The Trump administration announced that it plans to dismiss nearly all remaining employees at Voice of America, escalating tensions with a federal judge who had previously blocked efforts to overhaul the government-funded broadcaster.
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😡🤬 him
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Where's Trump?
aug 30, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
in the hospital
aug 30, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like a Stephen Miller move.
aug 30, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 1 • view
It’s all Millers moves. Trump is just a figure head
aug 30, 2025, 4:00 pm • 5 2 • view
Agreed
aug 30, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Unbelievable. Executive Branch overriding Judicial, Legislative doing nothing. The overreach of this administration is off the charts. We are operating by EO even when many in violation of Constitution or just simple basic human rights.
aug 30, 2025, 3:57 pm • 24 6 • view
And there’s SCOTUS - DT’s SCOTUS.
aug 30, 2025, 7:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Judges rule, the administration ignores.
aug 30, 2025, 4:28 pm • 3 1 • view
As usual, they will ignore legal rulings and wait for the "supreme" court to green light whatever the fuck they want. And then "justice" roberts can publicly fret about the demise of the rule of law in this country
aug 30, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Kari Lake, a Trump ally now serving as acting chief of the agency that oversees VOA, posted on X that layoff notices were issued to 532 staff members.
aug 30, 2025, 3:37 pm • 494 81 • view
Only the best people.
aug 30, 2025, 3:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Wow the purge of the most qualified people from government continues so the hacks can come in
aug 30, 2025, 3:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Surprised she hasn't been shuffled off to a lawmaker ambassador post. She must have dirt on the bloated taco.
aug 30, 2025, 3:52 pm • 2 0 • view
They all act like this is some GD "reality TV" show where everyone runs around and says "you're fired" with glee. Someone just needs to shout CUT every so often and everyone can get back to work. 🤦♀️🤬
aug 30, 2025, 3:58 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s how you thank Vets for keeping us safe? Come on America. Stop believing Republican lies. Your priorities are truly messed up.
aug 30, 2025, 4:24 pm • 5 1 • view
So she’s out of a job as well, right?
aug 30, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
🤬
aug 30, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Nobody wants her in charge of anything, not even her home state
aug 30, 2025, 3:39 pm • 49 2 • view
😡🤬
aug 30, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Nothing left to "oversee." See ya, filter queen.
aug 30, 2025, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
She couldn’t get elected so he promoted this cancer into our lives.
aug 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Wasn't she hired, knowing she'd be happy to just make a few appearances before moving on to her next grift?
aug 31, 2025, 7:13 am • 0 0 • view
It is telling that this fascist administration is shutting down VOA, which was created to counter nazi propaganda.
aug 30, 2025, 4:19 pm • 5 3 • view
Imagine a country that had founders who foresaw the need for the 2nd amendment, specifically designed to stop foreign-influenced tyranny of government, standing-idle while amazing institutions like FEMA, FBI, PBR, CDC, DOJ, USAID, etc are gutted, politicized and weaponized against the people🤷🏻♂️
aug 30, 2025, 5:01 pm • 5 1 • view
Wasn't she court ordered NOT to do this?
aug 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 4 1 • view
Well, if that doesn't sinch that trump is a Russian asset, nothing will.
aug 31, 2025, 5:20 am • 1 0 • view
Vlad says, thank you. Republicans will have so, so much to answer for.
aug 30, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
They don't follow the laws so why should we? This is a tyranny and no longer a democracy
aug 30, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
532…oddly specific staff numbers…that must be the resistance. Resist harder. Don’t acknowledge the post and show up anyway.
aug 30, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Kari Lake should be the first one laid off.
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
The only thing this administration knows how to do is fire people. Nothing else.
aug 30, 2025, 3:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Steal money. That's a primary motive: They're looting the government. They aren't going to offer alternatives to agencies and services. The business sector is supposed to come running in and replace everything with a privatized version, so Donnie's US booms from all the new business he created.
aug 30, 2025, 4:05 pm • 4 0 • view
How heartbreaking that 532 of our fellow citizens — in addition to hundreds of thousands of others — will likely have to face a dolt-made recession as unemployed people. A complete shame before God. 💔😡
aug 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 2 0 • view
And now there are fewer alternatives to Vlad's propaganda networks, coupled with gutting USAID reducing our influence in developing countries but Russia Hoax Russia Hoax...
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 1 • view
They are erasing the judicial system by ignoring the law. NO ONE HAS HELD THEM ACCOUNTABLE! You are allowing your own demise.
aug 31, 2025, 3:53 am • 1 0 • view
Most people seem to be stuck in the past, thinking by the old laws, & fighting by the old rules. Those days are gone. WTFU PEOPLE!!!
aug 30, 2025, 3:42 pm • 2 1 • view
Such a win for Russia!
aug 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Here is an oldie to remind people to protest safely. It also mocks birthday boy who wants another parade in homage to himself. I think it would be worth the drive to DC to be able to turn my back on his funeral procession. Maybe "Good Riddance" on the back of a t shirt. youtu.be/HSvQT-tkiBw?...
aug 30, 2025, 4:33 pm • 2 1 • view
Trump couldn’t care less what any judge says unless the judge is doing what he wants.
aug 31, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It's because they do not want democracy to flourish anywhere, particularly on among the downtrodden people that big companies use for labor and then complain how people here won't work.
