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I hate to feed into conspiracy theories, but I have to agree with this one. I wore size 2 plugs in my ear lobes for a few years. I stopped wearing them in 2019. I still have the holes in my ears 6 years later.

I’ve said it all along. So many things wrong with that day, including the reactions of the Secret Service agents. (Watch their reaction when Trump was allegedly ‘shot’ and compare it to the agents reactions when Reagan was actually shot.)

Even a graze from the alleged rifle would have taken off the entire ear. Truthful, knowledgeable marksmen will verify. As will any credible ER/trauma physician.

So. Many. Things. Wrong.

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It is painstakingly obvious that they only want us to hear Russian propaganda. That is why Steve Miller (of all people) wants to indoctrinate our children.

This is another tool for quashing dissent.

Josh Shepperd at The Conversation:

The Trump administration’s drive to slash government spending on everything from the arts to cancer research also includes efforts to carry through on the Republican Party’s long-standing goal of ending federal funding for NPR, the nation’s public radio network, and PBS, its television counterpart. Across the country, 1,500 independent stations affiliated with NPR and PBS air shows such as “Morning Edition,” “Marketplace,” “PBS NewsHour,” “Frontline” and “Nova.” Some 43 million people tune into public radio every week, and over 130 million watch PBS every year, according to the networks. Public media stations air local news and, when necessary, emergency information. Most also feature regional, national and global coverage of arts and culture. With commercial media divesting from local news reporting, audiences that have long relied on public media to inform their communities are even more dependent now on that service, as are audiences that got their local news from commercial sources.

Investigating public media

Public media is also under attack from the Republican majority in Congress and facing scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission, the government agency that regulates media. Brendan Carr, whom President Donald Trump appointed to lead the FCC, helped draft Project 2025. That’s the conservative blueprint that Trump distanced himself from during the 2024 campaign but has since embraced. As proposed in Project 2025, the FCC is examining NPR’s approach to underwriting. Through underwriting, financial support from sponsors is acknowledged on air without asking audiences to form an opinion about a product or make a specific purchase. The FCC is investigating whether those messages on NPR and PBS “cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.” The top executives of NPR and PBS have denied that their underwriting practices violate any regulations or laws.

At the same time, House Republicans are holding hearings regarding what they say is public media’s “liberal bias.” Their attention is primarily directed at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit corporation that stewards federal money that Congress appropriates for NPR and PBS. And in a separate move, Trump demanded that CPB “cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law” and “decline to provide future funding” in an executive order issued on May 1, 2025. Trump’s order accused NPR and PBS of bias in its “portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.” I’m a media historian who wrote a book about the origins of public media in the U.S. and how NPR and PBS contribute to democratic participation. Both networks are designed to provide equal access to information for every listener and viewer. In my view, as these efforts to investigate and end the funding of public media proceed, it’s worth revisiting why the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in the first place and to understand how it contributes to equal access to information today.

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Nearly a decade later, in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act. That law guaranteed a permanent stream of government funding for educational radio and television. Congress had pivoted from “education” to “public” broadcasting as the medium incorporated a wider array of programs, including BBC shows from the U.K. PBS first went live in 1970, and NPR’s first broadcast aired in 1971. To buffer NPR and PBS from the influence of political parties and commercial sponsors, the law called for the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In addition to receiving and then disbursing to NPR and PBS the federal funds that Congress appropriates for public media, the CPB provides additional grants to stations across the country. Notably, federal funds help to pay for maintaining equipment and studios where public media programs are taped. That is, most government funding for public media is dedicated to maintaining the technology necessary to continue with its mission to provide equal access. The rest of the federal money supports the same program development and audience engagement research that started with the National Association of Educational Broadcasters’ “bicycle network.”

Establishing a strong track record

The CPB model has succeeded by many measures. About 99% of Americans have access to public media through their television sets, car radios, computers and other devices. The CPB received $535 million in government funding in the 2025 fiscal year, equal to roughly $1.60 per American. About 70% of that money supports local radio and television stations. Public media costs taxpayers far more elsewhere. A 2022 study found that Germany spends around $142 per person, the U.K. spends $81, and Canada spends over $26 per year. The U.S. system is also unusual in that the local affiliates are nonprofits that have to pay for the NPR and PBS programs they run. Like the CPB, NPR and PBS are independent nonprofits, not government agencies. Rather than having the federal government foot the whole bill, in the U.S. public media also relies on $1.3 billion in annual charitable donations from viewers, listeners, corporations and foundations. Of that, public media receives $170 million  in underwriting, according to a 2023 report. But should the federal government end all federal funding for the CPB, their NPR- and PBS-affiliated stations would have more trouble buying, repairing and replacing the transmitters, antennas and websites required to broadcast their programs.

Late Thursday night, anti-American fascist Tyrant 47 signed an executive order to end funding for PBS and NPR, which is right out of Project 2025’s playbook.

See Also:

AP, via HuffPost: Donald Trump's Assault On PBS And NPR Takes Another Turn

Daily Kos: Trump pretends to defund public media with meaningless order

The Guardian: Trump signs executive order to cut funding for public broadcasters

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I have nothing against Jewish people but nothing but animosity toward the current regime running the Israeli state. It isn’t Jewish people committing genocide it is the Zionists. Fuck the Zionists.

I will say that all day, every day until the genocide ends.

This conflict between the Palestinians and Israel has been going on for decades (literally my entire life). The real casualties are the civilians (Palestinian and Israeli). The states (Israeli and Muslim) fund proxie skirmishes (terrorist attacks and straight up military strikes).

The civilians on both sides are caught in the middle.

Then there is the dehumanizing treatment of Palestinians, the encroachment settlements by Zionists, and the ever present anti-semitism claims if you dare to say anything about it.

I look at the people and see people. I see people acting badly. I see people being treated badly. I see government paint the situation as black and white with overly large brushes.

It’s not black and white. There are so many layers and decades of injury on both sides.

Violence will not stop this. But catering to Benjamin Netanyahu will only increase the killing. We must stop supporting Israel, for now. Until they remove the Likud operatives from their government.

The Jewish people are better than this

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Truth

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This prediction is the sunnier side of mental health registries. Mark my words that nothing good will come from this. We may, in our lifetime, see autistic people being sterilized, experimented on, and possibly euthanized.

Why does this sound familiar? Because the fucking Nazis did it. Why do I think it can happen here? Because we are facing the downward spiral into fascism and RFK Jr. is opening the door for a bunch of Mengele wannabes. All so his ego can be satiated.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Exactly

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We should all be horrified by these blatant Gestapo tactics.

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Truth

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The problem is that Trump is very, very stupid. He is playing 4D Candyland…and losing.

But perhaps it will get all those sycophants and MAGA Morons to see the light and join the fight.

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Epic trolling from Congressman Huffman.

But I need to see if the Republicans thought he was serious. Hard to imagine that they didn’t.

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Truth.

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Whenever someone within the Trump Administration, MAGA Republicans, or the Far-Right media bobbleheads speak, we should ask only one question: Are you lying or are you stupid?

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Remember this? I do. Never forgive and never forget the Republicans utter betrayal of America and the Constitution for #TraitorTrump and #PresidentMusk...

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FUCK TRUMP! FUCK ICE!

There's no reason for this.

NONE!

FUCK MAGA! FUCK ICE! FUCK TRUMP!

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