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Like tens of millions of Americans, I went to bed last night and woke up this morning not realizing that there was a tsunami advisory in effect due to a massive earthquake that struck near Russia. Only this morning on the way to work, where I happened to run into a married couple, one a seismologist and the other an advisor to the National Weather Service, did I find out about the tsunami advisory.

How could we be in the dark? Evil Republicans who defunded NPR and, as Democrats predicted, swaths of the American public didn’t hear a single natural disaster warning!

Oh, wait. Pretty much everyone was aware of the tsunami threat. There were even some folks in North Dakota who thought they were at risk. Weird.

Despite Democrats’ dire warnings that slashing federal funding for NPR would mean the end of life-saving emergency alerts, somehow 鈥� miraculously 鈥� we still got a tsunami advisory last night. Incredible. I thought the second we stopped subsidizing tote bags and whispery monotone voices reading haikus from vegan transgender refugees, Americans would be left to die in ignorance, swallowed whole by a rogue wave while screaming, 鈥淲ait! I haven鈥檛 finished ‘Morning Edition’!鈥�

Turns out, nope. Much like Democrats’ claims of empty shelves and a destroyed economy due to the Trump tariffs, the claims were politically inspired drivel that they think they’ll get away with.

The system worked, despite NPR’s defunding

Phones buzzed. TV crawlers rolled. Radios blared. The National Weather Service and other agencies issued alerts. Local emergency agencies sprang into action. The system worked.

And NPR? Not exactly leading the charge.

This is awkward, because just a few days ago, progressives warned us that defunding NPR was akin to lighting the Emergency Broadcast System on fire. They painted apocalyptic scenarios where an earthquake hits and we鈥檙e too uninformed to know what to do 鈥� because we didn鈥檛 fund Morning Edition’s latest interview with a yurt-dwelling, one-legged yoga instructor who identifies as “earth-fluid.”

Democrats whined that pulling the plug on federal support for NPR, filtered through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, would leave rural Americans especially vulnerable. Because apparently, in this condescending worldview, the heartland is full of barefoot rubes whose only connection to emergency alerts is Steve Inskeep.

Locally, Seattle-NPR affiliate KUOW couldn’t even be bothered to write its own story. They used one by the Associated Press that wasn’t updated since 6:28 p.m. on Tuesday. They were, and will never be, a go-to station when it comes to natural disasters or any kind of climate event. It’s certainly not where you go for breaking news. That’s not what they do. It’s not what most local NPR stations do. Yet Democrats claimed otherwise, hoping to continue funneling our tax dollars to stations that aired their press releases uncritically and lobbed them softball questions in interviews.

Democrats were lying to you

Federal funding to NPR is irrelevant to your safety. Tsunami warnings don鈥檛 depend on “All Things Considered.” They come from NOAA, the National Weather Service, local emergency management agencies, and yes, even those alerts that show up on your iPhone whether you want them or not. They’re aired on radio and television stations, published on websites, and distributed on X and Facebook.

And that’s exactly what happened last night.

While some folks were fast asleep and others were doom-scrolling X, alerts rolled out up and down the West Coast after seismic activity near Russia. Texts, radio alerts, push notifications鈥攊t was all there. In fact, the warning was so widely disseminated that some people in landlocked Grand Forks, North Dakota were .

And NPR? They were there too, sure. I think? Maybe. The world knew, so it doesn’t matter.聽The sky didn鈥檛 fall. The sea didn鈥檛 swallow us whole. And we didn鈥檛 need taxpayer-funded progressive programming to survive.

What a revelation.

Turns out, when you cut through the hysteria and smug elitism, you find what conservatives have been saying all along: critical emergency alerts are a function of public safety infrastructure鈥攏ot a side hustle of the NPR tote bag brigade.

Maybe now we can finally stop pretending the fate of the republic hinges on another episode of 鈥淔resh Air with Terry Gross.鈥�

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