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https://www.salon.com/2025/12/13/jared-kushner-is-at-the-center-of-trumps-corruption/List of Disney companies for any who are interested in boycotting their products. (Prepared by Motley Fool)
https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/what-does-disney-own/?msockid=32fadf66c2266a932688caf9c3786b63The link above contains an image with the individual company logos that I could not get to copy/past into this post.
What Does Disney Own?
1. Capital Cities/ABC (1996): 100% ownership
Disney acquired Capital Cities/ABC in 1996 for $19 billion. At the time, it was the second-largest corporate takeover in history. ABC was the most profitable of the three major television networks at that time, and Disney management saw it as an opportunity to expand its distribution and accelerate its growth
2. ESPN (1996): 80% ownership
Disney also acquired ESPN in the Capital Cities/ABC deal, or an 80% stake in the sports entertainment giant. Hearst still owns the other 20%.
At the time of the deal, then-CEO Michael Eisner argued that the deal gave Disney control of the two premier family entertainment brands, Disney and ESPN.
3. Winnie the Pooh (2001): 100% ownership
Disney had originally acquired the rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters but had been paying royalties. The 2001 deal gave it the rights to the intellectual property for a lump sum payment of $350 million.
4. The Muppets (2004): 100% ownership
Disney had pursued The Muppets, a popular children's entertainment collection, for 14 years and finally acquired it in 2004 from the Jim Henson Company for $75 million. It also acquired the Bear in the Big Blue House property from the Henson Company at the same time.
5. Pixar (2006): 100% ownership
The Pixar acquisition was the first major deal under Iger, who led the $7.4 billion deal to gain control of the highly respected animation studio. The move also gave Disney a new pool of creative and technical talent to tap for both Pixar movies and Disney's own animated content.
6. Marvel (2009): 100% ownership
Marvel is arguably Disney's most successful acquisition to date. The deal gave Disney substantial intellectual property that it has parlayed into dozens of movies for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, many of which have been blockbusters. Disney paid $4 billion for the comic book empire. Marvel had filed for bankruptcy in 1996 as comic books started to collapse, and it had recently launched Marvel Studios before Disney bought it.
7. Lucasfilm (2012): 100% ownership
Lucasfilm is best known as the parent of Star Wars and related intellectual property. Disney acquired the business from George Lucas for $4.05 billion in 2012. As with Marvel, the company has leveraged those assets into several new movies and streaming TV series. Although the reviews have been mixed, the box office tally shows that the deal has been a successful one for Disney.
8. BAMTech (2015): 100% ownership
Disney acquired the streaming tech platform in stages since the company was owned in a joint venture between Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. Disney started acquiring it in 2015, but didn't own the entire platform until 2022. The technology has been crucial in the development of Disney's own streaming services, including Disney+.
9. Fox Entertainment Assets (2018): 100% ownership
Disney's biggest acquisition to date is its 2018 deal to acquire Fox's entertainment assets for $52.4 billion, or $71.3 billion, including the assumption of debt. The deal included several cable channels, such as FX and National Geographic, as well as the 20th Century Studio and other Fox-owned studios, such as Searchlight. It also gave Disney a large quantity of new content to leverage in its streaming services like The Simpsons and Avatar, which it intends to use to make a Star Wars-like string of sequels.
The deal gave Disney another chunk of Hulu. Since buying Fox, some have speculated that Disney overpaid for the deal since it's only recently started making money on streaming, and Disney stock has struggled since the move.
10. Hulu (2019): 100% ownership
The Hulu streaming service began as a joint venture between Disney, Comcast (CMCSA -0.16%), and Fox Corp. (FOX 0.98%), each owning a third. In 2016, Time Warner acquired 10% of the company, leaving Disney with 30%. In the Fox deal, Disney gained Fox's 30% share, and WarnerMedia, then owned by AT&T (T -0.56%), sold its stake back to Hulu, leaving Disney with 67%.
Disney agreed to buy Comcast's stake for $8.6 billion in November 2023 and now has 100% ownership of the streaming service.
