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Retired Middle School Teacher. 37 years with those crazy kids! Let’s Go Brewers! Go Pack Go! Go Big Red!
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🇩🇰 Since 1993, Denmark has required weekly empathy classes for kids aged 6-16. The result? The world’s lowest bullying rates and top kindness scores. Teaching compassion early turns classrooms into safe zones and kids into leaders who actually care.
mymodernmet.com/empathy-clas....
Good job Donnie!
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We're Running out of Straws in
Chump's America, Mr. Tribe......
Oops
11.08.2025 03:03 — 👍 4454 🔁 1723 💬 92 📌 48Poor Mets 😂😂😂😂
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At Mike Flood’s town hall in Lincoln, Nebraska, a woman pointed to the estimated $450m cost of “Alligator Alcatraz”, an immigration detention facility in Florida. “How much does it cost for fascism?” she demanded. “How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?”
#Pinks
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stifle a talent like Sanders, but opened up its wallet to pay and prop up a guy like Deshaun Watson.
Think hard on that. They are paying Watson more NOT to play, than just about anyone on their team to play.
Shit judgment. Deep racism.
(And if you fix your face to point out that Watson is
Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance.
11.08.2025 16:27 — 👍 2870 🔁 870 💬 225 📌 84
Public media in the United States has long operated as a thin but vital thread connecting civic life to the people it’s meant to serve. It is one of the few remaining institutions that exists not to sell us something, but to hold space for shared understanding—to offer information, education, and cultural presence outside the logic of profit or power. That thread is being cut. The planned shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting isn’t an accident of austerity. It’s the next move in a broader campaign to dismantle what remains of public-facing infrastructure. CPB funding supports more than 1,500 PBS and NPR affiliates across the country—many of them in rural, tribal, and working-class communities with no other reliable access to local news, civic coverage, or educational programming. Without it, entire regions will go dark, informationally speaking. No classroom content, no GED prep, no emergency alerts, no locally rooted journalism. This is what structural abandonment looks like—not a sudden collapse, but a slow erosion of the systems that once helped people orient themselves in the world. From an anthropological perspective, public broadcasting doesn’t just convey information—it creates social visibility. It makes communities legible to themselves and to each other. When those forms of recognition disappear, so does the foundation for political participation and collective memory. That erasure is not incidental but strategic. We need to stop thinking of public media as a cultural amenity and start recognizing it for what it is: civic infrastructure. Like clean water, postal delivery, and public education, it underwrites basic conditions for social cooperation. Its function is not simply to inform, but to create a shared informational field across lines of geography, class, and politics. Without it, the connective tissue of the public frays. The collapse comes not through censorship, but through disconnection. But the assault on public media extends beyon…
Similar pressures are surfacing across the industry. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has initiated investigations into Comcast/NBC, Disney, and even local affiliates—advancing a strategy that doesn’t shut down independent journalism outright but reshapes it through regulatory leverage. The goal is to make media appear neutral while quietly aligning it with an increasingly authoritarian political agenda. From a political ecology standpoint, this is a form of epistemic enclosure. Just as land, water, and labor have historically been privatized and reorganized to serve elite interests, so too now is information. What was once distributed as a public good is being recast as a managed resource—controlled, monetized, and subject to ideological filtration. The result isn’t merely the decline of independent media—it’s the transformation of the information economy into a stratified system where the powerful operate on real-time data, and the rest are left with curated narratives or none at all. The effects are uneven by design. Urban stations with donor networks or university affiliations may survive by restructuring. But small-town affiliates, tribal radio, and rural PBS stations will be gutted. The same communities most at risk from climate disaster, health inequity, and economic marginalization will lose the very tools needed to prepare, adapt, or be heard. The politics of abandonment meet the politics of silence. And nowhere is this more visible than in climate coverage. The withdrawal of public media doesn’t just hinder general access to information—it directly undercuts the capacity for communities to respond to environmental collapse. Local PBS and NPR stations have often served as hubs for place-based climate reporting, emergency warnings, and adaptation resources. Their loss isn’t abstract. It means the disappearance of flood alerts, fire updates, water quality warnings, and heat advisories in areas already vulnerable to ecological disruption. The climate crisis is unforgivi…
The collapse of public information systems doesn’t mean people stop trying to make sense of their world. But the absence of reliable, accessible sources opens the door to rumor, factional media, and conspiracy. That shift isn’t irrational—it’s what happens when the public is forced to navigate a world stripped of shared facts. The defunding of CPB and the regulatory assault on media independence should not be read as separate developments. They are part of the same structural shift: a reorganization of governance around control, not consent. The goal isn’t just to reduce access to information. It’s to replace institutions rooted in transparency with ones built for spectacle and suppression. Resistance is possible—but it won’t look the same everywhere. Some states may protect their affiliates. Others may find ways to convert local stations into community-owned nonprofits or tie them to school districts and libraries. Legal action might slow some of the FCC’s worst overreaches. But the larger task is to rebuild the idea that public information matters—that knowledge is not just a commodity or a weapon, but a shared resource essential to civic life. We are watching the deliberate dismantling of one of the last remaining platforms for public discourse in this country. And if we lose it, we don’t just lose access to good journalism or educational programming. We lose the infrastructure that allows a people to think together, to act collectively, and to remember who they are.
Federal funding for PBS has been completely rescinded. Congress passed legislation in June and July 2025 to remove $1.1 billion in CPB funding, and an executive order earlier this year directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to immediately cease funding for PBS and NPR . As a result, CPB has announced it will begin a full shutdown: • A majority of CPB staff will be laid off by September 30, 2025, with a small transition team remaining active through January 2026 to manage final obligations . • CPB historically managed $500+ million annually in federal support, distributed to ~1,500 local public radio and TV stations nationwide . ⸻ What Does This Mean for PBS? National PBS Programming Major national shows such as PBS NewsHour and other flagship content may continue temporarily, but future viability is uncertain and dependent on alternative funding efforts . Local Stations Local PBS member stations, especially in rural or underserved communities, face severe disruptions. CPB grants—which often made up 25% to 50% of a station’s operating budget—are now gone . Many of these smaller stations may: Reduce or halt local news and educational programming Face potential closures or disrupted operations due to lack of funding Children’s and Education Content Federal support to programs like the DoE’s Ready-to-Learn grants was terminated in May 2025. That has already halted production of many PBS KIDS shows such as Sesame Street, Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, and others. Emergency Alert Services Many public television stations use CPB-administered infrastructure to support emergency alert systems (e.g. WARN). Without funding, this capability may be reduced, especially in remote areas.
We are a heartbeat away from having only state-approved media.
And entering a conspiracy-centric reality.
Howard Lutnick is out here promising rebate checks from tariff revenues, just like DOGE promised checks from all the money it “recovered”… what happened to those? Lost in the mail?
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New in PN: Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating.
"The fact that crime is down conflicts with the ever-present right-wing narrative of a nationwide crime epidemic. So Republicans are resorting to sensationalizing random street fights."
I saw a link to this headline and thought it was a joke. Then I went to the site and saw its real. At this point the legacy media is so trained by Trump, it cannot help itself.
11.08.2025 12:21 — 👍 1689 🔁 440 💬 96 📌 21
OPINION by @clairecmc.bsky.social:
“So my message for Republicans in Congress is this: You can run, but you cannot hide from reality.”
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You too!!!
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Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no.
www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
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When you’re just too stupid to realise how stupid you really are….
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