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Another Project 2025 promise kept by Donald Trump.
Cutting funding for public broadcasting and children’s programming all so his administration can’t be held accountable without paywalls or subscriptions to hide behind.
Cutting funding for public broadcasting and children’s programming all so his administration can’t be held accountable without paywalls or subscriptions to hide behind.
Trump signs order to ax federal funding for NPR and PBS
His order calls the 2 biggest U.S. public broadcasters that have decades enjoyed bipartisan congressional support "biased."
www.axios.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Another Project 2025 promise kept by Donald Trump.
Cutting funding for public broadcasting and children’s programming all so his administration can’t be held accountable without paywalls or subscriptions to hide behind.
Cutting funding for public broadcasting and children’s programming all so his administration can’t be held accountable without paywalls or subscriptions to hide behind.
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Today, across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of people turned out for what organizers say has been the single biggest day of protests against President Trump and his second-term policies and actions.
April 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today, across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of people turned out for what organizers say has been the single biggest day of protests against President Trump and his second-term policies and actions.
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If you’re in the US, you can watch PBS for free using the app. There’s a series of documentaries called American Experience that’s really good—each is about a different event in history.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
March 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you’re in the US, you can watch PBS for free using the app. There’s a series of documentaries called American Experience that’s really good—each is about a different event in history.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
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The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
Firing workers from US weather and oceans agency risks lives and the economy, former agency heads warn
NOAA's 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.
buff.ly
March 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
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A friend asked me about the potential risk of losing public broadcasting funding. If you're interested, I recommend this comprehensive report from "On The Media," which explains what's always saved CPB funding in the past, and why it might not now.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again) | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The history of public broadcasting and its adversaries; and the modern place of public radio in covering community and crises.
www.wnycstudios.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A friend asked me about the potential risk of losing public broadcasting funding. If you're interested, I recommend this comprehensive report from "On The Media," which explains what's always saved CPB funding in the past, and why it might not now.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.
A Republican court candidate in North Carolina wants to toss out thousands of votes
More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.
www.npr.org
January 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.