Oh no, hit the Maddow Zone, time for evasive maneuvers

They’re getting vengeance for Mr Rogers cooling his feet with Officer Clemmons.

That's the point. They want all the kids on YouTube and Roblox.

the Kratt brothers are basically the 3rd parent in our house

PBS Kids app was essentially the only app my kids were allowed to use for a long, long time. Incredibly valuable and trustworthy. Because YouTubeKids is brain rot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

Peg + Cat should air an episode explaining tariffs.

I forgot, it already exists.

Fuck, basically everything my kid watches is on PBS Kids

The reduction or elimination of all forms of education is key to the sustainability of the GOP.

Trump’s smash and grab robbery spree continues.

They want kids working not learning.

God forbid our children learn about science, inclusion, and empathy! What sort of society would we become with continued access to PBS kids’ shows?!

They don’t want kids indoctrinated with dangerous ideas like empathy, kindness, hope, or really have any education at all. These things won’t serve kids as they toil in child factories or after they grow to adults and are inducted into the military where they will be commanded to commit war crimes.

Makes me so mad! 😡 We need to save PBS!

As someone raised with PBS Kids (Arthur, Cyberchase, Fetch! with Ruff Ruff Man, Word Girl and others) I agree! It's helped me grow more of a better person. While entertaining me when I was young I got to learn a lot and it helped me with school too!

Whole culture of folks here in the USA that believe too much education is actively harmful. Turns their children into liberals and gays and stuff.

My kid is absolutely going to lose his mind without Dinosaur Train. This is an act of war.

I can’t even tell you all of the things my son learned from watching PBS. We never had cable so that was the bulk of his viewing. He once answered an opera question on jeopardy because of Curious George.

How can we save him

What’s going to happen to the Kratt Bros? Like I’m worried they will be stuck micro sized riding a leopard or something.

The difference between what PBS has been creating for children in the last 40+ years and what is surfaced by algorithmically driven platforms like YouTube could not be more stark. This is a direct attack on the psychological development and emotional health of future generations.

What a fucking trash ass government

McMahon is another shithead

What's the expected impact to programming or at least availability or existing programming? Not clear from the article.

It's the politics of nihilism, what they and their supporters get out of it is the delight of feeling like an unforgiving arbiter, and also the furthering of their deluded goal--getting rid of as many existing societal support systems as possible so that better ones will somehow naturally emerge.

I get the feeling they hate children. Yet they want women to bear more of them

They're literally mad that PBS content isn't all religious programming.

My kids grew up on PBS Kids!!

Well, there’s your problem kid. The grant was for a program called “Ready to Learn.” Cain’t have the young’uns gettin’ smart.

If it’s that good it should be able to survive without federal funding.

Ugh

the cruelty is the point.

100% true, and so many companies with decent children programming have already shuttered their programming and took it/apps offline. There's too much garbage out there.

Goddamned him to hell.. MFkr.. Wish Luigi had some friends we could call on

Ah, the great PBS Kids app debate. It's like the digital equivalent of arguing whether kids should play with wooden toys or not. But I agree with you, PBS Kids has been a lifesaver for many parents and a great source of edutainment for kids. I just hope they don't replace it with something less whol

It's pure spite. It's Trump going, "They don't like me so nyah, nyah, I'm going to destroy it."

They don’t care who they hurt, what’s worse is the parroting of the bullshit done by his cult to defend his horrible existence

It’s not going away they just lost a grant.

🥀

Truth

Evil

My kid is 12 and we used the PBS kids app way back when. This sucks.

Children are too woke.

yup

Love the PBS kids app so much - this is brutal. Legitimately who is asking for the government to do this?? How much money are we possibly saving by killing this?