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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, January 19, 2024

January 19, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Big Book Bans by Randall Enos.

A Free Bobby Jo Valentine Community Concert at St. Thomas Episcopal, how Americans view race, how Shelby Steele viewed Obama and defined the age of white guilt.

Your Laundry Is a Top Source of Microplastic Pollution

January 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The most common microplastics in the environment are microfibers – plastic fragments shaped like tiny threads or filaments. Microfibers come from many sources, including cigarette butts, fishing nets and ropes, but the biggest source is synthetic fabrics, which constantly shed them.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, January 18, 2024

January 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Nature Walks with Urban Forester Carol, Clay Jones on the Yemen attacks, a warmer day than the last two days’ freeze, Neolithic Orkney, Carhenge in Nebraska, Benjamin Constant on liberty.

Airstrikes in Yemen Risk Only Strengthening Houthis

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Houthi supporters rally in Yemen following U.S.-U.K. airstrikes.

The Houthis stand to gain politically from these U.S.-U.K. attacks as they support a narrative that the group has been cultivating: that they are freedom fighters fighting Western imperialism in the Muslim world.

Stop the LGBTQ Cheap Shots

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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There are some feel-good bills and cheap shots that require no courage to vote for and bring the political bonus of being difficult for an opponent to argue against this summer, when most legislators will be back home running for re-election. And no topic makes for easier demagoguery than sex, specifically any activity that makes strait-laced Republicans a little squeamish.

Forbes Advisor Ranks Daytona State Among the Nation’s Best Online Nursing Programs

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Daytona State College's Palm Coast campus. (© FlaglerLive)

Forbes Advisor has recognized Daytona State College as offering one of the best affordable 100% online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN-BSN) programs for 2024. The program is designed for new or working nurses who have earned an Associate Degree in Nursing interested in advancing their careers – including moving into leadership and management positions – by earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.

Palm Coast’s Richenbacker Drive Loses Its Aitch as the City Formally Abandons Spelling No One Respected

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Not even the city called it Richenbacker, even though that's how it's officially recorded in Palm Coast plat books. No more. The City Council adopted the K for ever. (Google)

In the annals of Palm Coast history–which dates back to the pre-history of its 1960s scrubland–this was huge: Richenbacker Drive was losing its h. Not only that. The h was surrendering to the less aristocratic k, because the street’s h never got any respect since ITT platted it as such a few decades ago: not the city, not the Post Office, not the Property Appraiser wrote it with an h. The Palm Coast City Council buried the old spelling in a unanimous vote Tuesday night.

Don’t Wave Gay: Long In Force in Flagler Schools, Bill Would Ban Pride and ‘Ideological’ Flags from Public Buildings

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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The Florida House today began moving forward with a proposal that would restrict the types of flags that can be displayed at government buildings and schools, including preventing the display of LGBTQ pride flags. That ban has long been enforced in Flagler schools, based on an interpretation of local policy.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, January 17, 2024

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Israeli measured response by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The cold-weather shelter opens again tonight. The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board and the Contractor Review Board meet, Separation Chat, coffee culture from Yemen to the Enlightenment to Starbucks.

70 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education, Deep Segregation Persists

January 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In June 2023, the Supreme Court ended most race-conscious college admissions efforts. The decision followed the Covid pandemic, which exacerbated racial inequalities in the U.S.. Politicians and school boards have banned or removed books by authors of color from school libraries and restricted teaching about racism in U.S. history. These setbacks amid the current political climate make finally realizing the full promise of Brown more urgent.

Palm Coast Building Moratorium Fails After Fierce Debate But City Agrees to Citizens Advisory Board on Flooding

January 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

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An attempt by Palm Coast City Council member Theresa Pontieri to enact a 45-day moratorium on home construction in Palm Coast’s “infill” lots failed today. But the council approved creating a citizens’ advisory board focused entirely on flooding problems tied top new home construction, while also approving the accelerated enactment of a series of related regulations Pontieri was urging. Pontieri, however, voted against that measure.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 16, 2024

January 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Storm Front by Frank Hansen, PoliticalCartoons.com

The cold-weather shelter opens tonight, the Palm Coast City Council takes up the revised technical manual for builders, revisions designed to minimize flooding problems, the age of self-promotion, a few lines from Saul Bellow’s “The Old System.”

