Brett Story
@brettstory.bsky.social
Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny
Lovely essay by @brettstory.bsky.social on the enduring power of John Berger's writing & its particular relevance to our very dark moment www.filmcomment.com/article/real...
Reality Is All There Is to Love: Despair and Hope in John Berger | Film Comment
In his work and life, Berger grappled with the ways in which how we see the world can offer solutions and salves for political despair
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This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · last mo.I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Talked to @cadenceweapon.bsky.social about music, gentrification, record stores, message boards and even @brettstory.bsky.social! www.markslutsky.com/archive/some...
Something Good #122: Ways of Listening With Rollie Pemberton
"That friction, to me, is the juice of life."
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Based on the ~30 y/o Stanford grads I know, this is a fucking revolution
Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 3mo agoI am so fucking proud of these kids I don’t even have the words. Google has contracts with the IDF and Homeland Security (ICE) - refusing to accept that their speech be given by someone committing genocide while profiting from it? This is the new bare minimum going forward. We only ramp up :)
For @palfest.bsky.social and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about how the genocide in Gaza has hit Hollywood as a political and labor issue, with many unsure whether vanished opportunities reflect retaliation or simply an industry in free fall. With support from @economichardship.bsky.social
Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
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@ombudsmanontario.bsky.social Following up here. Will you be investigating this matter? Is this not your job? Is this not about fairness in public works?
Open Letter Demanding More Curatorial Independence at AGO After Non-Acquisition of Nan Goldin Work Collects 500 Signatures
Organized by Jewish groups, the open letter frames Judy Schulich's intervention as part of a worrying pattern of donor influence over curatorial decisions.
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A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
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This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.
Just finished screening The Hottest August (Brett Story, 2019) as the first film for my ecocinema class and goddamn that's a great movie. This is the fourth(?) time I've seen it and each time it gets better and better--more alive, and more urgent. Hope the students felt the same.
Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
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Tuesday nyc come celebrate the publication of Chris Marker IMMEMORY: Gutenberg Version at Light Industry see you there!
we won a post-production award at Cannes Docs for my film on John Berger! (film is not done - but we're in the edit!) variety.com/2025/film/gl...
Cannes Docs Winners Include ‘Asphalt,’ ‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’
'Something Familiar' by Rachel Close, 'Sama,' 'The Production of the World,' 'The Tiger of the East' also among winners.
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Second preview piece from the forthcoming issue of World Records, co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself. Brett Story asks "Can injustice be answered by catharsis? In other words, is catharsis.. itself just, and thus a right?" worldrecordsjournal.org/no-justice-n...
No Justice, No Relief - World Records
Brett Story on the demand for catharsis in our courts and on our screens.
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Trump is about to do for NPR and PBS what he did for Canadian liberals...
“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.”
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · last yr.THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
This session alone, 10 states have tried or are currently trying to classify having an abortion as homicide. In most of these states, individuals found guilty of murder can be eligible for the death penalty. Whether these bills pass immediately isn't the point—it's about shifting the Overton window:
We’re Now Up to 10 States Trying to Charge Abortion Patients With Homicide
Legal experts warn that whether or not these bills pass, they shift the Overton window and prime us to eventually accept what may be unthinkable right now.
jezebel.com
NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
Florida mayor seeks to evict cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary
Miami Beach mayor also proposes withdrawing grant after O Cinema screened Palestinian-focused film No Other Land
theguardian.com
read a biography today of a major art critic and museum director from the 1930s who was also a member of something called the "Vigilance Committee of anti-fascist intellectuals". Meanwhile to be a careerist in our own era is to demonstrate cowardice and be rewarded for it.
"There is no appeasing a political force like the Trumpian right, intent on a program of destruction. & there is no appeasing a nationalist Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees antisemitism in every call for Palestinian freedom. " -@natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/03/08/c...
Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks — And Trump Still Cut Federal Funding
Columbia bent over backward to appease right-wing, pro-Israel attacks on Gaza protesters — and Trump still cut the school’s federal funding.
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