Right Wing Round-Up: Lib(rarie)s Of TikTok

  • Justin Rohrlich @ The Daily Beast: ‘Libs of TikTok’ Creator Now Advising Oklahoma School Libraries.
  • Chaya Raichik—who doesn’t even live in Oklahoma—was tapped for her expertise on the “radical left” and “woke indoctrination.”

  • Nathalie Baptiste @ HuffPost: Ryan Walters Smears Oklahoma Educators While Proposing New Rules.
  • The controversial Oklahoma state superintendent of schools suggested, without evidence, that the state teachers union and educators were creating a culture that allowed for rampant sexual misconduct against students.

  • Robert Downen @ The Texas Tribune: Email sheds new light on Texas House candidate Jared Woodfill’s role in Southern Baptist leader’s sex abuse scandal.
  • Woodfill has been endorsed by Attorney General Ken Paxton despite his connection to Paul Pressler, a prominent religious figure accused of rape.

  • Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood @ Public Witness: Josh Hawley’s ‘Christian’ Nation.
  • After fist-pumping for Christian Nationalism and running away from the truth, Hawley doubled down on his effort to undo our constitutional system.

  • Tori Otten @ The New Republic: New Transcript Blows Up James Comer’s Entire Hunter Biden Argument.
  • A new transcript from a key Hunter Biden witness undercuts many of the claims Republicans are making about “Biden corruption.”

  • Charisma Madarang @ Rolling Stone: Trump Attempts to Describe Missile Defense: ‘Ding, Ding, Ding, Boom, Whoosh!’
  • The former president resorted to sound effects when explaining missile defense systems during a campaign rally in New Hampshire.

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