by Julia Griffin

“A Texas appeals court has slashed the $50m judgment to $1.5m against Alex Jones, founder of the rightwing platform Infowars, over falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut a hoax. … The unanimous opinion issued by the Texas third court of appeals found that Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis did not show sufficient evidence that harassment enflamed by Jones’s hoax claims rose to a level that would allow them to exceed the state’s $750,000 cap on damages.
—The Guardian

Your tears when strangers mocked your little child
Don’t merit 50 million bucks. That’s wild.
We don’t dispute the bullet through his head;
Let’s say one million and a half instead,
For distribution by the court cashiers:
One quarter mill for each of his six years.