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: 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 Snippets: Hot Socialist Summer

Here for it. I love how each summer gets it's own theme now.

Democratic socialists ride wave of momentum in primaries from New York to Colorado

Laura K. Sayers’ Vibrant Postage Stamps Celebrate the Beauty of Everyday Moments

Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet that are lighter than cotton candy

Inside Long Island’s Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant

Welcoming Claude Into the Classroom Risks the Soul of Education

The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

How the modern world turned gray (and why color may be coming back)

My breakup with Amazon

Tangier Island: rising waters, eroding shores, dwindling time

Why AI is Bad for Women Workers

The gas industry is sneaking into kids’ science classes

Trump administration sues the state over passage of the Community Trust Act

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: 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: 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

Sunday Snippets: FFS

Just what the fuck.

Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross-national analysis

How Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan

Woman Buys Cat Ornament for $25 at Estate Sale—Then Realizes Its True Value

She filed a discrimination lawsuit for endometriosis. She won.

A Look at the History of Racial Violence in Montgomery County

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed About Abortion Access—Research

Accidental Bookmarks

Ancient bacteria strain discovered in ice cave is resistant to some modern antibiotics

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China’s Wind and Solar Buildout

Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests

Amid Trump’s War on Antifa, Activists Face Arrest for Zines and Group Chats

The Heart in the Hand

Community saddened after Little Free Library is stolen from outside Park Heights salon

A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her

Burning Down the House

Alison Piepmeyer’s House Is Filled With Books and “Dramatic” Paint

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

FUCK ICE forever

Those Who Try to Erase History Will Fail

Painted rocks

Security Guard At ‘Zombie’ Bangor Mall Orders Customer To Stop Filming As City Cuts Power

The model railroad world feels a pinch from global trade uncertainty

Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms

New study tells us what’s up with what’s going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software.

FDA Targets Gender-Affirming Garments, Warning Companies that Serve Trans Customers

Former IDF soldiers are challenging the normalization of the occupation

Prince George’s Democrat introduces bill allowing utilities to build energy projects

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal accuses DOJ of 'spying' on her search history from unredacted Epstein files review

My Beauty Uniform: Felicity Aston

County Executive Aisha N. Braveboy Signs Executive Order Placing Moratorium on Detention Centers

Montgomery Co. passes bill to protect immigrants and limit cooperation with ICE

To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog

Governor Moore Signs Legislation to Prohibit Maryland Jurisdictions from Deputizing Officers for Federal Civil Immigration Enforcement

Vigil at Aurora detention center honors migrants with Valentine's Day cards

Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests

Antarctic penguin breeding cycles changing rapidly in response to climate change, study shows

"Climate change allows generalist species to outcompete specialists as the latter lose specialist habitat while generalists … cope better with high environmental variance," it said."

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: FUCK ICE

FUCK ICE FOREVER

10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut

What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?

Quilt Shanty

Macaulay Library’s Best Bird Photos 2026

What I tell My Kids, and What We Do from Here

Here's what I'm thinking

Hope core and joy bait

Empty vehicles, dropped calls: The eerie scenes as ICE came to Maine

The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE

‘I was probably just as lost as my callers’: my six months as a telephone psychic

There is no such thing as other people’s children

Ukrainian History Global Initiative

DHS buys warehouse in Maryland to possibly hold detained immigrants

A (Petite) Week of Outfits: Caitlin Abber

Brendan Fraser, 57, Has Nothing Left to Prove

How much can a city take?

After COP30, Indigenous narratives are more important than ever

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

AND WE DON'T NEED TO INVADE GREENLAND FFS

Crews reconstructing tidal system in South Baltimore in effort to bring back vibrant ecosystem

Honoring the many responses to Renee Nicole Good’s murder

What We Do in Winter

Fierce, Maternal, Communal Love

Chloe Fox shares the hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream

A novel sanctuary in Antarctica is preserving ice samples from rapidly melting glaciers

What is happening in Iran? Internet blackout continues after widespread anti-regime protests

We're all just content for ICE

The Unspeakable, Enabled

Meet Our Tiny Terrapin Hatchling

Bearing Witness Without Burning Out

Why Winter Fatigue Is Not the Right Problem To Solve

ICE seeks to open detention facility in Washington County, lawmakers say

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

Those bastard Nazi kidnappers. Renee Good and Keith Porter should still be here.

