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Elon Musk is leading a pressure campaign to make Netflix un-woke

Elon Musk says he canceled his Netflix subscription and is telling others to do the same over the presence of transgender characters in series that made their debut (and in some cases ended) years ago. Earlier this week, Musk reshared a post on X attacking Dead End: Paranormal Park, an animated series geared toward kids, […]

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Kimmel returns to television to mock FCC Chair Brendan Carr

Jimmy Kimmel made a triumphant return to television (in most, but not all, cities) on Tuesday night, devoting his monologue to his short but shocking removal from the air. The comedian tackled the uproar head-on, directly naming Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission Chair who had instigated Kimmel’s censorship. In a later segment, he took […]

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Inside Charlie Kirk’s megachurch memorial service

Hello and welcome to Regulator. According to a rough transcript of Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, the word “martyr” was uttered less than 10 times. But to the 90,000-plus people watching live in Glendale, Arizona, and the 100 million who reportedly watched the livestream, it didn’t have to be stated so explicitly. As every speaker at […]

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Jimmy Kimmel still isn’t coming back to many ABC stations in the US

Disney is bringing back Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show, but a notable chunk of ABC affiliates won’t air the new episodes. Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting — which control about one quarter of local ABC stations, according to Deadline — announced that they will continue to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! and air different programming in that […]

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Trump escalates crackdown by designating ‘Antifa’ a domestic terror group

The Trump administration’s crackdown on perceived left-wing threats following the death of Charlie Kirk continued on Monday evening, with Donald Trump announcing an executive order titled “Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.” The order directs federal departments and agencies to “investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist […]

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Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return after censorship outrage

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show is returning on Tuesday after Disney pulled it off the air over comments made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In a statement on Monday, Disney said it planned to resume production after having “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel. “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show […]

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Republicans’ political purge is just getting started

Barely over a week after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing at a Utah campus, speech attacks in the name of the self-proclaimed free speech advocate are piling up. Law enforcement officials have custody of suspected shooter Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah who prosecutors allege was in a relationship with a transgender woman and […]

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Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship

Yesterday, Disney-owned ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live “indefinitely” for a comment Kimmel made about the response to Charlie Kirk’s death. The response from Republican commentators has been predictably gleeful. They’ve positioned the suspension as a reversal of “cancel culture,” a “deplatforming” that’s simply fair retaliation for antagonizing them. “Jimmy Kimmel does have Free Speech, he […]

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