The Trump administration issued layoff notices to over 600 employees at Voice of America, a federally funded outlet known for providing independent news to countries with restricted press freedom.
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They are clueless as to the international benefits of VOA.
jun 21, 2025, 2:40 am • 4 0 • view
This administration is clueless
jun 21, 2025, 2:54 am • 4 0 • view
Now it will be the Voice of American Propaganda.
jun 21, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
This is devastating.
jun 21, 2025, 3:32 am • 1 0 • view
Trump probably gave their money to "Radio Sputnik" for broadcasting the Voice of Moscow.
jun 21, 2025, 4:26 am • 3 0 • view
Fkn kari lake. Wish all these mfers just go away.
jun 21, 2025, 2:36 am • 4 0 • view
Bullshit.
jun 21, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Remove trump.
jun 21, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
I thought that had been halted?
jun 21, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
If I remember correctly, what was halted was shutting it down altogether. They couldn't do that, so they handicap instead by firing the people, thus limiting the effect it has.
jun 21, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Well now they need to work domestically.
jun 21, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
I thought they just had to call some back because they needed folks who speak the Middle Eastern Languages!?
jun 21, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is a hateful little man.
jun 21, 2025, 2:27 am • 23 0 • view
Still wondering if the 🍊💩 is a human being
jun 21, 2025, 2:34 am • 5 0 • view
If he’s an alien, does that mean he can be deported?
jun 21, 2025, 3:45 pm • 2 0 • view
EVIL CREATURE
jun 21, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view
Terrible
jun 21, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
I think we can sum up that everything awful is going to be done.
jun 21, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
Misery loves company
jun 21, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
america only
jun 21, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Putin’s orders, I’m sure.
jun 21, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Regime. The Red Regime. Calling it an administration makes it sounds like it knows what it’s doing. Heads up : They don’t know what they’re fucking doing.
jun 21, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s probably a good thing. I can just imagine what he’d tell them to say after he took control.
jun 21, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
Fair point. It would just be a mouthpiece for propaganda.
jun 21, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
Not so Independent anymore😡 Voice of America (Kari Lake), together with the foreign ministry, will "ensure that the telling of the history of the USA is modernized" and "is in line with the USA's foreign policy. "
jun 21, 2025, 2:46 pm • 4 1 • view
Stay the course. Your dollar is your voice. Shop locally. Shop mindfully. Resist where you can. We do not need to be governed. We need to be represented. All eligible citizens must vote 2026. We are the people.
jun 21, 2025, 4:49 am • 2 0 • view
Fascists hate free-willed, opposing, & truthful voices because those are the things they fear.
jun 21, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
I thought this was reversed in court? Did they do it despite court orders? 😖
jun 23, 2025, 11:54 am • 0 0 • view
Trump feels about the free press exactly the way Orban, Erdogan, and Putin do.
jun 21, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Here we go again...
jun 21, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
because they can’t handle the truth
jun 21, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
I need to watch this movie again...
jun 21, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
jun 21, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Look up yarvin R.A.G.E tr follows yarvin to the T because thiel told him to! This is yarvin
jun 21, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 1 • view
Yarvin is a socially-transmitted disease.
jun 21, 2025, 4:01 am • 1 1 • view
I am so following you! 👍👍
jun 21, 2025, 7:50 am • 1 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/cher...
jun 21, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 1 • view
"Independent news" my arse. You can't be that naive, surely?
jun 21, 2025, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view
Have you tried Google lately...? Seen the bias or non-coverage of protests? PBS? AP? Ect...? We are a country with restricted press freedom now... Which is probably why you're getting news on Bluesky.
jun 21, 2025, 2:35 am • 2 0 • view
…no one is getting their news on BlueSky, and Google is a search engine owned by a corporation.
jun 21, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
People are absolutely getting their news on Social Media! A Lot of them. Millions even. And the reason Google is unreliable for searching is because it's owned by a corporation. Why countries can't be run like corporations.
jun 21, 2025, 2:39 am • 4 0 • view
Do you understand how search engines work?
jun 21, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. I also understand how humans work. 🌼
jun 21, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
FUCK GOOGLE - USE DUCK DUCK GO. Not only does it keep your search history safe, but it is not ad or algorithm driven. I haven't touched Google in almost 10 years with VERY rare exception. Google gave up their "Don't Be Evil" mission years ago. Don't give them your eyeballs to help them make $$.
jun 21, 2025, 3:54 am • 1 0 • view
Good advice. Thanks. 👍 I do my utmost, personally. Just noticed the change in Goodle this past week, in terms of censoring and redirecting search results. And I take that as a sign they've officially crossed over into DJT territory.
jun 21, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
They've been dollar driven for ages, but I decided they'd gone COMPLETELY over to the Dark Side when they changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Google Maps. I hate to admit it, but I *do* use Maps as my GPS because I haven't found a better alternative. I feel dirty...
jun 21, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
I agree about the Gulf of Mexico. The Dark Side and the $... (no opinion on your feelings dirty) But I could still direct people to 'Google it' for a fact check... and now... eh... and that was the key turning point for me on the bingo card. Average people being able to Google it to fact check.
jun 21, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 0 • view
'Can no longer fact check efficiently via Google due to censorship' is on my Bingo Card.
jun 21, 2025, 4:01 am • 1 0 • view
I said search engines. Search engines don’t create site information. It’s an engine that searches for sites. It does not create them.
jun 21, 2025, 4:27 am • 1 0 • view
My original comment was not meant to conflate Google with news sites. But to point to the separate issues which affect our ability to access thruth. *Censorship on Search Engines *Censorship of AP, PBS, funding cuts etc. *DJT and ICE harassing journalists. Separate symptoms of the same disease
jun 21, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
I know.
jun 21, 2025, 4:30 am • 0 0 • view
Being a search engine that searches for sites and ... being corrupted so the search results are engineered or modified is a form of censorship and/or propaganda. While Google was never great, I think they've finally crossed that line. Search results are now being altered to be pro DJT.
jun 21, 2025, 4:36 am • 0 0 • view
Lawsuit time. This regime takes apart anything they can.
jun 21, 2025, 4:22 am • 3 0 • view
Ignore the notices and get the funding somewhere else, probably from other countries. Unless they come from an actual person, who they can communicate with, those notices are probably fake.
jun 21, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
Since the US has restricted press freedom, maybe they just feel silly supporting VOA. Or hate the truth. It’s really hard to tell.
jun 21, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
The Dictator doesn’t want US rangers to tell the truth about American history either. > “Rangers should be able to talk about the history of Japanese American incarceration at Amache, or the history of slavery at Fort Monroe, without looking over their shoulders in fear,”
jun 21, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
When you control the information, you control what lemmings think.
jun 21, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Because of course they did. This is no longer a democracy. This is an occupation. Terrorists are occupying The People's House in Washington, D.C. History will not be kind to these motherfuckers. We will fight, and we WILL WIN this and restore democracy. Fuck these Nazis.
jun 21, 2025, 4:18 pm • 12 2 • view
This is a body double. The real Felon is no longer alive. (Thinking like a MAGAT.)
jun 21, 2025, 4:22 pm • 3 0 • view
😆 This fat old felon fuck is looking like total dog shit. No offense intended towards dog shit. This was taken at the G7, for that hot minute he stayed anyway.
jun 21, 2025, 4:25 pm • 7 1 • view
lawsuit
jun 21, 2025, 2:28 am • 4 0 • view
On what legal grounds?
jun 21, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
Most public sector jobs REQUIRE proof of misconduct for firing. I'm not sure what the legal recourse is for laying people off in droves, but other government orgs that got DODGE'd filed lawsuits, and some even got their jobs back, so there has to be some kind of precedent.
jun 21, 2025, 3:40 am • 2 0 • view
That’s incorrect. It’s not illegal to lay people off. There is no need to show misconduct.
jun 21, 2025, 4:25 am • 1 0 • view
It is not required but layoffs in the govt are done by set regulations. Further, VOA was funded by Congress and therefore not the purview of the executive to disband. VOA charter was enshrined into law by Congress in 1976, that should be an obstacle to Exec interference as well.
jun 21, 2025, 12:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Helpful info! Thank you.
jun 21, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Flailing in quicksand. You can’t silence the truth. #foxtrotdeltatango#8647
jun 21, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view
You knew it was just a matter of time. Is he allowed to do this?
jun 21, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
And now, we need other countries to begin "Voices *to* America", thanks to the capitulation of our MSM...
jun 21, 2025, 2:42 am • 9 0 • view
Russia got its rubles’ worth.
jun 21, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck these assholes. It is not their country. It is THE CITIZENS country no matter how scary the fascists seem. We outnumber them. Fuck them.
jun 21, 2025, 2:27 am • 66 3 • view
🤬
jun 21, 2025, 3:06 am • 1 0 • view
If Kari Lake is one of them, yay!
jun 21, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s another attack on America and American values. He holds the title of President and gets away with this because he apparently also holds Congress’s balls. I wonder what he has on them?
jun 21, 2025, 4:23 am • 3 0 • view
Of course they did.
jun 21, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
...more than likely at the behest of Trump's boss, Vladimir Putin.
jun 21, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
The adoration and legitimacy that Donald Trump craves is pathetic and laughable. Such a wretched, small man.
jun 21, 2025, 6:37 am • 2 0 • view
www.npr.org/2025/06/20/n...
jun 21, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Again?!?
jun 21, 2025, 7:20 am • 1 0 • view
There is a pending lawsuit. Kari Lake is pissed about all the press Belsen-Baden Barbie is getting so wants to throw her hat in the ring as the most awful woman in the administration. But she has a LOT of competition with Linda McMahon and Tulsi Gabbord. They will be ordered to hire them back.
jun 21, 2025, 2:40 am • 8 0 • view
Don’t forget KKKristi and Lyin’ Leavitt!
jun 21, 2025, 3:06 am • 5 0 • view
While the lawsuit may result in some benefit to the RIF’d employees, the budget for VOA is “zeroed out” for 2026 in the big bullshit spending bill.
jun 21, 2025, 6:31 am • 0 0 • view
Now I am thoroughly depressed. I forgot that important detail.
jun 21, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
In turn, over 600 employees at Voice of America issued fuck off notices to the Trump administration.
jun 21, 2025, 2:31 am • 11 0 • view
jun 21, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
This has to come from Putin.
jun 21, 2025, 2:38 am • 4 0 • view
427515 amirite?
jun 21, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
[GRRRRRRRR!!!!!]
jun 21, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
Trump following Putin’s orders.
jun 21, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
They're firings, not "layoffs".
jun 21, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Job Number One for fascists…control the media with an Iron Fist.
jun 21, 2025, 6:44 am • 2 0 • view
😡
jun 21, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
More than 80 years after its founding, "Voice of America" is facing closure, following a new wave of layoffs. More than 600 additional employees of the broadcaster and its umbrella organization, the USAGM, were recently laid of, USAGM announced on Friday. #Shame www.spiegel.de/kultur/us-au...
jun 21, 2025, 1:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Here's the original story, reported by David Folkenflick at NPR. www.npr.org/2025/06/20/n...
jun 21, 2025, 2:53 am • 7 4 • view
He is now, officially, the Asshole of the Western World!
jun 21, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
The GOP doesn't want the truth broadcasted. It's all about the lies. that's all they do.
jun 21, 2025, 2:42 pm • 12 2 • view
I smell another lawsuit coming on…
jun 21, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything he does is directed by Putin to benefit Russia.
jun 21, 2025, 2:33 am • 5 0 • view
Yes, 80% of the staff. Grrrrrr
jun 22, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
What's wild is that he has been using Voice of America as a propaganda tool. And he's firing them. He's such a user.
jun 21, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
So shouldn't they be broadcasting in the U.S.?
jun 21, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
It's an international broadcast, so.... Yeah. We get it, too.
jun 21, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
This did not have to happen.
jun 21, 2025, 2:45 am • 2 0 • view
Can Canada please start "Voice of Canada"? We need it now.
jun 21, 2025, 5:00 am • 5 0 • view
Because, of course they did.
jun 21, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view
The republicans don't believe in a far democracy. They only believe in regimes and billionaires
jun 21, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
FTLOG!
jun 21, 2025, 2:48 am • 0 0 • view
The wealthiest country in the world cancels voice of America. The smallest city state in the world, the Vatican, continues world wide broadcasts with Vatican radio.
jun 21, 2025, 4:09 pm • 3 1 • view
Oh, thank goodness, he can now do the Lord's work (sarcasm).
jun 21, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
We could use some Voice of America over here.
jun 21, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
No shit! Why don’t the Dems get us an AM station and FUCKING TELL US SOMETHING? Ham radio?
jun 21, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view
My dudes - it is an INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST. That means WE CAN LISTEN TO IT TOO.
jun 21, 2025, 3:56 am • 1 0 • view
lol I meant a secret network. Like how they sent to the resistance in WWII
jun 21, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
Check out meshtastic.org. Actually, look up some YouTube videos because they will make more sense. It's a building network completely independent from any commercial service that is WICKED cheap to hop on to - you can do it for less than $10 in parts - and it is REALLY growing.
jun 21, 2025, 4:23 am • 1 0 • view
They do not want I independent voices, they only wants butt kissers
jun 21, 2025, 2:53 am • 9 0 • view
Scum of the earth
jun 21, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Is this his way of getting rid of non-working holidays? Just fucking keep firing everyone?
jun 21, 2025, 8:30 am • 0 0 • view
Hardly surprising; why provide independent news to people in other countries when you are actively trying to restrict it in your own? #Trump
jun 21, 2025, 5:53 am • 5 1 • view
I will march, protest, argue, and stand against these mf-ers, but I’m having difficulty reading the daily onslaught of news.
jun 21, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Other countries will soon be funding independent news sources to be broadcast into the US
jun 21, 2025, 5:28 pm • 2 0 • view
A great loss to the world
jun 21, 2025, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Hopefully Kari Lake was one of them
jun 21, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Shame, shame, shame
jun 22, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
VOA is just one of the CIA’s propaganda machines for foreigners, not a total loss to be honest.
jun 21, 2025, 1:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks for this perspective to keep in mind.
jun 21, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Gosh. Just bc they wouldn’t say Vladimir’s a good guy. Oh, and racism. They don’t like racists. Nazis? Tell me where they stand on Nazis.
jun 21, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
They have had many year to think of diabolical shit.... there's more.
jun 21, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 0 • view
He wants them gone because he wants to free press!
jun 21, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
Why would they allow the ‘good’ propaganda to go out to foreign countries when they don’t allow it here?
jun 21, 2025, 2:32 am • 11 1 • view
VOA is now, and has always been, 100% American exceptionalism propaganda. The fact you don’t understand that is disturbing.
jun 21, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
VOA has been one of the most reliable sources of news in many parts of the world. The fact you don’t understand that means you are a tankie. Also, the reason Trump and Co. don’t like it is that they have been critical of many American policies.
jun 21, 2025, 10:47 pm • 2 0 • view
VOA has only spread the news the American government wanted the world to see, half truths and outright lies. That’s American propaganda.
jun 22, 2025, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 22, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Cute
jun 25, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Because nothing says “dictator” more than cutting independent media that provides REAL news.
jun 21, 2025, 2:41 am • 39 1 • view
VOA has never been 'independent media', it's US government propaganda. What you're doing is losing an important weapon of soft power.