Scattershot in 2016, Trump’s Iowa Campaign Was All Business This Time

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Donald Trump has mounted a major effort to teach people how to caucus for him.

Attention to organizing is a shift for the Trump campaign. Today, it looks nothing like the scattershot campaign from 2016, the only other time Trump has waged a nomination battle in the state. Trump’s nod to organizing is noteworthy and is at odds with his brand, which is more focused on stirring the pot and agitating, rather than painstakingly building an infrastructure.

Proposed Building Moratorium Addressing Flooding Concerns: An Exchange Between Home Builders and Pontieri

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Members of the Flagler Home Builders Association have been writing Palm Coast City Council members to urge them to vote No on a construction moratorium City Council member Theresa Pontieri has proposed for 60 to 90 days on so-called “infill” lots in the city’s sections platted by ITT. What follows is an exchange that took place today between a home builder and Pontieri on the proposal. The council meets Tuesday and may take up the issue then, depending on other developments.

The Check MLK Wanted Cashed for the ‘Riches of Freedom and the Security of Justice’ Is Still Bouncing

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The African American community is experiencing record low unemployment, record highs in income and educational attainment, and has seen a massive decline in income poverty since the 1960s. Despite all that, the check for racial economic equality is still bouncing. Without intervention, it will take centuries for Black wealth to catch up with white wealth in this country.

Mary Lou Retton’s Explanation About Having No Health Insurance Makes No Sense

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

It may take some vaulting over logic and fact to take Mary Lou Retton's explanation at face value about why she has no health insurance. (Wikimedia Commons)

Former Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton revealed that she survived a rare pneumonia but was uninsured, blaming that lack of coverage on 30 orthopedic surgeries that count as “preexisting conditions,” a divorce, and her poor finances. The reasons she cited for not buying coverage — preexisting conditions and cost — are among the things the Affordable Care Act directly addresses, making her claim difficult to believe.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, January 15, 2024

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Fox News World Atlas by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

Courts, schools and most government offices are closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day, a few thoughts about the American sermon, and Octavius Brooks Frothingham’s idea of hell.

Was Going to Space a Good Idea?

January 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist, participates in a spacewalk a few meters away from the cabin of the space shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984. He is using a nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled manned maneuvering unit (NASA)

Nations are competing to exploit lunar and asteroid mineral resources. Private corporations and space billionaires are increasingly being touted as the way forward. After the Moon, Mars is the next world in line for “conquest”. The contemporary movement known as longtermism promotes living on other planets as insurance against existential risk, in a far future where humans (or some form of them) spread to fill the galaxies.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, January 14, 2024

January 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Security Check by Guy Parsons, PoliticalCartoons.com

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the 37th Annual Manatee Festival in Crystal River (it’s just a drive across the state), Aaron Copland’s “Billy the Kid” and those album covers.

Welcome to the Old South, The Myth that Refuses to Die

January 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

A Confederate memorial stands on the lawn in front of the Florida Historic Capitol building on April 27, 2022. (Danielle J. Brown)

In Florida, we prefer not to discuss ‘slavery’ unless we are enlightening the ignorant about how it was Not That Bad. You have only to read Miss Margaret Mitchell’s brilliant and perfectly accurate novel to see the Truth of this.

How Coca-Cola Took Africa

January 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A new book called Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African tells the story of how the world’s most famous carbonated drink conquered the continent. It’s a tale of marketing gumption and high politics and is the product of years of research by critical writing lecturer Sara Byala, who researches histories of heritage, sustainability and the ways in which capitalist systems intersect with social and cultural forces in Africa.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, January 13, 2024

January 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

TRAITOROUS TRIO by Randall Enos, Easton, Conn.

