Elon Musk on Friday showed just how radical the shift is in ownership at Twitter.
That was evident in the billionaire space and the auto magnate’s terse response to an MSNBC op-ed critical of Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In the piece, left-wing columnist Michael Cohen ranted that Florida under DeSantis is the “meth lab of American democracy.”
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As part of his unhinged and often misleading screed, Cohen noted the “GOP’s legislative assault on LGBTQ Floridians,” led by DeSantis and GOP lawmakers, which includes the Parental Rights in Education law that bans school districts and classroom teachers from implementing lesson plans rooted in sexual orientation or gender ideology.
Commentator Josie Glabach, known on Twitter as The Redheaded Libertarian, retweeted the column, holding it as an example of the left’s response to DeSantis arguing that “you can’t sex change for your child in Florida.”
To which Musk replied: “Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life.”
As of Saturday, Musk’s reply had garnered almost 617,000 likes.
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Not so long ago, such a comment may have been unthinkable on Twitter.
For instance, Twitter in 2018 banned “transphobia,” which it defined as misgendering and “deadnaming” people. Pre-Elon Twitter also routinely suspended for challenging the LGBTQ orthodoxy by saying “men aren’t women.”
Florida House Approves Expansion Of Parental Rights In Education Law
At the midpoint of the 60-day legislative session, Republican lawmakers with supermajorities in the House and Senate appear set to keep their foot on the gas as the chambers continue racing through high-profile bills.
The House on Friday took a step toward expanding a controversial 2022 law that prohibits instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades, by approving a bill that would broaden the prohibition to pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.
The measure (HB 1069) would expand the law formally titled Parental Rights in Education, which critics disparagingly labeled the “don’t say gay” measure. The law currently bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
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The wide-ranging bill also seeks to restrict the way teachers and students can use their preferred pronouns in schools, and bolsters a process for people to object to instructional materials and school-library books.
Rep. Chase Tramont, R-Port Orange, said the bill is “pro-family, it is pro-teacher, it is pro-education.”
“It is pro-family because it takes some of the most-sensitive and personal issues and discussions and it keeps them in the homes where it is the responsibility of the parent to determine the manner in which, and frankly the timing in which, some of these issues and conversations should be taking place,” Tramont said.
But Democrats blasted the effort to expand the 2022 law.
“Look, the LGBTQ community isn’t going away, trans people aren’t going away. What has gone away, that I pray comes back, is human decency,” Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, said.
Rep. Marie Woodson, D-Hollywood, argued that the “expansion of the original ‘don’t say gay’ bill will continue to cause confusion, fear and even more problems than we had with the original bill.”
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