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Lawrence Carter-Long
@lcarterlong.bsky.social
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Community. Culture. Creativity. #DISABLED #SayTheWord! Dir. of Engagement, ReelAbilities Int'l. Occasional cool stuff with Turner Classic Movies, Film Quarterly & PBS. Proud member: Americans for the Arts, Association of Independents in Radio, PEN America
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5h
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 2d
📚🔥 Our latest Substack is live for #BannedBooksWeek! “Once Upon a Banned Book” celebrates the power of stories that spark imagination and defy censorship. Read it, share it, and join the movement to protect the right to read!

👉 www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/once-upon-...
Once Upon a Banned Book
When books are banned, freedom is stifled. Let's celebrate knowledge and reading while defending resistance!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 1d
There is no universe in which Johnny Frickin Cash was anything but cool. The WSJ, once again, has no idea what it's talking about.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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mlf3430.bsky.social @mlf3430.bsky.social · 1d
ABSO-F*CKING-LUTLEY PERFECT!!!

Venezuelan opposition leader,,,,

Maria Corina Machado,,,

wins Nobel Peace Prize 2025
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 2d
More Of This Please…
Posting of a newspaper headline. Newspaper banner on the top has a white background with black large lettering. Below that on a black background with white lettering of various sizes is the headline of the story.
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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 1d
Smart move. Something to emulate. Way to out maneuver da bastards:

Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to ‘Banned Books Week,’ rebrands to ‘Freedom to Read’
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Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to 'Banned Books Week,' rebrands to 'Freedom to Read'
Last week Lani Kawahara, who oversees the young adult section at Kauai’s largest library, set up her annual display to mark Banned Books Week, a national campaign that kicked off Sunday to spotlight t...
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 1d
Some of us always knew.

Just sayin'....
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.
on.wsj.com
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 1d
It’s #BannedBooksWeek and yes, they banned To Kill a Mockingbird because it “makes people uncomfortable.”

That’s the point!

Books that expose racism and injustice should make you squirm.

Silencing truth is cowardice.
Read what they fear.📚
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 2d
It’s #BannedBooksWeek! Author Nikkolas Smith reminds us that when they ban books about justice and equality, they reveal their fear—not our failure.
The more they push back, the more creators will rise.
Art is resistance.
Stories are power.
Keep the fight alive.
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Bootstraps, a docuseries @bootstrapstv.bsky.social · 2d
If Universal Basic Income (UBI) were to give you more breathing room, what new hobbies or activities would you pursue that currently feel out of reach?
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 3d
Hey, that’s @propublica.org! This Newsroom Is Looking For Its Next Big Tip on the Train
This Newsroom Is Looking For Its Next Big Tip on the Train — Streetsblog USA
Investigative journalists at ProPublica are betting that the next big tipster is riding the rails right now — and reaching out to find them.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d
“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” a neighbor told Mother Jones. “Pretty despicable.”
Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."
The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 6d
Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word

That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch
The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.
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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 6d
Members of @signalsrising.org collective discuss various radio technologies for communication such as meshtastic as low power alternatives when disaster strikes or infrastructure is scarce

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...
logo of signals rising featuring a radio tower with 7 radio bolts emanating from it
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 7d
Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raid—zip-tied, separated, held for hours.

Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.

Remember

If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.

Speak out now!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7d
"It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching movies from the 1970s." @davidjroth.bsky.social @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-416/
Struggle cinema
David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 8d
Oop. Turns out that voters blame the GOP more for the shutdown by an average of 12 pts.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 7d
www.theverge.com/news/789152/...
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10d
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 10d
Reposting this important piece by Natalie Eilbert in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailing the dismantling of decades of progress for #disabled people and the hard fought, at-risk right to live in community.

www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

#DisabilityRights #MedicaidMatters #DisabilitySky
For a half century, people with disabilities made steady gains. Now, they're collapsing.
Fears of institutionalization, loss of caregivers. Disabled community in Wisconsin faces grim uncertainty amid new Trump policies.
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 11d
Can I get to 10K on @letterboxd.social before the end of the year?!

Get your daily dose of obscure film takes here: letterboxd.com/oldfilmsflic...
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