Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal.

Our newest series looks at the downfall of Spiro Agnew,

the former vice president under Richard Nixon and the target of a federal investigation

that had the potential to cause a constitutional crisis.

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Today we're going to talk about the right going fully off the deep end with a defense of slavery.

And I interview the first Gen Z member of Congress, Maxwell Alejandro Frost,

about his response to Ron DeSantis' flailing presidential campaign.

The fact that home insurers are now pulling out a Florida due to climate change,

what messaging is the most effective among young voters, and of course,

Barbie or Oppenheimer. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

Okay, so the Florida Board of Education approved new rules for teaching Black history in public schools,

including updated standards that now suggest that enslaved people, quote,

developed skills that could be applied for their personal benefit.

And of course, this is being universally condemned.

The teachers union there called it a big step backwards.

Vice President Kamala Harris said that Florida Republicans were pushing revisionist history,

and obviously the goal here for Republicans is to continue this project of dehumanizing people

of color and whitewashing history. Like the same conservative movement that perpetuated slavery

is now concocting ways to justify it so many years later.

Which by the way, is especially ironic considering these people love congratulating themselves for

being the party of Lincoln, right? The party that freed the slaves only to now fall over themselves

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