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“You can call that free speech or not,” #Trump said. “He was fired for lack of talent.”
#JimmyKimmel, in fact, was not fired. #ABC pulled his show “indefinitely,” but network executives Thursday were hoping to find a path for their late-night star to return to the airwaves soon.
This account is based on interviews w/more than a half-dozen people closely involved in the deliberations that led to Kimmel’s sudden absence. All requested anonymity to share details…
#BobIger, #Disney’s chief executive, & #DanaWalden, his head of #TV, were also hearing from skittish #advertisers & #employees who had begun to receive threatening messages. When the team reviewed #JimmyKimmel’s planned remarks, they grew concerned that his monologue would only inflame the situation further.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #dictatorship #autocracy #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism
#Conservatives had accused #JimmyKimmel of mischaracterizing the #politics of the man accused of killing the #FarRight activist #CharlieKirk. #Trump’s chair of the #FCC had just warned #ABC of serious consequences, telling the network that “we can do this the easy or the hard way.” And a #Texas-based owner of many #ABCaffiliates was preparing to pull #Kimmel from its stations indefinitely.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #autocracy #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism
#Disney Pulled #JimmyKimmel As Pressure Built On Multiple Fronts
For #BobIger & his leadership team at Disney & #ABC, time was running out.
Jimmy Kimmel, one of the company’s biggest stars, was preparing to tape the Wednesday edition of his late-night show in Hollywood at 4:30PM. And he had written an opening monologue that would address a cascading political firestorm head-on.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/business/media/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
If you still have an account on academia.edu, you should probably delete it.
I'm not sure how their new terms are legal: they give the site the right to use your data *in any manner*. This is mainly to help them scrape academic work and republish/mangle parts of it through AI without credit: but these terms go way beyond that into your likeness, your voice, even your signature.
Please boost this to academics you know. Further PSA elements in thread:
@JubalBarca But does deleting the account also void that license? 
And wow is that a fucked up clause in a contract. Handing something like this to non-lawyers should be illegal.
"A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time."
"The NT Supreme Court heard that after the crash, which killed one Aboriginal man and injured another, Danby sent a series of "callous" text messages about his victims. In one message, Danby described the crash as a "two for one combo"."They learnt their lesson now, maybe next time they will use the crossing instead of walking out in front of cars, expecting me to stop like they own the place," the text message read...Danby will be detained in a house at Humpty Doo for the next five months." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/jake-danby-sentenced-over-fatal-hit-and-run-at-leanyer-in-2024/105773728
#Pedestrians #motorists #speeding #cars #violence #law #IndigenousPeoples #HateCrime #laws #Australia
What #law did they break? Turning on a light?
Four people were arrested on Tuesday following a projection of images of Donald #Trump alongside sex offender #JeffreyEpstein onto the royal #WindsorCastle, where the #US President [& adjudicated #rapist] is set to be hosted by #KingCharles during his state visit to #Britain.
Earlier on Tuesday, protesters unfurled a massive banner featuring a photograph of #Trump & #Epstein near Windsor Castle, & later projected several images of the two onto one of the castle's towers.
The #police said in a statement four adults were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications following an "unauthorised projection" at #WindsorCastle, which they described as a "public stunt". The four remain in custody.
What #law did they break? Turning on a light?
Four people were arrested on Tuesday following a projection of images of Donald #Trump alongside sex offender #JeffreyEpstein onto the royal #WindsorCastle, where the #US President [& adjudicated #rapist] is set to be hosted by #KingCharles during his state visit to #Britain.
What #law did they break? Turning on a light?
Four people were arrested on Tuesday following a projection of images of Donald #Trump alongside sex offender #JeffreyEpstein onto the royal #WindsorCastle, where the #US President [& adjudicated #rapist] is set to be hosted by #KingCharles during his state visit to #Britain.
#House votes to charge #DC 14-year-olds as adults
#Republicans in #Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at DC’s criminal justice system.
The #legislation is part of a package that #HouseRepublicans are pushing to impose more #federal control over the District in line with #Trump’s demands.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/house-dc-crime-bills.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#House votes to charge #DC 14-year-olds as adults
#Republicans in #Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at DC’s criminal justice system.
The #legislation is part of a package that #HouseRepublicans are pushing to impose more #federal control over the District in line with #Trump’s demands.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/house-dc-crime-bills.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump Wants to Crack Down on “Debanking,” but He’s Dismantling a Regulator That Was Doing Just That
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An executive order seeking to stop banks from discriminating against customers could be undermined by the administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had been investigating the practice.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-debanking-executive-order-cfpb-discrimination-banking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Business#Law#Trump#USPolitics#Banks#Consumer#Regulation
"A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time."
"The NT Supreme Court heard that after the crash, which killed one Aboriginal man and injured another, Danby sent a series of "callous" text messages about his victims. In one message, Danby described the crash as a "two for one combo"."They learnt their lesson now, maybe next time they will use the crossing instead of walking out in front of cars, expecting me to stop like they own the place," the text message read...Danby will be detained in a house at Humpty Doo for the next five months." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/jake-danby-sentenced-over-fatal-hit-and-run-at-leanyer-in-2024/105773728
#Pedestrians #motorists #speeding #cars #violence #law #IndigenousPeoples #HateCrime #laws #Australia
We Investigated How Oil Companies Take Millions From Mineral Owners. Now, Some Lawmakers Push for Change.
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For years, North Dakota legislators rejected proposals to protect mineral owners from oil and gas companies withholding their earnings. “Something has to be done,” one lawmaker now says.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-lawmakers-oil-gas-royalty-proposals?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time.
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State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for recourse when their claims were denied.
https://www.propublica.org/article/citizens-property-insurance-florida-arbitration-cases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
TL;DR: Penske Media Corporation, publisher of Rolling Stone, has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company's AI-generated summaries infringe on its content rights, marking a significant move in the intersection of media and technology. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/777788/rolling-stone-penske-media-sue-google-ai-overviews #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
TL;DR: Penske Media Corporation, publisher of Rolling Stone, has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company's AI-generated summaries infringe on its content rights, marking a significant move in the intersection of media and technology. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/777788/rolling-stone-penske-media-sue-google-ai-overviews #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
After 17 Years, DNA Tied a Man to Her Rape. Under Massachusetts Law, It Was Too Late.
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Massachusetts has one of the strictest deadlines in the country for prosecuting rape. After the 15-year mark, no DNA match, testimony or even confession can give a rape victim a chance of facing their attacker in court.
https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
In #books: Law is a tool, not an end in itself. Justice is the goal of all human rights undertakings—everything in “right relationship.” Right relationship is not status quo and does not appear on the scene without arduous struggle and fundamental social readjustment. https://www.texasobserver.org/jim-harrington-memoir-tcrp/
#politics#USpol #books #law#HumanRights #activism#FreeSpeech #history #bookstodon
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