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

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: Good Trouble

Find a place on the 17th to get into good trouble.

Climate change is boosting the risk of sleep apnea

It’s Not Burnout — It’s Grief.

A sculptor's spectacularly creative farmhouse in Mallorca

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing

‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield

In One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Communities, Trump Terminates Funding for Air Monitoring

How sleeping in old schools is reviving rural Japan

A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like ‘a hole in one from the moon.’

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”

Afford to live & afford to dream

I'm a uni prof and here's what your kids are actually "learning" with AI

A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town

A private prison firm wants to detain immigrants in this Kansas town. Its residents are pushing back

What one town learned by charging residents for every bag of trash

Sunday Snippets: Just fuck

That fucking bill passed, ICE gets more fucking money and babies were swept away in Texas. Fuck.

It’s Time to Log Off

A Town’s Single Largest Taxpayer Is Also Its Biggest Headache

The Loyalist

Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera

First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages

A charming cabin on Sweden's west coast becomes an inspiring retreat for its creative owners

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported

Photos: Decades in, these women's love was 'Hidden Once, Hidden Twice'

He Made Gay Marriage the Law of the Land. Now He’s Fighting a Larger War.

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: Parts of France have banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria

Photos: Texas grapples with devastation from deadly flooding

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

Sunday Snippets: No Kings Day

Make sure (if you're able) to attend a protest on 6/14!

You are not your job. And soon, you won't have one.

The Coyotes of San Francisco

FEMA cancels $1 billion for flood prevention projects in Chesapeake Bay region

The trendy second-hand clothing market is huge and still growing – yet nobody is turning a profit

They Invented the Game. Will They Be Allowed to Play It in the Olympics?

Social media is influencing how authors promote their books. Here's how

Starvation in Gaza

How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail

Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a long legal battle

STATEMENT: Rejecting Government Speech Doctrine in Public Libraries in Little v. Llano County

AP PHOTOS: Hundreds scale Mount Everest in a weather-hit climbing season

My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.

Sunday Snippets: Keep Up the Pressure

Those in power don't get to remove our protections. Keep calling, keep protesting.

Working Homeless in America

Hospitals in Ruins

NYC public school teacher ditches her classroom to pursue a lifelong dream — and is making bank

A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target

At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays

Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds

Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers

No One Talks About the Mental Health Impact of Being Undocumented

Denied, detained, deported: the faces of Trump’s immigration crackdown

How the Klamath Dams Came Down

The GOP’s Resurgence Of Pro-Natalism Looks A Lot Like The Past

Sunday Snippets: Yes, it's a coup

It's absolutely an coup.

Israel’s Killing of Hind Rajab 1 Year Ago Is a Stain on Our Collective Humanity

USDA inspector general escorted out of office after defying Trump order

Pritzker says Illinois won’t hire Jan. 6 rioters

How US activists are infiltrating Israeli events selling Palestinian land

You might just have to be bored

Quakers Sue Trump Admin Over Policy Allowing ICE Raids on Churches

2. "Private" Tyranny: Resistance and "Not Obeying In Advance" Start at Home

Creative Nonfiction: The Improbability of Fossils by Callie Dean

“Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear

Keep a Copy of Your Tribal Identification Card On You

Parenting In the Age of Trump

Archiving as resistance to genocide denial in Gaza

Maryland senators hear from federal workers and others on Trump impact

USAID staffers describe colleagues abandoned in violence in Congo as DOGE ends assistance programs

Sunday Snippets: Nikki Giovanni

We lost a beautiful amazing soul this week. I have been reading her work for many years and even included her poem, Resignation, when I got married. It sucks so much that she's gone.

Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option'

‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year

I'm 45 And I Look My Age

On Having Expectations – Even When Doing Things for Free

What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

      Dominique Pelicot now bemoans the way the trial has destroyed his life and seeks forgiveness from his family. When asked by his defense lawyers about the possibility of winning back his wife, he said: “It is important to have hope,” and again emphasized his own trauma.

America’s Sickness

The year of hetero discontent

Supreme Court term-limits amendment proposed by Sens. Manchin, Welch

Some good climate news, for once: Md. leads in carbon emissions reductions

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

Archaeologists Work with Indigenous Peoples, Department of Natural Resources to Uncover History at Chapel Point State Park

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Always. And we stand in solidarity with the peaceful student protests, happening across the US.

Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get real' about the end

A portrait of Haitians trying to survive without a government

Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception in the 1960s and 1970s

Pay to stay: Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration

A hunk of space junk crashed through his roof in Florida. Who should pay to fix it?

