Hackwhackers: Skeets Of The Day

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Skeets Of The Day

On Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension --

KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

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— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM

I'm told that Kimmel wanted to address the controversy on air, and had even prepared a script. Disney brass, however, wasn't comfortable with. That and much more detail in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...

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— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM

Periodically, throughout our history, the first amendment has been abused. But never like it is now. In fact, the freedom of expression we once took for granted is, for the moment at least, gone. It's future depends on us. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/rip-the-firs...

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— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Don't want to say I called it, but... you know... sometimes I know what I'm talking about. www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/b...

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— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM

Hypocrisy, or just a simple explanation of his actions?

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— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM

i dont want to go back to normal, i want a democratic president to use these newfound powers to completely dismantle the conservative media apparatus responsible for this mess
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM

Unions, Dems push back on Kimmel suspension --

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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— max tani (@maxtani.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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— Writers Guild of America West (@wgawest.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM

House Democratic leaders: The Trump/GOP "war on the First Amendment is blatantly inconsistent with American values." Also: FCC chair Brendan Carr "engaged in a corrupt abuse of power" and "should resign immediately." And: House Dems will investigate what may be "a corrupt pay-to-play scheme."

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— Jill Lawrence (@jilldlawrence.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM

The MF carrying censorship with him to the UK. Shame on Starmer for capitulating --

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

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— Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM

This is what happens when you ask him about his crypto scam. He won’t have to worry about that as long as he keeps the foreign press away.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM

Sinking fast --

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

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— Owen Winter (@owenwntr.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM

We could all use Dexter's passion about his work --