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 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: Hands Off, Fingers Up

April 5th had millions of people in the streets, telling the current regime to pound sand. FUCK YEAH.

We Were Made for These Times

Tattoos

‘If We Don’t Get Our S--t Together, Then We Are Going to Be in a Permanent Minority’

“I Am a Political Prisoner,” Writes Mahmoud Khalil From ICE Jail

The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide

Where'd You Get That? "Curating", Laziness, and Erasure on Substack

‘It was revenge for our movie’: Oscar winner says soldiers helped settlers attack him in West Bank

Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons

This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope?

Photos: See the aftermath of the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand

Portland is building a model for migrant solidarity under Trump

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

Sunday Snippets: Stand with Palestine

I don't pretend to know every nuance of the Israel-Palestine fight, but Palestinians deserve the right to life and their houses and clean water.

40 Years Ago, Poet Lucille Clifton Lost Her House. This Year, Her Children Bought It Back.

The pandemic shaped my family for generations. Not COVID — the 1918 flu

The Party Whose Success Is a Problem

Maryland Governor Grants Posthumous Pardons To 34 Black Lynching Victims

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

‘I regret having children’

Mobile Health Clinics Could Revolutionize Reproductive Care in the South

Why Are Boomer Parents Always Withholding Important Family News?

The latest Israel-Palestine crisis isn't a 'real estate dispute.' It's ethnic cleansing.

Wyoming stands up for coal with threat to sue states that refuse to buy it

‘It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit.’ Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl

Windows on the world: pandemic poems by Simon Armitage, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest and more

The minimalist awakening: how it became ‘in’ to buy less

Illinois parents arrested and jailed for kids missing school How the fuck does this help anyone?

Sunday Snippets: Three

My kiddo turned 3 last week. I can't believe it.

How Fast Are Oceans Rising? The Answer May Be In Century-Old Shipping Logs

Sexual Violence in Women’s Prisons Reaches “Constitutional Proportions.” Will Lawmakers Step In?

Prince George’s Co. interim chief details how hiring roots out white supremacists

Email is Making Us Miserable

Rare 'locked' letter sealed 300 years ago is finally opened virtually

Lawyers Have Found the Parents of 105 Separated Migrant Children in Past Month

What The Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls Have To Tell Us

The Cost of Miscarriage is High — Not Just Emotionally, But Financially

Day Care Makes The World More Tender

No I'm Not Ready

How to Practice

Sunday Snippets: 2019

We have three more months left in this decade and it blew my mind when I realized it.

“You’re Doing It Wrong”: the century-old roots of mom-shaming

Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago

Shuping Wang: Whistleblower who exposed HIV scandal in China dies

GEO Group Runs Out of Banks as 100% of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector

The Toll of Me Too Assessing the costs for those who came forward.

“EMERGENCY POET” OPENS LITERARY PHARMACY TO SUPPORT MENTAL WELLBEING

Everything you need to know about Trump's plan to pull back from Syria

She Wanted An Abortion. Feds Say Her Ex Threatened to Bomb the Clinic.

Greta Thunberg Heads to Standing Rock to Support Indigenous Activists

This asylum seeker was shot in the head. Ice jailed him and gave him ibuprofen

Donald Trump Allegedly Hid Behind a Tapestry to Grope a Woman at Mar-a-Lago in the Early 2000s

China is killing religious and ethnic minorities and harvesting their organs, UN Human Rights Council told

Sunday Snippets: Leverage

I've been bingeing all 5 seasons for over a month. I still crack up and love this show all the more every time I watch it.

Trump moves to permit new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest: report

The Quickening A story of two births

Trump administration leaves menstruating migrant girls ‘bleeding through’ underwear at detention centres, lawsuit claims

Black breastfeeding week matters—mamas of color are not getting the support they need

What White Feminists Get Wrong about Black Women

Inspired by the women of scripture, Baptist minister champions reproductive rights

Sunday Snippets: Autumn

One of my favorite parts is death to the bitey bugs. :)

Appeals court rules Trump administration must provide hygiene products at migrant facilities

Researchers found supernova dust in snow from Antarctica and it could be 20 million years old

Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism

More U.S. Towns Are Feeling The Pinch As Recycling Becomes Costlier

Captain Who Rescued Migrants At Sea Refuses Paris Medal, Calling It Hypocritical

A Peace Plan for a Safer America

Actor Diane Guerrero Talks Family Separation Firsthand

Sunday Snippets: What a goddamn week

It was THAT fucking week last week. Loved ones in pain, lots of emotional labor, etc. I hope this week is better.

