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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

@Rhamlin said:

@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.

Follow the money... if you can.

Some sanity from Ted Cruz:

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/19/congress/cruz-calls-out-fcc-for-taking-down-jimmy-kimmel-00573159

Sen. Ted Cruz on his podcast Friday admonished Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr for demanding ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show over comments regarding Charlie Kirk — calling Carr’s actions “dangerous as hell” and “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’”

“If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said; we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like’ — that will end up bad for conservatives,” said the Texas Republican.

And while Cruz said he liked Carr and was “thrilled” to see Kimmel’s show taken off the air, he cautioned that leveraging the FCC’s power to punish certain speech creates a concerning precedent that could leave conservatives vulnerable in a future Democratic administration.

“They will silence us,” said Cruz. “They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly.”

The comments are notable coming from Cruz – both as a loyalist of President Donald Trump and as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, which has oversight authority over the FCC.