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States Dust Off Obscure Anti-Mask Laws to Target Pro-Palestine Protesters
Arcane laws banning people from wearing masks in public are now being used to target people who wear face coverings while peacefully protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. That’s a big problem. In the 1940s and 50s, many U.S. states passed anti-mask laws as a …