"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
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Rural America gets what Rural America wants!
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Soon all there will be is Fox News. And a few other Trump supporting right-wing media channels.
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We can’t have anything nice in this shithole country.
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Truly terrible news
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Whats the $# needed to bridge the gap of funding? Seriously asking why a gofundme type of campaign is not underway for CPB?
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There are enough billionaires that can step up and support CPB and PBS.
Those of us that already support educational programs cannot do it alone.
Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg and others have the wherewithal to do something that benefits all.
Don’t let the Trump regime win.
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Play nothing but testimonies trump gave pleading nothing but the fifth. Read all the testimonies of contractors he hasn't paid. All the women and children he has sexually assaulted. All the investors he has screwed over. And all the people who worked on the apprentice.
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😢
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What a TRAVESTY! 😢
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Heartbreaking. And infuriating. Musk, Vought and Doge/Project 2025 do far more damage to America than WWII saboteurs who were executed for far less.
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This is heartbreaking. 💔. Will it only end once everything has been destroyed?
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Holy shit
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Americans should be feeling physically ill and in an absolute panic between this and BLS firing. 🤢
Recession will be the BEST case in the next 6 months. The U.S. may never recover. Or maybe it will only be decades until it does?
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They are closing off our ways of knowing the truth. Soon the outside world connections will be cut off. The big bosses are all together.
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💔💔💔
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This is a crime against the nation.
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Well today is just fucking depressing. And that's saying something these days.
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I do not understand how this can happen. Surely the two flagships (PBS and NPR) can stay online?
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Maybe @mcuban.bsky.social could get some of his wealthy buddies to chip in some of their pocket change and save PBS?
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I hate this! He is supposed to be everyone’s president.
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"But KAAAAAMALA said she owns a GUUUUUUUUUUUNNN"
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Tragic. Too many of the US best resources are getting destroyed.
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Mr. Rodgers is going to meet these bastards at the pearly gates and drop kick them into perdition
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Specifically, what does this mean??? Is all public radio and PBS shutting down?
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I’m so angry!
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It's fine if you rape children but Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, and Reading Rainbow are a problem.
This fucking cult needs to go.
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A century of Great American Ideas are being demolished. For what? To own the Libs?
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Just want to be clear that I am hitting "like" on this post to thank @kairyssdal.bsky.social for keeping us informed about it.
I like nothing about the content of the post.
Detest is a bit weak for how I feel about this happening.
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They are robbing us of everything good in America.
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#Enshittification #DumbFuckification #USA #GOP
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So sad...
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My heart just broke. Again. 💔
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Winding down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting signals a sad day for our democracy.
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We Ordered all PBS & NPR Stations to Leave the Air and Focus on Fundraising for 2026 & 2027 to Get it back on the air in the future 2028 or 2029. Just Like Democrats are doing. Thank you.
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Another piece of normality gone. This administration really does want everyone in the thunderdome
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so forgive my ignorance, i thought the fundraisers were funding it? was that just to top up or enhance it? they need government money? can we just give more and keep it rolling?
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Fuck anyone who supported this, PBS helped poor kids for decades!!!!!!
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And so continues the destruction of this country, piece by piece, that American liberals have warned of for years.
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Wait--WHAT???
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And the American government will begin an disorderly wind down of democracy and the rule of law.
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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Did Congress rescind the legislation that created the CPB? I thought they just zeroed out its Federal funding.
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With mention of useful materials that are online.
Consider submitting links to useful documents to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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This is absolutely horrendous news. PBS is a treasure and embodies what America is supposed to be. This is devastating news
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#StopVotingRepublican
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So so sad
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An incredibly tragic loss in a rapid string of losses committed by people in power seeking more privatization by giant private entities to control the airwaves.
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Sad!
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Republicans are evil.
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Voting doesn't get us out of this. Y'all gotta learn this real fast.
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💔🖤💔 Such dark, wretched times.
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a helpful resource for those who want to help: adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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This really is heartbreaking.
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What are you getting in return for all the carnage?
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Anti democratic. All truth-telling institutions are under attack, with the Supreme Court as a silent partner.
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Just awful. Senseless.
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Welcome to the Soviet Union, 2020s version
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Wow.
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The pinheads that voted for Trump, voted for a third-party candidate, or didn’t even bother to vote at all, have destroyed our country. Congratulations. Hope you enjoy a white Christofascist dictatorship.
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Shameful
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Heartbreaking!
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What? You Can't! Free of Govt. funding is the opposition sweet spot! This is a terrible plan!
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The destruction doesn't happen all it once, but piece by piece, with awful things like this.
We are, without a doubt, worse off as a nation without the CPB existing.
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Everything Trump touches dies.
And the Republicans are his enforcers.
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May there be an exceptionally hot and lonely place in the lowest depths of hell for the teeny tiny man-child whose vengeance leads him to shut down CPB
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say it ain't so
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Isn’t that agency authorized and funded by Congress? Or did the Big Stupid Bill kill it off?
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1984, Fahrenheit 451 - this is the Dark Ages of America
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I was just thinking how PBS exposed me to learning as a child, and Shakespeare and opera as a middle-schooler. This is a terrible loss for our nation.
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So infuriating.
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@kairyssdal.bsky.social, what does this mean for your show Marketplace? You are such a fantastic, trusted source for economic news, we truly appreciate you!
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It is real now. We must continue to support local public broadcasting as much as possible-particularly in areas which are underserved by commercial broadcasters
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So sad! @lazytato.bsky.social
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Still in shock at where we find ourselves, yet not surprised.
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Guess our monthly donations is not enough anymore.
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I know that hate poisons the hater, but man. It’s so hard not to hate them for what they’re doing.
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You know how ppl "adopt" highways to clean up litter?
Join us in forming "adopt billboards" groups to post GOOD propaganda all across the USA. If they take away public broadcasting then get PUBLIC via billboards. If everyone pitches in a little we can buy up a bunch!
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No words. My daughter, when young, made videos with credits that included “funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting”. She had no idea what that meant. She just saw the CPB tag on all the shows she watched and that was it. Heartbroken.
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So what does this mean for NPR and pbS
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Morning Edition. ATC. Car Talk. NPR filled my home for decades. This administration can’t suck enough.
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Ug. Give what you can, folks.
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Hooray -- billionaires got tax cuts!
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The GOP Nazis won and new Amerikkka shall reap what it sows. And I for one will enthusiastically welcome the fall of the empire. For once in a while, they must die for others to replace them.
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😢😢😢😢
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Heartbreaking
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If he can’t control it, he destroys it
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It breaks my heart
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So very sorry, so very unnecessary.
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Evil shit.
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Didn't Congress authorize this money? Isn't this a violation of law?
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Putin's playbook to a T, kill all the media that is free, to criticize or educate, so that only the propaganda arm is left of the State; the Monarchist's Nativist Mick FauxNews Murdoch Silo Disinformation Propaganda Network & its related ecosphere of RWNJ Hugh Hewitts, Alex Joneses, Roe Jogans, &
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The dumbing down of Americans continues... How long before we pass the event horizon and Idiocracy becomes a documentary?
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😢
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What a disgrace.
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There is nothing and no one the Republicans won't destroy to cement their own power. There is no target too small or inconsequential that it doesn't merit a full blown scorched earth attack. It's not enough to rebuke - if you raise a finger against them they will ruin you.
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Goddammit.
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😥😥😥
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Every day leaves me sick to my stomach.
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Goddammit!
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More fascism. The entire GOP IS WALLOWING IN IT like a pig in s**t. (Pigs are actually clean animals, they don't wallow in excrement.)
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Unbelievably sad and disheartening. How much damage that orange felon is doing on a daily basis and he apparently cannot be stopped
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😢 this is awful.
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PBS and NPR will survive. This will hurt rural stations more than anything else.
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Vomitously enraging
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Joni called it, "...you don't know what you got till it's gone." youtu.be/2595abcvh2M?...
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Kai, long term impact?
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Whitehouse phone line. Leave a message with your disgust. (202) 456-1111.
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Why are we not in the middle of a general strike‽
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. Republicans are Trump accomplices. They are all in this together. Remember.
This would all STOP if they objected. <<<
They have now become the enemy. Treat them accordingly!
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This seriously makes me want to weep!😢😢
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Devastating
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A majority, but not by much, of Americans voted for the destruction of the public good, because “grocery too high.”
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Give me Big Bird any day over the corrupt, 34-times convicted felon and pedophile and anti-American traitor Trump and his evil MAGA/GOP goons
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Criminal.
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Fucking republicans are worst kind of garbage.
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shame, shame, shame on Republicans
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Is PBS going away?
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More trump job losses
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THIS MAKES ME SICK. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING.
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Awful, awful day for our country.
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The tires are coming off this country faster than an Oakland side show.
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😞
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Absolutely infuriating
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Good job, centrists! The marketplace of ideas si working out great!
