Thankfully “just a couple of keystrokes of history separate famous from infamous.” — By Matthew Purdy, NY Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

Ahoy! Wonderful Christmas interview on Chris Frame’s terrific maritime history show with “Mr. Ocean Liner” himself, Bill Miller. #billmiller #ships #oceanliner youtu.be/fD-0n0VHqqc?...

‘Carol of the Bells’ was born in a Ukrainian city destroyed by Russia. The music school dedicated to the song’s Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych, was destroyed in Pokrovsk but has been reborn in exile. — By Siobhán O'Grady and Anastacia Galouchka www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

CBS News remained roiled on Monday by fallout from the decision by its new editor in chief, Bari Weiss, to abruptly postpone a segment of Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes” that was critical of the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

Hours before it was set to air Sunday night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast. Below is the segment. www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

Well, now we can reveal our “surprise guest” onboard Seabourn Encore for our TransPacifc cruise: Steve Wozniak! Wow! I’m onboard as a lecturer myself and TOTALLY thrilled to be upstaged. Today was the first presentation by the tech titan and all around nice guy. Thank you “Woz”!

He finally said something with which I agree. #nevertrump “Over the past 11 months there has never been anything like it, and I think most would agree.” — Donald Trump www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...

What I saw and heard: desperation, exaggeration, obfuscation and out and out lies. As to style: meth addicts standing on street corners screaming have more coherence and authority. In a lineage of off the wall DJT speeches, this takes the cake. youtu.be/2m0mjgxSzWA

The comments by Trump about the murder of the Reiners “is where history will record that the deepest damage by the Trump presidency was done.” — Bret Stephens #nevertrump www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Ahoy! onboard elegant Seabourn Encore offering my LinerLore maritime history talks.  From the birth of oceanic travel to the Titanic, from the Golden Age of liners to the explosion in cruising, there’s something for every salty soul to enjoy. www.davidperry.com/newsroom/lin...

December 8: Today in “Upon This Rock”, the elderly, elfish and enigmatic priest, Don Bello, shows Adriano & Lee his pastorate: the 1000 year old church of San Giovanale, oldest in Orvieto & central to the mystery. www.davidperry.com/newsroom/dec...

All hail the Sun King. I would laugh but it’s not at all funny: it’s dangerous and disgusting and racist and disturbing. Report below from @NPR #nevertrump www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...

Tis the season for an award winning read! Give the gift of my bestselling mystery thriller, Upon This Rock, set during the Holidays in the magical Italian hilltop town of Orvieto. It’s now in its second printing and the screenplay is making the rounds in Hollywood! www.davidperry.com/newsroom/tis...

An incredible production. I urge everyone to see it. #garfield #jamesgarfield www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Want to own a one-of-kind irreplaceable piece of Hollywood maritime history? Check out the link below and on December 9 & 10 check in at Heritage Auctions. #titanic www.davidperry.com/newsroom/rms...

Ahoy! David Eugene Perry Novel Update: sequel to “Upon This Rock” @UponBy www.davidperry.com/newsroom/aho...

“Of the many problems with Trump immigration policies, two themes stand out: the brutality toward immigrants who are here illegally and the unfairness toward citizens and legal immigrants.” — The New York Times Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

And not only because my first day in San Francisco was October 1, 1986 and my birthday is November 1 — October has always been my favorite month! Gorgeous writing by “Native Son” Carl Nolte in the San Francisco Chronicle www.davidperry.com/newsroom/its...

Opinions | When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran George Retes is suing the federal government for unconstitutional detention. Opinion by George F. Will www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Thanks to Allie Rasmus of KTVU 2 ’s “Mornings on 2” for chatting with artist Aaron Wojack! A group of San Francisco artists from a collective called "Bat Witch Ghost" teamed up with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to build a haunted house and labyrinth from scratch. www.ktvu.com/video/1726459

A wonderful piece of writing by longtime friend and colleague Barbara Tannenbaum. It made me want to read the works of Guy Debord & now I have a new favorite quote: “Fish don’t know that they’re wet but they have premonitions.” - Norman M. Klein ogquarterly.org/issue18/#tan...

