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The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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Incredibly disappointing to listen to this week's episode of the Town and hear @mattbelloni.bsky.social characterize my comments in the below episode as my calling Hollywood studio heads racists. I said no such thing, and I encourage anyone interested to listen to what I ACTUALLY said.

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These are all the countries in Africa that would be part of Trump's travel ban. Insane.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Laugh all you want but I think it’s pretty terrible that a father would use this as an excuse to ban his sons from seeing him.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Got rid of their theater kid a bit too soon. Should’ve pardoned Ernst Rohm here

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

So it turns out that our authoritarians are very bad at authoritarian pageantry.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Melania sitting there thinking she could have married a dictator who could throw a decent parade.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to cry if I want to You would cry too if it happened to you

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

This parade route is as empty as Pete Hegseth’s skull.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

franklinleonard.substack.com

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even friends Then somebody bends Unexpectedly

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

And so begins one of the most beautiful and unexpected love stories of all time. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-celebs-...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

franklinleonard.substack.com

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This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Boy oh boy am I glad we have seasoned, level headed leaders like… checks notes… Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth to manage this moment of global violence and instabi… oh dear.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

submitted 6 days ago • 232 comments

I I believe I believe that I believe that we I believe that we’re a joke. #USMNT

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

Law enforcement really out in Los Angeles playing man to man defense right now. Wild times.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

There’s more chaos during your average championship-starved city’s sports championship celebration than there is in LA right now even with this utterly absurd militarized government presence. This administration is an absolute farce.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

President Trump has decided to sell the red Tesla he got in March, less than 24 hours after the president and Elon Musk engaged in a public spat, according to a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity.

submitted 11 days ago • 142 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 12 days ago • 532 comments

This still cracks me up 🤣

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It should come as exactly zero surprise that Mira Nair’s son’s visual storytelling game is elite.

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