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: 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: Fuck ICE

In case it was unclear. Fuck ICE, stop fucking kidnapping people

 JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it

PHOTOS: Protests against Trump coincide with Army parade

9 Women Talk About Joint Custody — the Highs, Lows, and Surprises

Quick to break, hard to fix: Meet the Metro worker ensuring your bus doesn’t stall on the way to work

This photo of the nearby Sculptor galaxy spans 65,000 light years

E. Jean Carroll’s new book is her refusal to let Donald Trump’s abuse define her

‘By Chance, Did You Win a Cottage in Ireland?’

Texas judge strikes down federal health privacy rule for legal abortion care

What It Would Take to Set American Kids Free

Black plastic spatulas, anti-vaccine fears, and the illusion of control

Websites expand ancestry records of enslaved people

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

Detention and Deportation as Seen Through a Family Group Chat

Archaeologists Are Recreating the Long-Lost Recipe for Egyptian Blue, the World’s Oldest Known Synthetic Pigment

Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Permanent ceasefire now. This needs to stop.

The Feminine Urge

College student explores rare mental health condition in award-winning podcast

This government memo warned of climate change in 1969

Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

Goodbye, carpet on Metro. Oldest trains in system to be removed

As a brutal genocide raged around her, Josephine smuggled 12 people to safety

Their first baby came with medical debt. These Illinois parents won't have another.

‘I will return to the US in an urn’: She moved to Portugal with her husband, and this American says she’s never coming back

Women Reading

Collapsed Baltimore bridge span comes down with a boom

Thawing permafrost threatens Alaska's rural villages. And time is running out

Sunday Snippets: Almost August

I love August. But am also confused at how quickly we approach it every year.

Slow Productivity is Already Here

Oh dear: Photos show what humans have done to the planet

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Vet Side-Eyes Disney CEO’s Slighting of Past Marvel Series

She saved the diary of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russia. Then she was killed, too

‘I want to be left alone’: 93-year-old Hilton Head Island woman is in a legal battle over her family’s land

The Best Way to Find Out If Someone Is a Trump Voter? Ask Them What They Think About Manhood.

Milan Kundera’s Stubborn Struggle for the Survival of Literature

Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission

They marched for desegregation — then they disappeared for 45 days

The Linden Oak was spared during Metro construction. Now it will be chainsaw art

What You Didn’t Know About Bruce Lee’s Life In Los Angeles