Keep Palm Coast Clean: a Litter-all, all-volunteer effort to clean up the city, Gamble Jam, the American Association of University Women’s monthly meeting, Malamud’s “Angel Levine” in the Briefing’s periodic Storytime.

NRA Scandal and The Importance of ‘Designated Contrarians’ on Boards

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Waye LaPierre groupthink

Nonprofit boards should require their members to take turns serving as “designated contrarians.” When it’s their turn for this role, board members would be responsible for asking critical questions and pushing for deeper debate about organizational decisions.

Elise Stefanik’s Immoral Compass, and Ours

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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When Rep. Elise Stefanik grilled then-Harvard President Claudine Gay about her “moral clarity” about genocide and bullying on campus, Israel was in its eighth week of the most genocidal assault on Palestinians in the history of Arab-Jewish wars predating even the creation of Israel in 1948. None of it was relevant to Stefanik, because when Israel is the subject matter, there are no two sides to the story. There are no interpretations. There is no discussion. None permissible, anyway. There is only dogma. Anything else is heresy.

New Company Cleared to Take Over Ocean Palm Golf Course, Ending Tortuous Years with City

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

"It needs love at this point," the attorney representing a new company looking to take over Ocean Palm golf course in Flagler Beach says of the nine-hole course owned by the city. (© FlaglerLive)

Almost nine years into what’s left of its rollercoaster relationship with Flagler Golf Management, the company that’s run the city’s 34-acre, nine-hole Ocean Palm golf course, the Flagler Beach City Commission is nearing assigning that lease to a new company, entirely severing its ties with FGM and starting relatively fresh.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

clay jopnes

Qualifying period for Flagler Beach and Bunnell municipal elections end today, Indiana Jones at the public library, LGBTQ+ Night, what Voltaire had to say about the murders of OxyContin pills.

Where the Humanities and Medicine Meet

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Medicine is as much about the human experience as it is about biology.

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine. Literature has had a large role in helping the author define the kind of physician she strives to be – one who is not only empathetic and a good listener but also a fierce advocate for changing the sociopolitical forces that affect patients’ lives.

As Escambia County Bans 1,600 Titles, Including Dictionaries, a Lawsuit Is Cleared for Trial

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler County was among the book-banning districts. (© FlaglerLive)

A federal judge cleared the way for a First Amendment challenge to decisions by the Escambia County School Board to remove or restrict access to school library books. An updated list of Escambia’s now-1,600 banned titles includes five dictionaries, The Guinness Book of World Records, a Thurgood Marshall biography, Sherlock Holmes and many more.

Redefined Food, a Local Business, Wins Contract at Palm Coast’s Southern Recreation Center

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Southern Recreation Center off Belle Terre Parkway, opening soon. (Palm Coast)

The Palm Coast City Council has awarded Redefined Food Co., a 5-year-old business based at City Marketplace in Palm Coast, the lease to run the food and drink concession at the most anticipated new community destination since the original Community Center on Palm Coast Parkway had its own grand re-opening, with a much bigger footprint, in the spring of 2018.

Flagler Beach’s Eric Cooley Opts to Run for 3rd Term After All, ‘To Get All This Through’

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

After thinking about it, and rethinking it, Flagler Beach City Commissioner Eric Cooley has decided to run again. (© FlaglerLive)

After months of signaling that he would step down, Eric Cooley, the two-term Flagler Beach city commissioner and the commission’s current chairman, announced today that he is running for a third term in the March election, to “see through” too many initiatives begun on his watch.

FPC Freshman K’imani Gerven-McCoy’s Anthem Opening Legislative Session Draws 29-Second Ovation

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

K’imani Gerven-McCoy in the first of two performances of the National Anthem at the Florida Legislature Tuesday, as she stood next to a color guard from the Palm Coast Fire Department. Gerven-McCoy and the color guard were guests of Paul Renner, the House Speaker who also represents Flagler County. (Florida Channel)

K’imani Gerven-McCoy spent her first day back from the winter break a little differently than other Flagler Schools students: she twice sang the National Anthem at the opening sessions of both the Florida House and a joint session of the Legislature, ahead of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s State of the State address.

