Over 1 million people co-signed Musk's anti-trans and anti-Fauci rhetoric.
A recent tweet from Elon Musk indicates the Twitter CEO has pivoted even further to the right in his ongoing rightward evolution. The tweet in question, which reads "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," includes numerous dangerous implications, Noor Noman writes, by simultaneously attempting to criminalize public service and attack members of the LGBTQ community.
While Donald Trump showed us the danger of violently targeting civil servants with his attacks on the 2020 election, writes Noman, "pronouns have become low-hanging fruit — and an all-too-common punchline for right-wing populists and cryptofascists like Musk." At its core, "efforts like these are a systematic attempt to hijack such institutions by creating hostile environments for anyone who ideologically deviates from the right," Noman says, "thereby ensuring the majority of its members are political adherents to right-wing, autocratic ideologies." Read Noor Noman's full analysis in your Tuesday MSNBC Daily. |
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The rhetoric was striking, though it wasn't altogether surprising. Read more. |
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It's particularly rich to see Republican members of Congress asserting civilian control over the military over this and only this issue. Read more. |
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Her outsize influence on Democratic politics is still being felt today. Read more. |
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This week on "Into America," Trymaine Lee travels to River Road in Bethesda, Maryland, to learn about the ongoing fight to save the Moses Macedonia African Cemetery. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
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Gender norms, particularly related to child care, have shifted dramatically over the past few decades. Journalist Tim Lee, whose wife is a doctor and often has to work nights, weekends and unpredictable hours, made the decision to "lean out" of his career to focus more on child care. As their family grew, it became increasingly clear that Lee couldn't spend off hours doing the in-depth research and reporting that he used to do. He now writes for "Full Stack Economics," a Substack that allows him to work flexible hours. The at-home dad previously wrote for various outlets including The Washington Post and Vox. While leaning out has meant a big pay cut, he's able to do the majority of child care in his household, while also supporting the demands of his wife's better paying career. Lee joins WITHpod to discuss what he learned from other dads who've made the same decision, why he says creating an equal society will require more comfort with unequal marriages, the lack of social stigma he's experienced and more. |
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