Cool, so that pays for .001 of the national debt... Interest.
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So sad... This also eliminates public weather alerts in rural areas.
NPR is the only news media that consistently tells me the core news, why it's important, and never "how I should feel about it".
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I'm.canceling my dizney and Netflix and routing that to NPR.
Thats a great idea! We should evangelize that. That woukd be a great movement. Cancel one od your streaming services to suppport seasame street
Make sure to list that as reason. If enough people drop Disney to fund NPR, Disney might buy a politician to do something about it.
Only around 15% of the PBS budget comes from the federal treasury via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), thanks to decades of privatization. NPR's budget is as little as 1% from the CBP.
Consequently, both networks have suffered from a creeping enshittification, with a rising tide of advertisement and ad-supported content taking over both networks and the forced sale of some of its most valuable assets (PBS licensing Sesame Street to Warner Brothers, for instance) to finance continued operations.
Like, by all means. Cancel your Netflix. Cancel Disney. Support public broadcasting. But this isn't a solution in the long term, any more than cancelling Basic Cable for Netflix was a way to fix the fully privatized entertainment system. We're still surrendering our social capital to private interests, bit by bit (or in this case by massive chunk).
This is a stab wound. We can patch it, but we shouldn't mistake this as to anyone's material benefit.
How else are you going to fund Elmo's tax cut?
Hypothetically if you wanted your country to become impoverished within the next five decades, what sort of things would you do that are different to what the current administration is doing?
They don't want the country to be impoverished, and it's ridiculous to suggest that.
They just want the bottom 99.9% of the population to be impoverished. They're already most of the way there.
looks at mississippi and alabama
it appears to work too
The only differences I can think of is not chickening out on the tariffs and forcing the interest rate lower to kick off runaway inflation.
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The White House called for an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS in April, claiming that they "spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" Trump also fired the CPB's three Democratic board members, who refused to leave their posts. Trump sued them this week in an attempt to force them out.
Translation: they don't regurgitate right wing talking points.
These people are disgusting.
They also educate and inform people. That's a problem for the GOP. They don't want the American people, ESPECIALLY low income people, to have access to free education and information that PBS and NPR provides. They need to ensure the population is stupid thus easier to control.
So America they've taken your medicade, they've taken the ability of a good portion of your country to be able to eat, they're taking immigrants, tourists, or people that they don't agree with to camps, they're taking your education, they're taxing you with tariffs, they have a gestapo, and they'll be taking away more rights from Women and POC. I have to ask...how much longer until you start to get a little bit violent?
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I really hate this administration.
great
Go on, centrists. Why was there no filibuster this time?
Rescission packages aren't subject to the filibuster, only a simple majority is needed. Expect more of this.
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Democrat answer: Filibusters are 'not a good look'. We want to be seen as the party of reasonable adults who honestly want to work across party lines to help our constituents. We won't vote to end the practice as it has a long history and tradition blah blah blah
Honest answer: We don't give a single fuck about our constituents, the only people we are beholden to are the lobbyists who line our pocketbooks. It's easier to control the narrative when all of the media corporations are owned by billionaires.
Nah. You're not thinking like a politician. The real answer is, "this will be a PR disaster for them. LOL this is really goin to help my fundraising"
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Dear Congress:
You're not being the people Mr. Rogers thought you could be.
And fhere are so many great educational YouTube channels that are partly funded by PBS, that's awful..
Ex:
Space Time is fucking amazing.
If anyone reading this is even remotely interested in science, watch that channel. Absorb it. It speaks truth.
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Knowledge is power and they want the public to have none of it
What's really insane is they don't even want the knowledge. They just want knowledge in any capacity to go away.
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Fuck this administration, I hope they burn in the hell they believe in. I hope they all get cancer.
I try my best to find redeeming qualities in everyone, but there is none to be found in them.
These people are a cancer, and the world will be better when they are dead and forgotten.
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It’s not even September and they’ve dismantled like 80% of the shit that makes being alive worthwhile
And you’re letting them.
dismantled
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101
Today, NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-cuts.html
Will NPR and PBS survive?
Yes. NPR gets about 2 percent of its annual budget directly from federal grants, including from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; for PBS, that amount is about 15 percent.
It'll be a hit for PBS in particular, but it's not gonna end NPR or PBS.
NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC's On the Media or WBEZ's Wait Wait gets axed.
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Education is nearly dead. Just the way these shitbags want it.
They've had a hardon for public broadcasting for thirty years, which is why NPR and PBS have been preparing for this and why their funding largely doesn't come from the feds anymore. It's a hollow victory, it's just depressing because anymore, it seems the right gets everything they want. They get it all. All of it. And we get nothing.
So are these channels likely to stay afloat then? This is really fucking sad if not.
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Who needs public broadcasting anyway, when you have Faux News and Sky.
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It's just all vengeance and spite for decades of having to "tolerate" even a modicum of liberalism in their lives.
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