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  • BREAKING: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gave Tax $$$ to Soros-Backed Censorship Giant

    07/24/2025 10:51:42 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 11 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 7/24/2025 | Joseph Vazquez
    It’s bad enough that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had been funneling millions in tax dollars to leftist propaganda mills NPR and PBS over the decades. But what if we were to tell you that the CPB funded one of America's "fact-checking" giants backed by George Soros responsible for censoring conservatives on social media platforms for years? Because that’s exactly what we’re about to tell you. MRC Business discovered that the CPB, which is fully funded by tax dollars through federal appropriations, gave $599,330 to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2023. Poynter, which runs the left-tilting International Fact-Checking...
  • Kash Patel Arrests 70 Blue State Fraudsters Who Stole $250 Million in Aid “From Hungry Kids” [MN]

    07/23/2025 9:55:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 84 replies
    American Tribune ^ | July 23, 2025 | Will Tanner
    In some massive news for those wanting to see fraudsters held accountable for their awful crimes against the public, the Department of Justice and FBI announced that it had arrested nearly 6 dozen fraudsters in the deep blue state of Minnesota over a scheme in which they stole $250 million from a program meant to feed hungry children. As background, the $250 million fraud scheme targeted a children’s nutrition program that was created during the COVID-19 pandemic and called “Feeding our Future.” It was meant to reimburse the costs of feeding children during the pandemic, so as to keep kids...
  • Where did all the FireAid concert money go after the LA wildfires? Let's investigate. 🔎

    07/22/2025 1:16:11 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 25 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | July 22, 2025 | Cardinal Pritchard
    Los Angeles was devastated by wildfires back in January, and the area is still feeling the impacts of the disaster. So when $100 million was raised by two FireAid concerts at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, featuring acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Billie Elish, and Jelly Roll, you'd have thought the money would make its way to fire victims. Well, it's not that simple. Sue Pascoe, editor-in-chief at Circling The News, has the story of how this money ended up not going to fire victims, but instead making its way to...
  • Cash on Hand Per Politico

    07/22/2025 5:23:06 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 27 replies
    X ^ | 07/22/2025 | OSZ
    Cash on Hand Per Politico 🔴 RNC - $81M 🔵 DNC - $15M
  • Senate Republicans Sabotage $400 Million of Trump’s Anti-Woke Cuts

    07/21/2025 10:31:08 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 20 replies
    The Washington Stand ^ | July 17, 2025 | Suzanne Bowdy
    For a party with such distrust in the mainstream media, Republicans certainly put a lot of stock in the headlines about PEPFAR. While thousands of people would most certainly not die from the targeted cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Senate Republicans are determined to keep throwing taxpayer dollars at the Democrats’ woke programs in the name of “foreign aid.” In a blow to Donald Trump’s goal to end government bloat and abuse, moderate senators — led by Susan Collins (R-Maine) — threw a tantrum over the White House’s plan to shave a fraction ($400 million) of...
  • Biden-era tax dollars funded anti-Netanyahu, judicial reform protest groups, US gov't report finds

    07/21/2025 9:27:40 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 5 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | JULY 18, 2025
    United States tax dollars may have been used to fund protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform plan during the Biden-Harris administration, an investigation published by the US House of Representatives on Thursday revealed. In March, The Jerusalem Post reported that six US and Israeli NGOs were being investigated by the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees to ascertain whether funding they allegedly received from the Biden administration was utilized for the judicial reform protests in 2023. The Committee’s oversight also revealed that the Biden-Harris Administration provided grant funds to groups that “contributed directly and indirectly to the judicial...
  • FASCISM ALERT: Show That Wasn't Making Money Canceled

    07/20/2025 10:48:39 AM PDT · by DFG · 13 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 07/19/2025 | Babylon Bee
    NEW YORK CITY — In a stunning example of rampant fascism, a TV network cancelled a show that wasn't making any money and had terrible ratings. "The Colbert Show spoke truth to power and its cancelation is a chilling example of the fascism that's growing every day here in the U.S.A.," online culture blogger Danielle Swanson wrote this week. "With Colbert off the air, there will not be one single late-night host left who will criticize Trump. Fascism has won." CBS announced this week it was cancelling The Late Show starring Steven Colbert, stating it was purely a business decision...
  • House Gives Final Approval to Trump's $9 Billion Cut to Public Broadcasting and Foreign Aid

    07/19/2025 4:12:40 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 13 replies
    Newsmax ^ | July 18, 2025 | AP
    The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday. The vote marked the first time in decades that a president has successfully submitted such a rescissions request to Congress, and the White House suggested it won't be the last. Some Republicans who indicated they were uncomfortable with the cuts,yet supported them anyway. “The money that we're clawing back in this rescissions package is the people's money. We ought not to forget that,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Rules Committee....
  • State-Run Propaganda Program Shut Down

    07/19/2025 11:26:54 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 7 replies
    The Bee ^ | July 18, 2025 | Staff
    NEW YORK, NY — Along with NPR and PBS, a state-run propaganda program hosted by Stephen Colbert announced it would be shutting down due to a loss of funding. The Late Show, filmed at the historic Ed Sullivan Theater, transitioned from late-night comedy to officially sanctioned state-run propaganda in 2015 with the hiring of Colbert. Though known for his comedic work at the time, Colbert was reportedly eager to promote government-generated information initiatives in exchange for money. "I thought maybe our ratings were down, but CBS informs me that's not why they fired me," Colbert said, addressing the cancellation on...
  • House gives final approval to Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid

    07/18/2025 10:42:45 AM PDT · by MNJohnnie · 16 replies
    https://www.opb.org/article/2025/07/17/rescission-package-public-media-2/ ^ | 7-18-25 | By KEVIN FREKING (Associated Press ) and MARY CLARE JALONICK (Associated Press)
    The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday as Republicans intensified their efforts to target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda. The vote marked the first time in decades that a president has successfully submitted such a rescissions request to Congress, and the White House suggested it won’t be the last. Some Republicans were uncomfortable with the cuts, yet supported them anyway, wary of crossing Trump or upsetting his agenda. The House passed the bill by...
  • BREAKING: Trump's Rescissions Package Approved by Congress, 216-213

    07/17/2025 9:40:00 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 83 replies
    Townhall ^ | 07/18/2025 | Matt Vespa
    It’s finally passed and heading for President Trump's desk for signature. The recissions package has made it over the finish line in a 216-213 vote in the House. It had to be bounced back from the Senate, which passed it on a 51-48 vote, as the upper chamber had made slight adjustments to it during the vote-a-rama process. The GOP has slim majorities in Congress, but they’re getting the Trump agenda through. 216-213:House approved the Trump WH's 1st round of DOGE spending cuts, $9B in foreign aid & public broadcasting from previously approved funding by Congress. Republicans Fitzpatrick (PA) &...
  • 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...
  • ‘They Coming For You’: Jasmine Crockett Suggests Cutting USAID Could Cause Another 9/11

    07/11/2025 6:47:58 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 59 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | July 10, 2025 | Mariane Angela News Reporter
    (Screenshot/YouTube/The Official Jamal Bryant Podcast: Let's Be Clear) Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said in an interview Thursday that cutting the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) could pave the way for another 9/11-style attack. President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing foreign aid funding in January, while Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency worked to dismantle USAID due to spending money on projects like Peruvian transgender comic books and a transgender clinic in Vietnam. During an interview with Jamal Bryant on the podcast “Let’s Be Clear,” Crockett said that cutting USAID funding could lead to a...
  • Trump Fired Them. Now They’re Plotting to Stop Him.

    07/09/2025 6:28:15 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 46 replies
    NOTUS ^ | 07 08 2025 | Jose Pagliery
    Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power. For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they’ve got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation. “Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” said a currently employed federal official, who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity. “They were...
  • Fired State Dept bureaucrats reportedly using their regime change skills to sabotage Trump

    07/08/2025 7:51:22 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 19 replies
    Fox News ^ | Jul 8, 2025 | Alexander Hall
    Current and former USAID and State Department officials are using their expertise in undermining authoritarian regimes abroad against President Donald Trump and his agenda at home, according to a new report Monday. The Trump administration is still in the process of terminating thousands of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers by September as the agency restructures to fall in line with the president's "America First" policy. NOTUS reporter Jose Pagliery reported, however, that "Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying...
  • EXCLUSIVE: USAID Quietly Sent Thousands Of Viruses To Chinese Military-Linked Biolab

    07/08/2025 1:19:31 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 10 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | July 08, 2025 | Emily Kopp Investigative Reporter
    The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents. The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government. A $210 million USAID public health program...
  • Britain's 'Biggest' Disinformation Monitor Out of Business

    07/08/2025 8:12:25 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 10 replies
    Newsmax ^ | July 8, 2025 | Newsmax Staff
    Britain's largest misinformation monitor and "fact-checker" went into bankruptcy, according to a report in the Times of London last week. In the U.S., left-wing groups like NewsGuard and GDI have come under fierce criticism as de facto tools for censorship. Logically, founded in 2016 by Cambridge engineering graduate Lyric Jain, aimed to combat "harmful and manipulative content" following high-profile events like the Brexit referendum and the U.S. presidential election. A pivotal misstep was its decision to work with India's Karnataka state government's fact-checking unit, a move criticized by the Editors Guild of India and others for potentially enabling state censorship...
  • Jordan Hangs 2 for U.S. Diplomat's Murder

    03/11/2006 6:18:14 AM PST · by nuconvert · 7 replies · 446+ views
    YahooNews/AP ^ | Mar. 11, 2006
    Jordan Hangs 2 for U.S. Diplomat's Murder Two militants were executed by hanging on Saturday for the killing in Amman of a U.S. diplomat. Laurence Foley, a 60-year-old administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan, was gunned down outside his Amman home on Oct. 28, 2002. Jordanian authorities have blamed al Qaida in Iraq's top operative, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for Foley's death. The two militants are Salem bin Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Freihat, a Jordanian. They were part of an 11-member cell headed by the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi. A Jordanian military court found 10 of the cell members, including al-Zarqawi,...
  • George Bush Teams Up With Democrats Against Trump

    07/05/2025 8:24:46 AM PDT · by Signalman · 133 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 7/4/2025 | Mark Steffen
    Former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are once again joining forces to denounce President Donald Trump, this time for slashing international services they claim are critical to U.S. interests. Bush appears in a new video alongside Obama and U2 frontman Bono, a notorious Trump critic, praising the departing staffers of USAID, the international diplomacy arm that Trump gutted earlier this year. Bush was an advocate for funding the program to combat AIDS and HIV in parts of Africa. “Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy,” Obama said in a video shown to departing USAID employees on...
  • Pride in London returns as events struggle with falling funds

    07/05/2025 5:41:13 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 45 replies
    BBC News ^ | July 5, 2025 | By Josh Parry
    On Saturday more than one million people are expected to attend Pride in London, the UK's largest LGBTQ+ event. But despite huge visitor numbers, organisers say the event - and others like it around the country - face an uncertain future due to a drop in funding and falling volunteer numbers. More than 85 Pride organisations say they've seen a reduction in corporate sponsorships or partnerships. BBC News has spoken to a number of Pride organisers about their worries for the future of Pride events, and what they believe is behind the drop in funding. Dee Llewellyn is volunteer chair...