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Beyond the Filter: Project 2025


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Under Trump and Project 2025, censorship isn’t creeping in — it’s charging full force. From gutting public media and defunding the arts to banning words like “diversity” and “trauma,” the far-right agenda aims to erase marginalized voices, rewrite culture, and muzzle dissent. By reviving the Comstock Act, weaponizing the FCC, and attacking DEI and online speech, this authoritarian blueprint threatens free expression, queer visibility, and artistic resistance. But artists, educators, and activists aren’t staying silent — they’re fighting back with truth, satire, and solidarity. This episode is a wake-up call to resist the silencing machine.

Resources cited in this episode:

Defunding public broadcasting:

Trump wants to cut NPR and PBS funding. He could succeed this time | US news | The Guardian

Will Trump Defund NPR And PBS? Here’s What We Know As President Attacks The Broadcasters

Voice of America has to provide accurate, objective and comprehensive news – could that all change?

Kari Lake meets with Voice of America’s overseers, raising concerns over its independence

FCC: Project-2025-Civil-Rights-Technology.pdf

NEA: Trump Executive Orders Target the Arts, Culture, and Science Sectors

Kennedy Center: How Trump’s influence is reshaping the Kennedy Center

Banned terms: The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF

Comstock Act: Democrats Introduce Legislation to Serve as Barrier for Impending Comstock Act Revival

Age verification for porn: AVP Association Update on Recent Developments

Section 230: 2025’s Implications for the Telecommunications Industry

Times v Sullivan: A Supreme Court Ruling Could End Press Freedom as We Know It

Further reading:

At NSF, executive orders add up to a culture of fear

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Centre, explained

Trump Administration Threatens ‘Extreme’ Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities

Not deregulation but heavy-handed regulation at the Trump FCC

Will Trump target America’s public broadcasters? It’s complicated

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