Something glorious and strange has happened; a united front of media defies the White House Blacklist in solidarity and a strike which leaves Trump talking to nothing and no one.
This includes NBC, ABC, and CBS, acting in solidarity with banned CNN, MS Now and Politico.
All of this plays out as the Trump regime collapses and its apologists, minions, and collaborators begin to desperately distance themselves from the economic ruin, sabotage of our institutions, theft of meaningful citizenship, the ICE white supremacist campaign of ethnic cleansing, and the partnership with Israel in the abandonment of the principle of universal human rights which are the legacies of Trump’s regime of idiot madness and kleptocratic grift.
The renunciation of the Fourth Reich is a thing to be celebrated; but we must also bring a Reckoning for its many crimes. Friends, we must not allow fascists to escape the consequences of their actions like leopards changing their spots.
In the words of the magnificent Lt Aldo Raine in Inglorious Basterds; “I can’t abide it. Can you abide it?”
As goes the article which seems to have triggered the strike, written by Margaret Sullivan in The Guardian entitled The Washington press corps needs to boycott White House events; “On Monday, the three news organizations that had been kicked out of the White House because of Donald Trump’s latest fit of pique sued the president and three top advisers.
An accompanying statement by CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately calls last week’s sudden lockout “a direct assault on the first amendment”.
The legal action is the right move, of course, and one that may prevail since the ban seems to be a clear case of what press-rights lawyers call “viewpoint discrimination”. In other words, Trump didn’t like their stories so he removed their access.
The president has been in a bad mood lately, for obvious reasons. Retaliating against the press is his favorite way to let off steam.
But something else, beyond legal action, is necessary, too.
“Time for the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to report on the White House from off campus,” wrote Richard J Tofel, an attorney and the longtime president of the investigative news organization ProPublica, who writes a press-related newsletter, Second Rough Draft.
In other words, the biggest and most influential “print” news organizations – along with the major broadcast TV networks – should take collective action by boycotting that briefing room and similar White House events until their journalistic colleagues get their credentials back.
The major TV networks took a commendable step in that direction on Monday by deciding to suspend “pool coverage” of presidential events, since CNN was assigned to the duty of recording events and sharing them with the broader “pool” of news organizations.
“There will be no replacement pool put in place,” stated Bryan Boughton, the Fox News Washington bureau chief and chair of the TV pool in a memo to the White House press corps.
It’s especially good to see because the White House press corps often talks a good game about solidarity and press rights, but they’ve mostly kept doing what they’ve always done – treating Trump like any other president.
He can ban the Associated Press from the briefing room for refusing to use the term “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico”. He can respond to a reporter’s question with the disrespectful command “Quiet, piggy.” He can (through his defense secretary) try to revoke journalistic access to the Pentagon and fire top staffers at Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper. His weaponized justice department can subpoena New York Times reporters or show up at a Washington Post reporter’s home and seize her devices.
He can even trash as the “worst” his loyal rightwing media outlet, Fox News, for its recent polling that showed Americans’ deep dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy. He’s an equal opportunity media-basher.
But, no matter, Trump still gets that annual invitation to the White House Correspondents’ Association’s fancy DC dinner, where he can insult the press and make personal attacks on reporters whom he finds displeasing or those he simply wants to single out for abuse.
He still gets treated with deference.
And the reporters who are not in particular disfavor continue to go to White House briefings and press gaggles.
In other words, he mostly gets away with it.
This most recent ban is one of the most serious actions yet, as the scholar of authoritarianism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, declared, calling it “a moment of reckoning for America”.
It’s not only, she said, “part of the autocratic playbook, but the timing is no coincidence. Trump is well into the autocratic backfire process, thus entire media outlets he sees as threats must be banished.”
To put it bluntly, Trump is a bully. And bullies will keep bullying until they get a punch in the nose.
As much as he professes to hate the mainstream media, Trump depends on it. He wants the constant attention. He loves being in the spotlight, where his every utterance – no matter how unhinged or false – is blasted out to the public.