ROAR celebrates Baltimore’s lowest homicide rate in nearly 50 years, while remaining cautious about the challenges ahead

Delegate proposes barring Trump hired ICE agents from ever becoming Maryland police officers

ICE Is a Virtual Secret Police

She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.

Are Contemporary Fridges the Problem, or Is It Us?

‘Poet, writer, wife, mom’: who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent?

Renee's Poem

The birth of the climate doula

My "Convalescence Craft": Weaving Potholders

Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them

Inflatables, rainbow crosswalks, flooding snitch lines — creative action was off the charts in 2025

Diverging transposon activity among polar bear sub-populations inhabiting different climate zones

‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE

Sunday Snippets: What even is this shit?

This fucking season of the US is in-fucking-sane.

We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons

Why a bulldozer to the White House is a fat middle finger to America.

‘America is more divided than ever — but how is it affecting our love lives? I spent a year dating conservative men to find out’

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

The Acceptable Face of Need

This is 57: Bestselling Author Catherine Newman Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity

Tell Students the Truth About American History

Contract proposals show possible increase in ICE presence coming to Baltimore

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

US Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years

Sunday Snippets: No Kings 10/18

We must continue to speak out and make noise!

Resistance is respect for life

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

Community outraged after ICE arrest caught on video in Prince George’s County

Meet Dallas’s “Bubbliest” Wedding Officiant

How Jessica Reed Kraus Went from Mommy Blogger to MAHA Maven

How ‘The Pitt’ Gets Death Right

This Pennsylvania settlement could set the standard for preventing tiny plastic pellet pollution

Childhood Heat Risk is Rising

Chocolate City

Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation

Demand Your Voice

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

In case that was unclear

This Back-to-School Season, Teachers and Parents Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened

Should Kids Be Seen and Not Heard?

Q&A: How a Community Clinic is Overcoming a Political System that Left Behind Patients in Need

In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

I Can't Tell You What's Coming

Here’s What Life Is Like Inside One of Gaza’s Last Remaining Hospitals

Herbal Abortion Is Making a Comeback. So Are the Dangers.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

A Week of Outfits: Samantha Elise

Why is Barnes and Noble buying up another indie chain?

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and southern China

Sunday Snippets: Violence

I won't say anything about that murder, only to say political violence has existed for a long long time and it's been harnessed and fomented by many people.

Five Answers for the Modern Child

We can tell a different story about Hurricane Katrina and who we are in disasters

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

On the Edge of What Comes Next

Moms in the Picture

New Federal Harm Registry Invites Marylanders to Call Out Damage from Harmful Federal Policies

A 'last-ditch effort' to save death row inmate Robert Roberson includes author John Grisham

What to know about the mass Gen Z protests in Nepal

Dr. Peter Hotez takes the war against science very personally

Workers taken to hospital after FBI uses furnace to burn seized meth

An Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expands across the Amazon

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE Speaks Out

The World Has Failed to Stop Israel. Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die.

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen

Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

Always. Fuck ICE

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Maryland protesters call for state to cut ties with Avelo Airlines over deportation flights

Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice

Maryland Taps Affordable Care Act Fund To Help Pay for Abortion Care

As immigration arrests surge, so does number of Maryland sheriffs agreeing to work with ICE

A Week of Outfits: Sharon Beesley

‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina

Israel Announces Total Siege of Gaza City, Declaring Entire Area “Combat Zone”

DC Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Folk Hero Who Tossed Sandwich at CBP Officer

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

How ‘Fawning’ Is Ruining Your Relationships

With a Black governor, a powerful Black Caucus, and a lawsuit, Maryland reckons with reparations

Former Top Biden Spox Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed Hamas

Dozens of Countries Are Working Together to Plant ‘Great Green Wall’ Across Africa – and It is Holding Back Poverty

Estrangement as a Trauma-Informed Choice

How LA is uniting to provide mutual aid for those impacted by ICE raids

Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

In case that was unclear

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England

133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations

Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster

The Red Onion Font

D.C. has been under tighter federal control before. Here's what it looked like

Israel Reportedly Discussing Expelling Palestinians to War-Torn South Sudan

An SF startup is pitching Trump on militarizing humanoid robots

Texas lawmaker stuck in House floor over GOP 'permission slip' rule

Too much to pack, not enough hugs: A Kenyan man's last 48 hours in America

New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel

First We Gave AI Our Tasks. Now We’re Giving It Our Hearts.

Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why

Who Says You Can’t Live Off the Grid in Manhattan?

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”