President Joe Biden will arrive this afternoon in Fort Myers, Fla.,
where he will survey the damage from Hurricane Ian via helicopter and
then receive a briefing on disaster response and recovery efforts from
state and local officials, including one of his most bitter political
rivals: Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The president and the governor have talked on the phone several times.
They’ve complimented each other. Florida Playbook author Gary Fineout
calls it “a rare moment of bipartisan calm” in his preview from
Tallahassee.

So what explains the detente — especially the mature reaction from
DeSantis, who has defined himself by an own-the-libs style of politics?

And it looks as though Elon Musk will go ahead with the $44 billion
purchase of Twitter that he first proposed in April. Recall that Musk
tried to abandon the deal weeks later and soon found himself in messy
litigation with the company. The judge in the case has ruled against
Musk at nearly every turn and, with a deposition and trial looming, Musk
appears to have reversed course yet again.

Twitter is enormously consequential to American politics and media, and
the takeover by Musk will have major implications. He’s such a
micromanager that when Tesla was having production issues he famously
camped out on a factory floor to help solve assembly problems.

Despite all his tweets, we don’t know the full picture of what Musk
plans for the platform. But he has made a few things clear.

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