twenty Years After the Storm

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

The antisociality of the trad wife

3 Businesses Transforming Food Waste into Profit

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