jun 21, 2025, 4:21 am • 9 0 • view
Yes! This is just ridiculous. Dump sees it as giving free radio to foreigners. He’s so dumb.
jun 21, 2025, 4:43 am • 10 0 • view
Dictators hate Voice of America and Trump loves dictators
jun 21, 2025, 7:22 am • 11 0 • view
💯💯💯
jun 21, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
To parts of the world for whom it has been the only reliable news.
jun 21, 2025, 10:43 am • 0 0 • view
jun 21, 2025, 11:41 am • 0 0 • view
Voice of America silenced by The Vice of America. We are so screwed.
jun 21, 2025, 1:29 pm • 3 0 • view
My friend’s daughter in law got one of these.
jun 21, 2025, 12:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Whatever Vlad wants, Vlad gets.
jun 21, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course it did. Wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to do an extra petty, s*^%ty thing today.
jun 21, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
Every day is a whole new low
jun 21, 2025, 8:01 am • 16 0 • view
Marking down the days to when we can get rid of these criminals.
jun 21, 2025, 4:56 am • 1 0 • view
jun 21, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
Good thing our President decided to spend money on himself for his Birthday.
jun 21, 2025, 4:35 am • 0 0 • view
Because so many countries protested him on his birthday.
jun 21, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
They can't be having the truth get out there
jun 21, 2025, 1:18 pm • 4 0 • view
The only good to come from this is he put Kari Lake in charge and now it is all gone. Funny, she has disappeared from the media.
jun 21, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
Dismantling America piece by piece
jun 21, 2025, 2:47 am • 4 0 • view
Like ours, then.
jun 21, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
That means "restricted access" will be coming to US.
jun 21, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
🤬🤬🤬
jun 21, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
🤬🤬🤬🤬
jun 21, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Aren’t we one of those countries now?
jun 21, 2025, 11:07 am • 12 0 • view
Trump is giving up all of our soft power around the world. For nothing.
jun 21, 2025, 2:46 pm • 3 0 • view
So much disgust for this troll of a president.
jun 21, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Douchebags.
jun 21, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Russia hates VOA.
jun 21, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Bad as this is, I’m thinking the rest of the world is just as fed up as I am with the news from here. America First translates into breaking agreements and treaties with the rest of the world. Seems reminiscent of another country back in the 1930’s…
jun 21, 2025, 3:38 pm • 2 0 • view
💔 he's committed to ruining everything good.
jun 21, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
The DOGE children don't understand a single thing about soft power.
jun 21, 2025, 2:46 am • 14 0 • view
THIS. Most Americans don't either.
jun 21, 2025, 3:40 am • 6 0 • view
Seemingly not anymore but for most their history VOA was just a CIA propaganda station.
jun 21, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Not in recent times, no.
jun 21, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
Wow I can’t believe it (most sarcastic and manic tone)
jun 21, 2025, 6:39 am • 0 0 • view
To be clear, Voice of America is pure American propaganda. It's as "independent" as CNN or MSNBC.
jun 21, 2025, 3:49 am • 2 0 • view
they are so ignorant, they are destroying all institutions, even the politically conservative ones...
jun 21, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Putin is very pleased
jun 21, 2025, 2:33 am • 11 0 • view
Again?
jun 21, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
"....restricted press freedom", that would be us. A pox on that 💩 gibbon.
jun 21, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
THe irony is suffocating
jun 21, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Please ask an LM*: "What does Project2025 say about (VoA/issue of day)?" You will see the pattern quickly "Then go back to boycotting AI if you want.
jun 21, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course they did...
jun 21, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
This is so fucked up.
jun 21, 2025, 6:50 am • 0 0 • view
Didn't they do that already? But then 're-hired' a bunch because they needed Iranian speakers?
jun 21, 2025, 2:57 am • 2 0 • view
The courts said they couldn’t get rid of VIA. So he’ll gut it instead and break it. Same thing he’s doing with social security.
jun 21, 2025, 3:05 am • 1 0 • view