Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

Herblock on Nixon's imperial presidency and his enemies list, July 1973.

"Donald Trump is losing ground with one of his most reliable constituencies: the wealthiest Americans. A new YouGov/Economist poll shows that Trump's net approval rating among voters with incomes over $100,000 stands at -4 points, with 47 percent approving and 51 percent disapproving."

Paul Conrad on Nixon's excuses about the White House Tapes, November 1973. Has the ring of Epstein Files or Epstein Letter to it.

A simple Tony Auth cartoon during the Watergate scandal, 7/13/1973.

Frank Interlandi on the crisis of confidence in government, July 1973.

Frank Interlandi's editorial cartoon, following reports that Nixon admin had an enemies list, July 1973.

Twain on disillusionment w/ the GOP in 1884 when it nominated James G. Blaine. He especially disliked his support of Chinese exclusion laws & his corruption: “I easily perceive that the Rep party has deserted us & deserted itself, but I am not able to see that we have deserted anything or anybody.“

“I guess many of the novels I see about the future are classed under science fiction. This is science fiction without the science. I'm sort of more interested to know, what is the future of history? What is the future of universities? What is the future of thinking and loving and daily life?”

In late June 1973 news broke that the Nixon admin had compiled an "enemies list." Among those listed were journalist Daniel Schorr & actor/activist Paul Newman. Hunter S. Thompson was disappointed he wasn't included. Here's Paul Conrad's editorial cartoon on the Nixon enemies list in the LA Times.

“Up until very recently, ninety-nine per cent of censorship that I’ve witnessed in Russia and in Russian culture was self-censorship. In a way, it was middle managers trying to divine which way the wind blows and preëmptively complying with rules that were never really written down.”

“Slightly more than a decade ago, there was a spate of firings in the Russian media….It took more than a decade of Putin’s rule for the Russian Ministry of Culture to even start suggesting preferred themes to filmmakers and TV creators. And when they started suggesting themes, it was a scandal.”

Watching Derry Girls a second time. Colm McCool is the best.

Johnny Carson in the early 1970s: "Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?"

Nixon VP Spiro T. Agnew to hippie: "All you kids know are four-letter obscenities." Herblock, September 1970.

"You understand how it is, mom." Herblock, February 1974.

And/or authoritarianism?

President of AAP on the CDC changes to childhood vaccine schedule. Inskeep: So you're saying they threw out the scientific processes?... Kressly: They replaced them w/...non experts who actually didn't understand the science, & they often couldn't even pronounce the words that they were reading.

“Criticism is practically treason.” Bill Mauldin, 1969.

Stewart: Guys, you know, all this swirling around—are the naysayers and the critics right? Is Donald Trump stifling free speech? News team [in unison]: Of course not, Jon. Americans are free to express any opinion we want. To suggest otherwise is laughable. Ha, ha, ha.

There's a community in Comanche, Kansas named Buttermilk.

Ringo on religion in 1965: "When I was little, I went to Sunday school because it was a place you could play with blocks and paint. But now I'm sort of an agnostic—I'm not an atheist, however. I'm agnostic because I honestly don't know if there's anything up there or down there, as they say."

"Firm stand on crime." Herblock, Washington Post, 3/15/1973.

Herblock on the Nixon administration's attempt to stop the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, June 1971.

"They're thinking of renaming it the Mason-Nixon Line." Herblock, April 1970.

Herblock on the Nixon administration's political pressure on the news media, November 1969.

"Boo! Look out for those radical left-wing Democrats." Herblock, Daytona Beach News-Journal, 10/31/1958.

"Dickey." Herblock, November 1954. #RedScare #McCarthyism

Herblock on the targeting and harassment of American scientists during the Red Scare, July 1947.

Doug Marlette's illustration of Nixon as Law-and-Order Man, 1973.

FCC chairman "Carr wrote the FCC chapter for Project 2025, a playbook written for Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign and election. In it, Mr. Carr said the agency should focus on reining in big tech firms, which he accused of censorship. 'The FCC should promote freedom of speech,' he wrote..."

Julio Fernandez sends up Nixon’s White House guard uniforms in the NYT, 2/1/1970. A critic in the Washington Star said the guards looked like West German traffic policemen: “One's first inclination…is to ask, ‘Wo ist der Bahnhof?’”

"Mr. Wilson, it does nothing for our special relationship to have you laugh at my new White House guard uniform!" Pat Oliphant mocks the new Nixon WH guard uniforms, 1970. The Buffalo Evening News claimed “even ushers at old‐time movie palaces were garbed with greater restraint and better taste.”

After the Concord, MA public library banned Huck Finn, Twain wrote: “This generous action of theirs must necessarily benefit me in 1 or 2 additional ways…it will deter other libraries from buying the book; &…1 book in a public library prevents the sale of a sure 10 & a possible 100 of its mates.”

“Last month, the official ratings agency, Barb, found that GB News had overtaken the BBC as Britain's most-watched news channel for the first time.” www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

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To Patel it’s like Goldman was suddenly speaking in tongues.

Early coverage of the phonograph, 1879: "Edison had said he intended to revolutionize the world....[Dictated letters could be] mailed instead of the commercial notes and reproducing not only the words but the emphatic parts of a letter, which could not be represented by any amount of underlining..."

Before there was Duffman!, there was Cool Blue Pabst Guy. Sometimes he had a mustache.

This made me laugh. “And Trump's legal team also argued that the Times wrongly gave producer Mark Burnett credit for the success of the NBC reality contest show The Apprentice, rather than to Trump, who served as the show's host and star.”

“Project 2025…vowed to strip the CDC of its ability to issue guidance on vaccines and to end required testing for new pathogens.The changes to US health will be felt for decades, and the cutbacks and changes will erode the public’s already wavering trust in health officials, experts say.”

David Levine, Nixon as the "Happy Shredder," New York Review of Books, July 19, 1973.

"By the power vested in me, I hereby declare each of you a success." Herblock, October 1970.

"We must find the party responsible for this!" Bill Sanders, Kansas City Star, 9/17/1963.

It’s like he’s reading a letter his kidnappers just handed him.

“Democrats in California are asking voters to approve a map that would help them win five seats there. In the meantime, Trump is asking Indiana, Florida and other Republican states to pass new maps to help the GOP, and more could come.” www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

Here’s Herblock on George Wallace’s reworking of history, May 1975. Wallace had given a rambling interview to foreign journalists in which he said: "I think we were fighting the wrong people, maybe in World War II."

The USS Gerald R. Ford is back in the Oslo fjord today.