Lawrence Carter-Long

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

"Only Nazis burn books." The gripping new documentary, "First They Came For My College," documents how this tiny FL school of just 700 students became a battleground in the Trump administration’s assault on higher education.
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Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

Opinion | North Carolina's elections offer more hope that 2026 is the year of the progressive Katelyn Burns: Progressive candidates in the pivotal swing state walloped several centrist incumbents who collaborated with Republicans on culture war issues.

MS NOW nailed it with this NC election analysis. #FightersVersusFolders #FightersVFolders

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Evergreen

New England cherishes its local elections—but many disabled voters are locked out “It's a really heartbreaking example of who gets left behind in systems that are not built for everyone.”

For a few hundred years, towns across New England have conducted Town Meeting Days via floor votes, which can be inaccessible to disabled people. This situation shows how accessibility and tradition can go head-to-head. My latest for @motherjones.com.

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This is not a joke: I need someone to check for a lost stuffed animal on campus at UT-Knoxville outside Thompson-Boling. DM me for details.

there is no stress like losing THE stuffed animal

I wrote this piece six years ago and Panda is no less central a part of our household's life than when I wrote it (but he's a good bit grayer)

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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I am somebody!

Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street reminding us that no matter the circumstances, we are somebody

The political world of caregiving Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

TY, Julia Métraux, for this interview w/Laura Mauldin in #MotherJones. Like it or not, ready or not, #caregiving is increasingly political. Discover why and how here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@juliametraux.bsky.social @lauramauldin.bsky.social @motherjones.com @harpercollins.bsky.social

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | Kentucky’s Real People Radio WMMT radio in Kentucky reaches some of the least heard communities in America

WORLD RADIO DAY: An unexpected joy to stumble across this delightful, comprehensive profile of "Real People #Radio" Whitesburg, Kentucky's #WMMT FM on the #BBC podcast "The Documentary." #WorldRadioDay
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To many of us, and you know who you/we are, forever our Harold. Bye, Bud. And thank you.

#BudCort
#HaroldAndMaude
#RIPBudCort
#TCMParty
#SingOut
#BeFree

The political world of caregiving Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

TY, Julia Métraux, for this interview w/Laura Mauldin in #MotherJones. Like it or not, ready or not, #caregiving is increasingly political. Discover why and how here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@juliametraux.bsky.social @lauramauldin.bsky.social @motherjones.com @harpercollins.bsky.social

The purpose of pointing out systems is to give us a concrete goal for dismantling them and putting something new in place.

Our solutions need to be based on an understanding of how people turn into monsters in the first place. Leaving the systems intact will create an endless supply of new monsters

EVERY white man in these files is like "he was so brilliant just the smartest man I ever knew" and then the emails are just completely unreadable nonsense. They mean rich. When they say smart they mean rich.

Toni Morrison understood what freedom demands.
She taught us what freedom is for. And who it’s meant to serve.

American novelist and essayist. The first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Black History. Always. 🖤

#SheShed #Voices4Victory

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Dog Day Afternoon.

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?

An entrepreneur from one of the U.K.’s wealthiest families has set out to re-create a mangled cinematic masterpiece using A.I. Will he right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xEngq7

Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team. Not even JD Vance’s motorcade. Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.

American star Alysa Liu overcame a delay en route to the Milano Skating Arena caused by Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade and finished second in the women’s short program at the Olympics team event.

“We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.

How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts Learn who Medicaid helps and what happens to individuals and families who will lose benefits

MEDICAID/DISABILITY/FUNDING CUTS: #PBS looks at how #Medicaid funding cuts could fall hardest on #disabled people, especially the home and community supports that make #disability independence possible.

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Pioneering disability activist Judy Heumann and LCL pose side-by-side, holding hands, smiling for the camera. Three vintage movie posters with disability themes (El cochecito, Titicut Follies, and Crippled Masters) are visible on the wall behind them.

Taken on this day, eight years ago...

Miss you, Judy.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

ICE dragged me from my car after I told them I’m autistic. Exclusive Details: Aliya Rahman speaks to Eric Garcia about her ordeals — on the streets of Minneapolis, in a grim ICE detention center where she was mocked over her condition and through the public t...

I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
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The auditory processing issues described here are basically me all the time and I spend a non-zero amount of time stressing about what and whom I should be listening to to avoid making people angry/confused

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

DISABLED. #SayTheWord Went Viral 10 Years Ago What It Revealed, What I’ve Learned, and What Still Needs Work - Able News at The Viscardi Center In February 2016, my friend Barbara King messaged me after a Facebook post caught her eye. That small moment helped highlighted a necessary shift far beyond its humble origins. What I realized long af...

A DECADE AFTER #DISABLED #SayTheWord went viral, what was learned, and what still needs work? My latest for #AbleNews. Agree? Disagree? Not sure? Pls share YOUR thoughts and experiences with a comment. All best! ablenews.com/disabled-say... #Disability #DisabilitySky

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