This is the day NPR and PBS hoped would never come: The day federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting dries up. CPB is winding down its operations and local stations are making big changes to cope with budget shortfalls. Here's a thread about what stands out to me the most...

exactly like the Chinese surveillance state

Our new harsh water reality includes rapidly depleting aquifers (Letters) trib.al/H4fvPbC

Here’s the real “fake news,” paid for by creepy billionaires.

From @kff.org 27% of farmers & ranchers get their health coverage through the individual market with 90% of all individual market coverage obtained through the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces: www.kff.org/affordable-c...

* US INTERIOR DEPT SAYS IT IS OPENING 13.1 MILLION ACRES OF FEDERAL LAND FOR COAL LEASING @reuters.com

RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

🇪🇪🇺🇦 Estonia is contributing €10M to NATO’s PURL initiative to urgently strengthen Ukraine’s defense, - MFA of Estonia As Russia shows no sign of seeking peace, Ukraine needs rapid support to protect civilians, hold the line, and move toward peace.

2025 Press Freedom Rank 1 Norway 2 Estonia 3 Netherlands 4 Sweden 5 Finland 11 Germany 16 NZ 20 UK 21 Canada 25 France 27 S Africa 29 Australia 31 Poland 49 Italy 52 Ghana 57 US 🇺🇸 58 Gambia 61 S Korea 63 Brazil 66 Japan 89 Greece 112 Israel 124 Mexico 151 India 171 Russia 178 China rsf.org/en/index

Social media algorithms push rage and division to keep us scrolling. Here’s how the business model works—and the law that allows it to continue. #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Radicalization #PoliticalViolence #TechPolicy #Section230

As People Mag Points out, a treatment for autism Dr. Oz just announced Trump’s FDA is approving is sold by a supplement company owned by… Dr. Oz. people.com/what-is-leuc...

1. Billionaire Larry Ellison is set to acquire TikTok's US operations. Ellison, the second-richest person in the world, is a Trump supporter and a vocal enthusiast of the surveillance state.

“Sinclair announced its ABC affiliates will preempt Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show starting Tuesday with news programming.“ thehill.com/homenews/med...

LMAO WUT

For the unaware, at least *three* megachurches played this AI-generated clip of Charlie Kirk during their services last Sunday: religionnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

The SAVE Act would be the most restrictive voting law passed by Congress in generations, all to solve a problem we know doesn't exist. bit.ly/3IivtNa

Mediaopoly, NBC is blocking youtu.be/nh6Hf5_ZYPI?...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Maine and Oregon Tuesday, alleging that the states violated federal voting laws by refusing a department demand to hand over their voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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At least 3 students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen HS in Colorado. This is the 47th shooting that took place at a school in the US so far this year: 24 on college campuses, 23 on K-12 school grounds. This happened less than an hour after Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah.

Trolls are active with news today. The population in their 20's are buying the free speech idea despite racism and homophobia. 🚩🚩🚩

Serbia and election youtu.be/x606ZCj4ap8?...

I have read Trump’s “war department” EO. This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law. He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes. If you’re in the media and you don’t harp on that, you’re failing.

"Figures were adjusted" youtu.be/VsT0U2GLH1U?...

Music youtu.be/aGCdLKXNF3w?...

I ♥️ NY

Yo. Not we. As a nation. This dude is a very special case of weirdness and depraved thought processes. Just another moth in the flame.

Soon the mainstream media machinery will begin to soften Trump’s brazen attempts to shield these despicable people. You’ll hear things like “perhaps he doesn’t want people unfairly maligned by the public without due process”. There’s a word for people who protect pedophiles. It’s “pedophiles”.

More from Ronan Farrow youtu.be/B0VOvwAGGOw?...

Eric Adams and a top Trump adviser conferred in a secret Florida meeting to coordinate Adam’s dropping out and helping Cuomo: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/n...

The ballot measure that would restrict mail voting in Maine is backed by a conservative PAC called The Dinner Table, which says its mission is to elect a Republican majority in the Maine House.

ICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know. #ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware

“When were you lying, sir?” Asked my colleague Tina Smith of RFK Jr., “When you told this committee that you were not anti-vax? Or when you told Americans that there’s no safe and effective vaccine?” Kennedy replied, “Both things are true.” That’s a double scream: 😱 😱

"I'm not going to explain our sources and methods" -- FHFA Director William Pulte on how he ended up accusing Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

* ITALY PM MELONI SAYS RUSSIA'S LATEST STRIKE ON KYIV SHOWS IT HAS NO INTENTION OF NEGOTIATING END TO WAR @reuters.com

We are seeing.