When we all need more reasons to inspire hope and joy, here it is Mel Brooks is 100 today. 1913 more to go. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @djrothkopf.bsky.social @alonpinkas.bsky.social

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Then there’s the story of Mel Brooks coming to THE ELEPHANT MAN set to find David Lynch in freezing Southwark without a winter coat. He rang Savile Row & had his tailor make a copy of his own coat in Lynch’s measurements. Lynch was stunned, kept it all his life - spoke of it with emotion at the AFI.

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Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳

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"This era demands a new framework for Black politics—fresh strategies, tactics, leaders, and goals. And we should be clear-eyed: even before Callais, the existing models of Black politics were growing stale." newrepublic.com/article/2106...

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Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

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