Some More News: Book Bans Are For Weenies
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Hi. The free speech absolutists on the American Right really love banning books. They want you to think that people and history they don't like don't exist. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link.
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Written by Alex Schmidt
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| 0:00.0 | Huh. |
| 0:01.0 | Now, keep getting targeted ads for coffins. |
| 0:07.5 | Like all coffins. |
| 0:09.3 | Something called Tomb for One More? |
| 0:12.3 | Blow a Casket? |
| 0:14.1 | An app called Crypt with no why, of course, whatever. |
| 0:17.5 | Clocking in! |
| 0:18.5 | Hey friends! |
| 0:19.5 | SUP! |
| 0:20.5 | That stands for Snake Coo, which perfectly brings me to |
| 0:23.2 | today's subject, book bans. Because here's some news. Most U.S. states are either banning books |
| 0:29.5 | or fighting to un-un-banned books or fighting to un-un-banned the books they banned in the first place. |
| 0:34.4 | And hey, I know what you're thinking. What are books? |
| 0:39.3 | I also had to Google them. |
| 0:40.3 | I went down a whole rabbit hole, which is a phrase apparently referencing a book. |
| 0:46.3 | It turns out that books are assorted stacks of press tree pulp that have information on them. |
| 0:52.3 | That information is often put there by nerds, which |
| 0:55.4 | makes fearing or banning books real weeny stuff. You scared in nerd books? Come on. Banning them? |
| 1:01.5 | Come on. Can't even burn them? At least book burners can get a fire going. Book banners have not |
| 1:07.3 | proven that. You're not gonna pass that final four on Survivor, you book banners. Hey, |
| 1:12.1 | did you know Survivor's been on TV for 24 years and counting? They're going on season 50, |
| 1:18.4 | like it's the price is right. Survivor is the book of network TV shows. Network TV being the |
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