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    Seth Meyers on ICE: ‘An army of out-of-shape uncles’

    Late-night hosts discussed the bare minimum standards for new ICE recruits wreaking havoc in US communitiesLate-night hosts talked cratering public opinion on the Trump administration’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in US communities and the president’s apparent preference for whole milk. Continue reading… More

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    Trump cuts have fueled ‘rage-giving’ to US rural public radio. Will it be enough?

    Across the US, federal public media cuts have galvanized many communities to donate to their local radio stationsAs soon as the US government voted to cut funding to more than 1,500 public media outlets last July, Luke Dennis, general manager at WYSO, a public radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, kicked into action an emergency funding drive.“The thing that really bothered me was not so much that the federal funding went away, because I felt like that was inevitable under the current administration, but to give us zero runway to prepare for it,” says Dennis. Continue reading… More