How DARE you @PressSec & @SpeakerJohnson. I am a US citizen. I am a Democrat. I am NOT a HAMAS supporter, quite the opposite: a proud supporter of Israel. You disgust me & you will lose. History’s dustbin is full of you. #nevertrump #NoKingsDayOct18th eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

How DARE you @PressSec & @SpeakerJohnson. I am a US citizen. I am a Democrat. I am NOT a HAMAS supporter, quite the opposite: a proud supporter of Israel. You disgust me & you will lose. History’s dustbin is full of the likes of you. #nevertrump #NoKingsDayOct18th eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

How DARE you @PressSec & @SpeakerJohnson. I am a citizen of the United States of America. I am a Democrat. I am NOT a supporter or HAMAS. You disgust me & ultimately you will lose. History’s dustbin is full of the likes of you. #nevertrump #NoKingsDayOct18th eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Campaign Theme for Democrats running in the midterms: “I’m for you, they (Trump and the GOP) are for them…” then list all the hideous people he’s pardoned like Santos, January 6 attackers, etc Turn their attacks on Kamala back in their faces. #nevertrump #voteblue www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

I am sharing this heartfelt and honest commentary, as its author — Dr. Jonathan Dekel-Chen — is someone whose integrity, compassion and commentary I have come to greatly respect. — David Perry

As usual, Carl Nolte takes something as simple as a San Francisco bus ride and turns it into journalistic art. This is a “keeper”: one of Carl’s best among many “best” columns for the San Francisco Chronicle. — David Perry (Boomer class of ‘61) www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nati...

“Misusing the power to imprison people is uniquely chilling in a free society. Our country has entered a grave new period of injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

“President Trump is remaking the country in his image: crude, harsh, gratuitously mean.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Ahoy! As my friends and regular readers know, I’m working on a new novel, sequel to Upon This Rock. It’s going well, but I am determined to finish it by my birthday on November 1st. To wit: I’m erasing conscious distractions like personal social media. www.davidperry.com/newsroom/aho...

A great voice for reason, respect and responsibility has passed: David Gergen. Often, I have said to myself: “how would Gergy handle this.” Sadly, his style of humble, Below: a heartfelt tribute from his longtime pulpit, the PBS NewsHour. artscanvas.org/arts-culture...

“It strikes me as highly improbable that after nearly 600 years the power of printed words on a page is going to go away. I would put my money on literature’s comeback & that will be a great blow to the forces of dehumanization all around us.” — David Brooks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

“Los Angeles has more people living on the streets than any other city in the United States, which almost certainly makes it the homelessness capital of the developed world: 75,000 people in 2023. ” www.latimes.com/california/s...

“As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

“The cruelty of these cuts is matched only by their stupidity. Medicaid beneficiaries will lose, but so will the rest of us. The cost of care that is no longer reimbursed by Medicaid will instead be borne by hospitals and passed onto paying patients.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

“A recent study showed that if U.S. vaccination rates continue to decline, the nation could face millions of cases over the next 25 years.” — Lena Sun, The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The app, which is free and gives users the ability to anonymously report ICE sightings within a five-mile radius, had approximately 500,000 users as of July 5. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Fascinating and important interview tonight with Kara Swisher on Washington Week with The Atlantic, conducted by Jeffrey Goldberg. The subject: The Media in the Age of Trump. www.thirteen.org/programs/was...

Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day to all our family and friends up north! And thank you to all our Canadian visitors, businesses and especially members of the military who have bravely served in the celebration and defense of TRUE shared values. Keep on keeping on. #CanadaDay #Canada

“My guys are so frightened,” one business owner said in an email to The Post. “I am spending big money on an immigration lawyer for them and me. It’s very complicated and there are not not many solutions, or even answers.” thepalmspringspost.com/unmarked-age...

While the current national administration of the United States denies, denigrates and damages the LGBT community, our beloved little town of Grazalema in the Andalucían province of Cádiz in southern Spain celebrates its diversity. Thank you. It means a lot, always, to us — especially today.

“Emil Bove, however, would be a problem for a very long time. At 44 years old, he’s been nominated for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.” — David French www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

Well done Salt Lake City. Well done every local leader standing up to over-reaching right wing idealogues. You will not win this. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Today in History: June 26, 1945. 80 years ago today, the United Nations Charter was signed in the Herbst Theatre at San Francisco War Memorial. Below are my observations. #un80 #un #UnitedNations #TodayInHistory www.davidperry.com/newsroom/on-...

Brilliant. “The senators, who exercised a prerogative extended to members of Congress to rent space in the center, chose this week for the event because June has long been when the gay community has celebrated Pride Month. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/a...

Thank you @flysfo.bsky.social for the love and share!

On what would have been Alan Turing’s 113th birthday, what better place for Alfredo and I to be than at the AI & Creativity Expo at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

Barely 24 hours ago, the United States bombed nuclear sites in Iran: a military escalation of its type unseen in decades. What is the background? www.davidperry.com/newsroom/dec...

She had me at Raggedy Ann. :-) I love Monica Hesse’s writing. “Love America not like a Madame Alexander but a Raggedy Ann. Not like a parade but a block party.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Donald Trump’s Executive Order entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” was issued on March 27th, taking aim at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/20/n...