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Podcast: JOHNSTONE
Episode: Assaults On Free Speech Go Into Hyperdrive After Charlie Kirk Killing
Description: It’s amazing how aggressively free speech in the United States is being torn apart in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing.
Jimmy Kimmel was fired after President Trump’s FCC threatened ABC when the late night comic suggested that Kirk’s killer was a Trumper. I personally dislike Kimmel, but this is about as naked a government assault on free expression as you could possibly imagine.
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported to Syria or Algeria after the Trump administration targeted him for political speech critical of Israel.
Trump has brokered a deal allowing TikTok to be pur...