Boy, That Was Fast
So fat, I haven't seen any commentary that ties the events of the past two weeks together. April 14: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter April 18: U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle strikes down the federal mask mandate for airplanes and other modes of public transportation April 21: CNN announces cacellation of CNN+ April 22: Florida Gov Ron DeSantis signs bill revoking special Disney status in the state April 25: Twitter board unanimously accepts Musk buyout offer. In the space of a week and a half, the country took important steps to bring itself out of the 2020 moral panic. This included a major defeat for woke control of key news and entertainment and a near-final end to most COVID restrictions. There's been a lot of reaction to each individual event, especially the Musk takeover of Twitter, but nobody's seeing this as a much bigger milestone. If I were to go farther with the big picture, I'd say this is taking place in the context of the Ukraine war...