Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder

“Disney-owned ABC late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel did not apologize for offending much of the nation when he returned to his show after a one-week suspension. So much for the left-wing narrative that President Donald Trump ripped up the First Amendment and tossed Kimmel off the air. The controversy began the Monday after Charlie Kirk’s assassination by a Trump- and Kirk-hating left-winger. Kimmel, however, said, ‘The MAGA gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything to they can to score political points from it.’ In Kimmel’s returning monologue, he was not just unapologetic, he was defiant. He flat-out denied any intention ‘to blame any specific group’ for Kirk’s assassination. Kimmel said, ‘It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.'” (09/25/25)

https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/09/25/jimmy-kimmel-didnt-apologize-maybe-van-jones-will-n2663917#google_vignette

Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle

“I spent the past decade watching conservatives complain about ‘cancel culture’ and government attacks on free speech. And then, last week, I watched them enact these very things on a grander scale: Social media mobs hounding random nobodies out of their jobs; the government pushing companies to censor speech. … This weapons-grade hypocrisy was the work of a small number of conservatives, but it was supported online by many more. If anyone called out the hypocrisy, conservatives responded that this was different: This was celebrating murder. Or they pointed toward progressive social media and said, ‘You want to see hypocrisy? Try looking over there.’ … However silly progressives look, at least they are now pointed in the right direction, while conservatives are headed in the wrong one.” (09/24/25)

https://archive.is/ZWgjV

Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen

“One Tuesday night in July 2023, Ron Luessen got contacted by a late-shift worker on the support team for Elcon, a construction firm in the Pacific Northwest. Luessen, an equipment manager, was off the clock, but he was the main point of contact, and the worker was puzzled. ‘We’re supposed to be working tonight, and this place is closed,’ Luessen recalled the message. ‘What do you want us to do?’ There wasn’t any reason for the building to be closed. Elcon was steadily busy, recently picking up business in Billings, Montana, beyond its base of operations in Seattle. The company had even just updated the kitchens. But the next day, around 120 Elcon employees got the official word: Don’t come in. After 42 years building bridges, highways, rail lines, airports, and basic infrastructure Americans use every day, Elcon was history.” (09/24/25)

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-09-24-big-banks-behaving-badly/

Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman

“It starts, like the argument on the other side, with the belief that it is on the whole better for people to believe what is true. The question is what mechanism gets you there. To put it differently, what mechanism for filtering speech does the best job of letting truth through while blocking falsehood? The ideal mechanism would be an omniscient censor committed to truth, someone who always knows whether a statement is true or false and only blocks the false ones, but we don’t have any of those.” (09/24/25)

https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/the-case-for-free-speech