The Morning Dispatch: ‘How Can One Still Stay Silent?’

New evidence emerges detailing China's ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs.

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Happy Friday! We know some Republican senators want to punish Disney by limiting copyright protections for intellectual property, but recent events may encourage them to reconsider.

“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey wrapped earlier this month, and the first stills show … a demonic Pooh and Piglet about to pounce on a scantily-clad young woman relaxing in a hot tub,” Variety reported Thursday, noting the beloved A.A. Milne characters lapsed into the public domain five months ago. “She’s having a good time and then Pooh and Piglet appear behind her, chloroform her, take her out of the jacuzzi and then kind of drive a car over her head.”

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • Texas Department of Public Safety officials substantially revised their account of Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School, telling reporters Thursday their initial assessment of the shooter engaging fire with a district security officer on his way into the school was incorrect, and that he actually walked in “unobstructed.” The officials’ updated timeline details the gunman standing outside the school for 12 minutes and walking inside at 11:40 a.m., but not being killed by police until more than an hour later.

  • Senators headed home for a 10-day recess on Thursday, but signaled early optimism that a deal could be reached on some narrow pieces of gun-safety legislation when they return. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said he’d be willing to accept a more incrementalist approach than he has previously, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he encouraged GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas to spearhead bipartisan negotiations on legislation “directly related to the problem.” A bipartisan group of nine senators met in the Capitol on Thursday, and Murphy said he is now “perfectly willing to let the good prevail over the perfect.”

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  1. Tim Moore

    I stopped listening to Blinken during the Afghanistan cluster.

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  2. Tim Moore

    Seriously, an evil Winnie the Pooh? It would appear that Disney is becoming suicidal; and a really serious effort of boycotting might just help them along as fast as they can.

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    Michael Darwin

    Over the last century we have done violence to our language, and stripped words of their meaning. "Literally", "chief", "woman" are easy to cite, but no words have lost their meaning more than the phrase "Never again."

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    Michael Darwin

    Over the last century we have done violence to our language, and stripped words of their meaning. "Literally", "chief", "woman" are easy to cite, but no words have lost their meaning more than the phrase "Never again."

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    CynthiaW

    I just wandered by to see if I'd missed a notice regarding non-publication of The Morning Dispatch today, Monday. It's fine, of course, but how hard would it be to inform subscribers about the publication or non-publication of the usual newsletters, articles, podcasts, etc.?

    For example, The Dispatch could have a "Notices" tab under which subscribers could find the aspirational schedule of various publications as well as Notices when there will be changes in the schedule. I would be happy to put one together for you for a very reasonable hourly wage.

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    David Burke

    Hello Cynthia!

    Dave, please. That’s what my friends call me.

    I’m fine. And you are so kind to ask.

    Just a bit in the weeds with a new project. I’ve started working with an old importer friend. Trying to get his legs back under himself after the shut downs. Most of his wines are found in restaurants so you can imagine how the two year shut down in the urban centers of the North East obliterated him. Lots of time spent on reintroduction of his portfolio because all the sommeliers who knew his juice have all moved away. It is a posse of brand new faces out there in the NYC buying scene - an aspect of the pandemic one doesn’t always figure on.

    Also supply chain issues…

    Gone are the days of lounging on the couch scratching my dog’s ears and spending hours reading TD and chatting with my friends and frenemies on the comments thread(You are warmly held in the former lot, of course).

    But I do lurk about when I can.

    If you’re ever in NYC you know…

    And I must get down to your country. Maybe in the fall when the heat and humidity lift.

    You are always in my thoughts

    Dave.

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    I Am the Eggman

    I seem to recall hearing years ago that there were porn movie versions of Alice in Wonderland and Snow White (Disney owns its movies based on those stories, but the stories themselves are much older and presumably in the public domain). It's sad that people are so gross as to want to defile these stories this way, but it's not a good argument against copyright expiration.

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    Kayaker

    On a different note, I just finished reading "No Escape" by Nury Turkel. He was born in a Uyghur prison camp and describes in horrific details the genocide by the Chinese Communists. Have any other Dispatch readers read this book?

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  9. Charley

    That John McGinnis piece is exactly why Mitch McConnell is a far greater monster than Donald Trump. We really needed our highest judiciary institution to have independent legitimacy, and now it doesn't, because McConnell chose to embark on a dedicated campaign to infect it with partisanship. I will be shocked if within my lifetime we don't see a president simply refuse to enforce Supreme Court edicts, or a Congress expand the number of seats. There is no longer a strong principled argument against those things, because the Court's legitimacy has already been shattered.

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  10. Raincheck

    Just read this whole thing thinking, “arrghhh.” I detest a popular culture that could reward that Winnie the Pooh movie. I never that forget that our popular culture, which detests Donald Trump, created him. Why was a property developer a national celebrity? Who gave him a Tv show?

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