Candace Dempsey
@candacedempsey.bsky.social
Travel writer, journo, escape artist, foodie, Italian American author of MURDER IN ITALY, true story of Amanda Knox.
@penguinusa
Stories: Slate, NYT, BBC, Luxury Latin America
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@penguinusa
Stories: Slate, NYT, BBC, Luxury Latin America
http://instagram.com/candacedempsey
https://candacedempsey.pressfolios.com
Headline of the week.
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Headline of the week.
Great news. Italian women, after years of marching, finally win protection against femicide. Men can no longer kille their wives or partners and call it a crime a passion. They face life imprisonment. tinyurl.com/4dtkbkzt
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Great news. Italian women, after years of marching, finally win protection against femicide. Men can no longer kille their wives or partners and call it a crime a passion. They face life imprisonment. tinyurl.com/4dtkbkzt
What does this enchanting Frida Kahlo self-portrait tell us about courage and endurance as she sleeps below that skeleton, in the last years of her life? It sold for $54.7 million this week, highest price ever paid for an artwork by a woman.
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What does this enchanting Frida Kahlo self-portrait tell us about courage and endurance as she sleeps below that skeleton, in the last years of her life? It sold for $54.7 million this week, highest price ever paid for an artwork by a woman.
WTH @support.bsky.team You suspended Sarah Kendzior, our Trump truth teller? Author of They Knew?
Readers: Sign up for Sarah's free newletter on Substack at @sarahkendzior
"I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash," she writes.
I wish I were joking."
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"I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash," she writes.
I wish I were joking."
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
WTH @support.bsky.team You suspended Sarah Kendzior, our Trump truth teller? Author of They Knew?
Readers: Sign up for Sarah's free newletter on Substack at @sarahkendzior
"I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash," she writes.
I wish I were joking."
Readers: Sign up for Sarah's free newletter on Substack at @sarahkendzior
"I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash," she writes.
I wish I were joking."
Chicago: "A video of the arrest shows at least four agents in camouflage pushing Griffin to the ground and handcuffing him, briefly pinning his mother Elaine Plybon down in the process. “Why are you doing this?" bystanders yelled.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Chicago: "A video of the arrest shows at least four agents in camouflage pushing Griffin to the ground and handcuffing him, briefly pinning his mother Elaine Plybon down in the process. “Why are you doing this?" bystanders yelled.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Oh, no, not Portland. What city is next? “It is hard to understand how a tiny protest causing no disruptions could possibly satisfy the standard that the President is unable to execute the laws.”
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October 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Oh, no, not Portland. What city is next? “It is hard to understand how a tiny protest causing no disruptions could possibly satisfy the standard that the President is unable to execute the laws.”
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Gift article. Is 841 the renegade sea otter stealing surf boards off Santa Cruz? "If it’s her, the cases may be written off as troublesome behavior by a repeat offender. But experts say it’s possible that another otter has begun to see the appeal of surfing." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Gift article. Is 841 the renegade sea otter stealing surf boards off Santa Cruz? "If it’s her, the cases may be written off as troublesome behavior by a repeat offender. But experts say it’s possible that another otter has begun to see the appeal of surfing." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
Gotta love Portland. #nokings
“We don’t throw rocks. We don’t light fires. We don’t do those things. If other people, not part of our organization, decide to do those kind of things, we are not affiliated with it."
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“We don’t throw rocks. We don’t light fires. We don’t do those things. If other people, not part of our organization, decide to do those kind of things, we are not affiliated with it."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gotta love Portland. #nokings
“We don’t throw rocks. We don’t light fires. We don’t do those things. If other people, not part of our organization, decide to do those kind of things, we are not affiliated with it."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
“We don’t throw rocks. We don’t light fires. We don’t do those things. If other people, not part of our organization, decide to do those kind of things, we are not affiliated with it."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Talk about your mixed messages, @nyt. Now do this for men.
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Talk about your mixed messages, @nyt. Now do this for men.
Blissed out on Mount Rainier, as glorious as ever during the shutdown. Appreciate all the tourists from China, Germany, Switzerland. What a great day.
October 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Blissed out on Mount Rainier, as glorious as ever during the shutdown. Appreciate all the tourists from China, Germany, Switzerland. What a great day.
Idaho will get America's first ever Arabic air force base, convenient to Boise. Idaho, a state where Islamophobia and antisemitism were already rising. Make that make sense. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth... I
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Idaho will get America's first ever Arabic air force base, convenient to Boise. Idaho, a state where Islamophobia and antisemitism were already rising. Make that make sense. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth... I
Oh my god, @NYT. Read the room.
October 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Oh my god, @NYT. Read the room.
If you need something to lift you up, here's Mount Rainier.
“Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, newborn world." John Muir
“Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, newborn world." John Muir
October 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
If you need something to lift you up, here's Mount Rainier.
“Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, newborn world." John Muir
“Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, newborn world." John Muir
Heartbreak in blue states. ICE smashes windows of Guatemalean berry pickers in Oregon. “swarmed the van and ultimately detained four workers–three men and one woman–while releasing two other women and a teenage girl.”
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
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August 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Heartbreak in blue states. ICE smashes windows of Guatemalean berry pickers in Oregon. “swarmed the van and ultimately detained four workers–three men and one woman–while releasing two other women and a teenage girl.”
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
Shameless: "Bureau of Land Management lands within five miles of a population center should be sold en masse, Lee wrote. Sold under the pretext of addressing affordable housing needs." www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
June 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Shameless: "Bureau of Land Management lands within five miles of a population center should be sold en masse, Lee wrote. Sold under the pretext of addressing affordable housing needs." www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
This is how you write a headline. Attention @nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is how you write a headline. Attention @nytimes.com
From Times of London
June 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
From Times of London
My beautiful tavola per uno in Matera, Italy. I have 4 days amid the sassi. Went hiking today
May 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My beautiful tavola per uno in Matera, Italy. I have 4 days amid the sassi. Went hiking today
Sun setting over the sassi, Matera, Italy.
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sun setting over the sassi, Matera, Italy.
First view of Rome. Been too long.
May 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
First view of Rome. Been too long.
Gotta love Harvard.
May 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Gotta love Harvard.
What the hell?
April 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
What the hell?
AP photo of the week. Can't make this stuff up.
April 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
AP photo of the week. Can't make this stuff up.
AP Photos of the week. You can't make this up.
April 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
AP Photos of the week. You can't make this up.
Well done, Salt Lake, Utah. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/04...
April 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Well done, Salt Lake, Utah. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/04...