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Steve's Place<p>Come on, generals, let's move fast<br>Your big chance has come at last<br>Got to go out and get those MAGAts<br>The only good MAGAt is the one that's... what's that?</p><p>We changed sides?</p><p>We're Nazis?</p><p>The whole "commie" thing was a ruse?</p><p>We've always been Nazis?</p><p>The whole WWII thing was just a PR blunder?</p><p>The military is just a bunch of suckers and losers, as Trump said?</p><p>Nobody gives a shit about their oaths?</p><p>The destruction of the treasury is swell?</p><p>Using the American treasury to launder money for the gangsters fucking little kids is the legacy this county wishes to leave the world?</p><p>Because that's what this is. The child fucking ring (Epstien) wants more politicians and millionaires and billionaires paying under the table to fuck little kids.</p><p>The global arms business needs to keep slaughtering people.</p><p>The criminals in high places will sell their souls to Trump to launder money in this blatant racketeering.</p><p>It's cool, though. Charlton Heston once waved a flintlock, and Ronald Reagan rode a HORSE!</p><p><a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lq6cpcqhak2u" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app</span><span class="invisible">/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lq6cpcqhak2u</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treasury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/MoneyLaundering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoneyLaundering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/gangsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gangsters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/oaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oaths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/liars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/traitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traitors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epstein</span></a></p>
Steve's Place<p>The more lead children ingest, the less they'll resist a politician with his pants down and his little politician up high, saluting the flag.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/cdc-can-no-longer-help-prevent-lead-poisoning-in-children-state-officials-say/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/health/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/cdc-can-no-longer-help-prevent-lead-poisoning-in-children-state-officials-say/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/LeadPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeadPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epstein</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Clinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clinton</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Andrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andrew</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/LolitaExpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LolitaExpress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a></p>
Steve's Place<p>You will do as Republican Donald Trump tells you, because he would never harm a fly.</p><p>He hates your kids, though. He wants them poisoned. It's the Nazi way, undesirable non-Aryans.</p><p>When will the generals fight back? Shit, they salute, and do the bidding of, the dictatorship.</p><p>Sorry, kids. Mommy and daddy are pieces of shit who hate brown people. Too bad it got you, too. Ha ha ha ha. Money!</p><p>Don't worry your pretty little head that you'll be addled for the rest of your life by Republican-ordered lead poisoning in your food. If you're white and rich enough, mommy and daddy will buy your way into USC. You'll be POTUS before you know it!</p><p>That's the American way! We make broken brains! Then we take your land because a nepo baby decided it wants to take all of your raw materials to make equipment to spy on everyone, lie to us incessantly, and to kill us with increasing efficiency.</p><p>There is a reason the guy who ran a sex ring for the rich, where they fucked little girls and got away with it, flew both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump on his child fuck plane.</p><p>It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You don't have the money to pay to fuck little boys and girls, and you lack the power to murder Epstein and get your hands on his records.</p><p>Hi, Prince Andrew! How's it hangin'? Or is it?</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/@bespacific/114580909509786031" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsie.social/@bespacific/1145</span><span class="invisible">80909509786031</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/LeadPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeadPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/liars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/frauds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frauds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a></p>
OUR COMMON GROUND<p>:coffeev60: <br>Not for one second do I believe that people like 👇🏾 have the cognitive or moral capacity to save us. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USeducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USeducation</span></a> failures</p>
beSpacific<p>More than 3yrs after installation was approved by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/plaque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaque</span></a> honoring law enforcement personnel for defending Capitol on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a>, 2021, is instead sitting in Capitol <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/basement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basement</span></a> utility room surrounded by tools, maintenance equipment. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/legislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legislation</span></a> authorizing the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memorial</span></a> was part of omnibus spending package approved by Democrats 39 Republicans in 2022 and signed into law by Biden. The memorial has been in limbo under <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> presidency. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/23/capitol-police-plaque-january-6-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/nation/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/23/capitol-police-plaque-january-6-trump/</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pardons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardons</span></a></p>
Wokebloke for Democracy<p>Clay Jones!<br><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/TrickleDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrickleDown</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/BudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BudgetCuts</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>And <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has called on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> to eliminate ALL CURRENT &amp; FUTURE <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicMedia</span></a> &amp; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CPB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPB</span></a>], though he has not sent a formal request for the current funding to be clawed back.</p><p>Earlier this spring, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a>-led Congress passed a stop-gap budget measure that fully funds CPB through the end of September 2027.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> specified in his EO that recipients of federal funds from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CPB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPB</span></a> could not, under his decree, send money to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a>. NPR typically receives about 1% of its annual revenues from the CPB &amp; another several percent indirectly from stations. On average, CPB provides each <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicRadio</span></a> station 8-10% of their revenues each year.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…Harrison noted the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statute</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> passed to create <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CPB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPB</span></a> "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the US to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."