Disney Used to Be for Everyone. Not Anymore. by Daniel Currell

I lived for six years in the long shadow of Disney World down in the Central Florida, so I admit to having a special interest in stories that deconstruct the problems experienced and caused by the House of Mouse. Even without that built-in fascination, I think Daniel Currell’s assessment of all the way the company’s theme parks have evolved from a generally egalitarian approach to the their clientele all the way to relegating middle-income families to a compromised experience. It now seems that the primary value for those who scrimp and save for the coveted experience is to add to the rich folks’ satisfaction as they stride right by the masses for their fun. Currell expertly mingles hard data with more qualitative observations in the piece, providing a damning portrait of a vacation spot that mirrors that orchestrated class inequities of the entire United States. This article is published by The New York Times.

Pentagon officials fume over Trump’s Department of War rebrand by Jack Detsch, Paul McLeary, and Joe Gould

There’s so much worthy of outrage caused by the miscreants currently messing up the White House, so it can be difficult to get all that worked up by pathetic performative nonsense such as reverting the name of the Department of Defense back to its former nomenclature that used the big, manly word “war.” This triple-bylined article in Politico offers a useful reminder that these moronic whims actually have significant consequences. When the White House acts on impulse like this it means millions of dollars and immeasurable time needs to be spent changing signage, supplies, and equipment in hundreds of thousands of places. There’s also a harm to our international relationships because of the toxic posturing of the rhetorical shift. As a bonus, it’s just one more example of the administration implementing a change it has no legal authority to make and the government and the media simply going along with it. And it’s all so a couple of pathologically insecure men with unearned spots in executive branch leadership can feel strong.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

— Roberto Baldwin (@strngwys.bsky.social) 2025-09-05T22:42:39.216Z