Franklin Leonard
@franklinleonard.bsky.social
The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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Black List-Discovered ‘Then He Was Gone’ Thriller Picked Up By Crooked Lane Books For 2026 Publication; Deal Is First From 2024 Fiction Program
A year after the Black List's foray into novel, thriller Then He Was Gone has a publisher & a 2026 release date.
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First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...
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We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
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Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
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im in ur base quotin ur d4dz
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
im in ur base quotin ur d4dz
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
![Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.
At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25
Then beneath it
TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hrotody26iqi24hcusufxu/bafkreib7wnor7hl45ryvmifde4sov74rrnexa3iecbyu7zxjx6brrslsiy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
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A trick Mamdani has mastered is seeming positive even when attacking Cuomo by having it come out of nowhere. You’ll watch him being asked his favorite Halloween candy and he’ll say “I love skittles haha, guilty as charged, of course not guilty of killing people in nursing homes, M&Ms are also great”
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A trick Mamdani has mastered is seeming positive even when attacking Cuomo by having it come out of nowhere. You’ll watch him being asked his favorite Halloween candy and he’ll say “I love skittles haha, guilty as charged, of course not guilty of killing people in nursing homes, M&Ms are also great”
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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The Black List is now on Substack: blcklst.substack.com. You know what to do.
October 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Black List is now on Substack: blcklst.substack.com. You know what to do.
“Every cultural community should be so lucky as to have advocates who go as hard for their people as Rafael Casal and the Bay List partners go up for the Bay.”
The 2025 Bay List is here! *drumroll please*
Read more about the projects selected for the inaugural edition of the Bay List, exclusively in @deadline.com.
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Read more about the projects selected for the inaugural edition of the Bay List, exclusively in @deadline.com.
buff.ly/2FjS1Vd
October 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“Every cultural community should be so lucky as to have advocates who go as hard for their people as Rafael Casal and the Bay List partners go up for the Bay.”
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TODAY AT 11 AM P.T.: @theblcklst.bsky.social's @franklinleonard.bsky.social makes his long-awaited return to The Rushfield Lunch! Bring your rage, ire, confusion and disgust as Richard and Franklin dig into the Warner Bros. news and much more. Add to your calendar: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
TODAY AT 11 AM P.T.: @theblcklst.bsky.social's @franklinleonard.bsky.social makes his long-awaited return to The Rushfield Lunch! Bring your rage, ire, confusion and disgust as Richard and Franklin dig into the Warner Bros. news and much more. Add to your calendar: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
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Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.
No Kings
Los Angeles
10.18.25
Los Angeles
10.18.25
October 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
No Kings
Los Angeles
10.18.25
Los Angeles
10.18.25
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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
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MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
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My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
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Pope dunking on you from the Popemobile while he's blessing and waving to the rest of the crowd means you have to convert to Lutheranism it's in the Bible
Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”
Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pope dunking on you from the Popemobile while he's blessing and waving to the rest of the crowd means you have to convert to Lutheranism it's in the Bible
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adhd is dying of thirst and looking over to see the glass of water on the counter you poured an hour ago mocking you
October 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
adhd is dying of thirst and looking over to see the glass of water on the counter you poured an hour ago mocking you
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First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...
Black List-Discovered ‘Then He Was Gone’ Thriller Picked Up By Crooked Lane Books For 2026 Publication; Deal Is First From 2024 Fiction Program
A year after the Black List's foray into novel, thriller Then He Was Gone has a publisher & a 2026 release date.
deadline.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...
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I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.
October 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.
First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...
Black List-Discovered ‘Then He Was Gone’ Thriller Picked Up By Crooked Lane Books For 2026 Publication; Deal Is First From 2024 Fiction Program
A year after the Black List's foray into novel, thriller Then He Was Gone has a publisher & a 2026 release date.
deadline.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...
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First of many.
Crooked Lane Books discovered Isabel Booth’s THEN HE WAS GONE on The Black List website and acquired it. Available Feb 24, 2026. Pre-order it now.
Crooked Lane Books discovered Isabel Booth’s THEN HE WAS GONE on The Black List website and acquired it. Available Feb 24, 2026. Pre-order it now.
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
First of many.
Crooked Lane Books discovered Isabel Booth’s THEN HE WAS GONE on The Black List website and acquired it. Available Feb 24, 2026. Pre-order it now.
Crooked Lane Books discovered Isabel Booth’s THEN HE WAS GONE on The Black List website and acquired it. Available Feb 24, 2026. Pre-order it now.
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
For all my fellow football sickos and the football curious… open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Only the Story Outlives the Warrior
Why Nigeria v Benin is the week’s must-watch narrative
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October 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
For all my fellow football sickos and the football curious… open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
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Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME
A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions
Find out how by preordering a copy!!
A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions
Find out how by preordering a copy!!
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME
A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions
Find out how by preordering a copy!!
A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions
Find out how by preordering a copy!!