David Beard
@dabeard.bsky.social
Writer, editor, newsletterer. Pro-clarity, accuracy, peace, love, understanding.
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Minnesota legend Charles M. Schulz knew what made a great citizen. “Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call ‘American Virtues’ who lack this faith in our country.”
Love beats hate, but hate isn't giving up without a fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/n...
Pride flag is taken down from Stonewall Monument - The Boston Globe
The removal of the flag from the Manhattan monument, the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement, came after a Trump administration directive about flags at national park sites.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Love beats hate, but hate isn't giving up without a fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/n...
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We've got the numbers: Last year we published (in partnership with the @brennancenter.org and @umd-cdce.bsky.social) survey results showing that some 21.3 million Americans could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act, which the House''ll vote on tomorrow.
Time to send this thing back to its grave.
Time to send this thing back to its grave.
Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available
Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.
www.brennancenter.org
February 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
We've got the numbers: Last year we published (in partnership with the @brennancenter.org and @umd-cdce.bsky.social) survey results showing that some 21.3 million Americans could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act, which the House''ll vote on tomorrow.
Time to send this thing back to its grave.
Time to send this thing back to its grave.
"What people click—and what they think they like—is largely a matter of what is available to them. Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations." - Becca Rothfeld on the killing of WashPost's book section www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... @thepointmag.bsky.social
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
www.newyorker.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
"What people click—and what they think they like—is largely a matter of what is available to them. Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations." - Becca Rothfeld on the killing of WashPost's book section www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... @thepointmag.bsky.social
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
Smart move: @reuters.com hires longtime star @apnews.com photographer Evan Vucci, who took this raised-fist photo of Trump after the 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. www.reuters.com/media-center...
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Smart move: @reuters.com hires longtime star @apnews.com photographer Evan Vucci, who took this raised-fist photo of Trump after the 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. www.reuters.com/media-center...
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Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
ICE plans to build mega immigration prison camps spark growing concern. 3 people have died at the Fort Bliss camp in 6 weeks, one a homicide. The site was a former WWII US concentration camp for Japanese Americans, which President Reagan called “a mistake.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
ICE plans to build mega immigration prison camps spark growing concern. 3 people have died at the Fort Bliss camp in 6 weeks, one a homicide. The site was a former WWII US concentration camp for Japanese Americans, which President Reagan called “a mistake.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
They kidnapped this Tufts student for no reason.
Now the government has dropped its deportation case against her — but not removed her name from an ICE database preventing her from working.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
Now the government has dropped its deportation case against her — but not removed her name from an ICE database preventing her from working.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
Immigration court puts an end to Rümeysa Öztürk’s removal proceedings, her lawyers say - The Boston Globe
Lawyers for Öztürk filed notice of the termination in a federal appeals court in New York, where she is challenging her deportation by the Trump administration.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
They kidnapped this Tufts student for no reason.
Now the government has dropped its deportation case against her — but not removed her name from an ICE database preventing her from working.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
Now the government has dropped its deportation case against her — but not removed her name from an ICE database preventing her from working.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
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Unredacted Epstein files implicate ‘six powerful men’ and reveal victim aged just 9 trib.al/EzsvCLH
Unredacted Epstein files implicate ‘six powerful men’ and reveal victim aged just 9
trib.al
February 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Unredacted Epstein files implicate ‘six powerful men’ and reveal victim aged just 9 trib.al/EzsvCLH
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The U.S. did in WWIi, even raiding orphanages to find American kids with at least 1/16 Japanese blood. The whole rationale for the imprisonment of 125,000 Japanese Americans was wrong, racist and “a mistake,” said President Reagan. #NeverAgain www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
Remarks on Signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians
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www.reaganlibrary.gov
February 10, 2026 at 11:11 AM
The U.S. did in WWIi, even raiding orphanages to find American kids with at least 1/16 Japanese blood. The whole rationale for the imprisonment of 125,000 Japanese Americans was wrong, racist and “a mistake,” said President Reagan. #NeverAgain www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
2005: When Trump’s Commerce secretary said he broke off relations with Epstein.
2008: When Epstein became a convicted sex offender.
2012: When Trump’s commerce secretary visited Epstein Island.
2012: When Trump’s Commerce Secretary got back in business with Epstein.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
2008: When Epstein became a convicted sex offender.
2012: When Trump’s commerce secretary visited Epstein Island.
2012: When Trump’s Commerce Secretary got back in business with Epstein.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Epstein Island Visitor Howard Lutnick Still Has His Job In Trump's Cabinet
Trump has attacked others for having visited Epstein’s notorious Caribbean island, but appears to be fine with his commerce secretary’s apparent trip there.
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 AM
2005: When Trump’s Commerce secretary said he broke off relations with Epstein.
2008: When Epstein became a convicted sex offender.
2012: When Trump’s commerce secretary visited Epstein Island.
2012: When Trump’s Commerce Secretary got back in business with Epstein.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
2008: When Epstein became a convicted sex offender.
2012: When Trump’s commerce secretary visited Epstein Island.
