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On 2025-03-16, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
> Trump's cuts hit Voice of America, Radio Free Europe
>
> Voice of America employees were placed on administrative leave as the
> Trump administration cut grants to publicly-funded US outlets
> broadcasting into Russia, China and North Korea.
>
> https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-cuts-hit-voice-of-america-radio-free-europe/a-71933686
>
> Russia, China and North Korea are not going to bend a knee for Trump

Well he's surely on his knees for all of them, and applying a fresh coat
of lip gloss for the diplomacy he's about to deliver.

Talk about an insider threat.

The WWII generation would be astonished at what the Baby Boomer
generation did to this place - all that sacrifice, undone by a bunch of
cheese gargling ass monkeys.