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: 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: 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: 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: Are we great again yet?

We are pepper spraying senators trying to check on our most vulnerable and are installing a fighting ring that looks straight out of Idiocracy.

‘A mask can’t hide you from God’: can you shame an ICE agent into quitting?

New species of giant dinosaur identified from remains found in Thailand

New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling

‘Very demure, very mindful’: how Jools Lebron went viral – and her life fell apart

This woman found a 3-carat uncut diamond in an Arkansas state park

What ‘Childlore’ Do You Still Remember?

‘Here, I am shrinking.’ Can this teen poet find her place in America?

Lane County’s advanced recycling facility aims to generate renewable energy and lower landfill use

Moore won’t sign immigration bills, but lets them become law

Venezuelan makeup artist who was deported to El Salvador seeks asylum in Spain: ‘I feel safe here’

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

Women-led patrols and fire prevention restore forests in northern Thailand

Md. county sheriffs file lawsuit challenging Community Trust Act

From ICE to Iran, veterans are challenging US militarism

Rare plant discovered in Maryland added to state endangered list

‘I’m a rare bird, still’: Why Black bird watchers are celebrating their love of nature out loud

Watchdog group accuses Blanche of misconduct in Tennessee prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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: 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

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: NO FUCKING KINGS

I hope you had a chance to get out to a #NoKings protest yesterday. They matter. We matter.

How high school students are organizing walkouts against ICE

The Scottish island that bought itself

This Pill Treats Postpartum Depression. So Why Don’t More People Take It?

Ireland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck

Ohio bill would require fetal life and death certificates

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands

The LA wildfire survivors still living in toxic homes: ‘We have nowhere else to go’

Maryland sheriffs are considering taking legal action against the State over ICE 287(g) ban

It’s time to oust Stephen Miller

Native American tribes in the West are trying — and succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein

USPS cutting delivery days ‘on the table,’ as agency runs out of cash, postmaster general tells lawmakers

Bill bans those convicted in the Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol from serving on Maryland boards

YouTube Face Has Infected the Internet

‘No Kings’ protests erupt across the US, with a Minnesota focus

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks’ estate over use of her ‘stolen’ cells to advance medicine

A teacher was killed during an ICE chase last week. Why you probably didn’t hear about it

An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75)

Bill to require factual teaching about US Capitol attack clears Va. General Assembly

Volunteer Group Documents Smithsonian Wall Text as Trump Administration Presses Cultural Review

‘We’re losing accessibility’: the US says goodbye to the mass-market paperback

How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos

Tiny Love Stories: ‘If He Doesn’t Come, I’ll Marry You’

Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility

Package of bills aimed at lowering energy bills introduced in Maryland

Hair: The Long and Short of It

Reframing Georgia O'Keeffe's legacy and protecting the land she loved

After the bombs drop

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

They need to get the hell out of our streets.

She was denied a legal abortion and sent to prison over an illegal one. Now she tells her story

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review

Pam Bondi Belongs on the List of the Scariest White Women to Ever Hold Power

Maryland sheriffs vow to fight bill banning 287(g) agreements with ICE

Searchers find wreck of luxury steamer lost in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago

Farewell pocket books

When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk

Moore says Democrats need to ‘stop being the party of no and slow’

A Chapter A Day

The New Turing Test

Deadly ICE chase crash in Savannah: Here's what we know

This Colorful L.A. House Will Make You Want Green Floors

There's a Reason Women Aren't Swooning Over AI Like Men Are

Russian woman carried Ukraine placard at Winter Olympics opening ceremony

‘Clean air should not be a privilege’: how Bogotá is tackling air pollution in its poorest areas

Grant will fuel probe of deaths, unmarked graves at former reform school for Black boys

Who does your moral algorithm and imagination see?

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month

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: Almost 2026

A month till the new year. Somehow and already

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

We know, from our collective experience, that once you become accustomed to the hyperefficient cybersphere, the friction-filled real world feels harder to deal with. So you avoid phone calls, use self-checkouts, order everything from an app; you reach for your phone to do the maths sum you could do in your head, to check a fact before you have to dredge it up from memory, to input your destination on Google maps and travel from A to B on autopilot. Maybe you stop reading books because maintaining that kind of focus feels like friction; maybe you dream of owning a self-driving car. Is this the dawn of what the writer and education expert Daisy Christodoulou calls a “stupidogenic society”, a parallel to an obesogenic society, in which it is easy to become stupid because machines can think for you?

My Wheelchair House

Maryland students work to preserve a unique bit of animal history about Greenbelt

US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island

A City Hall Wedding With a Special Guest in Tow

Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE

Why can’t you deduct the cost of child care as a business expense?

Maryland returns parcel of land to historic Black cemetery

Meet the Veteran Who Chases ICE on a Scooter

There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business