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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.

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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

‘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.

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.

A screen grab from Brett Story's documentary The Hottest August. Two men (iron workers) lean out of a window of a house talking to the filmmaker.

A screen grab from Brett Story's documentary The Hottest August. A complicated sky with text from Annie Dillard's essay "Total Eclipse".

A screen grab from Brett Story's documentary The Hottest August. White hands in the air at a BLM rally.

A screen grab from Brett Story's documentary The Hottest August. Shadows of dancers on a concrete wall.

I love it when I find a film that might not be for everyone but is so profoundly for me. So focused, so generous, so beautiful. The Hottest August by @brettstory.bsky.social
On @criterion.bsky.social now.

My films featured on Criterion this August

Tuesday nyc come celebrate the publication of Chris Marker IMMEMORY: Gutenberg Version at Light Industry see you there!

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.

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...

No Justice, No Relief - World Records Brett Story on the demand for catharsis in our courts and on our screens.

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...

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.”

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.

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:

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.

NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.

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.

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%.

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

A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist

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.

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.

"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...

There's a lot of confusion swirling so it may help to explain that the below is actually fairly normal following an ICE arrest. ICE often transfers people to the deep South where some of the largest detention centers are located, and the ICE Detainee Locator system can take up to 24 hours to update.

We have to stand together for Mahmoud Khalil; liberal, leftist, Never Trump conservatives if we can get them; or we're all dead

Do people get this? It does not matter what your stance on the Gaza protests are/were

It will not stop here

Being anti-trans is really an elite phenomenon that elites are mistakenly convinced is widely shared.

Join us for a screening of Union – the Sundance-winning doc on the first unionized Amazon workplace in the U.S. Directed by Brett Story & Stephen Maing.
Tues, March 18 at 7pm
100 McCaul, Room 190
Free admission
Q&A with Story after the film! Learn more: www.ocadu.ca/events-and-e...

Ok i love that no other land won and ethic cleansing was denounced at the oscars, but also that shout out to cafe oto!!!

Picture of the No Other Land film team at the Oscars red carpet wearing Palestinian flags around their necks

The NO OTHER LAND team on the red carpet 😭

Looking for a good critical history of "terrorism" or the concept of the "terrorist" for research purposes. Recommendations?

Arrest Warrant Issued For New York Doctor Indicted In Louisiana For Prescribing Abortion Pill An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a pregnant minor.

Louisiana has already arrested the mother of the minor here simply for helping her daughter obtain abortion pills. A felony charge with jail time. That should be a scandal and an outage too, but it’s becoming normal in post-Roe America. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-abo...

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I was on CBC radio yesterday to discuss Amazon's decision to close it's only unionized workplace in Canada and what we learned making @unionthefilm.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Good time to be an anti-fascist, and a race traitor, and a class traitor, and a feminist.

Amazing film at Hot Docs en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(... Director Brett Story answering questions. See the film Amazon doesn’t want you to see.