My contributor’s copy of @StoryLitMag just arrived! Many thanks to @mpnye for giving my story a home and providing such thoughtful edits. Glad to be a part of this!

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

The new Banksy sculpture in London is brilliant

Holy shit, this is BRILLIANT: This dude breaks down why everyone thinks the whole WHCD event was fake... everything about trump is FAKE. Best video you'll see today.

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

"Night clerks in hotels, cabdrivers on graveyard, waitresses in all-night coffee shops.They knew the world, how precious it was when a person remembered your name, the comfort of a rhetorical question, 'How's it going,how's the kids?'" -White Oleander, Janet Fitch #SundaySentence

Excellent. Read every word. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Woodburn, Oregon

"The world starts and ends, starts, ends, ends again, restarts." - from Jane Hirshfield poem "I speak with the future." #SundaySentence

On the waterfront, Portland

Akira Kurosawa offering invaluable advice for writers all around the world

Matsue in Izumo (Hazy moon), by Kawase Hasui, 1924

Thank you Rep. Huffman for laying it plain.

Internal White House meetings goin on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

ICE is the American Gestapo.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

BREAKING: @AOC just completely went off on Trump after ICE murdered Alex Pretti. "Donald Trump [is] accusing a Veteran Affairs ICU nurse (Alex Pretti) as being a terrorist against the United States. A man who was treating services members to our country, who was dedicating his life to serving Americans. Who in his final act on this earth was helping a woman pushed to the ground. And they are calling him a Domestic Terrorist, in order to defend their gross abuse of power, their absolute breaching of the law and in order to precipitate greater conflict."

Alex Pretti was murdered.

DEPORT ICE.

Get ready for them to tell you the man struggling on the floor and getting shot in cold blood gave the half dozen ICE agents that were beating him up internal bleeding. Fuck ICE.