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PS: For a beautifully clear (and delightfully mind-bending!) explanation of what might have existed before the Big Bang, check out PBS Space Time’s fantastic episode, "What Happened Before the Big Bang?" hosted by astrophysicist Matt O’Dowd. Highly recommended as a thoughtful companion to this thread! 
Watch it here on PBS Space Time https://www.pbs.org/video/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-y76rlj/
#DidYouKnow when you become a Cascade PBS supporter, you open up our entire streaming library? You can watch your favorites from PBS, as well as all of our local programming, like Nick on the Rocks, Out & Back, and more! #pbs #publicmedia
@MusiqueNow@todon.euhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r70ctymvnyo
You need to see this yourself! It's insane!!!! America! GET THESE #MAGAMORONS OUT OF YOUR GOVERNMENT!
How did an ignorant, immature, racist, ati-queer, antisemitic, scumbag, #FASCIST HATEmonger like #MarjorieTaylorGreene STAY in Congress!!!! 'Yet here we are'
Thank you #JasmineCrockett for not backing down, and telling it like it is!
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.socialI bet they'd be fine with PBS if Rupert owned it.
Why Republicans keep trying to murder Big Bird
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/29/2312935/-Why-Republicans-keep-trying-to-murder-Big-Bird
As part of its ongoing war against both public services and media that reports on the Trump regime critically, the heads of NPR and PBS were dragged before a congressional subcommittee run by noted fascist freak Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), whose language made it clear the Trump regime is borrowing a playbook from one of the darkest periods of US history:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/npr-pbs-mtg-hearing-doge
NPR and PBS testify in heated hearing of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Doge panel
"NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical leftwing echo chambers,” said the Georgia Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene during her opening remarks, accusing NPR of having a “communist agenda”.
The hearing, called “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable”, was chaired by Greene who is head of a “delivering on government efficiency” group within the House oversight committee.
The Doge subcommittee hearing comes as the Trump administration, including the senior presidential adviser Elon Musk, wage a months-long campaign against public broadcasters and critical media more broadly. The FCC, led by a recent Trump appointee, opened an investigation into NPR and PBS in January. A day before the hearing, President Donald Trump said he would “love to” end public funding for the public broadcasters."
I know there's a tendency among "respectable" people to ignore everything Greene says and does because she's a raving nazi crank, and often a circus-level distraction from "serious" politics; but in this case I think doing so would be a grave mistake. Why? Because she just turned a govt efficiency panel into a House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) session right out of the darkest days of McCarthyism, before using the regime's reactionary grievances with NPR and PBS to further its war on media, public broadcasting, and programs funded for the education and edification of the American public.
If you think I'm going too far with that comparison, consider the title of the hearing (Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable) and keep in mind that the purpose of calling it is ostensibly "efficiency." This is a funding recommendation panel. Greene doesn't have the authority to "hold the heads of NPR and PBS accountable" but before she even spoke a word, she'd already cast the networks' programing as anti-American and a danger to the nation.
If that doesn't convince you, consider the lines of questioning Greene pursued and the content of her arguments. She literally accused NPR of having a "communist agenda," cast critical reporting of the Trump regime as anti-American, and grilled PBS's Paula Kerger about LGBTQ+ content like it was some kinda crime.
"The attacks on PBS, meanwhile, heavily focused on opposition to LGBTQ+ content in its programming. “They are now part of transing children, brainwashing children about gender,” Greene said of PBS on Tuesday during an interview on the rightwing channel Newsmax.
Greene repeatedly attacked PBS during the hearing over claims that it featured a drag performer on one of its shows, holding up a poster of the performer who she described as “child predator” and “monster.”
Folks, this is an official representative of the govt seriously arguing that showing a fully-clothed drag performer singing a children's song is an anti-American plot to "trans" and "brainwash" US children. No really; and she accused the singer of being a child predator without evidence to boot. She also accused both networks of being a "radical leftwing echo chamber" which would be an absurd comment on its face given the milquetoast, barely left of center content found on both networks, if not for the inclusion of the sinister-sounding word "radical" and the larger context of the hearing.
Please keep in mind that after seizing control of the typically independent FCC (see article at the top of this thread), Trump minion and Project 2025 author Brendan Carr immediately opened up clearly ideological investigations into NPR and PBS, and Downmarket Mussolini himself has been threatening to revoke the licenses of ostensibly "liberal" media that criticizes him or reports on his unlawful activities, including PBS and NPR. In that context, all of this, including this hearing, is designed to manufacture consent for ideological policing every bit as reactionary and malicious as the HUAC and McCarthyism.
In terms of spending, the government doesn't provide very much of NPR and PBS's funding; which only goes to demonstrate the purpose of this hearing was ideological policing, not govt efficiency. Because these people use the whole cow however, Greene still seized the moment to advocate for dismantling the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, even though it won't shut down NPR or PBS, because doing so will shut down local media and these fascists want you ignorant and reliant on their propaganda outlets for the news.
I haven’t worked for #PBS or #NPR, but I’ve collaborated with both to share #science stories.
The talented people there are always thoughtful, curious & kind. They’ve gifted us Mister Rogers, Carl Sagan, Julia Child, LeVar Burton & Elmo. 
It’s appalling to see members of Congress attack them for political points.
hey hey, watch the interview the local #PBS station did of me and the game I'm making about Exit 3A in Charlotte using the #bevyengine
Just donated to PBS and NPR. What a bunch of malarkey.
