@JessTheUnstill @gwynnion @Kalshann
Thats right, the #trumpadministration IS or WILL fight to NOT raise #MinimumWage
Speaking of cutting....
Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director #RussVought unilaterally and ⭕unlawfully #defunding the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency #CIGIE through the apportionment process
“This is a five-alarm fire" some in #Congress said today Oct 1 2925
1984 was supposed to be a WARNING not a playbook
https://www.tiktok.com/@underthedesknews/video/7555669229203148046
What does thought policing mean to you?
#Trump #ThoughtPolice #Fascism #AntiFascism #Political #Prosecution #Military #Defunding #Bully #Authoritarianism #Dictator
Facing Defunding, Indigenous Cultural Workers Say They Cannot Be Suppressed
The proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities threatens Indigenous libraries and arts programs.Can defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting jeopardize national safety? Jennifer Shutt of Iowa Capital Dispatch reveals how GOP efforts to cut CPB funding risk destroying essential emergency alert services in rural areas by disrupting grants for local NPR and PBS stations. This threatens critical public communication infrastructure at a time when reliable alerts are vital. Learn why bipartisan voices warn of operational gaps and uncertain funding amid CPB's closure. Read the full article: https://www.alternet.org/cpb-emergency-alerts/ #JenniferShutt #IowaCapitalDispatch #CPB #defunding #emergencyalerts #NPR #PBS #mediafunding #publicbroadcasting #FEMA #NextGenerationWarningSystem #ruralnews #congress #Trump #publicservices
I've been collecting stories about how #CPBFundingCuts will affect specific stations. I'll be posting those shortly, but this seemed to be a good place to start...
#CorporationForPublicBroadcasting, funder of #NPR and #PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts
By Kerry Breen
Updated on: August 1, 2025
Excerpt: "Maher warned that #defunding #PublicRadio poses 'a real risk to the #PublicSafety of the country.' She said some NPR stations receive 'more than 50% of their budget' from federal funding and may face layoffs and station closures.
"#Rural areas would feel the largest impacts, Maher said. Local stations also provide vital alerts in #emergencies like #storms, #floods and #wildfires."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #KeepingUsInTheDark #PublicService #PublicBroadcastingCuts #PublicRadio #EmergencyAlerts
Unbelievable. We all know a horrendous crash is inevitable in the new MAGA air traffic system yet we have no legal or political tools to stop it. This should be a global wake-up call.
https://x.com/TimothyS/status/1947272712214200700
#Trump #deregulation #defunding = threat to public safety
#Gaza #Palestine #security #iran #safety #democracy #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #aviation #usa @blackvoices @law
#Trump Cuts to #PublicMedia Threaten #NativeAmerican Stations That Protect #Culture & #PublicHealth, Issue Alerts
July 18, 2025
"We speak to Loris Taylor, president of #NativePublicMedia, about the Trump administration’s drastic #defunding of public media and its impact on tribal nations. Fifty-nine #TribalRadioStations and one tribal #TelevisionStation that depend on federal funding will be among the first to face possible closure, putting some of the essential services that #PublicBroadcasting provides, including warning systems for missing #IndigenousWomen and girls, at risk.
"Taylor shares how Native-led public media helps preserve #IndigenousLanguages and helped keep communities informed during the peak of the COVID-19 #pandemic. She fears that without these same resources and 'with the #ClimateCrisis increasing, [we] are going to be operating on the margins of information and are not going to have real lifesaving information available to our citizens when they need it most.' "
Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/18/public_broadcasting_cuts_native_public_media
#ViewerSupportedNews #DemocracyNow #CulturalGenocide #EmergencyCommunications #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting #TrumpHatesThePoor #CorporateColonialism #LanguagePreservation #NativeAmericanNews #NativePublic #NativeAmericans #USPol
Breaking News: Senate defunds NPR and PBS!
Senators had to do it because those entities provided pleasure and truthful news, both of which have been outlawed by this administration of cruel psychopaths. #NPR #PBS #Senate #defunding
US Chemical Safety Board at risk of being defunded
https://www.ishn.com/articles/114776-us-chemical-safety-board-could-be-eliminated
#HackerNews #USChemicalSafetyBoard #Defunding #ChemicalSafety #PublicSafety #EnvironmentalProtection
Question I wish journalists would ask Peter Thiel: You have been one of JD Vance’s biggest backers, and you have been working very closely with this administration. You also lost a boyfriend years ago to an apparent suicide, so why wouldn’t you do everything within your power to influence the Trump administration to keep the LGBTQ suicide hotline open? Do you want others to go through what you went through? #thiel #maga #lgbtq #selfharm #defunding #vance
Oh you thought you was slick posting #anticommunistpropaganda then post #hasbara the next day? As you're shamelessly asking for #oklahomans money because the same #capitalistdictatorship that told you to do so is #defunding you? #irony
https://www.threads.com/@materialist.danarxist/post/DK8vyCCttQs
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKc7987vl3U/
#hasbarasucks #WesternPropaganda #propaganda #oeta #Kevin_stitt_pbs #pbsfails #pbsfunding #pbs #oklahomanews #oklahoma #oklahoman #oklahomanotokay #oklahomanotok #capitalistpropaganda
"#RFKJr threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals. The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with #pharma."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/rfk-jr-nih-scientists-medical-journals-jama-lancet-nejm-00371349
Note that all three have published editorials criticizing the #censorship and #defunding of science by the #Trump admin:
* JAMA, Feb 20, 2025
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2830748?guestAccessKey=47e4b56b-8f69-4ff3-a26e-3a66a88b2c67&linkId=753250407
* Lancet, Feb 11, 2025
https://www.thelancet.com/editorial-policies#anchor10
* NEJM, March 3, 2025
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2502874
Several other journals have published comparable editorials but are not yet Trumpist targets. Are they next? See the list maintained by the #DefendResearch team.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5_fjGPNh4_1Hgc0Q68Hr2vJhVIOK1Qc-KynfIG6fZI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.b7h09z33t43x
#DefendResearch #Medicine #ScholComm #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
This is the definition of "penny wise & pound foolish".
