• 10 Types of Odd Friendships You’re Probably Part Of, Wait but Why
• Montessori Friendly Baby Toys at 4 Months, the kavanaugh report
• The government is demanding to know who this Trump critic is. Twitter is suing to keep it a secret., WaPo
• Meet The Democratic Socialist Running For City Council In Brooklyn, Gothamist

• Natural Gross Motor Development -- Montessori Baby Week 18, the kavanaugh report
• What’s Behind the Long Lines and Angry Voices at Many City Post Offices, City Limits
  Besides loving my new apartment I love my new zip code that has a GREAT post office. I'm always telling Eric how lovely it is when I have to pick up a package. No lines early in the morning and If I do have to wait in a line, it's only 20 minutes and everyone is FRIENDLY
• Republicans Abandon the Filibuster to Save Neil Gorsuch, The Atlantic

• Check This Box if You’re a Good Person, NY Times
• Postcards from a Seaside Village of Upturned Boat Homes, Messy nessy chic
• New Pittsburg, Kan., High School principal resigns after student journalists question her credentials, Kansas City star
• The Depressing Truth About Hipster Food Towns, Mother Jones
• Inside the 150 Year-Old Skeleton of an Unfinished Octagonal Palace, Messy Nessy Chic

• The Problem With Interactive Graphics, Fast Co Design
• The “Bart And Lisa” Theory Of Information Design, Cast Co Design
• Girl, 2, defends her choice of doll to cashier, CNN
• Good News for the Older Mothers, NY Times
• Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire, The New Yorker
• Are Open Floor Plans Here to Stay?, Design Sponge
• Gender-neutral baby clothes are actually an old-school approach, Timeline
• Vinyl is having its best year since 1985. Shame no one is listening to the records, Quartz
• American Woman Reaches a New Milestone in Rock Climbing, Nat Geo
• Why White Parents Won’t Choose Black Schools, The Huffington Post
  Yes, I've already started thinking about schools for the bean. 

• The many lives of two Chelsea carriage houses, ephemeral new york
• Our Progression of Knives from 1 until 3-years-old, the kavanaugh report
• The Evolution of Chromatic Type, I Love Typography
• The Curious Case of Urban Homesteading, The jacobian
• Is There Such a Thing as the American Ghetto?, Dissent
• The U.S. Cannot Be Run Like a Business, Harvard business review

• Exploring Toys -- Montessori Baby Week 17, the kavanaugh report
• Twisted Love Affairs of the “Lost Generation” of English Eccentrics, Messy Nessy Chic
• In 1959, 21 families left Detroit for free land in Alaska. Only 5 could stand the harsh conditions., Timeline
• This woman brought guide dogs to America, and aid to thousands of blind people, Timeline
• In the Montgomery bus boycott, Georgia Gilmore fed workers, MLK, and everyone in between, Timeline
• You’re a completely different person at 14 and 77, the longest-running personality study ever has found, Quartz
• How Donald Trump Could Weed Out Your Community Garden, WNYC
  Well, shit.

• How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting ISIS in Syria, Wired
• What the Repeal of Online Privacy Protections Means for You, NY Times
• Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump could stage false-flag terror attack to maintain fanbase amid failing policies, The Independent
• Trump scraps Obama's anti-wage theft protections, The Independent
• When Women Negotiate, Jacobian

• What if All I Want is a Mediocre Life?, No Side Bar
• Community Group Needs $250K to Turn Historic Williamsburg Firehouse Into Community Center, Brownstoner
• Super Strategies, Urban Omnibus
• Trump signs order undoing Obama climate change policies, BBC
• Video: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left | Megan Phelps-Roper , YouTube
• Unfollow, The New Yorker
• Ted Cruz's Law Paper From 1996 Is the Best Argument Against Letting Tech Companies Run Rampant, The Motherboard

• Patti Smith Buys the Reconstructed Home of One of France's Most Beloved Poets, Architectural Digest
• Policies Shift, Neighborhoods Change, but Elementary School Segregation Holds On, City Limits
• US admits it conducted Mosul air strike 'at location' where '200' civilians died, The Independent
• Restoring a Run-Down Convent in Tuscany, NY Times
• Warner & Swasey Observatory – Cleveland, OH – Look to the Skies, architectural afterlife
• The father of American gynecology fought to criminalize abortion in the 1850s, Timeline
• The only woman to win the medal of honor fought for her role in the Civil War, Timeline
• Do developer-owned coffee houses accelerate NYC gentrification?, Curbed

