Sunday Snippets: God, this week

All the lives lost. Nepal. The pain. The heaviness.

As youth sports costs soar, one Oakland neighborhood tries a creative solution

It's Fucked That I Have To Think About AI

I watched my village disappear in an instant

ICE investigators want to buy voter data from every state

These former NBA players are cruelly treating trans rights like a game

Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meet in NYC to discuss how Democrats and Trump could cooperate

The Right Word is Wrongness

What we learned from a US bus tour of judges

In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

Maryland Hispanic student enrollment declines amid immigration fears

The Annunciation Diaries

Better Call Mom: Schools Still See Mothers as the Default Parent to Contact

Fun with numbers

The Lawyer Working to Nip Pregnancy Criminal Charges in the Bud

Minnesota Diary: Notes from a Somali Mother During ICE’s Winter Invasion

Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be

The Corals That Shouldn’t Exist

A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea

Healing the Waters Poisoned by Wars

From History to Headlines

The largest CMHC funded Indigenous led development project in Canadian History.

Sunday Snippets: Crumbling

The shit is crumbling. The dynasty he wanted ain't gonna happen.

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

We love Olivia Benson

Residents fear Frederick County will be the new ‘data center alley’

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.

When ICE arrests you, what happens to your car?

I Fed the People Building the Metaverse

                  "The machine inherits its makers."

Troubled Water

Designer Sam Masters Waited 16 Years to Land His 420-Square-Foot Apartment

What I Witnessed In Palestine Made Me Think About My Gun

                “You like geese?” he asks with a smirk.

                 “No, I’m more of a birds of prey guy,” I reply, still staring at the geese.

                  “Ah,” he clicks his tongue. “You Americans, you always like things that kill.”

More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

Trump admin is terminating a vast network of ocean monitors

New research connects climate change to increasing heat-related heart disease nationally

'It's so chaotic': Humpback whales are forming super-groups

Sleep is delicious

"This celebration of sleep evokes recent critiques of unbridled capitalism – a rejection of hyper-productivity, often associated with exploitative labour practices. In his Aeon essay, the political theorist Jonathan White has shown that sleeping in sync with our natural circadian rhythms is a matter of political justice. Not only does poor sleep often accompany socioeconomic inequality, it also detracts from the capacity to cope with difficult life circumstances. ‘Poor sleep is a corrosive disadvantage – one that yields more of the same,’ he writes. White advocates for what he calls ‘circadian justice’, which would require a radical, but not impossible, restructuring of society so that everyone’s circadian rhythms are respected, and people are free to choose work schedules that suit their needs."

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

FUCK ICE FOREVER AND EVER

Say Goodbye to Water Pipes: Japan Built a Machine That Purifies and Recycles Every Drop of Water in Your Home

If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?

Clitoris Researcher Wants You to Know Everything This Sex Organ Can Do

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

Tribune photographer describes capturing viral image from recent ICE protest

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say

I grew up with Alex Pretti

Study shows your genes determine how fast your DNA mutates with age

The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

‘We have to go out and touch people’: how activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic

‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels

This photographer was tackled by ICE

Researchers find trees could spruce up future water conservation efforts

Emergency legislation seeks to block ICE detainment facility in Elkridge

Maryland House, Senate pass bills to end 287(g) law enforcement partnership with ICE

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: Just fuck

That fucking bill passed, ICE gets more fucking money and babies were swept away in Texas. Fuck.

It’s Time to Log Off

A Town’s Single Largest Taxpayer Is Also Its Biggest Headache

The Loyalist

Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera

First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages

A charming cabin on Sweden's west coast becomes an inspiring retreat for its creative owners

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported

Photos: Decades in, these women's love was 'Hidden Once, Hidden Twice'

He Made Gay Marriage the Law of the Land. Now He’s Fighting a Larger War.

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: Parts of France have banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria

Photos: Texas grapples with devastation from deadly flooding

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

I want the Harris/Walz campaign to take the Uncommitted movement seriously. Because literal lives have been lost.

Family of explorer who died in Titan submersible sues Oceangate for more than $50M

Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here's what that means

Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it’s over

Project 2025 & Abortion

10 years after Michael Brown's death, police killings are not going down

Like Paris, Baltimore knows the struggle of cleaning up water for swimming

Leaders of the movement that protested Biden on Israel express some hope on Harris

Do cats experience grief? New research suggests they might

The Capital Beltway turns 60: This was the original name

An insect's eye and a poppy seed: Fossils found in ice deposit rewrite Greenland's geological past

That Feeling You Recognize? Obamacore.

She was on the surgical table just once but was billed for two operations

Two Thoughts From the DNC

 

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Everyone is calling for one, including the WHO and the United Nations. This has got to stop.

Waiting for water: It's everywhere in this Colombian city — except in the pipes

Kids are losing the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics. They were for the parents, anyway

Why a mom turned to supervising illegal opioid use at her home

Scientists have found the mostly intact skull of a giant, deadly sea reptile

Boston police recommit to solving murder of Rita Hester, whose death inspired Transgender Day of Remembrance

'I dare not be quiet': What climate activist Ndelika Mandela learned from her granddad

FIRST PERSON OCT. 19, 2023 My Quest to Downsize Without Throwing Anything Away

People have been searching for this song from 'The X-Files' for 25 years. Until now

Sunday Snippets: Last months of 2021

Who the hell knows what 2022 will bring? I'm terrified of the upcoming elections, terrified that Congress will sit on passing any type of climate change bills, just terrified in general.

You're swamped? Join the club.

A 60-sq-ft London Kitchen Gets a Spacious Makeover

Climate activists partially sink model row home in DC’s Tidal Basin

These Unclaimed Afghan Studio Portraits Bear Witness To Decades Of History

The Biden Administration’s Expulsion of Haitians Is Unconscionable—and a Missed Opportunity

Scenes from the Twilight of a D.C. Wendy’s

Texas is in the spotlight. But transgender activists say their fight feels uniquely grueling and ‘lonely.’

You Aren't Lazy. You Just Need To Slow Down

Tens Of Thousands Of Black Women Vanish Each Year. This Website Tells Their Stories

PHOTOS: How Struggling Families Manage To Feed Their Kids In A Pandemic

A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean

What Do We Do With All This Rage?

To Gather Together-Poem

Could The Escaped Zebras Survive Roaming Around Prince George’s County Forever?

Indigenous traditional owners win back Daintree rainforest in historic deal

Sunday Snippets: Kiddos on playgrounds

Not much beats the delighted squeal of a kiddo scrambling over playground equipment.

Marie Kondo Interviews Elizabeth Gilbert on Tidying the Mind

4-Day Workweek Boosted Workers' Productivity By 40%, Microsoft Japan Says

Is trauma handed down through generations?

The Women Changing Presidential Campaigns From the Inside

The Water Is Already Low At A Florida Freshwater Spring, But Nestlé Wants More

Rachel Cargle Insists Rest Is the Real Revolution for Black Women