Day: July 16, 2024

Billionaire Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that he will be moving the headquarters of SpaceX and X out of California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting schools from notifying parents of their children’s gender identity.

“This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X. “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.”

Soon after making the SpaceX announcement, Musk wrote another statement announcing that he is also moving his social media company X, formerly known as Twitter.

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“Have had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building,” he posted.

“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children,” he added.

Newsom on Monday signed AB 1955, the SAFETY Act, which prohibits any adopted school board policy, rule, or administrative regulation that requires parents to be notified of their child’s gender identification.

A spokesperson for Newsom’s office told Fox News Digital the new law banning schools from passing transgender notification policies is intended to “keep children safe.”

“This law helps keep children safe while protecting the critical role of parents. It protects the child-parent relationship by preventing politicians and school staff from inappropriately intervening in family matters and attempting to control if, when, and how families have deeply personal conversations,” the spokesperson said. 

California law currently dictates that minors cannot legally change their name or gender without parental consent and parents have the right to access their child’s educational records. Newsom’s office also stressed that the law does not allow a student’s name or gender to be changed on an official school record without parental consent.

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Newsom signing AB1955 comes amid a contentious debate in the state regarding transgender policy and controversial content in school books. 

Before Musk made the announcement to move his companies out of the Golden State, a prominent California state lawmaker blasted the billionaire for criticizing Newsom’s signing of the bill.

“Elon Musk is a textbook example of why kids shouldn’t be forced to come out to their parents,” State Senator Scott Weiner posted on X.

Weiner’s post reacted specifically to Musk posting earlier today that “the state will take away your kids in California.”

Newsom’s office has yet to respond for request for comment on Musk’s decision to move his companies out of the Golden State.

Chino Valley Unified School District advanced a parental notification last year, which prompted California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta to launch a civil rights investigation into the district. 

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A dinner meeting with a group of business executives in 2018 helped shape the political evolution of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the senator explained in an interview last month before he was chosen by former President Trump to serve as his running mate and vice presidential nominee.

In a lengthy interview with The New York Times published in June, Vance pointed to a dinner event hosted by the Business Roundtable, a group of leading CEOs, in 2018 that occurred two years after the publication of his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” 

He explained that the event came against the backdrop of some people trying to understand Ohio and Appalachia amid the political realignment spurred by Trump’s election. Although, others “were looking for some interpretive lens for Trump’s voters that never really asked them to challenge their priors or to rethink what they felt about those people.

“And I realized that I was being used as this whisperer of a phenomenon that some people really did want to understand, but some people didn’t. And the more that I felt like, not an explainer and a defender, but part of what I thought was wrong about the liberal establishment, the more that I felt this need to go very strongly away from it,” Vance said in the Times interview.

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At the dinner event, Vance recounted that the CEO of a large global hotel chain was complaining about the labor market because, “What Trump has done at the border has completely forced me to change the way that I interact with my employees.”

Vance said the CEO told him, “Well, you understand this as well as anybody. These people just need to get off their asses, come to work and do their job. And now, because we can’t hire immigrants, or as many immigrants, we’ve got to hire these people at higher wages.”

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“The fact that this guy saw me as sympathetic to his problem, and not the problem of the workers, made me realize that I’m on a train that has its own momentum, and I have to get off this train or I’m going to wake up in 10 years and really hate everything that I’ve become,” Vance said.

“And so I decided to get off that train, and I felt like the only way that I could do that was, in some ways, alienating and offending people who liked my book.”

Vance’s changing politics included his stance on former President Trump, who Vance had heavily criticized during his first run at the presidency, calling Trump “an idiot” as well as “noxious” and “reprehensible.”

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In 2021, when Vance announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for an Ohio Senate seat that was being vacated by the retirement of GOP Sen. Rob Portman, he expressed his support for the former president and said he had been wrong in his past criticisms.

Vance explained his change of heart regarding former President Trump in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday night.

“I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president, and he changed my mind. And I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans because, again, he delivered that peace and prosperity.

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“If you go back to what I thought in 2016, another thing that was going on, Sean, was that I bought into the media’s lies and distortions. I bought into this idea that somehow he was going to be so different, a terrible threat to democracy,” he explained.

“President Trump did a really good job, and I actually think it’s a good thing when you see somebody, you were wrong about them, you ought to admit the mistake and admit you were wrong.”

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Marvel Entertainment is making headlines in the Jewish press for changing the identity of a longtime Israeli character for her appearance in its forthcoming movie, “Captain America: Brave New World.”

The superhero that received an update is Ruth Bat-Seraph, first introduced in Marvel comics over 40 years ago as an agent to the Mossad, Israel’s international intelligence agency. She was a mutant with an alter-ego named Sabra, which is a Hebrew term for anyone born in Israel.

The Times of Israel reported that Disney, which owns Marvel, fell under fire from anti-Israeli activists in 2022 when it announced it would feature Sabra in the new “Captain America” film, played by Israeli actress Shira Haas. 

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The studio said in a later statement that it would be “taking a different approach to the character Sabra” for the movie set for release on Valentine’s Day next year.

Now, Marvel is under fire from pro-Israel activists, who accuse the studio of bending to political pressure and “erasing” Sabra’s Israeli identity.

In an announcement accompanying the release of the movie’s trailer last week, there is no mention of Sabra, but only the character’s original name, Ruth Bat-Seraph. There is also no mention of Israel or the Mossad, as Ruth Bat-Seraph is instead described as “a former Black Widow” that is now a “high-ranking U.S. government official.”

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Pro-Israel activist Hen Mazzig blasted the changes on X, accusing Marvel of erasing “the only Israeli superhero.” In an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post, he wrote, “The erasure of Sabra’s Jewish identity is also a slap in the face to the American Jews who literally invented the comic book superhero genre.”

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Neither Disney nor Marvel immediately responded to FOX Business‘ request for comment.

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