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  • 'We are on our knees': U.S. tariffs devastate Lesotho's garment workers

    07/21/2025 7:58:39 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 91 replies
    NPR ^ | 07/20/2025 | Kare Bartlett
    MASERU, Lesotho —Crowds of women, bundled up in wooly hats and mittens against the sharp winter chill, wait every morning at the gates of a garment factory in Lesotho's capital, hoping that a few among them will be called in to work a shift. But no-one comes out and the factory gates – which bear the name of the Taiwanese company that runs it in red Chinese lettering – remain firmly shut. It's one of the few factories in what used to be called "the Denim Capital of Africa" that's still operating after U.S. President Donald Trump announced in April...
  • FIVE-O FIASCO: NY Times Editorial Board Claims Defunding NPR, PBS Is Like Defunding Police

    07/16/2025 11:44:12 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 36 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 7/16/2025 | Joseph Vazquez
    The New York Times leadership actually attempted to sell readers on the dimwitted notion that stripping tax dollars from leftist public media is just as nutty as defunding police departments. This is the same newspaper that largely rationalized nixing police funding across a number of stories over the past few years. The Times editorial board went to bat for lefty outlets NPR and PBS, which are on the verge of possibly getting $1.1 billion cut from their mothership Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The newspaper had the utter audacity to argue in a June 16 editorial that continuing literal government-funded...
  • 'All Jews should die': Elmo’s X account hacked, posting antisemitic content

    07/13/2025 11:53:04 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 59 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 14/7/25 | Nitsan Keidar
    The X account of Elmo, a Sesame Street hero, posted antisemitic content on Sunday night, calling to "kill the Jews." The content was quickly deleted. In its tweets, Elmo posted, "Kill all Jews." "Elmo says ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE. F-K JEWS. DONALD TRUMP IS NETANYAHU’S PUPPET BECAUSE HE IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. JEWS CONTROL THE WORLD AND NEED TO BE EXTERMINATED. “RELEASE THE FILES @realDonaldTrump CHILD F-KER.” Reports said that ten minutes prior to the antisemitic incitement, the hacker posted a photo of Elmo on the moon, wishing readers, "Happy crypto all-time high day, everybody! From Elmo and @onchainstudios....
  • The Usual Suspects (and Some New) in the Senate Are Threatening to Kill Trump's Recissions Package

    07/11/2025 8:01:21 AM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    Townhall ^ | July 10, 2025 | Matt Vespa |
    Nothing will ever be easy with congressional Republicans. The reconciliation package aged all of us 35 years, as Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to whip votes, hold the line, and make some phone calls. President Trump was also working the phones heavily when final passage was at stake in the House. Republican leadership held the line, but with Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) retiring after the reconciliation vote, delivering what’s left of the Trump agenda before the 2026 midterms is about to get even tougher. The House did its job and passed the rescission package, but...
  • Fox News Reporter Jennifer Griffin Is Married to Another Journalist (He's with NPR before that NY Times)

    06/27/2025 6:26:08 PM PDT · by vespa300 · 52 replies
    Distractify ^ | 06/26/2025 | Ivy Griffith
    Both Jennifer and Greg are security specialists. But while Jennifer works for Fox, Greg calls NPR his professional "home." Prior to working at NPR, he spent 20 years as a correspondent for both The New York Times and The Associated Press (via NPR).
  • How Trump Broke The Media

    06/24/2025 12:46:30 PM PDT · by Signalman · 18 replies
    youtube ^ | 1 month ago | MAGAmark
    The mainstream media tried to destroy Trump—but in the end, they destroyed themselves. This is the story of anchors who lost their minds, reporters who lost their careers, and a media machine that couldn’t handle President Trump.
  • Waters: Trump Started L.A. Riots, ‘He Should Not Continue to Support Violence’

    06/11/2025 4:05:39 PM PDT · by Morgana · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 11, 2025 | Pam Key
    Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump caused the Los Angeles immigration unrest. Waters said, “The backup plan is the President of the United States should do what he didn’t do when we were invaded in the Capitol. When they had the insurrection that he led, he should get on the phone and talk to the local police, he should talk to the people that he’s had deployed there. And he has a responsibility in all of this. He started this. There should be no violence. He should not continue to support violence.”...
  • NPR CEO Katherine Maher: "We're a nonpartisan news organization. We do not seek to favor any political party at all."

