Mastodawn

🚨🚨Judge Lamberth orders USAGM, by March 23, to bring back all 1,042 VOA employees, who have been on paid admin leave for a year and resume full broadcasting. The court also rules all the actions Kari Lake took to reduce US international broadcasting to a supposed “statutory minimum” are vacated.

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Steve Herman 6d ago

This is a comprehensive legal defeat for Elon Musk’s DOGE lackeys, the self-proclaimed USAGM ‘deputy CEO’ Kari Lake and others in the Trump administration who sought to eviscerate the Voice of America. If USAGM complies there is almost certainly a battle imminent on whether the editorial firewall will be respected, which prohibits partisan skewing of VOA’s journalism.

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Bette 6d ago

@newsguyusa

Are you a tad excited about this? There's hope!

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Steve Holden

@Bette @newsguyusa Wonderful (not) to se (what passes for) America’s left wing (per the same legacy media who lie about everything) celebrating it being reopened.

Now might be the time to take some fucking action to make sure the next rogue president can’t shit on the constitution.

Not being holier than thou here. Out UK pols were like bleating sheep during Johnson’s disastrous premiership, and have done eff all to discourage repeats as far as I can see.