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."

https://newrepublic.com/post/198063/two-republican-senators-vote-against-trump-defunding-sesame-street

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

#MollyOfDenali and #NatureCat are some QUALITY television shows!!! I always learn something new (well, more from Molly).

#NoCutsToPublicBroadcasting! #BigUglyBill #PublicBroadcasting #EducationalTelevision

DENALI!!! Always and forever!
Chris Noel is the mayor of Denali Borough and lives in the forested neighborhood of McKinley Village, which sometimes shows up as Denali Park on online maps. He’s very accustomed to the dual identity that has long swirled around this region, the vast national park that defines it and the 20,310-foot crown jewel at its center.

But in this snow-shrouded land where the sun appears for only a few hours daily in winter, he and others say there is no disputing that the name of that mountain — North America’s tallest — is the Indigenous word Denali.
#Alaska #Denali #MollyOfDenali
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/15/denali-mount-mckinley-trump-alaska-renaming/

@therobburgessshow Ergo Molly of Mount McKinley ?

Molly of Denali needs to be renewed for another 4 seasons.

| #MollyOfDenali #Denali #MountMcKinley #MtMcKinley

A look at six Indigenous characters in cartoons

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/indigenous-characters-cartoons/

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Indigenous #PeopleOfColor #animation #comics #MollyOfDenali

New post: My recommended streaming services for cartoons (2023 edition), and how to watch everything from "Molly of Denali" to "The Owl House" to "Futurama."

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/recommended-streaming-services-cartoons-2023-edition/

#streaming #animation #TV #cartoon #anime #MollyOfDenali #TheOwlHouse #Futurama

From 2020: Cartoon review: "Molly of Denali"

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/cartoon-review-molly-of-denali/

#animation #cartoon #MollyOfDenali #PBS #Alaska #Indigenous #TBT #ThrowbackThursday