    05/29/2025 5:31:28 PM PDT · by Racketeer · 88 replies
    X ^ | May 28, 2025 | TheBlaze
    "The White House and some Republicans in Congress have accused NPR of promoting a liberal bias. How do you respond?" NPR CEO Katherine Maher: "We're a nonpartisan news organization. We do not seek to favor any political party at all." Does anyone actually believe this???
  • 'Leap together,' Kermit the Frog says in address at University of Maryland graduation

    05/23/2025 8:14:32 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 38 replies
    NPR ^ | 5/23/25 | AP
    COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Kermit the Frog knows it's not easy being green — or graduating from college and entering the real world, especially during a time of economic uncertainty and political turmoil. Members of the University of Maryland's class of 2025 received their diplomas Thursday evening with sage advice from the amphibious Muppet ringing in their ears.
  • Begala: Democrats’ Credibility Isn’t Hurt at All by Biden Decline, They Were ‘Hoping That He Was Doing Fine’

    05/21/2025 7:02:25 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 41 replies
    On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” CNN Contributor and Democratic strategist Paul Begala said that the revelations about then-President Joe Biden’s mental fitness don’t impact the credibility of the Democratic Party at all and “I don’t think any Democrat who’s going to be facing voters in the midterms was at all complicit.” And there were “a whole bunch of politicians who understandably were rooting for him and hoping that he was doing fine, but they didn’t know.”Co-host Mary Louise Kelly asked, “What does this mean to your party’s ability to hold President Trump, his administration, and Republicans accountable...
  • NPR, PBS Funding Debated [semi-satire]

    03/31/2025 11:09:04 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 6 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 30 March 2025 | John Semmens
    The Corporation for Public Broadcasting which is comprised of the National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are budgeted to receive $535 million from the federal government for FY2025. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has recommended this funding be cut. Paula Kerger, CEO, of PBS and Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR appeared at the House of Representatives DOGE subcommittee to testify against budget cuts. Subcommittee Chair Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) said "folks in my district listen to podcasts and internet based news. At the same time, NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical, left-wing echo...
  • Hilarious! Reporter Ends Schumer’s Entire Career After He Attacks Trump on Bogus 100-Day Poll Numbers (VIDEO)

    05/02/2025 7:05:12 AM PDT · by Beave Meister · 26 replies
    The Gateway Pundit.com ^ | 5/1/2025 | Cristina Laila
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday attempted to trash President Trump over bogus poll numbers. The fake news media attacked President Trump this week with reports claiming he has the lowest 100 day approval rating in 80 years. “Twice as many people said President Trump deserves a grade of F rather than an A for how he’s handled his first 100 days in office, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll,” NPR reported. “Forty-five percent said Trump deserves the failing mark, compared to 23% who would pass him with flying colors. It’s understandable that partisans would have strongly polarized...
  • President Trump signs an executive order cutting off taxpayer funding for NPR and PBS.

