Keith O'Hara

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Laura Palmer’s House Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.

Sharing because it's #TwinPeaksDay and because fiction tells the truth first

Bard’s President Should Resign Today Leon Botstein has been revealed to have deep ties to Epstein. It’s time for accountability.

Botstein palled around with Epstein for years and helped launder his reputation. The Epsteins cannot exist without the Botsteins. It's time for accountability katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...

Sorry I missed your talk, at a conference!

This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.

leon botstein search in the epstein files showing 2,638 results

yeahhhhh

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Biology, History, and the Fate of Human Societies
2. Symbolic Logic
3. Suburban Studies
4. Public Speaking
5. Physics I (& II)

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words.

youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...

Kurt Cobain and John Prine.

A rural MD college decides to hire John Harbaugh to lead its failing English department. Season 2 of The Chair writes itself.

Department of d̶e̶f̶e̶n̶s̶e̶
Department of w̶a̶r̶
Department of conquest.

Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

WWE should have given him the peace prize not FIFA.

The Knick (TV though)

Miss 'em.

Morning.

The Pig Is in the White House This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

youtu.be/8Mu5w95ai1w?...

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Hello, Ranger Harris.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Let's go NJ!!

DOJ Scrubs Jan. 6 Attack From Court Record After Suspending Career Prosecutors Read more here.

This is next level authoritarianism.👇

"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

Alphabet
Altria
Amazon
Apple
Blackstone
Booz Allen Hamilton
Carrier
Caterpillar
Coinbase
Comcast
Google
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta
Microsoft
New York Jets
OpenAI
Palantir
Reynolds American
Ripple
Roblox
T-Mobile
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Lol