Looks like vegans are the next target of Conservatives in their ridiculous culture war. Honestly I'm glad you can't tell someone's dietary preferences by looking at them. #vegan#plantBased#conservatives#cdnpoli#CultureWars
#Disney secured enough shareholder votes to defeat a challenge against its board mounted by #NelsonPeltz's hedge fund #Trian Fund Mgmt.
Enough votes were cast as of Tues night to put Disney's board of dirs safely ahead of Trian's 2 challengers, that included #Peltz & fmr Disney CFO Jay Rasulo, per sources.
#NelsonPeltz is the billionaire & #GOP#megadonor who on the day the #Jan6#insurrection, disavowed #Trump, calling it a “disgrace” & apologized for voting for Trump.
But earlier this month, #Peltz had breakfast w/Trump & other billionaires — including hotelier #SteveWynn, #ElonMusk, & fmr Marvel chair #IsaacPerlmutter — at Peltz’s “luxurious oceanfront mansion” in #Florida. Peltz then told the FT that he would “probably” vote for Trump in 2024.
The NHS is on its knees, there's shit in our water, children are dying of mould inhalation in damp homes their parents can't afford to heat, and we're told that what we should be outraged at is checks notes the #nationaltrust's scone recipe.
There's a lot of justified anger in this country right now, and it benefits the shower in government if it's misdirected at bullshit like this. Don't fall for it.
Here's the ever readable @kenanmalik on the problem of outsiders taking on the role of community representation & being recognised as such by hose seeking the 'leaders' of communities to defuse problems (themselves stoked but the outsiders' in their guise as community representatives).... using the example of a teacher in hiding Malik sets out the problem of culture warriors for hire.
The #settlement declares that actions taken by the fmr Reedy Creek special taxing district (#RCID) days before it was taken over by #DeSantis appointees would be “null & void.” That included a long-lasting development agreement that would have greatly limited what the new board could do.
The #Florida State Board of #Education, which was sued along w/ the Department of Education, is required to send the agreement to every school district under the settlement terms.
“I don’t represent Hamas, I don’t talk for Hamas. I represent British Muslims in a British organisation,” she says. “In our faith, the killing of any innocent civilians, we condemn. And that’s it. Why would my position be any different from that?”
Interview with Zara Mohammed, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, the UK’s largest Muslim umbrella group, with more than 500 affiliated members.
"Reading his remarks, I was upset but not surprised. This is partly because I am hardened to racist abuse. I receive hundreds of abusive emails, phone calls and letters monthly, and the numbers shoot up whenever I am in the media"
Diane Abbott writes in the Guardian about Frank Hester, racism, extremism, the Forde Report and her treatment by Labour.
Oh dear, another bit of the Tories culture wars (this time the accusation that Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) were being imposed on normal folk by car hating extremists) has failed to survive contact with reality...
Apart for a majority in LTNs supporting them, my favourite statistic is over half the people living in LTNs don't even realise they are.... yet another political 'crisis' inflamed by the commentariat.
@arstechnica Oh, pu-lease. There are some in my household on a shared Disney account. I'm so looking forward to no Disney, because, fuck Disney, really. And McDonald's, Starbucks, Subway, KFC, Burger King, Popeyes and all the other shit that is clogging the minds of kids outside US&A.
"The state of affairs among MAGA Media diehards as it sits today is remarkable. A subset of America actually purports to boycott Disney, the world's preeminent entertainment company; Bud Light, once America's most popular beer; Target, the quintessential brick-and-mortar shopping destination; Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that produced life-saving Covid-19 vaccines;"
"Major League Baseball, the nation's favorite pastime; and now Taylor Swift, a generational icon and one of the most successful musical artists of all time. …
'They’ve built out this alternate universe and reality of grievance and it feels like instead of using it to wage an effective culture war, they’re fully lost in it and can’t see that they’ve chosen as their primary enemy the person with the literal highest approval rating in American life right now.'"
Stumbled upon a new interesting #podcast taking a look at the origin stories of our contemporary #culturewars. First episode is about #abortion and has things I didnt know. So i recommend a listen next time youre looking for something new.
(Please dont respond to this with toxic crazy. Im tired today. I'll just block you.)