</p><p>Harrison &amp; CPB have…ignored <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s orders—retaining, for now, its board, as the case works through the federal courts—taking no actions to withhold money from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> or its hundreds of stations…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>When <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> said he was ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting not to fund <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> any longer, the corporation's chief exec said he had no ability to do so.</p><p>"<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CPB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPB</span></a> is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," CPB chief Patricia Harrison, a fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> National Cmte co-chair, said. "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> directly authorized &amp; funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independent</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s legal standing to make such a decree was in question even before Tue's lawsuit was filed.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> allocates money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2yrs in advance to insulate public broadcasters from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> pressure…. The CPB was authorized by Congressional <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statute</span></a> but set up as a private corporation. Indeed, the org is itself suing Trump over an earlier decree, in which he claimed to be firing 3 of the 5 members of CPB's board of directors.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>An accompanying *fact* sheet for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> cited the claim that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> published articles “insist[ing] that COVID-19 did not originate in a lab” &amp; “refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story.”</p><p>NPR's Maher rejected such ideological characterizations, pointing to such statements by Trump to argue he was seeking to exact illegal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retribution</span></a> for their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> coverage.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> cited his *authority* as president under the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> &amp; federal laws in making the order &amp; said that neither <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> nor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> "presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens." In other public statements, Trump &amp; his allies have called the public broadcasters "left-wing propaganda" &amp; made similarly disparaging remarks.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s May 1st order took the form of a directive to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes &gt;$500B each year to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicBroadcasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicBroadcasters</span></a>, primarily to local stations. By <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statute</span></a>, ¾ of that money is devoted to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a>, ¼ to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radio</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"The Order targets <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> expressly because, in the President's view, their news &amp; other content is not 'fair, accurate, or unbiased.'"</p><p>The “wolf”line was drawn from a 1988 dissent by the late <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Justice Antonin Scalia.</p><p>The suit says the admin is usurping <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>' right to direct how federal money will be spent &amp; to pass laws. It names <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, OMB dir <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a>, Treasury Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScottBessent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottBessent</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MariaRosarioJackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MariaRosarioJackson</span></a>, the chair of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEA</span></a>, as defendants.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicRadio</span></a> stations sue <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> over funding ban</p><p>NPR &amp; 3 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a> public radio stations filed suit Tues in federal court against the admin over the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a>.</p><p>"It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a>. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" states the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> brief….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413094/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-54130</span><span class="invisible">94/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban</span></a></p>
Jason Beets<p>You can find other Tier Maker Templates I have created through the link below. </p><p>They include: Kansas politicians, Georgia politicians, Texas politicians, Missouri politicians, California politicians, Liberal Pundits and MSNBC Personalities, and US Representatives. </p><p><a href="https://tiermaker.com/user/15229977" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tiermaker.com/user/15229977</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>39/x</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Kansas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kansas</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Missouri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Missouri</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSNBC</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
Bill Bot<p>S1874<br>A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain nursing workforce development programs, and for other purposes.</p><p>📢 Introduced in Senate</p><p><a href="https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1874" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">congress.gov/bill/119th-congre</span><span class="invisible">ss/senate-bill/1874</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/S1874" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>S1874</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress119" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress119</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newbill</span></a></p>
Bill Bot<p>S1873<br>A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to transfer the United States Marshals Service to the judicial branch, and for other purposes.</p><p>📢 Introduced in Senate</p><p><a href="https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1873" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">congress.gov/bill/119th-congre</span><span class="invisible">ss/senate-bill/1873</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/S1873" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>S1873</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress119" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress119</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newbill</span></a></p>
Bill Bot<p>SRES244<br>A resolution affirming that the underlying purpose of the Foreign Emoluments Clause renders the acceptance and transfer of a plane from the government of Qatar, without the explicit consent of Congress, an illegal emolument, withholding the consent of the Senate to the acceptance and transfer of plane from the government of Qatar, and dem...</p><p>📢 Introduced in Senate</p><p><a href="https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/244" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">congress.gov/bill/119th-congre</span><span class="invisible">ss/senate-resolution/244</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SRES244" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SRES244</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress119" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress119</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newbill</span></a></p>