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Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago

Doubled my monthly contribution to NPR. Doing my small part

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta stop that woke big bird

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Project 2025 advances forward 🙄

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm surprised it took them this long. So what happens now?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They lose a portion of funding I believe.

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Shit. As a Canadian, I've been trying to boycott the US amid the tariffs and 51st state taunts, but I might have to make an exception. It would really, really, suck to lose the likes of PBS.