Last month the all-Muslim, nonpartisan council in Hamtramck, Michigan, which also has a Muslim mayor, opted to remove a Pride flag from public grounds, fulfilling a campaign promise the mayor made last year when he ran for the office. According to a Washington Post story published Wednesday, Muslims (and some Ethiopian Orthodox Christians) in Montgomery County
The members of Moms for Liberty who invaded Philadelphia on the weekend before the July Fourth holiday called their gathering the Joyful Warriors National Summit, but as a scholar who attended the conference to get a look at the organization, I can report that its definition of joy isn’t the textbook one. It’s more like the
I am a first-generation law school graduate, viral content creator and member of the anti-hate and discrimination council in Dallas. I wear many hats, but for the past year I’ve worn a sparkly one. For the past 365 days, as Miss Texas, I have spent my time teaching about the importance of diversity and inclusion
As I previewed on The ReidOut Blog last week, Moms for Liberty, the extreme right-wing, education-focused organization picking school board fights across the country, hosted their annual conference in Philadelphia over the weekend. Though most media attention focused on appearances from leading Republican presidential candidates — including Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson and
Moms for Liberty, the shadowy right-wing group whose members fashion themselves as fierce “Mama bear” types, is yet again facing controversy over extremist ideology in its ranks. An Indiana chapter of the organization issued an apology on Thursday after a recent newsletter it sent to its members included a quote attributed to Adolf Hitler.NBC News reported:The
The Freedom Caucus, the collection of the House GOP’s most far-right members, will abide many things, from insurrection to flirtation with white supremacists. But Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., the biggest political celebrity among its collection of lesser-known loons and extremists, apparently stepped over the line. We have now learned the caucus voted two weeks ago
If money is power and more women acquire money, then relationships should be more equitable, right? Sadly, no. Patriarchy is moldable, ever-shifting and ever-moving, ensnaring even women as successful as actor, musician and social media maven Keke Palmer, whose boyfriend and father of her child took to social media Wednesday to publicly shame her about
When Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley falsely attributed a quote to Founding Father Patrick Henry over the 4th of July holiday weekend, perhaps it shouldn’t have been all that surprising that the quote turned out to be from a white nationalist publication report printed in 1958. Hawley’s recently released book, “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs,”
Sen. Josh Hawley was hardly the first prominent Republican to use social media to promote a fake quote from history, but the Missouri senator’s Fourth of July incident was noticeably more ridiculous than the usual mishaps.To briefly review, the GOP lawmaker — who majored in history at Stanford before getting a law degree from Yale
None of Donald Trump’s Republican challengers stand a chance of getting the GOP presidential nomination if they keep treating him with respect. The scolding they’ve recently offered up is only barbed if measured against the tongue bath of adulation he gets from his supporters. To understand how pointless their attacks thus far have been, imagine
