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The restrictions that remain from that March 2020 ukase will wind down in February, at Garcetti’s request and with the council’s vote.

He then issued a ukase banning tweets promoting several rival social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon — the latter an increasingly popular refuge for Twitter users repelled by Musk’s management.

Seven school boards have filed suit to overturn the governor’s ukase, arguing that it violates the state constitution, which vests control of education in school boards.

No seeking statutory authority, no rulemaking and comment process, just a sudden ukase from on high.

The first wave of rediscovery had ukases and prohibitions—Alec Wilder wrote off essentially all of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and almost everything self-consciously “jazzy” in Gershwin.