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Disney has reportedly pulled a Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode for telling a trans-inclusive story

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur has often touched on ideas about race, class, and issues like gentrification as it followed the adventures of genius 13-year-old Lunella Lafatette (Diamond White) and her pet dinosaur, Devil (Fred Tatasciore). But according to now-deleted social media posts from animators who worked on “The Gatekeeper” — an episode about Lunella and other members of her …

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Harry Kane ripped England stars for missing Nations League, but Three Lions are better off with new blood

Perhaps Harry Kane’s sparky comments in midweek did light a fire in the end, even if not in the constituency he intended. The England captain had called out a crop of eight players, many of them among the most senior figures in the squad, for withdrawing from November’s Nations League games.  “I think England comes before anything. England comes before …

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Disney earnings offer hope that streaming can supplant linear TV

The Disney+ website on a laptop computer in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, July 18, 2022. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney might be proving the world’s most famous investor wrong. Last year, Warren Buffett, “The Oracle of Omaha,” told CNBC’s Becky Quick he had no faith in the business of streaming video. “Streaming …

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