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  • Trump Declares Independence for USAID Recipients

    07/04/2025 2:38:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | July 3, 2025, 10:04 PM | Daniel J. Flynn
    The spigot has been turned off.A Reagan administration joke depicted a Bureau of Indian Affairs administrator sobbing at his desk. “What’s wrong?” The bureaucrat responded, “My Indian died.” Like the best political humor, it uses a ridiculous scene to illustrate a truth. Bureaucracies eventually exist for the bureaucrats. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) demonstrated this truth for more than six decades without, unfortunately, providing a laugh. On Tuesday, it ceased to exist. (RELATED: The Trump Administration Sets Its Sights on the Parallel Government)Do you also turn its funeral into a party this weekend? The complete cessation of...
  • 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.
  • House passes bill to claw back $9.4B in federal spending, codify cuts to PBS and NPR

    06/12/2025 2:38:17 PM PDT · by CFW · 38 replies
    NYPost ^ | 6/12/25 | Ryan King
    House Republicans narrowly passed a bill Thursday to cut $9.4 billion worth of federal spending, effectively codifying several actions by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The so-called rescissions package axes approximately $8.3 billion previously allocated to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which partially finances National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The 214-212 vote sends the measure to the Senate, where it will only need a simple majority to advance to President Trump’s desk. Four Republicans — Mark Amodei of Nevada, Brian Fitzpatrick of...
  • 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.”...
  • Republicans Push to Defund PBS After ‘Sesame Street’ Pride Month Post: ‘Grooming Children on American Taxpayers’ Dime’

    06/03/2025 11:12:02 PM PDT · by Morgana · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 3, 2025 | Simon Kent
    PBS stands accused of “grooming” children after Sesame Street, one of the nonprofit TV network’s premier programs, shared a social media post hailing LGBTQ Pride Month that drew an immediate response from a group of Congressional Republicans. The veteran children’s education and entertainment program went on social media to welcome the annual event built around an image of puppets holding hands, as Breitbart News reported. On both X and Instagram, the Sesame Street pages shared a graphic of multi-colored puppets reaching out so that they resembled the colors of an LGBTQ Pride flag. “On our street, everyone is welcome. Together,...
  • '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...
  • PBS-featured trans activist pleads guilty to $100k Covid relief fraud in Louisiana

    05/11/2025 8:23:28 PM PDT · by CFW · 8 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 5/11/25 | Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
    A biological male trans activist once highlighted by PBS as a “trans woman of color” has pleaded guilty to stealing over $100,000 in federal COVID-19 relief funds through fraudulent business loan applications. Brandon Jarrow, also known as Brandi Jarrow, admitted to submitting false information in applications for two separate pandemic relief programs. He pleaded guilty on May 8 before US District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in New Orleans, according to the Department of Justice for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Jarrow, 33, submitted a fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) application in June 2020, which resulted in a $95,000 disbursement...
  • 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...
  • GOP Speaker Cancels Vote That Would Have Slashed $9.3 Billion in Wasteful Spending – USAID, PBS, NPR

    05/10/2025 7:32:59 AM PDT · by george76 · 102 replies
    Geller Report ^ | May 9, 2025 | Pamela Geller
    President Trump requested $9.3 billion in rescissions, targeting programs like the State Department, USAID, PBS, and NPR. Congress was expected to vote on this, with Republican support aiming to codify cuts suggested by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). That vote was cancelled. ... If Congress doesn’t approve the recissions request within 45 days of receiving it, Trump will be legally required to release the money back to the agencies. Congress was scheduled to vote on rescissions this week to cut waste and fraud identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), targeting programs like USAID, PBS, and NPR. However,...
  • ‘Morning Joe’ Puffs PBS CEO: We Need ‘Reliable News Sources’ Now More Than Ever!

    05/08/2025 9:38:21 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 15 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 05/08/2025 | Mark Finkelstein
    On Thursday, Morning Joe did its part in circling the wagons around PBS/NPR, bringing on PBS CEO Paula Kerger, teeing her up to make the case to keep the pipeline of taxpayer dollars open. In a moment of unintentional hilarity, Katty Kay, an employee of the government-funded BBC, told Kerger: "In an era of growing misinformation, we need reliable news sources even more than we ever have."Reliably liberal, Katty surely meant to say! As the Daily Signal has noted: "OpenSecrets reports that 100% of political donations from PBS employees went to Democrats during the 2024 political cycle."Get the rest of...
  • NPR, Truth, and Public Funding

    05/08/2025 7:07:33 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 15 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | May 8, 2025 | Dr. Jerry Newcombe
    President Trump has repeated his call to defund PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) and NPR (National Public Radio). Under the First Amendment, PBS and NPR certainly have the right to free expression, but must the American taxpayers be forced to fund them? From a Christian and conservative perspective, they are heavily biased broadcasters.
  • David Brooks Defends PBS: "Who's More Straight Down The Line Than We Are?"

    05/05/2025 9:00:21 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 43 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 5/3/25 | Ian Schwartz
    DAVID BROOKS, NEW YORK TIMES: At its core, the Trump administration is based on one them, which is, they think progressive elites have destroyed the country, we need to take progressive elites down. And that's whether they're in museums and sciences and universities, whatever. And so, in some sense, they have some case to be made that the elites have become a little more progressive. But as they go after CPB, I'm reminded of the call I got 23 years ago from Jim Lehrer offering me this job. And I'm sitting there, of course, in a little league dugout. And...
  • Here Are 12 Reasons Why NPR And PBS Deserved To Be Defunded

    05/02/2025 9:41:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 37 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/02/2025 | BRIANNA LYMAN
    ‘No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize.’On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order defunding NPR and PBS — two taxpayer-subsidized “news” organizations that have consistently published propaganda.The order proclaims that “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”“At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage,” the...
  • Public media ready to fight ‘unlawful’ Trump order defunding PBS, NPR

    05/02/2025 6:55:34 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 2, 2025 | Scott Nover, Herb Scribner, Frances Vinall
    President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS — because of news coverage he called “biased and partisan” — triggered a fierce backlash from public broadcasters that appears poised to expand the White House’s larger legal battleground with the media industry. Issued Thursday night, the order instructs the congressionally chartered Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cut off direct funding to the venerable public media giants — producers of long-running news shows such as “All Things Considered” and “PBS NewsHour” — as well as any grants to local stations that might underwrite the national broadcasters’...
  • 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...
  • Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Federal Funding Cuts to PBS and NPR

    05/02/2025 5:42:25 AM PDT · by bert · 22 replies
    MSN/ Hollywood Reporter ^ | May 1 2025 | Associated Press
    President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged "bias" in the broadcasters' reporting. The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies "to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS" and further requires that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. The White House, in a social media posting announcing the signing, said the outlets "receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.'" It's the latest move by Trump and his administration to...
  • BREAKING: @POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS

    05/02/2025 3:59:47 AM PDT · by Jemian · 86 replies
    X ^ | May 2, 2025 | Rapid Response47
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) receive taxpayer funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence. At the very least, Americans have the right to expect...
  • 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.