David Beard
@dabeard.bsky.social
Writer, editor, newsletterer. Pro-clarity, accuracy, peace, love, understanding.
"Everyone should have a library card. It’s like a bicycle but for your brain." - Jason Schwartzman www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/m... cc: @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social
Jason Schwartzman Finds Peace at the Library
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"Everyone should have a library card. It’s like a bicycle but for your brain." - Jason Schwartzman www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/m... cc: @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social
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State and local prosecutors really need to beef up their staffs, because for the next 38 months, anyone convicted on federal charges will be in line to get a pardon or commutation for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.
He hurt thousands of people.
He finally was convicted, and went to prison on Nov. 14.
Trump set him free the day before Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
He finally was convicted, and went to prison on Nov. 14.
Trump set him free the day before Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
State and local prosecutors really need to beef up their staffs, because for the next 38 months, anyone convicted on federal charges will be in line to get a pardon or commutation for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.
He hurt thousands of people.
He finally was convicted, and went to prison on Nov. 14.
Trump set him free the day before Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
He finally was convicted, and went to prison on Nov. 14.
Trump set him free the day before Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
He hurt thousands of people.
He finally was convicted, and went to prison on Nov. 14.
Trump set him free the day before Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
He finally was convicted, and went to prison on Nov. 14.
Trump set him free the day before Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Long before the war talk, I climbed the fashionable hills outside Caracas to meet with a classical Spanish dancer — and find out what Diana Patricia was doing after inventing the macarena.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Long before the war talk, I climbed the fashionable hills outside Caracas to meet with a classical Spanish dancer — and find out what Diana Patricia was doing after inventing the macarena.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
He was a colleague, a world-class Scrabble freak and of late, a @merriam-webster.com embed, coming up with definitions for microaggression, safe space, sheeple, headbutt and dogpile. Check out the latest from @stefanfatsis.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
Wut? It’s in the Dictionary. A New Book Explains How.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
He was a colleague, a world-class Scrabble freak and of late, a @merriam-webster.com embed, coming up with definitions for microaggression, safe space, sheeple, headbutt and dogpile. Check out the latest from @stefanfatsis.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
—John F Kennedy, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation 1963 (this proclamation was prepared a week before JFK's assassination in Dallas)
—John F Kennedy, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation 1963 (this proclamation was prepared a week before JFK's assassination in Dallas)
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
—John F Kennedy, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation 1963 (this proclamation was prepared a week before JFK's assassination in Dallas)
—John F Kennedy, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation 1963 (this proclamation was prepared a week before JFK's assassination in Dallas)
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World AIDS Day was cofounded by an American journalist--James Bunn, a San Francisco reporter who was the first person at a local TV station to make the AIDS crisis his beat, in 1983. An administration that did not loathe the press, history, and knowledge itself might have considered honoring that.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
World AIDS Day was cofounded by an American journalist--James Bunn, a San Francisco reporter who was the first person at a local TV station to make the AIDS crisis his beat, in 1983. An administration that did not loathe the press, history, and knowledge itself might have considered honoring that.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
Good to know that Karoline Leavitt's dad and bro are getting involved after the mom of her nephew was seized for deportation.
However, Leavitts are telling mom to "self-deport" to Brazil, which she left as a kid.
That would cut mom off from her son.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
However, Leavitts are telling mom to "self-deport" to Brazil, which she left as a kid.
That would cut mom off from her son.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good to know that Karoline Leavitt's dad and bro are getting involved after the mom of her nephew was seized for deportation.
However, Leavitts are telling mom to "self-deport" to Brazil, which she left as a kid.
That would cut mom off from her son.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
However, Leavitts are telling mom to "self-deport" to Brazil, which she left as a kid.
That would cut mom off from her son.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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Justice is a dish best served over a 27-year sentence.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Justice is a dish best served over a 27-year sentence.
This turkey didn’t deserve all that blather.
