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"What is happening in the #US is still far from the Cultural Revolution. It's maybe 1 or 2%. But you can sense that smell. The populist sentiments … [that] common sense is good [&] sophisticated thoughts are something bad."

He learned English listening to #VoiceOfAmerica

"It was so sad," he said, when news spread that the administration planned to shutter#VOA, the US-funded broadcaster that delivers #news & #cultural programming in countries where access to news is limited or isn't available.

BREAKING: Judge To Block Trump Shutdown Of #VoiceOfAmerica

A Manhattan federal judge said Friday he will temporarily block the Trump administration's move to gut the agency that controls international news outlet Voice of America, saying it appeared to be a "classic case" of arbitrary policymaking.

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@w7voa I am always on here during my rotten remote job taking donation calls. It has gotten more interesting/tragic lately.

Got a call for #FreeSpeech tv from an elderly woman who recalled to me being a child in #Hungary huddling around the radio with her family listening to #VoiceofAmerica broadcasts so low they could hardly hear it. This was crucial as if their neighbors heard them they could be turned in and disappeared just for wanting to hear the truth. #trump is a #fascist #dictator

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"• The Trump Administration targeted private universities — canceling $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University; pausing $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania; and Johns Hopkins cut research after losing $800 million in USAID grants

• Trump began dismantling Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia"

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #destruction #chaos #universities #research #grants #USAID #VoiceofAmerica
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