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• IS MICKEY MOE GAY
• ¿MICKEY MOE GAY? DISNEY LO VISTE N LOS LOR L “ULLO”
• TED CZ WARNS DISNEY PROGRAMMG WILL SOON DEPICT MICKEY AND PLUTO F--KGTHE SENATOR OM TEXAS THKS THE PANY’S OPPOSN TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW MEANS ’S GOG TO TRODUCE X-RATED NTENT FEATURG ANIMATED CHARACTERS “GOG AT .”BY BS LEVAPRIL 19, 2022WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: SEN. TED CZ (R-TX) HOLDS UP A LETTER OM WASHGTON, D.C., MAYOR MURIEL BOSWER (D) DURG A SENATE HOMELAND SECURY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS & SENATE RUL AND ADMISTRATN JOT HEARG TO DISCS THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPOL ON MARCH 3, 2021 WASHGTON, DC. THE MTEE IS SCHLED TO HEAR TTIMONY ABOUT DHS, FBI, NATNAL GUARD AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SUPPORT AND RPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPOL ON JANUARY 6. (PHOTO BY GREG NASH-POOL/GETTY IMAG)POOLSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONE OF THE MOST DISTURBG ASPECT OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, WHICH PROHIBS “CLASSROOM DISCSN ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY” PRIMARY SCHOOLS (AND ACRDG TO CRICS, ULD BE APPLIED TO LATER GRAS), IS THE IA THAT MERELY ACKNOWLEDGG THE EXISTENCE OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS IS SOMEHOW APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN. OBVLY, SEND-GRA TEACHERS ARE NOT TALKG TO EIGHT-YEAR-OLDS ABOUT SEXUAL TERURSE, BUT YOU WOULDN’T KNOW BY LISTENG TO NSERVATIV, WHO APPARENTLY BELIEVE THAT ANYONE WHO OPPOS THIS LAW IS BASILLY ADVOTG FOR SHOWG KIDS GRAPHIC SEXUAL IMAGERY.TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE SENATOR TED CZ, WHO RECENTLY SUGGTED THAT BEE DISNEY CID TO SPEAK OUT AGAST THE BIGOTED FLORIDA LEGISLATN—AFTER RECEIVG BACKLASH OM S EMPLOYE FOR IALLY REFG TO DO SO—’S OBVLY GOG TO TRODUCE NC-17 STORY L TO S CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMG.IN AN EXTREMELY WEIRD SET OF REMARKS, EVEN FOR HIM, THE TEXAS LAWMAKER OPED AT A LIVE RERDG OF HIS PODST, VERDICT WH TED CZ: “I THK THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE MISGUID, TRYG TO DRIVE, YOU KNOW, DISNEY STEPPG , SAYG, YOU KNOW, EVERY EPISO NOW THEY’RE GONNA HAVE, YOU KNOW, MICKEY AND PLUTO GOG AT . LIKE, REALLY? IT’S JT LIKE, E ON GUYS, THE ARE KIDS, AND YOU KNOW, YOU ULD ALWAYS SHIFT TO CEMAX IF YOU WANT THAT. LIKE, WHY DO YOU HAVE— ED TO BE, LOOK, I’M A DAD. YOU ED TO BE ABLE TO PUT YOUR KIDS ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL AND BE LIKE, ALRIGHT, SOMETHG NOCUO WILL HAPPEN.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.SETTG ASI THE FACT THAT CZ—WHO ONCE BLAMED A NGRSNAL STAFFER FOR HIS TWTER ACUNT “LIKG” A SHORT PORNOGRAPHIC VIO—CID TO LET PEOPLE KNOW HE TURNS TO CEMAX WHEN HE’S LOOKG TO HAVE A ROMANTIC NIGHT WH LTLE TED, THIS KD OF ABSURD FEARMONGERG IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE GOP PLAYBOOK. CLEARLY, DISNEY IS NOT GOG TO PICT “MICKEY AND PLUTO GOG AT ,” BUT ’S THIS KD OF BULLSH THAT RULTS RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY THEORISTS PROTTG DISNEY FOR SUPPOSEDLY RPTG CHILDREN. IT’S ALSO THE KD OF THG THAT OPENS THE DOOR TO BLATANT HOMOPHOBIA, AND THE IA, PHED LATELY BY REPUBLINS, THAT TALKG ABOUT THE MERE EXISTENCE OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS IS SYNONYMO WH “GROOMG” AND BEG “PRO-PEDOPHILE.” (ON THE PODST, CZ IALLY ARGUED THAT NSERVATIV SHOULDN’T E THE “GROOMER” ATTACK “LIGHTLY,” AND SHOULD BE RERVED FOR ACTUAL PEDOPHIL, BEFORE SEEMGLY GETTG DISTRACTED BY THE SIRE TO MISLEADGLY ATTACK DISNEY.) NATURALLY, CZ DON'T APPEAR TO HAVE HAD A PROBLEM WH THE MANY HYPERSEXUALIZED (BUT STRAIGHT) DISNEY CHARACTERS OF YEARS PAST. (YOU’LL HAVE TO LEAVE THAT TO MIKE PENCE, WHO FAMOLY TOOK ISSUE WH MULAN NORMALIZG WOMEN THE ARY BEE ULD LEAD TO…SEX THE BARRACKS???)IN OTHER “DON’T SAY GAY” NEWS, FLORIDA ERNOR RON DESANTIS—LAST SEEN G CHILDREN AS PROPS WHILE SIGNG AN ANTIABORTN BILL—HAS STEPPED UP HIS WAR ON DISNEY FOR HAVG THE DACY TO SPEAK OUT AGAST THE HARMFUL LEGISLATN. PER POLI:DESANTIS ANNOUNCED ON TUDAY THAT THE GOP-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE DURG THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL SSN WILL TAKE UP A BILL THAT WOULD DISMANTLE THE SPECIAL DISTRICT THAT HAS ALLOWED DISNEY TO OPERATE S OWN LOL ERNMENT CENTRAL FLORIDA THAT IS THE HOME TO WALT DISNEY WORLD. LEGISLATORS ARE ALREADY SCHLED TO HOLD A THREE-AND-A-HALF DAY SPECIAL SSN WHERE THEY WILL PASS A NEW NGRSNAL MAP PROPOSED BY THE ERNOR THAT WILL HELP THE GOP PICK UP SEATS THE UPG ELECTN.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT SER SETBACKBY BS LEVGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLELAST YEAR, DESANTIS SIGNED A BILL HE SAID WOULD “PROTECT…THE EE SPEECH OF FLORIDIANS,” THOUGH APPARENTLY HE ONLY ACTUALLY BELIEV EE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE WHO AGREE WH HIM.“WELE TO FLORIDA’S PETTY & PUNIVE STATE ERNMENT,” FLORIDA REPRENTATIVE ANNA ESKAMANI TWEETED TUDAY. “IF YOU QUTN THE GOVERNOR AND STAND UP FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE YOU GET NCELED AND LLED A PEDOPHILE.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.DISNEY ISN‘T THE ONLY PANY DESANTIS IS GOG AFTERTWTER IS APPARENTLY ALSO TROUBLE WH THE FLORIDA ERNOR FOR NOT LETTG ELON MK TAKE NTROL OF THE PANY. PER THE INPENNT:>RON DESANTIS HAS THREATENED TO PUNISH TWTER FOR BLOCKG ELON MK’S $43BN TAKEOVER OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM. THE TWTER BOARD ACTIVATED A “POISON PILL” STRATEGY TO FEND SELF AGAST THE TLA ENTREPRENR’S STUNNG ATTEMPT TO BUY THE PANY, WHICH HE ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK.>“WE’RE GONNA BE LOOKG AT WAYS THE STATE OF FLORIDA POTENTIALLY N BE HOLDG THE TWTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS ACUNTABLE FOR BREACHG THEIR FIDUCIARY DUTY,” THE REPUBLIN POLICIAN SAID.DESANTIS WENT ON TO NOTE THAT THE FLORIDA STATE PENSN SYSTEM HOLDS SHAR OF TWTER, THAT THE PANY’S RETURNS HAVE BEEN “STAGNANT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS,” AND THAT PEOPLE SHOULD “STAY TUNED” ON WHAT ACTN HE MIGHT BE TAKG AGAST THE BOARD.IF YOU’RE WONRG IF DESANTIS HAS GONE AFTER THE BOARDS OF ANY OTHER PANI THAT HAPPENED TO BE PART OF THE FLORIDA PENSN SYSTEM’S PORTFOL THE ANSWER APPEARS TO BE NO, OF URSE HE HASN’T, BEE THAT’S NOT A THG THAT ERNORS DO. UNLS THE ERNOR QUTN HAS HIS EY ON THE WHE HOE AND HAS READ THAT THE RIGHT LOV THE IA OF TWTER’S BIGGT TROLL TAKG OVER THE PANY.SURPRISE: THE JUDGE WHO STCK DOWN THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN MASK MANDATE WAS EMED “NOT QUALIFIED” BY THE AMERIN BAR ASSOCIATNTHAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT. PER NPR:JUDGE KATHRYN KIMBALL MIZELLE…SS ON THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. SHE WAS NOMATED BY FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP SEPTEMBER 2020 AT AGE 33 AND NFIRMED BY A 49-TO-41 SENATE VOTE LATER THAT YEAR…. WHILE MIZELLE HAS NOT BEEN HER POSN FOR LONG, SHE'S FOUND HERSELF AT THE CENTER OF NTROVERSY BEFORE: DURG HER SENATE NFIRMATN PROCS, THE AMERIN BAR ASSOCIATN (ABA) SAID SHE WAS NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE POSN BEE SHE HAD NOT BEEN PRACTICG LAW FOR LONG ENOUGH.IN A LETTER TO THE LEARS OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, THE HEAD OF THE ABA STANDG COMMTEE ON THE FERAL JUDICIARY SAID THAT A MAJORY OF HIS GROUP HAD EMED THAT MIZELLE DID “NOT MEET THE REQUISE MIMUM STANDARD OF EXPERIENCE NECSARY TO PERFORM THE RPONSIBILI REQUIRED BY THE HIGH OFFICE OF A FERAL TRIAL JUDGE.”MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT SER SETBACKBY BS LEVGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEAND NOW SHE’S THE PERSON WE ALL HAVE TO THANK FOR AIRPLAN AND OTHER FORMS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN BEG COVID-19 PETRI DISH. THANKS, KATHRYN!STRANGELY, THE ERNOR DID NOT OFFER ANY EXAMPL OF THE MATH (!) TEXTBOOKS THAT SUPPOSEDLY CLU CRTTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!RSIA BEGS “BATTLE FOR DONBAS” EAST (THE WASHGTON POST)“WE WILL FIGHT,” ZELENSKYY SAYS, AS UKRAE MOUNTS A DEFENSE (NYT)DELTA REWR STATEMENT THAT LLED COVID-19 “ORDARY SEASONAL VIS” (THE WASHGTON POST)BIN RTOR PROTECTNS TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, REVERSG TMP (THE WASHGTON POST)THE TECH BUBBLE THAT NEVER BURST (NYT)ELON MK BUYG TWTER ULD HAVE “GRAVE IMPLITNS” FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, SAYS URBAN LEAGUE (CNBC)BIN’S LATT STUNT BT MOVE WILL BRG 3.6 LN BORROWERS CLOSER TO LOAN FIVENS (CNN)FOX NEWS HOST SAYS HE LET THE AIR OUT OF AN TERN’S TIR SO SHE‘D GO ON A DATE WH HIM (HUFFPOST)EXACTLY HOW MANY EASTER BUNNY COSTUM DO THE WHE HOE OWN?! (BUZZFEED)ELON MK SAYS HE DON’T OWN A HOME AND SLEEPS SPARE BEDROOMS (BI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV
• THE STRANGE SE OF THE MISSG GAY DISNEY MOEKETEER AND THE BODY FOUND AT HIS HOME
• GAYHISTORY: MICKEY MOE, HOMOPHOBE

