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Only Two Republicans Voted Against #Trump Defunding #SesameStreet

Senate #Republicans just took a wrecking ball to #PublicBroadcasting.

Malcolm Ferguson
July 17, 2025

"Only two Republican senators broke the line to vote against their party’s plan to defund the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting.

"#Alaska’s #LisaMurkowski and #Maine’s #SusanCollins joined Senate Democrats in opposition to Republican cuts to organizations like PBS and NPR, and the smaller stations that they fund. While PBS and NPR would still continue at the national level, the cuts would likely devastate those local stations that rely on them.

"The Senate approved $9 billion dollars of cuts early Thursday morning, with $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and $8.8 billion from foreign aid programs like #USAID, which #ElonMusk’s #DOGE slashed earlier this year.

" 'The vast majority of this funding, more than 70 percent, actually flows to local television and radio stations,' Collins said last month during an earlier stage of the deliberation. 'In #Maine, this funding supports everything from #EmergencyCommunications in rural areas to coverage of high school basketball championships and [a] locally produced high school quiz show. Nationally produced television programs such as #AntiquesRoadshow, #DanielTigersNeighborhood, are also enjoyed by many throughout our country.'

" 'I understand … the concern about subsidizing the national radio news programming that for years has had a discernibly partisan bent,' she added.
'There are, however, more targeted approaches to addressing that bias at NPR than rescinding all of the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.' She backed up that thinking with her vote on Thursday morning, along with Murkowski."

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#CPB #CommunityRadio #PublicTelevision #GOPHatesSesameStreet #TrumpHatesSesameStreet #GOPAreHaters #Fascism #Corporatocracy #FuckTheGOP #CommunityRadio
#CollegeRadio #NativeAmericanRadio #SesameStreet #MisterRogers #ReadingRainbow #MollyOfDenali

The New Republic · Only Two Republicans Voted Against Trump Defunding Sesame StreetSenate Republicans just took a wrecking ball to public broadcasting.
Steveg58

So, last week on the Antiques Roadshow (as shown on Australian TV so maybe not recent in the UK) there was a set of woodworking chisels in a leather wrap that were supposedly once the property of Florence Nightingale.
This was a really top of the line set with a detachable handle in fine condition. When I saw it on the TV my first thought was that it was a wood turning kit.
Now, I had a look and I couldn't see any mention of her practising woodworking as a hobby or doing field repairs to furniture or equipment. Nor is there any suggestion that she constructed prosthetics.
However, it did occur to me that the various gouges and the like would be an ideal toolset for adjusting the fit of off-the shelf prosthetics for individual patients. It didn't seem to have seen much use but that is a purpose that I could see Florence acquiring it for.
#AntiquesRoadshow #FlorenceNightingale #WoodWorking

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