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 5 2 • view
I thought I read the EU was going to try to help until Trump is gone
aug 30, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
If this isn't what it looks like for a United States President to be crossing off Putin's greatest wish list, then WHAT IS?? Is he being blackmailed into destroying our nation from within?
aug 30, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Let it go. Voice of America is a GI generation platform boomers never knew how to run. It is another part of the Cold War propaganda machine in the US, just not as well known as legacy broadcast media with their FCC licenses. That system wore out decades ago and it is time to move on without it.
aug 30, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
He's literally trying to do as much damage to the US, and its reputation, as he can. You cannot convince me he's not a Russian asset... not given how much ass-kissing he did around Putin.
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 5 2 • view
Putin doesn't like VoA
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 am • 1 0 • view
Putin has always hated Voice of America and so, it has to go.
aug 30, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
As someone who very much wanted to work for VOA, this guy’s damage to the agency is sickmaking. Guess I’m glad we moved for my spouse’s career instead.
aug 30, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Why bother with the courts. They have no power to enforce.
aug 30, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
But didn’t a judge say that they couldn’t do that?
aug 30, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
At some point, they need to hold the Felon47 in contempt and actually jail that piece of shit. He really needs to go to jail. I know those judges don't want to go there and they are doing every thing they can not to, but he is disobeying the law. It's past time to jail the felon.
aug 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 1 • view
Not to worry, Trump will then hire Christian Nationalists and adjacent loyalists to take their place.
aug 30, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
From Prager U?
aug 31, 2025, 11:13 am • 0 0 • view
That's wild. Wouldn't you WANT to keep our foreign propaganda broadcasting? Because capitalism! I mean democracy!
aug 30, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
In a fascist state the leader higher than the courts.
aug 30, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't understand how they are not in contempt
aug 31, 2025, 11:32 am • 1 0 • view
“In defiance of a federal judge…”
aug 30, 2025, 4:19 pm • 7 3 • view
Throw those sons of bitches, starting with Lake, in jail for violating court orders, & a lot of this shit will stop. No has to mean no, not ever.
aug 30, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
So long as there is no opposition political party in the United States Trump can do anything he wants.
aug 30, 2025, 3:48 pm • 18 0 • view
No worries guys @schumer.senate.gov is extra frownie face in his latest statements, surely that'll make a difference. But before anything to combat fascism, they first have to find a few young progressives to completely kneecap to soothe donors that the American public isn't getting uppity
aug 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 8 2 • view
He is gone. His health is too bad. If he isn't dead yet, he should be removed. He is not running anything anymore.
aug 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
That's what dictators do. 🙁
aug 30, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Weird hobby. Firing people gets him off. In my limited management experience, letting people go, even for cause broke my heart. F this robot.
aug 30, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
China, Iran and Russia approves this.
aug 31, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
Lake should be jailed for ignoring the court order. This courts are making themselves pointless by allowing this administration to repeatedly violate their orders.
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
This is more than escalating tensions. This is the usual incitement.
aug 30, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
"Escalating tensions" ie. Defying court order ie. Breaking the law, am I right?
aug 31, 2025, 10:54 am • 1 0 • view
'escalating tension with a federal judge.' In my day 'tensions with a federal judge' meant 'you're in jail.' Until somebody lands in the slam, they will continue to push the limits of the balance of powers.
aug 30, 2025, 10:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Scary Lake is NOT the Voice of Arizona. She’s not even from here!
aug 30, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
That mofo is begging for comeuppance.
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
I plan to dismiss Trump. I mean if all we have to do is say things, legal or not, then that’s what I say. I say I’ve personally dismissed Trump and he is no longer serving as President or in any capacity in the government, or any job, anywhere, forever.
aug 30, 2025, 6:34 pm • 11 2 • view
I hope the judge jails Lake for contempt. There need to be real consequences for defying court orders.
aug 30, 2025, 10:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump shuts down American propaganda arm, got it.
aug 30, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Helping Putin and China (the Commies) every day
aug 30, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 1 • view
Resist the stupidity, racism, and fascism of the Felon and MAGA! Vote out every conservative, from every city, county, state position!!! EVERY LAST ONE!!!!
aug 30, 2025, 3:46 pm • 14 4 • view
If voting is our only panacea for the Nazi pedophile occupation and military invasion of America, we are truly dunzo.
aug 30, 2025, 4:24 pm • 3 1 • view
Who is doing this? It sure, and hell isn't the Cheeto man anymore. They don't have the power to do squat anymore.
aug 30, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember that autopen they bloviated about?
aug 30, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 2 • view
The bum is immune from court orders! SCOTUS said as much! Now that is a Confederacy of Dunces!
aug 31, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump finds new ways to trounce on that old adage that “no one is above the law.” Who else can defy a judge’s order - certainly not any one of us.
aug 31, 2025, 10:05 am • 0 0 • view
So we have no need at all for Kari.👵🏝💙💛
aug 30, 2025, 4:05 pm • 7 1 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe Emil Bove will review this on appeal …
aug 30, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The judge should put "them" in jail for contempt.
aug 31, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view