The Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to close itself down.

As reported by AP, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency created in 1967 to manage the federal funds for PBS, NPR, and other public media, voted itself out of existence on Monday.

CPR’s CEO Patricia Harrison said the decision to close the organization is intended to protect what remains of public media, which has been under attack from the right for decades and more recently has been directly and aggressively defunded by Trump and his hogmen in Congress.

“CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving,” Harrison said, “rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.”

CPR’s budget for last year was about half of what it cost to build, deploy, and maintain the Navy ship dispatched to illegally kidnapped Venezuela’s president.

I’m probably naive to hope that someday there will be a public accounting for those responsible for breaking apart the few decent things the US government has invested in—our own Nuremberg Trials can’t come swiftly enough. But until then, there seems to be no space in our common national wealth for anything other than bombs, precarious tech ventures, and looted oil.