NPR gets 1% of their funding from the federal government. Another 30% comes from member stations, which get an average of 13% of their funding from federal sources. My incredible community station is losing 20% of its funding. Support local public media. [www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1...](https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101 ) [A brief history of NPR funding...](https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101 )
Good blog post/crap skeet is the new good article/crap headline and it's just as frustrating tbh.
Oh god stop job-number revisions are not a conspiracy. Look at the reporting from literally last year, this is how the data works! [www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...](
PBS News
U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than first reported, sign job market has been slowing
The Labor Department estimated that job growth averaged 174,000 a month in the year that ended in March — a drop of 68,000 a month from the 242,0...
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PBS News
U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than first reported, sign job market has been slowing
The Labor Department estimated that job growth averaged 174,000 a month in the year that ended in March — a drop of 68,000 a month from the 242,0...
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Wile E. Coyote, his eyes wide RE:
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Maria Farrell (@mariafarrell.bsky.social)
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Sometimes I allllmost get tricked into participating in food discourse by you absolute demons but no, no.
I see the earthquake truthers have arrived.
We learned—and keep learning—so much stuff about Medicaid and not all of it fit into the [@unbreaking.org](
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Unbreaking (@unbreaking.org)
How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unb...
 ) Medicaid explainer so here is a blog post I wrote about all those “able-bodied” people the administration and its allies claim are on Medicaid. [unbreaking.org/blog/medicai...](
Medicaid’s “Able-Bodied” Adults — Unbreaking
In building out our Medicaid explainer, we uncovered a lot of actual complexity *and* plenty of plainly inaccurate information about who’s enroll...
 ) [Medicaid’s “Able-Bodied” Adult...](
Medicaid’s “Able-Bodied” Adults — Unbreaking
In building out our Medicaid explainer, we uncovered a lot of actual complexity *and* plenty of plainly inaccurate information about who’s enroll...
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but *why* do hundreds of minuscule biting gnats crawl through my office windowscreen and then immediately lie down on my desk/floor/shelves and begin enacting teeny tiny death scenes
I guess the thing I realized a few years ago is that it's both more important and just harder to think and write about networks when all the network stuff is so entangled in the global authoritarian slide. I wish I could think faster, but it's even harder now, trying to work on so many fronts.
I think when every sector puts junior workers through a decade+ of professionalization into the norm that ethical qualms are either nice-to-haves or active disloyalties, what you get are institutions that collapse in a brisk breeze🤷🏻 RE:
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Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com)
The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that...