#pbs member station

[tfbsattic]

Here’s why that very day was the MOST EPIC for Jerseyans attending elementary school in the early ‘90s:

[doodlebeeberry]

Every time pbs comes up in conversation i feel like that one gif of jeema ripping his shirt ofd. Except instead of saying mexico underneath it says pbs

[sanshofox]

Did I read that correctly…

PBS was the only news outlet that dared to call it what it is, namely a nazi salute and today PBS got defunded??

Edit:

As I stated in a reblog:

this question above (because that‘s what it is, a simple question to american followers) was taken out of context. In a way that got completely out of hand. I never wanted any of this. I am european and I know that nowadays you have to be cautious about american news, so I asked so I could understand (because there were news tickers and articles that confirmed it and I doubted it).

I know these are trying times, but please stay kind. I will now cancel reblogs for this post, because it is really sad to see what is happening here and I am only trying to deescalate now.

Down below the article posted in a reblog by @fandom-frenzy . PBS is still funded but getting defunded may or may not happen in the future. Despite that you can support PBS on your own through subscription.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matthew Chapman at Raw Story:

President Donald Trump's new chair of the Federal Communications Commission is launching an investigation into National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, accusing them of illegally engaging in business advertisements, NPR itself reported on Thursday — a move that could lay the groundwork to yank federal funding from public broadcasting. Chairman Brendan Carr, a longtime GOP commissioner who was previously appointed by Trump as the FCC's general counsel and was involved in drafting Project 2025, wrote in his letter to NPR and PBS, "I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials. In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements." NPR and PBS, which are not directly run by the government but are regulated in such a way as to keep their content free and open to the public, cannot under law run commercial advertisements; they can obtain corporate sponsorships but are not allowed to specifically endorse the products or services from those companies on air. [...] A majority of NPR and PBS funding comes from corporate sponsorships, but they still rely substantially on federal funding. A lot of federal funding for public broadcasters comes not in the form of direct payments from Congress, but rather grants disbursed from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to local affiliate stations, who then in turn use the money to pay for programming from the public broadcasters.

Authoritarian FCC Chair Brendan Carr opens politically-motivated probe into PBS and NPR by falsely accusing them of “illegally” engaging in business advertisements. Carr is one of the many writers for Project 2025, a right-wing policy book by The Heritage Foundation.

See Also:

NPR: Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS

[sadbicth]

see this? this is the shit that pisses me off. "you'd rather believe project 2025 is something that will actually happen". hey @evitavresnoc i'm calling you out for this dumbass post! you have a lot but this one irked me the most.

i'm hoping this finds its way to your feed because you're a coward and won't let anyone mention you, message you, dm you, reply to you, or reblog your posts!

and strap in, because it's a long one. i would've reblogged your original post or put this in your replies, but you turned off both!

instead of doing your research like a smart person would, you've decided that trump declaring "i dont intend to implement project 2025!!" is true, just because he said it. trump isn't exactly known as the most honest person, and believing anything he says is fooling yourself.

not only is trump mentioned over 300 times in the project 2025 document, he's implemented or attempted to implement countless aspects of it.

paul dans, who's one of the directors of project 2025, said himself that trump's actions so far are a testament to the initiative, calling them "home runs".

evitavresnoc, i don't expect you to actually read this, because you'd probably try to excuse or deny it. but i recommend you and everyone else do, because sometimes it's okay to be wrong.

below is a list of the things trump has done (as of february 3, 2025) that match up to project 2025:

redirecting federal aid under fema to the states: trump suggested we could "get rid" of fema, leaving it to the states. project 2025 calls for "reforming FEMA emergency spending to shift the majority of preparedness and response costs to states and localities instead of the federal government." project 2025 says that fema is "overtasked, overcompensates for the lack of state and local preparedness and response, and is regularly in deep debt."

ending diversity, equity, and inclusion practices: trump claimed in an executive order the day he arrived in the white house that dei policies violate federal civil rights laws, and shut out americans "who deserve a shot at the American dream" because of their race or sex. project 2025 calls for deletion of dei "from every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists." he also revoked is 60-year-old policy from 1965 that prohibited employment discrimination by government contractors and empowers the federal government to impose consequences for any discriminatory practices, which project 2025 explicitly called to revoke.

