Senate Approves Cuts to NPR and PBS With NPR and PBS back in the news on the heels of the Senate voting to cut $9 billion from foreign aid programs and public media, we turn black the clock to this piece from @micsolana where he wonders... ...is it “authoritarianism” when taxpayers are no longer forced to fund biased media organizations run by biased individuals? From Solana: “NPR’s current CEO, the woman presently demanding federal funds for her media company on grounds revoking that funding violates the First Amendment, publicly bragged about coordinating with our government to censor information while she worked at the Wikimedia Foundation. Am I not supposed to bring that up? Do you think, after years covering the left’s broad turn against free speech, I would really deeply care about one of its most censorious agents losing her public funding — my money — to say a bunch of crazy shit I don’t believe in or even vaguely care about?” Read the full piece on our site (link threaded) 👇