More casualties in Ron DeSantis’s war on free speech

If you want to keep your teaching job in Florida, don’t show the public the effects of the governor’s heavy-handed censorship regime:

Brian Covey, a substitute teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, was fired this week for posting a video showing rows of empty bookshelves in his classroom in late January, which several local teachers did after schools in the Florida’s Manatee and Duval counties received a directive to “remove or cover all classroom libraries until all materials can be reviewed.”

The motive for Covey’s firing is pretty nakedly political, considering the timing: His video went viral last month; Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was forced to address it on Wednesday at a press conference and called it a “fake narrative;” and Covey tweeted the next day that he’d been let go.

But surely there’s a more severe threat to free speech in Florida right now, like a sophomore at Rollins College telling a student reporter that it’s kind of insulting to call Spam and Miracle Whip on Saltine crackers a “Cuban sandwich.”