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This is a worker’s reprieve checkpoint. I only want you to engage with this post if you’re shirking your duties on the clock right now. We are going to make it. We are going to text and scroll on company time. We are going to find a corner or bathroom to linger in while something needs doing. Get some!

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Trump’s defunding of CPB means a massive loss to all local PBS and NPR public broadcasting stations. But based on their ability to get sponsorships, advertisers, other grants, private donations, state funding, and membership subscribers, some stations will end up hit a lot harder than others.

And some of the hardest hit stations, the ones who had been relying most heavily on this federal funding, are Native American and Indigenous Nations’ local stations. Radio stations in rural areas and on reservations can often be a really important source of locally relevant information—and publicly available media in Native languages.

Unfortunately, many Native American-serving public media stations listed on Adopt A Station don't have donation or support pages that I can find (KGHR - Greyhills Academy in the Navajo Nation in Arizona; KGVA - The Voice of the Aaniiih and Nakoda Nations in Montana; KSHI - The Voice of the A:shiwi in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico; KCUW - Umatilla Reservation Community Radio in Oregon; KTNN - The Voice of the Navajo Nation broadcasting from Arizona; KUHB - The Voice of the Pribilofs in St. Paul, Alaska; KDSP - Sand Point in Alaska... if you can find any, let me know! And certainly if you're in the area, show them some support!)

But one that's actively running a fundraiser that could absolutely use more support is KUYI - Hopi Radio in Arizona. Broadcasting from the seat of the Hopi government in Kykotsmovi, KUYI includes local news from the Hopi reservation and programming in the Hopi language. They're also set to lose 60% of their funding with the CPB funds rescinded. Donate to support them here—they’re aiming to raise $25,000 for their 25th anniversary, and as of the time of this posting have raised $1,660.

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the weed dispensaries should ask if you would like to round up your purchase to donate to PBS. and if you say yes you get to scan a QR code that gives you 30-day free access to the full run of antiques roadshow. this is how drugs can win the war on drugs again.

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I say it over and over again. We are hungry, we are exhausted, we need food.

Any donation that could save our lives from starvation? Donate here.

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It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

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ever since i was a child ive had a headache

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Yoooooooo

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year are spent on the public broadcasting budget. NPR and PBS offer beong able to make small monthly donations, some being 7$ per month or lower if you want.

If you want to donate 1.60$ per month to your local station, you can multiply how much funding they get from you by 12. If you do their monthly donation of $7 per month, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on public broadcasting per year.

If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically:

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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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Hello! Would you like to annoy an asshole Republican U.S. House Representative? Because in addition to not allowing one of my relatives to unsubscribe from his little propaganda newsletters, he doesn't know how to lock down a survey:

Go ahead and vote! You don't need to submit an email address :)

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in my refusing the call era

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"what groceries u been into recently" is actually a great question, there's a bunch of good conversations inside it

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THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA TO HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED AND ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED BY THE IOF.

email & call ministry of foreign affairs & authorities of countries volunteers belongs to (tag them on x, tt, comment in ig, all of it!)

email your own mp & ministry of foreign affairs, our governments in general!! the international community is responsible for this.

email & call your govt’s embassies in occupied palestine.

PROTEST/BLOCKADE/DIRECT ACTION AT your govt offices and/or zionist embassies

visibility is key; follow the telegram for updates!

sources: freedom flotilla coalition telegram, social media channels of activists on the boats & on land

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customer service is cooking my brain, man