It will get through to him if that kind of attention is withdrawn, as it was on Monday with the pool suspension.
Back when the AP was banned last year, a former Washington bureau chief at the news service, Ron Fournier, had some broader advice for the press corps.
“No self-respecting journalist should attend a White House briefing while the White House bans the AP for not accepting state-mandated language,” he wrote on social media, using the hashtag #BoycottTheBriefing.
Yes, media organizations may issue strongly worded statements, and may join in lawsuits, but solidarity is too often a theoretical thing, not a practical action with real-life consequences.
They offer a rationale, of course. It’s of utmost importance, journalists and their bosses will tell you, to cover the president. Not doing so would be a dereliction of duty and would stoop to the president’s level. It would be, God forbid, unprofessional.
But here’s the thing: reporters do not need to do their journalistic duty from inside the White House, or in an impromptu gaggle with Trump.
“We don’t need our journalistic watchdogs to have ‘access’ to Trump,” as former CBS News justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane put it. (He is now the chief Washington correspondent at MeidasTouch, the progressive media company.) “Everyone in the press room should walk out in protest … and source up.”
In other words, don’t abandon the job. Report aggressively from “off campus”.
It is a matter of principle at this point.
Especially at a time when American democracy is teetering on the brink.”
As I wrote last year in my post of September 21 2026, The Silencing of Witness and Mockery, and State Repression of Dissent: the Case of the Jesters Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel; We wander lost in the Wilderness of Mirrors, lies and illusions, propaganda and repression of dissent, the silencing of witness and mockery, and sadly this is nothing new or unique.
What remains to be said?
Professor Levine, Administrator of the Face Book group All Along The Watchtower, has issued an instruction on the most recent of such events, which has provoked a torrent of backlash as all uses of social force creates its own Resistance. Possibly to the point where we have reached consensus within our totally siloed communities of political ideology, having become polarized beyond listening to each other much less public debate to seek the truth, rendering the scraps of our intellectual life as mere instruments of confirmation bias and drowning us all in the white noise of outrage and the trauma of empathy fatigue and despair.
The terms of the Directive: “Please no more posts on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. It is important, but the thread is filled with them. Other important issues are happening and need our attention. Thanks.”
To this I reply; OK. You know I was writing a scathing diatribe on this, but you’re right its not news in Trump’s America. So few of our normalities remain yet to be violated, one runs out of new horrors to unmask.
Maybe you’re right, and the time for us to speak in words and not actions is passed, on this and far too many other issues.
State control of the media is a watershed issue, and a line from which there is no retreat if we are to save our democracy.
I ride at moonrise, friends. And if our rights guaranteed by the Constitution mean anything to you, rights of free speech and of the press which I summarize as the Four Primary Duties of a Citizen: Question Authority, Expose Authority, Mock Authority, and Challenge Authority, you too will find ways to Resist, to refuse to submit and remain Unconquered, to disbelieve and disobey. As the line from Tombstone goes, I say to all those who would dehumanize and enslave us, to fascists and to tyrants throughout history and the world; “I’m coming, and Hell’s coming with me.”
Let none stand alone, for the black tide of fascist tyranny and terror engulfs the world and threatens us all with dehumanization. We must join together in solidarity of action as a United Humankind and guarantors of each other’s humanity and universal human rights, wherever men hunger to be free.
In the words of Elie Wiesel, “Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe”.
But with America a captured state of the Fourth Reich, fascism has a force multiplier and sponsor state from which the Nazi revival and reconquest of the world may be launched, already begun in Ukraine and Palestine as the twin major fronts of the Third World War. So here we must begin, and draw a line against the dark.
As Picard’s line in Star Trek: First Contact goes; “We’ve made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far and no further! And I will make them pay for what they’ve done!”
The world should have learned long ago that any compromise with evil is a form of danegeld we cannot pay, and when a tyrant says “This is my last territorial demand”, the time has come to bring a Reckoning and purge our destroyers from among us.
