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On this week's Lever Time, Audit hosts and friends of the show Josh Olson and Dave Anthony are joined by journalist and media expert John Knefel to discuss how the conservative propaganda operation PragerU landed a major new partnership with Florida's public schools.PragerU produces short-form video content on politics, social issues, and history. The media organization's stated goal is to “promote American values through the creative use of educational videos” and “[offer] a free alternative to the dominant left-wing ideology in culture, media, and education.” In 2021 PragerU launched PragerU Kids, focused on “educational content for children.” Now PragerU has raised the stakes, as it was recently announced that PragerU Kids content has been approved as supplemental teaching material in Florida public schools — even though PragerU is not an accredited educational institution. Prager isn't planning to stop there: They recently published an online petition to get their content into schools across the country. Hosts Josh and Dave, who examined the rise of PragerU in the latest season of The Audit, sit down with John to discuss PragerU's official entry into the American education system. They break down how PragerU managed to get approved in Florida, how their work plays into the larger conservative movement to capture public education and siphon taxpayer money to fund charter schools, and what parents can do to stop PragerU from indoctrinating children.A transcript of this episode is available here.Links: The lessons Florida public school students will learn from PragerU Kids (Media Matters, 2023) Florida's conservative PragerU teaching texts labeled ‘indoctrination' (Tampa Bay Times, 2023) What It Means That Florida Will Allow Conservative PragerU Content in Schools (Time, 2023) BONUS: On Monday's bonus episode of Lever Time Premium, exclusively for The Lever's supporting subscribers, we published our recent live chat with Yale law professor Samuel Moyn where we examined whether or not Congress has the authority to regulate the Supreme Court and the troubling legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts.If you'd like access to Lever Time Premium, which includes extended interviews and bonus content, head over to LeverNews.com to become a supporting subscriber.If you'd like to leave a tip for The Lever, click the following link. It helps us do this kind of independent journalism. levernews.com/tipjar
Josh and Dave are joined by journalist and media expert John Knefel to discuss how the conservative propaganda operation PragerU landed a major new partnership with Florida's public schools.
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How Did We Miss That? Airs LIVE on YouTube/Twitch/Facebook/Twitter/Odysee every Sunday night at 10pm ET / 7pm PT, reviewing a few BIG stories we haven't seen covered much in leftist independent media. Co-hosted by Indie, Founder & Editor of @indleftnews & @ReefBreland, creator of @dorediscord & host of Reefer After Dark. All of the stories were featured in our Substack, http://Leftists.today and at the top of https://IndependentLeft.News Originally recorded during the 1/23/22 Episode of How Did We Miss That?, found here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaOqPHZms3c Facebook: https://facebook.com/4486720111428174 Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1mrxmazADXqxy Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1274089571 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@IndLeftNews:3/how-did-we-miss-that-ep-21-01-23-22:f Story 1 - Great Job, Democrats! ❄️ How Did We Go From Stimulus Checks to "Go to Work With COVID”?: John Knefel, Truthout ❄️ The Democrats Aren't Bad at Politics. Their Politics Are Bad: Otto Fors, Left Voice Story 2 - Solutions! ❄️ How to make Congress less corrupt: Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria & Rebecca Crosby, Popular Information ❄️ Opinion | The Ethics, Economics, and Imperative of Cancelling Student Debt: Richard Eskow, CommonDreams Story 3 - A Tough Conversation ❄️ It's time to take the negatives of online school seriously: Mila Ghorayeb Story 4 - Regulations for Big Tech? ❄️ Fear and Loathing in the Silicon Valley C-Suite: BIG by Matt Stoller Story 5 - Saber Rattling with Russia Getting Scary ❄️ As Durham closes in, FBI's Trump-Russia origin story is harder to believe: Aaron Maté ❄️ New State department report on RT and Sputnik is full of lies and propaganda: The Dissident, Indie News Network Proud member of the Indie News Network family of content creators, channels & writers #GetINN http://indienews.network Where can you like, follow & support #IndependentLeftNews? ❄️ LinkTree: http://independentleft.media
Comedian, reporter, and President Show writer John Knefel teaches us how to make a great wedding speech, how to know if a joke is OK to say at a wedding, how to survive a job where you have to read the news all day, and how to use movie quotes in a wedding toast. Then we make John give wedding speeches for random celebrities. Ronald is marrying Grimace! As usual, if you like our podcast please subscribe and review us online. And tell your friends about it! Means a lot and helps other people find us. And donate to our Patreon at patreon.com/howtobeaperson.
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