Charlie Esposito, Who Built Up Palm Coast’s Volunteer Firefighters and Fire Police, Dies at 95

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council recognized Charles Esposito's three decades of service for the city at a Council meeting in November 2021. (Palm Coast)

Charlie Esposito had built up Palm Coast’s volunteer corps before Palm Coast became a city in 1999, doing the same for the city’s Fire Police, and establishing safety and training protocols, including for the county’s emergency helicopter, that are still followed today.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, January 11, 2024

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

WAR & BREAD by Emad Hajjaj, Alaraby Aljadeed newspaper , London

The Flagler Beach City Commission takes up a significant annexation proposal, all about bats at the Whitney Lecture Series, the baguette through the ages.

How Pundits Help, Hurt and Reflect Democracy

January 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Two pundits – Jonah Goldberg, left, and Paul Begala, second from right – discus politics with journalists Kristen Holmes and Jake Tapper. The Conversation, CC BY-SA

Pundits can play a productive role by focusing on issues rather than identities. They contribute to democratic backsliding when they cultivate dystopian views of politics. The best example is the relentless negativity that characterized commentary on presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016.

The Brendan Depa I Have Come To Know

January 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Brendan Depa at his plea hearing in October. (© FlaglerLive)

Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School special education student who pleaded guilty to the beating of Joan Naydich, his paraprofessional, last February, will be sentenced on Jan. 31. Gene Lopes is a retired special education teacher who has spent the last several months tutoring Depa at the Flagler County jail. Here’s his experience.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, January 10, 2024

January 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Election Strength by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe

The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, qualifying for the municipal elections in Flagler Beach and Bunnell continues, Separation Chat, Happy Birthday, Brian McMillan, in praise of Jimmy Carter, but not Woodrow Wilson.

An American Invention, the Shopping Mall’s Evolution Is Now Owned By China

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Could it be deader? Volusia Mall in Daytona Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Many Chinese malls are being re-imagined by owners and users as palaces of experience – civic areas for communities to meet and interact, with new configurations of public and private space. These experiments could become models for new, creative uses of retail space in the U.S., where the mall was invented.

Palm Coast Fire Department’s Battalion Chief Randy Holmes Celebrates 30 Years of Service.

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Battalion Chief Randy Holmes and family. (Palm Coast)

Holmes embarked on his professional journey with Palm Coast Fire Department on September 12, 1993, taking on the role of Firefighter-EMT. Prior to joining, Randy was a volunteer firefighter for the Bunnell Volunteer Fire Department as well as being employed by the water utility department.

Palm Coast Will Spend $94,000 To Study Lower Speed Limits on City Streets, and Again Study Florida Park Drive

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

All studies lead to Florida Park Drive. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast will spend close to $100,000 on a pair of traffic studies–one to investigate whether speed limits may be lowered on many residential streets from the current 30 miles power hour, the other to investigate speeds and how traffic-calming medians could help improve traffic flow on Florida Park Drive, the most studied roadway this side of the Appian Way.

Reports of Flooded Properties Attributed to New Homes Rise to 148 as City Pledges Help, But No Sure Solutions

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palm Coast City Council members Ed Danko and Theresa Pontieri have led the way in turning residents' flooding issues into a city priority. (© FlaglerLive)

City staffers have visited 75 of the affected properties so far in hopes o analyzing problems and proposing fixes. They are hoping to have visited all 148 by the end of January, assuming the tally doesn’t grow much further. But while the city has addressed building rules that should reduce flooding problems in the future, it does not have a comprehensive, retroactive fix for existing residents who see their yards turn to ponds after rain events.

Call for Building Moratorium in Palm Coast Retreats as City Says It’s Already Implementing New Construction Rules

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The Palm Coast administration made a surprising announcement today: for weeks, the city has been requiring builders to follow new rules, such as limiting new homes’ fill elevations, designed to lessen a slew of flooding issues existing residents have been complaining about since last fall. The city has been implementing the rules even though the technical manual containing them has not yet been formally approved, though it will be next week–a month ahead of schedule.

