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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is demanding to attach conditions to congressionally approved grants for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> / <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> before releasing the money, despite a court order blocking it from terminating the funds. Acc/to court filings, Trump wants to be able to unilaterally pause funds for the federally funded broadcaster &amp; shut down parts of its programming, among other moves that lawyers for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFE</span></a> say are forbidden by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> to ensure journalistic integrity.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <br><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524.28.1.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524.28.1.pdf</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p>Donald Trump’s attempts to defund US Russian-language <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/counterpropaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counterpropaganda</span></a> efforts in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Belarus, Central Asia and Russia through <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> failed, so what they did is they actually terminated contracts with satellite companies who transmit those signals.</p><p>If you were trying to help Russia win, this would be it. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> is by far their strongest suite. In fact perhaps the only thing they are best in the world at. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/NAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAFO</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/usagm-satellite-broadcasts-radio-free-europe-russian-language-current-time/33373678.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rferl.org/a/usagm-satellite-br</span><span class="invisible">oadcasts-radio-free-europe-russian-language-current-time/33373678.html</span></a></p>
MediaFaro News Digest<p>Radio Free Europe says Washington shut off its Russian broadcast despite restraining order.</p><p>Washington has switched off a satellite transmitting the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty into Russia.</p><p>Although the station won a temporary restraining order against US President Donald Trump's funding freeze, it is still waiting to receive the $77 million it needs to keep running until October.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250403-radio-free-europe-says-washington-shut-off-its-russian-broadcast-despite-restraining-order?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250403</span><span class="invisible">-radio-free-europe-says-washington-shut-off-its-russian-broadcast-despite-restraining-order?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Czechia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Czechia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1956064/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1956064/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Selenskyj wirft Russland Desinteresse an Friedensprozess vor #100164680 #100312362 #100615494 <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Asipowitschy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asipowitschy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/belarus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belarus</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/belgorod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belgorod</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BrittaHa%C3%9Felmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrittaHaßelmann</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cdu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdu</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Charkiw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Charkiw</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/donezk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donezk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/drohne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drohne</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europa</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/kiew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kiew</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/kreml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kreml</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Krim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Krim</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/luhansk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luhansk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MichaelKretschmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelKretschmer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Milit%C3%A4r" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Militär</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/moskau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moskau</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Newsblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newsblog</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/russland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/saporischschja" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saporischschja</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ukrainekrieg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainekrieg</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WladimirPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WladimirPutin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WolodymyrSelenskyj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WolodymyrSelenskyj</span></a></p>
SWLing Post<p>Judge Sides with VOA Journalists in Legal Challenge</p><p><a href="https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/judge-sides-with-voa-journalists-in-legal-challenge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">swling.com/blog/2025/03/judge-</span><span class="invisible">sides-with-voa-journalists-in-legal-challenge/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/OfficeOfCubanBroadcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OfficeOfCubanBroadcasting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/RFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/RFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/USAGM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAGM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/VoiceOfAmercia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceOfAmercia</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DailyBeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DailyBeast</span></a> @ 5:22pm ET on Mar 27, 2025</p><p>A <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> plot to axe international broadcasters <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> / <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> has been foiled after presidential advisor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KariLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KariLake</span></a> was forced to rescind a letter cancelling the network’s grants.</p><p>It comes just a day after a judge temporarily halted an attempt by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration to shut down the station, claiming it would “violate the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> and federal laws.”</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kari-lake-forced-to-apologize-after-failed-attempt-to-shutter-radio-free-america/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailybeast.com/kari-lake-fo</span><span class="invisible">rced-to-apologize-after-failed-attempt-to-shutter-radio-free-america/</span></a></p>
SWLing Post<p>Federal Judge Temporarily Preserves RFE/RL Funding</p><p><a href="https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/federal-judge-temporarily-preserves-rfe-rl-funding/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">swling.com/blog/2025/03/federa</span><span class="invisible">l-judge-temporarily-preserves-rfe-rl-funding/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/RFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFE</span></a></p>
Richard Michael Blaber<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-us-foreign-aid-cuts-are-threatening-independent-media-in-former-soviet-states-251763" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-us-for</span><span class="invisible">eign-aid-cuts-are-threatening-independent-media-in-former-soviet-states-251763</span></a>. Add this to Trump's closure of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voiceofamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voiceofamerica</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radiofreeeurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radiofreeeurope</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioliberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioliberty</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radiofreeasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radiofreeasia</span></a>, &amp; voices of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> globally are greatly diminished.</p>
JNSLCT<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconCurtain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconCurtain</span></a> </p><p>Leyla Latypova - RL &amp; RFE Closure Silences Indigenous Voices Struggling Against Russian Imperialism.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdMawwzGG08" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=KdMawwzGG08</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Apart from destroying democracy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> behave like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ISIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISIS</span></a> destroying historical statues (the archives).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LeylaLatypova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeylaLatypova</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latypova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latypova</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tatarstan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tatarstan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bashkortostan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bashkortostan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chechnya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chechnya</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RadioLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioLiberty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruSSia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ruSSia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kleptocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocrat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maffia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maffia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/terror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terror</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkraineWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandWithUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithUkraine</span></a></p>
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"By that time I’d managed to write fifty-some articles for Radio Liberty, which exposed the totalitarian world of torture in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The masked people who tortured me told me Radio Liberty was still a branch of the CIA, and therefore an unequivocal enemy of Russia.

Like I said, everything was simple: two worlds – freedom and tyranny – and a chair with wires between them like a border between these worlds."

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Thinking about... · 2+2=5By Timothy Snyder

"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has.

Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there."

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Thinking about... · 2+2=5By Timothy Snyder