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Assaults On Free Speech Go Into Hyperdrive After Charlie Kirk Killing

Assaults On Free Speech Go Into Hyperdrive After Charlie Kirk Killing

Update: 2025-09-18
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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 purchased by a consortium that includes his billionaire buddies Larry Ellison and Marc Andreesen. US officials have acknowledged that Washington’s push to grab control of TikTok was because of the opposition to the Gaza holocaust that was circulating on the platform.

Reading by Tim Foley.
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Assaults On Free Speech Go Into Hyperdrive After Charlie Kirk Killing

Assaults On Free Speech Go Into Hyperdrive After Charlie Kirk Killing

Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley