What I read today July 13
- WHAT SHOULD MY CHILD'S MONTESSORI FLOOR BED LOOK LIKE?, the kavanaugh report
The floor beds is my favorite things we did for the little guy - The Extinction of the Middle Child, The Cut
- The Rise and Fall of the Family-Vacation Road Trip, The Atlantic
- A Mother Speaks Out After Someone Called the Cops on Her Son, an 11-Year-Old Black Paperboy, Teen Vogue
- The Truck, The Choice And The 'Handmaid's Tale' Finale, NPR
What I read today July 12
- Urby Staten Island accused of racial discrimination in lawsuit, Curbed
- The Blindness Of Catch-And-Release Liberals, The American Conservative
What I read today July 11
- WATCH: How I Faked My Way to The Top of Paris Fashion Week
- What Footage From 1980s Bike Races Can Teach Us About Climate Change, Atlas Obscura
- WATCH: Reflections From A Five-Time Egg Donor, The Establishment
What I read today July 10
- Everything You Need To Know About Traveling To The Arctic And Supporting Indigenous Artists, how not to travel like a basic bitch
- Ocasio-Cortez’s Win Has Right Wing Raising a New Red Scare, Village Voice
- Denounced by His Party as a Nazi, Arthur Jones Wins Illinois G.O.P. Congressional Primary, NY Times
- How the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign got its powerful design, Fast Company
What I read today July 9
- 10 Signs You Might Have Unhealthy Boundaries With Your Mom, Huff Post
- Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why., NY Times
- The US farm bill could endanger poor American kids for decades, Quartz
- Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren’t Taught to Read, The Atlantic
- Why You Should Enroll Your Kids in Piano Lessons, According to Science, Time
- Selective Moral Outrage Cheapens Authentic Protest, The American Conservative
- Separating Children From Parents? Our Prisons Do It All the Time, The American Conservative
What I read today July 5
- Forget The Parades. Protest This Fourth of July., NY Times
- 'I can't afford that': Woman trapped by subway train begs bystanders not to call ambulance, USA Today
- I Hate-Watch ‘House Hunters’ to Understand Segregation, CityLab
- A Secret Living Museum in Paris, Messy Nessy Chic
- Discovering Black Outsider Art in a Whitewashed World, messy nessy chic
- The Crab Migration That the Colombian Army Is Dispatched to Protect, Atlas Obscura
What I read today July 2-3
- Sending Out the Signal: Swoon Interviewed by Katie Peyton, Bomb Magazine
- BEGINNING TOILET LEARNING -- MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEK 30, the kavanaugh report
- 5 THINGS I DO EVERYDAY AS A MONTESSORI PARENT, the kavanaugh report
- What Justice Kennedy's Retirement Means For Abortion Rights, NPR
- How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda, hyperallergic
- Why Women’s Friendships Are So Complicated, The Atlantic
- Why Is the Media So Worried About the Parents of Trans Kids?, The Atlantic
- Americans Love Families. American Policies Don’t., NY Times
- New York’s most historic fire boat has a dazzling new paint job, Curbed
- As questions over subway fixes loom, lawmakers demand funding, Curbed
- Opening a fire hydrant is a city summer tradition, ephemeral new york
- I Went to a Catholic Hospital During My Miscarriage—And It Nearly Killed Me, Broadly
What I read today June 28
- How to Make Pesto like an Italian Grandmother, 101 Cookbooks
- In This House, Everyone’s Welcome, NY Times
- Still No Charges For Driver Who Fatally Ran Over 4-Year-Old Girl On Brooklyn Sidewalk, Gothamist
- The Teen Refugees Starting Their Own Zine From a Squat in Greece, Broadly
- A New York City Misfit Museum, like No Other, Messy Nessy Chic
- Lubalin’s Radical ’60s Magazines Are Giving Us A Lesson in Archiving on the Web, Eye on Design
- How Can We Bring a More Inclusive History to Design Education?, Eye on Design
- WATCH: APES**T - THE CARTERS
- Can Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Louvre Video Change Perceptions of Who Belongs in Museums?, hyperallergic
- Artist Drops 800-Pound Heroin Spoon Outside OxyContin Manufacturer’s Headquarters, hyperallergic
- Parenthood Is Punk with Upcycled Band T-Shirts Designed for Nursing Mothers, hyperallergic
- A brief (fascist) history of 'I don't care'
- Protest Without Strategy Is Performance, Noteworthy
"Did that one million people who marched follow up with action?"
