IIRC Ben is living in China right now getting a Marxism degree.
As of 2019, Abigail Disney's net worth was approximately $120 million.
While that’s still obscenely wealthy, that’s less than what a single Olson Twin is worth. Why is Abigail Disney getting all this media attention for withholding donations when she’s probably all that close to power, certainly not compared to all the many billionaires who donate to the DNC.
tbf I posted a video of her playing The Frog Galliard on harpsichord just because I thought it was pretty dope.
By all accounts, he is actually more Zionist than Biden or Trump, if that’s even possible.
Check out W’s failed appointee Harriet Miers. Technically she had a law degree but functionally she was an office manager for a law firm tied to the Bush family. W nominated her and she had trouble with basic legal questions on the intake form. Orrin Hatch pulled W aside and said she’d never be approved, so she withdrew.
Don’t know how I missed those.
Even assuming the absolute worst, none of that compares to the indoctrination I got at evangelical church camp in the USA.
St. Louis is cursed to being home to the worst US corporations, relative to its size at least. Boeing’s military division is there (one of the biggest employers there, former McDonnell Douglas). Mallinckrodt, Monsanto (poisoning our food + inventing agricultural IP), ABInBev (shitty American beer), and Peabody/Arch Coal (coal mining and they also figured out how a corporation can legally shed their pension liabilities. And they all love their performative liberal bullshit. And you can add Michael Brown and all the racism on top of it, too.
I wasn’t at the parade but have been there in years past, tons of “ally” tourists there (tbf I’m cishet I guess).
I highly recommend watching the Fault Lines documentary The Night Won’t End on YouTube (though cw you will see the suffering of the people of Gaza up close) I was listening to the journalist who runs Fault Lines (who I believe is Palestinian-American or Arab-American) on Electonic Intifada and you can tell she really put her heart and soul into this one.
Reading through Vijay Prashad’s Washington Bullets, and his brief but informative section on NGOs really highlights why the US and EU were so apoplectic about Georgia’s law that didn’t even ban NGOs, it just required that they disclose their funding. Because the NGO space really is a third spoke along with the IMF and World Bank in imposing US hegemony on the ground in the Global South. They have to contain anything that would highlight US imperial involvement in NGOs at any cost.
I wish you could short Michelle Obama here. IIRC she has never expressed interest in running for president and by all accounts frankly seemed to be more than done with it all by the time her husband left office. And yet she’s always near the top of the list on these things, I don’t get it.