A photographer documented Black cowboys across the U.S. for a new book

COMIC: The roadside marker unlocking a forgotten civil rights murder

10 years after Flint, the fight to replace lead pipes across U.S. continues

“The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza

Sunday Snippets: George Santos

Pretty sure if I lied this bad and this often, I'd be fired. And yet.

Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

Guest Column | Code Talker John Kinsel turns 106

Satanic Temple launches abortion clinic named after Catholic Supreme Court justice

Yale honors the work of a 9-year-old Black girl whose neighbor reported her to police

Food for Others opens expanded, ‘grocery store-like’ space for increased demand

How Nepal Regenerated Its Forests

Missouri Republicans vote to allow children to carry guns

On the road to healing, tribal citizens are speaking out about boarding schools

Sunday Snippets: Happy New Year!

Welcome 2023!

The daughter fighting to recover her mother’s remains from a landfill

‘I Bawled’: A Congresswoman’s 18-Month Fight For A Neglected Tribal School Just Paid Off

Inside South Africa's 'hijacked' buildings: 'All we want is a place to call home'

How Ron DeSantis collaborated with rightwing media to deceptively promote the Don’t Say Gay law

Law protects export of sacred Native American items from US

Young adults are struggling with their mental health. Is more childhood independence the answer?

Bleeding and in pain, she couldn't get 2 Louisiana ERs to answer: Is it a miscarriage?

How a scrappy African start-up could forever change the world of vaccines (I take issue with the scrappy word choice though)

2022 in Photos

Photographer Becomes Internet Hit for Expired Film and Unusual Cameras

Pink House Collection: A Fun Way to Celebrate the New Year

Sunday Snippets: Holidays

Looking forward to the end of the year slowdown!

The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal

What Is It This Time?

Trans woman forced to cut hair and ‘remove breast tissue’ by Qatari officials

Discovery of human remains at Winnipeg landfill reignites decade-long trauma for family of missing woman

Of No Small Account: A Lilliputian-sized Diary from World War I, Part 2

‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine

We're not lion: The 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are a good laugh

Tehran Doctor Tortured And Killed For Treating Wounded Protesters

U.S. Postal Service honors the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis with a stamp

Room With a View: The Best Hotel Views Around the World

Gov. Kate Brown commutes sentences of all 17 people on Oregon’s death row

Sunday Snippets: November light & voting

The sunrises in the fall are just so lovely, glinting off the colorful leaves.

ALSO VOTE!!!!

Are we entering the Great Disengagement? Women and millennials are feeling the biggest disconnection from their employers—but a looming recession is preventing people from quitting

My Friends’ Brooklyn Apartment Has the Coolest DIYs (and the Cutest Dog)

At 18 weeks pregnant, she faced an immense decision with just days to make it

Two Moms Harnessed The ‘Productive Rage’ Of Roe To Open An All-Trimester Abortion Clinic

5 Reasons I Don’t Want a Bigger Home

Tat London Founder Charlie Porter Married Her Boyfriend Of 10 Years In A Fuchsia Carolina Herrera Gown

COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab

‘Fast Furniture’ Is Cheap. And Americans Are Throwing It in the Trash.

Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters

Sunday Snippets: Voting

Have you voted yet? Let's keep the fascists out of the places where decisions are made.

Dear Mom: A Photo Essay

Everything everywhere all at once

“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.

Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school

Eclipse the dog, known for riding the bus alone to the dog park, has died

Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby

How Black Death survivors gave their descendants an edge during pandemics

Maryland officials order the reinvestigation of about 100 deaths in police custody

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: It’s time to end the Indian Wars

Contaminated cough syrup from India linked to 70 child deaths. It's happened before

The fearless midwives of Pakistan: In the face of floods, they do not give up

Sunday Snippets: September!

The cool September air is a welcome relief after the chaos of this summer.

How gorgeous are these?

Conservative activists want to ban 400 books from a library — but they aren't even on shelves

This story hits right in the feels

Md. family, community plead for end to gun violence a year after 8-year-old’s killing

A rare, first-of-its kind Chicago license plate is up for auction

Whatever happened to ... the caring Ukrainian neurologist who didn't let war stop her

POETRY, MISOGYNY, AND WOMEN’S UNPAID LABOR

Saeed Jones Explores Grief and Other Themes in “Alive at the End of the World”

The last member of a tribe in Brazil has died, pulling Indigenous rights into focus

A Black pastor was watering his neighbor's flowers. Then the police showed up

Sunday Snippets: Four

My kiddo is four years old already. It's hard to believe.

