Disney, the parent company of ABC, suspended talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel last week over comments he made about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson leads this week’s gallery by depicting the edifice of free speech as crumbling and on fire.
Jack Ohman picks up the theme with his view that President Donald Trump considers his own words free speech, while what others say is hate speech. Dana Summers highlights people on the left speaking ill of Kirk while also urging people on the right to “tone down its hateful rhetoric.” Drew Sheneman’s cast of Disney characters gets a lesson in boot-licking from Mickey Mouse. Jack Ohman sees Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as raptors