First we must bring a public Reckoning with the criminality, monstrosity, and immoral degenerate cruelty of the subject whom our Jesters have been fired by their plutocrat toadies of fascist tyranny for mocking, Charlie Kirk. As written in his Substack newsletter by John Pavlovitz, in an article entitled The Shameful Christian Idolatry and Fraudulent Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk;
“• Kirk had claimed that passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “huge mistake” that has now become an “anti-white weapon”.
• During a September 2024 episode of the debate show Surrounded, Kirk stated that even if his 10-year-old daughter became pregnant due to rape, she would be forced to carry the baby to term.
• On a January 3rd, 2024, episode of his show, Kirk continued his incessant verbal assaults on women of color, saying “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder, is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
• During an April 5, 2023, appearance at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church, Kirk said, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal.”
• In March of 2024, Kirk said on his show: The great replacement strategy, which is well underway every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.
• Kirk decried what he described as the “myth” of Martin Luther King Jr , calling him “awful” and “not a good person”, another time declaring him “a serial adulterer, an alleged rapist, a reparations proponent, and a race Marxist.”
• A fierce opponent of DEI initiatives designed to give underrepresented and marginalized communities equal opportunities, he “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” (The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024)
• On an April 30th, 2025 episode of his show, Kirk reiterated his unapologetic Islamophobia, saying “large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.”
• In a 2024 episode of his show, Kirk quoted a Leviticus passage calling for gay people to be stoned to death, referring to it as “God’s perfect law,” and called for “a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor.”
• And though Jesus’ life and ministry overflowed with compassion for the poor, the sick, the vulnerable, Kirk recently said, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that does a lot of damage.”
I’m left to wonder and to ask professed Christians posthumously elevating Charlie Kirk as some hero of their faith:
Is this what you think followers of Jesus do?
Is this what Christianity is to you?
How can you call any of this Christlike?”
With the true character and purpose of Charlie Kirk established as a propagandist of hate and theocratic terror, let us now interrogate and problematize the function of comedy as the unmasking of tyrants, the witness of history, free speech which is the keystone of democracy and hate speech as an instrument of its subversion, and the sacred calling to pursue the truth.
In this case, our mad King Lear has taken no counsel from his Jesters, leaving us all inmates of an asylum ruled by its most depraved lunatics.
As Robert Reich has written; “Friends, The one thing Trump can’t take is a joke, especially one at his expense.
Yesterday — one day after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air “indefinitely,” after pressure from the chairman of Trump’s Federal Communications Commission — Trump said federal regulators should revoke broadcast licenses over late-night hosts who speak negatively about him.
“They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”
It was bad enough in the early 1950s when the U.S. government criminalized certain speech during Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts. Those witch hunts were directed at alleged members of the Communist Party who supposedly posed a threat to America (although the vast majority of them were loyal Americans).
Late-night comedians pose no conceivable threat to America. They make people laugh.
But they do pose a potential threat to Trump.
CBS’s cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” was announced just days after Colbert slammed CBS’s parent company, Paramount, for giving Trump $16 million to settle Trump’s defamation suit — which Colbert called a “big, fat bribe” to get the FCC to allow Paramount to merge with and be acquired by Skydance Media.
Colbert was correct, of course.
Trump’s response to Colbert’s cancellation? “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”
Kimmel was next, and it’s probably not coincidental that ABC has also been a target of Trump’s defamation ire, finally settling with him for the same amount, $16 million.
Trump’s response to Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation this week? “Great news for America.” Trump then added, “[T]hat leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers], two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC.”
What does Trump have against late-night comedians?
For as long as anyone can remember, they’ve been a source of jokes about those in power. In the wake of Kimmel’s firing, David Letterman, the longtime late-night host, said he’d routinely beat up on president after president over the years, and “not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency. Everyone sort of understood [it was] in the name of humor.”
