Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”

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      some of pbs’ funding comes from congress and it was threatened unless pbs stops.

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        15% comes from Congress, most of it comes from donations and sponsorship.

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          I doubt PBS has 15% slack in their budget, so a 15% cut would cause a lot of havoc.

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            It would, for sure. There just is a persistent myth that PBS and NPR are largely supported by the federal government when that is only a small slice. Conservatives try to use this myth to target that chunk of their budget.