Fred Waterer

Grandpa's off his meds again.

“The damage done to USAGM and VOA cannot be ignored.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks speaks on the impact of actions taken against the United States Agency for Global Media and Voice of America. #SaveVOA

See also:

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And thread:

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A post shared by Southworth PC - Attorneys for Federal Employees (@southworth_pc) 3.9 A federal court just handed USAGM employees something rare — a real win. Judge Lamberth ruled Kari Lake was never lawfully authorized to serve as acting CEO, and that means her actions in that role, including the August 2025 RIF targeting over 500 employees, are void and cannot be ratified. The court rejected both the appointment and the delegation workaround, finding that neither satisfied the Vacancies Act or the Appointments Clause. If you're a federal employee watching agencies push layoffs and buyouts, this is a reminder that process still matters and courts are still watching. This is general information, not legal advice for your specific situation — talk to a qualified attorney if you're affected. Share this with a coworker at USAGM who needs to see it today. #FederalEmployees #USAGM #VoiceOfAmerica #VacanciesAct #FedLayoffs

“A federal court ruled that Kari Lake was never lawfully authorized to serve as acting CEO of USAGM, making actions taken in that role, including the August 2025 RIF affecting 500+ employees, void.” #SaveVOA

holy shit

Aren't those CB frequencies?

This hasn't happened since WWII. The UK is asking amateur 'ham' radio operators to be on standby, carry out equipment checks etc and make sure they are ready to operate at a moment's notice.

The image isn't (sadly) a historical one from WWII, it's from today, 9/3/2026 issued by Westminster.

Yikes

Lee "Beef" Eckley: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1011 In this 1011th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike is joined by Lee "Beef" Eckley as they discuss his career in radio at CFNY, Q107, CHUM-FM and 94.9 The Rock. This episode is exactly 1:30:00. You can lis...

On this day in 2022, Lee "Beef" Eckley made his Toronto Mike'd debut. We discussed his career in radio at CFNY, Q107, CHUM-FM and 94.9 The Rock.

www.torontomike.com/2022/03/lee-...

Always an entertaining show!

Shortwave Radiogram, 6-12 March 2026 (program 439): Digital modes that could be transmitted by light beams, but shortwave will do On Sunday, March 8, most of North America moves clocks forward an hour for Daylight Saving Time. For program 439, this affects three transmissions: 1) WRMI's 9955 kHz stays on Eastern time, so the...

Tune in the red-eye edition of Shortwave Radiogram, Monday 0800-0830 UTC, 5850 kHz from WRMI Florida.

Same UTC, same by your body clock, but new local times in most of North America:

0400 EDT
0300 CDT
0200 MDT
0100 PDT

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Oil surges past $100/bbl; Nikkei index plunges at the start of Monday trading.

In a hotel room, a brick wall that has obviously had a huge hole repaired

Pretty sure the Kool-Aid man stayed in this hotel room once

VOA now broadcasts in only 6 of 49 languages. Indonesian remains silent—even though it reaches 65M weekly listeners in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation. Former U.S. Ambassador Scot Marciel highlights VOA’s impact. #SaveVOA

Statement from named plaintiffs of Widakuswara v. Lake, Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, and Kate Neeper following Judge Lamberth's March 3 ruling Kari Lake's actions as illegal. #SaveVOA

From Prisoner of the Khomeinist Regime to Casualty of VOA Persian The Dismissal of Ahmad Batebi and the Growing Crisis Inside U.S. Government Media

"For several weeks, critics inside and outside VOA Persian have argued that Javanmardi has turned the service into something closer to a personal fiefdom than a professional newsroom."

iransofaraway.substack.com/p/from-prisoner-of-the-khomeinist-regime

"Lay down your weapons or face certain death"

This is probably the first time VOA has broadcast such a message to its audience.

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Thanks to everyone for reading my Olympics stuff over the last three weeks.

But a particular thanks to those at CBC Sports and CBC Olympics for allowing me to return to my favorite event and for treating me much better than I deserved. Just a first-class group there.

The BBC World Service must be defended not defunded - Index on Censorship Index and other organisations call on the UK government to provide clarity over public broadcaster's funding at a critical time

"Following the US Government’s move to defund Voice of America and Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL) ... if the World Service were to similarly lose its funding, the public interest information space upon which democracy depends would surely be in ... jeopardy."

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/the-...

aged poorly

From the inimatable LindellTV ...

"Under the @JoeBiden administration, Lake says VOA reporters were not allowed to cover Iranian opposition leaders"

But see this 2024 interview with Reza Pahlavi "in collaboration with VOA's Persian Service"

www.voanews.com/a/iran-exile...

WHITE HOUSE: "When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump."

TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: "Somebody posted, a staffer posted ... somebody slipped. I didn't do it. This was done by somebody else."

Deer My Friends

Yesturday I went to Home Depoh to get some bbq brickettes so me and my family could enjoy a nice Family Day bbq dureen my 14 weak Christmas brake and I was outrajed to find the store closed and I am going to look into why werkers get Family Day off when I need brickettes.

Premair

A fun thing to do is look at Amazon’s price history tool.

Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%

But last year we all got a $200 election bribe...er...dividend check.

Is the Deep State in the room with you, Kari?

Without missing a beat? Only several of VOA's 48 language services are barely operational. Kari Lake has left nearly all staff on paid admin leave for the past 11 months despite a federal judge ordering her to bring them back. See: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202...

Where is her costume? With her blankie?

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From @swradiogram.bsky.social 436 on WINB at 0330 UT on 9265 khz 14 Feb-- all images but this week's painting made it