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@silvermouse said:
Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning'

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5545720/kimmel-abc-carr-fcc-jawboning

"The court declared that in order for government influence to violate the First Amendment, there needs to be a "concrete link" between officials' actions and the suppression of speech.

In the Kimmel case, according to Abdo: "It's as direct a line as you could dream up."

He added: "An FCC regulator threatening legal liability against a media company for Constitutionally-protected political speech. If the First Amendment was meant to prevent censorship, this is the prime example of it.""

The Government didn't fire Kimmel. Disney did, surprisingly

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@peter4jc said:

I actually like the bagpipe

Me too, and the theramin, musical saw, banjo, etc.

@Yakster said:
https://gunsmagazine.com/guns/handguns/the-guns-of-john-dillinger/

Good read. I didn’t know it was such a short career. I reckon it’s the same for all the old bank robbers. Before they figured out you lived longer if you didn’t kill people.

Good thing it was a convertible

@peter4jc said:

I actually like the bagpipe

Haven't we learned that payroll/job numbers as first reported by the government are rarely accurate.