ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel after he criticized the political spin around Charlie Kirk’s murder. That is not accountability for hate speech—it’s pressure on speech itself. If regulators can lean, affiliates can flinch, and a network will fold, that chill won’t stop at late night.
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Erasing ‘Woke’ Isn’t Leadership — It’s Authoritarianism
Trump’s push to “get rid of woke” isn’t about a buzzword—it’s about controlling which histories and which people count. From pressuring museums to sanitize slavery to treating dissent as pathology, that’s authority talking, not democracy. We need the full, uncomfortable truth—and space to disagree—because erasing it endangers disabled people, Black Americans, LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, women, and ultimately all of us.
Notes from the edge of the system 