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Is Congress About to Kill This Local Radio Station? Podcast Episode · The Daily · 07/11/2025 · 33m

1/ Must listen ep of The Daily. Congress is trying—THIS WEEK—to dramatically cut funding to CPB (which funds NPR and PBS). Rural Americans, who rely on local stations for weather warnings and local politics, will be worst hurt. Those stations will die. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

I LOVE PBS AND NPR. Don’t let Congress vote to defund OUR public media next weeek. Speak out NOW. It is URGENT. Visit protectmypublicmedia.org

#pbs #NPR #protectmypublicmedia #publicmedia

MUST WATCH: They didn’t just burn Tulsa — they burned proof.

Black wealth. Black futures. Gone.
And now they’re banning books so you never learn it happened.

📚 ERASED tells the truth they’re scared of.

Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

Really good to hear from @jay.bsky.team at the Knight Media Forum…great resource for journalists. (thx @knightfoundation.org )

On January 27, 2025, we mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz—a reminder of the horrors fueled by hatred and lies. As extremism and division surge, those who dehumanize others are recreating a dangerous past.

Reject their rhetoric. Refuse to be complicit. History must not repeat itself.

Facts.

Meta ending fact-checking for community notes model Meta will end its eight-year partnership with independent American journalists, including PolitiFact, to identify false

The fact-checkers fact check Zuckerberg: "Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards. It's time to quit invoking inflammatory and false language in describing the role of journalists and fact-checking." www.politifact.com/article/2025...

I think everyone should get to know the west African term “wahala”.

It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck.

I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work.

Because—- *gestures at everything*

See wahala?!???

The Sound of Fear on Air It is an ominous sign that "Morning Joe" felt it had to apologize for something I said.

“It is a very ominous thing if our leading forums for discussion of public affairs are already feeling the chill of intimidation and responding with efforts to appease.” @davidfrum.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Meee

Assisted on a documentary at Nebraska Public Television that had Reisner and this book at the center. One of the most prophetic books of that time.

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Senate Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Pass a Shield Law to Protect Journalism The PRESS Act, which would protect journalists from government spying, enjoys broad bipartisan support and has passed the House—but it’s unclear whether the Senate will take it up.

Great discussion w/ @reporterscommittee.bsky.social of why the PRESS Act is more important than ever before.

If you value independent journalism, then you need to contact your senators. Today.

Thank you!

🙋🏾‍♂️great thing you’re doing!