^^^ How I feel about protests and facebook activism - Calvin Kattar explains how he became the ‘Bird Whisperer’ in viral video, MMA Fighting
What I read today June 27
- THE EX-MONK WHO BUILT THE ‘TAJ MAHAL OF SPAIN’, Madrid No Frills
- What’s Hidden Underground In This Church In Connecticut Is Unexpected But Awesome, Only in Your State
- A Beginner’s Guide to Apple Trees., The Art of Doing Stuff
- A 28-year-old Democratic Socialist just ousted a powerful, 10-term congressman in New York, CNN
- How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops, timeline
- Meet The Last Surviving Witness To The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921, NPR
- These women were the toughest performers in the Wild West, Timeline
- Why Are My Fellow Whites Still So Awful at Naming Children?, GQ
- How To Get Your Kids To Do Chores (Without Resenting It), NPR
- I've Written About Cultural Appropriation For 10 Years. Here's What I Got Wrong., Refinery 29
- The World Isn’t Prepared for Retirement, Bloomberg
- When Spanish Names (Don’t) Flummox English-Speaking Baseball Announcers, NY Times
- Farming as Resistance, Yes Magazine
- Real Gender Equality Includes Femininity (and the Color Pink), Yes Magazine
What I read today June 26
- Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world, The Guardian
- How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools, NY Times
- Silicon Valley bus drivers sleep in parking lots. They may have to make way for development, SF Chronicle
- WATCH: How Neon Lights Come to Life
- Why Trump Wants a Department of Public Welfare, City Lab
- Ode to the Ladies Pant Suit of Zanzibar, Messy Nessy Chic
- The secrets of a diary written on castle floorboards, BBC News
- Yard Sale Photos Reveal Our Insatiable Need for Stuff, Wired
- The unlikely home of the world’s smallest desert, BBC Travel
What I read today June 25
- Family Separation: It’s a Problem for U.S. Citizens, Too, NY TIMES
- This Nonprofit Just Got $18 Million to Help Immigrants Detained at the Border — But It's Still Not Enough, Time
- Young Urban Birders, Open Your Hearts to the Treetops!, NY times
- MOM TALK: NAVIGATING PARENTING AFTER MULTIPLE LOSSES, Mother Mag
- TEACHING CHILDREN EMPATHY: A GUIDE FOR EVERY AGE, Mother Mag
- How to visit the Hudson River’s abandoned Bannerman Castle, Curbed
When I was 16, my mom and I took the Amtrack to the city and I saw this island out of the window in the early morning. It was beautiful and haunting and I've always wanted to see it in person. - The Tragic Roots of America’s Favorite Cherry, Atlas Obscura
- The Dazzling Quilts of 19th-Century British Soldiers Are Threaded With Mystery, Atlas Obscura
- The Greenhouse Where Tomatoes Grow in Iceland, Atlas Obscura
- Found: A Wad of World War II Bills Worth Over $2 Million, Atlas Obscura
- A New Life for Ugandan Barkcloth, a Fabric Made From Fig Trees, Atlas Obscura
- Organic Farmers Are Using Flamethrowers to Weed Their Fields, Atlas Obscura
- Revisiting the Heyday of California’s ‘Crazy’ Novelty Architecture, Atlas Obscura
- The Vanishing World of Neon Motel Signs, Atlas Obscura
- Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death, Atlas Obscura
What I read today June 22
- Trump Moves to Obama’s Position on Family Detention, Democrats Outraged, National Review
- Why Even Viral-Fundraising Skeptics Can Feel Good About Donating to RAICES, Slate
- THE MEDICIS IN THE DESERT, 1843 Magazine
- How to Resolve the Conservative Split Over Immigration, The American Conservative
- LISTEN: The GOP Disregards Youth at its Peril, The weekly standard
- Photographing the Ruins of Rural America, The American Conservative
- Christians, Cruelty, Children & The Law, The American Conservative
- The FAQs: What You Should Know About Family Separation at the Border, The Gospel Coalition
- Asylum Seekers, Family Separation, and Political Order, The Gospel Coalition
- Rethinking Baby Food Pouches, NY Times
Spent some time reading conservative/religious responses to the separation of families at the border currently happening for additional perspective. The American Conservative comes closest to coming up with coherent policies and the gospel interpretation is great from The Gospel Coalition.
What I read today June 21
- Early reports of late blight in New York, Morning Ag Clips
- Trump signs order that he says will keep migrant families together, CNBC
- Hundreds of Separated Children Have Quietly Been Sent to New York, NY Times
- Trump to Propose Government Reorganization, Targeting Safety Net Programs, NY Times
- The feds lost — yes, lost — 1,475 migrant children, USA Today
- Border Patrol will stop referring migrant parents who cross into the U.S. illegally with children for prosecution, official says, Washington Post
- THE U.S. HAS TAKEN MORE THAN 3,700 CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS — AND HAS NO PLAN FOR RETURNING THEM, The Intercept
- The King and Queen of Cruelty, NYTimes
- U.S. centers force migrant children to take drugs: lawsuit, Reuters
- Foster mom on trauma of separated migrant children: 'They are coming crying, almost hysterical', NBCNews
- Flores agreement: Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling, Vox
What I read today June 20
- Ghosts of Guatemala’s Past, NY Times
- How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World, NY Times
- The reasons why women’s voices are deeper today, BBC
- Giant African baobab trees die suddenly after thousands of years, The Guardian
- ‘Race does define me,’ says André Leon Talley — and now the fashion icon is ready to talk about it, Washington Post
- Histories of Activism in Chinatown, A Blade of Grass
- Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It, The Cut
- ‘A fun adventure, not a business’: The Weather Channel stopped publishing video on Facebook, Digiday
What I read today June 19
- When Did Caging Kids Become the Art of the Deal?, NY Times
- Fire rips through Gowanus Canal warehouse that locals want landmarked, Curbed
- Washington, DC, Is Being Sued for Gentrification , The Root
- On Stopping Family Separation, A Cup o Jo
- Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border, propublica
- Americans Are At Risk of Forgetting Slavery and Repeating Our Mistakes, ACLU
- Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’, Washington Post
- U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N. Human Rights Council , NPR
- Was the ‘Law to Separate Families’ Passed in 1997 or ‘by Democrats’?, SNOPES