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      Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is widely expected to seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president, speaks at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on March 10, 2023 in Des Moines.

      'Important Victory' for Florida Higher Ed: Court Upholds Block on DeSantis Censorship Law

      "This is an important step in preserving the truth, civil liberties, and a better future," said one state ACLU attorney.

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 16, 2023

      The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday kept in place a preliminary injunction against Florida GOP policymakers' school censorship law in what rights advocates celebrated as "an important victory for professors, other educators, and students."

      The appellate court denied a request from Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration and higher education officials to block a district judge's injunction that is currently preventing enforcement of the Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act—rebranded by its supporters as the Individual Freedom Act—in the state's public colleges and universities.

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      When the Book-Burners Come to Your Town

      In the future Ron DeSantis would build, self-appointed bands of bounty hunters would be authorized to roam the countryside suing local libraries for having "banned" books on the shelves.

      Jim Hightower
      Mar 15, 2023

      Not so long ago, book burnings were considered a festive group activity by assorted right-wing zealots. Today, though, burning seems so old-fashioned and, well... crude.

      Yet, the concept is burning hotter than ever among a gaggle of testosterone-driven Republican leaders eager to show voters that they will go to extremes to incinerate progressive ideas and people's personal liberties. Rather than lighting bonfires, though, the new fad for GOP politicians is simply to use government power to ban the offending books (thus saving the expense of matches and lighter fluid).

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      Burning Books and Destroying Education on the Path to Fascist Dictatorship

      From Nazi Germany to the Pinochet regime in Chile, global parallels with where this type of repression leads should set off alarms.

      Chuck Idelson
      Feb 28, 2023

      Widening the lens on the escalating assault on education and those who teach it offers chilling thoughts on the future of U.S. democracy.

      From book bans to classroom demonizing trans youth and LGBTQ lives, to eradicating the real history of the U.S. and its ongoing legacy on racial and gender oppression, to the intimidation of educators and purging those who don't toe the line, global parallels with where this repression leads should set off alarms.

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