Stephen Colbert SLAMS CBS for not letting James Talarico on Late Night

Yeah, shoutout to Carr for making Talarico a national figure.

The link to the Colbert Talarico interview. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

“Here’s the bottom line: DHS is buying warehouses across the country to build out concentration camps for caging and deporting immigrants, and WEXMAC TITUS is allowing them to be operational in a matter of weeks.”

These numbers demand a complete rethinking of immigration in this country and accountability for the terrorism of DHS/CBP/ICE. Aesthetic reforms are just not enough.

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's so clear to me that Trump placed women high up in the most corrupt portions of his Cabinet - Noem with DHS, Tulsi as DNI, Bondi with DOJ, Leavitt as WH press sec - to take the fall for more powerful men. That they don't see they're pawns is fascinating.

ICE HAS DEPORTED & ABANDONED a gravely sick, two-month-old baby, along with his mother & 16-month-old sister across the border after the infant became unresponsive & was hospitalized for only a few hours. TRUMP'S DHS is torturing babies! BABIES! Trump's DHS is truly evil!

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.

Host: "Anger over Pretti's death and the killing of Renee Good has catalyzed state lawmakers to take matters into their own hands. A new bill introduced today would allow US citizens to sue ICE agents if their constitutional rights are violated."

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Welcome to the Olympics stage, Isabeau Levito 🇺🇸

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Rev. Jesse Jackson was a great American who fought relentlessly to make our country a better place — one with justice, equality, and freedom for all. His legacy will live on for generations through the lives he changed. My thoughts are with his family.

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

Under Tricia McLaughlin, Homeland Security public statements repeatedly unraveled and she faced critical attention for her role disseminating false information. You could teach a college class about the collapse of a government agency’s credibility under her tenure.

In other news, Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts. The company is run by Tricia McLaughlin’s husband. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

CBS late-night show host Stephen Colbert said on Monday that the network's lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. "D... TAT: [Controlling Information | Suppressing Dissent]

This is crazy. The government — or fear of the government — is editing a CBS comedy show. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social "Yesterday, Stephen Colbert taped a 'Late Show' interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, but then CBS lawyers intervened."

Another Trump dud hits the bricks. Clearly, she lost lots of creds after the Minneapolis fiasco Chief brain tech of the fascist fiasco of Minneapolis. She drew a dud and her walk back goes out the door. Top DHS propagandist Tricia McLaughlin to leave Trump admin www.rawstory.com/tricia-mclau...

[This was last Feb, 9 days after she was confirmed by the Senate] DHS Sec Kristi Noem ordered the Coast Guard to divert an aircraft from an active search-and-rescue mission for a missing serviceman to transport detained migrants, according to three US officials. www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership did not see it as a concern to be addressed. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

They're saying this out loud and asking for Dems to pass the DHS funding bill. Chuck Schumer lost to these guys at the table in November. Imagine getting outplayed by these people.

It is quite clear that the US is carrying out crimes against humanity in its detention, torture, and deportation system. Everyone involved at DHS ought to consider that crimes against humanity are subject to universal jurisdiction with no statute of limitations.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Their job is to focus on their schoolwork, not be replacements for the immigrants you deported. More Republican nonsense.

We’re going on tour! For the next two weeks before Election Day, we’re hitting the road — going everywhere and talking to everyone. It’s time to take back Texas. Join us: www.mobilize.us/talaricofort...

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

This is the Colbert interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that Barri Weiss, David Ellison & Donald Trump don’t want you to see. Twice in three months content on CBS has been censored. And this is only the beginning…

FCC Chairman Carr is “thinking”of removing the Equal Time rule exception for TV talk shows (but not right-wing talk radio), so CBS wouldn’t let Stephen Colbert air this interview with Texas senate candidate James Talarico. Let’s Streisand Effect the hell out of it on YT. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Donald Trump’s FCC pushed CBS to scrap the interview of Texas Democrat James Talarico with Stephen Colbert last night on the eve of early voting for the Texas Senate primary. This is the dictator playbook.

Fascism is here. 🇺🇸 CBS is dead. ☠️ More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84. See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

ALFORD: We're not doing the drop boxes, which led to a lot of mistrust during the 2020 election BORIS SANCHEZ: Well, a lot of that mistrust was sewn by the president, who made repeated false claims about widespread election fraud when there was none

Paramount's censorship of this Colbert interview w/ Rep. James Talarico will get more people to watch than if it had aired on TV. 100K views on YouTube in just 2 hours. And counting... youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Apologies. Posted the same clip on both posts. Here is the “FCC you” explanation from Colbert about WTf is going on: youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA?...

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

“FCC you.” - Colbert to Carr, youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

The GOP is once again showing its disdain for the Constitution. fox9.com/news/residen...

Wow.

I never thought I’d see the day. Americans being told by the rest of the world to fight for our own democracy. We should never have gotten here. Keep resisting. ✊🏽 #SheShed #Voices4Victory

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..." www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...