But Trump hates to be the object of humor. Some deep part of his reptilian brain understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
Laughter doesn’t just entertain, it subverts. Humor undermines tyrannical power that relies on projecting an image of inevitability and invincibility, by making a tyrant appear weak and vulnerable. Check one against Trump.
Laughter also undermines fear, which is used by tyrants to maintain control. When the public laughs at a leader, his oppressive control weakens. Check two against Trump.
Finally, humor can remind people they’re not alone. When a joke is widely shared, it reveals that opposition is widespread, which can encourage and validate resistance. Check three against Trump.
At some level, Trump understands this.
It’s also true that Trump’s fragile ego can’t stand to be ridiculed.
Anyone who watched the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner got a glimpse of how much Trump hates being mocked. President Obama and Seth Meyers spent nearly five minutes roasting Trump over his promotion of the “birther” conspiracy theory. The audience roared. But Trump appeared to seethe. Some of his biographers have speculated that this event was a key factor in his decision to run for president in 2016.
Finally, Trump seems constitutionally unable to recognize humor.
Unlike John F. Kennedy, whose wit encouraged us to laugh with him, or Ronald Reagan, whose funny asides endeared him to many who disagreed with his politics, Trump is humorless.
He doesn’t laugh. He rarely smiles. He occasionally tells a humorous story at the expense of someone or some group he dislikes but he is incapable of self-deprecating humor.
We don’t laugh with Trump. We only laugh at him.
In 2018, during his speech at the United Nations, his claim that “in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country” drew loud guffaws from world leaders. (Taken aback, Trump responded, “Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay.”)
For all these reasons, Trump’s war on late-night comedians may be his undoing.
It’s one thing to declare war on crime or undocumented workers or even liberals. But everyone loves to laugh.
As Letterman said, “the institution of the President of the United States ought to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show, you know you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful [that they’ll get a laugh]. That’s just not how this works.”
Therefore let us practice the Four Primary Duties of a Citizen; Question Authority, Expose Authority, Mock Authority, and Challenge Authority.
When they come for one of us, as they always have and will, let them be met with all of us. And when they come for the jesters who speak truths inconvenient to power and authority, let us all become jesters and give our naked emperors no space of legitimacy or hold upon us.
As written by Oliver Holmes in The Guardian, in an article entitled For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades; “The exiled Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has experienced firsthand how intolerant governments can silence political satire. And he had a short message this week for those living in an age of Donald Trump’s free speech clampdown: “My Fellow American Citizens,” he wrote on X. “Welcome to my world.”
In his attacks on the most prominent of American satirists, the US president has joined a cadre of illiberal and sensitive leaders around the world who will not tolerate a joke.
The latest target of what critics say is a campaign to silence dissenting voices was Jimmy Kimmel, who had his late-night ABC talkshow suspended after government pressure. The removal, weeks after the rival network CBS cancelled Stephen Colbert’s satirical show, follows other Trump-led crackdowns on media and academia.
Political foes of the US president say the diminishing space for free speech shows Trump’s America is moving towards authoritarianism. Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking to MSNBC, said the country was on a path towards becoming more like oppressive regimes in Russia and Saudi Arabia. “This is just another step forward,” he said.
From Egypt’s military ruler, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, to India’s populist prime minister, Narendra Modi, the laughs often end for comedians as democracy dwindles.
One of the most famous global comedians to have his life turned upside down by his political satire is Youssef, who first found fame with a TV show panning the Egyptian regime.
Known as the “Egyptian Jon Stewart” in reference to the US talkshow host whom he was inspired by (and looks like), Youssef is a former heart surgeon who became a household name.
But his satire made him the target of two opposing governments. He was first arrested in April 2013, accused of insulting Islam and Egypt’s then president. Months later, when Sisi took power by force, Youssef had to cancel his show and flee the country.
Youssef has said his struggle was as much against Egypt’s cloying, conservative culture as its repressive leaders. “We didn’t have a space for satire in Egypt. We carved out our own space. We had to fight for it,” he said in a 2015 interview.
