Back in 2017, @addiestan.bsky.social described how Sinclair pushes right-wing propaganda on your local news broadcaster. The station group is now using its monopoly power to force ABC to kick Jimmy Kimmel off the air.

Looking forward to the Ezra Klein piece on why Kimmel was doing TV wrong.

You mean just like The Washington Post did to @karenattiah.bsky.social ?

Last time he brought the whole Trump clan. This time he brought his family.

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Washingtonians: our very own @cantwell.senate.gov is ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which has oversight authority over the FCC. All: ABC has a form that may suit your purposes here: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

I gave a talk this week on the vulnerability of UK institutions to a populist govt and I was told by an audience member that the US and Hungary couldn't happen here. I said it absolutely could and Reform are learning fast. The complacency is scary

DOJ is advising NIH?

“…at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada.”

i would like my government supervisors to know that i now think slim fit is good, dress sneakers are great, and "fun socks" are cool

Translation from the Dutch via Google: "It's no longer an exaggeration to say that the US is on the road to fascism. It's time for politicians to address this more clearly and make it clear that the US is no longer our ally."

Love the tie.

From Trump's toast at Windsor. "Virtually" doing a lot of work here. www.ft.com/content/d344...

All the soybean farmers must be seeing this Kimmel news and taking solace that their decimation hasn’t been in vain.

This just in, unicorns have now been removed from the protected species list.

Wondering if Trump is planning to check in with Prince Andrew during his UK state visit—you know, to see how the old boy is doing in his Epstein-scandal exile from royalty. (I'm sure DJT and the Unprinced must've run across each other back in the old days.)

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A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

Dooming is silly. You cannot know what will happen, except for this one thing: if no one fights against what's happening, then it will happen. The only thing to do is to fight against the evil you fear.

Himes: ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air because Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, didn’t like some things Kimmel said.. I’m talking to you now because I’m just getting so damn sick of people who claim to be for free speech but turn out to only support free speech for people they agree with.

This is an important time to remember that responsibility is not a zero-sum game — recognizing one person’s fault does not necessarily diminish another person’s. The Trump administration is fascist. And ABC cynically caved and abandoned American values for money. Both are worthy of your contempt.

KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

I am actually sad to have to say this since I have admired much about Disney CEO Bob Iger over the years, but what a profoundly quisling move this is by someone who knows better. It’s shameful and he has tarnished his once proud reputation.

Exactly this

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

Too long, ill-fitting and unbecoming. No Jackie Kennedy here.

Trump didn't demand Jimmy Kimmel's firing because he said mean things about Charlie Kirk. Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired because said mean things about Donald Trump.

It would seem a relatively easy thing to ID some Fox pundits who misrepresented the politics of Melissa Hortman's killer, to package for an FCC complaint?

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Let's see—Jimmy Kimmel speaks in error about the political orientation of Charlie Kirk's assassin, and Trump's FCC leans on ABC to suspend JK's show. Yet when FBI Director Kash Patel, hours after Kirk's murder, mistakenly claims "the subject is in custody," it's just like, "My bad, shit happens." 🧵

This is a key point.

Probably too optimistic but I feel like picking a fight with the people who are literally professionals at making fun of people is going to work out badly.

JOIN L.A. ACTIVISTS AS WE PROTEST AT THE EL CAPITAN THEATER 6838 HOLLYWOOD BLVD. THURSDAY AT 4:30 PM TO SUPPORT FREE SPEECH AND JIMMY KIMMEL. TELL THE FCC THAT WE WON'T TOLERATE THIS BEHAVIOR.

So much free speech here, it’s amazing

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Let's see how the originalists on the Supreme Court react to this one, in the meantime get your passport or renew that fucker now theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.

Don't give an inch to Trump, MAGA, Republicans, corporate media, or finger-wagging establishment hacks right now. Not an inch. You can condemn murder and violence and remind the world about Kirk's hateful legacy and the utter hypocrisy of MAGA that celebrates violence against the rest of us.

In a sense, Kirk was the son Trump never really had: very competent, ruthless, and innovative at menacing Trump's enemies--whoever they might be that day. Stephen Miller, but not as ugly. He was wildly underestimated outside the right, seen as an influencer rather than a key organizer. 2/

I bet if Charlie Kirk had run a website called the Pundit Watchlist the reaction might be a bit different right now

Ah man can’t believe Kash didn’t include a link to buy his genuine commemorative MAGA lib-owning shitkicker boots on this tweet or at least in a reply

Take it from some who teaches about drone strikes, “I shed no tear for that guy” and “this is bad, it shouldn’t have happened” can be normal reactions to have simultaneously. Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.

Looks like Kash and Bongino have everything under control.

Kash Patel’s handling of this is not inspiring confidence. Not that I expected it to, but still jfc.

Charlie Kirk talking about mass shootings at the time he was shot is the sort of detail they make you take out of the story because it's too over the top

This is not some kumbaya “go high” shit. It’s me telling you when I’ve had a gun pointed at me—literally, not figuratively—it wasn’t the time to posture. Fascism’s guns are at the ready. Think before you spout off. Winning the struggle against fascism is what matters.