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  • CBS fires veteran journalist for criticizing leadership, betrays its own Watergate legacy

    Scott Pelley got axed from 60 Minutes for daring to question Bari Weiss’s leadership—the exact type of internal accountability that built CBS News’ reputation. Weiss, who built her career defending free speech against ‘cancel culture,’ just canceled a decorated journalist for speaking up. The network that exposed corruption now silences its own staff for asking…

  • Trump demands FCC punish ABC for Kimmel jokes while claiming to defend free speech

    Trump spent years ranting about cancel culture and government censorship—then weaponized the FCC to threaten a network’s broadcast licenses because a comedian mocked him. His free speech absolutism was always selective: protection for his attacks on opponents, punishment for anyone who jokes about him. This is authoritarianism wrapped in a Truth Social post. Source: https://truthout.org/articles/fcc-demands-review-of-all-abc-station-licenses-following-kimmel-joke-on-trump/

  • UW fires scholar for Iran war criticism—where are the free speech warriors now?

    University of Washington removed Middle East Center director Aria Fani for criticizing the war, crushing the academic freedom Republicans claim to defend. Republicans spent years claiming universities suppress conservative speech, with Trump signing executive orders to protect it—yet they’re silent when a scholar is punished for opposing Republican policy. Their principled stand on campus free…