Just so we're clear, the racism in films like Song of the South wasn't a plain "product of its times." This is *1946*, as many Americans fought to make the US not like the Nazis & to make equal opportunities for Black vets coming home. Disney *chose* racism instead... & got called out by vets!

@bestonetx.bsky.social's posting Walt Disney's HUAC testimony (where he lambasted both the League of Women Voters & the Daily Worker as "commie fronts" 🤣) sent me into the DW archives (spoiler alert: neither org was a front - the DW was proudly CPUSA) for Disney coverage. The DW was not wrong here!

Just for fun. Walt Disney called the Daily Worker a "commie front" - which is funny since it was hardly a front. But homeboy was mad because they called his movies kaka. Here's Mike Gold in 1947, calling out the war-mongering & violence in Disney films. Let me go find some more!

Walt Disney was a piece of shit. The company union busted to high hell and ultimately hurt the potential for labor movements in the arts for years to come.

Just watched. 😬 Fuck Walt. Also dumb as a rock. The League of Women Voters & the Daily Worker were both “commie fronts”? Powerful & stupid…

And here's Coleman A. Young, who would become first black mayor of Detroit, who told HUAC they must have confused him for a stool pigeon. michiganadvance.com/briefs/on-th...

Live your life so when you die, people mourn you because they choose to, not because they’re compelled to.

Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

No idea huh? I wonder what the dragon's like. Is it a Grand Dragon, Stephen?

Let's make it happen, people! 😆 OR even better, let's turn HUAC back into HISTORY & not the present, amirite?

Tomorrow will be hectic, so in the meanwhile. 🍎🍎🍯🍯 to all my (((skypeeps))) and to anyone else who needs a reset for this fakhakhte year. Hoping that 5786 will be better than (not worse than!) 5785. We all need sweet & just things this year!

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Scheduled Covid shots with our HMO for Friday. The sign up page says the CDC only recommends the shot for high risk individuals, but that they are following the best medical practices and giving them to everyone.

I read this first as referring to AMPAS. I’m like, when did they honor “slow thinking”? ohhhhh, THAT academy…. 🤣

Tucker Carlson tells a story that appears to blame Jews for killing Jesus (they didn’t) and also killing Charlie Kirk.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Asking again if any #kdrama people on here are watching #WhenTheStarsGossip. I'm in ep11 and don't want spoilers for the rest but am curious if anyone else is watching!

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

youth bass youtube is the best youtube (JuliaPlaysGroove)

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

For my French history peeps, this is the sibling equivalent of Alyssa going to the Pantheon. 😆 (or rather approximation cuz there's no crypt here!).

I’d never seen this one.

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

A black screenwriter was dragged off a train alter an elderly white woman complained to police about the way he was sitting!! Alex O'Keefe In route to Connecticut,

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

From an earlier era of antifa and the anti-antifa backlash...

Now, five years after the collapse of his public image, it might be time to revisit Harvey Weinsten's case. Was his cancellation a product of a fleeting era when people spoke earnestly about “sexual assault” and “rape”—a time when the left, not the right, was doing the Me Tooing?

Since Disney & fascists are trending, this is from the 1943 Writers Congress, led by Hollywood Writers Mobilization (for the war). Walt Disney was there, & every leftist who was anyone in H'wd. 🗃️ Disney briefly joined in - but so many of the rest got called by HUAC & blacklisted *b/c of this*.

Lenin Riefenstahl had a scheduled visit to Hollywood, but the Nazis did Kristallnacht the week befofe her trip, so everyone boycotted her EXCEPT WALT, who gave her a whole day long tour of his studio (although he wouldn't show her new work because the projectionists might realize what was happening)

Brendan Carr wrote the section of Project 2025 on the FCC. If only people had listened to our warnings about their scheme. The Heritage Foundation has been planning this for years. They only needed a puppet to be president and SCOTUS gave him immunity.

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

Despite refusing to coordinate with the state or city, we’re monitoring the ongoing federal deployments that are instilling fear in our communities. Americans have a right to peaceful assembly and to make their voices heard. Even if the Trump admin won’t follow the law, we will.

Here for the ratio. Also: still at the Post. ⬇️ Checks! (also, personally I prefer not having literal Nazi ads in my feed)

I sleep pretty well at night knowing i have double the amount of followers here than I had on twitter AND am not helping an extremist prove financial viability for the platform he tanked.

There isn’t a hunger problem in America if we don’t know about it

In case you want to share that EPIC Dutch Disney parody with friends who aren't on BlueSky - here's a YouTube link. (& if you haven't already watched it, you are missing OUT!)

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

This person is mass spamming mentions of Karen Attiah. He appears to be mentally unwell. His only posts are identical repetitions of bits of unintelligible nonsense. (Unless questioned.) I reported. But you may wish to proactively block. Profile link to block/report: bsky.app/profile/elzi...

OMG, you need to stop what you're doing and watch this right now. A Dutch vision of M*GAfied Disney! 🤣

Coltrane! Brubeck! Or whatever else was playing on WBGO. @sepinwall.bsky.social & I had a Dad with super cool musical taste!

Zoom event for @profkfh.bsky.social's new book - with a lineup of luminaries!!

More than a dozen immigration judge were just fired. Such firings have been common on Friday evenings and often involve newer judges still on probation. But today's firings include a Sacramento IJ who's been on the bench close to 20 years. "The judge version of Jimmy Kimmel," one source told me.

TCA condemns ABC and Disney’s capitulation to the government’s demands of censorship.

Very useful. ⬇️ Many Calif. Dems voted YES on this Res. I asked my Rep's office why they did it & they said they opposed him - but opposed political violence & wanted to "lower the temperature." I shared what I thought of that! Keep them accountable & check yours & call.

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

I'm answering @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social's call and will not be providing coverage of any Disney-owned titles until after Jimmy Kimmel is returned to the airwaves.

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years? Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.