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By: Jeff T. Johnson | March 9, 2017

Because every poem kills itself / Because we kill ourselves in poems / Because death is inevitable and poetry is merely impossible More

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Infowars host Alex Jones dominated the news last week as an Austin jury awarded $4.1M in compensatory damages and another $45.2M in punitive damages to two Sandy Hook parents.

What Does the Alex Jones Case Mean for the #FirstAmendment and #Disinformation?https://firstamendmentwatch.org/what-does-the-alex-jones-case-mean-for-the-first-amendment-and-disinformation-leading-scholars-lawyers-provide-analysis/

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The advocacy group @PENamerica found the scope of book censorship in the U.S. “expanded rapidly” in the last year. #UCSB scholars weigh in. #BookBanning http://ow.ly/FI9g50Keuzx

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Jonathan Friedman 📚@jzfriedman·

6 Aug

In Conroe, TX. You can plan to enlist in the military in the high school cafeteria, but you need your mom's permission to read Catch 22 or Brave New World.

https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/Conroe-ISD-to-pull-books-under-fire-from-school-17352063.php

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Two Years After the Rigged Belarus Election, the United States Can Do More to Call Out Aleksandr Lukashenka’s Abuses

Florida School District Slaps Stigmatizing and Alarming Warning Labels on Books Deemed “Unsuitable” for Children

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