content: 2026-05-30 capture run — 54 finds across 18 productive sources

Ten-day gap since the 2026-05-20 sweep. Pool grows from 414 → 468 finds. Productive: Six Colors, MacStories (3), Daring Fireball (3), Brett Terpstra, Eclectic Light, Show HN (5), Wallpaper* Travel (5), AFAR (2), Boutique Homes, Cool Tools (2), Kottke.org (4), Open Culture (5), Quote Investigator (4), A.Word.A.Day, The Marginalian (4), MoMA (3), Recomendo (3), icanhazdadjoke (7). Major blocker: Reddit JSON endpoint is hard-blocked this run — all four r/* sources returned identical 189908-byte HTML payloads regardless of UA or URL pattern. Lost ~15-25 finds. Next-pass action: OAuth Reddit API. Other blockers: TidBITS 403, Web Curios ECONNREFUSED with no recent issue URL resolvable, Things Magazine still on May 15 post (monthly-ish cadence confirmed), Atlas Obscura serving evergreen 2017-era content, A Continuous Lean dormant 9 runs. 5 new source nominees in candidate-sources.md.
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+name: "JFK: \"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts\""
+date: 2026-05-30
+link: https://wordsmith.org/awad/
+linkText: "wordsmith.org"
+source: "A.Word.A.Day"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [quote, kennedy, democracy]
+description: "A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today — JFK on the prerequisite of democracy: that citizens can be trusted to evaluate ideas the state finds inconvenient."
+---
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+> We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
+
+— John F. Kennedy. Cited by A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today on May 30, 2026. The line is from Kennedy's 1962 address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association — the same speech that includes the more famous "the very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society" passage.