WTW99: The Biggest Attack on Free Speech in Our Lifetime and Hardly Anyone Cares
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Part 2 in our Kirk's Free Speech series. The cases of teachers being suspended, investigated, and/or terminated based on their comments about Charlie Kirk never seem to dry up. We continue our examination of some of these instances. If you enjoy our work, please consider leaving a 5-star review! You can always email questions, comments, and leads to . Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at !
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WTW98: Your Free Speech “Rights” as a Teacher in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Murder
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Part 1. We dive headfirst into stories in which a teacher's First Amendment rights appear to have been violated. It seems clear to us how wrong this all is after reading the complaint, but how will these cases play out in court? If you enjoy our work, please consider leaving a 5-star review! You can always email questions, comments, and leads to . Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at !
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WTW97: A Tale of Two Free Speech Controversies
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A few weeks ago, Lydia and Thomas did an episode on the steps of the California Capitol for California Freethought Day, highlighting the differences between a fake free speech professor-story and a real one. This juxtaposition sparked a research effort to dig into more of these cases, some of which will be featured in the following episodes. If you enjoy our work, please consider leaving a 5-star review! You can always email questions, comments, and leads to . Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at !
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WTW96: The Sudden Fall of Ryan Walters
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FOLKS. Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters is GONE. Lydia breaks down the final few things he pushed before he abruptly resigned with 15 months still left in his term, the bizarre happenings of that resignation and where he's headed next, and finally, what we've learned in the aftermath. , Jennifer Smith Richards/ProPublica (10/22/2025) If you enjoy our work, please consider leaving a 5-star review! You can always email questions, comments, and leads to . Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at !
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WTW95: Where Was Gondor When I Got Cancelled for Orc-Face?!
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Lydia continues sharing the very-good-examples from The Federalist of times when the Left abandoned Free Speech principles because the impacted person was a Conservative. Yep, they're still going. , Stuart A. Thompson (9/19/2025) , Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (5/1/2024) , Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (9/29/2025) Check out the OA for all the places to go and things to do! To support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at !
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WTW94: Sure Kimmel Got Censored, but Whatabout When Whatabout Whatabouted? Yeah, That’s What I Thought.
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Jimmy Kimmel caused significant outrage a couple of weeks ago that you likely heard about. The "outrage" on the Right was that he dared to say Charlie Kirk's name and imply that the alleged killer was MAGA. The outrage on the Left was that after Kimmel said that single sentence, the government mafia-bossed the broadcasters to pre-empt his show, ultimately leading to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension from the air by ABC and his silence. The Right will have you believe that the Left is blowing this completely out of proportion, and since when did the Left even care about Free Speech anyway?! Lydia takes...
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WTW93: Everyone Is a Complete Idiot Except Bill Maher
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It's part 2 of our little foray into the disturbing transphobia-addled mind of Bill Maher. This one features a hilarious clip where Bill yells at Neil DeGrasse Tyson while not understanding a word Neil has said.
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WTW92: Transphobia Has Melted Bill Maher's Brain
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Bill Maher decided to bless us all with his sage advice on our country's fascism problem - why don't we all just stop doing the things that the fascists use as their excuse to do the fascism they already were going to do anyway? How did we not think of that??? Are we all the dumbest bunch of idiots?
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WTW91: From the Anti-Woke Archives – The NYT Donald McNeil Firing
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After the release of our PragerU videos (WTW88 & WTW89), we received a comment in the Facebook group from a listener pushing back on the characterization we made regarding a one sentence bit from Ben Shapiro's commencement speech video. This feedback emboldened Thomas to dig into the story further to see if we owed an apology to Ben. Was this a unique instance in which the anti-woke were right and there truly was a miscarriage of justice? **If you enjoy our work, please consider leaving a 5-star review! You can always email questions, comments, and leads to .**
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WTW90: Kaiser Permanente "PAUSED" Their Pediatric Gender-Affirming Surgery Practice For Basically No Reason.
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Kaiser issued the most infuriating statement last month announcing that they were "pausing" their gender-affirming surgeries for patients 19 and under. Why in the world did they do this when the majority of Kaiser members are in California - a protective state for the transgender community and one of the most likely states to stand up to the Trump administration? Lydia breaks down what happened, who has been speaking out, and a particular theory about why Kaiser Permanente might have made this decision. (8/1/2025) If you enjoy our work, please consider leaving a 5-star review! You can...
info_outlineRepresentative Jasmine Crockett made an offensive joke about Governor Abbott's disability. The right pretended to care all of a sudden, and it seems that much of the left has decided they don't care. What should we, the woke police, think about this? How should we react? What should we expect from Democrats and each other?
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