Ron DeSantis Launches His Presidential Campaign Like the Right-Wing Troll That He Is

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Ron DeSantis Launches His Presidential Campaign Like the Right-Wing Troll That He Is

Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Ron DeSantis is officially in the running. The Florida governor announced his 2024 presidential bid Wednesday night over Twitter Spaces with the help of CEO Elon Musk. “The announcement,” writes Eric Lutz “seemed a harbinger of the campaign to come: a bid fueled by the very-online right, launched on the platform Musk has helped make a home for that very extremism.”

Elsewhere, Molly Jong-Fast pillories the GOP’s unwillingness to address school shootings while banning books in the name of child safety. Plus, Charlotte Klein unpacks how the The New York Times Guild’s bitter standoff with the paper’s management finally came to an end. Thanks for reading.

Ron DeSantis Launches His Presidential Campaign Like the Right-Wing Troll That He Is

The Florida governor, whose poll numbers have been lagging, officially announced his a bid against Donald Trump for the Republican nomination alongside Elon Musk on a Twitter stream.

The GOP Is Escalating Its War on Ideas

It’s not only Ron DeSantis’s Florida. From targeting educators to banning books, Republicans are taking their anti-education crusade national.

How the New York Times Union Finally Got a Pay Raise

After a bitter standoff with management, New York media’s top union scored a tiered wage proposal that one senior Times reporter calls “an essential compromise at this moment.”

John Roberts Says Americans Should Trust the Supreme Court to Fix Its Own Ethics Problems

Because they’ve been doing such a good job until now…

Watch Out: It Looks Like Twitter Wants to Be the Next Fox News

As Rupert Murdoch’s conservative network stumbles, Elon Musk’s social media platform is opening its arms to not only Ron DeSantis and Tucker Carlson, but also Ben Shapiro’s right-wing media empire.