Don’t Mess With Mickey: Firing an interstate missile in its war with anti-woke Gov. Ron DeSantis, The Walt Disney Co. says it is cancelling plans to relocate a California-based division to Florida, abandoning its plan to build an office park for 2,000 employees and invest as much a $1 billion. The new campus was to be in the Lake Nona region of Orlando.

  It’s a big blow to DeSantis on the brink of announcing he’s a candidate for president. Chasing away job development is not good politics for anyone, let alone a Republican

  Ironically, many of the affected employees of the Imagineering department that was to be moved didn’t want to go, and some had even quit. But Disney hoped to take advantage of major tax breaks in Florida.

  All that dissolved when DeSantis declared moral sovereignty over Disney and its policies of social tolerance. Last year, DeSantis signed a law that attempted to strip Disney of self-governing authority over its 40-square-mile property near Orlando after former Disney CEO Bob Chapek pledged to help overturn a state law banning discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. 

  Disney’s current chief Bob Iger asked on a recent conference call, “Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people, and pay more taxes, or not?”  He seems to think the answer is “no.”

   In other Disney news, the company said it will be closing its Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser immersive-experience hotel at Walt Disney world in Florida. The problem was that at $5,000 a night, the price also was galactic.

The War Room: Strengthening his international credentials, Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky is reported to be attending the G7 summit in Japan to ask for more weapons in his war against Russia. It’s unclear whether he’s actually going, or attending virtually.

  The Pentagon, meanwhile, has reduced its valuation of weapons it has already sent to Ukraine, effectively freeing up $3 billion worth of additional weapons that could be given to Ukraine from existing stocks.

Migrant Dumping: Despite denying that it does this, Greece has been caught dumping unwanted migrants at sea, left to drift in a rubber raft.

  The NY Times published a story supported by video that shows the Greek Coast Guard taking a group of migrants, including young children, and leaving them in a raft in the Aegean Sea.

  The Times reports that it verified the video and the incident. The paper says the Greek government did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The paper reports that campaigning ahead of general elections this Sunday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis “defended his government’s ‘tough but fair’ migration policies and boasted of a 90 percent drop in the arrival of ‘illegal migrants.’”

The Obit Page: Sam Zell, the relatively unknown real estate tycoon who arrogantly thought he could also be a newspaper magnate, buying up The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and a collection of troubled newspapers in a leveraged buyout of the parent Tribune Company in 2007, has died at age 81. Zell sent the Tribune company into a near-death spiral of  downsizing, layoffs, management scandals, and ultimately, bankruptcy. Tribune emerged from bankruptcy in 2012 with half its previous value and Zell gone, replaced by senior creditors. — Larry Mahan, the eight-time rodeo world champion, and cowboy showman once called “rodeo’s first matinee idol,” who also acted in movies and stamped his name on a line of cowboy boots, died on May 7 at his home in Valley View, Texas. He was 79. Mahan won championships in bull riding, saddle bronc riding, and bareback. He won six World All-Around Cowboy championships in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, including five in a row from 1966 to 1970. A friend told The NY Times, “Football had Joe Namath, boxing had Muhammad Ali, and rodeo had Larry Mahan.”

The Spin Rack: A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific today, triggering a tsunami warning for Vanuatu, Fiji, and Kiribati. The alert has since been lifted. — California Sen. Diane Feinstein’s health problems in the past couple of months appear to be worse than shingles. It’s now reported that she also developed a case of encephalitis, sometimes brought on by shingles. She has vision and balance impairments and some paralysis on the left side of her face. Her left eye is mostly closed and she seems disoriented. But Feinstein insists that she’s able and on the job. — The Supreme Court yesterday handed big wins to two technology companies holding that they are not responsible for the content posted by their users, including stuff posted by terrorist organizations. “Companies, scholars, content creators and civil society organizations who joined with us in this case will be reassured by this result,” Google’s general counsel, said in a statement. — The process server who handed divorce papers to Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert’s husband said Jayson Boebert was drinking beer and cleaning his gun and started shouting obscenities. — The Christian Houghton University in upstate New York fired two residence hall directors for including their pronouns “she/her” and “he/him” in their email signatures in the current fashion of college communications. Evidently that’s not very Christian

Below the Fold: Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley published a book about manliness and politics titled, “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.”  In the book, Hawley bemoans that American men are not doing physical work, getting married, or raising children. Instead, he says, they are taking drugs and watching porn on their phones. 

  Given his themes, you have wonder whether Hawley wrote it himself or had it ghost-written by a woman while he was busy doing nothing in the Senate.

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