targeting pbs and npr: the fcc opened an investigation into pbs and npr because they're "concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials. In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements". according to project 2025, "stripping public funding would, of course, mean that NPR, PBS, Pacifica Radio, and the other leftist broadcasters would be shorn of the presumption that they act in the public interest and receive the privileges that often accompany so acting."

freezing federal assistance: trump established the department of government efficiency. it's headed by billionaire elon musk, who's been tasked with cutting regulations and spending, and to restructure federal agencies. this froze grants, loans, and federal assistance programs. russ vought, who's one of the directors of project 2025, and the new leader of the office of management and budget, is also overseeing this.

transgender military ban: trump prohibited trans people from serving in the military during his first term. biden reversed that. trump reversed it again, completely barring all trans people from military service. he claims that identifying as transgender "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one's personal life." project 2025 calls for a reversal of policies "that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military. gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service."

restricting gender-affirming care for minors: trump issues an executive order barring the use of federal funds for any type of gender affirming care for anyone under the age of 19. it also instructs the the secretary of defense to take regulatory action to exclude gender-affirming care for minors from insurance coverage provided by tricare, the defense department's health care program, and federal employee health benefit programs. project 2025's calls for its office of civil rights to "remove all guidance issued under the biden administration concerning sexual orientation and gender identity." the book generally criticizes gender-affirming care as causing "irreversible physical and mental harm to those who receive them" and argues there is a lack of evidence surrounding it.

rescinding funding from schools with trans athletes: trump signed an order rescinding federal funding from school programs which allow trans women and girls to participate in women's sports. project 2025 claims that school districts are forcing schools to undermine cis women athletes to "satisfy transgender extremists".

federal recognition of only two sexes: trump passed a policy to only recognize male and female, ignore intersex people, and make them unchangeable. project 2025 calls for the government to define sex as biological sex recognized as birth.

stripping civil servants of employment protections: trump reinstated an executive order from his first term which created "schedule f in the excepted service". this creates a new employment category for career civil servants, and strips them from employment protections. it adds a section that states that while employees in these new "schedule policy/career positions" are not required to personally or politically support the current president or his policies, they are "required to faithfully implement administration policies to the best of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath and the vesting of executive authority solely in the president." failure to do so is grounds for termination of employment. project 2025 repeatedly calls for trump's schedule f proposal to be reinstated.

closing the office of federal contract compliance programs: trump revoked the equal employment opportunity act (executive order 11246 of september 24, 1965), and the ofccp within the department of labor was immediately seized. project 2025 called for trump to "eliminate" the ofccp by rescinding eo 11246.

ending government efforts to fight mis/dis/malinformation: trump passed an executive order claiming that no federal government officer, employee, or agent may engage in abridging freedom of speech, even if that speech was spreading misinformation. project 2025 aims to prohibit the fbi from engaging in "activities related to combating the spread of so-called misinformation and disinformation by Americans who are not tied to any plausible criminal activity".

reinstating service members who refused the covid-19 vaccine: trump issues an order directing the secretaries of defense or homeland security to reinstate all service members who were discharged after refusing the covid-19 vaccine, as well as being restored their rank and full pay, benfits, bonus payments, or compensation. project 2025 calls for this, almost word for word.

withdrawing from the world health organization: one of trump's first actions was withdrawing the us from the world health organization. according to project 2025, "the manifest failure and corruption of the world health organization (WHO) during the covid-19 pandemic is an example of the danger that international organizations pose to u.s. citizens and interests". it says that when institutions act contrary to u.s. interests, the government "must be prepared to take appropriate steps in response, up to and including withdrawal."

withdrawing from the paris climate agreement: one of project 2025's most passionate arguments is that of withdrawing from the paris climate agreement, which trump did on his first day in office, as well as rolling back climate change policies and calling for climate change efforts to be removed from governmental efforts such as providing foreign aid and regulating agriculture.

sending active duty troops to the southern border: on trump's first day of his presidency, he signed an order that assigned troops "the mission to seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of the united states." project 2025 suggests "using military personnel and hardware to prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry and channel all cross-border traffic to legal ports of entry."

restricting funding for public schools: trump has signed multiple executive orders restricting funding for k-12 schools that he believes "indoctrinates" students based on "gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology", which is language used in project 2025.

rescinding efforts towards renewable energy: trump declared a national energy emergency and stated that the us should increase oil and gas drilling. project 2025 claims that the us' “energy crisis is caused… by extreme ‘green’ policies” and said the next president “must be committed to unleashing all of america’s energy resources.”

forbidding words in nsf research papers: i saved this one for last because it's very long. because of the dei order, there is a list of words that are banned from the national science foundation research papers, and many health organizations, such as the cdc, are scrubbing their sites of these forbidden words. the words are as follows: "activism, activists, advocacy, advocate, advocates, barrier, barriers, biased, biased toward, biases, biases towards, bipoc, black and latinx, community diversity, community equity, cultural differences, cultural heritage, culturally responsive, disabilities, disability, discriminated, discrimination, discriminatory, diverse backgrounds, diverse communities, diverse community, diverse group, diverse groups, diversified, diversify, diversifying, diversity and inclusion, diversity equity, enhance the diversity, enhancing diversity, equal opportunity, equality, equitable, equity, ethnicity, excluded, female, females, fostering inclusivity, gender, gender diversity, genders, hate speech, excluded, female, females, fostering inclusivity, gender, gender diversity, genders, hate speech, hispanic minority, historically, implicit bias, implicit biases, inclusion, inclusive, inclusiveness, inclusivity, increase diversity, increase the diversity, indigenous community, inequalities, inequality, inequitable, inequities, institutional, Igbt, marginalize, marginalized, minorities, minority, multicultural, polarization, political, prejudice, privileges, promoting diversity, race and ethnicity, racial, racial diversity, racial inequality, racial justice, racially, racism, sense of belonging, sexual preferences, social justice, sociocultural, socioeconomic, status, stereotypes, systemic, trauma, under appreciated, under represented, under served, underrepresentation, underrepresented, underserved, undervalued, victim, women, women and underrepresented.

this isn't even everything. there's still tens of examples of executive orders and policies that donald trump has signed and passed that coincide with project 2025.

now, evitavresnoc, i'd be surprised if you read through all of this, as trumpers tend not to read anything that's critical of their o holy god. however, if you did make it to the end, i also don't expect you to criticize him whatsoever, y'all never do.

but to sit here and lie so confidently is shameful. he has done nothing but prove that he's a lying sociopath, who says what he says to get ahead.

and i can't wait for the "well this isn't that bad" or "hell yeah brother" replies i'm going to get to this, because it's inevitable. it just helps me weed out the losers who need to get the fuck off this site and go back to facebook.

fuck trump, fuck project 2025, and fuck you too if you voted for this shit.

[littleraccooncarl]

Writers for PBS Kids shows, including Carl the Collector, are going on strike if management does not agree to a fair deal before their current contract expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on November 21, 2024.

If this happens, this would mean production on Carl would be halted, and we would get no new episodes for a while.

[yetisidelblog]

“Legacy media must die,” Elon Musk posted on his own media site, X -- the nation’s biggest and most influential social media source for political news.

Now that he is orchestrating the president’s budget cutting plans for “government efficiency,” it should come as no surprise that, in the process, Musk wants to kill public broadcasting. He has his sights both on radio (NPR) and TV (PBS), by eliminating their government funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which totals $535 million this year.

It seems a little like shooting fish in a barrel, considering Musk paid $44 billion -- more than 80 times as much -- when he bought Twitter in 2022.

But cutting funds for public broadcasting threatens more than the production of beloved shows like Sesame Street and All Things Considered. Public broadcasting consists of a network of public service stations across the country that produce local news and educational programs, as well as serving as the backbone for the nation’s emergency alert system.

Over 1,000 public radio stations across the United States carry NPR programming, including many of the most rural areas, and over 98 percent of Americans live within listening distance of at least one of these stations. “The most vulnerable stations serving the most vulnerable people are going to be the ones that are hurt the hardest,” said former NPR executive Eric Nuzum. “We’re talking about very rural parts of the United States.”

Send a direct message to your members of Congress today: Public broadcasting is a valuable resource well worth the public investment. Protect funding for NPR and PBS now!

NPR spokesperson Isabel Lara notes that public broadcasting is important for local journalism, including coverage of sports and culture, as she says, “Cutting public media funding means cutting funding to local communities.”

Federal funding for public broadcasting has been threatened in the past without ultimately being cut, but the increased scale and intensity of the criticism by Trump and Musk has NPR itself reporting “it would be unwise to assume that events will play out as they have in the past.”

