Sunday Snippets: Kitty and a foiled bank robbery!?

It's not every day that my town shows up on The Guardian and NBC 4 News.

Losing Paradise

Spotlight on Asia’s vultures 20 years after game-changing drug ban

Letters from Delaney Hall

‘Cloud-milking’: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive

Maryland’s first ‘human composting’ facility is open for business

These Black Georgians Refuse to Be Silenced

Men Are in an Epidemic, Just Not the One You Think

Construction is a man's game. These women are demolishing the barriers

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

“That Guy Is Still Out There”

Scientists who identified remains of Revolutionary war soldier from Maryland hope to name others

Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail

House passes bill to ‘ditch the switch’ and make daylight saving time permanent

Too Many Books?

Sunday Snippets: 250 Years

I mourn the idea and not memory of what celebrating 250 years would have been, had the election gone the other way. I mourn a lot in the last two years, the last ten years.

The Museum of Joanna Goddard

Important Progress on AI Data Centers in Maryland

How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days

The ‘Tincture’ of Time

Plan to auction over 100 Titanic artifacts faces US government opposition

Gov. Beshear posthumously pardons 43 people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom

Cozy Backyard Reading Retreat That Looks Like an Amazing Tiny House

How Hollywood Does Abortion: Not Well, Expert Says

Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military

Ancient DNA helps identify bones of a lost governor and his family

The Feeding

Is a Bike Bus the Most Joyful Way to Get to School?

Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark

Happy Fucking Birthday

Native Americans celebrate victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, 150 years later

Finding real national pride on America’s 250th birthday

Sunday Snippets: Algae

The drain the swamp jackass made a swamp. If this were in a novel, no one would believe it.

5.5M ground nesting bees make home in Ithaca cemetery

8 Ways to Display Art in Your Kitchen

How Great Are These Wedding Photos?!

Are all husbands "Strangers"?

Cat ladies aren’t that ‘crazy’ after all – the social science behind the stereotype

Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis

AP exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a ‘dig of the century’ unearths 1,700 years of history

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

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

It's Time For a Shademaking Movement

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

Plans for Maryland vineyard, resort raise neighbors’ concerns

America’s Marriage Historian Says We’re in a Tug-of-War With the Past

Debugging on a major scale: Google seeks to unleash millions of sterile male mosquitoes

18th-Century Shipwreck Discovered in Deep Water Near Norway

Sunday Snippets: Almost Solistice

Halfway through the year and it's been a year for sure!

The nation holding back the sea

Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS

Inside and outside

The Spanish Exception

Why rescue donkeys are wearing donated socks from a pro soccer team

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

Resistance is only half the equation

The ripple effects of organizing against data centers

Senate panel pans DHS plan to stop customs processing at blue-city airports

For Black Women in Abusive Relationships, Gun‑Control Loopholes Can Engender Deadly Disparities

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

Trump plan would reopen Western Maryland coal plant

Rising costs of fuel, other goods squeeze already strained abortion funds

This Heat

The Biggish Picture

As Capitalism Gasps for Breath I Watch the Knicks Game

Plans for Maryland vineyard, resort raise neighbors’ concerns

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: 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

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species

Point Lookout State Park To Adapt Facilities, Build Living Shoreline for Climate Resilience

Which Companies are Turning Food Waste Into Profit, How, and Why

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled

linework architecture

To see how Koreatown has changed over the years, look at its restaurant menus

Actress Says She’s Found Her Secret Online Abuser: Her Husband

The Nap Room Didn’t Love Me Back

Suleika Jaouad’s Love Letter to a Two-Hundred-Year-Old Farmhouse

Being Alone is a Pleasure – Not a Virtue

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

the things we should never find.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway.

The Case for Making Some Things Harder

I’m Not Done with You

How detention causes long-term harm to children

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care

In Gaza, education is a daily act of quiet resistance

Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

FUCK ICE ALWAYS

Threads Of A City

Some Endometriosis Patients Are Changing Their Diets to Manage Symptoms

Lindy West and the Trap of Perfect Polyamory

Macaulay Library’s Best Bird Photos 2025

More than 1,000 ‘No Kings’ protesters rally along Route 1

No Kings protests across the world: in pictures

13 Readers Share Their Favorite Walking Paths

German 12-Year-old Boy Plants 1Million Trees, Takes Over UN Program to Plant a Trillion More

The Tender Work of Preserving Renee Good’s Memorial

“Divorce Registries” Are Changing How People Start Over (and Ask for Help)

A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen.

