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Kimmel Returned to a Huge Audience

September 25, 2025 Buck Banks

6.3 million

Nearly 6.3 million people tuned in to the Jimmy Kimmel broadcast last night, despite the blackouts in many cities, the AP reports. And there was a larger audience online, with more than 15 million people watching Kimmel’s opening remarks on YouTube by Wednesday evening.

Trump Administration’s Open Oppression

September 22, 2025 Buck Banks

“There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.”

— Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Freedom of (Some) Speech

September 13, 2025 Buck Banks

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, social media is in disarray,
And the right wing’s impulse to control free speech is fully on display.
It’s a campaign of naming and shaming,
Of doxxing and blocking and blaming,
Where the First Amendment only guarantees my right to decide what you can say.

Tag: freedom of speech

Kimmel Returned to a Huge Audience

6.3 million

Nearly 6.3 million people tuned in to the Jimmy Kimmel broadcast last night, despite the blackouts in many cities, the AP reports. And there was a larger audience online, with more than 15 million people watching Kimmel’s opening remarks on YouTube by Wednesday evening.

Trump Administration’s Open Oppression

“There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.”

— Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Freedom of (Some) Speech

Poetic Justice

Pushed out over pushups ...

Verbatim

— Charlie Cook

“Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition. The use of taxpayer-funded school vouchers to promote Sharia law likely contravenes Florida law and undermines our national security.”

— Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, introducing an Islamic law scare into the public discourse via an X post magnifying claims that state universal school choice dollars were paying for instruction in Sharia in Tampa charter schools, reported Florida Phoenix.

“I’m the speaker and the president.”

— President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, noting how he’s marginalized Speaker Mike Johnson.

Numerati

1.1 million

$279 billion

18

“President Donald Trump littered his new ’60 Minutes’ interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked,” CNN reports. “We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions.”

~42 million

$14 billion

“The U.S. economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a new report released by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper,” the Washington Post reports.