Musk and fellow Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) czar Vivek Ramaswamy say they intend to cut $2 trillion in government spending. That’s a full one-third of the government’s total spending of $6.1 billion in 2023.

But only 16% of this total $6.1 billion went toward all of the nation’s non-defense “discretionary” programs that would even be eligible for cuts without eviscerating Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. And Musk’s SpaceX company depends on billions in defense funding that neither he nor Congress is likely to be willing to cut.

NPR and PBS are low-hanging fruit to the billionaire bean-counters.The broadcasters’ entire budgets, and then some, could be covered many times over with cuts to the Pentagon budget or a common-sense wealth tax on the fortunes of billionaires like Musk and Ramaswamy.

Send a message to Congress: Save NPR and PBS! Maintain full funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting now.

Thank you for helping to preserve this national treasure!

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[auntiebillionaire]

President Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting.

"I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," Chairman Brendan Carr wrote on Wednesday to the presidents and chief executives of NPR and PBS, Katherine Maher and Paula A. Kerger, respectively. "In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements."

The FCC does not directly regulate the two networks. Instead, it evaluates the actions of roughly 1,500 public broadcasting stations across the country, which hold licenses granted by the FCC for use of public airwaves for radio and television, even in the digital age.

Public broadcasting stations are prohibited from running commercials. Instead they present what are considered corporate underwriting spots, which are supposed to stop shy of a "call to action" telling listeners and viewers to buy a product or service.

Both CEOs rejected the claim that the public broadcasters had violated federal laws or practices that stretch back decades.

"PBS is proud of the noncommercial educational programming we provide to all Americans through our member stations," Kerger said in a statement shared with NPR. "We work diligently to comply with the FCC's underwriting regulations and welcome the opportunity to demonstrate that to the Commission."

In a statement posted publicly, Maher said NPR's corporate sponsorship credits and programs complied with federal regulations and FCC guidelines.

"We are confident any review of our programming and underwriting practices will confirm NPR's adherence to these rules," Maher stated. "We have worked for decades with the FCC in support of noncommercial educational broadcasters who provide essential information, educational programming, and emergency alerts to local communities across the United States."

Read more at https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2025-01-30/trumps-fcc-chief-opens-investigation-into-npr-and-pbs

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[dweemeister]

July 13, 2023

By Anousha Sakoui

(Los Angeles Times) — SAG-AFTRA’s national board of directors on Thursday voted unanimously to approve a strike action by tens of thousands of Hollywood actors, widening the scope of labor unrest in an entertainment industry that is already facing numerous headwinds.

The vote came after negotiations between the actors’ union and the major studios failed to reach an agreement on a new film and TV contract.

Actors — similarly to screenwriters already on picket lines — have been battling studios for a pact that would deliver far better pay and residuals from streaming and address other issues, including the use of artificial intelligence, that have been roiling the entertainment landscape.

Despite the last-minute involvement of a federal mediator, the 160,000-member union was unable to secure a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios in labor dealings. The old collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night without a deal in place.

Union leaders announced the board’s vote at a noon news conference in Los Angeles.

“What is happening to us is happening to all fields of labor,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said during a fiery speech at the union’s headquarters. “I’m shocked by the way the people we have been in business with are treating us. It is disgusting. Shame on them.”

“We are the victims here,” Drescher added. “We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.”

So, some clarification. This strike covers all movie and TV projects that involve actors and voiceover announcers. This includes animated works. TL;DR: the main concerns are over residuals from streaming services (who are black holes of information that do not release viewership data so as to maintain complete leverage in contract negotiations) and the potential for AI. Unlike the writers, the actors are also trying to require all auditions to be in-person (one lasting impact of COVID is the larger adoption of taped auditions, which does not guarantee that the casting director watches the audition and also deprives the actor of networking opportunities even if they don't pass the audition). These concerns are almost identical - with exception of the in-person auditions - of the Writers Guild of America's (WGA) concerns with their respective strike.

This strike indirectly affects SAG-AFTRA members in radio, audiobooks, non-AMPTP studio video games and interactive media, music, and commercials.

This strike does not cover local news reporters and announcers for AMPTP constituent-owned radio and TV stations (full list here... e.g. every major local English- and Spanish-language channel in Greater LA and both PBS stations in KOCE and KCET). Yes, news reporters and announcers working for a stations owned by an AMPTP constituent are SAG-AFTRA members. They are covered by a separate contract.

