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.

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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.

• This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools, Jennifer Smith Richards/ProPublica (10/22/2025)

• Fox25's Wendy Suares Attempts to Question Walters After His Resignation Announcement

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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.

• How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper, Stuart A. Thompson (9/19/2025)

• The Censorship-Industrial Complex, Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (5/1/2024)

• The Mechanics of Government Censorship, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (9/29/2025)

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