'Sesame Street' Shares Heartbreaking Post After Trump Cuts PBS Funding--And We're Sobbing

[sheshe2]

"For more than 50 years, Sesame Workshop has been proud to partner with PBS to bring learning and joy to children across America. Generations of children have benefitted from the public investment that has enabled PBS to do such important work, and the need remains. PBS, we’re so proud to be your neighbor."

https://www.comicsands.com/sesame-street-responds-trump-cuts?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

A beautiful message of solidarity from Sesame Street.

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-07-24T14:38:33.760Z

[tavernier]

1. Will there be a mass funeral for Elmo

and Cookie Monster and Big Bird et al?

I think that event might truly cause rioting in the streets, with several generations coming together to mourn.

[Captain Zero]

2. Sesame Street needs to disperse and work

In the underground resistance.
We are legion!

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[lastlib]

4. I LOVE your avatar!!

RESIST!

(from a proud member of the League of Radical Leftist Vermin.)

[Solly Mack]

5. Thank you!

[mjvpi]

6. My son had a crazy thing called Kawasaki's disease

In October of his 1st grade year. Had to spend about a month at home. He watched Sesame Street everyday and went back to school reading way above his peers. Single data point, but I’m a believer.

[Buddyzbuddy]

7. Way to go, Republicans.

In other news, Christmas has been canceled because Santa was picked up by ICE and shipped off to a third world detention facility and Halloween was also canceled because an extremist right wing Christian group has deemed it the devil's work.