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: 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: 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

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: Have you contacted your reps yet?

For those in the US, have you contacted your state and federal reps lately? To ask them to vote against that man's cabinet picks? To help continue to fund climate change efforts? We may be stuck with that man, but we have ways of fighting back.

Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

How do you love your neighbors when your houses are on fire?

How these suburban moms in Ukraine manage grief by training to down Russian drones

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?

Why are so many Indigenous Panamanians contracting HIV — and dying of AIDS?

How dare women go to college? DeSantis' new university trustee pick will fix it. | Opinion

This is What it's Like to Be A Medical Student at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza

Canadian man's home security camera captures the sight and sound of a meteorite strike

The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone

Beyond Doomscrolling

Flowers For Rosa

Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump

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: 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

Ceasefire. Now.

City discovers first grave of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victim

Eric Garner’s ‘I can’t breathe’ continues to echo across NYC and the world 10 years after his death

Climate change is messing with time more than previously thought, scientists find

Fossil of an ancient shark that swam in the age of dinosaurs solves centuries-long mystery

Ukraine's bookstores are thriving, but a top printing plant took a deadly hit

A Scream for Gaza

In upstate New York, Casa Susanna was a safe haven for trans women in 1960s America

In Poverty, Everything is More Expensive, Including Time

Babies don’t come with instructions. But in Oregon, they now come with a nurse

Chair of NYC police watchdog agency resigns after criticizing NYPD in misconduct case

The Greatest Disaster Movies of All Time

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire is needed. Absolutely needed.

 ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.

Beethoven was a classical and romantic composer, but his body was full of heavy metal

Dispatch #38: The Mommy Experiment

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improve

She was the target of an Iranian assassination plot. She now lives in its shadow

How these Ukrainian artists are using their talents to support the war effort

After a tragedy, a mother wants to soften the rooms where police interview victims

Hot Menopausal Woman Summer

Juneau man’s 70-year-old photos could help preserve cultural knowledge for King Island Inupiat community

Scientists discover plastic-eating marine fungus on debris floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 'Once the plastic has been carried there, it gets trapped there'

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: Ceasefire

Ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire. And thinking of those World Central Kitchen aid workers and their driver, who didn't have to die but were targeted, for the crime of giving food to hungry people.

The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty

Photos: Baltimore's Key Bridge collapses; search and rescue efforts continue

As cranes arrive at Baltimore bridge collapse site, governor describes daunting task of cleaning up

21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie

Perimenopause has brought chaos to my life – but also peace

From longshoremen to charter boats, Baltimore's port closure means lost work

Barnes & Noble workers plan union drive at largest US bookstore chain

This 104-year-old Vermonter will enjoy twice-in-a-lifetime eclipse

A mayor in Ukraine aids his town's few remaining people, as Russia closes in

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

I'm slightly encouraged by the news another ceasefire is coming but it needs to be permanent.

He organized the March on Washington. Why don't more people know about Bayard Rustin?

Kazakhstan’s drying Aral Sea carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake

Kenneth Smith could be the first person executed with nitrogen gas. He spoke with NPR

Israel's anti-war movement includes mothers of soldiers serving in Gaza

Januarys

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound

Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope

An Ohio church is suing a city over not being allowed to house homeless people

Why diphtheria is making a comeback

How war changed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Sunday Snippets: A five year old

My kiddo turns five today and I can't believe it went that fast. I love seeing the kid their are turning into.

Disappearing Saint-Louis

A new Tennessee lawmaker walks into the capitol wearing a dashiki. House GOP suggests he explore other careers.

Life After the Ohio Train Derailment: Trouble Breathing, Dying Animals, and Saying Goodbye

Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws

Why I Hunt for Sidewalk Fossils

Photographing a year of war and resilience in Ukraine

The Matter of My Maiden Name

Running With Hank

‘You have to be dangerous back.’ Why some LGBTQ people in New Hampshire are taking up arms

Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd's murder inspired them

20 House Republicans Sign Bill To Ban Nearly All Abortion In Iowa

Women who seek abortion in South Carolina could face death penalty

How cool is this?

