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Migration Crisis Has Deepened

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Lawsuit vs Dissolving Disney’s District Dismissed

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R‑FL) law to dissolve Disney’s special governing and tax district.
Three residents of Orange and Osceola counties claimed S.B. 4‑C, the law that eliminates Disneys’ special tax district, threatens with higher taxes, limits free speech, and violates a contractual obligation.
William Sanchez, a Miami lawyer and Senate Democrat candidate, filed the suit last week.
U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga ruled there were many reasons to dismiss the lawsuit, including the lack of standing over state issues.
Anltonaga wrote that the residents “do not plausibly allege they have suffered any concrete injury as a result of the alleged violation of Disney’s First Amendment rights, and nothing in the Complaint shows Plaintiffs have a close relationship with Disney.”
The judge also dismissed claims that dissolving the Disney corporate carveout, otherwise known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District, would limit free speech:
Far from it: Plaintiffs expressly allege that they “expect …

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Disney+ Beating Streaming Expectations

Disney+ kept its momentum fully charged as the streamer handily topped Wall Street growth forecasts for the March 2022 quarter.
Disney’s flagship streamer gained 7.9 million paid customers in the first three months of 2022, to stand at 137.7 million, up 33% year over year. Analysts on average expected Disney+ to net 5.2 million new subscribers, per FactSet.
The results stand in contrast to streaming rival Netflix, which reported a loss of 200,000 streaming subscribers for the same period and forecast a 2 million drop for Q2. That led investors to fear a sector-wide slowdown after a pandemic-fueled surge over the last two years. Disney+’s strong gains dispel that notion and suggest that the Mouse House is stealing market share from Netflix.

In addition, the company expects Disney+ subscriber net adds to be stronger in the second half of its fiscal year 2022 than in the first half as execs said previou …

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THIS IS AMERICA LAST

Republicans are sounding the alarm after discovering baby formula is being sent to border facilities while American mothers are facing empty shelves amid massive shortages.

And President Joe Biden’s administration is struggling to respond, unable to reassure parents when there will be more formula on empty grocery store shelves and where they can turn to for help.

GOP Representative Kat Cammack tweeted Thursday two images, one showing full shelves of baby formula and food from a processing center at the southern border and another showing empty shelves where baby formula was supposed to be at an American grocery store.

‘The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula,’ Cammack wrote. ‘The second is from a shelf right here at home. Formula is scarce.’

‘This is what America last looks like,’ she added.

Meanwhile, concerned parents are begging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reopen the nation’s largest baby formula plant after the nationwide shortage has left their infants hungry and ill.

But the White House on Thursday defended the closure of the Abbott plant but officials couldn’t say when it would reopen.

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Fusion GPS must hand over docs to Durham

The judge in the case against Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann ruled that John Durham’s team may review two dozen emails improperly withheld following Clinton campaign claims of attorney-client privilege — but the special counsel cannot use the records at next week’s trial.
Sussmann was indicted on charges of concealing his clients, the Clinton campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe, from FBI general counsel James Baker when he pushed eventually debunked claims of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa-Bank.
Judge Christopher Cooper agreed to review more than three dozen records from the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to see if they had been imp …

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Shake-up at Twitter: Two top managers fired

Two of Twitter’s top managers were fired on Thursday in the latest sign that the company is shaking up ahead of Elon Musk’s planned buyout. Kayvon Beykpour, a Twitter general manager, tweeted that he is leaving after 7 years with the company. In a lengthy thread, he said that CEO Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction.” “I hope and expect that Twitter’s best days are still ahead of it. Twitter is one of the most important, unique and impactful products in the world. With the right nurturing and stewardship, that impact will only grow,” Bekpour said. Twitter’s revenue and product lead, Bruce Falck, was also fired, ABC News reports. His Twitter bio has been updated to say “unemployed.” “I dedicate this Tweet to those engineers and thank you ALL for the opportunity to serve alongside you. It’s been awesome. There is a lot more to do so get back t …

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Russia may annex a new Ukrainian city, US official warns

A U.S. official is raising concerns that Russian forces could annex the Ukrainian city of Kherson, which is in the southern part of the country near the Crimean Peninsula.
Ambassador Michael Carpenter, who serves as the U.S. diplomat to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, warned the organization’s permanent council on Thursday, “In recent days, these illegitimate proxies have increasingly indicated an intention to ‘petition’ Russia to annex Kherson.”
This is not the first time Carpenter has warned about the possibility of Russia attempting to hold “sham” referendums in Ukrainian cities that Russian forces have seized. At the beginning of May, he told reporters his team had seen “highly credible” evidence to indicate “that the Kremlin may try to hold a sham referendum to try to add a veneer of democratic electoral legitimacy.”
UKRAINE COULD ‘DEFINITELY WIN’ DEPENDING ON …

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BREAKING: Feds Open Investigation Into Elon Musk

On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that if he is successful in buying Twitter, he will reverse the permanent ban on ex-President Donald Trump.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Musk said that the ban “was morally wrong and flat out stupid.”

Although Musk is not officially in control of Twitter yet, the platform is getting a lot more attention in anticipation of a successful purchase deal – to the dismay of existing employees…CONTINUE READING»>

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Cawthorn In Grave Danger Of Losing After Update

HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina — Rep. Madison Cawthorn has an opportunity to do something few Republicans have managed to accomplish: beat former President Donald Trump not once but twice.

The first time Cawthorn ran for office, he upset the Trump-endorsed candidate in the 11th Congressional District primary. Two years later, it appears distinctly possible Cawthorn might fall to challenger Chuck Edwards, a state senator, or Michele Woodhouse, a former local party official, in the May 17 nominating contest. If he is defeated, Cawthorn will have notched Trump a second defeat, because this time around, the congressman is running with the imprimatur of the former president’s coveted endorsement.

Is Cawthorn running scared, or at least, as the campaign cliche goes, running as though he’s behind to make every effort to avoid defeat? It’s hard to tell. His campaign will not respond to the Washington Examiner’s inquiries, nor did the congressman’s team answer our request for information on Cawthorn supporters we might talk to or grassroots activity on his behalf we might cover during our few days crisscrossing his sprawling western North Carolina seat.

Our inquiry did appear to generate this welcoming tweet, however. “Sounds like there are more reporters from the beltway media in NC-11 today than there are in Washington,” Cawthorn wrote Tuesday in a Twitter post. “Enjoy the most beautiful district in the nation! Glad our campaign is bringing tourism to Western North Carolina.” (Fact check: Mostly true. The district is visually stunning, although there are others that compete with it.)…

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Illegal Migrants to Get “Pallets” of Hard-To-Find Baby Formula Before Americans Citizens

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