Fubo (2025 - pending): 70% ownership
Disney announced a deal with FuboTV (FUBO -0.69%), the struggling sports streaming in January 2025.
The merger hadn't closed in early 2025, but according to the terms, Disney will merge its Hulu+Live TV service with Fubo. Disney takes a 70% share of the new company, while Fubo will have the remaining 30% ownership.
Barbara Jordan's 1974 Watergate speech, link below, nt
Where she challenged Presidential power.
Why tariffs are a bad idea: Trump says they will eliminate income tax, but he doesn't say that the low income people
who do not currently owe income taxes will be paying tariffs.
My gripe is that not one news organization will report that fact. That even the lowest income people will have to pay tariffs, people whose incomes are to low to be subjected to an income tax.
That is why tariffs, a sales tax is a regressive tax, the lowest income people have to pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/17/trump-tariffs-income-tax/83144867007/
On April 19, 2025, please find a protest near you! NO KINGS Protest locater, if you can join one, link below.
This is the link to the 50501 webpage to locate protests on April 19, 2025, NO KINGS!
There are many ways to search for an event near you.
The website is a little klunky but a good way to locate a protest if you are interested in attending one.
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
Edit add: Rolling stone article about the 50501 organization and national protests.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/50501-anti-trump-protest-group-grassroots-1235320569/
WHAT DID TRUMP JUST DO AT THE WHITE HOUSE?! (Trump promoting Tesla car from Luke Beasley)
Democratic Underground and all the people who make it what it is I am thanking you for day after day having news posts
selected by and for progressive/liberal thinkers. The articles and videos posted from a wide variety of sources.
Thank you for the selections, some informative, all interesting and as a whole letting me know that being a liberal democratic (small d) is not a dead idea no matter how hard the authoritarians have tried to outright kill the idea.
I don't comment much because I am more comfortable in opposition when in a discussion but I do appreciate all of you and often spend as much time reading through the comments as I do with the articles.
I am glad this forum exists and I appreciate your thoughts. Thank you.
A Comprehensive Look At DOGE's Firings and Layoffs So Far
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump’s administration as the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency fire both new and career workers, tell agency leaders to plan for “large-scale reductions in force” and freeze trillions of dollars in federal grant funds.
It is affecting more than just the national capital region, home to about 20% of the 2.4 million members of the civilian federal workforce, which does not include military personnel and postal workers. More than 80% of that workforce lives outside the Washington area.
There is no official figure available of the total firings or layoffs. The Associated Press tallied how agencies are being affected based on AP reporting and statements from lawmakers and employee unions.
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Article includes an agency-by-agency list
https://apnews.com/article/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654
Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence
Source: msnbc.com
The Senate voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence on Wednesday, elevating a former lawmaker with controversial foreign policy views to the head of the country’s spy agencies.
Gabbard was confirmed on a 52-48 vote. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the only Republican to oppose Gabbard’s confirmation.
A former Democratic congresswoman turned Republican, Gabbard was initially considered a long shot for DNI given her history of going against U.S. intelligence consensus and her warm views on American adversaries like Russian President Vladimir Putin and now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/senate-confirms-tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence-rcna190841
I saw another msnbc link, Susan Collins was worried, just not enough.
How Trump plans to block Democrats from voting in future elections. (Why we can't count on the 2026 Midterms.) 13 mins.
I believe the only reason Trump won in 2024 is with successful voter suppression.
This video is from Anthony Davis of 5 Minute News and provides the details of how it was done and how with new legislation now in Congress it will be made more difficult to vote in 2026.
This is why I hope the Democratic Party will focus on helping voters get registered including setting up a fund to help with the fees needed to obtain copies of marriage certificates needed by married women who took their husband's name because without that a birth certificate is not enough. I just had to order a marriage certificate in California the cost is $17 and is needed for the new, Real ID, and to renew my passport which I unfortunately allowed to expire too long ago for renewal without new documents.
Locally and individually, we can help people in our communities obtain the forms and applications to get copies of their necessary to register to vote documents.
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