“And because there’s no platform, no space or infrastructure for that kind of satire to be accepted, we were basically pushed out … We are up against generations of people who don’t have this kind of mindset. That’s why it was an uphill battle for us.”
Comedians elsewhere have often found themselves caught up in nationalist fervour.
In India, which has a history of a lively and relatively free public discourse, critics of Modi argue space to criticise the policies of his rightwing nationalist government is shrinking.
Comedians and comedy venues have increasingly been caught in the crosshairs since the rise of his Hindu Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), which has ruled for more than a decade.
A Muslim comedian was detained by police for weeks in 2021 for allegedly vulgar jokes insulting Hindu gods – despite never having performed at the show. The comedian Vir Das faced a backlash later the same year and police reports filed by BJP officials after a monologue that dealt with the country’s contradictions on women’s rights and religion.
Police in Mumbai registered a criminal case against a comedian in 2017 over a tweet of a photo of Modi modified by Snapchat’s popular dog filter, giving him a canine nose and ears.
Similar cases have come out in Russia, including a standup of Azerbaijani origin and a citizen of Belarus, Idrak Mirzalizade, who was detained for 10 days and later banned from the country for a joke about open racism in Russia.
Comedy, it seems, can also be treated by some as a transnational crime.
The Turkish government asked for the prosecution of a German comedian in 2016 for performing a satirical poem about its president. In the late-night programme screened by the German state broadcaster ZDF, Jan Böhmermann sat in front of a Turkish flag beneath a small, framed portrait of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, reading out a poem that accused the president of repressing minorities and “kicking Kurds”.
Erdoğan’s lawyer Michael Hubertus von Sprenger wanted to enforce a complete ban on the poem, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor at the time, was widely criticised for appearing to give in to Ankara’s demands.
Böhmermann said at the time he felt Merkel had “filleted me [and] served me up for tea” to Erdoğan, and that she risked damaging freedom of speech in Germany. Charges brought against him were later dropped and he was given police protection.”
Who do we want to become, we humans; slaves and tyrants or a free society of equals? And how much of our humanity are we willing to trade for the chance of such futures?
What of ourselves can we not afford to lose, without also losing who we are? How much of our humanity can we claw back from the darkness in refusal to submit to those who would enslave us, and in solidarity with each other?
We must each of us face our own Gate of Fire, as did the Spartans at Thermopylae, and choose.
What are we worth, if we permit ruthless bandit kings to commit atrocities, plunder, and enslave others?
What is western civilization worth, if we will not live up to our fine words? And fine words they remain, such as these written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, a synthesis and revisioning of ideas from Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What is America, if not a guarantor of democracy and our universal human rights, and a beacon of hope to the world?
Let us reply with the words written by J.R.R. Tolkien between 1937 and 1955 in his luminous reimagination of the Second World War and the conflict of dominion which immediately followed it between tyranny and democracy, first against fascism and then between the allies who defeated it as spheres of dominion and systems of economic and political organization but both for different dreams of a free society of equals, in the iconic speech of Aragorn at the Black Gate in The Return of the King which unites ethos, logos, pathos, and kairos; “A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight.”
Join us.
How To Bring A Reckoning To Fascists
Inglourious Basterds
Picard, Star Trek First Contact
“The line must be drawn here, and I will make them pay for what they’ve done.”
Tombstone “I’m coming, and Hell’s coming with me.”
This Day We Fight: Aragorn’s Speech at the Black Gate
Lizzy and the Triggermen perform “When That Man Is Dead and Gone”, written by Irving Berlin in 1941 about Hitler.
Lizzy and the Triggermen FB page
https://www.facebook.com/lizzyandthetriggermen
News of the White House Press Corps Strike
Networks halt TV pool coverage of Trump after CNN White House ban – live
NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News, the four other networks that make up the White House TV pool, decided they would cease coverage in solidarity with banned CNN
The Washington press corps needs to boycott White House events
Margaret Sullivan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/21/white-house-press-corps-boycott
CNN, MS Now and Politico sue Trump after being blocked from White House
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/21/white-house-news-organization-ban-lawsuit
Trump bans CNN, MS Now and Politico from White House
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/trump-bans-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house
2025 News of Kimmel and Colbert
For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades
Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel sets US on course similar to that charted by authoritarian regimes from Egypt to India
Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert … who is the next to be silenced?
Moira Donegan
What does Donald Trump think free speech means? – podcast
Americans are ‘deer in the headlights’ in face of Trump assault on free speech, Maria Ressa tells Jon Stewart: Nobel prize winner says US institutions have collapsed much quicker than expected under the Trump administration
Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’: Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman criticize ABC’s parent company, Disney and FCC chief Brendan Carr
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/18/late-night-show-host-kimmel-cancel-colbert-letterman
Trump’s War on Late-Night Comedy, Robert Reich
Yanking Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a new low for free speech in America
Margaret Sullivan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/jimmy-kimmel-free-speech-trump
Free Speech, a retrospective of my writing
July 21 2022 Our Stories, Ourselves: On the Right of Free Speech in a Social Media Forum
December 16 2022 Hate Speech is Not Free Speech: the Case of Elon Musk’s Twitter
March 11 2025 Free Speech Versus State Sponsorship of Genocide and Repression of Dissent: Case of Mahmoud Khalil
May 3 2025 A Sacred Calling to Pursue the Truth: On World Press Freedom Day
December 11 2023 What is Hate Speech? What is Anti-Semitism? Who Decides What Is Permitted, and How Shall We Enforce Limits On Each Other’s Freedoms? Case of the Repression of Dissent By Universities Beholden to Special Interest Money
October 5 2024 60th Anniversary of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
March 15 2021 Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Use of Social Force: the Case of Dr. Seuss
February 24 2021 Echoes of the 1936-1939 Civil War in Barcelona: Free Speech and Independence Ignite a Revolt
February 26 2021 A Victory for Free Speech and Journalism as a Sacred Calling to Pursue the Truth: America Lays a Charge of Murder Against Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman in the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
August 16 2020 Democracy, the Right of Free Speech Versus the Crime of Hate Speech, and the Principle of Open Debate
June 25 2024 Victory For Journalism As A Sacred Calling In Pursuit of Truth: Julian Assange Free
August 12 2025 A Sacred Calling to Pursue the Truth: the Case of Salman Rushdie
November 25 2024 Witness of Jimmy Lai, Martyr For A Free Press, Democracy, and the Independence and Sovereignty of Hong Kong
April 12 2022 The Liberation of Russia From Tyranny and Truth Telling as a Sacred Calling: Last Words of Alla Gutnikova at the Trial of the DOXA Four
And as counterexamples, some hatemongers, fascist apologists, propagandists, and terrorists
February 18 2021 Death of a Monster: In Memory of Rush Limbaugh, Master Propagandist of Fascist Terror
March 5 2025 Trump Is An Illusion Made Of Lies, But How Is He Constructed and How Can He Be Unmade? Case of Trump’s Address to Congress
January 12 2025 Behold Der Erlkonig, The Troll King Elon Musk
December 12 2023 Elon Musk, Alex Jones, and the Apologetics of Fascist Power
April 28 2023 Tucker Carlson, Voice of the Fourth Reich and Nazi Ideology in the Era of Traitor Trump, Is Disavowed by Fox and Now Free to Run For the Presidency
July 23 2022 Let Us Purge Our Destroyers From Among Us: the Case of Steve Bannon
December 14 2019 Fox News, Roger Ailes, & a model for patriarchy as tyranny and terror
September 10 2025 A Reckoning Is Brought to Fascist Propagandist Charlie Kirk
September 15 2025 A Crack In the MAGA Wall of Hate: Ideological Fracture Between Turning Point Christian Identity Theocratic Patriarchal Sexual Terrorists and Groyper White Supremacist Terrorists Produces the Assassination of Charlie Kirk, and a Letter to New Resistance Fighters
Torch of Liberty 