Rehabber Raising Orphaned Hummingbirds Gets Surprising Help From A Wild Visitor

Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future

Government Killings and Kidnappings in Argentina Drove Mothers to Revolt—And Eventually Win

Black women were disproportionately impacted by DOGE cuts. A year later, they’re rebuilding careers for themselves and each other

Boston Man Uncovers Ancestor’s Freedom Papers While Cleaning Out Mom’s Maryland Home

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: 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

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

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: Fuck ICE

Always. Fuck ICE

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Maryland protesters call for state to cut ties with Avelo Airlines over deportation flights

Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice

Maryland Taps Affordable Care Act Fund To Help Pay for Abortion Care

As immigration arrests surge, so does number of Maryland sheriffs agreeing to work with ICE

A Week of Outfits: Sharon Beesley

‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina

Israel Announces Total Siege of Gaza City, Declaring Entire Area “Combat Zone”

DC Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Folk Hero Who Tossed Sandwich at CBP Officer

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

How ‘Fawning’ Is Ruining Your Relationships

With a Black governor, a powerful Black Caucus, and a lawsuit, Maryland reckons with reparations

Former Top Biden Spox Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed Hamas

Dozens of Countries Are Working Together to Plant ‘Great Green Wall’ Across Africa – and It is Holding Back Poverty

Estrangement as a Trauma-Informed Choice

How LA is uniting to provide mutual aid for those impacted by ICE raids

Sunday Snippets: Community

Community aid and mutual aid is what is going to see us through. Where can you shop local? Can you use a local coffee shop rather than a chain? Are there community groups you join? Can you walk along your street and pick up trash? Can you help flag ICE in your neighborhood to protect others?

Why we need a solidarity economy now

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

How Far Would You Go (and How Much Would You Pay) to Get Away From It All?

A Week of Outfits: Kayla Sossin

‘A national movement’: More than a dozen states consider laws around menopause care and training for doctors

Inside the Scrappy Network of Volunteers Protecting Their Neighbors From ICE

Toward an Architecture of Belonging

AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Seven Days At The Bin Store

Maryland moves to recognize Black boys' unmarked graves near historic detention center

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

No ordinary solidarity — inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world

Chef José Andrés speaks out as World Central Kitchen forced to pause cooking in Gaza

US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say

Sunday Snippets: No Kings Day

I hope you were able to attend a protest, if you were able, yesterday.

How to Endure

A meeting with the MAHA grassroots

Small Hands

I'm not doing the best I can

How to Practice

Real Estate

21 observations from people watching

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

Trump administration plans to eliminate the Energy Star program after 3 decades

Maryland fails to protect young inmates in adult jails

Second Circuit rejects challenge to NY abortion law

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Cracking the Red-tail Code: Exploring the Diversity of America’s Most Widespread Hawk

Diabolus Ex Machina

The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs

Making space for politics at work

Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

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: Tired

Bingo time: is it spring allergies, perimenopause or the horrors that make me wake up feeling more tired than when I went to bed?

K-12 schools must sign certification against DEI to receive federal money, administration says

Perfect poem

Pro organizers as capitalism therapists

Teaching in a ‘Sanctuary City’ Under Siege

“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

Stories of Resistance: Mothers of Argentina’s 30,000 disappeared half-century struggle for justice

Instagram and the Creative Process

Who Gets to Define Divorce

I spent four decades not sleeping a wink – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously

The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador

Chosen Places: Kamikatsu Village, Japan

Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia

Major deal wipes out $30 billion in medical debt. Even backers say it's not enough

Roberts temporarily halts deadline for Trump administration to return mistakenly deported man

A Maryland mother was detained by ICE nearly two weeks ago. So far, no evidence has been provided

Sunday Snippets: A whole whole lot

Drink water, donate to mutual aid groups, don't talk to ICE and fuck those billionaires.

How to build a village

Fairfax Co. teachers worry about possibility of immigration arrests in their classrooms

How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools

Here’s how Maryland schools will respond to potential immigration enforcement on campuses

‘I can’t do that’: DC Episcopal bishop says she won’t apologize for upsetting Trump during sermon

Abolish rent. Yes, for real.

She’s Raising Her Daughter in Her Own Childhood Apartment

I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exclusively supports local bookstores

Advocates urge Maryland lawmakers to protect ‘sensitive locations’ from immigration raids

NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar