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First drawing of 2026 and its King Dudicus in Don Bluth style!

Arin Waller at LGBTQ Nation:

A PBS-affiliated television station in New York has scrubbed its archives of at least three educational programs concerning transgender identities and drag expression. This comes during a time when President Donald Trump is targeting news stations — particularly PBS, NPR, and ABC News — for their allegedly biased criticism of him. Around March, the New York PBS station became the subject of ire from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ahead of a subcommittee meeting on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), where she accused NPR and PBS of turning children transgender using American tax dollars. “I’m looking forward to holding the hearing tomorrow at 10 a.m. where we will be shining an intense spotlight on how Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars have been used by PBS and NPR, and the type of public broadcasting programs and radio shows they have been pushing across the country for decades,” she said on NewsMax around the time.

[...] New York affiliated station WNET, which produces Let’s Learn, had defended the episode around its initial release, explaining to Fox News that Let’s Learn “strives to incorporate themes that explore diversity and promote inclusivity, which are relevant to education and society. Drag is a performance art that can inspire creative thinking and the questioning of stereotypes.” However, recently, WNET rescinded its support and removed the episode across all its platforms. Additionally, they erased two other episodes about a children’s book featuring a trans protagonist, the Intercept reported. The Trump administration has continued an aggressive campaign against news and public media, dating back to December when then-President-Elect Trump sued ABC News for reporting that he was found liable of sexual assault in 2023. Despite being a cut-and-dry case with ABC being able to easily prove their claim as factual, they refused to fight the case and instead settled with Trump for $15 million.

[...] As the Trump administration intensifies its attacks, PBS has bent the knee in another way to dampen potential blowback by removing a scene in an Art Spiegelman documentary in which the graphic novelist Spiegelman discusses an anti-Trump cartoon. PBS also pulled a gaming documentary with trans themes, only to relist it after The Atlantic asked about its deletion.

This is insanity: PBS and its New York member station WNET caved to the anti-drag/anti-trans extremists such as whiny heifer MTG by removing drag content from Let’s Learn and also erased at least two other Let’s Learn episodes because it featured a trans protagonist.

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