THREAD// I'd like to just elaborate on the private jet thing for a moment. Private jets are a cancer. I'm sorry and I know and love lots of people who ride around in them. But I also occasionally fly biz class and I fail to see what is so hard about that. 1/

https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1611828068720726016

OK, maybe you are famous. And the airport is hard for famous people. What if airlines could easily handle that for you by creating a service that escorts VIP's through a special line for security and a special lounge for privacy? Still not enough to make you feel cozy? 2/

THREAD: Here's what I think. DeSantis's move was straight up fascist. This is not hyperbole. Just look what the Brazilian, Chilean and Argentine governments did to bring the business community on board with the program. 1/

https://twitter.com/DJMcG526/status/1526966942959026177

DeSantis chose the biggest company in Florida and threw a very theatrical monkey wrench into the system. Funny, considering how in lock-step he normally is with the corporate agenda--labor laws, taxes, deregulation, etc etc. 2/

It's hard to know where to start with this. I probably fall into the "over-educated" category, but that just means I read books and learn things, amplifying my capacity to understand the lives of people I do not know and therefore to have empathy for others. 1/ As to "under-loved," if he means ""under-sexed" I would request he have another look at this rationale. In controlling their bodies have conservatives not been working overtime toward the goal of all women being "under-loved?" 2/

Well it's true that I don't feel I deserve any of it. Never have. And didn't need a therapist to see that, though therapy has helped. Although if I'm "not morally strong enough to give it away," I do wonder what I've been up to these last forty years. 1/ The problem with a gnawing sense of fraud, which you have brilliantly diagnosed here, is that it never seems to affect the people who should be wondering the same thing about themselves. So often is the the diagnostician who should really be asking about the cure. 2/

THREAD/ Like all radical ideologues, the right wing has finally run amok and is coming to devour the hand that feeds it. Business. For my part I am delighted. It is the business world that has been, either by act or omission, feeding the opportunist right wing to distract 1/ Us with culture war nonsense while they rifle through the till and empty everyone's pockets. This "anti-woke" right wing nonsense is unsupported by a large majority of Americans. In fact most Americans are offended by it and wish it would just go away. 2/

1/ Not to beat a dead horse (which is a very un-Disney thing to do anyway) we all know that corporate statements are often merely performative and ineffective. BUT, to claim that "we all share the same goal of a more tolerant, respectful world,"as Chapek does in his internal memo 2/ is at best naive and at worst grotesquely cynical. I have met Dennis Baxley and it does not take long knowing him to see very clearly that if "a more tolerant, respectful world" includes respecting the very basic human rights of the many people of every description...

THREAD 1/While I'm on the subject of Disney funding anti-gay legislators, it is important to point out that they are funding them not because they are anti-gay (they don't actually care that mch about that) but because they are "pro-business."What does it mean to be pro-business? 2/ In Florida, being pro-business means to let corporations regularly run rough shod over people, over the environment, over everything. This has been true since DisneyWorld opened, I am sad to say, under my grandfather's leadership, but the bullying/funding of a certain kind of

THREAD 1/ About fifty people sent this one to me. I've made fun of this guy in the past because he cried on national TV at the thought of a 70% tax on billionaires. This piece makes him sound like a very nice man in a very nice, very impenetrable bubble washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01… 2/ it's fine to be nice and it's even fine to live in a bubble, if you are aware that your bubble isn't really like the reality everyone else is facing. The thing is, he talks about Gates and Ellison and how they invented things that have enriched our lives.....

Hello to the folks at @Upworthy I have always wondered about who you all are and what your mission is. I am aware that you are looking to promote wellbeing and positivity and that is great, but I fear that when you filed this piece under "prosperity" 1/
upworthy.com/abigail-disney… You might have missed the point of my whole piece. Perhaps I neglected to explain this part of it. Having too much money is the opposite of "prosperity" if you define prosperity as something more expansive than having money. Yes, I was taught how to grow money, 2/

In complete sincerity I reach out to you, Jonathan VanBoskerck just to say I am sorry that everything feels like it is leaving you behind. I feel the same way sometimes. I want to offer you a chance to meet some of the folks behind this “woke” culture that troubles you so much 1/ As a survivor of sexual assault myself, I have to confess that the carefree way in which the pirates bid for and buy women whom they clearly intend to rape left me feeling traumatized and certain that what happened to me didn’t matter to anyone but me.And that’s a hard feeling 2/

