Netflix rebooted Little House on the Prairie and Megyn Kelly declared war on it a year before anyone saw a single frame. Meanwhile West Virginia funded a taxpayer-backed "anti-woke" civics center run by a philosophy professor with some truly unhinged advice for testing your own free speech, and Florida just built its own college accreditor to route around a court loss. Lydia's got the receipts.

Sources:

• Netflix's Remake of Little House on the Prairie Is Certainly Different (Rebecca Onion, Slate, 7/9/2026)

• Netflix merger hearing (2/3/2026)

• Republicans Blew Millions on an Anti-Woke Program. It's Failing Badly. (Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic, 7/9/2026)

• WV HB 3297

• Why Am I Here? (Dr. Patrick Lee Miller, 2/17/2026)

• Market Demand Assessment - University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom (Common Sense Institute, 4/29/2026)

• Iowa's Civics Center Has to Teach Thousands. It Currently Has One Professor. (Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed, 6/24/2026)

• 11th Circuit crushes Florida's 'Stop WOKE Act' at state universities (Jay Waagmeester, Florida Phoenix, 7/7/2026)

  • Opinion

• Next in Florida's war on 'woke': Becoming its own higher ed watchdog (Daniel Rivero & Natalie La Roche Pietri, WLRN, 7/9/2026)

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