@markwyner@mas.toFor many years I’ve been helping Josephine Library Community District, a small library district in Southern Oregon.
Their story is quite exceptional. And they’re in a very red area, so they’re always fighting the good fight.
OPB (Oregon’s PBS) ran a wonderful segment on them. It’s about their team, the libraries, and their battle.
I’m proud of them. And my website is featured in the intro. 
@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.socialFred Rogers was born 97 years ago today, March 20, 1928. Happy Birthday, Mister Rogers.
Hey, would you believe me if I told you that the President signed an executive order on February 18th that gives Trump, a guy who tried to make election officials declare him the winner of an election he lost (and launched a coup attempt when that didn't work) and has been talking about shutting down media organizations that criticize him, essentially complete control over the previously independent Federal Election Commission and Federal Communications Commission? I mean probably not right, since for-profit media has barely covered the issue even though it has a direct impact on their industry. Unfortunately, it's true:
Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins.
"The order states that, “The heads of independent regulatory agencies shall establish a position of White House Liaison in their respective agencies,” and goes on to say: “Independent regulatory agency chairmen shall submit agency strategic plans … to the Director of OMB for clearance prior to finalization.” In other words, independent agencies will no longer be independent but will instead be ruled over by political commissars, their every action now scrutinized to make sure they are ideologically sympatico to the aims of the MAGA movement.
Two of the agencies subject to this new system are the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — a historically bipartisan, six-member organization that helps to set ground rules for how elections are run and financed — and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, among other things, controls access to the country’s airwaves.
Trump has been angling for control of both of these agencies since the start of his administration."
Is any of this legal? Who the hell knows; but are you willing to bet a 6-3 fascist-high Supreme Court that has already endorsed the idea that Trump is above the law and the existence of an imperial presidency, are likely to stop him? I'm certainly not. Furthermore, to mount any sort of mass resistance to this type of "classic" fascist power grab ultimately targeting elections and media criticism of the regime, you'd probably have to know it's happening and understand why this executive order might be the single most dangerous thing Trump has signed since he took office again; and clearly for-profit media and a political class doing more collaborating with fascism than resisting it, don't consider informing you about this very relevant right now.
Folks, I dunno about you but I'm getting tired of waiting around for Trump to find his Reichstag Fire and finish crafting a multi-executive order version of the German Enabling Act while Very Serious PeopleTM keep pretending we don't know if Trump is going to go full Hitler and mustn't presume he means to do everything he openly says he's doing. We all heard this guy on tape pressuring election officials and even GOP Governors to "find" him thousands of votes and effectively rig the 2020 election for him. We're all watching as his Project 2025 nazi minion Brendan Carr uses his newfound powers as head of the FCC to threaten the broadcast licenses of media orgs that criticize him, try to shut down PBS and NPR, and even investigate media companies that the regime claims "promote diversity" like that's some kind of crime. So when Trump, the imperial president, passes an executive order that gives him complete effective control of the agencies that regulate American elections and what passes for the "free press" in the United States, you'd have to some kind of credulous rube to believe he's doing so for any other purpose besides rigging elections for fascists and eliminating whatever portions of the US media there are that won't carry water for the fascist administration and the odious ideology animating it. There's not a lotta wiggle room here; either you're a complete fucking muppet, or you're willing to quietly bootlick for a fascist President while he rips pages directly from Hitler's playbook to create his very own American Pork Reich.
I guess the only question left then, is which of those two possibilities best describes an American political and media class supposedly opposed to Trump's fascist regime, that doesn't want to talk about it before it's too late to stop him?
Pre #covid I was a well paid electro mechanical assembler. Now I am a poorly paid remote worker taking donation calls.
The #PBS calls give me a unique perspective on the country; I talk to people all over the US and Canada every day. People are freaking the hell out terrified of losing PBS so donations are surging.
Cancellations are also surging as people flee the US to Canada and Europe.
Just took a cancellation; Imagine moving from USA to Germany to get away from #Nazi s. What a world.
More than 500 PBS Kids episodes, Ken Burns documentaries + shows like FINDING YOUR ROOTS are now streaming on Hoopla — free w/ a library card!
And users can now watch all PBS shows in a category ad-free w/ just a single "borrow," an exponential increase.
For tonight's Quarantine Control on @damagecontrolblog, I wrote about African Folktales, Reimagined. I enjoyed the anthology. @Dio_Senrab wrote about Fruitvale Station, and CWTyger covered Hidden Voices. Check us out!
https://www.dcgameblog.com/2025/02/quarantine-control-256-hidden-folktale-station/
@Mendie_Taoma@tech.lgbtDid Math-Man from the #pbs show Square One Math Television seriously F you up as a kid, or was that just me?
PSA: Folks in the US probably want to head over to their local #PBS (TV app, website, figure out the schedule) to watch their thing on Hazel Scott. https://www.pbs.org/video/the-disappearance-of-miss-scott-jk0j1y/ (also available with audio descriptions or ASL.)
If you don't know the name (or only remember Alicia Keys dropping her name at the Grammys), go fix that, because I promise that you all want to...
What impact does federal funding of public media have on your wallet?
$1.60 per year
Pubic radio and TV (and digital!) provides high quality, educational and inspirational content to all of America, without paywalls or subscription fees.
Sounds like a bargain to me.