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Makes me want to cry. I love PBS. My favorite channel.
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Dictators frequently prioritize gaining control of broadcasting and media outlets as a key step in consolidating and maintaining power.
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Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships
This article investigates the relationship between elite power sharing and media freedom in dictatorships. While conventional wisdom posits that dictators have a strong incentive to control the med...
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This is a sad day for America.
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Well NPR is no longer under any obligation to “both sides” every issue anymore. Also, fewer country music stories hopefully, lol!
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For good Republicans the closing of CPB makes the election of an insane child molester worthwhile.
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This makes me want to cry.
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are a lot of very overpaid CEOs at Public TV stations
Has even on of these men (mostly men) taken a pay cut during these hard times ?
maybe your radio show could dig into that ?
It is easy to find the numbers on ProPublicas website eg at WGBH/Boston there are 5 people paid > $400,000/year
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Is this the same as the PBS whose senior staff have grotesque salaries ?
projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
Piss on PBS for paying its CEO almost 1.3 million dollars in 2024
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I am so sick of this SH!T
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“A Private Corporation Funded by the American People”
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Fascism. Plain and simple.
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Odiferous. Rancid. Putrid. Unreal. Embarrassing. Hateful. Destructive. Ridiculous.
Doing this but using tax dollars for a ballroom? To renovate a jet? To fund Kristi Noem on horseback? For golf outings?
WTF?
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WHITEHOUSE BALLROOM
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Absolute. Fucking. Horseshit.
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This is a disgrace. Republicans did this. Project 2025 is in progress using Trump as their puppet.
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What a freaking tragedy
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Tragic
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Thank everyone that couldn't, wouldn't vote for a candidate who wouldn't have dismantled the country.
They were warned, and they made a choice.
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Blue states absolutely need to band together and create new versions of all of these services and departments and agencies to keep them alive. Hire everyone who is fired and keep the blue state economies afloat.
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A tragedy.
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Awful. One of the few remaining beacons of actual thought in the US.
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First logo: 1969-1976
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Some of my favorite shows will be gone. There was such a variety. Cooking, Travel, Gardening, Masterpiece Theater, British comedies, Nova, etc. I'll bet Repugnikkkan morons have never watched educational programs. 🤬
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What a terrible loss for us all!
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HEARTBREAKING
AND STUPID STUPID STUPID
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Can’t they go fund me? 💔
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Where are our heroes? Are there no billionaires who care about this country? Who can help pull this gem from the ashes?
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So sad. Dear God, what a mess.
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Guess we'll have to resort to Pirate Radio!
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oof - this is a gut punch
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(Understatement alert) So shitty.
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😡
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I loathe the GOP!
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Knife to the heart. I am pissed Motivates me to donate more to PBS
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Shame that something so essential is forced to wind down at all, and in an orderly fashion.
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Where are the deep pocket democrats with enough resources to make a difference? Why are they not stepping up?
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We supporters of PBS & NPR are just going to have to donate more plus PBS/NPR will need to increase advertising. Just don’t allow MAGA propaganda ads. Please.
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Well done, shithole country, well done.
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When Oprah watches Gayle on air, she should remember this, and the freedom of speech Gayle still has, and get a group of billionaires together to fund a bunch of stuff. They are billionaires bc of the American consumer. Pay back your country by funding these operations.
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$1 trillion for the Pentagon who hasn't passed an audit (where the F is our taxpayer dollars GOING) in 7 years.
And we can't have a public broadcasting system which handles emergency info for rural USA.
UNCONSCIONABLE.
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What exactly will it take for Americans to take actions to reclaim the country. I know that American culture HATES collective action and class consciousness, but at some point, someone or some group has to take a stand.
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Just when you thought America couldn't dumb down any further.
How do conservatives think this benefits anybody??
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This is so much worse than people suspect. The purpose is to further isolate Americans from each other, from any viewpoints outside their bubbles. The more rural America only views the Americans they never see or hear from as “other,” the faster our slide toward mass civil conflict.
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This makes me heartsick.
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@mcuban.bsky.social do something useful and give a donation equal to their funding needs. Donation! Not ownership!
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WE HAVE TO USE OUR MONEY AND WE HAVE TO USE IT WISELY.
FUND THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE BY SUBSCRIBING TO PBS PASSPORT!!
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A day to mourn the loss of a public treasure.
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Meanwhile the CBP is doing great! Because nothing says 'shithole country' like destroying all sources of factual information, while kidnapping assaulting torturing and killing innocent people whose only crime is not to be white male conservatives.
