Where There's Woke

Where There's Woke

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Where There's Woke episodes

  • WTW89: PragerU Is Not a Grift and That Is Actually More Concerning.

    Part 2 of 2. Now that we're Oklahoma-certified teachers, it's time to learn more about PragerU. Who are they, where does their money come from, and are they really going to be the new PBS? We break down one of their PragerU Kids videos, and end with a pretty unhinged video presented by a WTW frenemy.

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    1 hr
  • WTW88: We Took the PragerU-Designed Ideology Test That Incoming Oklahoma Teachers Have to Pass. It's Nuts...

    Part 1 of 2. The Department of Education in the state of Oklahoma recently announced that in their search for teachers to address an ongoing shortage in their schools, they'd be partnering with a conservative "edutainment" entity to develop a test to make sure teachers coming from blue states aren't too "woke." Lydia tells us more about this story and we take the JUST RELEASED test to see if we can pass it. In part 2, we'll dig into who PragerU is, the kind of content they produce, and what we can do to fight back.

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    50 min
  • WTW87: The New York Times Pride Hate Crime, Part 2

    Part 2 of 2. Andrew Sullivan continues his screed and we continue to tear it apart. But Lydia won't let us leave on an angry note, so she shares her experience attending San Francisco Pride this year - her first Pride EVER!

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    59 min
  • WTW86: The New York Times Pride Hate Crime

    Part 1 of 2. The New York Times unveiled an opinion piece by Andrew Sullivan that basically talked all about how the LGBTQ+ community have gone too far - DURING PRIDE MONTH. We go through this outrageous op-ed and debunk his claims and logic in true WTW fashion.

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    54 min
  • WTW85: Christopher Rufo v. Harvard University

    An unsurprising figure is involved in the current battle between Harvard University and the federal government, and he has come out to EXPOSE Harvard's racist and discriminatory practices by sharing a "trove" of internal documents they don't want you to see. Lydia walks us through what these documents are, how things escalated to this point, and what Christopher Rufo wants us to think it all means - which The New York Times helped platform on an episode of The Daily. Cool.

    • Best Practices for Conducting Faculty Searches

    • Rufo's smoking gun that makes no sense: Harvard's "Placement Goals" - HELP US FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS IS!

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    1 hr
  • WTW84: RFK's Choice to Head Autism Study? A Total Fraud Who Abused Autistic Kids While Posing as a Doctor

    Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. and his second-in-command, Mr. Brain Worm, have appointed a real piece of work to lead the supposed "autism study" that HHS is conducting; and we had to call in for backup as we take on these anti-vaxxers: Dr. Jenessa Seymour! Jenessa takes us on a deep dive about David Geier and tells us all about the way he's approached science, ethics, and human beings in the past. Spoiler: it's not great!

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    54 min
  • WTW83: Columbia University Cancelled Her Class, but She's Doing It Anyway

    Karen Attiah, columnist with The Washington Post, was looking forward to teaching her second iteration of the Race, Media, and International Affairs course she developed for Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, when it was abruptly cancelled - with no explanation as to why. We chat with her about the inaugural session of the course in an environment where the Israel-Palestine protests were happening on campus and the President was called into Congress to answer Elise Stefanik's "questions," what the media twisted about what was actually happening in those encampments, how she felt when Columbia cancelled her course, and the eventual decision she made to teach it anyway.

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    56 min
  • WTW82: The Boston Marathon Trans Panic w/Frankie de la Cretaz

    Every year, tens of thousands of people run the Boston Marathon, and this year the Right had a bone to pick with one particular participant; we'll give you one guess what the bone was. Independent journalist Frankie de la Cretaz started asking some questions when this popped up in their algorithm, and after seeing their debunking journey in their newsletter, we had to have them on!

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    46 min
  • WTW81: They're Gutting the Government and Trying to Call It Savings.

    Part 2 of DOGE's scam-extraordinaire! We dig into the last few claims from the article in The Federalist, as well as some bonus propaganda that Lydia picked up on in the interview.

    • The Limestone Mine

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    48 min
  • WTW80: Elon Musk's DOGE is Desperate for Approval

    Lydia watched the DOGE interview on Fox News so the rest of us didn't have to. In it, Musk and his posse make some "shocking" claims about the fraud and waste they're identifying in the federal government. Lydia gives us a deep dive debunk to call out the falsehoods, the misleading statements, and the straight propaganda this "charm offensive" spewed on national television. Part 1 of 2.

    • Revolving Door Project's research on DOGE personnel

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    53 min

About Where There's Woke

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Every single time the right, or even center-left, goes ballistic over a "woke" controversy, the slightest bit of investigation shows the scandal is almost entirely bogus. This is not a new phenomenon;…

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