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FCC cracks down on free speech as ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The FCC and ABC just handed Donald Trump & MAGA world the censorship trophy they’ve been whining about for years — by yanking Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air after the host dragged Trump, JD Vance & Kash Patel over the Charlie Kirk tragedy. It’s cancel culture, but make it conservative.

FCC cracks down on free speech as ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Trump boldly implies that only dumb people like him

At his Bedminster golf club, Donald Trump proudly declared “smart people don’t like me,” sparking waves of chuckles from his guests, confusion from his base, and a collective “of course” from the rest of America.

Trump boldly implies that only dumb people like him

‘MAGA Mike’ Johnson in PANIC as he tries to plot another shutdown

As the nation stumbles toward another government shutdown cliff, “MAGA Mike” Johnson and Donald Trump are back at it — blaming Democrats for a crisis they engineered, all while clutching their Affordable Care Act–cutting pearls.

‘MAGA Mike’ Johnson in PANIC as he tries to plot another shutdown

America debuts its own 'Secret Police' to monitor mean tweets about Charlie Kirk

After the shooting death of conservative figure Charlie Kirk, dozens of Americans—including pilots, teachers, and civil servants—are being fired or suspended over online remarks, while an anonymous website gleefully compiles lists of offenders. Free speech advocates are calling it “McCarthyism for memes.”

America debuts its own 'Secret Police' to monitor mean tweets about Charlie Kirk

Republican officials draped in MAGA gear declare Kirk’s alleged killer ‘deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology’

Utah Governor Spencer Cox asserts that Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology”—a claim underscored by memes, anti-fascist song lyrics, and bullet-casing inscriptions. Witnesses, social media, and GOP statements collide over what “indoctrination” even means in 2025.

Republican officials draped in MAGA gear declare Kirk’s alleged killer ‘deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology’

GOP proudly reports 90% completion of Nazi playbook

GOP-led states restrict medical care, silence trans legislators, and ban books. The only thing missing is the official decree insisting Jews stay out of government, but give it time.

GOP proudly reports 90% completion of Nazi playbook

Republicans disappointed that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer does not support the Radical Left narrative

Unsurprisingly, the suspect in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk does not fit Republican expectations of a “radical left” caricature—prompting confusion, disappointment, and frantic re-framing among GOP commentators. The accused, Tyler Robinson of Utah, is neither a card-carrying Marxist nor an unhinged far-left provocateur.

Republicans disappointed that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer does not support the Radical Left narrative

GOP prays that Charlie Kirk's killer is a minority to fuel propaganda

Even as no suspect is confirmed, many in the Republican orbit appear to view the question of whether the shooter is a minority less as a matter of investigation than as a matter of optics. Because in modern politics, identity is frequently more useful than truth.

GOP prays that Charlie Kirk's killer is a minority to fuel propaganda

Charlie Kirk bravely offers himself as tribute to the 2nd Amendment

“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death… I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” - Charlie Kirk, April 2023

Charlie Kirk bravely offers himself as tribute to the 2nd Amendment