Last week, Jimmy Kimmel, in a monologue on his late-night talk show, denounced the politically expedient responses from the MAGA crowd following the shooting death of Charlie Kirk. In response, the Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, appeared on a right-wing podcast to publicly warn the ABC Network to “do this the easy way or the hard way.” Kimmel’s show has since been “ indefinitely suspended .” Ali Velshi points out that Carr is the head of the agency that regulates U.S.-licensed communications on broadcast television and radio, and the network’s media partner’s multi-billion-dollar merger is pending FCC approval. This is our democracy hanging on by a thread.

The very right that makes America America is Freedom of Speech. It is the right to criticize, to mock,

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