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: 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: Keep Calling, Keep Showing Up

Telsa stock is down, poll numbers down, we are making a difference!

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

Tucson lawyer receives letter from DHS, telling her to leave the United States

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

Is a Journaling Club a Brilliant Way to Make Friends?

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

U.S.-Born Doctor Speaks Out After Getting Email From ICE Demanding She Leave The U.S. Immediately

Photographer in disbelief after eerie beach discovery raises questions: 'I recovered clothing ... from different eras'

Last-minute change to human sexuality bill removes requirement to teach topic of consent

The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to Team Trump

Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”

People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds

“It’s About Him”: Renowned White House Photographer Pete Souza on How Trump Is Perverting the Presidential Photo Stream

Pete Hegseth says he will end a Trump-backed Pentagon program for women

Sunday Snippets: Keep Showing Up

Keep. Showing. Up.

This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World

What Felt Impossible Became Possible

Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit.

What Comes After A Boycott

For survivors of disasters, a new way to start healing the trauma

Reject the Linguistic Coup: Speak Up for Trans People

Israel's culture minister calls a Palestinian-Israeli film's Oscar a 'sad moment'

The Year of Preparedness: Storing Food

First Loch Ness Monster Sighting of 2025 Reported: 'Some Kind of Dark Mass Under the Water'

Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice

The economic boycott caught fire. What’s next?

What to know about Lesotho, the country Trump said 'nobody has ever heard of'

Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families

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: May We All Survive

Tomorrow is that day and my only wish is that we all survive. Sending love to those who need it.

every day is all there is 🫡

The Lie That Won't Die

How Sailor Poets Take Over U.S. Navy Deck Logs On New Year’s Day

What the Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong

As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed'

A Return to Leftist Self-Defense

therapy "greatest hits"

How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published

Is Everyone Doing No Buy 2025??

INDIVISIBLE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEMOCRACY ON THE BRINK

Hundreds of years after they were prosecuted, exoneration sought for Md. ‘witches’

Israel Killed 74 Children in Gaza in First Week of 2025

It's Not Just Stuff

History echoes: Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision meets Trump’s America

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

Sunday Snippets: Snow?

Seven years ago this month, we had over 20 inches of snow in our area. My kiddo is sad about the lack of snow so far this winter.

What the love of cats taught me about myself

How one photographer is using his camera as a weapon against poverty and racism

No more Fridays

The Life-Changing Magic of “Knolling”

A New Jersey woman bought a rustic private island in Maine not fit for 'man or beast' in winter, and Stephen King says it's worthy of a novel

In some states, an unpaid foster care bill could mean parents lose their kids forever

Peru is on edge as protesters converge on the capital

NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

My Father’s Changing Hands

Alabama man secretly helped pay strangers' prescriptions for years

A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found

A Professional Lady Correspondent Stares Down Motherhood

Lawmakers seek to prohibit insurrectionists from holding public office One would think this didn't need to be said and yet...