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Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
Bill Maher Says People Need to ‘Triage' Trump Outrage and ‘Make Some Rational Decisions About What to Lose Our S– Over'
"There's only so many f---s to give," the "Real Time" host adds 'Let's take stock of the first half of the first year of Trump's second term, and make some rational decisions about what to lose our shit over,' Bill Maher urged during Friday's 'Real Time' in the 'New Rules' segment. Specifically, he urged people to ignore things like 'Gulf of America' and focus on more dire matters, like the 'domestic army of masked troops' in ICE terrorizing U.S. cities and residents. More from TheWrap Ali Velshi Says Trump Sees Base as 'Marks' but His 'MAGA Machine Is Glitching' Over Epstein | Video 'Chief of War' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? The Best Fantasy Shows on Hulu Right Now Chuck Lorre and Leanne Morgan Talk Centering Middle-Aged Women in 'Leanne': 'Hollywood Has Ignored Them' To set the commentary up, Maher related an encounter he says he had with a fan who brought up something the Trump administration did, asking if Maher was angry about it. About that, Maher said, 'I'm not. I'm not incensed. I'm sure you're right. I just don't have room,' Maher said, and after some more riffing on the specific Trump subject, added, 'right after he got elected in November, I said, here and everywhere else I could, he got the White House, but this time, he's not going to get my mind. There's only so many f—s to give.' Maher noted that 'Steve Bannon famously said that the way you win is to flood the zone with s—. You want to help him with that? Great you do you, but I'm not chasing every brain fart down the rabbit hole. So therefore, here is my 1/8 of the term scorecard for what actually matters: Turning the Environmental Protection Agency into the pollution Protection Agency. Yes, that's going to matter. All the people who will lose health care and all the debt that will be run up from the big, beautiful bill. Yes, that matters.' 'Turning the Justice Department into the national revenge agency, firing all the inspector generals, maybe firing the head of the Federal Reserve, letting Doge destroy lives here and abroad in a way that didn't have to go down like that in order to slim the government down, which it didn't do anyway, creating a Domestic army of masked troops, rounding people up and sending them off to detention centers and foreign prisons? Yeah,' he continued. 'The big, beautiful bill is $150 billion in IT for additional spending for snatching people up who've lived here peacefully and productively for decades, mostly with no criminal records. I'm just saying if you're thinking of getting your car wash. You might want to do it now,' Maher joked, bleakly. 'So, yeah, there's a lot of outrageous, horrible shit going on,' Maher went on — though he did note he's glad people don't have to take their shoes off in airports anymore. 'It's just that life is complicated, and Democrats need to be less emotional and more focused,' Maher said, listing some other issues he thinks doesn't rise to the importance of the previously mentioned crises. 'Get a life, stop making [Trump] your whole personality,' Maher also said, adding somewhat later, at the end, 'So please, when I'm out there, no more 'Bill, did you just see what he did today?' If you're if you don't even have to say who 'he' is, you already lost, because 'he' is already living too rent-free in your head.' Watch the whole commentary below: The post Bill Maher Says People Need to 'Triage' Trump Outrage and 'Make Some Rational Decisions About What to Lose Our S– Over' appeared first on TheWrap. Solve the daily Crossword
Atlantic
8 hours ago
- Atlantic
Seven Reads for a Summer Weekend
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. On your Sunday, explore stories about the one book everyone should read, what McKinsey did to the middle class, and more. Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage Fewer young people are getting into relationships. By Faith Hill The One Book Everyone Should Read The Atlantic 's staffers on the books they share—again and again By The Atlantic Culture Desk Why South Park Did an About-Face on Mocking Trump The show's creators once said they had nothing more to say about the president. What changed their minds? By Paula Mejía A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed. By Arthur C. Brooks 10 'Scary' Movies for People Who Don't Like Horror You can handle these, we promise. (From 2022) By David Sims How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities. (From 2020) By Daniel Markovits Homes Still Aren't Designed for a Body Like Mine Why is it so hard for disabled people to find safe, accessible places to live? By Jessica Slice The Week Ahead Greetings From Your Hometown, a new album by the Jonas Brothers (out Friday) People Like Us, by the National Book Award winner Jason Mott, a novel about two Black writers trying to live a world filled with gun violence (out Tuesday) Ted Bundy: Dialogue With the Devil, a new Ted Bundy docuseries that features newly uncovered interviews and recordings (out Thursday on Hulu) Essay Memoir of a Mailman By Tyler Austin Harper 'Delivering the mail is a 'Halloween job,' ' Stephen Starring Grant observes in Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home. 'An occupation with a uniform, immediately recognizable, even by children.' What to call Grant's book is harder to say. It is an unusual amalgam: a pandemic memoir, a love letter to the Blue Ridge Mountains, a participant observer's ethnography of a rural post office, an indictment of government austerity, and a witness statement attesting to the remarkable and at times ruthless efficiency of one of our oldest federal bureaucracies. Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem. Or should be, anyway. More in Culture Catch Up on The Atlantic Photo Album Included in The Atlantic 's photos of the week are images of a freestyle-motocross trick, a robot-boxing match in Shanghai, a performing-dog show in Canada, and more. Rafaela Jinich contributed to this newsletter.
