Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.
Updates:
The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:
Trump’s FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS
President Trump’s new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting.
“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” Chairman Brendan Carr wrote on Wednesday to the presidents and chief executives of NPR and PBS, Katherine Maher and Paula A. Kerger, respectively. “In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”
The FCC does not directly regulate the two networks. Instead, it evaluates the actions of roughly 1,500 public broadcasting stations across the country, which hold licenses granted by the FCC for use of public airwaves for radio and television, even in the digital age.
People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs — but they don’t direct air traffic
No, the Federal Aviation Administration did not recruit people with intellectual disabilities to work as air traffic controllers.
Despite what President Trump said at a press conference Thursday — “They can be air traffic controllers” — that’s not how disability hiring works, says Chai Feldblum, a disability lawyer and former commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Disability employment law, she says, requires “that the person with a disability must be able to perform the essential functions of the job.”
