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Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:<p>Per Ben Wittes: Fundraiser for U.S. international media workers (i.e., Voice of America, et al.) affected by Presidents Trump-Musk shutdown of U.S. Agency for Global Media. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USAGM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAGM</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fundraiser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fundraiser</span></a> <a href="https://secure.givelively.org/donate/usagm-employee-association/support-for-us-international-media-workers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">secure.givelively.org/donate/u</span><span class="invisible">sagm-employee-association/support-for-us-international-media-workers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>More on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IMLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IMLS</span></a> shutdown:</p><p>On March 14, 2025,… <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> …issued an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EO</span></a> that called for the dismantling of 7 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>…. They ranged from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USAGM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAGM</span></a>, which oversees <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a>, to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MBDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MBDA</span></a>.</p><p>The Institute of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Museum</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a> Services was also on the list. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> created the IMLS in 1996 through the Museum &amp; Library Services Act. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> merged the Inst of Museum Services, which was established in 1976, w/the Library Prgms Office of the Dept of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://theconversation.com/trump-administration-seeks-to-starve-libraries-and-museums-of-funding-by-shuttering-this-little-known-agency-252455" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/trump-admi</span><span class="invisible">nistration-seeks-to-starve-libraries-and-museums-of-funding-by-shuttering-this-little-known-agency-252455</span></a></p>
GeriAQuin<p>🇺🇸 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/voa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voa</span></a> The so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag.<br><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/1330246.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">globaltimes.cn/page/202503/133</span><span class="invisible">0246.shtml</span></a></p>
John Refior<p>Example of why Trump is silencing the Voice of America. VOA article, April 2024:</p><p>"How Russia's disinformation campaign seeps into US views...</p><p>"The files exposed a Kremlin-linked campaign in which 'political strategists and trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles, social media posts and comments that promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States' border security and attempt to amplify U.S. economic and racial tensions'"<br><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/how-russia-s-disinformation-campaign-seeps-into-us-views-/7566503.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">voanews.com/a/how-russia-s-dis</span><span class="invisible">information-campaign-seeps-into-us-views-/7566503.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/voa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voa</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
Dennis A<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LiamScott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiamScott</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PressFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PressFreedom</span></a> <br>For the first time since its creation, in 1942, to combat Nazi propaganda, VOA has gone silent. Dozens of VOA staffers in Washington are on J-1 visas, and if they lose them, they may have to return to countries whose governments have a record of jailing critics.</p><p>The Last Days at Voice of America</p><p>"Covering the press freedom beat at VOA, I got a front-row seat to its demise."<br><a href="https://www.cjr.org/first_person/last-days-voice-of-america-voa-trump-kari-lake.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cjr.org/first_person/last-days</span><span class="invisible">-voice-of-america-voa-trump-kari-lake.php</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>It is not just <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> who in control of our failing <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> - <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> Nationalists Praise Trump’s Cuts to Voice of America <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/voa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voa</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Beijing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beijing</span></a> has long criticized the outlet, as well as Radio Free <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asia</span></a>, for highlighting <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> rights abuses in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>. Can you imagine up until 6 months ago running on a platform that championed serving the China's Communist Party that ruled for 75 years <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/world/asia/china-trump-voice-of-america.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/18/world/a</span><span class="invisible">sia/china-trump-voice-of-america.html</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trum</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gop</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republicans</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/civilliberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilliberties</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Stalin, Mao and Khomeini couldn’t quell freedom’s voice. <br>But Trump did. <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/voa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voa</span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/17/trump-silencing-voice-of-america/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/opinions/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/17/trump-silencing-voice-of-america/</span></a></p>
BronMason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> </p><p>Brings to mind the movie “Glory!” <br>“If this man should fall, who shall lift the flag and carry it on?” Thank you EU!<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a></p>
Chad Schultz<p>Funny how Tyrant <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s actions make dictators around the world happy, while devastating the leaders of allied nations.<br>Trump should not have cut Voice of America. A free press around the world is very important for information and freedom.<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9v34o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9</span><span class="invisible">v34o</span></a><br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>Trump's dismantling of <a href="https://toad.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> will pave the way for America's adversaries to have greater influence abroad.</p><p>~1,300 employees, incl. Abramowitz: placed on admin. leave +500 contractors: terminated. He called <a href="https://toad.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> "an incredibly impt. soft power tool" for the US -shuttering it: "self-inflicted blow" to <a href="https://toad.social/tags/nationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsecurity</span></a> -bc it helps combat CN, RU &amp; IR disinfo. </p><p>Most journalists ignore Trump's goal of destruction, emulating &amp; aligning with Putin, for <a href="https://toad.social/tags/privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privatization</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/voa-cuts-trump-director-michael-abramowitz-interview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/voa-cuts-trum</span><span class="invisible">p-director-michael-abramowitz-interview/</span></a></p>
