Florida Teacher Who Showed Disney’s ‘Strange World’ to Class Investigated for ‘Indoctrination’

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Obama-appointed judge who was overseeing Disney’s lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recused himself on Thursday over a relative’s ownership of 30 shares of Disney stock. The case was transferred to Judge Allen C. Winsor, an appointee of President Trump who previously upheld the state’s Parental Rights in Education law. That law, known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, is at the center of the Disney-DeSantis controversy. Disney sued DeSantis in April, alleging that the state had engaged in a campaign of retaliation against the company over its opposition to the bill. The state rescinded Disney’s special governing district in Orlando, and then reconstituted it under the control of five DeSantis appointees.

2ND UPDATE, 5:20 PM: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today won a victory in his legal skirmishes with the Walt Disney Company — but not for the reasons he wanted to.

Governor Ron DeSantis insists his recent remarks attacking U.S. Senator Ted Cruz should not be viewed as an endorsement of the biblical call for gay people to be executed.

Thursday report, writing: “Some presidential candidates struggle to nail their message. Ron DeSantis is struggling to nail his NAME.

Conflicting narratives. Tom Sandoval accuses ex-girlfriend Ariana Madix of insulting his intelligence throughout their relationship in a first look at Peacock’s extended version of part 2 of the Vanderpump Rules Reunion: Pumped Up Edition.

This year’s Gay Days, the annual LGBTQ+ pride event that draws tens of thousands to Walt Disney World and other attractions around Orlando, is taking place amid concerns over the ultimate impact of a series of new laws championed by Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.

AB6IX have announced the dates for their upcoming 2023 ‘The Future’ world tour.AB6IX are set to go on a 12-date world tour from July to September this year, in support of their new mini-album ‘The Future Is Ours: Lost’. The upcoming tour will feature shows in Asia and across North America.AB6IX’s ‘The Future’ world tour outside of South Korea will kick off in Macau, China on July 15.

From the expert’s mouth! Celebrity hairstylist Mitchell Ramazon exclusively gave Us Weekly the tea on styling one of his hottest clients, Brooks Nader.

LIVE – Updated at 18:01Police in Hollywood, Florida are searching for suspects wanted in connection to a mass shooting that left nine victims – including four children – injured on a beach boardwalk in Hollywood, 20 miles north of Miami. The shooting unfolded at about 6. 15pm local time near the beach boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida, on Monday as families and friends gathered to enjoy the Memorial Day holiday.

Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis once again called out Disney over Memorial Day weekend, and, come Tuesday morning, the hosts of “Morning Joe” were cracking up at the Florida governor’s assumption that invoking his feud with the company would help him in a state like Iowa.During an interview with “Fox and Friends”, DeSantis argued that Iowans should vote for him over twice-impeached-once-indicted former president Trump, because Trump has “taken the side of Disney” and “I think a multi-billion-dollar company that sexualizes children is not consistent with the values of Florida, or the values of a place like Iowa.”After playing that clip on Tuesday morning, the “Morning Joe” hosts and panelists were stunned before anything else.“Ron DeSantis decides that he’s gonna launch his campaign by talking about how the Magic Kingdom sexualizes children,” Scarborough marveled. “This is something that, again, we’ve all grown up with Disney.

Having seen his 2024 White House bid embarrassingly misfire on the launch pad last week, Ron DeSantis is once again being mocked by both the Walt Disney Company and Donald Trump for his luckless battle with the Mouse House.

Ed Sheeran had a surprise gig over the weekend!On Saturday, the «Perfect» singer shared a video from his pop up appearance at SweetWater Brewery in Atlanta, ahead of his concert.«So I'm in Atlanta, and I've been told there are some breweries that are good in Atlanta so I'm going to go to this brewery, serve some beers, play a gig and then buy everyone in the beer garden drinks. Beers on me,» he says in a clip from inside the car.The video cuts to Sheeran behind the beer pouring pints for surprised patrons before hitting the stage and telling them that all of their drinks were on him for the next hour.

MSNBC host Ali Velshi and former Republican governor John Kasich got into a verbal pushing match Sunday while debating the proposed budget deal and if the wealthy should pay more in taxes. The end result: an all-out squabble after Velshi said Florida and Texas are “horrible places to live.”While Kasich pointed out how high taxes in states like New York are leading many to flock to “fastest growing states” like Florida and Texas, Velshi interjected to push back on the apparent quality of life in the red states.“Low taxes, Governor, but horrible places to live in terms of gun violence, in terms of being able to get an abortion, in case you’re gay, in case you want to go to the library and get a book,” Velshi said.

Taylor Swift concert at MetLife Stadium and confirming they were validated. “SeatGeek you are a f–kin a—hole because I emailed you to make sure my tickets were validated and you said they were validated and legitimate tickets and now we can’t get into MetLife Stadium,” Marisella LaFata, who goes by @marisellabella on TikTok, lamented yesterday to her nearly 900,000 TikTok followers.The scorned concertgoer flew to the New Jersey venue from her Florida home to see the pop star, and even brought her two young children, she said in the video.“I flew my 1-year-old and 2-year-old from Florida to New York … but I got scammed through SeatGeek,” she continued.

Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend a decade ago — according to The Tampa Bay Times.The Florida newspaper reported Friday that the FBI searched the home of media consultant Tim Burke, who also worked as The Daily Beast’s director of video in 2018 and 2019, and his wife Lynn Hurtak, who is on the Tampa Bay City Council.According to The Times, the raid was related to a criminal investigation into a possible “hacking” of unaired footage of Carlson before he was fired from Fox News. Vice Media and Media Matters for America shared the footage, which featured Carlson indulging in sexist and offensive language, such as calling a female executive a “c—t.”When the raid happened, Burke confirmed to the Times that his name was on the warrant, but said he did not know why the FBI was searching his house.

For folks who still don’t understand what a big deal the Donald Trump document scandal is? The latest bombshell reporting is all the explanation you need!

Is it really a surprise to anyone that the same people who are trying to censor LGBT and Black history through the banning of books are the same ones PROMOTING white supremacy and Nazism? Because there seems to be a theme going here!

devolved into an utter fiasco almost immediately.Hayes compared it to a similar public failure Musk experienced in 2019, and declared that the DeSantis event was really just “the world’s most embarrassing 404 error.” You can see for yourself in the clip above right now.“Do you remember that time billionaire Elon Musk unveiled the new Tesla Cybertruck, and when he went to demonstrate the vehicle’s supposedly ‘bulletproof glass,’ they smashed two of its windows even though they weren’t supposed to break? Today’s Twitter rollout of the Ron DeSantis campaign went kinda like that,” Hayes said.In case you didn’t have a chance to see for yourself, the homophobic and censorious Florida governor decided to formally announce his campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination on Twitter Spaces, Twitter’s audio-only streaming platform. In the event, which took place earlier on Wednesday, DeSantis was to be interviewed by Musk in a conversation moderated by one of his donors, David Sacks, and that did eventually happen.

Well, this is infuriating!

After waving their sports flags proudly last week at their upfronts pitches to ad buyers, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery are confronting a head-scratching situation with the NBA and NHL playoffs.