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Sifakas might look like they're performing a silly sideways dance, but their distinctive hopping is actually an adaptation of their tree-dwelling skills. These lemurs typically move through the #forest canopy by "vertical clinging and leaping," and when they're on the ground, they transform that same movement into a kangaroo-like bounce.
The footage, captured by a camera disguised as a chameleon, shows this unusual adaptation in action.
Learn more: https://zurl.co/c0vyX
Trump administration plans to cut government funding to NPR and PBS.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366040/npr-federal-funding-katherine-maher
Your #mastoadmin teams keep #Mastodon humming—purely on community support. Even $5/mo helps cover hosting and moderation. Donate to your server if you can.
But if you have to choose, please fund PBS / NPR and local public media first: Trump and his billionaire allies are waging a war to gut public media. Independent voices matter.
#SupportPublicMedia #PBS #NPR #Fediverse
Democracy depends on a free press, and independent voices matter.
"Rescinding these funds would devastate PBS member stations and the essential role they play in communities, particularly smaller and rural stations who rely on federal funding for a large portion of their budgets."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-trump-administrations-efforts-to-slash-public-media-funding #NPR #PBS
PBS News · A look at the Trump administration’s efforts to slash public media funding
since i have yet to see anybody mention Rosemary #Kennedy (#RFKJr’s aunt) and her forced #lobotomy, here ya go:
“Rosemary Kennedy and the Era of Lobotomy | American Council on Science and Health” https://www.acsh.org/news/2005/01/19/rosemary-kennedy-and-the-era-of-lobotomy
this article was written by Jack el-Hai, whose book THE LOBOTOMIST, was the basis for a #PBS American Experience #documentary
https://archive.org/details/olobotomistadocumentario2008
btw, RFK Jr’s aunt Eunice founded the #SpecialOlympics
https://www.history.com/articles/kennedy-family-secret-inspired-special-olympics
American Council on Science and HealthRosemary Kennedy and the Era of LobotomyWhen Rosemary Kennedy died on January 7, we lost a promising life and one of our last survivors from the era of lobotomy. Between 1936 and the 1970s, 40,000 to 50,000 Americans received psychosurgeries in government hospitals, private institutions, and doctors' offices. The news of Kennedy's passing will revive images of that dark time in the history of psychiatric medicine: the filthy back wards in mental hospitals, sick people in restraints, sharp instruments violating the brain, the vacant eyes of permanently damaged patients.
Just renewed our #PBS membership and elected not to get a "gift" to save them money.
If #PBS gets killed off for being proganda I'm not sure how upset I should be. PBS was effectively propaganda to promote television for the sake of television. We didn't get to Youtube-educated without passing through Sesame Street first.
There could not have been a safer bet when it began in 1969 than that “Sesame Street” would be embraced by children, parents and educators. Children loved it because they were raised on television commercials, which they intuitively knew were the most carefully crafted entertainments on television. To those who had not yet been to school, even to those who had just started, the idea of being taught by a series of commercials did not seem peculiar. And that television should entertain them was taken as a matter of course.Neil Postman, 1985
Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children’s access to television. “Sesame Street” appeared to justify allowing a four- or five-year-old to sit transfixed in front of a television screen for unnatural periods of time. Parents were eager to hope that television could teach their children something other than which breakfast cereal has the most crackle. At the same time, “Sesame Street” relieved them of the responsibility of teaching their pre-school children how to read—no small matter in a culture where children are apt to be considered a nuisance. They could also plainly see that in spite of its faults, “Sesame Street” was entirely consonant with the prevailing spirit of America. Its use of cute puppets, celebrities, catchy tunes, and rapid-fire editing was certain to give pleasure to the children and would therefore serve as adequate preparation for their entry into a fun-loving culture.
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.
Houston Public Media · Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS
White House calls #NPR and #PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/white-house-aims-to-defund-npr-and-pbs-in-move-slammed-as-cultural-sabotage/ the irony of the ultimate grifters criticising these organisations thusly
Ars Technica · White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding
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The #Grifters running #Amerikkka are calling public media a grift! Probably because they embrace DEI and aren't afraid to criticize the #Fascist administration! This will not only cripple or destroy #PublicTelevision stations, #CommunityRadio like #WMPG also receives money from the #CPB!!!
White House calls #NPR and #PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding
By Jon Brodkin, April 15, 2025
Excerpt: "In a statement provided to Ars today, PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that 'the effort underway to get Congress to rescind public media funding would disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people. There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress... Without PBS member stations, Americans will lose unique local programming and emergency services in times of crisis.' "
Ars Technica · White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding
#Trump plans to order cutting all federal funding to #NPR and #PBS, calling them purveyors of 'woke' propaganda, in the administrations goal to allow only right-wing broadcasting to the US public https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5352827/npr-pbs-public-media-trump-rescission-funding
PBS Stations Call Federal Funds “Irreplaceable And Essential” As Trump Administration Prepares To Slash Public Media Coin
#News #Politics #BrendanCarr #Corporationforpublicbroadcasting #Cpb #DonaldTrump #MarjorieTaylorGreene #NPR #PaulaKerger #PBS #Publicmedia
https://deadline.com/2025/04/pbs-stations-public-media-federal-funding-donald-trump-1236369217/
Deadline · PBS Stations Call Federal Funds “Irreplaceable And Essential” As Trump Administration Prepares To Slash Public Media Coin
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NPR (National Public Radio)
Have been defunded. They are tacking away public news, information, and educational programming.
#Pbs #Npr #PublicBroadcasting #PublicTelvesion #PublicRadio #News
Variety · Peabody Awards 2025 Nominations: Documentary, News, Radio/Podcast