Sunday Snippets: What even is this shit?

This fucking season of the US is in-fucking-sane.

We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons

Why a bulldozer to the White House is a fat middle finger to America.

‘America is more divided than ever — but how is it affecting our love lives? I spent a year dating conservative men to find out’

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

The Acceptable Face of Need

This is 57: Bestselling Author Catherine Newman Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity

Tell Students the Truth About American History

Contract proposals show possible increase in ICE presence coming to Baltimore

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

US Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years

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: 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: Keep Using Your Voice

Our voices helped get food back into Gaza (not that it shouldn't be an issue in the first place...), it's keeping the horrors at bay. Keep at it.

Tariff troubles: A rubber duck museum is migrating to Canada to stay afloat

Quakers march against Trump’s crackdown on immigrants carrying on their long faith tradition

New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories

Arlington approves plan to scale back cooperation with ICE

Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan is indicted on accusations she helped a man evade immigration agents

How to Not Get Poisoned in America

Women Have Always Done Society’s Heavy Lifting — Literally

Inside the Indigenous ‘land back’ movement in Colombia

“A Mockery of Due Process”: The Men Who Could Be Sent to El Salvador Next

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

Decades-long mystery of ginger cats revealed

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety

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: Stand with Ukraine

That shitshow of a 'great tv appearance' show how those morons were treating President Zelensky and how much they just played into Daddy Putin's hands. It was beyond shameful. We stand with Ukraine.

When is it time to have the courage to quit?

Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

Remembering Arlington’s long lost Black community of Queen City

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed

Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen read

Shoppers are avoiding certain brands over politics: poll

If you were rich, would you fold laundry?

Murmurations: Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology

The Craftsman

For one husband, caregiving came easier when he learned to 'shut up and listen'

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died

People are calling into right-wing radio shows to voice frustrations with the Trump administration

Boycotts, Echo Chambers, and the Illusion of Power: Why Symbolic Resistance Falls Flat

GOP reps encouraged to do town halls virtually rather than in-person after fiery meetings with constituents

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: Nix the Noms

Call your reps. Hound them to nix that man's nominations for the cabinet positions. They are toxic and shouldn't run a hot dog stand.

How states will keep fighting for climate progress under Trump

How to be a Helper

What if the climate crisis is an invitation to deepen our spiritual selves?

Why I make a very dumb, ranked list of the 100 words I use most every year.

Stick with us: Why the internet is obsessed with one of the simplest tools known to man

what the fuck are we doing anymore

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Trump staff ‘furious’ after Musk trashes AI project

"Masculine Energy" or the Vengeful Rebuilding of Safe Spaces for Supremacists

When Do Women Get Cared For (by Men)? Introducing Hetero-Insistence

The Eaton Fire forced them from their homes. Here's what residents took with them

Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream for Brazil's favelas. Not true!

Uninsurable Futures

A minister was acquitted of a brutal 1832 murder. A new book revisits the case

Greyhound to stop allowing immigration checks on buses

Immigration red cards: The internet rallies to protect undocumented community

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: Finding your people

One of the biggest ways we survive is finding our people. Working in community, finding a good friend to vent to, etc. 

The hidden costs of chronic accommodation

These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024

Far from the front lines, Ukrainians fight a war to preserve their culture

‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

Cux-Ajtzalam spoke in Spanish, saying she didn’t know English. There were other things she also said she didn’t know, having never had any sex education. It wasn’t until seven months after she claims a relative entered her room one night and raped her that she realized she was pregnant, she said.

“I never told anyone anything. I was ashamed,” she said, crying. (The man denied wrongdoing during an interview with The Post. He has not been charged.)

Louisiana’s Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans’ Decaying Water Infrastructure Until Women Who Seek Abortions Are Prosecuted

Disability advocate Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone

You Turned a Mall Into Housing?

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term

Photos: Thousands in Los Angeles evacuate as wind-fueled Palisades Fire quickly worsens

The #Resistance Is Dead. Welcome to the #Surrender.

Sunday Snippets: Moving Forward

I won't rehash the endless Twitter feeds/posts I've seen. We roll up our sleeves, we lean on and learn from community and we don't back down.

