Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly libertarian antidote to the case of the

political Mondays, brought to you by the magazine for free minds and free markets.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Katherine Mangu Ward, happy

mosquito season, friends.

Howdy, Matt.

Happy Monday.

I am going to read a headline to make everyone's flags go half-mast.

This one comes from Reason's very own Joe Langkastor from Friday.

Because we're all pirates.

Yes.

Ron DeSantis bullies Bud Light, like Elizabeth Warren bullies Amazon.

The news peg here in case you have better things to do with your life and keeping tabs on

the latest culture-waring, the Florida governor amid a presidential campaign that seems

stalled in a distant second place, sent a letter to the State Board of Administration

of Florida, which oversees the Sunshine State's pension fund, requesting a formal review

into the conduct of the beer-making giant Anheuser-Busch in Bev, terrible name, over that company's

backlash-inducing decision several months back to send some personalized cans of Bud Light

to the transgender TikTok influencer, Dylan Mulvaney.

It is already 11.03 and I want to die.

Yeah, Matt.

Do you understand any of those words that you just said?

In Bev.

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