MAGA tough guys are absolutely CRYING over on Vichy Twitter about Jimmy Kimmel coming back

Recall that less than 6 months ago, this same senator said there would be less "fake news" if people could shoot journalists. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Bullies cannot handle a punch in the nose. Always fight back.

“I’m less careful about medical claims than is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” is quite a flex.

Yeah, Ross that's bullshit

Is this the libertarian moment?

Add me to those saying it’s crucial to acknowledge anti-authoritarian successes. Harvard and NYT are fighting in court instead of folding. Pritzker and other IL leaders kept Nat. Guard troops out of Chicago. Grand juries reject frivolous charges; many lower court judges uphold the law. And more

Trust the Plan* (*the plan is Project 2025) via @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

How MAGA centrists invented "woke right": 1) wokeness is greatest threat to Western Civilization 2) therefore it was right to ally with fascists and racists 3) now some are overtly antisemitic 4) and I stupidly bought their "pro-free speech" cosplay 5) i am never wrong, therefore "woke right"

"I'm politically tribeless and I believe fascism is centrism."

I wrote about Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, and the First Amendment for @msnbc.com.

You could make the argument that The Professor Watchlist was a gimmick that the young Kirk could use to raise his profile and money. But he never disbanded it, even as it was clearly used to harass and intimidate.

Kimmel off the air is not cancel culture. It's state censorship. The FCC Chair abused merger approval authority to do it, and the president touted it saying no one should be allowed to make fun of him. Don't play into the BS that complaining students or social media posters are equivalent to govt.

If it’s wrong to prosecute Kirk for talking about anti-white Jewish financiers, it would by the same token be wrong to prosecute someone who, in the same manner, fuels animosity against whites, Christians, or conservatives. www.thebulwark.com/p/charlie-ki...

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

Taibbi storms out of the gate with the most incredibly dogshit take on the Kimmel firing yet. Basically: Jimmy Kimmel sucks, he’s glad he’s gone, but the FCC getting involved feels … icky … to him. Almost … European? Did JD Vance … lie? That’d be crazy! Anyway he needs time to process.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

honestly, kudos to him for this

Lol. This is "I support the 1st Amendment for speech I agree with" which means "I do not support the 1st Amendment or free speech."

Kimmel's suspension shows the levels to which the Trump administration is trying to make a “Reichstag fire” moment out of Kirk’s assassination — exploiting the fears of a traumatized public to use government power to silence political dissent. (new @msnbc.com column)

Trump's FCC: "We could do this the easy way or the hard way" ABC: "Ok, we surrender" MAGA libertarians: "Biden still disturbs me more"

there are no grown-ups

Obey the comedy police

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

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The Trump administration’s decision to remove depictions of slavery from National Historic Parks isn’t just about revising history. It’s about reshaping America. Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

Trump: Jimmy Kimmel is next Trump admin: We will definitely exploit this murder to censor our critics Carr: ABC must fire Jimmy Kimmel ABC, minutes later: We have suspended Jimmy Kimmel Anti-cancel culture crusader: I sure wish this clear business decision didn’t look so much like censorship!

I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.

Incredibly good piece from Anthony

Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

This guy built his career over *not getting fired* at Georgetown: NY Times profile, lecture series, Manhattan Institute gig. He got the Georgetown gig in the name of intellectual diversity, despite being a constitutional law expert seemingly unaware of the concept of jawboning.

> @brianstelter.bsky.social

It’s been clear for months that this administration is ten times the threat to the First Amendment that “wokeism” ever was. If this doesn’t wake the fuck up all the comedy podcast bros, nothing will.

Now that one of the most powerful and lucrative corporations in the world has pulled a comedian off the air at the behest of the government — the Charlie Kirk moral panic has fully reached the authoritarian censorship stage.

Big Brother is happy with the corporate supplicant. The billion dollar deals may now proceed. All is well in Oceania.

Je Suis Jimmy

I don't think I've been this angry in a long time. And I don't think I've ever been less happy about being right.

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Disney reportedly pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show. He had said "MAGA gang" was "desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." FCC Chair Carr abused his power threatening Disney.

Ezra Klein tomorrow: "Well, maybe Brendan Carr has a point. After all, we have to live together."

Vacuous

This is it. Cancel culture, but for real. The Twitter Files, but for real. Actual, unadulterated collusion between the government and media-owning corporations to censor Americans. Shame on the MAGA libertarians and fake-heterodox civility cops who helped pave this road to authoritarianism.

I also had some thoughts about Carr's continued use of the FCC as a partisan censorship weapon. My statement: