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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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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 · 6h
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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#BannedBooksWeek
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 · 7h
Some of us always knew.

Just sayin'....
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11h
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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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d
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 · 11h
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 · 14h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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.
usa.streetsblog.org
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d
“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 · 4d
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.
www.inquirer.com
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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 6d
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 · 5d
"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 · 6d
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 · 6d
www.theverge.com/news/789152/...
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.
www.theverge.com
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 8d
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 · 9d
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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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 9d
Trump and the Republicans are shutting down the government because they want to increase your health insurance premiums by 75%.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 9d
Most telehealth covered under Medicare is set to expire today. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Millions of seniors could lose access to telehealth without deal in Congress
Millions of American seniors could see major disruptions to health services amid a government shutdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 23d
#DisabilitySky
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 23d
From mocking Serge Kovaleski to ASL cuts to “let them die” sentiments shared without shame to firing dedicated civil servants—slowly, but surely, Trump's dangerous #disability rhetoric has become public policy.

Essential reading from E.Tammy Kim in @newyorker.com:
www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights
Federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back.
www.newyorker.com
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · Aug 19
North Carolina proposes 10% cuts in Medicaid payments to nursing homes in the wake of the reconciliation bill. Nationwide, Medicaid pays for 63% of long-term nursing home stays. Four out of five *middle-class* people who need care >5 years will go on Medicaid.
www.mcknights.com/news/nursing...
Nursing homes face 10 percent rate cut as states begin to grapple with federal Medicaid rollbacks
Providers are facing a 10% decline in state reimbursement as NC leaders grapple with a $319 million Medicaid shortfall.
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Denise Brown @caregiving.bsky.social · Sep 7
Research from 1999 about #caregiving mortality has proven flawed. Why do we keep sharing it?
The Caregiving Research We Keep Sharing (And Why We Should Stop)
Research from 1999 about caregiving mortality has proven flawed. Why do we keep sharing it?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d
It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 10d
(3,3) Every Democrat should leave DC ASAP to do this. Hold town halls. Go to malls. Get on media. Grab hold of the messaging and why and forget about DC. It has moved on without Democrats and at this point Democrats should do nothing but learn to communicate.
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