Source: Common Dreams
by Paul Rogat Loeb

“How can we effectively push back on the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, and its larger threats to free speech? After Charlie Kirk’s shooting, Kimmel posted, ‘Can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?’ And sent his family’s ‘love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents, and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.’ But that didn’t seem to matter, because Kimmel also dared to point out that the Trump administration was using the assassination to score political points. US President Donald Trump had already warned in July that Kimmel should be the next to be fired after Stephen Colbert. After Kimmel spoke out following the assassination, Trump Federal Communications Commission head Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the licenses of stations carrying Kimmel’s show. Nexstar and Sinclair then jumped in saying they wouldn’t air Kimmel’s episodes. And ABC-Disney caved.” (09/22/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/boycott-for-jimmy-kimmel

Source: Orange County Register
by Kristie De Pena

“Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration tactics, allowing ICE agents to continue deportation raids in Southern California that target people based on their language and race. While illegal [sic] immigration is a real problem, and tightening security at the southern border is a necessary [sic] safeguard, the current administration’s combative approach is an overcorrection that undercuts one of America’s greatest advantages: our ability to attract and assimilate immigrants to fuel economic vitality and innovation.” (09/22/25)

https://archive.is/bTZtE

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“It was, and hopefully still is, possible to build up an alternative media structure that does not rely on the goodwill of the rich. We could look to establish a system of individual tax credits, similar to what exists now with the charitable contribution tax deduction, for supporting journalism. The idea is that everyone would have a sum of money (e.g. $100) to support the journalistic outlet of their choice. This sort of tax credit system could support a vast amount of alternative media.” [editor’s note: Or they could cut everyone’s taxes by $100, said savings to be spent on whatever the taxpayer damn well pleases – TLK] (09/22/25)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/22/lessons-from-jimmy-kimmel-the-media-dont-have-to-be-controlled-by-the-rich/

Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders

“[T]he October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel ignited a wave of campus and street protests across the U.S., Europe, and Australia in 2023 and 2024. Progressive activists baptized in Marxist critiques of capitalism and colonialism marched arm-in-arm with sympathizers of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Amid chants blending anti-imperialist rhetoric with calls for ‘global intifada,’ figures in masks injected black bloc tactics, which amplified the chaos through vandalism and violent confrontation. Despite profound contradictions embodied in subgroups like ‘Queer Jews for Palestine,’ the apparently disparate groups coalesced around overlapping hatreds. These alliances have frayed the fabric of civil discourse on streets and quads, revealing how ressentiment and illiberal indoctrination can draw disparate forces into a shared bed whose coital fruits threaten free societies.” (09/22/25)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/dark-dialectics-the-red-green-black

Source: New York Post
by Ben Appel

“We’ve been told for years that offensive words are a form of ‘violence’. College campuses, once dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, have installed ‘safe spaces’ where students retreat if an opinion strikes them as threatening. The assumption is that speech itself can wound as badly as fists, and we must protect young people. But inflating the concept of violence has had the opposite effect. By equating emotional discomfort with physical assault, universities have desensitized students to the meaning of the real thing. Now when an activist like Charlie Kirk is assassinated, too many of them shrug — or worse, celebrate. Violence has been deconstructed, reframed and stretched to cover everything from being misgendered to being shot in the neck. The result is the word itself has become meaningless.” (09/22/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/opinion/colleges-teach-words-are-violence-creating-more-of-the-real-thing/