Same with #defunding #Headstart. Same for #lead detection and removal.
The #GOP will have even more blood on their hands before this is over.
Harvard University @harvard.edu is being affected by #Trump #MAHA #HHS #Defunding policies. Whats the Immediate operational damage? 1. Research “bloodbath.” More than 350 grants at Harvard Medical School alone were cancelled in a single wave, forcing labs to draft shutdown plans and lay-off staff.
Just called my #Congressmen #Knott, #Tillis and #Budd. Only Knott had someone I could talk to. Left #VMs for other two. Asked for statement on US Rep quoting Joseph Goebbels, ethics for a #President accepting gifts from #foreign #gov, about ethics of a #potus using crypto, #defunding #school #lunches but funding #military #parade. Person was nice and said "Well I haven't discussed those topics with the #Congressman, but I'll pass it along." Really? No one is talking about this shit?!?
An update on fascist de-funding and attempts to re-write history at museums, libraries and other cultural institutions, and more. Important stuff! https://youtu.be/7ng_X-TJwss?si=jT4wFal7s4WuIceC #fightFascism #defunding #DefundingLibraries #DefundingMuseums #cruelty #MeidasTouch
A riddle for today: #defunding public media,baring journalists from #government buildings,#banning #queer people&expression,#banning #abortions ,setting up #concentration camps,giving more money to the rich,allying with #dictatorships ,purging #scientific research&tought, threatening neighbouring countries with #annexation, defending #nazis in #Germany, organising a huge #military parade in the capital on the birthday of their #leader - if it is not #Russia which country is it?
#PublicBroadcasting outlets #NPR and #PBS Protest & Vow Fight Against #Defunding #ExecutiveOrder issued by #DJT
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/business/media/npr-pbs-federal-funding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.CuJB.WhoikNkFO8c8
(#GiftLink #FreeAccess To #NYTimes Article)
While I think a lot of observers make too much of the supposed ideological differences between the "populist" white nationalist faction, and the pro-billionaire techno-fascist contingent in the Trump regime, it's hard not to notice that some of the DOGE recommendations and other funding cuts look like class warfare made literal, with expected casualties. In a move that makes precisely zero sense from a perspective of protecting Americans living through the early stages of climate catastrophe, the Trump regime has ordered the closure of twenty-five science centers that monitor water levels to combat flooding and drought.
Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
"The Trump administration has ordered the closure of 25 scientific centers that monitor US waters for flooding and drought, and manage supply levels to ensure communities around the country don’t run out of water.
The United States Geological Service (USGS) water science centers’ employees and equipment track levels and quality in ground and surface water with thousands of gauges. The data it produces plays a critical role across the economy to protect human life, protect property, maintain water supplies and help clean up chemical or oil spills.
The targeted centers are part of a larger network, and the Trump administration based its decision to make cuts on leases near expiration, not scientific reasoning, said Kyla Bennett, director of science policy with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility non-profit that is tracking the issue."
I think I do a pretty good job of distinguishing the things I know, from the things I suspect, here on this blog; so perhaps what I'm about to say here is speculative, but please note that my observations are absolutely informed by people like Elon Musk openly articulating his belief that we're in a racialized war for the future of humanity, which is going to happen on Mars apparently. That noted, it's hard for me not to notice that an absolutely huge portion of the regime's slash and burn agenda is clearly a targeted type of quite literal class warfare; they're actively burning down anything that keeps poor and labor class people alive, while funneling money directly to billionaire tech-fascists, increasing military funding, and rapidly expanding a fascist police state. The result of these policies on a long enough timeline will quite obviously be the deaths of more labor class people, and a further entrenchment of power for the ruling class reactionaries; and suggesting that might be intentional would sound like a conspiracy theory if the billionaire nazis surrounding and populating the Trump regime, guys like Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance and so forth, didn't keep saying the quiet part out loud.
Finally, while I'm not sure this is newsworthy, I couldn't willingly write up this story without marveling at what I'm sure one of the wildest things quoted from The Guardian in the paper's long history:
“It’s not being done with any thought about human life, it was just ‘this seems so woke so let’s get rid of it,’” Bennett said. “People think water is free and comes out of your tap whenever you want, but it’s not that simple.”
Yeah, water is "woke" is a thing now apparently; may whatever gods you believe in have mercy on our souls.
#Fascism #Trump #Flooding #Drought #Science #DOGE #Defunding #ClassWarfare #Billionaires #Nazis