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: October

It's officially spooky season!

Dodging Russian bombs, these volunteers risk it all to save Ukraine's animals

Americans are paying more and getting less as inflation hits home

Saeed Jones confronts the end of the world in new poems

COVID raises risk of long-term brain injury, large U.S. study finds

How to Invite a Disabled Friend Over

An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance

‘It’s a miracle’: Gran Abuelo in Chile could be world’s oldest living tree

The Abortion Crisis Manager

At Least 2 More Underage Rape Victims, 2 Pregnant Cancer Patients Denied Abortions in Ohio

Prince George's County Schools settle discrimination lawsuit with transgender teacher

Brooklyn Taxi Driver Sues NYPD Alleging Retaliatory Arrest Inside His Mosque

At Freedom House, these Black men saved lives. Paramedics are book topic

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: Early August

The early weeks of August are some of my favorite.

A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English

4 migrant parents file lawsuit alleging Trump’s child separation policy traumatized them

What it's like being a woman in Afghanistan today: 'death in slow motion'

Volodymyr Zelensky and wife Olena: War is making our love stronger

Most women don’t know they have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s—and are too busy caring for others to take charge of their health

An Alabama Clinic Reinvents Itself for a Post-Roe World

Embryos can be listed as dependents on tax returns, Georgia rules

It’s Getting Harder to Be a Woman in America

Sunday Snippets: Late summer

There's a certain beauty to late summer that I enjoy. Both the nostalgia and languidness.

The new 988 mental health hotline is live. Here's what to know

Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund

Trans Housing Coalition Fund

My grandmother’s botched abortion transformed three generations

Soft ambition

COMIC: How living on Mars time taught me to slow down

Kharkiv is finding a new normal as residents return to work — despite missile strikes

Sunday Snippets: Roe

Even though we knew it was coming, still a fucking gut punch. To say nothing of the rights that will be struck down if the SC has their way in the future. Or the damage they've already done.

After 91 years, the murder conviction of a Delaware County teen has been overturned

Life After Cottagecore

Nearly 100 years later, a family remembers an illegal abortion that ended in tragedy

Librarian faces hate crime charges after vandalizing Prince George’s County libraries

White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.

Week of Outfits: Jamia Wilson

Roe’s Final Hours in One of America’s Largest Abortion Clinics

Maryland lawmaker expects to see influx of women seeking abortions

An artist in Ukraine captures the war in black and white

1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest

WE ARE AN ANTI-ABORTION COUPLE, AND DON’T WORRY, WE WILL ADOPT YOUR BABY

What causes long COVID? Canadian researchers think they’ve found a key clue

Sunday Snippets: Abortion

Abortion is healthcare. We should not try to make Mother's Day a forced holiday.

1790 HISTORIC ESTATE FOR SALE IN KING FERRY NEW YORK

High school students raise funds for Afghan refugees living in D.C. area hotels

Polish women band together to give Ukrainian women car rides to safe refuge

Will COVID ever end? A forgotten pandemic from the late 1800s might offer some clues

An ancient Sussex farmhouse filled with inherited furniture and flea-market finds

Louisiana’s Terrible New Bill Might End Abortion Rights for Minors

“I Tried Slow Living in a Remote Welsh Cottage, and This Is What I Learned”

How to Come Out of Lockdown

Florida man asks schools to ban the Bible following the state's efforts to remove books

Many Americans Are Celebrating the End of COVID-19. Here's What It Feels Like When You're Not

Interior Designer Simplifies Her Life in Her Own Tiny Home

POET OF THE WEEK EUGENIA LEIGH

Italian children should not automatically receive their father's surname, court says

In 'Belonging' Black environmentalists show off their favorite local parks

212: HOW TO WALK OUT OF A ROOM

Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone