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: 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: Ugh, body

I had grand plans for this weekend (raking leaves, cutting up the old christmas tree, turning compost, etc) and instead my uterus decided it was the Kraken.

Some important images:

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What fresh fucking hell is this shit?! No, of course we don't have a problem with race/racism in this country.

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Never more true than this weekend

God, I love cats, so very very much

I laughed so hard. To be fair, earthquakes are scary as hell. When we have the one in August 2011, the floor was rolling in my office and I got knocked into walls trying to make it to a doorway.

One of the cutest cats I've ever seen.

Yes. To all of this

Go Read This

I need white people to stop pretending consent was possible during slavery.

Stop lying to yourselves that those black cousins are the result of illicit love affairs & grasp that slaves could not say no.

When consent is not an option, when you’re only seen as 3/5ths of a human being & you have no legal standing? You can’t say yes.

I need white America to sit down for a sec. Look into the faces of black Americans with the same last names & figure it the fuck out.
“Hurricane Katrina shrank the Black population in New Orleans by 57 percent.”