of the year. 15,000 people turned out this weekend to celebrate what was the first in-person pride in northampton, massachusetts, since before the pandemic. and a lot of republican-controlled states this year, planning of pride celebrations is turning out to be a legal minefield. the republican state legislators all over the country have been trice to pass antidrag laws, and antitrans legislation. much of it really broad and really vague. organizers around the country are having to censor their plans or cancel plans for pride for running afoul of the new republican drag police. nowhere is this more true than in the great state of tennessee which covered itself in glory by becoming the first state in the nation to enact a ban on drag performances a couple months ago. the ban has been blocked by a federal judge. meanwhile, what the ban has done is it has managed to create a
law enforcement tries to stop them. they should at least try to stop them. yeah. indeed. i think you re going to get a lot of amens for that. having two of nine credibly accused potential sexual assaulters judge whether women can control their own bodies is a scandal in and of itself, to say nothing of all the financial scandals. ellie mistal, thank you very much. still ahead, corporations for peerjs except in florida, where ron desantis ongoing feud with disney is running afoul of free speech issues. but his cleft condition didn t define him. he s playful, smart, loving. pedro is like any child you know and love. children like pedro need your help. thousands of children are born with cleft conditions and have no access to surgery. with your support, operation smile can heal them.
alexander from msnbc. i sat on a grand jury. i didn t think you were allowed to talk at all. how is it okay to do a media tour? every state, every jurisdiction has different rules, and in this case, this was permitted. and the judge gave them specific instructions in terms of what it was they could talk about and what it was they could say. i suspect that some of what we may see visually in terms of her appearing to be coy or giddy is actually her thinking about the rules that the judge laid out and what it is she can say and not say without running afoul of what they were instructed with. at the same time, you know, because we have been so close in so many different respects and like i said, this is probably one of the most direct other than the mar-a-lago document case, route to a potential indictment and prosecution, i just don t like the idea of it being risked. how could a defense attorney potentially use this if they wanted to use it? ? i would immediately go for the influenc
tesla that he would and that is getting a new ceo and it might be sooner rather than later given all of the fallout around him. one of the issues that cropped up over the weekend and in brian fung s reporting were people, right, pushing to their accounts on other social media platforms, you could find me on twitter, now we re seeing me on mastodon, and some people trying to post those links. they were told that there was potentially mal-ware so they couldn t be posted on twitter. is that running afoul of the ftc? where do those concerns stand? well it is definitely not great for users. users might be able to tweet and promote links to other social media sites and it seems like what elon musk is doing is very arbitrary. as far as whether or not there is a consumer deception problem with the ftc, i think at this point it is unlikely. this seems that elon musk is starting to reinstate some of the companies where he blocked
okay. you re welcome. okay. then when asked to be serious he said, no, this is a long running joke on twitter, i m not buying any sports teams. what are the financial implications here? look, he has a long history of running afoul of securities regulators for tweeting about his company, tesla, public company which is a public company that has the trust and the solemn responsibility as an officer of that company to give clear information in a legal way. he has run afoul of security regulators before. he rivets and has these bro trolls that follow him and love him and he rivets online but he does have a big responsibility when using twitter because people take him seriously and there s often investors who gain or lose money based on things that he says online and it s a really solemn responsibility as an officer of a public company, responsibility that i don t think he takes very seriously. by the way, to add to that