Thread: I don't want to be hiding from this piece so here it is. Bummer. It doesn't, of course, represent who we are and what we are about. In the least. Which is not to say that we've been perfect 1/ hollywoodreporter.com/news/ex-staff-… Or anywhere near perfect. There have been problems, some of which I'm damned ashamed of. And a piece like this hits hard when in the rest of your work you are trying so hard to talk about fairness and decency. The best I can do is acknowledge where we've done wrong 2/

Thread: So here's my final word on the subject of the twitterati trying to be social workers for people they do not know. Child abuse is bad. I know this because once I was an abused child. Mostly verbal, sometimes physical. My parents were public figures. 1/ So I do know something about this. If anyone thinks I am taking the Conway family's problems lightly, then I would ask you to take this into consideration. There was nothing ok about what happened to me, and I wish I'd known how to help myself. If I'd had access to Twitter, 2/

The other bone Trump tickled for small business people and aspirants was his hostility to taxes and regulation, the two things that feel the most arbitrary and capricious to someone trying something very difficult which is to get a small business to profitability.

https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1348320749594017796

If you are trying to start a restaurant, and a black or latino, or god forbid, female AND black or latino city worker comes to inspect and finds a small problem, or the government is telling you what the minimum wage must be, or the ADA is requiring a ramp when you've (ct'd)

THREAD: This is so important @yashar @jaketapper @soledadobrien @Maria_Hinojosa Days after election in 2020, Donald Trump, for reasons nobody understood, replaced a number of key high ranking folks at the Pentagon with a series of partisan hacks. WHY? 1/ defense.gov/Newsroom/Relea… Well let's look at them one by one. Kash Patel, former staffer for Devin Nunes, with "unique access" to the Prez, known to give "out of scope" advice to him, and already on record as looking to block much of the transition work he was appointed to do.2/
politico.com/news/2020/11/2…

Here’s my list for 2022. These mofo’s need to go DOWN. 1) Ron Johnson WI. Won his race in 2016 with 3.4%. Led the nit brigade today. Vulnerable. 2) Pat Toomey PA Won his race by only 1.5%. Tried to see above the fray today but has been a trump booster from the get go. A classic ends-justify-means evangelical who can only think about stopping the ladies from using their vaginas. Must go.

Thread/ Let’s be clear. This was never ever not going to happen. Not when Reagan eviscerated all public spending and accused anyone who questioned this a communist. Or when he started the death by a thousand budget cuts 1/ of our sacred covenant that every citizen deserves a good education and a decent change at a decent life. It was never not going to happen when Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 2/

Remember this? And this?

What did I tell you? The layoffs were always coming. Today Disney chose to layoff nearly 30% of their workforce on the same day as the first presidential debate. Hoping, I am sure, to have the news of this drowned out by the news of that. 1/ Josh D'Amaro's "it's incredibly painful" reminds me of when I was a kid and my father was getting ready to spank me and he'd say "this is gonna hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me." It was bullshit then and it's even more bullshit now. 2/

THREAD/ There is a deep rot at the core of American fundamentalist capitalism. Over the years a greed-is-good mindset has taken hold across corporate culture. And CEO's have taken the ball and run with it. They populate their boards with other CEO's 1/
nytimes.com/2020/07/29/bus… And they add layers and layers of executive structure between themselves and their workers. Eventually they forget what they once knew (if they ever did) about what it was like to live paycheck to paycheck, to have no power over your own destiny, to feel like a cog 2/

A beautiful reframe of the Harper's letter, which I frankly think is a slightly less crotchety version of classic conservative grousing about "political correctness." Speech is and should be free, yes, but that is not to say it should not have consequences. 1/ I happen to have experienced this on a personal level. Yes, I got "ratio-ed" on Twitter (and deserved it) and have somehow lived to tell the tale. What I tried to do in the situation is to honestly have a look at what I might have done wrong, learn from it and go forward 2/

So Breonna was the victim of a no-knock warrant. The cops claim they identified themselves but they were under no obligation, legally speaking, to do so. And given the record of white police officers shooting people and then lying about it, 1/ THREAD
motherjones.com/crime-justice/… I'm gonna believe her boyfriend, Kenneth Taylor, that they did not. BTW, he was also shot that night. The no-knock warrant was given to the police because they thought Breonna MIGHT be receiving packages for a drug dealer who lived not nearby and whom she didn't know. 2/