ICE agents arrest 680 undocumented workers in Mississippi

The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures From al Qaeda Can we please have a movie about this?!?!

Prince George’s Co. police chief ends unauthorized incentive program

Elderly couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide, left notes about high medical bills

A needed laugh

Another needed laugh

Sunday Snippets: Spring!

Throwing open the windows and breathing in the fresh air before the humidity kicks us in the teeth.

Trump on the problems with wind power: The wind ‘only blows sometimes’

DHS to ask Congress for sweeping authority to deport unaccompanied migrant children

Maryland General Assembly overrides Gov. Hogan's vetoes of $15 minimum wage, comptroller's oversight

Mum's plea for girls to ditch leggings sparks protests

Why Gun Violence Is a Women's Issue

'We Are Running Concentration Camps': Images From El Paso Stir Outrage Over Migrant Treatment

Teen shot, killed after knocking on wrong apartment door, police say

'Death sentence for women': Alabama proposes law to make abortion punishable by up to 99 years in prison

Sunday Snippets: Kiddo Update

After the utter fecal covered dumpster fire that was the Supreme Court nominee process, I can happily share my kiddo is crawling. Brb, baby proofing the cats.

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

Migrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City

PLAY TO STAY Undocumented Immigrant Faces a Choice: Become an Informant for ICE or Be Deported

As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide

Who’s Up for Burning It All Down?

Pro-Kavanaugh Councilman: ‘Better Get Your Coat Hangers Ready’

Sunday Snippets: Almost mah birthday!

I'll be 32 in less than two weeks and am definitely going to do some self reflection. After a well deserved manicure.

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Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A Migrant Child’s Days in Detention

Mass gathering of golden retrievers in Highlands Aka what Heaven must look like

8 Things You Can Do to Become an Ally to Those Fighting for Nicaragua’s Liberty

A New Zealand company that tried 4-day workweeks says people were more creative, more punctual, and more energetic — and they want to keep it going

Stop Volunteering For Thankless Tasks at Work—If You're a Woman

New Reporting on the Devonte Hart Case Suggests His Biological Family Was Treated Unfairly by the Adoption System Due to Race

Turning ocean plastic into art and fuel in British Columbia

Democratic Lawmakers Say ICE Charging Parents To Call Their Kids Violates Immigration Standards

Sunday Snippets: Dumpster fire

Nuff said

Flooding around these parts has been insane

How in the fuck is this "Making America Great Again"?

Important Twitter thread

HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU EXPECT A TWO YEAR OLD TO DEFEND THEMSELVES IN COURT BURN ALL THIS DOWN

Student journalist investigates lack of sexual misconduct records for teachers

Skip The Baby Shower And Throw A Postpartum Party Instead

Sunday Snippets: Holy crapola snow

So the snow started Friday around 1pm and will apparently continue until early Sunday morning. My back already hurts.

Say it louder for the people in the back

Adorbs I will forever be a cat person.

How can you deny a tiny turtle and alan rickman

Satyamev Jayate - When Masculinity Harms Men

A forthcoming academic study based on local newspaper reports has identified as many as 83 US deportees who have been murdered on their return to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras since January 2014.

Cat feels

LANGLEY PARK, Md. (WUSA9) -- Last month, reports surfaced that the Department of Homeland Security intended to carry out massive deportations of families who flocked to the U.S. amid violence in Central America.

Rain and restrictions blight refugees in Dunkirk

No one is reading the CIA torture report, so we turned it into 11 fun memes

Important PSA

14 MLK Quotes You’ll Never Learn in School

Detroit’s Teachers Want You to See These Disturbing Photos of Their Toxic Schools