• How Designing For Disabled People Is Giving Google An Edge, Fast Co Design
• Trump’s Populist Mirage, The Atlantic
• White House says maternity care won’t be more expensive for women —if they’re on a family plan, Think Progress
• Montessori Baby Week 16 -- The Butterflies Mobile, the kavanaugh report

• Some identities don’t need a redesign., Medium / John Warren Hanawalt
• Crisis is Not Just Another Opportunity to Build Your Brand, Medium / Greg Riestenberg
  I really don't follow the design world much these days, but think this is quite interesting. Probably, because I don't follow the design world too much since I find intrensic happiness of the un-designed world
• United States of Resistance, Print Mag
• Against Branding: Part 1 — Design and Conflict, Design Observer
• Against Branding: Part 2 — Design and Happiness, Design Observer
• How America's Obsession With Hula Girls Almost Wrecked Hawai'i, Collectors weekly
• A Sailor’s Life, Inked
• It Took Guts to be the First Victorian Tattoo Queen, Messy Nessy Chic
• The deep roots of profound weirdness, al jazeera

• How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps, NY Times
• Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion, The Guardian
• 5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus, The Atlantic
• We so rarely hear from women in the grip of addiction, The Guardian
• The Abandoned Garden of Prospect Park, narratively
• My New Chapter Begins, Growing with Plants
• 3 Brilliant Strategies For Navigating The Terrible Twos From My Daughter’s Daycare Provider, Rodale
• How, and why, to switch to a credit union, Brooklyn Based

• The Timeless Appeal of Tyra Banks’ Delightfully Unhinged Talk Show, Broadly
• From Codpieces to Dick Pics: How Dating has Changed Throughout History, Broadly
• Lmnopi on Street Art, Gentrification, Her Mission as an Artist & more, Street Art NYC
• New Book Offers a Dash of Hope—and Dose of Reality—for Young Farmers, Civil Eats

• The real-life Peggy Olson wasn’t what you would call a feminist, timeline
• Women took on the male leadership of the radical 1960s Puerto Rican movement and (mostly) won, timeline

• Forgotten weed stash donated to Goodwill, CNN
• Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science, Mic
• EXCLUSIVE: Many affordable units at Brooklyn development likely to be filled by white families: report, NY Daily News
• The Invisible Unmarried Mothers of Ireland, Atlas Obscura

• CityViews: How President Trump Could Hurt NYC’s First-Time Homebuyers, City Limits
• CityViews: Solutions to NYC’s Affordable Homeownership Crisis do Exist, City Limits
• Worst Case for Public Housing Seen in 2 Midwestern Cities, City Limits
• Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut, 99% Invisible
• When Medieval Monks Couldn't Cure the Plague, They Launched a Luxe Skincare Line, Collectors Weekly
• She Lied About Everything, except Marrying Wyatt Earp, Messy Nessy Chic
• Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents, NY Times
• Culture Wars: Trap Music Keeps Atlanta On Hip-Hop's Cutting Edge. Why Can't The City Embrace It? , NPR
• Op-Ed: Azealia Banks and the Double Standard of Mental Illness, Pitchfork

• The terrifying reality of being an American without health insurance, Vox
• 6 Lessons on Raising Boys to Become Men, PJ Media

• Katz's & Tourists, Vanishing New York
• Godless Parents Are Doing a Better Job, Jezebel
• The Unsung Delight of a Well-Designed Endpaper, Atlas Obscura
• Inside the Loneliest Five-Star Restaurant in the World, Munchies
• The first female automotive designer was also a refugee and a single mom, timeline
• Niihau, Hawaii’s ‘Forbidden Island,’ is closed to outsiders, Boston Globe
• If Scotland leaves, England will lose the Brexit game, Al Jazeera
• Working While Female, Medium

• The Sculpture of a “Fearless Girl” on Wall Street Is Fake Corporate Feminism, hyperallergic
• Amal Clooney Gave A Powerful Speech At The UN, So Why Are The Headlines About Her Baby Bump?, Bust

• Calling Bullshit
• Meet the Dodge La Femme, the bonkers car marketed only to women, Timeline
  I'd drive this
• Wikileaks' CIA document dump will cause a ripple effect, Al Jazeera
  "With the CIA hacking tools, black sites, the NSA's mass surveillance programme and a recklessly unpredictable commander-in-chief, the US can no longer tout itself as an exceptional democracy." Ouch.
• Now What, Pinch of Yum
• The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush, Jacobian
• The science of why cats like getting into boxes then peering menacingly over the edge, Boing Boing
• The Soviet Communist Origins of International Women’s Day, Messy Nessy Chic
• What Just Happened?! A Review of President Trump’s Seventh Week., The New Republic
  Check out the lines underneath hyperlinks, the decenders are cut out <3