Sunday Snippets: Palestine

We love Ms. Rachel. And it fucking breaks my heart that Pink is on the wrong side of history. I have literally listened to her for decades but if you can't fucking denounce a goddamn genocide, out you fucking go.

Plans for Six Flags site in Prince George’s County reignite Belt Woods concerns

I Lost My Dad on 9/11. He Loved His Office With a View.

Cancer Cases Explode Among WTC Health Patients, Underscores Ongoing Crisis 25 Years After 9/11

Helping the Terrorists to Win

Mississippi police arrest a man in the death of Tasia Fortune

Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place

Rooftop solar meets 99.9% of South Australia electricity demand

Passengers

Remembering Flight 93 through the lens of healing

Macklemore Stands Up For Palestine & Ed Sheeran Stands Down for Billionaires

25 years after 9/11, how do we build a movement to stop endless wars?

Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone

Man who died in Sacramento County Highway 50 standoff had stalked woman he executed, sheriff says

Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem

Spice Girls tease an announcement for their 30th anniversary

The Labor that Labor Day Doesn’t Count

Ground Zero - Then and Now

Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands

Artemis II moonshot commander and pilot are hanging up their astronaut suits at NASA

San Francisco's AI-run store is losing money fast. After a visit, I'm not surprised.

Thankful Thursday | Thank You, Tonya Sweat: This Fight Is Bigger Than One Candidate

A Maryland military mystery: Museum tries to identify soldiers in Civil War tintypes

The Beauty of the Gaza Encampment at Columbia

Oklahoma’s Next Gov. Wants to Jail Abortion Patients

Butts on Fire

We’re Seeing More A.I. Everyday, But It Still Sucks

A is for Airtight Categories, B for Blanket Statements, C for Cherrypicking....

They will call you "crazyyyy"

Why too many women are prescribed antibiotics for UTIs they don't have

We Asked Women to Share Private Texts, Searches, and Notes From Their Darkest Postpartum Days

My Typical Day as a Teenager in the Box on Rikers Island

Sunday Snippets: 25 years

Twenty five years since we saw the horrors in New York, in DC and in Pennsylvania. I still struggle seeing the footage of 9/11.

11 Fixable Things that Make Life Harder for the Elderly, the Sick, and the Poor

A year in, the data center/AI battle starts to clarify

What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?

National Geographic unlocks rare 9/11 footage

Stuff

Pep Talk

It's been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back?

PUERTO RICO DOES NOT HAVE A WATER CRISIS — IT HAS A COLONIAL CRISIS

This is so neat!

Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday

Are We Outsourcing Our Intuition To Apps?

Billions of sea stars have died. A Northwest tribe is trying to save the species

Mister Anthony

We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil

Mobile detention sites, courtrooms inside the jails, and a clause saying state law does not apply. What ICE's new detention solicitation reveals

The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing

'84th floor... 12 people trapped': 9/11 widow's heartbreak as she's handed blood-stained note revealing husband's final moments in burning tower decade after his death

America’s Loneliness Trap

Sunday Snippets: Third grade

My son starts third grade this week. Time is a fickle goddamn thing because he was just a baby.

Take Five

Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war

What Is Freedom: Elissa Altman

Dog Days

State fairs forever (data centers never)

Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff?

Sherrill Administration Announces Statewide Housing Resources Ensure No Veteran Has to Go Homeless

The Family Physician Talking You Through Your Abortion

A Year of Confinement in Delaney Hall, With No End in Sight

I went to more than 20 yard sales last weekend

Cumulative access to print books improves literacy achievement: Evidence from a five-year randomized trial in high-poverty schools

Air Florida Flight 90 Tragedy: Blizzard, Heroism, and the Potomac’s Icy Waters

Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires

A Federal Judge Says the Constitution Still Protects Abortion

AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone

When data centers come knocking, counties should have a ‘wish list,’ officials say

If one thing was clear after the second major panel focused on the issue at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference, it was that data centers are not going anywhere — at least not any time soon. So counties should start preparing.

“Counties willing to negotiate can extract meaningful investment in their community’s futures while mitigating impact to their communities and residents,” Ullman said. “New schools, road upgrades, community centers, long-term support packages for local initiatives — it’s all on the table.”

Sooooo we just negotiate with captors in hopes of better cages? The fuck is this bullshit?

Sunday Snippets: I've watched The Terminator

Why are we just okie doke with AI programs invading and running wild? Have none of you fuckers watched any 90's movies?

Prince George’s police warn staffing shortage is straining neighborhood patrols

Farm's delight after six white owlets found nesting

July Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline

Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue

North Carolina just voted to protect animals in the Great Smokies with historic investment in wildlife crossings

No Batteries Required: Cranks, Gears, & Other Small Miracles

Country music stars unite against data centers spreading across rural America

No, Todd Blanche Didn't Promise a National Abortion Ban—But He Did Vow Something Else

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the Bipartisan Allure of Toxic Men: Opinion

Climate change threatens Amazon plants and culture

The findings offer a warning: Indigenous cultures in Amazonia could lose an average of 28 to 34 percent of the plant species they use by 2080. Many of the plants people rely on most are already rare, confined to just a few places — and are increasingly at risk from climate change. The losses would be local — plants disappearing from the specific areas that cultures depend on.

Abortion Had a *Great* Night

These Fires Will Burn for 100 Years

What D.C.’s election defense under occupation can teach us

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: 250 Years

I mourn the idea and not memory of what celebrating 250 years would have been, had the election gone the other way. I mourn a lot in the last two years, the last ten years.

The Museum of Joanna Goddard

Important Progress on AI Data Centers in Maryland

How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days

The ‘Tincture’ of Time

Plan to auction over 100 Titanic artifacts faces US government opposition

Gov. Beshear posthumously pardons 43 people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom

Cozy Backyard Reading Retreat That Looks Like an Amazing Tiny House

How Hollywood Does Abortion: Not Well, Expert Says

Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military

Ancient DNA helps identify bones of a lost governor and his family

The Feeding

Is a Bike Bus the Most Joyful Way to Get to School?

Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark

Happy Fucking Birthday

Native Americans celebrate victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, 150 years later

Finding real national pride on America’s 250th birthday

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: 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: 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: 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