2012: When Trump’s Commerce Secretary got back in business with Epstein.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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That would more than fund healthcare, education and other services
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
That would more than fund healthcare, education and other services
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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BREAKING: ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded & squalid conditions on 10th floor at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate, secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, the Trump admin admitted in court Monday.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
www.thecity.nyc
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
BREAKING: ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded & squalid conditions on 10th floor at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate, secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, the Trump admin admitted in court Monday.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
"One Battle After Another" composer has to fight these rapacious "Melania" weasels to make them stop ripping him off. stereogum.com/2488581/jonn...
Jonny Greenwood Wants His Music To Be Removed From 'Melania'
Melania, director Brett Ratner’s new piece of quasi-documentary propaganda about current US First Lady Melania Trump, has a score from the composer Tony Neiman. But the film also apparently uses a por...
stereogum.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 AM
"One Battle After Another" composer has to fight these rapacious "Melania" weasels to make them stop ripping him off. stereogum.com/2488581/jonn...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Everybody, to the bunker!"
@petridishes.bsky.social's hilarious opening to those who envy and fear America's dominant musical export ... and their wish he'd speak more English or recently translated German "like the DHS X account."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
@petridishes.bsky.social's hilarious opening to those who envy and fear America's dominant musical export ... and their wish he'd speak more English or recently translated German "like the DHS X account."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Finally, a Halftime Show That Represents Real America!
Isn’t Bad Bunny an American artist? Don’t millions of people love his music? At the Turning Point USA alternative show, we forget about all that.
www.theatlantic.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Everybody, to the bunker!"
@petridishes.bsky.social's hilarious opening to those who envy and fear America's dominant musical export ... and their wish he'd speak more English or recently translated German "like the DHS X account."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
@petridishes.bsky.social's hilarious opening to those who envy and fear America's dominant musical export ... and their wish he'd speak more English or recently translated German "like the DHS X account."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"When these young officers attain the ranks that Hegseth never reached and become senior leaders in the US Armed Forces, what they learned at a top university or at a senior war college will be a lot more important than how many push-ups they did 20 years ago." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Pete Hegseth’s Attack on Harvard
The anger at the Ivy League is about status envy, not war-fighting.
www.theatlantic.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
"When these young officers attain the ranks that Hegseth never reached and become senior leaders in the US Armed Forces, what they learned at a top university or at a senior war college will be a lot more important than how many push-ups they did 20 years ago." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
After a tough night, Hall of Fame manager Jim Leyland would always say it was time to turn the page. Modern managers have followed suit. Where's Jim get the phrase? This song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khH...
Bob Seger- Turn the Page
YouTube video by jimmej955
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February 10, 2026 at 12:06 AM
After a tough night, Hall of Fame manager Jim Leyland would always say it was time to turn the page. Modern managers have followed suit. Where's Jim get the phrase? This song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khH...
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Concentration camps:
"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."
"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."
Former ICE Facility Worker 'saw people laying in feces' at Baltimore Detention Center
Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage
www.wusa9.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Concentration camps:
"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."
"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
In one move, Hegseth has erased a triumph that took years by center-right Harvard alums and veterans like Casper Weinberger and Leo Kahn, father of the current @nytimes.com editor, to make Harvard a home for ROTC units and training. apnews.com/article/harv...
Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, discontinuing military training, fellowships
The Pentagon says it will cut ties with Harvard University, ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.
apnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM
In one move, Hegseth has erased a triumph that took years by center-right Harvard alums and veterans like Casper Weinberger and Leo Kahn, father of the current @nytimes.com editor, to make Harvard a home for ROTC units and training. apnews.com/article/harv...
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“That was a mistake.”
President Reagan had the guts to admit America’s grave error in imprisoning 100,000 Japanese Americans, including children in WWII. US officials found there was no evidence that even one was helping Tokyo. www.npr.org/sections/cod...
President Reagan had the guts to admit America’s grave error in imprisoning 100,000 Japanese Americans, including children in WWII. US officials found there was no evidence that even one was helping Tokyo. www.npr.org/sections/cod...
From Wrong To Right: A U.S. Apology For Japanese Internment
More than 100,000 people of Japanese descent were put in camps during World War II. Decades later and inspired by the civil rights movement, Japanese-Americans launched a campaign for redress that cul...
www.npr.org
February 8, 2026 at 1:57 AM
“That was a mistake.”
President Reagan had the guts to admit America’s grave error in imprisoning 100,000 Japanese Americans, including children in WWII. US officials found there was no evidence that even one was helping Tokyo. www.npr.org/sections/cod...
President Reagan had the guts to admit America’s grave error in imprisoning 100,000 Japanese Americans, including children in WWII. US officials found there was no evidence that even one was helping Tokyo. www.npr.org/sections/cod...
Not a wet eye n the house. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Washington Post chief executive Will Lewis steps down after mass lay-offs
Will Lewis said "difficult decisions" had been made to ensure the newspaper's future.
www.bbc.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Not a wet eye n the house. www.bbc.com/news/article...