[spoonbenders-archive]

what is the max headroom hijacking incident

im glad u asked . heres a brief description + the videos of the incident (volume and flashing warning for both)

"On the night of November 22, 1987, an unidentified man wearing a Max Headroom mask appeared on the signals of two television stations in Chicago, Illinois. WGN-TV, owned by Tribune Broadcasting, was hijacked first. The intrusion occurred during the sports report on its 9:00 p.m. newscast and lasted about 25 seconds."

"Then came PBS member station WTTW, [...] The next interception occurred at about 11:00 p.m. during an episode of the Doctor Who serial, "Horror of Fang Rock", and lasted almost 90 seconds."

"None of the individuals responsible for the intrusion have been identified. This incident got the attention of the CBS Evening News the next day and was talked about nationwide."

[jbird5by5]

Saddened to hear of the passing of Actor Terry Carter (1928-2024)

Terry Carter, who portrayed Pvt. Sugie Sugarman on The Phil Silvers Show, Joe Broadhurst on McCloud and Colonel Tigh on Battlestar Galactica has died.

He was 95.

He died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.

No cause of death listed.

Carter appeared three times on Broadway early in his career and produced and directed a documentary on jazz legend Duke Ellington for PBS’ American Masters series in 1988.

John Everett DeCoste was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 16, 1928. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1946, attended Northeastern University and studied law at St. John’s University.

He appeared on Broadway in Mrs. Patterson in 1954 and Finian’s Rainbow in 1955. He co-produced an off-Broadway version of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1958 and starred in the 1961 Broadway musical Kwamina.

From 1965-68, he served as the first Black news anchor on a New England TV station, WBZ-TV in Boston.

Carter formed his own production company in 1975 and made documentaries.

His acting résumé included the films Parrish (1961), Benji (1974) and Foxy Brown (1974), starring Pam Grier. He also had TV gigs on Naked City, The Defenders, Combat!, That Girl, Bracken’s World, Mannix, Julia, The Jeffersons, Falcon Crest, The Fall Guy, Mr. Belvedere and 227.

Survivors include his third wife, Selome; his children, Miguel and Melinda; and his stepdaughter, Hiwot.

My condolences to his Family Members and Friends

#R.I.P. 😔🙏🥀

[bumblebeeappletree]

Official website: https://to.pbs.org/buffalo | #AmericanBuffaloPBS

Follow Jason Baldes, an Eastern Shoshone and a member of the InterTribal Buffalo Council, as he leads historic transfers of bison to Indigenous communities which will maintain their herds to supply a healthy food source and cultural touchstone for their tribal citizens. The film explores what living among the bison once again means for Native people—today and for future generations.

This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: https://www.pbs.org/donate

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HOMECOMING

Examine how the InterTribal Buffalo Council’s Bison Conservation and Transfer Program is supporting buffalo restoration to the Indigenous people whose lives, spiritually and physically, were inextricably linked to the bison for thousands of years. HOMECOMING is directed and produced by Julianna Brannum. Executive Produced by Ken Burns. Edited by Matt Leach. Music by Kevin Hoetger and Kyle Crusham. Cinematography by Jared Ames, Brittan Bendabout, Charles Elmore, Lindsay Jackson, and Buddy Squires, ASC. Audio by David Griesinger and Royce Sharp. The film advisors were Julie Dunfey, Dayton Duncan and Craig Mellish.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Cecilia Nowell at The Guardian:

On the campaign trail this year, Donald Trump routinely criticized US media. The president-elect called for CBS to be stripped of its broadcast license after it aired an interview with Kamala Harris, refused to participate in an interview with 60 Minutes and routinely called journalists the “enemy of the people”. But perhaps no American media has attracted as much ire from the president-elect as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – a non-profit corporation created by federal law in 1967 to distribute funding to public media organizations like PBS and NPR.

“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social in April. “THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!” As the Trump prepares to take office next month, public media organizations – such as NPR and PBS, which have aired longtime favorites such as Curious George and All Things Considered – are readying themselves for funding cuts and other attacks against their programming. After Trump was re-elected in November, NPR member stations circulated a report warning that “it would be unwise to assume that events will play out as they have in the past” where funding is concerned, the New York Times reported Friday, and PBS board members received an update from political consultants earlier this month. Trump and his allies have repeatedly called for the federal government to cut all funding to public media. In March 2017, Trump called for Congress to cut all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the first proposed budget of his presidency – a call he repeated throughout his presidency.

