The debates over the protection of free speech have been raging since before the killing of Charles Kirk. The killing of Charles Kirk has taken this discussion into another realm. Jimmy Kimmel was a high-profile casualty of the skirmish. He was suspended from his show and returned recently to record audiences, even though the companies on the political right, Sinclair and Nexstar, refused to air his show on the stations they owned. It has been demanded of Kimmel that he offer a full-throated apology to the family, and contribute to Turning Point USA, the organization that Kirk founded, as an act of contrition before he can really be forgiven. The premise is that short of that it would be doubtful whether he was actually remorseful. But while the corporate media focused on Jimmy Kimmel and his suspension, other people lost their positions because they exposed the racist things that Kirk uttered regularly on his podcast and in public forums. Jimmy Kimmel returned to TV after a brief suspension due to public pressure. More

As a result of the editorial interference and even censorship of some of its best writers, the Post’s leading journalists are packing their bags (and their Pulitzer Prizes) and heading to more open journalistic enterprises.  Ever since the owner of the Post, Jeff Bezos, killed an editorial in 2024 that endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, the paper has lost its leading luminaries to rival publications and media outlets.  A former executive editor of the P,ost, Marty Baron, wrote recently that Bezos was :basically fearful” of President Trump.  As a result of Bezos’ actions, hundreds of thousands of subscriptions to the Post have been cancelled. More

The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges loyalty to dictators, surrounds himself with sycophants and thugs, and uses state power to abduct foreign students, persecute immigrants, and declare war on the so-called left, grotesquely blaming them for Charlie Kirk’s death, even before a suspect was arrested. What should be a moment of grief over Charlie Kirk’s death has been twisted into a weaponized spectacle, with Trump and his allies rushing to frame the assassination as proof of leftist extremism. More