Welcome to Democracy-ish.

I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm with Jatali, and we have to get Daniel Moody out by 1230.

We have to discuss all the news at 30 minutes.

And of course, the one day that Danielle has like 18 things to do, all these news items drop, Daniel.

I know. It's breaking news all over the place. So let's just get into it, dear friends.

Boom, this morning, Trump White House issued an executive order that called for a block on all federal funding to PBS and NPR,

alleging that both organizations have engaged with biased and partisan news coverage.

So they're Fox?

I'm confused.

Basically, this is what happens in authoritarian regimes and the, you know,

the Republicans are been flirting with this for a while

specifically really angry at npr because of the mixing of like donations and public funds and you know

they're essentially like why does an npr why is it more favorable to us it's biased liberal bias and

it just seems like you know PBS and npr and the people behind that and on on screen and on the radio are against fascism and

decide to do real journalism, Daniel. Yeah, it's weird. And so like, look, we're we shouldn't be

shocked by these things that Donald Trump, by the way, said that he was going to do, said that he

was going to defund these places.

What I would like to see, to be honest, is I'd like to see the quote unquote good billionaires.

I don't know where they are, but the good billionaires actually step in and do something more

than, you know, pose with Teslas and like buy another house or yacht, like actually give back in ways

that are going to benefit the public. And so a bunch of, you know, millionaires and billionaires

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