# @occupydemocrats on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRLnEN3DMKu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37077271-occupydemocrats-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-18T02:41:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Occupy Democrats (@occupydemocrats) — https://gondola.cc/occupydemocrats

## Caption

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s war on public media just BLEW UP in his face — a federal judge forced the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to RESTORE NPR’s $36 MILLION funding deal after shredding their excuse in open court. 💥📻

This is HUGE.
CPB pulled the plug on NPR after pressure from Trump’s White House — then tried to claim it was about “digital innovation.”
The judge basically said: yeah, no. 😂

Under oath, CPB officials admitted they spoke with a top Trump budget officer who had an “intense dislike for NPR.” And just 48 hours later, a decades-long partnership was dead.

It was censorship — plain and simple.
All because Trump couldn’t stand journalism that doesn’t worship him.

Let’s be clear:

📌 Trump signed an executive order BANNING federal funds for NPR & PBS.
📌 His allies then stripped $1.1 BILLION from public broadcasting.
📌 Local stations struggled. Journalists lost jobs.
📌 All because public media tells the TRUTH.

But today — the First Amendment won.

NPR sued.
The courts stepped in.
CPB caved.
And Trump’s censorship machine suffered another spectacular legal humiliation.

This isn’t just about NPR & PBS — it’s about whether ANY president can defund journalism they don’t like.

The courts just answered:
Not today. Not ever. ✊

LIKE & SHARE if you stand with NPR, PBS, and a FREE press — not state propaganda.

#DefendPublicMedia #NPR #PBS #FirstAmendment #PressFreedom #TrumpFailed #OccupyDemocrats #DemocracyNeedsJournalism

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trumpfailed, firstamendment, democracyneedsjournalism, occupydemocrats, npr, defendpublicmedia, pbs, pressfreedom

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