Letter to the editor: Bard College President Botstein’s continued leadership is no longer tenable

Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

It’s past time for Botstein to leave Bard and Simon’s Rock. Alumni, parents, friends, please sign and share this open letter to the Bard Trustees: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Simon’s Rockers and Bard community, please sign and share this open letter from alumni to Bard Trustees: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Leon Botstein told the Bard Community that Leon Black donated $250,000 after they met in 2012. Yet, this email isn’t from Leon Black. It’s from Jeffrey Epstein. For the same amount, during the same time period Botstein said. So who really donated to Bard? And why try to hide it?

Botstein invited a known pedophile to a high school he oversaw. How can he possibly survive this?

Cool that people are covering this again. Would be cooler if they’d bothered to read any of the existing work on it (i.e., you know, mine) before getting basic stuff wrong.

I am a Simon’s Rock alum, I have been trying to reach out to my contacts in admin about this and I haven’t had any response @musicologyduck.bsky.social

a half dozen articles about Botstein now, still wanting someone to look into this

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.

Rubio "Cuba is a disaster. It's run by incompetent, senile men." As Trump tries to stay awake.

I saw someone letting his little dog poop right in front of the door to a Wendy’s on Third Ave in midtown this morning and I almost shouted “Sir, this is a Wendy’s!!!”

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

The election Nazi tattoo guy wants to run in isn't until November 2026, maybe people defending him including but not limited to Bernie fucking Sanders could devote their time to finding a candidate without a Nazi tattoo. That they kept for 20 years knowing it was a Nazi tattoo.

I threw the sandwich But I did not do a felony 🎶

South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Publish it again. Every journalist who has published Epstein stuff before should just publish it again.

Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.

I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.

I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network. A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.

I understand most people don’t want to leave X because that’s where most other people still are. That just means that it’s a collective action problem; it can be overcome with organizing that brings people together towards non-cooperation. If we can’t even get off X, how can we stop fascism?

weird that jamelle pointing out that the reporters didn't do their due diligence and were platforming a eugenicist violates social media standards

An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public

3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill: 3M Altria AT&T Charter Communications Chevron Cisco Comcast Delta Airlines Door Dash Great Clips Hair Cuttery T-Mobile Uber United Airlines UPS Verizon

We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.

brad lander primary chuck schumer

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

I also think that Cuomo (not a Jew) calling Brad Lander (a practicing Jew) anti-Semitic because he didn’t invest in Israel bonds to be far more anti-Semitic than anything Zohran has done. it is literally just the dual loyalty trope!

"don't rank the sexual abuser and callous mass slaughterer of the elderly" seems like a pretty reasonable ask.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

There is no limit to the number of people that Bibi Netanyahu will kill to stay out of jail and in power.

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

You definitely don’t have to refuse to vote for Cuomo just because he’s a sexual predator, you can also refuse to vote for him because he killed thousands of people and then covered it up

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

Here comes the legal profession roaring back One big firm bowed down, but EVERYONE else targeted is fighting back & 100s in the field are with us Lawyers, legal firms & org’s plz sign 👇 to join the fight. Thx @democracyforward.org & SRLI for organizing democracyforward.org/action/open-...

This story is fucking bonkers

I have been a Democratic activist in NY for 45 years. I will not forget or forgive Senators who vote for cloture on this CR. This is the time to force the GOP to get rid of the filibuster. This is the time to go down fighting. I will vote for primary opponents.

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

So Schumer wants to avoid a government shutdown so Trump and Musk can continue to shut down our government and bypass Congress.

Hey @riseandresist.bsky.social @indivisible.org @bkindivisible.bsky.social when are we rallying at Schumer’s next? His DC office doesn’t even take voicemail after 6pm.

Call your senators and let them know if they join Schumer here you will never give them another dime or another vote and you’ll devote your time and money to anyone who primaries them.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

I love myself too much to watch that man speak live.