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David Beard

@dabeard.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, newsletterer. Pro-clarity, accuracy, peace, love, understanding. Inveterate reader, traveler, listener, walker.

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Rereading Joan Didion's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and this paragraph makes me stop and think. It's an aside in a profile on another person, but it reveals so much about her:
A sentence from a Joan Didion profile that reveals much about her own sense of dream and the elaborate systems with which some people manage to fill the void, "whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History."
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No-mentum for Trump, as GOP candidates run away from and scrub websites of traces of the crashing leader.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I used to think “Ford to New York: Drop Dead” was a onetime headline.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I remember! I think the Drug Vulture looked like this:
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Someone needs to go to Alito’s home and perform a kick-ass, conservative Catholic intervention.
movie poster from “The Exorcist”
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Shattered norms” is a weird way to say “corrupted America.”
NYT describes the 2019 outrage at an international conference at his private golf club as a change from today’s “problem” of the same — and says how Trump has shattered norms.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My favorite photo.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Many people knew in 2016.
New Yorker cartoon ahead of Trump election.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The gas price run up under is Trump is more dramatic than under any leader since Jimmy Carter, who was thrown out of office. www.mentalfloss.com/live-smarter...
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The primary lesson. cc: @therickwilson.bsky.social
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
zaca lake in california.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s out of touch, out of gas, out of time.
Out of gas indicator.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump now.
Illustration of indicator showing gas tank at empty.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The curse of Trump.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Maine outlets have strong 2nd day of the Susan Collins corruption story. This from the @bangordailynews.bsky.social
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Local reaction is simple.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Attention “Mad World” fans: They’re re-releasing “Donnie Darko” in theaters Oct. 3 to mark its 25th anniversary.
Bellicose leader at UN today.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good morning! www.howmuchmoretrumpleft.com
Trump has 855 days left in his presidential term.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
But did this ejército de siete hombres also play these?
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This was America in October 2024, before Trump got his hands on it.
An October 2024 cover of The Economist heralding America’s emergence from COVID and strengthening of ties worldwide.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump on Canada, AI, omnigambling, crypto, RFK/public health and U.S. National Park — it’s all the same cartoon.
Paul Noth’s classic 2016 New Yorker campaign on Trump.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
DJT and somebody.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
at least community readers noted.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe Texans just have crook exhaustion. This search atop Google doesn't include the $1,000 pen theft.
A few of the many legal troubles involving Ken Paxton, who is getting lukewarm support in his run for Senate in Texas.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Image of Dr. Evil.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Found out there are basketball and regular Ts too.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
From @deadder.bsky.social
A Canadian cartoonist portrays Trump as Swift’s giant tied down by Lilliputians and swearing at “Canadians”
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Plus, Tony noms for "Amadeus," "My Favorite Year," and "Spamalot." And, of course: that film version of "Clue."
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Interesting stories in New England.
The current top stories list of the Boston Globe includes one about "Harvard enslavement."
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
in another relationship.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Reading Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” and every bit of deflection and distraction from the central truth — there are wild animals rampaging through out town — seems so 2026. “WeekendReads
Book cover of Ionesco’s plays.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Eve’s photo of Ronstadt was the cover of “Heart Like a Wheel.”
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Until today, I'd always thought "nanny state" was a GOP attack line. Via @christopherweyant1.bsky.social @globeopinion.bsky.social
A cartoon with Natalie Harp swaddling Trump, who is sucking on a binky. One observer says: "They give a whole new meaning to the term 'Nanny State'
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Washington Post is no better (at least AP blames “Trump allies” for the rubber stamping).
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This NYT headline is missing the first three words: “Majority Trump-Appointed.” Without those three words, the reader is misled to think this is normal.
insuffient NYT headline is”Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump’s Name on Building”
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hours after seeing the luminous “Tony,” I finally figured out who Emilia Jones was channeling. Here’s Eve Babitz’s “Heart Like a Wheel” photograph of Linda Ronstadt.
The cover of Linda Ronstadt’s “Heart Like a Wheel.”
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you can spend $100 million fighting paying your fair share in taxes, isn't that exactly why you should be paying your fair share in taxes?
Headline: Google co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Princeton/Harvard guy runs from the part of his past that doesn’t involve being a black-out drunk, philanderer and bankrupter.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This Washington Post headline makes it seem like refusing to accept the rule of law is steadfastness, not criminal.
toadying headline du jour from the Post.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NYT, legitimizing a non-issue.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s to the point.
Nixon’s resignation letter.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Never thought i’d see the NYT give cover to an authoritarian American leader to carry out pogroms.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Your “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” headline of the day.
Clever LA Times pop culture reference.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“60 Minutes” gain?
Ross Douthat’s column in Sunday’s NYT.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thanks, @wmarybeard.bsky.social for the quote. (I don’t believe we are related, to my great regret.)
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bari Weiss: I need a guy who represents the zeitgeist, who figures it out before it happens. Aide: What about Ross? He really called this. Bari: Brilliant!
NYT columnist three months before 1/6 saying Trump would never pull a 1/6.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Tell me, George Saunders, why isn’t this allowed?
not accepted today.
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