Tim Ruppert<p>When oppressive regimes like China cheer for you, you have to wonder, “Am I on the right side?” Republicans need to wake up to what monstrous deeds they are committing. <br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WhichSideAreYouOn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhichSideAreYouOn</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FuckTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckTrump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GOPFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPFail</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a></p>
Tim Ruppert<p>The Convicted-Felon-in-Chief’s approval ratings hit a new high with totalitarians and dictatorships around the world. Chinese state media reacted gleefully to Republicans gutting funding for Radio Free Asia and Voice of America.<br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FuckTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckTrump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GOPFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPFail</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/18/chinese-state-media-celebrates-trumps-cuts-to-voice-of-america-and-radio-free-asia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/media/2025/mar</span><span class="invisible">/18/chinese-state-media-celebrates-trumps-cuts-to-voice-of-america-and-radio-free-asia</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>Donald Trump's dismantling of Voice of America could lead to dominance of anti-American propaganda, director says.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CBSNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CBSNews</span></a></span> reports: "VOA reports news about the U.S. in nearly 50 languages — with much of its focus trained on countries that lack a free press."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/6vBCdo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/6vBCdo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> - 'Discarded like a dirty rag': Chinese state media hails Trump cuts to Voice of America<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9v34o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9</span><span class="invisible">v34o</span></a><br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/RFERL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFERL</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> Another short story when the CCP allowed their Chinese subjects to celebrate online: </p><p>"Let's jump back to autumn 2001 when the *republican* neo-con administration of George W. Bush launched the second Iraq War for which the USA is still paying heavy financial and *reputational* cost.</p><p>On the early Chinese forums people were delirious with joy. (i.e. "permitted speech" in the PRC)</p><p>Just a year earlier in 2000 the USA had agreed to allow <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> to join the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTO</span></a>... and in 1994, only a few years after the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tiananmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tiananmen</span></a> massacre, the USA had handed the CCP/PRC the coveted Most Favored Nation (MFN) status.</p><p>Yet for the Chinese regime it's not enough for them to win; the USA and all other non-submissive democracies must lose.</p><p>I was still rather dismayed back in 2001, but only until I understood the policy."</p><p>NB: This is part of a post I made on Nov 7, 2024 in response to the Chinese *celebrating* the result of the most recent US presidential elections...</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/deck/@demi7en/113437167796537912" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/deck/@demi7en</span><span class="invisible">/113437167796537912</span></a> </p><p>It's a little odd that the Chinese communist dictatorship never allows its subjects to celebrate when the United States or the Democratic Left succeeds in something... 🧐 </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a></p>
Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> powers said on Monday they would try to save Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under communism during the Cold War - but warned they might struggle to replace funding cut by Donald Trump.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-raise-radio-free-europe-with-eu-states-after-us-funding-cut-2025-03-17/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/europe/czech</span><span class="invisible">s-raise-radio-free-europe-with-eu-states-after-us-funding-cut-2025-03-17/</span></a></p>
Aure Free Press :verified:<p>EU foreign ministers are set to discuss the termination of the U.S. grant that funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) during a meeting in Brussels on March 17<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AureFreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AureFreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/headline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>headline</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience." </p><p>​"Destroying VOA (+RFE/RL &amp; Radio Free Asia) is a <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> issue. ​T​hese entities, funded by the American ppl, have been ​among the most effective instruments of American soft power -a bridge to those who may never set foot on our soil, but understand our values bc they heard them in one of the dozens of languages in which we broadcast." </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s propaganda <a href="https://toad.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> video⬇️<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.steveherman.press/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">steveherman.press/p/requiem-fo</span><span class="invisible">r-the-voice-that-carried</span></a><br><a href="https://ir.voanews.com/a/8011941.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ir.voanews.com/a/8011941.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> Did anybody else initially read this as lamenting that *both* the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> *and* <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> were “flickering out”? </p><p>I wondered why by <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washington</span></a> Post wasn’t included, but thought maybe Steve Herman was implying that flame of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/liberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberty</span></a> had already been extinguished.</p><p>On second reading, I understood and boosted the toot, since it was a gift article.</p><p>But sadly, my first take is what it seems like. 😞 </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/WashingtonHasFallen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonHasFallen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FailingMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FailingMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ChangeMyMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeMyMind</span></a></p>
Paul Chambers🚧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> The last <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <br> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> feed post was March 15, 6:09 pm EST. I am heartbroken and saddened. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/RIPVOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPVOA</span></a></p>
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