Another headline here is “Bard faculty declines to call for Leon Botstein’s resignation over Epstein ties.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Another headline here is “Bard faculty declines to call for Leon Botstein’s resignation over Epstein ties.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Congratulations to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which managed to upstage the flaming dumpster fire that is the Kennedy Center in the collective mind of the classical music world this Friday by dismissing its very fine music director, Andris Nelsons. Can't wait to hear the back story.
Wait what? I can't access the Boston Globe, so someone tell me what this says. WHY?
In lawyer-ese this translates to “We’re pretty sure that if we delay this until after graduation everyone will forget about it.” www.thedailycatch.org/articles/eps...
Extremely Bard development: the student protest against @bardcollege.bsky.social president and Jeffrey Epstein friend Leon Botstein appears to be cigarette themed.
Bard College President Leon Botstein maintained a personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Botstein is mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files.
After Epstein's 2008 conviction, Botstein still welcomed him onto Bard College's campus.
Students will not accept this.
I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:
Damn did @bardcollege.bsky.social not get enough money from the pedophile sex trafficker?
If you're wondering why Leon Botstein hasn't yet been axed from Bard's presidency, and if you also want to wallow in depths of cynicism about billionaires and their families, look up the chair of Bard's board of trustees. And who his wife's father was in relation to Epstein.
Here is a (certainly incomplete) list of things that went down around Jeffrey Epstein attending Leon Botstein's rehearsal
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John Gotti's wife famously told reporters who asked what he husband did for a living: "He provides"
Leon Botstein "provided" over $2 billion for Bard College, so no one there cares about his disgusting, revulsive friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
Catching up after a few days of being super busy with a work trip, and whoo boy, there is some important reading. This article articulates perfectly what I tried to communicate a few days ago in conversation with someone, but was unable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Why is a man who showed such complicity and cravenness still presiding over vulnerable college students, in a position that requires not only trust but moral character?” Grateful for this lucid essay on @bardcollege.bsky.social president and Epstein friend Leon Botstein, from @katemanne.bsky.social
The longtime principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra has been president of Bard since 1975, a very rare tenure among US college heads who are often embattled with political and social pressures. Under his leadership, the school built its first endowment which reached $1 billion this year. Botstein is synonymous with the school itself, having served as its head since his late 20s. Forcing him to depart would be tantamount to closing the college altogether, said longtime trustee Asher Edelman, who joined the board in the 1970s and is now a life trustee. “He led this college to be the leading light in liberal arts education,” he said in an interview.
ok, but ... we do see how only one mortal human being able to run the institution is about as bad for survival as no endowment, right? we see that???
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Spending some time this evening reading through @bardcollege.bsky.social President Leon Botstein's emails to Jeffrey Epstein, and it really can't be overstated how much attention, sympthy, and care Botstein was giving to a pedophile sex trafficker. jmail.world/search?from=...
every one of these guys is like: I'm a genius. you should do whatever i say about business, finance, research.... because i am so smart i have it all figure--
oh, jeffrey epstein? man that guy totally pulled the wool over my eyes. Is that what he was up to? wow.
According to Julie K. Brown, who did such invaluable reporting on Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald, the Bard College Board of Trustees is conducting an emergency meeting tomorrow. I hope they do the right thing. x.com/jkbjournalis...
Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward.
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
#neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky
Photos of three girls with faces redacted, two wearing Bard High School Early College Cleveland t-shirts
Hey Leon i'm still looking through the files and a long weekend is coming just fyi
“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.
Leon Botstein next 🤞🏻🙏🏻
Every sane person in the world: “These victims deserve justice for what they endured at the hands of Epstein and other dangerous people!”
AG Pam Bondi: “THE DOW IS OVER 50,000 RIGHT NOW!”
This is absolutely terrifying.
This is why you shouldn’t believe them when they say they are done with a place.
We are still occupied, and at least two people have died due to it since DC was declared “crime free”
Minnesota, you won. Much of ICE are leaving. Don't trust this. They are trying to get the funding bill passed. Once the bill passes they'll be back at it either by you or someplace else.
Why is it so impossible to get Noah Kahan tickets??? 😭
"The headlong pursuit of A.G.I. has not just diminished the education of young people, the foundation of future progress; it has significantly hampered building support for developing systems that might help make students smarter."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
Thank you for doing all of this work!
also i'm sorry but if you chase down someone for SIX YEARS and only manage to get $150k and some laptops, and maybe a secondary donation from another pedophile, have you actually really done fundraising successfully www.thedailycatch.org/articles/bot...