Los Angeles Times
9 hours ago
- Los Angeles Times
More than Big Bird: What the demise of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting means
The Corp. for Public Broadcasting, which helps pay for PBS, NPR, 1,500 local radio and television stations as well as programs like 'Sesame Street' and 'Finding Your Roots,' announced last week that it would close after the U.S. government withdrew funding. The organization told employees that most staff positions will end with the fiscal year on Sept. 30. A small transition team will stay until January to finish any remaining work. The private, nonprofit corporation was founded in 1968 shortly after Congress authorized its formation. Its demise ends nearly six decades of supporting the production of renowned educational programming, cultural content and emergency alerts about natural disasters. Here's what to know: President Trump signed a bill July 24 canceling about $1.1 billion that had been approved for public broadcasting. The White House says the public media system is politically biased and an unnecessary expense, and conservatives have particularly directed their ire at NPR and PBS. Lawmakers with large rural constituencies voiced concern about what the cuts could mean for some local public stations in their state. They warned that some stations will have to close. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday reinforced the policy change by excluding funding for the CPB for the first time in more than 50 years as part of a broader spending bill. Congress passed legislation creating the body in 1967, several years after then-Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow described commercial television as a 'vast wasteland' and called for programming in the public interest. The corporation doesn't produce programming and it doesn't own, operate or control any public broadcasting stations. The CPB, PBS and NPR are independent of one another, as are local public television and radio stations. Roughly 70% of the corporation's money went directly to 330 PBS and 246 NPR stations across the country. The cuts are expected to weigh most heavily on smaller public media outlets away from big cities, and it's likely some won't survive. National Public Radio's president estimated that as many as 80 NPR stations may close in the next year. Mississippi Public Broadcasting has already decided to eliminate a streaming channel that airs children's programming 24 hours a day, including 'Caillou' and 'Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.' Maine's public media system is looking at a hit of $2.5 million, or about 12% of its budget, for the next fiscal year. The state's rural residents rely heavily on public media for weather updates and disaster alerts. In Kodiak, Alaska, KMXT estimated the cuts would slice 22% from its budget. Public radio stations in the sprawling, heavily rural state often provide not just news but alerts about natural disasters such as tsunamis, landslides and volcanic eruptions. The first episode of 'Sesame Street' aired in 1969. Child viewers, adults and guest stars alike were instantly hooked. Over the decades, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Elmo have become household favorites. Entertainer Carol Burnett appeared on that inaugural episode. She told the Associated Press she was a big fan. 'I would have done anything they wanted me to do,' she said. 'I loved being exposed to all that goodness and humor.' 'Sesame Street' said in May it would get some help from a Netflix streaming deal. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. started 'Finding Your Roots' in 2006 under the title 'African American Lives.' He invited prominent Black celebrities and traced their family trees into slavery. When the paper trail ran out, they would use DNA to see which ethnic group they were from in Africa. Challenged by a viewer to open the show to non-Black celebrities, Gates agreed and the series was renamed 'Faces of America,' which had to be changed again after the name was taken. The show is PBS' most-watched program on linear TV and the most-streamed nondrama program. Season 10 reached nearly 18 million people across linear and digital platforms and also received its first Emmy nomination. Grant money from the nonprofit has also funded lesser-known food, history, music and other shows created by stations across the country. Documentarian Ken Burns, celebrated for creating the documentaries 'The Civil War,' 'Baseball' and 'The Vietnam War,' told 'PBS NewsHour' that the corporation accounted for about 20% of his films' budgets. He said he would make it up but projects receiving 50% to 75% of their funding from the organization won't. Children's programming in the 1960s was made up of shows like 'Captain Kangaroo,' ''Romper Room' and the cat-and-mouse skirmishes on 'Tom & Jerry.' 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' mostly taught social skills. 'Sesame Street' was designed by education professionals and child psychologists to help low-income and minority students ages 2 to 5 overcome some of the deficiencies they had when entering school. Social scientists had long noted white and higher-income kids were often better prepared. One of the most widely cited studies about the effects of 'Sesame Street' compared households that got the show with those that didn't. It found that the children exposed to 'Sesame Street' were 14% more likely to be enrolled in the correct grade level for their age in middle and high school. Over the years, 'Finding Your Roots' showed Natalie Morales discovering she's related to one of the legendary pirates of the Caribbean, and former 'Saturday Night Live' star Andy Samberg finding his biological grandmother and grandfather. It revealed that drag queen RuPaul and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker are cousins, as are actors Meryl Streep and Eva Longoria. 'The two subliminal messages of 'Finding Your Roots,' which are needed more urgently today than ever, is that what has made America great is that we're a nation of immigrants,' Gates told the AP. 'And secondly, at the level of the genome, despite our apparent physical differences, we're 99.99% the same.' McAvoy writes for the Associated Press.