In response to a 2020 effort to defund public media, the PBS president and CEO, Paula Kerger, issued a statement noting that “PBS and our member stations have earned bipartisan Congressional support because of the vital role that public television plays in homes and communities across the country. For 50 years, PBS has served as a trusted source for educational and thought-provoking programming, including school readiness initiatives for children, support for teachers and caregivers, public safety communications and lifelong learning across broadcast and digital platforms.” But the conservative playbook Project 2025 has continued echoing conservative calls to cut funding to PBS and NPR, stating that the new Trump administration should strip public media of federal funding and licenses for noncommercial education stations.

[...] In November, shortly after Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Musk coauthored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with Vivek Ramaswamy (the two have been tasked with leading a “department of government efficiency”, an agency Trump claims he will create). In it, the pair identified the $535m Congress allocates each year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as one line item they would cut to reduce federal expenditures. As recently as this week, Musk posted on X that “legacy media must die”. Although these attacks against public media are growing more concerted, they’re not new. Every Republican administration has aimed to defund public media since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded. American public media traces its origins to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, passed under Lyndon B Johnson’s administration. A public-private partnership, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting connects 1,190 public radio stations and 356 public television stations with federal grants, allowing those stations to maintain editorial independence and also raise funds from members and sponsorships. Today, 99% of the US population lives within listening range of at least one public media station.

The attacks on NPR and PBS should worry us all, as it is part of Donald Trump's authoritarian war on press freedom.

[coochiequeens]

California WTF?

By Shay Woulahan. October 21, 2023

An NPR-affiiated public broadcaster has released a sympathetic profile on a trans-identified male inmate accused of sexual assault and threatening female inmates while serving his sentence in a women’s prison. KQED, the member station for NPR and PBS in Northern California, suggested Syiaah Skylit was a victim of transphobic hoaxes and targeted punishment.

Skylit, born Jonathan Roberston, is currently serving a 16-year sentence on multiple counts of robbery with a gun. While he had initially been placed in a men’s prison, Skylit, along with the help of trans activists, fought for transfer to a women’s facility, and was eventually placed at the California Central Women’s Facility (CCWF) in mid-2021.

Skylit was one of many male inmates who were transferred to CCWF following the implementation of SB 132, also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act.

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By Genevieve Gluck October 20, 2023

A trans-identified male musician in California is currently touring and performing songs calling for the murder of women critical of gender identity ideology. Precious Child, who previously involved himself in the Wi Spa controversy, utilizes graphic sexual and violent threats against “TERFs” in his music.

During his most recent performance at the Knockout Bar in San Francisco, Precious Child performed his song “TERF Killer,” riling the audience into chanting “kill a TERF today.”

TERF, an acronym standing for “Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist,” is often broadly applied to all women who oppose the belief that males should be able to self-identify as female for the purposes of access to women’s spaces.

In a video of the performance shared to his YouTube account, Precious Child can be seen chanting “kill a TERF today” while the accompanying music video is shown on a screen behind him. The video features images of bullets and of a knife stabbing into the air as the words “kill a TERF today” flash repeatedly across the screen.

Precious Child has a history of repeatedly threatening critics of gender ideology, with a particular focus reserved for females who oppose gender self-identification law ........ Precious has also made repeated threats against world-renowned author JK Rowling.

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[wanderingmind867]

My take on The Creeper (Jack Ryder):

Jack Ryder was a popular, well beloved TV personality in the Gotham metropolitan area. A popular newscaster who also had his own local investigative journalism tv show (one half is political panel discussion and the other half is investigative journalism), Jack Ryder was a star. But he was also very forceful, standing up for what he believed in no matter the cost. And it was this integrity that would be the downfall of his career.

You see, Jack Ryder was too full of integrity for his own good. He refused to give biased reporting, and would gladly bad-mouth and investigate his own show's sponsors. Since that meant he had next to no sponsors after a few years (and since he had a bad habit of arguing with all the discussion panelists on his show), his show made very little money. It was a great series of hard hitting journalism and discussion, but it got cancelled due to Ryder's stubbornness and integrity.

But seeing Ryder's integrity and skills with researcher, the head of security at the tv station got Ryder a new side job as an investigator. This head of security had heard rumours that a group of gangsters were trying to hunt down one Professor Friedrich Yatz, a famous german biochemist currently living in the United States.

