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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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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 5h
THIS JUST IN... Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn’t make #MyLeftFoot today. Admits #disabled people told him not to. “A flimsy justification for something I just wanted to do.”

Signs of progress.

#DisabilityRepresentation #ReelAbilities #FilmHistory

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Daniel Day-Lewis Talks Method Acting, Takes Surprise Question From Paul Thomas Anderson & Says He Wouldn’t Be Able To Make ‘My Left Foot’ In 2025 During LFF Q&A
LFF runs until Oct 19.
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 5h
FYI, #DisabilitySky... All best!
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 5h
THIS JUST IN... Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn’t make #MyLeftFoot today. Admits #disabled people told him not to. “A flimsy justification for something I just wanted to do.”

Signs of progress.

#DisabilityRepresentation #ReelAbilities #FilmHistory

deadline.com/2025/10/dani...

@reelabilities.bsky.social
Daniel Day-Lewis Talks Method Acting, Takes Surprise Question From Paul Thomas Anderson & Says He Wouldn’t Be Able To Make ‘My Left Foot’ In 2025 During LFF Q&A
LFF runs until Oct 19.
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 5h
THIS JUST IN... Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn’t make #MyLeftFoot today. Admits #disabled people told him not to. “A flimsy justification for something I just wanted to do.”

Signs of progress.

#DisabilityRepresentation #ReelAbilities #FilmHistory

deadline.com/2025/10/dani...

@reelabilities.bsky.social
Daniel Day-Lewis Talks Method Acting, Takes Surprise Question From Paul Thomas Anderson & Says He Wouldn’t Be Able To Make ‘My Left Foot’ In 2025 During LFF Q&A
LFF runs until Oct 19.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9h
I was asked to write a column about my columns, which I found an embarrassing experience. But ... I took the chance to wax rhapsodic about the value of studying the humanities. So that's nice.
Meet David M. Perry, our new contributing columnist focused on history, disabilities and education
He moved back to Minnesota because it is a state that believes in serving the public good. But, he writes, Minnesota is not always at its best.
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 1d
With Nouvelle Vague bringing us closer to a French New Wave classic, Manuela Lazić gifts us with twenty more films about the magic of making films—from Technicolor talkies to modern meta masterworks. boxd.it/2Lm
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OPB @opb.org · 3d
Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.
Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds
The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
Grandpa has again forgotten who was president on Jan 6, 2021. He was.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d
Thanks to Republicans in Congress, some Americans will have to pay more than $22,000 every year to keep their health insurance coverage.

$22,000.

That could be a matter of keeping health care coverage or just giving up—and for some people, life and death.
Thanks to Republicans, some Americans will pay $22,000/year to keep their health insurance.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 4d
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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 6d
📚🔥 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!
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 6d
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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Reuters @reuters.com · 5d
'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 · 5d
ABSO-F*CKING-LUTLEY PERFECT!!!

Venezuelan opposition leader,,,,

Maria Corina Machado,,,

wins Nobel Peace Prize 2025
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 6d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
Some of us always knew.

Just sayin'....
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 10d
“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 · 10d
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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