IS MICKEY MOE GAY

This uproar is largely rponse to Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s announcement, followg backlash om LGBTQ activists, that the pany would no longer support new Florida legislatn that crics have labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Nohels, opposn to what has been viewed as Disney’s poal of LGBTQ issu, or phg a “gay agenda, ” dat back to the 1990s, when right-wg Christian groups lled for boytts of the pany over Gay Days, an unofficial Disney theme parks event for queer people and their fai.

(The outrage was even more ironic nsirg that Disney has never officially sanctned Gay Days, or even formally acknowledged their existence.

¿MICKEY MOE GAY? DISNEY LO VISTE N LOS LOR L “ULLO”

While the pany has flirted wh troducg openly gay characters mastream stud films, the screen time of such characters has been signifintly rced followg immense backlash.

Ined, was only after the uproar over the Don’t Say Gay bill that a prevly-cut same-sex kiss the upg release Lightyear was put back to the film.

In light of the Don’t Say Gay bill, the pump was primed for the far right to tra nspiracy theori about Disney.

TED CZ WARNS DISNEY PROGRAMMG WILL SOON DEPICT MICKEY AND PLUTO F--KGTHE SENATOR OM TEXAS THKS THE PANY’S OPPOSN TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW MEANS ’S GOG TO TRODUCE X-RATED NTENT FEATURG ANIMATED CHARACTERS “GOG AT .”BY BS LEVAPRIL 19, 2022WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: SEN. TED CZ (R-TX) HOLDS UP A LETTER OM WASHGTON, D.C., MAYOR MURIEL BOSWER (D) DURG A SENATE HOMELAND SECURY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS & SENATE RUL AND ADMISTRATN JOT HEARG TO DISCS THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPOL ON MARCH 3, 2021 WASHGTON, DC. THE MTEE IS SCHLED TO HEAR TTIMONY ABOUT DHS, FBI, NATNAL GUARD AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SUPPORT AND RPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPOL ON JANUARY 6. (PHOTO BY GREG NASH-POOL/GETTY IMAG)POOLSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONE OF THE MOST DISTURBG ASPECT OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, WHICH PROHIBS “CLASSROOM DISCSN ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY” PRIMARY SCHOOLS (AND ACRDG TO CRICS, ULD BE APPLIED TO LATER GRAS), IS THE IA THAT MERELY ACKNOWLEDGG THE EXISTENCE OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS IS SOMEHOW APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN. OBVLY, SEND-GRA TEACHERS ARE NOT TALKG TO EIGHT-YEAR-OLDS ABOUT SEXUAL TERURSE, BUT YOU WOULDN’T KNOW BY LISTENG TO NSERVATIV, WHO APPARENTLY BELIEVE THAT ANYONE WHO OPPOS THIS LAW IS BASILLY ADVOTG FOR SHOWG KIDS GRAPHIC SEXUAL IMAGERY.TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE SENATOR TED CZ, WHO RECENTLY SUGGTED THAT BEE DISNEY CID TO SPEAK OUT AGAST THE BIGOTED FLORIDA LEGISLATN—AFTER RECEIVG BACKLASH OM S EMPLOYE FOR IALLY REFG TO DO SO—’S OBVLY GOG TO TRODUCE NC-17 STORY L TO S CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMG.IN AN EXTREMELY WEIRD SET OF REMARKS, EVEN FOR HIM, THE TEXAS LAWMAKER OPED AT A LIVE RERDG OF HIS PODST, VERDICT WH TED CZ: “I THK THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE MISGUID, TRYG TO DRIVE, YOU KNOW, DISNEY STEPPG , SAYG, YOU KNOW, EVERY EPISO NOW THEY’RE GONNA HAVE, YOU KNOW, MICKEY AND PLUTO GOG AT . LIKE, REALLY? IT’S JT LIKE, E ON GUYS, THE ARE KIDS, AND YOU KNOW, YOU ULD ALWAYS SHIFT TO CEMAX IF YOU WANT THAT. LIKE, WHY DO YOU HAVE— ED TO BE, LOOK, I’M A DAD. YOU ED TO BE ABLE TO PUT YOUR KIDS ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL AND BE LIKE, ALRIGHT, SOMETHG NOCUO WILL HAPPEN.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.SETTG ASI THE FACT THAT CZ—WHO ONCE BLAMED A NGRSNAL STAFFER FOR HIS TWTER ACUNT “LIKG” A SHORT PORNOGRAPHIC VIO—CID TO LET PEOPLE KNOW HE TURNS TO CEMAX WHEN HE’S LOOKG TO HAVE A ROMANTIC NIGHT WH LTLE TED, THIS KD OF ABSURD FEARMONGERG IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE GOP PLAYBOOK. CLEARLY, DISNEY IS NOT GOG TO PICT “MICKEY AND PLUTO GOG AT ,” BUT ’S THIS KD OF BULLSH THAT RULTS RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY THEORISTS PROTTG DISNEY FOR SUPPOSEDLY RPTG CHILDREN. IT’S ALSO THE KD OF THG THAT OPENS THE DOOR TO BLATANT HOMOPHOBIA, AND THE IA, PHED LATELY BY REPUBLINS, THAT TALKG ABOUT THE MERE EXISTENCE OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS IS SYNONYMO WH “GROOMG” AND BEG “PRO-PEDOPHILE.” (ON THE PODST, CZ IALLY ARGUED THAT NSERVATIV SHOULDN’T E THE “GROOMER” ATTACK “LIGHTLY,” AND SHOULD BE RERVED FOR ACTUAL PEDOPHIL, BEFORE SEEMGLY GETTG DISTRACTED BY THE SIRE TO MISLEADGLY ATTACK DISNEY.) NATURALLY, CZ DON'T APPEAR TO HAVE HAD A PROBLEM WH THE MANY HYPERSEXUALIZED (BUT STRAIGHT) DISNEY CHARACTERS OF YEARS PAST. (YOU’LL HAVE TO LEAVE THAT TO MIKE PENCE, WHO FAMOLY TOOK ISSUE WH MULAN NORMALIZG WOMEN THE ARY BEE ULD LEAD TO…SEX THE BARRACKS???)IN OTHER “DON’T SAY GAY” NEWS, FLORIDA ERNOR RON DESANTIS—LAST SEEN G CHILDREN AS PROPS WHILE SIGNG AN ANTIABORTN BILL—HAS STEPPED UP HIS WAR ON DISNEY FOR HAVG THE DACY TO SPEAK OUT AGAST THE HARMFUL LEGISLATN. PER POLI:DESANTIS ANNOUNCED ON TUDAY THAT THE GOP-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE DURG THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL SSN WILL TAKE UP A BILL THAT WOULD DISMANTLE THE SPECIAL DISTRICT THAT HAS ALLOWED DISNEY TO OPERATE S OWN LOL ERNMENT CENTRAL FLORIDA THAT IS THE HOME TO WALT DISNEY WORLD. LEGISLATORS ARE ALREADY SCHLED TO HOLD A THREE-AND-A-HALF DAY SPECIAL SSN WHERE THEY WILL PASS A NEW NGRSNAL MAP PROPOSED BY THE ERNOR THAT WILL HELP THE GOP PICK UP SEATS THE UPG ELECTN.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT SER SETBACKBY BS LEVGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLELAST YEAR, DESANTIS SIGNED A BILL HE SAID WOULD “PROTECT…THE EE SPEECH OF FLORIDIANS,” THOUGH APPARENTLY HE ONLY ACTUALLY BELIEV EE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE WHO AGREE WH HIM.“WELE TO FLORIDA’S PETTY & PUNIVE STATE ERNMENT,” FLORIDA REPRENTATIVE ANNA ESKAMANI TWEETED TUDAY. “IF YOU QUTN THE GOVERNOR AND STAND UP FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE YOU GET NCELED AND LLED A PEDOPHILE.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.DISNEY ISN‘T THE ONLY PANY DESANTIS IS GOG AFTERTWTER IS APPARENTLY ALSO TROUBLE WH THE FLORIDA ERNOR FOR NOT LETTG ELON MK TAKE NTROL OF THE PANY. PER THE INPENNT:>RON DESANTIS HAS THREATENED TO PUNISH TWTER FOR BLOCKG ELON MK’S $43BN TAKEOVER OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM. THE TWTER BOARD ACTIVATED A “POISON PILL” STRATEGY TO FEND SELF AGAST THE TLA ENTREPRENR’S STUNNG ATTEMPT TO BUY THE PANY, WHICH HE ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK.>“WE’RE GONNA BE LOOKG AT WAYS THE STATE OF FLORIDA POTENTIALLY N BE HOLDG THE TWTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS ACUNTABLE FOR BREACHG THEIR FIDUCIARY DUTY,” THE REPUBLIN POLICIAN SAID.DESANTIS WENT ON TO NOTE THAT THE FLORIDA STATE PENSN SYSTEM HOLDS SHAR OF TWTER, THAT THE PANY’S RETURNS HAVE BEEN “STAGNANT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS,” AND THAT PEOPLE SHOULD “STAY TUNED” ON WHAT ACTN HE MIGHT BE TAKG AGAST THE BOARD.IF YOU’RE WONRG IF DESANTIS HAS GONE AFTER THE BOARDS OF ANY OTHER PANI THAT HAPPENED TO BE PART OF THE FLORIDA PENSN SYSTEM’S PORTFOL THE ANSWER APPEARS TO BE NO, OF URSE HE HASN’T, BEE THAT’S NOT A THG THAT ERNORS DO. UNLS THE ERNOR QUTN HAS HIS EY ON THE WHE HOE AND HAS READ THAT THE RIGHT LOV THE IA OF TWTER’S BIGGT TROLL TAKG OVER THE PANY.SURPRISE: THE JUDGE WHO STCK DOWN THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN MASK MANDATE WAS EMED “NOT QUALIFIED” BY THE AMERIN BAR ASSOCIATNTHAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT. PER NPR:JUDGE KATHRYN KIMBALL MIZELLE…SS ON THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. SHE WAS NOMATED BY FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP SEPTEMBER 2020 AT AGE 33 AND NFIRMED BY A 49-TO-41 SENATE VOTE LATER THAT YEAR…. WHILE MIZELLE HAS NOT BEEN HER POSN FOR LONG, SHE'S FOUND HERSELF AT THE CENTER OF NTROVERSY BEFORE: DURG HER SENATE NFIRMATN PROCS, THE AMERIN BAR ASSOCIATN (ABA) SAID SHE WAS NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE POSN BEE SHE HAD NOT BEEN PRACTICG LAW FOR LONG ENOUGH.IN A LETTER TO THE LEARS OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, THE HEAD OF THE ABA STANDG COMMTEE ON THE FERAL JUDICIARY SAID THAT A MAJORY OF HIS GROUP HAD EMED THAT MIZELLE DID “NOT MEET THE REQUISE MIMUM STANDARD OF EXPERIENCE NECSARY TO PERFORM THE RPONSIBILI REQUIRED BY THE HIGH OFFICE OF A FERAL TRIAL JUDGE.”MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT SER SETBACKBY BS LEVGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEAND NOW SHE’S THE PERSON WE ALL HAVE TO THANK FOR AIRPLAN AND OTHER FORMS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN BEG COVID-19 PETRI DISH. THANKS, KATHRYN!STRANGELY, THE ERNOR DID NOT OFFER ANY EXAMPL OF THE MATH (!) TEXTBOOKS THAT SUPPOSEDLY CLU CRTTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!RSIA BEGS “BATTLE FOR DONBAS” EAST (THE WASHGTON POST)“WE WILL FIGHT,” ZELENSKYY SAYS, AS UKRAE MOUNTS A DEFENSE (NYT)DELTA REWR STATEMENT THAT LLED COVID-19 “ORDARY SEASONAL VIS” (THE WASHGTON POST)BIN RTOR PROTECTNS TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, REVERSG TMP (THE WASHGTON POST)THE TECH BUBBLE THAT NEVER BURST (NYT)ELON MK BUYG TWTER ULD HAVE “GRAVE IMPLITNS” FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, SAYS URBAN LEAGUE (CNBC)BIN’S LATT STUNT BT MOVE WILL BRG 3.6 LN BORROWERS CLOSER TO LOAN FIVENS (CNN)FOX NEWS HOST SAYS HE LET THE AIR OUT OF AN TERN’S TIR SO SHE‘D GO ON A DATE WH HIM (HUFFPOST)EXACTLY HOW MANY EASTER BUNNY COSTUM DO THE WHE HOE OWN?! (BUZZFEED)ELON MK SAYS HE DON’T OWN A HOME AND SLEEPS SPARE BEDROOMS (BI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV

In light of the Don’t Say Gay bill, the pump was primed for the far right to tra nspiracy theori about Disney — even though, as recently as jt a few weeks ago, Chapek had said a leaked ternal memo that he did not plan to publicly oppose or support the bill to beg wh. Followg public outrage and walkouts om LGBTQ employe, Chapek reversed his stance and announced the pany’s “goal” would be to move for the repeal of the Don’t Say Gay bill, unleashg a barrage of outrage agast the pany.

THE STRANGE SE OF THE MISSG GAY DISNEY MOEKETEER AND THE BODY FOUND AT HIS HOME

A tongue--cheek ment by Disney Televisn Animatn executive producer Latoya Ravene, who said the meetg the pany has been welg to her “not-at-all secret gay agenda, ” also prompted revulsn parents primed to view Disney as a vehicle for left-wg doctratn. ”The Walt Disney Company, one of the world’s biggt media and entertament empir, pris self on a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) iendly culture. But today s reputatn for clivy and tolerance is unr scty – as are s ep ti to the polil tablishment and the lack of LGBTQ reprentatn s ’s workers have been stagg walkouts prott at chief executive Bob Chapek’s lackltre rponse to Florida legislatn dubbed “don’t say gay”.

But their prejudic were laid bare by a tweet om Christa Phaw, prs secretary for Florida’s ernor, Ron DeSantis, that said: “The bill that liberals accurately ll ‘don’t say gay’ would be more accurately scribed as an anti-groomg bill. It has been nmned as “hateful” by Joe Bin and other Democrats who argue that monis LGBTQ, prs secretary of the LGBTQ rights anisatn Equaly Florida and a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootg 2016, says: “The ‘don’t say gay bill’ was dubbed that by the muny bee is a bigoted, very specifilly anti-LGBTQ piece of legislatn signed to censor classroom speech about our muny.

Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invisn/APYet the “don’t say gay” bill wrong-footed Chapek, who succeed Bob Iger as chief executive Febary 2020.

GAYHISTORY: MICKEY MOE, HOMOPHOBE

They give to a lot of Democrats, bee they want those Democrats to be on their si too, but they have given a disproportnate amount to Republin legislators, many of whom supported and voted for the ‘don’t say gay’ bill. The Human Rights Campaign has said will stop acceptg money om Disney “until we see them build on their public mment and work wh LGBTQ+ advot to ensure that dangero proposals, like Florida’s ‘don’t say gay or trans’ bill, don’t bee dangero laws” Whehall and Ey Blunt Jungle Cise. Eric Marc, creator and host of the Makg Gay History podst, says: “Disney has cultivated an LGBTQ-iendly image, both through their cln of LGBTQ characters recent years and wh their employe, so ’s shockg but not shockg that the CEO would have been so flat-footed.

Photograph: APFor s the stud’s output was steadfastly heterosexual even though s creative talents clud gay people such as Howard Ashman, an Osr wner who wrote the lyrics for The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast before his ath om Aids has been some progrs sce then wh a growg LGBTQ portrayals films and TV shows and the sellg of LGBTQ pri-themed merchandise at Disney stor.

Last year’s film Jungle Cise featured a proment gay character: McGregor Houghton, played by Jack Whehall. “Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney’s beht, regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar. Greg Berlanti, who produced The CW's Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightng and Batwoman, relat Superpowered how the 1990 The Flash TV show particular spired him as a gay youth.