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Kermit the Frog advised students in Maryland to avoid jumping over someone to get what they want and, instead, consider leaping together.

Yet, as Kermit celebrated this milestone, public broadcasting faces threats from politicians pushing to cut funding for PBS and Sesame Workshop, the very institutions that brought us Big Bird, Elmo, and Kermit himself.

Kermit’s speech wasn’t just for graduates.

Souter was “a judge’s judge,” said Penn Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt, who clerked for him in 1999.

But it’s when Kermit praises her motherly instincts to save her daughter from the aliens that Streep’s commitment to the part truly stands out.