    05/02/2025 2:41:16 AM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 31 replies
    https://www.yahoo.com ^ | May 1, 2025 | Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signs executive order aimed at cutting federal subsidies for PBS and NPR, alleging 'bias.' May 2 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to halt federal funding to PBS and NPR, calling the public news organizations "biased." Trump, who has long criticized the two news organizations for alleged bias, signed the executive order Thursday, directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease direct funding to NPR and PBS to the maximum extent allowed by law.
  • It is important to understand that many people in high positions of media authority are actually quite stupid and largely historically illiterate

    02/16/2025 1:41:45 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    X.com ^ | 2:37 PM · Feb 16, 2025 | Saagar Enjeti✓@esaagar
    This is the first time I’ve heard the theory that the Holocaust wasn’t conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones.
  • David Brooks: We Need To Amass Power To Stop Trump From Amassing Power

    04/21/2025 6:44:44 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 34 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 19 Apr, 2025 | Brooks and Capehart
    PBS NEWSHOUR: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump's continued faceoff with the courts, if Republicans will begin pushing back against the president and Harvard rejecting Trump's demands. David Brooks, New York Times: What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. "The core argument is that Trump is really about amassing power," Brooks said of his column. "And anything that might potentially restrain his power, he will destroy. And that includes the court systems and anything part...
  • White House readies plan for Congress to ax ‘all’ public broadcasting funds, codify DOGE aid cuts

    04/14/2025 11:14:43 AM PDT · by deplorableindc · 36 replies
    NY Post ^ | April 14, 2025
    WASHINGTON — The White House has begun to notify Congress of its request to eliminate “all” public broadcasting funding and codify foreign aid cuts identified by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, The Post has learned. Major proposed clawbacks in the so-called “rescissions” plan include $1.1 billion in appropriated funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to PBS and National Public Radio, and $8.3 billion from USAID. A memo drafted by White House budget director Russ Vought — and requested by GOP congressional leaders — accuses CPB of a “lengthy history of anti-conservative bias” and cites “waste,...
  • GOP Bill Seeks to Cut Off NPR and PBS: “Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund Propaganda”

    03/30/2025 7:44:48 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    Daily Fetched ^ | March 29, 2025 | Jason Walsh
    Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) introduced a bill to fully defund NPR and PBS during a viral congressional hearing this week, calling the taxpayer-funded outlets “propaganda machines for the radical left.” The move came after a House Subcommittee on Government Efficiency hearing Wednesday, where NPR CEO Katherine Maher was brutally grilled by GOP lawmakers for the outlet’s deep-seated liberal bias while taking taxpayers’ money. Jackson’s bill—titled the “No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act” or the “NPR and PBS Act”—seeks to eliminate federal funding for both NPR and PBS. “Hardworking Americans are sick of footing the bill,” Jackson told Fox...
  • Bill Maher favors cutting public broadcasting funding, rejects NPR CEO's testimony that outlet is unbiased

    03/29/2025 6:55:28 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 29, 2025 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    "Real Time" host Bill Maher argued in favor of pulling federal funding from NPR, insisting it has to go private in the age of hyper-partisan politics. During his online "Overtime" segment, Maher read a viewer question asking the panel to react to the testimony of NPR CEO Katherine Maher (no relation) and PBS CEO Paula Kerger, who defended their outlets to the House of Representatives' newly-formed Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee as GOP lawmakers call to strip them of taxpayer money over their left-wing bias. He specifically called out his "namesake" Maher over her repeated assertions that NPR was...
  • Signal’s Katherine Maher Problem (2024)

    03/28/2025 7:11:24 AM PDT · by HonkyTonkMan · 13 replies
    City Journal ^ | May 06 2024 | Christopher F. Rufo
    The encrypted-messaging service Signal is the application of choice for dissenters around the world. The app has been downloaded by more than 100 million users and boasts high-profile endorsements from NSA leaker Edward Snowden and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk. Signal has created the perception that its users, including political dissidents, can communicate with one another without fear of government interception or persecution. But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years,...
  • 'How Much Reparations Have You Personally Paid?': Rep. Gill Confronts NPR CEO With Her Past Tweets

    03/27/2025 4:57:51 PM PDT · by vespa300 · 12 replies
    Forbes Via Youtube ^ | 03/26/2025 | Brandon Gill
    Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) questioned NPR CEO Katherine Maher at today's House DOGE Committee hearing.