Chris Corrie
ccorrie.bsky.social
Chris Corrie
@ccorrie.bsky.social
Don't forget ESPN+ and Hulu...streaming is the place to exert economic power of consumers...
September 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This is easy if people join in...Disney's last quarter of streaming revenue was reported in their 10K as $6.2B (same as the Nextar deal)...join me in cancelling my monthly Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+ subscriptions...until Disney sees the error in their ways. Immediate impact on next month's revenues...
September 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Consumers need to do the same thing. Disney reported Q3 Direct-to-Consumer revenue of $6.2 billion. That's ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu-ironically, the same as the Nextar merger value. Subscribers who value free speech need to break from Disney while they break from Jimmy-immediate rev. impact in Oct.
September 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
All federal contracts have a termination for convenience clause...although it entitles the contractor to recoup justifiable expenses. Those termination costs haven't hit the books yet. Some will be negligible -- but others (e.g. staff a security force for a USAID Mission in Africa) could be huge...
February 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
There may be some proxy’s for this, though. Also, speaking of payments, haven’t seen much discussion about the Prompt Pay Act, a 1982 law that requires the Feds to pay interest and penalties on late payments. There will be a real, legally mandated cost to taxpayers for delaying legit payments.
February 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’ll take a shot and this, but this is challenging because federal obligation data is public (reserving the funds to pay a vendor/grantee), but payment data (the actual disbursement) is not. If contracts are completely cancelled, this will show up…but a “stop work order” will not.
February 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Message me if you’re interested in digging deeper.
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
For example, the Trump White House alone (not the full government—just the White House) spent almost $900K on the Politico subscriptions they’re demonizing during his first term between 2017 and 2021. But that doesn’t support the “soundbite narrative” they’re going for.
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Not only doing that, but doing so quite disingenuously. USASpending is a Bush admin effort, so it contains the details of the first Trump admin spend, not just the cherry-picked Biden spend.
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM