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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(131,079 posts) Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:38 PM Sunday

PBS, defunded by Trump, says 'we're still here' with big new Ken Burns documentary

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding for public broadcasting in the US.

The message is clear: “We are still here.”

The documentary, which airs over six consecutive nights, is “a really big moment” for PBS, said Paula Kerger, the organization’s CEO.

There has been some marketplace confusion as a result of Trump’s campaign to defund public media.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pbs-defunded-trump-says-still-182920369.html

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PBS, defunded by Trump, says 'we're still here' with big new Ken Burns documentary (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday OP

' some marketplace confusion' means rational folks not using their minds. elleng Sunday #1

We decided to give the money we saved Tree Lady Sunday #2

PBS has been doing well with private -- screw trump -- donations. Silent Type Sunday #3

"it's a George Soros conspiracy!" Jack Valentino Sunday #13

Bravo PBS...I'm watching and it is excellent... wcmagumba Sunday #4

The entire thing is available on the PBS website Sympthsical Sunday #5

Watching now! evolves Sunday #6

Great Private Donations.. Brilliant! Cha Sunday #7

Recording it. Emile Sunday #8

Bumping for visibility. CBHagman Sunday #9

I hope it does more than improve dialogue misanthrope Sunday #12

Compare and contrast dweller Sunday #10

More than that it is a rebuke of the current administration misanthrope Sunday #11

elleng

(141,576 posts)

1. ' some marketplace confusion' means rational folks not using their minds.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:44 PM

Sunday

WISH my grands will see this.

Tree Lady

(12,914 posts)

2. We decided to give the money we saved

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:44 PM

Sunday

By quitting Hulu to PBS, we need lots of dems to do that.

Silent Type

(12,028 posts)

3. PBS has been doing well with private -- screw trump -- donations.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:50 PM

Sunday

Jack Valentino

(4,049 posts)

13. "it's a George Soros conspiracy!"

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 09:46 PM

Sunday

wcmagumba

(5,182 posts)

4. Bravo PBS...I'm watching and it is excellent...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:53 PM

Sunday

Sympthsical

(10,760 posts)

5. The entire thing is available on the PBS website

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:53 PM

Sunday

https://www.pbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/

Well looking forward to it once I get a little time. I've seen the Civil War documentary more times than I can count.

And the Vietnam documentary is vital viewing for anyone who, like me, did not live through it. You can read things in history books, but I don't think I ever really understood what my father went through (two tours) until I sat with that for an entire week.

evolves

(5,683 posts)

6. Watching now!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:54 PM

Sunday

Ken Burns and PBS-- an excellent pair!

Cha

(315,878 posts)

7. Great Private Donations.. Brilliant!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:55 PM

Sunday

& a Big Fuck Off to the Orange Glazed Hellbeast.

Emile

(39,210 posts)

8. Recording it.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:59 PM

Sunday

CBHagman

(17,383 posts)

9. Bumping for visibility.

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Sun Nov 16, 2025, 09:01 PM

Sunday

I've been a PBS nerd all my adult life, and I'll never forget the experience of spending night after night watching Ken Burns' The Civil War. May The American Revolution improve the national dialogue as we go into the nation's 250th birthday.

misanthrope

(9,306 posts)

12. I hope it does more than improve dialogue

Reply to CBHagman (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 09:32 PM

Sunday

I hope it ignites revolutionary zeal.

dweller

(27,605 posts)

10. Compare and contrast

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 09:16 PM

Sunday

Now and Then

The pop quiz will be a surprise …

✌🏻

misanthrope

(9,306 posts)

11. More than that it is a rebuke of the current administration

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 09:30 PM

Sunday

It outlines the similarities with the current authoritarian regime that stirred independence. The documentary shows the same deprivations, outrages, and infringements that the Trump administration is reintroducing. It speaks of the lack of religious test, the polyglot population, the absence of the cultural stricture that has characterized America, in direct refutation to what the Trump bunch currently insist is truly American.

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