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Brett Story

@brettstory.bsky.social
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Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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...
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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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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Mark Slutsky @slutsky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Talked to @cadenceweapon.bsky.social about music, gentrification, record stores, message boards and even @brettstory.bsky.social! www.markslutsky.com/archive/some...
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Something Good #122: Ways of Listening With Rollie Pemberton
"That friction, to me, is the juice of life."
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Based on the ~30 y/o Stanford grads I know, this is a fucking revolution
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Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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
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Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
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Jean-Paul Kelly @jeanpaulkelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@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?
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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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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
thank you Alissa!
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
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.
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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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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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.
Liam Ramos bring taken by iceLiam Ramos sxhool picture
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@filmworks4pal.bsky.social
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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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.
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‘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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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
My films featured on Criterion this August
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The Criterion Channel’s August 2025 Lineup
Among this month’s highlights are a spotlight on ’90s soundtracks, a celebration of Hong Kong icon Sammo Hung, and a retrospective of the work of Spanish auteur Bigas Luna.
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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Tuesday nyc come celebrate the publication of Chris Marker IMMEMORY: Gutenberg Version at Light Industry see you there!
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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...
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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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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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...
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No Justice, No Relief - World Records
Brett Story on the demand for catharsis in our courts and on our screens.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump is about to do for NPR and PBS what he did for Canadian liberals...
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“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.”
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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:
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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.
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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
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%.
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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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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/03/2025
A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
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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
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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.
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"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...
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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 05/03/2025
Being anti-trans is really an elite phenomenon that elites are mistakenly convinced is widely shared.
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OCAD University @ocaduniversity.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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...
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ok i love that no other land won and ethic cleansing was denounced at the oscars, but also that shout out to cafe oto!!!
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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 02/03/2025
The NO OTHER LAND team on the red carpet 😭
Picture of the No Other Land film team at the Oscars red carpet wearing Palestinian flags around their necks
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Looking for a good critical history of "terrorism" or the concept of the "terrorist" for research purposes. Recommendations?
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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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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.
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Good time to be an anti-fascist, and a race traitor, and a class traitor, and a feminist.
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Peggy Nash @peggynash.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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.
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
With less than 24 hours with President Biden in office, there is still time for him to grant Leonard Peltier clemency. ictnews.org/opinion/pres...
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President Biden: Let boarding school survivor Leonard Peltier finally return home
Leonard Peltier is the longest-incarcerated Native political prisoner in American history, and one of the oldest people currently in federal prison
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Why are distributors shying away from political films? Or, at least, left-wing ones? www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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'We are not doing political films': Why award-winning documentaries are being frozen out | CBC News
The story of the first successful Amazon facility union and a film about Palestinian resistance in the West Bank are among the award-winning documentaries from last year that you can't find on a major...
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Really glad to see this piece. The conversation has been happening privately, and I've been waiting for a good culture journalist like @antkaufman.bsky.social to write something up.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This reporting is so utterly damning. www.propublica.org/article/bide...
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A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
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UNION @unionthefilm.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Check out our new short film LOCAL ONE (dir. Stephen Maing, @brettstory.bsky.social) following the historic holiday Amazon strikes led by the Amazon Labor Union & @teamsters.bsky.social. Watch now on @fieldofvision.bsky.social! fieldofvision.org/shorts/local...
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Local One
The Amazon Labor Union made history in 2022 by becoming the first group to successfully unionize an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Two and a half years later, the company has refused to recognize the un...
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
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In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I loved talking to @jasonmcbride.bsky.social for this piece. Thank you!
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Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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