Tornado Watch in Effect for Flagler Until 6 PM; School District and Palm Coast Cancel Activities

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Flagler County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord is urging caution and alertness in preparation for a day of stronger-than-usual winds around midday Tuesday, then a squall lines of storms Tuesday evening, especially between 5 and 7 p.m. Relative to the Panhandle, the unsettled weather won;t be as severe in Flagler County, but the most important thing will be to be informed through an alert system, Lord said, as there is a small potential for tornadoes and hail.

‘Call It a Culture War If You Want’: Paul Renner’s Opening-Day Speech Cites Reagan, Churchill and Children

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

House Speaker Paul Renner. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

In his opening-day speech before the Florida Legislature, House Speaker Paul Renner spoke of what he termed the “devastating effects” of social media on children, invoked culture war rhetoric and made a reference to Churchill saving Britain from Nazis, and pledged to punish “flash mobs that target retailers.” Here’s the full text of his speech.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 9, 2024

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Netanyahu is in no hurry to release a plan by Bart van Leeuwen, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council talks roads, food and Florida Park Drive, the Flagler County School Board, unfortunately, meets, as does the county’s planning board, assuming it can muster a quorum, on gas giants.

3 Months of Devastation in Gaza for This: Stalemate

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Ruins of a home bombed by Israel in Gaza. (B'Tselem)

Three months after the current conflict began, civilians have borne the brunt of the violence on both sides, with the deaths of more than 22,000 Palestinians in Gaza and 1,200 Israelis. Some 85% of Gazans have also been displaced and a quarter of the population is facing a famine, according to the United Nations. The conflict still has a long way to run and may be headed towards stalemate.

Bulow RV Park Has 6 Months to Solve Compliance Crisis, Pledging Not to Evict Anyone. But a Solution is Elusive.

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

There will be no evictions at Bulow RV Park at least through the end of July. The Flagler County Commission extracted that concession from Bulow park management this afternoon in exchange for a stay on enforcing county regulations against dozens of RV sites that have become unregulated, permanent home, in violation of both county code and park rules. But park management doubts six months will be sufficient for a permanent solution, and county officials are finding their powers so limited that should evictions resume, there won’t much they can do.

Lawmakers File Bills to Prohibit Youths Under 16 From Having Social Media Accounts, and End Existing Ones

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Social media controls are a priority of House Speaker Paul Renner, the Palm Coast Republican. (© FlaglerLive)

The bills would require social-media platforms to bar minors under 16 from creating social-media accounts and use “reasonable age verification” methods to check the ages of people when accounts are created. The bills also would require social-media platforms to terminate existing accounts that are “reasonably known” by the platforms to be held by minors younger than 16 and would allow parents to request that minors’ accounts be terminated.

C.J. Nelson, Father to 22-Year-Old Accused in Shooting Death of Toddler, Faces Tampering and Obstruction Charges

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

C.J. Nelson testifying in his own defense at his trial on a child abuse charge in 2018. He was exonerated of the charge, and found guilty of a misdemeanor battery. (© FlaglerLive)

In mid-November, 22-year-old C.J. Nelson Jr. was charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of his 18-month-old niece. Today, Nelson’s father, C.J. Nelson Sr., 46, was arrested on two charges of tampering with evidence in connection with the shooting, and two charges of providing false information to police during the investigation.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, January 8, 2024

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

clay jones

Trial week, the County Commission takes on the evictions at Bulow RV park, qualifying week for the elections in Flagler Beach and Bunnell, lack of trust in institutions, why democracies need an unlovable press.

#JeSuisCharlie Went Viral 9 Years Ago. It Couldn’t Happen Today.

January 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The immense popularity of #JeSuisCharlie is a prime example of how the technology available to us can shape our understanding of shared experiences. The hashtag #JeSuisCharlie capitalised on these. It was widely adopted by those defending free expression, but a flurry of counter-narratives quickly emerged providing alternative perspectives on the attack.

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