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Franklin Leonard

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Franklin Leonard

@franklinleonard

@theblcklst founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & football (soccer) person. @vanityfair contrib editor. @am_cinematheque & @weare_thegotham board member.

Los Angeles, CA

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Joined March 2009

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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Jun 8
Last year, @theblcklst recommended 25 scripts for Academy Nicholl Fellowship consideration from 2500 submissions to its public portal Those were <25% of the scripts considered by the Academy 5 of the 10 finalists were @theblcklst recommendations 2026-2027 submissions are open
IndieWire
@IndieWire
Jun 8
Writers Guild Foundation, USC, and More Join Partner Program for Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship Submissions indiewire.com/news/general-n…
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Feb 10, 2025
Give whoever wrote this a raise.
United Airlines
@united
Feb 10, 2025
My bag watching me follow it around the carousel
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Jan 25, 2024
She paid for two seats. The mother with the toddler didn’t. Those are her two seats to do with as she pleases.
New York Post
@nypost
Jan 25, 2024
I’m obese and refused to give up my second seat on a plane for a toddler trib.al/pnFoCK1
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The woman paid for 2 seats, and allowed to use those 2. The title is bombastically misleading to get views nypost.com/2024/01/23/lif…
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Oct 23, 2017
If I give 10 apples to one person and no apples to nine people, the average person has one apple. Why are nine people mad at me?
Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived
@PressSec45
Oct 22, 2017
The average American family would get a $4,000 raise under the President’s tax cut plan. So how could any member of Congress be against it?
Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Jun 5, 2025
The funniest possible outcome is definitely Trump deporting him.
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Jan 20, 2024
She’s 106 today.
Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Jan 13, 2018
May you all attend your grandmother’s 100th birthday party.
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Feb 10, 2025
Hey, Matt, I hear you like ‘em young.
Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz
Feb 10, 2025
The halftime show you just watched is clearly the regime’s response to Trump’s historic gains with black men.
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Kendrick Lamar was announced as the halftime show several months before Trump won people.com/kendrick-lamar…
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Jan 24, 2025
If he actually believed this, he’d be advocating for universal healthcare, parental leave, early childhood education, better schools generally, and myriad other things that make it easier for young moms and dads. Is he? No.
The Recount
@therecount
Jan 24, 2025
“I want more babies in the United States of America. … It is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids.” — VP JD Vance at the March for Life
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Sep 11, 2024
“There is no state in this country where it’s legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Nov 26, 2024
I promise you’re not ready for what happens around 0:39.
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Sep 12, 2024
Today my thoughts are of Captain Alix Idrache, a US Army helicopter pilot, who graduated at the top of his West Point class with a degree in physics in 2016. He's also a Haitian immigrant.
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
May 8, 2025
So just to be clear, y’all’s transphobia did, in fact, result in a woman being attacked by a man in the women’s bathroom.
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
@LongTimeHistory
May 7, 2025
Male security guard barges into women's bathroom—bangs on stall door demanding proof of gender. Ansley Baker was born a woman & identifies as a woman—yet was still kicked out of bathroom & ordered to leave hotel. "He demands my ID, which I gave him. Things still got heated. We
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Sep 13, 2025
Look at them embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Mollie
@MZHemingway
Sep 13, 2025
All public universities should be required to have minimum 50% of their staff be conservative professors by spring 2026. In each department.
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Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard
Jan 11, 2020
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
AJ+
@ajplus
Jan 9, 2020
The Olympic Committee is banning protests at the 2020 Olympics. It says "political, religious or racial propaganda" like armbands, kneeling or raising a fist will not be allowed at games or medal ceremonies because "sport is neutral."