No Longer Propped Up by the American Taxpayer, Communist Former-State Media NPR Will Cut 300 Jobs

NPR is slashing jobs and restructuring its newsroom as the public-radio giant grapples with a financial crunch fueled by federal funding cuts, weakening station revenue and dramatic changes in how Americans consume news.
The nonprofit broadcaster told staff this week that roughly 300 employees, mostly on newsgathering desks, are eligible for voluntary buyouts as executives scramble to close an $8 million budget gap.
NPR management expects only about 30 employees to accept the buyouts voluntarily, meaning layoffs in the 425-strong newsroom could follow if too few workers opt in.
The downsizing comes during a grim moment for the news biz, with the Washington Post seeing brutal cuts and CBS News launching layoffs earlier this year.

But they're not in the news business. They're in the propaganda business.

Fox manages just fine in the news business.

Communists should try reporting news rather than Party Doctrines.

NPR's crisis traces back at least to last summer, when Congress voted to eliminate roughly $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, dealing a massive blow to local stations that pay NPR for programming.
Though NPR has long said direct federal grants account for less than 1% of its budget, the organization depends heavily on fees from member stations, many of which are now under severe financial strain.

They lied and said "we only get 1% of our funding from the federal government." Yet when that "only 1%" is cut, they're forced to fire 300 of their 425 "news gatherers."

Liars.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:46 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

2 ...and boom goes the dynamite.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

3 So how many stations have stopped broadcasting?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 20, 2026 03:46 PM (2Ez/1)

4 Cough

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 20, 2026 03:46 PM (DBapT)

5 That 3% of their budget was really impactful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 03:47 PM (fqwyO)

6 Speaking of Public Radio, I got a flyer in the mail today telling me that a vote for Ken Paxton is a vote for Democrats!!!!

And they quoted some shit from the Houston Chronicle and Texas Public Radio for their 'data.'

ESAD, assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

7 But hey, let's point and laugh at Daily Wire for being in roughly the same boat.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 20, 2026 03:47 PM (oCS0o)

8 NPR was always editorials with classical music. Then they dropped the music.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 20, 2026 03:47 PM (zZu0s)

9 NPR's crisis traces back at least to last summer, when Congress voted to eliminate roughly $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, dealing a massive blow to local stations that pay NPR for programming.

This is fraud.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Good news! Thanks Ace.

Weekends start on Wednesdays now!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 03:48 PM (CIgUV)

11 If you think about it, this is really the fault of Israel who controls our government through AIPAC.

The only America First thing to do is to get funding for NPR back up to $50 billion so that it can pimp for open borders again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 03:48 PM (fqwyO)

12 but where will we get our state propaganda from?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 20, 2026 03:48 PM (CWTWj)

13 Can we FINALLY be rid of the menace that is Diane Rehm?

Posted by: XTC at May 20, 2026 03:48 PM (iXqHn)

14 Lear to Code.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (McFv/)

15 What could possibly cost $1.1b to run NPR?

I mean, tell me you're laundering money broadcasting absolute shit radio without telling me you're laundering money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

16 Haven't they been saying they don't need federal dollars?

Posted by: DanMan at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (8uzBS)

17 Didn't the Daily Wire just lay off a bunch of staff, too?

Pretty funny, really.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (9BMWb)

18 Speaking of Democrat media losers , I see James Murdoch and his fugly wife bought New York Magazine and Vox.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (2qkZ/)

19 NPR or Only Fans or a truck stop parking lot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (uFIgF)

20 Which country would welcome NPR more - Mexico or Canada?

Canadian politics seem to be a better fit, but Mexico benefits from expounding open borders.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (qx7Zg)

21 I thought NPR was supported by viewers like you.

Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (ZxPkt)

22 This is horrible news!

Where will Amanpour go when she loses her looks?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)

23 Didn't the Daily Wire just lay off a bunch of staff, too?

Pretty funny, really.
Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (9BMWb)

I thought I read something this morning that said the company split, or some such.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

24 They're just building the script for their next fund drive, listener supported. Get a coffee mug.

Wasn't there some rich person that donated all their wealth to these losers when they croaked? I thought it was a massive amount.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (3uBP9)

25 Finding out things are tough in the real world.

Posted by: steevy at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (YwEeS)

26 12 but where will we get our state propaganda from?
Posted by: gnats local 678
========
AP and the NY Times, the alphabet networks, MSNOW, CNN, WaPo, most other newspapers, etc. etc.

AI can do your jobs and do it better including propaganda now.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (E4rtv)

27 Except for the music, NPR always put me to sleep.

At least PBS had Britcoms.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

28 My local classical station and former NPR mouthpiece seems to be hanging on so far.

I’m loving “ No blah blah blah!”

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at May 20, 2026 03:51 PM (k4EKw)

29 NPR or Only Fans or a truck stop parking lot?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 20, 2026 03:49 PM (uFIgF)

OnlyFans. I mean, where else are you going to see the black juggernaut that is Rachel Dolezal naked?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

30 Wasn't there some rich person that donated all their wealth to these losers when they croaked? I thought it was a massive amount.
Posted by: banana Dream
=====
Joan Kroc mebbe? Widow of McDonald's founder.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 03:51 PM (E4rtv)

31 >>>" the organization depends heavily on fees from member stations, many of which are now under severe financial strain."
*****
So NPR was/is actually a Ponzi Scheme?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 20, 2026 03:51 PM (pTlA3)

32 26 12 but where will we get our state propaganda from?
Posted by: gnats local 678
========
AP and the NY Times, the alphabet networks, MSNOW, CNN, WaPo, most other newspapers, etc. etc.

AI can do your jobs and do it better including propaganda now.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 03:50 PM (E4rtv)

=====

These are not state propaganda.

They are party propaganda.

There's overlap because of the administrative state, but the ultimate loyalty is to the party, not the state itself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 03:51 PM (fqwyO)

33 Stop the show! Nana is on a very fixed income!

Posted by: Uncle Leo at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (oftw2)

34 Used to office with a German that got ALL of his news from NPR.

Yeah, he was a liberal last I knew.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

35 31 >>>" the organization depends heavily on fees from member stations, many of which are now under severe financial strain."
*****
So NPR was/is actually a Ponzi Scheme?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 20, 2026 03:51 PM (pTlA3)

=====

This is only illegal in finance, apparently. Perfectly legal everywhere else as long as you say progressive things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (fqwyO)

36 Sucks to be an npr employee.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (0N4FZ)

37 21 I thought NPR was supported by viewers like you.
Posted by: Don Black
====
It was, they lifted the money before it even entered your wallet via withholding.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (E4rtv)

38 Remember when Roger Ailes insulted James Murdock by stating “tell me that mouth hasn’t seen a dick”. lol

Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (2qkZ/)

39 I may have to take to my bed in a swoon over this news! How will I survive?

I have never listened so I think that answer is easy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (WONhk)

40 NPR: Ken Burns can you help us with a large donation?
Burns : F U, the money's mine, mine, mine ,all mine . Bwa ha ha. More new toupees

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 03:53 PM (gu0hJ)

41 Remember when Roger Ailes insulted James Murdock by stating “tell me that mouth hasn’t seen a dick”. lol
Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:52 PM (2qkZ/)

That's hot!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 20, 2026 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

42 I thought I read something this morning that said the company split, or some such.

.....

He did a long rant on how he had to fire a bunch of of people, so I think the layoff is real.

I'm sure he is splitting off the gay Jeremy Boring entertainment wing.

Matt Walsh is about the only thing keeping the channel afloat. Not sure how much longer he will stay of Little Ben keeps cratering in his viewership.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 03:53 PM (9BMWb)

43 ...and suddenly the sun is shining just a little brighter.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (t7+TD)

44 22 This is horrible news!

Where will Amanpour go when she loses her looks?
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 20, 2026

Stateless with the dry humor left hook!

Ps. Canada. She will do amazingly well with state run media. Please receive her when we lob her across the border.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (OoFl2)

45 When I first saw this on 𝕏, I started talking out loud, saying stuff like "Yay!" "Oh, no!" "Jerks" "There isn't a more deserving bunch" and I'm just so HAPPY about it!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (6wpGE)

46 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Nina Totenbag at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (2Ez/1)

47 "NPR ... National Pinko Radio"

Archie Bunker

still works

Posted by: illiniwek at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (vbXSk)

48 Please receive her when we lob her across the border.
Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (OoFl2)

*hopes she explodes like a grenade*

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

49 43 ...and suddenly the sun is shining just a little brighter.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (t7+TD)

I mean, yes! Yes, it is!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (6wpGE)

50 Well shyte.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

51 Maybe they should have a bake sale.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (5P5DO)

52 they're forced to fire 300 of their 425 "news gatherers."

They needed 425 people to distill JJ's Morning Reports. Now some stuff is going to fall thru the cracks.

Posted by: t-bird at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (VnVVA)

53 DOWN GOES PRAVDA!

Posted by: Heh heh. Goes down. Heh heh heh. at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (TbWk/)

54 Will they have to close the school where they all learn the earnest, whispery, voice?

Posted by: Dr. Shemp, Professor of Voice at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (oftw2)

55 NPR Will Cut 300 Jobs

Not nearly enough.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (gflfc)

56 They lied and said "we only get 1% of our funding from the federal government.

You mean their budget isn't really $110B?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (ynpvh)

57 Chris Plante is a fan of pointing out that he does a nationally-syndicated radio program with a staff of three, including himself, and that NPR's "All Things Considered" or whatever auditory Thorazine program he referenced has a staff of over 30 people, including a private chef.

LOLGF. Learn to AI, dbags.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (oqH4h)

58 mostly on newsgathering desks

So, no one of matter at NPR.

No one will notice a difference.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

59 Eh, who will care but Leftists who get their Propaganda from them

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)

60 What could possibly cost $1.1b to run NPR?

Remember the sob story about the woman who went from making $300K per year as the VP of an NGO which sent money to her husband's company for doing super important stuff and now they're both unemployed and are reaching their end?

They pay a lot of money because it's welfare for the connected children of connected people who connect. The third sons turned down by the Army. The daughters too addicted to - well - a cornucopia of penii to land someone who might, gasp, work with their hands.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 03:56 PM (ExV1e)

61 NPR Will Cut 300 Jobs

Not nearly enough.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM

____

It's a start.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 20, 2026 03:56 PM (2Ez/1)

62 One more victim of the Cuban economic crisis.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 03:56 PM (FE2oD)

63 NPR Loses $1.1b from government $$$$ and they only have to fire 300 people?

How the f*ck much were they getting paid?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

64 That 3% of their budget was really impactful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 03:47 PM

No $hit. We were told repeatedly that npr did not really need any money from the federal government because the listeners provided the vast majority of their support.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (0N4FZ)

65 Has NPR considered topless weather girls and stripper parties where we could place donations directly in their g-strings?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (2qkZ/)

66 Terry Gross hardest hit.

I volunteer to deliver the strike if needed.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N)

67 Can we FINALLY be rid of the menace that is Diane Rehm?

Good Lord, don't tell me she's still around. She was a shaky, Kathering Hepburn-sounding fossil 40 years ago when I stopped listening.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (Riz8t)

68
No
People
Required

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (h2pEv)

69 Joan Kroc donated $225m to NPR in 2003 when she died. That $ is long gone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (gu0hJ)

70 Maybe NPR can hold a fundraiser selling tote bags on the street.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (gnNyN)

71 64 That 3% of their budget was really impactful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 03:47 PM

No $hit. We were told repeatedly that npr did not really need any money from the federal government because the listeners provided the vast majority of their support.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (0N4FZ)

=====

And Big Bird still breathes.

So many lies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (fqwyO)

72 I used to work a lot of Sunday mornings by myself in a secure office. Naturally the only radio station I could tune in was NPR. I still have a lot of hard earned contempt for the leftist tards struggling to answer the absurdly easy questions on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.

Posted by: Clay at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (h1FYt)

73 Liars.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:46 PM

-----------

"The question is, (P)BS, were you lying then, are you lying now, or are you not in fact a chronic and habitual LIAR?!?!?!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (McFv/)

74 53 DOWN GOES PRAVDA!
Posted by: Heh heh. Goes down. Heh heh heh. at May 20, 2026 03:55 PM (TbWk/)

YES! ACE, THIS IS PROMOTABLE.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (6wpGE)

75 NPR management expects only about 30 employees to accept the buyouts voluntarily, meaning layoffs in the 425-strong newsroom could follow if too few workers opt in.
---------------------------

425 reporters and editors to churn out stories about how emojis are problematic?

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/ race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 20, 2026 03:58 PM (A39+G)

76 Has NPR considered topless weather girls and stripper parties where we could place donations directly in their g-strings?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (2qkZ/)

Since it's all radio, how would we know?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 03:58 PM (qx7Zg)

77 Has NPR considered topless weather girls and stripper parties where we could place donations directly in their g-strings?

They'd have to bring in outside talent. The current lineup is all in their 90s.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

78 Maybe NPR can hold a fundraiser selling tote bags on the street.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (gnNyN)

Went to a 'free' event once, but don't remember what it was for, where they told people that they would receive a FREE GIFT with a donation of $20.

FREE! For $20.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

79 Darn. This means the competition will be even tougher at CNN.

Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (vFG9F)

80 The economic-ripple effects of this will be huge!

Does no one consider the arugula farmers and local baristas?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (0sNs1)

81 76 Has NPR considered topless weather girls and stripper parties where we could place donations directly in their g-strings?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (2qkZ/)

Since it's all radio, how would we know?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 03:58 PM (qx7Zg)

They could do this on the sidewalk outside their main office building.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (6wpGE)

82 I loved Car Talk. Those guys were fun.

RIP Tom.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (mkw2N)

83 I liked that NPR executive chick who testified before Congress. She looked like a person who would get confused if you asked her if she wanted a cup of coffee.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (2qkZ/)

84 Cornucopia of Penii was summer stock in 2004 off-Broadway. A gay happy little show that featured gaily colored sets, light-hearted show tunes, and witty writing laced with double and triple entendres. Fans thought it was fabulous!

Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1)

85 @RandPaul
The border is being secured because @POTUS made a promise and kept it. My job is to ensure the Senate doesn't get in the way. I'm blocking every attempt to defund, delay, or undermine the mission to protect our national sovereignty.
May 19, 2026 · 3:23 PM UTC

Posted by: Ring Status: Salivated at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (gKWVE)

86 NPR - National Palestinian Radio

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (Oy/m2)

87 for less than 1% of its budget,

They should've paid attention to the count.

Posted by: DaveA at May 20, 2026 04:00 PM (FhXTo)

88 Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (OoFl2)

Thank you. High praise.
Back to yardwork.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 20, 2026 04:00 PM (Sco7b)

89 Since it's all radio, how would we know?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 03:58 PM (qx7Zg)

.....

The same way you know the OF girls chatting with you online aren't actually sweaty pajeets somewhere in India.

You just trust them.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:00 PM (9BMWb)

90 68
No
People
Required

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2026 03:57 PM (h2pEv)

A use for AI?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

91 You'd think Mark Cuban or Steve Jobs widow would send them a check. $8 million is pocket change to them.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 20, 2026 04:00 PM (2zlwu)

92 It's been decades since I even inadvertently heard National Pacifist Radio (AKA National Palestinian Radio), or been on their air (twice?).

But I'll always cherish a few memories. The epic "dead air" when the BBC host (NPR used to rebroadcast BBC's early morning show at o-dark-thirty when I was driving home from a late night hockey game) asked the obviously non-native English speaking Israeli spokesman whether the IDF was ceasing operations in a town on the West Bank because they "had killed enough people".

And the local host who quickly told his producer no calls (it was a call-in show) once he realized his idiot listeners would beclown themselves talking to someone who actually knew the topic and wouldn't spare or humor them).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 20, 2026 04:00 PM (U/Byj)

93 All Marxist Propaganda Ministries give the same BS, who needs to hear it from 6 different channels all the same?

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

94 I hope Ken Burns will continue to produce quality work detailing how white people are evil and black people are all saints, because that never gets old.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

95 topless weather girls and stripper parties
_-_

I can just hear them describing the scene now...
"An underprivileged dancer accepts a donation from a white supremacist passerby who wishes to ease his anxiety about hating brown people..."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (t7+TD)

96 Honestly you people have no imagination. Podcasts are the future. Topless podcasts. Except for Grandma Groyper, whose boobs can be tucked in her belt.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (2qkZ/)

97 >>>"Has NPR considered topless weather girls and stripper parties where we could place donations directly in their g-strings?"
****
I just guessing that I wouldn't be watching topless weather girls, or anything, on NPR.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (pTlA3)

98 @RandPaul
The border is being secured because @POTUS made a promise and kept it. My job is to ensure the Senate doesn't get in the way. I'm blocking every attempt to defund, delay, or undermine the mission to protect our national sovereignty.
May 19, 2026 · 3:23 PM UTC

Have some tea leaves been read?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (ExV1e)

99
National
Panhandler
Radio

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)

100 94 I hope Ken Burns will continue to produce quality work detailing how white people are evil and black people are all saints, because that never gets old.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

======

Ken Burns' Britain:

"Britain was all black until William the Conqueror."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (fqwyO)

101 Katherine Maher the condescending snot who is the CEO of NPR takes home a salary and benefits package of $600k allegedly. I would bet it's higher but whatever it is she ain't worth it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (gu0hJ)

102 45 When I first saw this on 𝕏, I started talking out loud, saying stuff like "Yay!" "Oh, no!" "Jerks" "There isn't a more deserving bunch" and I'm just so HAPPY about it!
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 03:54 PM (6wpGE)

... and "BWAHAHAHA"

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (6wpGE)

103 How will farmers get their weather forecast now?

Posted by: Heroq at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (ZGTXg)

104 Listen to them jiggle!

Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (vFG9F)

105 Went to a 'free' event once, but don't remember what it was for, where they told people that they would receive a FREE GIFT with a donation of $20.

FREE! For $20.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)
----
When I was in high school, our drama club gave away FREE TICKETS to see our shows with the purchase of a salami & cheese broetchen. That's because we didn't have the licensing rights to sell tickets to see our shows, so we sold sandwiches instead and gave away tickets.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (gnNyN)

106 If NPR seeks relevance, it should create audio plays.

I don't think it could top Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater Players 1938 production of War of the Worlds. Alien Voices would still be a reach (think of Leonard Nimoy and John DeLancie)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (qx7Zg)

107 Imagine 425 people and that is the best they can do.

I wonder how many people work at SpaceX or Toyota to design a new product.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (fm9E/)

108 83 I liked that NPR executive chick who testified before Congress. She looked like a person who would get confused if you asked her if she wanted a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (2qkZ/)

... which I was spewing, after I read that, so, thanks!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (6wpGE)

109
I haven't seen or listened to anything from NPR in 15+ years.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (HdYcL)

110 Nina Totenberg doing the weather topless would not help NPR's finances

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (gu0hJ)

111 BTW...

I survived my biopsy this morning - obviously. I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (ExV1e)

112 I had a coworker who would play NPR on his computer speakers during the lunch break so everyone in the breakroom had to listen to it. Smug bastard didn't have the decency to wear headphones.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (cWLG3)

113 Hiya ace!

Are you going to listen to/watch the Candace owens/ Hunter Biden interview so we don’t have to?

Or we could turn it into a drinking game/contest.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (qNSKv)

114 is there a spacex launch today?

Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (ZxPkt)

115 94 I hope Ken Burns will continue to produce quality work detailing how white people are evil and black people are all saints, because that never gets old.
Posted by: Archimedes
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His field is dying and soon to be dead altogether as any cultural phenomenon is.

AI puts together slides with music plus commentary now on Youtube for a fraction of what he charges.

Give AI ten years and it will probably be cobble something together on command from your home computer or phone.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (E4rtv)

116 *106 If NPR seeks relevance, it should create audio plays.*
+++++++++

Yours truly,

Posted by: Johnny Dollar at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (2Ez/1)

117 Prediction -- the only people who will notice are the coffee and donut suppliers to their offices.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 20, 2026 04:04 PM (fm9E/)

118 How will I get my tornado warnings?!?!?!

Posted by: DBCooper at May 20, 2026 04:04 PM (EZKaN)

119 101 Katherine Maher the condescending snot who is the CEO of NPR takes home a salary and benefits package of $600k allegedly. I would bet it's higher but whatever it is she ain't worth it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026

World’s least paid CEO. Well except me, I guess I am technically a CEO. My salary stinks. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:04 PM (OoFl2)

120 I liked that NPR executive chick who testified before Congress. She looked like a person who would get confused if you asked her if she wanted a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (2qkZ/)

NPR executive chick: I seek the Holy Grail.
Keeper: Would you like a cup of coffee?
NPR executive chick: No. er.. Ye-- Auuuuuuuugh!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2026 04:04 PM (3uBP9)

121 63 NPR Loses $1.1b from government $$$$ and they only have to fire 300 people?

How the f*ck much were they getting paid?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

It was laundered through the member stations. The more beaks you wet, the more people with an interest in the continuation of your grift, the more protection it has.

Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 04:04 PM (Sy6m/)

122 I'm doing my broadcast topless right now.

Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at May 20, 2026 04:05 PM (vFG9F)

123
Have some tea leaves been read?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:01 PM (ExV1e)

____________

"The prospect of being hanged in the morning will concentrate a man's mind wonderfully."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2026 04:05 PM (HdYcL)

124 JJ Sefton could donate his Channel 13 Tote Bags to NPR. I think he has over a hundred.

Posted by: Native New Yawker at May 20, 2026 04:05 PM (oftw2)

125 World’s least paid CEO. Well except me, I guess I am technically a CEO. My salary stinks. Lol.
Posted by: Piper

So, you're really not an empress?

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (77rzZ)

126 108 83 I liked that NPR executive chick who testified before Congress. She looked like a person who would get confused if you asked her if she wanted a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (2qkZ/)

--'
NPR chick would think it's code for, "would you like to bask in my MALE GAZE?" *muhahahah*

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (cWLG3)

127 111 BTW...

I survived my biopsy this morning - obviously. I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Hope it all works out for you. Biopsies ain't fun.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (E4rtv)

128 Prediction -- the only people who will notice are the coffee and donut suppliers to their offices.

As IF!!! Coffee and doughnuts are for the peons. NPR talent gets croissants and champagne.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t)

129 is there a spacex launch today?
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (ZxPkt)

Starlink is 3:26 AM EDT tomorrow.

Starship is 4:30 EDT tomorrow.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (qx7Zg)

130 Henry Nowak, a 19 year old college student after being robbed and stabbed, "I've been stabbed."

UK Bobbie after arresting Nowak because the stabber claimed Nowak had said naughty words, "I don't think you have, mate."

Disgusting.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (mkw2N)

131 "Though NPR has long said direct federal grants account for less than 1% of its budget, the organization depends heavily on fees from member stations, many of which are now under severe financial strain."

Word games. Direct federal grants does not exclude laundered NGO and foundation monies. Which us apparently how they were actually funded.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (yFLFB)

132 111 BTW...

I survived my biopsy this morning - obviously. I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at

This sounds awful. I am so sorry for you.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (OoFl2)

133 122 I'm doing my broadcast topless right now.
Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at May 20, 2026 04:05 PM (vFG9F)
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Oh, I thought it might have been a meteor, but it was just the sun reflecting off of your pasty white man-titties.

Put 'em away, hoss.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (oqH4h)

134 122 I'm doing my broadcast topless right now.
Posted by: Errorick Errorickson
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He strikes me as a nipple ring kinda guy. While explaining on air that he learned it was an ancient Christian tradition in seminary school.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

135 "does not include"

That's what I meant.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 20, 2026 04:07 PM (yFLFB)

136 >>> Nina Totenberg doing the weather topless would not help NPR's finances
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (gu0hJ)

What if it was an implied threat? Donation drive. First prize, an NPR mug. Last prize ... Nina

Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2026 04:07 PM (3uBP9)

137 thnx

Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (ZxPkt)

138
Necessary
Pravda
Reruns

Posted by: zombie at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (Av6i5)

139 I survived my biopsy this morning - obviously. I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (ExV1e)

Sorry.. I laughed.... Seriously, will say a prayer for you... PS... I'm still laughing at your discription

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (FtULh)

140 unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Save your tears. It's a waste of good suffering!

Posted by: gKWVE at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (gKWVE)

141 130 Henry Nowak, a 19 year old college student after being robbed and stabbed, "I've been stabbed."

UK Bobbie after arresting Nowak because the stabber claimed Nowak had said naughty words, "I don't think you have, mate."

Disgusting.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 20

The fact they let this poor kid bleed to death and absolutely nothing has happened to the police officers is incredulous.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (OoFl2)

142 127 111 BTW...

I survived my biopsy this morning - obviously. I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Hope it all works out for you. Biopsies ain't fun.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (E4rtv)

Wife told me her bone biopsy was the most painful she'd had.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (ynpvh)

143 Listen while I rub my nipples on the mic. See? No rings. On my nipples, anyway.

Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (vFG9F)

144 Joan Kroc, widow of Ray Kroc, left NPR a massive $500 million. I guess that they burned through that.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (qFwJc)

145 83 She looked like a person who would get confused if you asked her if she wanted a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 20, 2026 03:59 PM (2qkZ/)

This is really very funny, Vengeance.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (6wpGE)

146 I survived my biopsy this morning - obviously. I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That's Saturday night 'round here.

Posted by: The Great Poofter at May 20, 2026 04:08 PM (oftw2)

147 136 >>> Nina Totenberg doing the weather topless would not help NPR's finances
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (gu0hJ)

What if it was an implied threat? Donation drive. First prize, an NPR mug. Last prize ... Nina
Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2026 04:07 PM (3uBP9)

Would Katy Tur help, or Ana Kasparian?

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (Gqar8)

148 I guess the billionaire Zionist child-traffickers could bailout NPR, but their money is tied up in primary elections, or so I am told.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (2zlwu)

149 Biopsies ain't fun.
_-_

Someone I know just had one for an anomaly just behind the nipple - they came at it with a long needle from behind. Massive bruising and soreness. Fortunately a benign result.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (t7+TD)

150 But where will I hawk my new load of salty peanut butter balls?

Posted by: Phil schwetty at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (cSOsh)

151 This sounds awful. I am so sorry for you.
Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (OoFl2)

I took it manfully, as expected from a reader of this fine blog, now crying or begging for mercy. I may have told the doctor that I hated him a couple times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (ExV1e)

152 134 122 I'm doing my broadcast topless right now.
Posted by: Errorick Errorickson
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He strikes me as a nipple ring kinda guy. While explaining on air that he learned it was an ancient Christian tradition in seminary school.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

seminary or semenary school?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (ynpvh)

153 Without NPR how will everyone know that diversity is our strength and that we need open borders?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (4JCjc)

154 We will settle for no less than Ben Shapiro's sister.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (vFG9F)

155 Wife told me her bone biopsy was the most painful she'd had.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I don't think there is a way to numb that and yes, I have heard it was horrible but no personal experience. The ones of my thyroid and kidneys were bad enough.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (E4rtv)

156 125 World’s least paid CEO. Well except me, I guess I am technically a CEO. My salary stinks. Lol.
Posted by: Piper

So, you're really not an empress?
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM

Not yet.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (OoFl2)

157 is there a spacex launch today?
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (ZxPkt)
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Postponed until tomorrow; Rumor is there was an employee accident in the launch pad area, but SpaceX merely announced a postponement with no reason given.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (d3lyb)

158 Nina Totenberg has a face for radio.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (qFwJc)

159
Henry Nowak, a 19 year old college student after being robbed and stabbed, "I've been stabbed."

UK Bobbie after arresting Nowak because the stabber claimed Nowak had said naughty words, "I don't think you have, mate."

Disgusting.
Posted by: bonhomme

==================

Elon is pledging any amount of money to get justice for this guy. He may have to buy England to do it.

Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (n7rxJ)

160 >>Starship is 4:30 EDT tomorrow.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (qx7Zg)
__
No. It's 6:30 EDT tomorrow.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (bNf8H)

161 It would take a heart of stone...

Posted by: 496 at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (jCuBf)

162 seminary or semenary school?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Well, he got down on his knees a lot.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (E4rtv)

163 So, you're really not an empress?
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (77rzZ)

There is only one, true empress …

Posted by: browndog tacking on the carpet at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (pY+ea)

164 157 is there a spacex launch today?
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (ZxPkt)
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Postponed until tomorrow; Rumor is there was an employee accident in the launch pad area, but SpaceX merely announced a postponement with no reason given.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (d3lyb)

=====

The inside skinny is that Musk showed up, high as a kite, and pissed on the rocket because he thought it would be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (fqwyO)

165 I took it manfully, as expected from a reader of this fine blog, now crying or begging for mercy. I may have told the doctor that I hated him a couple times.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Didn't they give you any anasthesia?

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

166 OT, but I finally got my scanner set up correctly. Listening to a police chase right now, with the idiot running away in the wrong lanes.

The officer is keeping a good running commentary while also keeping up with the jackass running away.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (qx7Zg)

167 Does NPR still have those two guys talking about auto repair? That was about the only normal thing on there.

Posted by: Dick Armey at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (CNl8/)

168 I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

WOuch....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2026 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

169 "The measure returns about $8 billion earmarked for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and upwards of $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds PBS and NPR -- something conservatives have long dreamed of cutting."

They are only $8 million short in their budget? If NPR was getting half of that $1B, that would be a direct broadside hit to their budget. 300 employees at $50K (?) each would be $15M. Or maybe they are part timers and come cheap, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 20, 2026 04:11 PM (vbXSk)

170 163 So, you're really not an empress?
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (77rzZ)

There is only one, true empress …

Posted by: browndog tacking on the carpet at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (pY+ea)

She is in exile though. Maybe a Romanov.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:11 PM (Gqar8)

171 155 Wife told me her bone biopsy was the most painful she'd had.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I don't think there is a way to numb that and yes, I have heard it was horrible but no personal experience. The ones of my thyroid and kidneys were bad enough.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:09 PM (E4rtv)

The ones on my transplant kidney weren't bad. local on top, needle inserted, quick loud SNAP and the sample was taken. In and out in 30 minutes, but still needed a ride due to anesthetic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (ynpvh)

172 They are only $8 million short in their budget? If NPR was getting half of that $1B, that would be a direct broadside hit to their budget. 300 employees at $50K (?) each would be $15M. Or maybe they are part timers and come cheap, idk.

Don't try to make sense of it. It's all lies.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

173 "Does NPR still have those two guys talking about auto repair? That was about the only normal thing on there.
Posted by: Dick Armey "

I think the closest they get is talking about drag.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (vFG9F)

174 Candace Owens doing a show on NPR would actually be a pretty good strategy for them.

It would draw in more conservative listeners and Candace's content is pretty entertaining and already formatted pretty well for radio.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (9BMWb)

175 Oops. That's me, not Dick Armey. From a previous comment about Barney Frank.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (CNl8/)

176 >>Starship is 4:30 EDT tomorrow.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (qx7Zg)
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No. It's 6:30 EDT tomorrow.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (bNf8H)

Some days I REALLY hate time zones.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (qx7Zg)

177 i recently rode in an Uber where the driver was playing NPR.

It felt like someone was pouring poison directly into my ears. Sheer agony, every syllable. I truly don't understand how anyone can tolerate NPR for more than about 15 seconds.

Posted by: zombie at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (Av6i5)

178 174 Candace Owens doing a show on NPR would actually be a pretty good strategy for them.

It would draw in more conservative listeners and Candace's content is pretty entertaining and already formatted pretty well for radio.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (9BMWb)

=====

Then the Israeli-French assassins will know where she is and murder her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (fqwyO)

179 Car Talk was the only show worth listening to on NPR. There was much rejoicing in the NPR world when Click & Clack hung it up. There was a great deal of resentment that two guys talking about car crap was by far the most popular show they ever had or would have. So low-brow. Good Lord, they weren't even Yale Men!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (V362x)

180 biopsy
_-_
...but you may experience some "discomfort".

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (t7+TD)

181 158 Nina Totenberg has a face for radio.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (qFwJc)

She does audio OF...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (ynpvh)

182 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at

Sorry to hear about the miserable experience. Will keep you in prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (ZeH0U)

183 167 Does NPR still have those two guys talking about auto repair? That was about the only normal thing on there.
Posted by: Dick Armey
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I think the original Car Talk is off the air, not sure one or both of the guys are still alive. They might be carrying reruns though. Garrison Keilor wasn't awful in a goofy kind of way until he lost his mind in the 00's under Bush.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (E4rtv)

184 Starship is 4:30 EDT tomorrow.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:06 PM (qx7Zg)
__
No. It's 6:30 EDT tomorrow.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (bNf8H)

Some days I REALLY hate time zones.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

They should be using stardates anyway.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (vFG9F)

185 Nina Totenberg doing the weather topless would not help NPR's finances
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Well...how about Mara LIasson? She seems nice:
https://shorturl.at/FMq1a

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (XeU6L)

186 Prayers up for cancer victims here in the hoard (and everywhere)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (d3lyb)

187 She does audio OF...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Apparently not well enough to keep NPR out of a financial hole.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (E4rtv)

188 Sadly Car Talk was the only thing on NPR to listen to that wasn't Leftists Propaganda

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

189 Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (V362x)

That really was a fun show, even for people like me who don't know about cars.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (ZeH0U)

190 I had a bone marrow biopsy about 15 years ago. It was through the back of my femur. The doc who did it remarked to his assistant at one point that my bones were good and thick and hard to get through.

I'm curious if yours was back there because I've heard bone biopsies are awful but mine wasn't super bad. It was uncomfortable, sure, but I've wondered if I had an easy one.

Posted by: 496 at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (Md1Bq)

191 177 i recently rode in an Uber where the driver was playing NPR.

It felt like someone was pouring poison directly into my ears. Sheer agony, every syllable. I truly don't understand how anyone can tolerate NPR for more than about 15 seconds.

Posted by: zombie at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (Av6i5)

You are NOT of the body!

Posted by: Followers of Landru at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (ynpvh)

192 All journalists should be fired, and there should be a jobs program for them, where they can actually serve the public.

They will all be arrested, and paired up by age, sex, and weight.

Each pair will be placed in a small iron cage with water but no food, and with a webcam pointed at them.

Bettors can go to DraftKings to bet on who will feast upon whom. The winners will be rested, fed, and paired together in half as many cages, to repeat this process until the last winner is sent to the panther pits.

As cages empty, they will be filled with the professors, and then the politicians, and so forth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (BI5O2)

193 I suspect NPR will limp along until the next Regime change, after which their will be the Time of Restoration.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:15 PM (Gqar8)

194 National Public Retards

Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2026 04:15 PM (0p4q1)

195 Didn't they give you any anasthesia?
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

I had two Xanax, or I'd probably have stabbed the doctor at some point, and they said something about a local roughly 3 nanoseconds before "you're going to feel some pressure" (doctor code for this is gonna hurt) and then "and then some pain" (doctor code for this is gonna hurt a lot). Fortunately, the early ones were the worst - as he accurately stated.

I guess that since the procedure is only 10 minutes or so they just make you tough it out. I imagine the afterlife for urologists is just daily biopsies for eternity. That makes me smile.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:15 PM (ExV1e)

196 187 She does audio OF...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Apparently not well enough to keep NPR out of a financial hole.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (E4rtv)

Joke Punchline: "No, Senator, that was the right hole."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (ynpvh)

197 > Good Lord, they weren't even Yale Men!

Funnily enough, they were both MIT men.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (mkw2N)

198 It would draw in more conservative listeners and Candace's content is pretty entertaining and already formatted pretty well for radio.
Posted by: It is What It Is
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You forgot the /s.

Captain subtext translation.

It would draw in the Sturm Front Jew h8rs and crackpot conspiracy junkies. A real unifier between the woke left and right.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (E4rtv)

199 I suspect NPR will limp along until the next Regime change, after which their will be the Time of Restoration.

For now, I'm content to see them hanging on the Tree of Woe.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

200 Car Talk was the only show worth listening to on NPR. There was much rejoicing in the NPR world when Click & Clack hung it up. There was a great deal of resentment that two guys talking about car crap was by far the most popular show they ever had or would have. So low-brow. Good Lord, they weren't even Yale Men!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at May 20, 2026 04:13 PM (V362x)

------------

They went to the school of no-knocks.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (McFv/)

201 I did like the classical-music programming on NPR, though.

One Christmas when I was in Ann Arbor, the local NPR affiliate was playing pieces from an album entitled "If Mozart Had Written Frosty the Snowman." It was pop Christmas music played in classical style by a string quartet. God stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

202 190 I had a bone marrow biopsy about 15 years ago. It was through the back of my femur. The doc who did it remarked to his assistant at one point that my bones were good and thick and hard to get through.

I'm curious if yours was back there because I've heard bone biopsies are awful but mine wasn't super bad. It was uncomfortable, sure, but I've wondered if I had an easy one.

Posted by: 496 at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (Md1Bq)

Wife's was in her back, her spine. Was NOT fun for her at all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (ynpvh)

203 I truly don't understand how anyone can tolerate NPR for more than about 15 seconds.
Posted by: zombie
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You miss me don't you?

Posted by: Daniel Schorr at May 20, 2026 04:17 PM (XeU6L)

204 Had a three biopsies last couple ofyears. Kidney one was painful but manageable.

The bone mattow one was a lot easier as they gave me some medical grade fentynal before the procedure. That was good stuff.

The prostate one hurt like hell. I think they used hot sauce as the anesthetic.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 20, 2026 04:17 PM (1fx5i)

205 What’s weird, or maybe not, Leftists demand 100% control of The Narrative.

If they were slightly less insane, there could have been a balanced and rational approach in the marketplace of ideas. Instead it has been whack job pedal to the metal for 60 years.

At one time the large conglomerate media outlets, all the major newspapers, magazines, television and everything was decidedly leftist In editorial slant, in the news.

Rush Limbaugh showed up on AM Radio and they tried to destroy him. One guy. I think they tried to outlaw him in Congress

Posted by: Common Tater at May 20, 2026 04:17 PM (Y4gci)

206 "They went to the school of no-knocks.
Posted by: ShainS"

*belts ShainS*

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2026 04:17 PM (vFG9F)

207 Joke Punchline: "No, Senator, that was the right hole."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Hanging curve ball sent straight to the bleachers. Well played.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:17 PM (E4rtv)

208 @192 YD. include weak-kneed and activist judges, and you'd have a winner.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:18 PM (qx7Zg)

209 When I was in high school, our drama club gave away FREE TICKETS to see our shows with the purchase of a salami & cheese broetchen. That's because we didn't have the licensing rights to sell tickets to see our shows, so we sold sandwiches instead and gave away tickets.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (gnNyN)

That's why I ran a concession table for my kids' drama performance last month. It was "donate to anything you want to, and as much as you want to, b/c we need a new stage" - that got more donations than expected...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 20, 2026 04:18 PM (tOcjL)

210 They should be using stardates anyway.
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek

How were stardates calculated? Was that ever explained?

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

211
When I lived in Ohio I contributed to the local station after they shoved all the jazz programming and dreary NPR stuff onto the Xavier University station and just played classical music and segments by a guy from the Cincinnati Zoo.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2026 04:18 PM (HdYcL)

212 203 I truly don't understand how anyone can tolerate NPR for more than about 15 seconds.
Posted by: zombie
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Fetanyl.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:19 PM (E4rtv)

213 210 They should be using stardates anyway.
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek

How were stardates calculated? Was that ever explained?
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah, right after Warp Speed/Drive, I think.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:19 PM (Gqar8)

214 I used to listen to NPR most of the time...40 years ago. Then, I discovered that I could get more reliable news from Radio Havana.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (XeU6L)

215 In an earlier post the Lincoln Project was mentioned. I used to remember the ninnyhammers names who were in this elite club house.

Probably had secret knocks and panic rooms. I imagine them passing a bong and thinking they are erudite Mensa super intelligent men. Solving the problems not only of our failing country but the entire world. Nay, the universe and solar system into infinity and black holes.

Some may talk of pinecones as I have no idea still where that came from with Massie or why. I don't want to know, but figure deformed, STD scarring or genital warts. Possibly leprosy would explain scaling. In normal times I would recommend a derm for cancer, but since it is Massie I won't...but it does not sound normal, eh?

All things considered his sexting should be a warning to the Lincoln brain camps to not brag about their nethers too loudly, outside of the clubhouse.

We need a Moron to infiltrate and report back to us. I'll bet there is porn, too, once they get high and drunk while their wives think they are problem solving. Maybe hookers or furries.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (WONhk)

216 I used to listen to a local NPR station for classical and jazz. That was in the 80's though.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (E4rtv)

217 NPR will be re-funded, along with USAID, just as soon as the Democrats retake power. Probably try and pass a House Bill to that effect in January, if they're not too busy investigating Trump's entire Cabinet and filing multiple impeachment articles.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (MNCvZ)

218 "How were stardates calculated? Was that ever explained?
Posted by: Bulg"

Are you kidding?

Posted by: About 10 million nerds at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (vFG9F)

219 Hour of the Wolf, Colorado Supreme Court is demanding that the Childrens' Hospital keep providing the "service" of spaying and neutering your kids.
I don't think they can actually do that under the 13th Amendment.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (gKWVE)

220 Meta has officially announced 8k layoffs.
Learn to code!! Oh, never mind.
Learn to suck dick?

Posted by: Heroq at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (ZGTXg)

221 When I was in high school, our drama club gave away FREE TICKETS to see our shows with the purchase of a salami & cheese broetchen. That's because we didn't have the licensing rights to sell tickets to see our shows, so we sold sandwiches instead and gave away tickets.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2026 04:02 PM (gnNyN)

??? In my HS, we sold tickets with no problem. How did yours system operate?

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

222 Click and Clack were both MIT grads. They were leftists, but they didn’t suffer nonsense. Very entertaining.

I tried to listen to the Archived shows, but they insist on installing contemporary advertising. Unlistenable. Pass.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (Y4gci)

223 It would draw in more conservative listeners and Candace's content is pretty entertaining and already formatted pretty well for radio.

Posted by: It is What It Is

Please tell me this is a joke. It’s a joke, right?

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (Dd38x)

224 210 They should be using stardates anyway.
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek

How were stardates calculated? Was that ever explained?

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

Can't say. Never dated a star.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:21 PM (ynpvh)

225 So the markets were up because they expect a deal with Iran ? Why am I skeptical ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2026 04:21 PM (FtULh)

226 223
Please tell me this is a joke. It’s a joke, right?

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (Dd38x)

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Conservative Pakistani listeners, surely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:21 PM (fqwyO)

227 We need a Moron to infiltrate and report back to us. I'll bet there is porn, too, once they get high and drunk while their wives think they are problem solving. Maybe hookers or furries.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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I think one term congress critter, Madison Hawthorne spilled the beans about the orgies and depravity in Trump's first term. Got kicked out because of it.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:21 PM (E4rtv)

228 225 So the markets were up because they expect a deal with Iran ? Why am I skeptical ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2026 04:21 PM (FtULh)

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There was an anonymous report that we were hours away from a final deal (there was also something about a Pakistani general not being around for it, which seemed important).

I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:22 PM (fqwyO)

229 It would draw in more conservative listeners and Candace's content is pretty entertaining and already formatted pretty well for radio.

Posted by: It is What It Is

Please tell me this is a joke. It’s a joke, right?
Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (Dd38x)

It would expand their appeal with two types of content: Stalinism and Hitlerism. You know, globalist and statist communists.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:22 PM (qx7Zg)

230 Gas price jumped 25 cents overnight. 4.29/gallon for the cheap stuff

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:23 PM (Gqar8)

231
FBI Director Kash Patel

@FBIDirectorKash
🚨 This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents.

Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches.

Lineberger is charged with four felony counts in the indictment.

This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.
3:01 PM · May 20, 2026
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Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:23 PM (Dd38x)

232 I knew a couple progtards out here who thought “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” was the funniest thing they had ever heard.

I’ve listened to it several times and have yet to even crack a smile. Seriously smug garbage.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2026 04:23 PM (S25s/)

233 So the markets were up because they expect a deal with Iran ? Why am I skeptical ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2026 04:21 PM (FtULh)

......

Probably because you subconsciously recognize that the longer the conflict draws out, the longer the oil conglomerates get to siphon off your life savings.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:23 PM (9BMWb)

234 225 So the markets were up because they expect a deal with Iran ? Why am I skeptical ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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Markets just want it over I think. They hate uncertainty while traders secretly love it. Volatility makes them money, stability doesn't.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (E4rtv)

235 As Iran has NEVER honored any deal they have made over the last 40 years, I fail to see the reason for optimism.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (CwhoI)

236 For a long time the game was:

Fedgov barely gives any money to NPR, it doesn't matter

and

If you cut any funding at all Big Bird will die...DIE

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

237 I'm curious if yours was back there because I've heard bone biopsies are awful but mine wasn't super bad. It was uncomfortable, sure, but I've wondered if I had an easy one.
Posted by: 496

I had mine in the hip. They iced it down for twenty minutes and I only felt some uncomfortable pressure. Twenty minutes after I got home my leg started hurting so bad I needed crutches to get around for a couple of days. Apparently the doc nicked a vein.

Posted by: Clay at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (h1FYt)

238 >>"Sadly Car Talk was the only thing on NPR to listen to that wasn't Leftists Propaganda"
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)
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True, I enjoyed their shows a lot. I would LOL when someone would call in asking about fixing the check engine light in their car and they would say "well, get some black electrical tape..."

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (pTlA3)

239 ??? In my HS, we sold tickets with no problem. How did yours system operate?
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
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On the cheap...Small school, tiny budget for drama.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (gnNyN)

240 230 Gas price jumped 25 cents overnight. 4.29/gallon for the cheap stuff
Posted by: tubal
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And ours went down nearly 30 cents overnight. 3.49/gal

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at May 20, 2026 04:25 PM (VkY89)

241 It isn’t simply they are against “free speech”, they are against free listening; they don’t want you to hear opposing viewpoints, and come to your own conclusions using facts, logic, and reason.

People might start thinking the wrong way, and that isn’t acceptable

Posted by: Common Tater at May 20, 2026 04:25 PM (Y4gci)

242 236 If you cut any funding at all Big Bird will die...DIE
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

HBO bought Big Bird, so they can't even use that as a talking point anymore.

Posted by: XTC at May 20, 2026 04:25 PM (iXqHn)

243 Ace said in the sidebar he’s essentially done talking about the Iranian “ deal”, considers it as a matter of embarrassment now. Trending that way myself.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:26 PM (Gqar8)

244 242 236 If you cut any funding at all Big Bird will die...DIE
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

HBO bought Big Bird, so they can't even use that as a talking point anymore.

Posted by: XTC at May 20, 2026 04:25 PM (iXqHn)

And here I was hoping for a "Big Bird Thanksgiving Special"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:26 PM (ynpvh)

245 > How were stardates calculated? Was that ever explained?

Article here:
http://tiny.cc/8vr3101

Basically they came up with stardates to avoid pinning down the timeline. They were never all that consistent. There were some internal attempts at consistency at times, but it was never a real priority.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:27 PM (mkw2N)

246 244 242 236 If you cut any funding at all Big Bird will die...DIE
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

HBO bought Big Bird, so they can't even use that as a talking point anymore.

Posted by: XTC at May 20, 2026 04:25 PM (iXqHn)

And here I was hoping for a "Big Bird Thanksgiving Special"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:26 PM (ynpvh)

Spatchcock that sucker.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:27 PM (Gqar8)

247 THEY HAVE 300 EMPLOYEES??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2026 04:27 PM (RIvkX)

248 111 BTW...

I survived my biopsy this morning - obviously. I hope none of you ever have to go through that unless you're really into uncomfortable anal while being repeated stabbed in the dick by a guy wearing a Saw mask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:03 PM (ExV1e
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Prayers for you. Hope the biopsy is nothing.

Before my one and only colonoscopy I informed the GI doc (hose in hand) that he was a sadist (due to the prep). His velly British nurse was offended and he laughed as he and I got along fine with sarcasm.

Heaven knows what they did to me during or after, however. My husband arrived to recovery and said I was mooning the room as no one covered my bottom with a blanket. He also had to talk sternly to me to stop laughing at others farting.

I am always in trouble.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (WONhk)

249 On the cheap...Small school, tiny budget for drama.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

My HS drama teacher was what you could call "a pushy broad." (Very sweet lady, though, RIP.) She made sure that the Thespian Society was always a going concern.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

250 HBO bought Big Bird, so they can't even use that as a talking point anymore.

Posted by: XTC at May 20, 2026 04:25 PM (iXqHn)

And here I was hoping for a "Big Bird Thanksgiving Special"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:26 PM (ynpvh)

Fox would serve roasted Big Bird to the winners of their NFL game on Thanksgiving, instead of Madden's Turducken?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (qx7Zg)

251 I think Fox reporters would last longest. The Murdochs already keep them in kennels when they aren't in the CrossFit yard or being tranquilized for grooming.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (BI5O2)

252 "No Longer Propped Up by the American Taxpayer, Communist Former-State Media NPR Will Cut 300 Jobs"

May we have a moment of silence signifying our hopes this will result in Ken Burns never making another bullsh*t "documentary."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (glnUu)

253 243 Ace said in the sidebar he’s essentially done talking about the Iranian “ deal”, considers it as a matter of embarrassment now. Trending that way myself.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:26 PM (Gqar

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Iran is losing $450 million a day in trade. Their ports in the Caspian sea can take about 1/100 of the trade that their Persian and Oman ports can. There are gas lines in the country. The railroads to China and Pakistan are not of the same gauge and require change overs. Also, the number of rail tankers to make up for the lost sea trade for oil is in the tens of thousands per day.

We're dealing with Biden era levels of gas prices.

Trump can go on forever, especially the closer the UAE can get to finishing their new pipeline that bypasses the strait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (fqwyO)

254 ixing the check engine light in their car and they would say "well, get some black electrical tape..."
_-_
But it works, mate!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 04:29 PM (t7+TD)

255 I also think that NPR and "Public Broadcasting" in general was hurt by rich white people being able to stream all of those shows that...somehow...only PBS could bring to them.

Posted by: Walsingham at May 20, 2026 04:29 PM (dOL3D)

256 177 i recently rode in an Uber where the driver was playing NPR.

It felt like someone was pouring poison directly into my ears.
Posted by: zombie at May 20, 2026 04:12 PM (Av6i5)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:29 PM (6wpGE)

257 It isn’t simply they are against “free speech”, they are against free listening; they don’t want you to hear opposing viewpoints, and come to your own conclusions using facts, logic, and reason.

I was watching a lefty podcast. They argued you shouldn't listen to right wing media. Why?

Well the arguments from those right wingers were persuasive enough to persuade at least some people, why take the risk they might persuade you?!?

And...that's cult behavior

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:29 PM (sKqQm)

258 249 On the cheap...Small school, tiny budget for drama.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

My HS drama teacher was what you could call "a pushy broad." (Very sweet lady, though, RIP.) She made sure that the Thespian Society was always a going concern.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

Every time I hear the word Thespian, I think of this...
https://youtu.be/5WSTOwWMx-s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

259 ixing the check engine light in their car and they would say "well, get some black electrical tape..."
_-_
But it works, mate!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 04:29 PM (t7+TD)

As an alternative, EweTube shows drilling out the Check Engine light on the dashboard.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:30 PM (qx7Zg)

260 our local, wbez, used to have some music formatting. they abandoned that for straight propaganda some years ago. i enjoyed wait, wait... whaddya know, click n clack... not so much woebegone but tolerable. the only music stuff was those two rock critics who never played an entire song.
"writing about music is like dancing about architecture" -m. mull

Posted by: cmeat at May 20, 2026 04:30 PM (R11M+)

261 If NPR/PBS wasn't so full of socialists they'd have trimmed the fat, stopped being so biased, and come up with some content to compete in 2026.

They've supposedly got so many loyal leftist listeners, so why can't the raise any money from them?

Try an advertisement model, instead of hiding behind 'sponsorships', and maybe make a profit for once.

This ain't the UK where the BBC gets their cut of the 'TV License', so NPR needs to actually work to stay in business.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)

262 The Senate advanced legislation Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to withdraw American forces from the Iran conflict unless Congress authorizes continued operations or declares war. Lawmakers approved the resolution by a 50–47 vote.

The measure, rooted in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, cleared a key procedural hurdle after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) voted for the resolution. Cassidy, who had previously voted against similar measures introduced several times this year, delivered the decisive margin.

Three other Republicans—Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)—also voted for the resolution. Only one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.), voted against it. Three Republicans, Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) were absent.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (9BMWb)

263 Karen Bass said today that "bureaucracy" is to blame for homelessness in Los Angeles.

Just thought you'd want to know..

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (d3lyb)

264 *belts ShainS*

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2026 04:17 PM (vFG9F)

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lol

* golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (McFv/)

265 I've mentioned before that I hate-listen to NPR in the car because there's nothing else on broadcast radio that I like and I'm too cheap to pay for Sirius/XM. Here's a little game to amuse yourself with. Tune the radio to NPR. Turn it off. Wait some random amount of time and turn it back on. Count the seconds until they say the word "Trump."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (vTZFs)

266 Before my one and only colonoscopy I informed the GI doc (hose in hand) that he was a sadist (due to the prep).

I had a sigmoidoscopy done once. Those are done with less prep but also with no anesthesia. I'll take a colonoscopy over that any day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

267 Iranian regime hit hardest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (rvNIn)

268 As an alternative, EweTube shows drilling out the Check Engine light on the dashboard.
_-_

Now to drill hole in that damned thing that makes a loud "Bing!" when a seatbelt is unbuckled.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (t7+TD)

269 Karen Bass said today that "bureaucracy" is to blame for homelessness in Los Angeles.

Just thought you'd want to know..

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (d3lyb)

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Also, "Meth Mouth" -- which is why they all deserve "free" new teeth.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (McFv/)

270 I've heard bone biopsies are awful but mine wasn't super bad."

Mrs has had four... with little tattoos to mark the locations.

Some have hurt pretty bad...

Posted by: man at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (XuXeR)

271 If NPR/PBS wasn't so full of socialists they'd have trimmed the fat, stopped being so biased, and come up with some content to compete in 2026.

There is a market for snobby British entertainment without much politics. So if they just kept the politics at say the level of ABC/NBC/CBS and ran with Brit shows I think they'd have gotten twice the audience at 1/10th the cost - because buying shows from the BBC can't cost that much...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (sKqQm)

272 253
We're dealing with Biden era levels of gas prices.

Trump can go on forever, especially the closer the UAE can get to finishing their new pipeline that bypasses the strait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:28 PM (fqwyO)

They need to get their Spin Machine going then. Go in strong for the midterms. Do you agree that the perception of us having lost the initiative in the affair is the angle on which his opposition will attack him?

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (Gqar8)

273
Most of the homeless want to be homeless.

No responsibility to deal with.

Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (3ek7K)

274 All Leftist Points Considered

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (Ia/+0)

275 hmmm

"Michael Bay to Direct Operation Epic Fury Rescue Movie for Universal...
The film is based on Mitchell Zuckoff's forthcoming book and marks Bay's second collaboration with the journalist following '13 Hours.'"

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (GD0B3)

276 Karen Bass said today that "bureaucracy" is to blame for homelessness in Los Angeles.

Someone should tell the mayor of LA so she could go solve that problem right away.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

277 262
Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (9BMWb)

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We haven't been in active conflict for weeks. The War Powers Act, not only being unconstitutional, is clear in the language that this kind of pause allows for a new timeline to start again if it does start again. A blockade is not active conflict and doesn't meet the definitions within the War Powers Act.

Also, it's an empty resolution with no power.

And still, no boots on the ground and thousands dead like Tucker promised.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (fqwyO)

278 Hour of the Wolf, Colorado Supreme Court is demanding that the Childrens' Hospital keep providing the "service" of spaying and neutering your kids.
I don't think they can actually do that under the 13th Amendment.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 20, 2026 04:20 PM (gKWVE)

Probably not. If they want to rule that way, they should personally make up for the loss of Federal funds to the hospital system.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (qx7Zg)

279 My former boss (a woman) had her husband commit suicide on January 20, 2005. The date of Bush's second inauguration. I went to pick up his car in the State Park where he blew his brains out. Thankfully, not in the car, but right behind it. When I started the car NPR was on the air playing the most depressing, funereal, dirges, and had been all day. I'm sure it contributed to his mood. Of course, he was a Bush-deranged lefty.

Posted by: My NPR Story at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (oftw2)

280 266 Before my one and only colonoscopy I informed the GI doc (hose in hand) that he was a sadist (due to the prep).

I had a sigmoidoscopy done once. Those are done with less prep but also with no anesthesia. I'll take a colonoscopy over that any day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

I've had both. Damn doc, the first time I had a sygmoidoscopy, told me to look at the monitor...just to see the camera was approaching the event horizon of a black hole...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (ynpvh)

281 I suspect NPR employees made very good money scooping up tax funds

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (Ia/+0)

282 If NPR/PBS wasn't so full of socialists they'd have trimmed the fat,

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Nothing trims the fat faster than a hunger-crazed Liasson hunched over the carcass of a vanquished Totenberg.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (BI5O2)

283
I remember when Toll Bros. ended sponsorship of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts and all the aethetes were all "Greedy philistine corporations!" and I was thinking, "Hey, why doesn't the ENTERTAINMENT industry sponsor them?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2026 04:34 PM (HdYcL)

284 Most of the homeless want to be homeless.

No responsibility to deal with.

Offer them housing and drugs and they'll take the housing.

But make them choose drugs or housing and they'll take the drugs any day. In my AO come winter time there is a constant tension when it gets really cold - force the druggies into shelters with a no drug policy or let them die on the streets...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

285 272 They need to get their Spin Machine going then. Go in strong for the midterms. Do you agree that the perception of us having lost the initiative in the affair is the angle on which his opposition will attack him?

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:32 PM (Gqar

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Iran is background noise now. Has been for weeks.

It won't matter to anyone even if the status quo remains.

Gas prices have shockingly little predictive power in elections. People just kind of get used to higher prices.

Plus, I'm assured time and time again that months is forever in politics. But that doesn't apply to gas prices, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:34 PM (fqwyO)

286 240 230 Gas price jumped 25 cents overnight. 4.29/gallon for the cheap stuff
Posted by: tubal
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And ours went down nearly 30 cents overnight. 3.49/gal
Posted by: NALNAMSAM

Seasonal price changes due to switching from winter to summer blends. I think Zeldin at the EPA waived some of the regulations this year but boutique fuels haven't been need to meet Clean Air Act since the mid 90's due to advances in sensors and engine computers.

But, the oxegenating additive is alcohol so you got the farm state cornoholics desperate to keep that stupid mandate in. The petroleum competitor to it was MTBE which was found to contaminate ground water so banned.

We don't need alcohol in fuel anymore.

Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:34 PM (E4rtv)

287 276 Karen Bass said today that "bureaucracy" is to blame for homelessness in Los Angeles.

Someone should tell the mayor of LA so she could go solve that problem right away.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm) h

Yup, seems like firing all the layers of bureaucracy would fix the problem...start with the city council, work your way down...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:34 PM (ynpvh)

288 Well...you hate to see it.

Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2026 04:35 PM (fV+MH)

289 Oh no.

Anyway . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 20, 2026 04:35 PM (J3rUC)

290 "The [NPR] downsizing comes during a grim moment for the news biz, with the Washington Post seeing brutal cuts and CBS News launching layoffs earlier this year."

Not once did I ever consider the propaganda media apparatchiks getting cut as brutal. Seeing these market adjustments as righteous retribution did on the other hand.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 20, 2026 04:35 PM (glnUu)

291 "Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (9BMWb)

I'm sure President Trump is going to sign that into law

🙄

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 20, 2026 04:35 PM (zBgIx)

292 Most of the homeless want to be homeless.

No responsibility to deal with.

Posted by: four seasons
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[hmm. Perhaps I should consider that...]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2026 04:35 PM (XeU6L)

293 test...

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 20, 2026 04:35 PM (zBgIx)

294 @FBIDirectorKash
🚨 This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents.

Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches.

Lineberger is charged with four felony counts in the indictment.

This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.
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Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2026 04:23 PM

They need to find out who gave her access to the confidential investigation documents and charge them as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 20, 2026 04:36 PM (0N4FZ)

295 NPR is another NGO, defund them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 20, 2026 04:36 PM (Qxy/R)

296 Gas prices have shockingly little predictive power in elections.

I am told, pretty much every day, in these pages that the higher gas prices will mean the Republicans will lose 7000 House members and all 30 million Senators.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

297 But, the oxegenating additive is alcohol so you got the farm state cornoholics desperate to keep that stupid mandate in. The petroleum competitor to it was MTBE which was found to contaminate ground water so banned.

We don't need alcohol in fuel anymore.

A smart way to do it politically - pair getting rid of the mandate with the government buying the same amount of corn to send to Africa.

Then later you can get rid of the corn payout.

In the short term the cost of gas will drop and engine performance will increase without losing farm votes.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

298 Democrat Barney Frank, the former Massachusetts Congressman who co-authored the sweeping Dodd-Frank Act after the 2008 financial crisis, has died.

He was 86 years old. Frank entered hospice care earlier this year for heart failure and reported he died from chocking on a penis shaped object lodged in his esophagus.

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at May 20, 2026 04:37 PM (xl8DV)

299 The stock market rising 1%+ on the "news" that a deal with Iran is close might make sense to the hedge funds and day traders, but given that the goat fuckers haven't honored a single treaty, accord or agreement they've ever signed, it's a Pyrrhic victory at best.
At some point, we are gonna have to bomb the hell out of them again. Just get it over with.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 20, 2026 04:37 PM (MNCvZ)

300 Karen Bass said today that "bureaucracy" is to blame for homelessness in Los Angeles.
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It is here too. The Progs have made it appealing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2026 04:37 PM (XeU6L)

301 I even had a colonoscopy though my belly hole (the one the colostomy bag connected to) and my native hole on the same appointment...and they had me awake for one of the holes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:37 PM (ynpvh)

302 296 Gas prices have shockingly little predictive power in elections.

I am told, pretty much every day, in these pages that the higher gas prices will mean the Republicans will lose 7000 House members and all 30 million Senators.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

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Fool.

It's 10,000 House members and 100 million senators.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:37 PM (fqwyO)

303 "Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches."

Ms Lineberger was only trying to stop the destruction of the GOP by the Orange Menace.

Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at May 20, 2026 04:38 PM (vFG9F)

304 Wife's was in her back, her spine. Was NOT fun for her at all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (ynpvh)
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Now THAT sounds awful!

Posted by: 496 at May 20, 2026 04:38 PM (6U6WV)

305 But, the oxegenating additive is alcohol so you got the farm state cornoholics desperate to keep that stupid mandate in. The petroleum competitor to it was MTBE which was found to contaminate ground water so banned.

We don't need alcohol in fuel anymore.
Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:34 PM (E4rtv)

Hmmm. We could ship the fuel alcohol to Europe, since it's a renewable fuel. We get money, farmers get paid, and they get fuel for their ships and other power needs. Win-win!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2026 04:39 PM (qx7Zg)

306 New Fed Chair in charge! cut! cut! cut!

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2026 04:39 PM (GD0B3)

307 If NPR wants to succeed they can stand up a totally fake right wing NPR!

EXTOLL FAITH FAMILY AND GUN CLINGING!

Posted by: torabora at May 20, 2026 04:39 PM (KtOUo)

308 High gas prices are caused by the high price of pumping gas out of the ground to send to a refinery.

Posted by: Kami Harris at May 20, 2026 04:39 PM (xl8DV)

309 Background nois, Iran. Well, maybe you’re right, TJM. Maybe most people really aren’t very interested in the whole affair. Could be. So what Are the big issues that have caught the public attention then. I’m not asking to be combative, just genuinely interested in your opinion.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:39 PM (Gqar8)

310 263 Karen Bass said today that "bureaucracy" is to blame for homelessness in Los Angeles.

Just thought you'd want to know..
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 04:31 PM (d3lyb)

Whaddya call people who always blame their failures on other people?

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:39 PM (6wpGE)

311 > Gas prices have shockingly little predictive power in elections.

I just paid $6.50 per gallon. It's insane out here.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:40 PM (mkw2N)

312 We don't need alcohol in fuel anymore.
Posted by: whig at May 20, 2026 04:34 PM (E4rtv)
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More for me!

Posted by: Bender "Bending" Rodriguez at May 20, 2026 04:40 PM (gnNyN)

313 "I fail to see the reason for optimism."

My optimism is based on Iran dying everyday from the blockade and Trump will not make a bad deal.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (qFwJc)

314 309 Background nois, Iran. Well, maybe you’re right, TJM. Maybe most people really aren’t very interested in the whole affair. Could be. So what Are the big issues that have caught the public attention then. I’m not asking to be combative, just genuinely interested in your opinion.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:39 PM (Gqar

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We spent the last few weeks exclusively talking about congressional redistricting.

The people are fickle and chase squirrels. We talk more about the LA mayor's race than Iran now because of AI videos.

Midterms are about base turnout, not overriding narratives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (fqwyO)

315 Another thing Trump should do is work with congress to get a bill to suspect the federal gas tax any time the cost of gas is over $4.

The Dems will stop the bill with a few GOPe stragglers but that's ok, it lets you campaign on it...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

316 304 Wife's was in her back, her spine. Was NOT fun for her at all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:16 PM (ynpvh)
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Now THAT sounds awful!

Posted by: 496 at May 20, 2026 04:38 PM (6U6WV)

After several years, she started getting pain...the solution was to fill in some of the vertebrae in her upper back that had started to compress due to the weaker strength of the cancer cells replacing her native bone cells. The used what was essentially medical concrete. Helped greatly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

317 #306
Cuba has LOTS of sugar cane and it can make alcohol fuel out of it.
ARE THEY STUPID?

Posted by: torabora at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (KtOUo)

318 > Whaddya call people who always blame their failures on other people?

Assholes.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (mkw2N)

319 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Le Haim at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (Fz2pX)

320 Rich leftists will NEVER spend their own money supporting the causes they support.

They will insist on spending YOUR money to support their causes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (6ohhg)

321 I haven't heard much about gas prices, but we drive so little that I doubt my wife has even noticed enough to mention it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (BI5O2)

322 > Posted by: Le Haim

Did someone stealth edit this guy, or is he just some drive-by troll?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (mkw2N)

323 This is not who we are - they could save some jobs if the executives and top talent took just a small pay cut. If the member stations weren't so stingy they could probably funnel some of the money they raise every other month as well. Come on guys, do better.

Posted by: EzE at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (pxzPN)

324 they lied and said

Or, in old Persian: hauv avathâ adurujiya

Posted by: Darius repeats this a lot at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

325
Where will I go now to get a fix of Ken Burn's nasal, whiny, patronizing voice?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (azNOR)

326 317 #306
Cuba has LOTS of sugar cane and it can make alcohol fuel out of it.
ARE THEY STUPID?

Posted by: torabora at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (KtOUo)

They make a lot of sugar-based ethanol in Brazil.
It's a large percentage of their fuel market.

I don't think the Cubans have the equipment to make ethanol or I'm sure they'd be working on it right now as bad as it's going for them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (6ydKt)

327 The gas prices might hurt Trump if the Democrats could act even a little bit sane. But that's very unlikely.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (Cjger)

328 Fran Liebowitz is telling billionaires to leave NYC because they add nothing. 1) I've never cared what she thinks 2) I thought she was dead 3) she's wrong 4) she's fugly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 04:44 PM (gu0hJ)

329
Y Dice,

Same here. I do feel for people who have long commutes.

Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2026 04:44 PM (3ek7K)

330 322 > Posted by: Le Haim

Did someone stealth edit this guy, or is he just some drive-by troll?
Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (mkw2N)

cob-logger translation

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:45 PM (6wpGE)

331 I'm not voting in the mid terms because I don't want to burn gas driving to the polls.

I don't really care who wins at this point.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:45 PM (9BMWb)

332 Democrats and the Democrat adjacents murdering people might get people’s attention. If only they would talk about it.

Posted by: tubal at May 20, 2026 04:45 PM (Gqar8)

333
328 Fran Liebowitz is telling billionaires to leave NYC because they add nothing. 1) I've never cared what she thinks 2) I thought she was dead 3) she's wrong 4) she's fugly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2026 04:44 PM (gu0hJ)

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And now, she's about 300 years old.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (azNOR)

334 @328 - I thought she died in a kiln accident

Posted by: 496 at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (6U6WV)

335 Fran Liebowitz is telling billionaires to leave NYC because they add nothing.

Reading through lefty sites, they've decided that "the rich" only get that way by robbing the poor so I can see why they've reached the argument that driving away your highest taxpayers is good.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

336 "Fran Liebowitz is telling billionaires to leave NYC because they add nothing."

Sounds like the methhead mayor of Seattle. Well, bye.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (vFG9F)

337 They make a lot of sugar-based ethanol in Brazil.
It's a large percentage of their fuel market.

I don't think the Cubans have the equipment to make ethanol or I'm sure they'd be working on it right now as bad as it's going for them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 04:43 PM (6ydKt)

Let's not be hasty. They have the equipment to make rum.

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (LHPAg)

338 My optimism is based on Iran dying everyday from the blockade and Trump will not make a bad deal.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 20, 2026 04:41 PM (qFwJc)

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I continue to be optimistic and patient as now the in-fighting is starting, or foreplay as Tousi says.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (WONhk)

339 "I still hope that John Cornyn will win. He deserves to win,” - Sen. Susan Collins

Deserves? That says to me she sees her and her senate pals seats as something to which they are entitled. Kind of like being royalty.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (glnUu)

340 Cuba has rare earths!

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2026 04:47 PM (GD0B3)

341 334 @328 - I thought she died in a kiln accident

Posted by: 496 at May 20, 2026 04:46 PM (6U6WV)

I would've expected Barney Frank to die in a Gloryhole accident...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

342 > I don't think the Cubans have the equipment to make ethanol or I'm sure they'd be working on it right now as bad as it's going for them.

They made ethanol fuel in WWII and I'm pretty sure they still make it.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

343 Absent the Cuban revolution, Las Vegas would have opened in that country, and yes likely with all the global warming crap the US would have spent $$$ to build bio-fuel refineries.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

344 340 Cuba has rare earths!

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2026 04:47 PM (GD0B3)

I prefer mine medium-rare...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2026 04:48 PM (ynpvh)

345 Yummy shit

Posted by: Le Haim at May 20, 2026 04:48 PM (hNsiU)

346 As soon as the strait opens back up for certain oil prices will go down.

They seem to love to raise gas prices quickly and lower them at the speed of frozen molasses, though.

Hopefully prices will be back down around $3 come October.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

347 "I still hope that John Cornyn will win. He deserves to win,” - Sen. Susan Collins

Deserves? That says to me she sees her and her senate pals seats as something to which they are entitled. Kind of like being royalty.

Those both have a long history of existence to themselves and their community.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (vTZFs)

348 I haven't seen Libertarians this angry since their mom's kicked them out of the basement and made them get a job.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (viF8m)

349 I wouldn't donate my pocket lint to these fuckos.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (D1E+2)

350

"NPR's crisis traces back at least to last summer, when Congress voted to eliminate roughly $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, dealing a massive blow to local stations that pay NPR for programming."

Huh, is that how it works?

Wow.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (et1vG)

351 T-storm barreling my way

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (Ia/+0)

352 They made ethanol fuel in WWII and I'm pretty sure they still make it.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

They better get on ramping up production then, because they're running out of oil.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

353 Hopefully prices will be back down around $3 come October.

If Trump pulls that off I can see gains of 40+ in the House with redistricting.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

354 The used what was essentially medical concrete

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It's a type of cement rather than concrete.

Sometimes it's a polymer.

Which reminds me - it's probably about time to talk to talk to the surgeon about mudding my daughter's craniectomy. I think it's gotta be soon at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)

355
Slightly OT, have you seen the "Go to LA and vote for Pratt" memes? It's funny, everyone saying Hell, they don't check ID in California, take a weekend in LA and drop the guy a vote!

Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (n7rxJ)

356 "Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches."
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I like how she is so smart she admits criminal intent.

And I guarantee it was part of the "we'll restart the investigations into Trump in 2029" plot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2026 04:50 PM (73/SM)

357
Keep in mind that anyone with an ounce of initiative has already left Cuba.

What's left makes LA's street addicts look ambitious.

Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2026 04:50 PM (Y8DZL)

358 Let's face it. The on-air folks at NPR could all be replaced by AI voices and nobody would know the difference. Probably save money, too.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 20, 2026 04:50 PM (OUMaO)

359 Who in Cuba has anywhere to be?

Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2026 04:50 PM (fV+MH)

360 Why is everybody always pickin' on me?

Posted by: Karen Bass at May 20, 2026 04:51 PM (0sNs1)

361 The on-air folks at NPR could all be replaced by dead air and 99.9% of the country would never notice.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2026 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

362 Harry Truman famously said, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” and he had a sign on his desk that read “The buck stops here.”

Karen Bass, on the other hand ....

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:52 PM (6wpGE)

363 When the hell was Ken Burns ever on Public Radio?
And when did a radio network have "viewers"?
You're all mixed up here. There's flecks in your spittle. It's foaming.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 20, 2026 04:52 PM (zdLoL)

364 343 Absent the Cuban revolution, Las Vegas would have opened in that country, and yes likely with all the global warming crap the US would have spent $$$ to build bio-fuel refineries.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

They could've been the Macau of the Caribbean.

Instead they decided to follow a smooth-talking lawyer revolutionary into a six decade disaster.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 04:52 PM (6ydKt)

365 Who in Cuba has anywhere to be?
Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2026 04:50 PM (fV+MH

Don't ask.

Once we topple that regime, we're going to be absorbing 11 million Cubans through south Florida.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2026 04:52 PM (BI5O2)

366 358 Let's face it. The on-air folks at NPR could all be replaced by AI voices and nobody would know the difference. Probably save money, too

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 20, 2026 04:50 PM (OUMaO)

I mean thats true across the board. You could probably tell ChatGPT to write blog posts "in the style of Ace of spades" and it would be indistinguishable from the real ace.

Posted by: It is What It Is at May 20, 2026 04:52 PM (9BMWb)

367 355 Slightly OT, have you seen the "Go to LA and vote for Pratt" memes? It's funny, everyone saying Hell, they don't check ID in California, take a weekend in LA and drop the guy a vote!
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 20, 2026 04:49 PM (n7rxJ)

Probably a felony?

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:53 PM (6wpGE)

368 This pleases me. BBC News, which NPR rebroadcasts, is vile.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2026 04:53 PM (u82oZ)

369 Who in Cuba has anywhere to be?
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According to Bad Bunny, old men sitting outside dilapidated cafe fronts all day on plastic chairs is the aspiration of all Latinos.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2026 04:54 PM (73/SM)

370 Actually radio does have viewers.

Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2026 04:54 PM (fV+MH)

371 Just curious. Do goats carry monkeypox?

Posted by: Le Laim at May 20, 2026 04:54 PM (vFG9F)

372 371 Actually radio does have viewers.
Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2026 04:54 PM (fV+MH)

'' ... and listeners like you."
--NPR babe

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:55 PM (6wpGE)

373
The silver croak of proto-Karen Diane Reims scolding call-ins about why NPR didn't need your money goes back 20 years.

"Are you in your car calling? We won't speak with you!"

Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2026 04:55 PM (Y8DZL)

374 >>>Who in Cuba has anywhere to be?

Posted by: eleven

Bond. Jaime Bond.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 20, 2026 04:56 PM (D1E+2)

375 nood GA

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:56 PM (6wpGE)

376 --NPR babe
_-_

Uh, no. If there was any babes there I'da noticed.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 20, 2026 04:56 PM (t7+TD)

377 Deceptive motherfuckers.

"NPR has long said direct federal grants account for less than 1%"

Technically true, but misleading.
Like all their fucking reporting.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2026 04:57 PM (ufFY8)

378 "'' ... and listeners like you."
--NPR babe
Posted by: m "

"NPR babe"? I'm taking the under on that one, Cotton.

Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2026 04:57 PM (fV+MH)

379
We don't need alcohol in fuel anymore.

>>>A smart way to do it politically - pair getting rid of the mandate with the government ...
Posted by: 18-1
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Helping the farmer to find new markets or new profit crops. Maybe it's time for the Chinese to incorporated corn into their diets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 20, 2026 04:58 PM (Qxy/R)

380
363 When the hell was Ken Burns ever on Public Radio?
And when did a radio network have "viewers"?
You're all mixed up here. There's flecks in your spittle. It's foaming.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 20, 2026 04:52 PM

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 20, 2026 04:59 PM (azNOR)

381 Ken Burns Propaganda shows were on TV PBS

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 05:00 PM (Ia/+0)

382 Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 20, 2026 04:59 PM (azNOR

Don't pay Clownriver no nevermind. He's always on a roll.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2026 05:15 PM (BI5O2)

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