scoop: NPR is mobilizing. In response to White House plan to rescind federal funding, NPR tells member stations it is pushing up its timeline. "We strongly urge you to communicate and meet with your Members of Congress this week."
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New Work Stop 4/21-23, coinciding with the general strike 4/22! Shut down this country: demand tRump and his minions resign, and be brought to justice! Ask your followers and theirs to share and sign this world wide petition to recall tRump! We need 2 million signatures! chng.it/WBR8LRVmr7
apr 21, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey Congress. Say NO To Trump Simple 🙄
apr 22, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
Ahh, I'm 100% NPR guy. WTF is a 'grasstop"?
apr 21, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Uninformed opinion here: thinking grassroots donors? Maybe the grassroots donors who've donated most 😬?? Could Google it but prefer figuring it out w others.
apr 21, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
“grasstops” refers not to mobilizing the broad public (that’s “grassroots”) but to engaging a smaller circle of highly connected or influential individuals—community leaders, business executives, local elected officials, major donors, etc.—who have direct access to or clout with decision‑makers.”
apr 22, 2025, 1:45 am • 2 1 • view
“grasstops stakeholder activation” campaign means you’re recruiting those top‑tier supporters (your board members, advisory‑board members, prominent volunteers, business leaders, emergency‑services chiefs, etc.) to pick up the phone, write letters…”
apr 22, 2025, 1:46 am • 1 0 • view
“…make public statements or otherwise lean on their contacts in Congress—amplifying your station’s message through people whose voices carry extra weight in policymaker circles.”
apr 22, 2025, 1:46 am • 1 0 • view
Ahhhh. Thank you.
apr 22, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
Protecting, promoting and *funding* public broadcasting is a beautiful, necessary civic good that an advance society should be proud of. We should all help NPR and its ilk persist for future generations. Thank you, Ben Mullin, for helping get this message out.
apr 22, 2025, 1:54 am • 2 0 • view
I’d be a whole lot more enthusiastic about supporting NPR if they hadn’t spent the last few years sane-washing tRump over and over. NPR is called Nice Polite Republicans for a reason. Ironically enough, they are still in tRump’s crosshairs. Their coward may end up being their downfall.
apr 21, 2025, 7:44 pm • 31 1 • view
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apr 21, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The sanewashing leopard has eaten @npr.org’s face.
apr 21, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah it’s National Pentagon Radio.
apr 22, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
Interesting & important pov. Considering your insight. Thanks.
apr 21, 2025, 8:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Now don’t get me wrong - I don’t like having to take this position. I grew up listening to NPR and my parents still listen to it everyday. But expecting me to support them when they refuse to do their job of reporting the news accurately and instead pander to a man who hates them… Ridiculous.
apr 22, 2025, 9:17 am • 0 0 • view
You've free will *at least for now* & need not do anything that goes against your principles, & that is a good thing.
apr 22, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
In order to keep its funding, Sesame Street has agreed to add some MAGA characters
apr 21, 2025, 7:57 pm • 7 1 • view
Non-profit news and information is important. Today would be a good day to make a donation to your local NPR station.
apr 22, 2025, 8:16 am • 1 0 • view
I'm just concerned about PBS Spacetime
apr 22, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t cave.
apr 22, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
NPR has been acting like the victim in an abusive relationship with the Federal government for a long long time. It's a bit late for them to be trying this.
apr 21, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Better late than never.
apr 22, 2025, 12:31 am • 3 0 • view
They are taking away EVERYTHING and transferring it all to a select group of oligarchs! It's as simple as that!
apr 22, 2025, 8:29 am • 1 0 • view
try to reach the red maggots
apr 21, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
As a lifetime member of @npr.org I was disgusted to my core at how they continually attacked Biden and then Harris, and acted as though trump was just another, normal candidate. Absolutely vile. They deserve what they asked for, and they will get it.
apr 22, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view
#tillis doesn’t listen to his constituents.
apr 22, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view