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03/19/2026

They Refused Jamie Farr a Room — So the Entire MAS*H Cast Walked Out 💔

It was 1980.

The MASH* cast had just arrived at the hotel.

Long day.
Tired.
Ready to check in.

Alan Alda — checked in.
Mike Farrell — checked in.
Loretta Swit — checked in.

No problem.

Then Jamie Farr stepped up.

The clerk looked at him.

Paused.

Something shifted.

“Sorry,” the man said.
“We’re out of rooms.”

Jamie frowned.

“Out of rooms? We booked ten. My friends just checked in.”

The clerk leaned in slightly.

Lowered his voice.

“We don’t feel comfortable… renting to you.”

A beat.

“Some guests might be concerned.”

Jamie didn’t argue.

Didn’t make a scene.

He just nodded once.

“Alright,” he said quietly.
“I’ll find somewhere else.”

He stepped back.

Tried to smile.

Didn’t quite work.

Alan Alda had heard everything.

He walked up to the desk.

“What’s going on?”

Jamie shook his head.

“It’s nothing.”

Alan didn’t look at Jamie.

He looked at the clerk.

His voice stayed calm.

Cold.

“Let me be clear,” Alan said.

“That man is Jamie Farr.”

A pause.

“He’s our friend.”

Another pause.

“If you don’t have a room for him…”

Mike stepped up beside him.

Then Loretta.

Then the others.

Alan finished it.

“…then you don’t have rooms for any of us.”

Silence.

Real silence.

The manager came out.

Suddenly—

a room “appeared.”

Too late.

Alan shook his head.

“No.”

He picked up his bag.

“We’re leaving.”

No speech.

No drama.

One by one—

they all grabbed their things.

And walked out.

Together.

Jamie stood there for a second.

Didn’t say anything.

Then he followed.

Years later, he said it simply:

“That’s when I knew.”

A pause.

“It wasn’t a show.”

“It was family.”

And family…

doesn’t leave you standing alone in the lobby.

03/12/2026

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Hm.

The Architecture of Silence in Spiritual Culture
Reckoning with Epstein, Deepak, and Systems of Denial
March 23, 2026 • 11:00am – 12:30pm PDT

"Not in the sky, nor in the middle of the ocean,
nor in the cave of a mountain,
nor anywhere else, is there a place,
where one may escape from the consequences of an evil deed."
Dhammapada, Verse 127

Something is cracking open in spiritual culture. And it has been for a while.

The Epstein files are not an interruption to the pattern. They are the pattern. And the silence around them, in wellness spaces, in spiritual communities, in therapeutic circles, is part of what we need to reckon with.

We're gathering to ask the harder questions. Not about the men. About the ground beneath them.

What systems made this possible? What stories did we inherit? What have we been willing to not see?

Join Gabor Maté ,Bayo Akomolafe, Tara Brach, V, Pat McCabe and Matthew Remski for The Architecture of Silence, a live community gathering for collective reckoning.

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03/10/2026

Stupid? Evil? Or both?

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03/10/2026

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03/08/2026

‘A Very English chat’ works to tackle England’s growing social division and polarisation with a simple response to a potentially difficult and divisive question around ‘What does it mean to be English in 2026?’

03/08/2026

A Republican Senator just went to war with Donald Trump and its shaking up Washington D.C.

A remarkable fracture is opening up inside Donald Trump’s orbit, and it is getting harder to ignore.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis is now openly calling for Stephen Miller to be removed from his powerful role in the White House. That is not some minor disagreement over messaging. That is a Republican senator directly accusing one of Trump’s closest and most influential advisers of being a danger to the administration itself.

And more importantly, it is part of a growing fight between Tillis and Donald Trump.

In the interview, Tillis did not hold back. He argued that Stephen Miller has been repeatedly responsible for embarrassing the President by acting too quickly, speaking before thinking, and pushing reckless narratives without regard for the facts. Tillis made clear that he believes Miller helped fuel the inflammatory and premature rhetoric surrounding the fatal ICE shootings, including the rush to label people before investigations had even been completed.

That matters.

Because what Tillis is really exposing here is the culture inside Trump’s White House: a culture where extremist political theater comes before truth, where incendiary labels get thrown around before evidence is gathered, and where Stephen Miller has built so much power that even cabinet secretaries appear to be operating under his direction.

Tillis said it plainly. He believes Miller has an “outsized influence” over the operations of the cabinet. He said qualified cabinet members are doing less than what they want to do because of Miller’s direction. He called Miller a “big problem” in the administration and said he has been one from the beginning.

That is a brutal indictment coming from a Republican senator.

And let’s be honest about what this really means: you cannot separate Stephen Miller from Donald Trump. Miller is not some random staffer freelancing on the sidelines. He is one of the clearest reflections of Trumpism inside the White House. His hardline immigration politics, his authoritarian instincts, his obsession with cruel spectacle over competent governance — all of it fits perfectly within Trump’s political project.

So when Tillis says Stephen Miller should go, he is really saying something even bigger: Trump has empowered the wrong people, created a reckless governing operation, and allowed ideological extremists to run wild inside his administration.

That is why this moment matters.

This is not just a personality clash. It is a sign of deeper Republican discomfort with the chaos Trump has created. It is a sign that at least some members of the GOP are beginning to understand that Trump’s inner circle is not just politically toxic, but fundamentally dangerous. And Tillis is no longer keeping that concern private.

For years, Republicans enabled Trump and the people around him. They excused the lies, the cruelty, the incompetence, and the constant escalation. Now one of their own is publicly admitting that one of Trump’s top advisers is out of his depth, overly powerful, and damaging the administration from within.

That is not normal. That is not small. And it is certainly not the end of this story.

The growing fight between Thom Tillis and Donald Trump is now out in the open. Stephen Miller just became the latest flashpoint. But the deeper issue is the same as it has always been: Donald Trump built an administration around fear, chaos, and extremism, and now even Republicans are starting to crack under the weight of it.