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Republicans Take A Hatchet To What’s Left Of U.S. Public Broadcasting, PBS Emergency Alerts

1 month ago
Authoritarian assholes really don’t like public broadcasting. They don’t like it because, in its ideal form, it untethers journalism from the often perverse financial incentives inherent in our consolidated, billionaire-owned, ad-engagement based corporate media. If we bolstered real independent media or public broadcasting, you might see journalism more interested in telling people the truth and challenging wealth and […]
Karl Bode

‘One big, beautiful’ law provision on Planned Parenthood funding partly blocked by judge

1 month ago
This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday, blocking a provision in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law that would have barred Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood for one year. District Court Judge Indira Talwani wrote in a 36-page opinion that Planned Parenthood established “a substantial likelihood of success […]
Jennifer Shutt

Tuesday, July 22 - Stuck in limbo waiting to call STL home

1 month ago
Nashat Aljerwan and his family have lived at Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan for 12 years. But in 2023, a path to resettlement opened that would have allowed them to come to St. Louis. That path quickly closed. In the wake of President Trump’s January executive order to suspend all refugee resettlement, the Aljerwan family became one amongn thousands already vetted, approved, and in limbo.