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LessAspin

(1,700 posts)
4. Back in the USSR
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 07:36 PM
Sep 17

Welcome to Russia

Trump’s weaponized agencies are trying to eliminate free speech and punish those who use it. Universities, media, Colbert, and now Jimmy Kimmel. This is just the beginning

Shame on ABC for capitulating to thugs

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 (@olgalautman.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T23:11:44.956Z


Kimmel didn’t even really say anything negative about Kirk. He noted the cynical and almost giddy exploitation of the killing by right-wing propagandists, absolutely accurately, and in gentler terms than I would have used.

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T23:14:31.093Z


BREAKING: First Colbert. Now Kimmel. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-09-17T22:55:28.326Z


I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. F*ck Trump and F*ck ABC/Disney. I’ve met Jimmy and I’ve met Trump and one is a smart, funny and empathetic man and one is an illiterate racist POS.

Noel Casler Comedy (@noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T23:03:28.506Z


And not that it's relevant to the free speech issue, but Kimmel said literally nothing negative about Kirk per se at all. This is just a pure pretext to getting another critic of Trump off the air, and Disney is a willing regime collaborator

Scott Lemieux (@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T23:09:31.581Z

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