Edgar Award-winning crime novelist, recovering journalist, wanderer, aspirational Italian speaker. Pie for strength. Repped by Richard Curtis, Sarah Yake.
Those who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea are victims both of decisions that were made and of decisions that were not made. Indifference to the common good and corruption in their countries of origin; a global economic system that generates poverty and exclusion; fear that fuels prejudice and contempt; the belief that such problems do not concern us; the criminal calculations of those who profit from the suffering of others; the slow and difficult transition from mere emergency management to the development of comprehensive and shared policies. #PastoralVisit #Lampedusa
Powerful moment in Lampedusa today as the Pope Leo climbs to the highest rock overlooking the Mediterranean where thousands of migrants drowned while seeking a better life.
"Trump’s DHS posted a pair of nationalist memes featuring the U.S. men’s soccer team — nearly half of whom are first-generation citizens or players from immigrant families."
https://t.co/QT44FgRWf0
Love seeing all the kudos to Seattle - In complicated time, Seattle brings uncomplicated patriotism to World Cup https://t.co/y91oZIEsEa via @seattletimes
I think about this line by F. Scott Fitzgerald all the time:
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
A U.S. Senator [Montana's Tim Sheehy] Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One #mtpol @https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-sheehy-bridger-aerospace-forest-service-inspection