This eerie and beautiful abandoned village in Canada has just gone up for sale

30 Funny And Adorable Pictures Of Animal Parents With Their Babies

People are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine — not to stay, but to lend their support

A LIFE OF CREATIVITY AND EMPATHY

An organizing side hustle earns adjunct professor up to $250 an hour and about $100,000 a year

Angela Davis on the power of protest: ‘We can’t do anything without optimism’

What’s Wrong with the Way We Work

Piscataway Conoy Tribe wants to rename Indian Head Highway

Russian soldiers murder volunteers helping starving animals near Kyiv

HOW DID THIS MANY DEATHS BECOME NORMAL?

Endurance: Explorer Shackleton’s ship found after a century

A rescue team evacuates premature American twins from Kyiv in a daring mission

My Miscarriage, in Photos

Sunday Snippets: Fake Spring

When it's in the 60's in February, it's torture (and awful for the climate too).

In Baltimore's streets, interrupters face danger to stop a cycle of violence

Artwork from the Black Lives Matter memorial has a new home: the Library of Congress

Determined to say “I do,” Salinas couple fights marriage penalties

Police launch internal affairs investigation into baby injured in Pensacola Police custody FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE. FUCKING BULLSHIT

NOW WE KNOW THEIR NAMES Always read Clint Smith.

An 'antiwork' management strategy is going viral for describing perks like optional Mondays and 10% pay raises, and claiming there was 'no decline in revenue'

A granddaughter passes on the legacy of 'Granny Hayden,' a midwife born into slavery

Cristina Calderón, Chile's last known Yaghan speaker, dies at 93

An interior designer imbues his tiny, efficiently designed Stockholm apartment with joyful colour and pattern

The Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record Was Just Confirmed in The North Pacific

PHOTOS: Teen dreams and disappointments after the world's longest COVID school closure

Life’s a Party, Not a Race

Ukraine’s Jewish President Zelenskiy asks Putin: ‘How could I be a Nazi?’

1928 MANSION FOR SALE IN WINDSOR ONTARIO CANADA

Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling

Putin’s Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal

Hundreds are arrested as shocked Russians protest Ukraine attack

Sunday Snippets: Internet

We lost internet for a week and it was because squirrels ate cables on our street.

Little fuzzy bastards.

An epic inheritance fight will soon cost a Texas-born princess her 16th century villa

Omicron Means Parents Are Doing It All Again, Except This Time Dead Inside

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

COVID Parenting Has Passed the Point of Absurdity

A shipment of cookbooks is lost at sea. Authors hope the fish enjoy the recipes

This unique bookstore and ranch needs a new owner (with $1.52 million to spare).

Protests flare across Poland after death of young mother denied an abortion

‘This alert is her scream’: new system would help locate missing Indigenous women

There's one population that gets overlooked by an 'everyone will get COVID' mentality

1796 FARMHOUSE FOR SALE IN TAMWORTH NEW HAMPSHIRE I WANT

Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay

Eight-year-old's handwritten novel takes Idaho town by storm

A butterfly conservatory is shutting down due to right-wing harassment

It's 2022 and People Are Still Confused That My Kids Have Their Mother's Last Name

Sunday Snippets: 18 years

Celebrating 18 years since my first date with my husband today.

This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later

My Parenting Experience In 30 Comics With A Feline Twist (New Pics)

Community mourns Utah 10-year-old who died by suicide after her mom says she was bullied for being Black and autistic

A maternity ranch is born Fucking terrifying

Kate Baer & The Peculiar Experience of Being a Mother Online

Reasons to Log Off

Saeed Jones discovers joy at the end of the world

Workers are crying out for a four-day week. It's time for their bosses to pay attention

Autumn Colors and Autumn Chill

Sunday Snippets: Humidity

We are in the thick of sweaty, syrupy summer days. And with climate change, it's only going to get more swamplike. I take environmental steps when/where I can, but honestly fuck Exxon and those bastards who knew this shit was a problem in the FUCKING 1970s!!

You can't eat or breathe money, assholes.

She Struggled To Reclaim Her Indigenous Name. She Hopes Others Have It Easier

PHOTOS: 15 Things Folks Can't Live Without In A Pandemic, From Ants To Holy Water

Iceland Finds 'Major Success' Moving To Shorter Workweek

You Really Need to Quit Twitter

Downsizing My Goals

The Night After You Lose Your Job

Virginia Hanusik’s shots of Louisiana challenge disaster-focused depictions of climate change

How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’

Miami’s Climate Dystopia Gets Real