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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 24m

I can't even read the words on that cover, lol

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 49m

Oct. 12, 1925: Charles Gordone, a playwright whose searing, race-conscious first work, “No Place to Be Somebody,” made him the first Black winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, is born in Cleveland.

Gordone in 1970, the year “No Place to Be Somebody” premiered (died 1995)

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 1h

As I always say, most of the great things about this country are thanks to Black people and Jews.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1h

Did not know this about Old Bay

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3h

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 6h

This is what I want to know, because in centuries of Black American history, what has been done to us is rarely, if ever, referred to as that.

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 7h

Y'all are SUDDENLY such STRIDENT opponents of GENOCIDE...???! Alright, then where's our reparations.....????????

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 3h

What else can you do, really?

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 5h

So the thing to know about these guys is that 1/10 people who claim to have lost “all” their crypto actually lost all their crypto; many will lose their trading stack and then pretend they lost it all and then get people to send them pity coins, because crypto is broken on basically every level

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 5h

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 7h

Depressing results.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting phrasing here. Subsidies did not magically “become more generous.” The American Rescue Plan of 2021, which every Republican in Congress voted against, expanded these subsidies thanks to Congressional Democrats and President Biden, who signed it into law.

Since subsidies became more generous in 2021, overall enrollment has more than tripled in six red states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 21h

What five events defined your childhood?

1. Watergate
2. The premiere of "Roots"
3. Ronald Reagan, unfortunately
4. Busing riots
5. Martin Luther King's assassination (the aftermath)

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 22h

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Nixon
2. Apollo (I remember 13!)
3. The Bicentennial
4. The Energy Crisis
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 22h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Italia 90
2. Live Aid
3. Charlie Haughey telling us all to tighten our belts while buying his mistress couture in Paris
4. The Troubles
5. 35-40 classrooms in school & teacher strikes

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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 21h

Hearing reports of a shooting at an LSU tailgate this afternoon. Someone reportedly had a pistol in his pants and somehow managed to shoot himself. Apparently not badly injured but the person was arrested.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 21h

It was so neat to use a tactile, noisy, and revolutionary machine for a routine task.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 21h

Diane Keaton, with Barry McGuire and Steve Curry, in a publicity photo for the original Broadway production of "Hair" in 1967.

A black-and-white photo of Diane Keaton, Barry McGuire, and Steve Curry. Curry is seated on the floor with his legs crossed, Keaton squats over Curry's shoulders, and McGuire stands with his head above Keaton's, arms outstretched and fingers splayed.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 21h

What an intriguing caption it has.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21h

Entire way of experiencing movies that zoomers will never remember, that people my age barely remember, where you watched something because it was on. Feels like there is an entire genre of movie that was meant to be seen in that format. You couldn’t make Swordfish (2001) today.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 21h

Muting your account instead would've been the less-embarrassing response.

Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 21h

I kind of miss typewriters. Such cool machines.

davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 1d

A Hermes Media typewriter (1941) by E. Paillard & Cie S.A. in Yverdon, Switzerland.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 22h

We can blame Donald Trump for this.

Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 22h

MLK gravesite vandalized

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed – WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 22h

Wow

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 23h

They always choose the "popular," lowest-common-denominator movies for obit headlines. It's infuriating and insulting to actors.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 1d

Mail it to Pete "I Never Wash My Hands" Hegseth, while you're at it.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa militant in the raccoon costume" — see, the Right *IS* getting better at comedy!

Screenshot of 10/11/25 tweet by Andy Ngo: "Watch how the Antifa militant in the raccoon costume helps fellow violent comrades block public access to the sidewalk near the Portland ICE facility. They say borders and deportations must end but claim any territory they touch is theirs."

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 1d

My favorite Diane Keaton performance. Sad news.

Promiscuous Diane Keaton Neglects Husband, Voskovec, the Herring Merchant in "Love and Death" 1975

YouTube video by An Unexpected Life

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