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So Hannah, why is Disney World in the news right now?

Disney World is in the news right now because the legislature of the state of Florida has voted to remove the special district that Disney has functioned under for more than five decades.

And the governor who is a Republican has signed that bill into law.

Hannah Samson writes for a travel section at the post called by the way and she has been reporting on this battle between Florida's governor Ron DeSantis and Disney World.

Disney and DeSantis have been publicly feuding for more than a month now.

That feud is over a new law that limits what teachers can say to kids about gender and sexual orientation.

Disney is very opposed to the law. DeSantis has championed the law.

I think that that partnership that developed early on with Walt Disney, I don't think Walt would appreciate what's going on in this company right now.

I'm sorry and so.

And as that played out, the state created a new special session and as part of that, they took this very hasty vote to dismantle Disney's kind of self-governing status.

Remember the districts that are affected have not had any legislative oversight in over 50 years and some of the districts have incredibly sweeping powers such that a single company could start construction on a nuclear reactor.

And this niche conflict over Disney's self-governance in Florida actually raises a lot of questions about what Republicans are willing to do to win the culture wars, about what corporations might be willing to lose to make a statement, and about what it all means for the communities that are stuck in the middle.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Martin Powers. It's Monday, April 25th. Today, how this new law in Florida has entangled the most magical place on Earth.

And later in the show, how the end of mask mandates on public transit has changed the calculation for millions of people trying to get to work.

So tell me about this legislation and why Disney has gotten involved.

So this bill that passed earlier this year is called the parental rights and education law.

Now, opponents call it, you might have heard of it as the don't say gay bill. It restricts teachers and public schools from talking about gender identity and sexual orientation in the very youngest elementary school grades.

But critics say it's so kind of loosely written and vague that it could really have a chilling effect on talking about those subjects like pretty much through any grade in public school.

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