The spineless poosies in Congress capitulated to the orange-mud bully and allowed him to rescind the allocations they had already made. Entirely because he doesn't want any form of media that doesn't fall in line with his propaganda.

Even if I were to accept the argument that NPR's news programs are liberal, which I do not, news is only a small fraction of the programming on NPR. Last night, for example, I was listening to the excellent show, "On Point," and there was a guest who goes around the world recording the sounds of nature. He was in an Amazon rainforest, where he had captured the different frequency lanes, as he called them, of the various insects and frogs. It was quite lovely. A man who respects the complexities of the world around us. We need more of that, not less.

I happily made a large (for me) contribution to my local NPR affiliate yesterday, when they went on the air saying that they needed to raise money immediately just to continue operating after $376,000 was unceremoniously snatched back by the Trumpers.

Since I live in a sizable city with a thriving arts scene, I'm not too worried about making up for the loss of public funding for radio or television here. Part of me says good riddance to government dollars. The right has been whining about it for decades. I do worry about small towns and college-affiliated public stations, however. I'm sure some stations will have to close up shop.

All because the Trumpers' need to control the message. Funny, since the same people never shut up about "free speech."