Elon Musk this week ended his destructive charade as the owner and operator of Twitter not by ceding operational control to someone more capable or by admitting his vision for the product is completely unworkable, but instead by just killing it entirely.

It is telling that, on the nation’s birthday, a Trump-appointed judge handed down a ruling in support of a phenomenon that’s working to undermine democracy. 

Bud Light’s mistake was that it folded like wet newspaper the moment critics predictably got together to fling red, transphobic meat at the Anheuser-Busch brewery until some stuck.