Someday, we won’t have to put up with it either.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Someday, we won’t have to put up with it either.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
At pardoning ceremony, Trump informs turkey of all he’s accomplished
“Last year’s turkey pardons are totally invalid,” Trump said at the annual event.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This turkey didn’t deserve all that blather.
Someday, we won’t have to put up with it either.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Someday, we won’t have to put up with it either.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Are FBI agents forced to follow orders that are legally dubious? Maybe 200+ elected Houae representatives have an opinion? apnews.com/article/trum...
FBI seeks interviews with Democrats who urged US troops to defy illegal orders
Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy “illegal orders” say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Are FBI agents forced to follow orders that are legally dubious? Maybe 200+ elected Houae representatives have an opinion? apnews.com/article/trum...
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly: Combat pilot, test pilot, NASA astronaut, two Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Legion of Merit.
Pete Hegseth: Allegations of sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement, and excessive drinking.
Who do you trust?
apnews.com/article/pent...
Pete Hegseth: Allegations of sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement, and excessive drinking.
Who do you trust?
apnews.com/article/pent...
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. t...
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly: Combat pilot, test pilot, NASA astronaut, two Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Legion of Merit.
Pete Hegseth: Allegations of sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement, and excessive drinking.
Who do you trust?
apnews.com/article/pent...
Pete Hegseth: Allegations of sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement, and excessive drinking.
Who do you trust?
apnews.com/article/pent...
Just horrid. Support to the excellent Phillip Martin and thanks to Naomi Kooker.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
Cambridge coffee shop accused of denying service to Black journalist over mistaken identity - The Boston Globe
Phillip Martin, an award-winning reporter for GBH who retired earlier this year, said he was meeting with another journalist at Caffè Nero in Central Square when he tried to order a cup of tea but was...
www.bostonglobe.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Just horrid. Support to the excellent Phillip Martin and thanks to Naomi Kooker.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
How does an imprisoned criminal who stole $38 million from US taylayers walk out a free man—with a pardon from Trump?
It starts with a nearly $1 million payout to two convicts facing sentencing themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It starts with a nearly $1 million payout to two convicts facing sentencing themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon
Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying t...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How does an imprisoned criminal who stole $38 million from US taylayers walk out a free man—with a pardon from Trump?
It starts with a nearly $1 million payout to two convicts facing sentencing themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It starts with a nearly $1 million payout to two convicts facing sentencing themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
The rest of the free world shoots down the cockamamie Kremlin Surrender Plan for Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The rest of the free world shoots down the cockamamie Kremlin Surrender Plan for Ukraine.
At least one nation won’t let a coup-mongering, defeated leader skip out on justice. apnews.com/article/braz... @AP
Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro arrested over alleged plot to escape and avoid 27-year prison term
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro over claims he was planning to escape before starting his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
At least one nation won’t let a coup-mongering, defeated leader skip out on justice. apnews.com/article/braz... @AP
Expectant parents believed influencers and podcasters who said they didn’t need a doctor or midwife for childbirth.
Their babies died.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Their babies died.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Expectant parents believed influencers and podcasters who said they didn’t need a doctor or midwife for childbirth.
Their babies died.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Their babies died.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
The Trump administration keeps demanding that universities cough up the names of Jewish employees. Some are refusing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The Trump administration keeps demanding that universities cough up the names of Jewish employees. Some are refusing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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What's weirdly missing from coverage of the Dem video is any discussion of this Q: Is it reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal orders, or not? The answer is, yes, of course it is.
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What's weirdly missing from coverage of the Dem video is any discussion of this Q: Is it reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal orders, or not? The answer is, yes, of course it is.
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
“I meant to say Mike Pence should locked up, not hanged” www.politico.com/news/2022/05...
Trump expressed support for hanging Pence during Capitol riot, Jan. 6 panel told
The select panel has heard that, after "hang Mike Pence” chants broke out, the then-president expressed support for the prospect of hanging his No. 2, three people told POLITICO.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“I meant to say Mike Pence should locked up, not hanged” www.politico.com/news/2022/05...