Israeli settlers in Gaza? Netanyahu’s allies lay out a strategy

How the Press Memory-Holed Trump’s Pandemic Train Wreck

DOJ lawyers slam 'glaring gap' in failure to investigate potential Israeli crimes

Meet America's secret team of nuclear first responders

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

Honoring Henrietta Lacks' legacy at Johns Hopkins University

Pregnant women and babies face 'terrifying' threat from xylazine addiction

Overdue book returned to Colorado library 37 years later

Leaving Rafah

A mother and baby from Gaza are reunited 11 months after being separated at birth

A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

What to the Arab American Is Election Day

When Food Doesn’t Taste Like Home

Sunday Snippets: Arms Embargo

Here. We. Go.

The Central Park 5 are suing Trump over Philly debate comments

As Ukraine's birth rate plunges, here's what one doctor is doing to reverse the trend

PHOTOS: How 9 families cope when they can't afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids

Wildlife numbers fall by 73% in 50 years, global stocktake finds

Unemployed could be given weight-loss jabs to get back to work, says Wes Streeting

Why this country is seeing a 'staggering' increase in the number of rapes

Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever

One Curious Trick For Stumbling Over Your Fun

Freedom Caucus leader endorses radical proposal for North Carolina to hand its electoral votes to Trump

Of Course This Week Feels Terrible

Why the GOP is 'Joking' About Women's Right to Vote

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

We need to press and INSIST that if Harris and Walz want our votes, they need to stop the goddamn genocide going on in Gaza. Yes, Trump is a fucking goblin from the deep but Harris and Walz aren't entitled to anything.

Baltimore DPW workers have no water or AC during dangerous heat advisory

Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface

Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope

Why many scientists fear a second Trump term

A flood of emotions in these stoic portraits of people returning home after a deluge

Hopescrolling

Grief is not a process with five stages. It is shattered glass

The Belgian town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions

A photographer captured the perfect shot of an Olympic surfer's record-breaking ride

Gangsta rapper to grandfather: The Olympic gold rebranding of Snoop Dogg

Disposable Heroes

With attention on Gaza, Jewish settlers expand in the West Bank

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire is direly needed. Far too many people have died.

A friend's overdose death turns high school students to activists

Philadelphia workers have to show up in the office today, flying birds or not

A stegosaurus fossil fetched a record $44.6M at Sotheby's. Should they be auctioned?

Paid or unpaid, child care is vital to the economy. This program recognizes that

Need a new outfit? Try the library.

CRAFT & SUSTAINABILITY

Is summer peak weaponization of the notion of "The Village"?

Where There’s Smoke… How Wildfires Across North America Are Making Children Sick

How Sexist Men See Themselves As the ‘Good Guys’ — & Why So Many Boys Are Listening

Evangelical Christians Are Throwing Their Support Behind Israel. They’re Partly Driven By Antisemitism.

Judge dismisses Trump documents case over special counsel appointment

The Hunt: The Search for Sappho’s Lost Poetry Awaits a New Chapter

Nobody Puts Motherhood in the Corner

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. Now. This has got to stop.

Outrage after ex-Trump aide claims he gave unhoused people fake money

10 Readers Share Sweet Items They’ve Framed

Why One Man Runs a Tree Service That Won’t Cut Down Dead Trees

Israel has no plan for Gaza after Hamas rule, the Israeli defense chief says

Family of Black U.S. airman seeks answers after fatal shooting by Florida deputy

You Are Being Lied to About Gaza Solidarity Camps by University Presidents, Mainstream Media, and Politicians

Arrested. Injured. Suspended. Six NYC university students say they'll keep protesting

THE ART OF SURVIVAL

A look at what could be the future for postpartum care in America

Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as 'abolitionists' go farther

Trump posted a video on Truth Social calling the country a 'unified reich' if he wins

Eagles shifting flight paths to avoid Ukraine conflict, scientists find

Spain, Norway and Ireland say they will recognize a Palestinian state

A newspaper near Ukraine's border with Russia watches for freed POWs

Sunday Snippets: Hurricane?

It's been a little over three years since Hurricane Sandy. I'm hunkering down with the husband, cats and copious amounts of liquor to ride out this latest storm.

Truth

You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”

#RyanStokes

This is one of the instances where karma is going to fuck this dude up

For Halloween 2015, Just Say No To Blackface

File under duh

Awww, elephants

Whoop, there it is

I do believe another gent in history had a similar idea....

Why doesn't she get the same coverage?

Poor babies

Horrible

“They said it’s safe, but it’s brown water,” said Marshall, also a radiology coder, after the meeting.“Why do we have to drink brown water? No one else has to drink brown water.”

#JamesAnderson

Muted

What happens when a young girl of color goes missing? Who searches for her? Who tries to bring her home safely? Not the police, as the short film Muted shows.