Episode 148: Chris Rufo Takes Over New College Of Florida, Plus Adventures In Genealogy

This week, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog:

• Jesse explains sissgendered people, People Of Kansas and the anti-incarcereal movement

• A very important Jewish update

• Susan Meachen is back — and now there’s two of her

• Chris Rufo’s rise to political power and future ambitions

• Kay LeClaire’s adventures with genealogy

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Our coverage of Susan Meachen

Episode 146: >TFW Your Family Makes You Fake Your Own Death

Ellen Barry’s interview with the actual Susan Meachen

https://archive.ph/WE2Kf

Jesse’s response to Rufo’s coverage of school sexual abuse

A Lighthearted Dispute: Does More Sex Abuse Occur In Schools Or Catholic Churches?

Is Idaho teaching porn literacy to kids? (No.)

https://www.inlander.com/spokane/no-idaho-schools-are-not-teaching-porn-literacy/Content?oid=24569006

Media outlets can’t stop botching the CRT debate

Mainstream Media Outlets Keep Botching Their Coverage Of The Critical Race Theory Debate (Updated)

Rufo: “We are recapturing higher education”

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1611406507815636993

The Chronicle of Higher Ed describes an attempt to take over the University of North Carolina in the early 1900s

https://archive.ph/l9VnV#selection-2039.16-2043.1

Is Hobbes lying or just dumb?

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1615501756498153472

Tone Madison’s coverage

https://web.archive.org/web/20220707041301/https://tonemadison.com/articles/east-side-venues-name-change-decision-follows-months-of-quiet-pressure/

LeClare’s followup in Our Lives

https://web.archive.org/web/20211028174035/https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/not-yours-to-use/

The New Age Fraud website

http://www.newagefraud.org/about.html

AdvancedSmite’s post with over 50,000 views

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5635.0

“Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white”

https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/

Kay LeClaire vs. Kay LeClaire

How white is Madison City?

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/madisoncitywisconsin/LND110210

An unearthed post of hers from 2017

Further reading on the case

https://www.wpr.org/node/2051776

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11599353/Race-fakers-two-year-transformation-white-woman-Indigenous-two-spirit.html

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/01/11/madison-pretendian-kay-leclaire-resigns-wisconsin-residency-amid-accusations/69778164007/

https://nypost.com/2023/01/04/native-american-faker-kay-leclaire-made-up-stories-about-visions/

https://madison365.com/indigenous-community-looks-to-heal-weeks-after-a-pretendian-is-exposed/

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