Following a lead on Yatz's whereabouts to a costume party at the lead gangster's mansion, Ryder managed to assemble a costume out of spare props left at the costume shop he visited. Yellow tights, green trunks, red gloves and boots, yellow body paint, a green wig and a red sheepskin rug he wears like a cape/coat. At the party, Ryder gets distracted by an attractive woman (who's secretly a member of this mafia organization) and manages to get drunk. Then when he tries to take down one of the mob's men, he's easily subdued and locked in the basement with professor yatz.

Knowing he's probably going to die, yatz bets everything on jack ryder and injects him with his powerful serum. This serum gives a man the power to heal much more rapidly than a normal man and it also gives ryder advanced strength and speed. He also hid another device inside ryder, a tiny chip that enables people to make clothing or items become weightless and invisible, solely through the power of the chip. All he needs to do is press down on an activator switch yatz built to control the chip, and the items will reappear or vanish on command.

Professor yatz is gunned down before he can realize this, but jack ryder's inebriation also had a unique effect on the microchip. The microchip bonded to ryder's costume, but it also bonded to his mental state at the time. So now whenever jack ryder presses the activator switch and becomes the creeper, he enters a state not unlike being blackout drunk. He acts like a drunk too, behaving erratically and with a drunkards higher tolerance to pain.

Shortly after yatz is gunned down, Jack Ryder presses the activator switch to become the creeper. When next he wakes up (around 24 hours later), all of the gangsters are in prison and the press are reporting on a new vigilante named The Creeper. And it's only when he sees a photo of this vigilante that Jack Ryder realizes he is The Creeper. When he pushes down on this switch and actives the microchip inside of him, he goes unconscious as a split personality takes charge and battles crime for him. And this begins the story of The Creeper, the newest vigilante to grace Gotham City.

Two final notes: Jack Ryder gets himself his investigative talk show back, now airing on gotham's local PBS equivalent. At least there he won't have to worry about compromising his integrity for corrupt sponsors.

And although Jack Ryder and The Creeper initially have no contact with each other, they begin to be able to communicate the more Jack Ryder transforms into The Creeper, or vice-versa. After like 10 to 20 transformations, the two become completely aware of each other and begin to tenatively cooperate with each other.

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tell me a year ago i'd be staring at TTFC Extras Call for sentai spoilers...

All three days called for

a dozen or so people

in autumn clothes

running from attack

prepare an extra jacket or shirt so you can doube as

regular people and

resistance

Ome? Takasaki? I've never heard of these places??? Takasaki rings a bell but nothing I can name right away. To be researched.

edit: Takasaki has the Zenkaiger shopping street!

edit 2: Oume is listed for a Geats extras call on May 18, and Ome is listed in the opening credits of ep.43

The very specific autumn is too obviously saying a different planet or our earth.

Day 1 mentioned the footage may be used in "another work". Though the national costume requirement for kingoh is dropped, it still doesn't match the earlier extras call for a Sakamoto Original Work. That one called for a "spring/early summer" wardrobe. So we can't just link the two up as "Kyoryu 10th Anniversary (?)" yet. I don't think Toei would go as far to recycle it as stock footage even if the raw has nothing work-specific. So this "other work" can only be a kingoh spinoff...? (maybe a spinoff explaining the origins of this resistance or fill the two years gap)

Oume's location is 40 minutes walk away from the station + no restaurants or convenience stores around, so it must be deep in the mountains, yet they specified "streets" (machi) so maybe rural/village streets? ??

Day 2 is an urban area given "20mins walk from station & 5mins to combini" but Day 3 has to be mountain/(abandoned) factory if it calls for a Tokyo gathering point. The extras will need to be transported by Toei instead of coming in their own cars.

Costumes is available for Day 2 and 3 cast who would be proper member of this "resistance against an evil organization". new pb preorder

Curious curious if all thee days take place on the same planet/country or if it's chikyuu but three different countries? what if the invaders has rooted itself (before or during the time skip) and completely changed chikyuu as we know it??

my gut reaction seeing the new costume was,

simplified -> easier to move around -> more location less studio -> our earth?

what does resistance mean??? is it volunteers started by the people? how big is the resistance? just a protest group or do they have a leader/military? led by a new character - or the return of a familiar king? will there be a split of opinion in our team?