Jimmy Kimmel is off the air. Good riddance. The vile and disgusting ABC late-night host used his Monday night monologue to make this comment about Charlie Kirk’s assassination: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” Yes, you read that correctly. And to make matters worse, Kimmel then proceeded to play a video mocking President Donald Trump and suggesting that he wasn’t grieving over Kirk’s death. Dear dishonest corporate media hobgoblins:Jimmy Kimmel did not make a “joke.”Jimmy Kimmel went on air and told the ABC audience that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a MAGA conservative, effectively blaming Charlie Kirk for his own assassination.Then he accusing the right of… pic.twitter.com/or7uP5i3AR— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 18, 2025 This is apparently the sad and pathetic state of late-night comedy in 2025. It’s no wonder Americans are turning off has-been comedians like Kimmel. They don’t find his crude jokes funny. And for that matter, neither does FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. It was Carr, in an appearance Wednesday on Benny Johnson’s show, who methodically explained that broadcasters operate by a different set of standards than others. Carr’s agency, the Federal Communications Commission, is responsible for regulating America’s airwaves. To obtain a broadcast license from the FCC, companies that own and operate ABC affiliates—like Nexstar and Sinclair—must do so in the public interest. Mere hours after Carr’s comments, both companies announced plans to preempt Kimmel’s late-night show Wednesday with other programming. ABC subsequently suspended production of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” indefinitely. Carr’s comments elicited the typical media meltdown we’ve come to expect. It just proved they’re out of touch with America—and, in this case, reality. Americans should be grateful to have a fearless leader like Carr at the FCC. He’s committed to holding companies accountable and unafraid to speak the truth. In this case, Kimmel’s conduct warranted a swift rebuke. He deliberately misled his viewers about Kirk’s killer, suggesting he was a MAGA conservative. It was too much for Nexstar and Sinclair. Both companies issued statements Wednesday condemning Kimmel’s comments. Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, said the company’s ABC affiliates would drop Kimmel in favor of other programming. “Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” Alford said. “Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.” Sinclair vice chairman Jason Smith went a step further, calling for the Kimmel to apologize to the Kirk family and make a personal donation to the Kirk family and Turning Point USA. “Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country,” Smith said. “We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, constructive dialogue in our communities. We appreciate FCC Chairman Carr’s remarks today and this incident highlights the critical need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks.” Sinclair is planning to air a TV special in remembrance of Kirk on Friday during Kimmel’s normal timeslot. It also called for ABC to commit to “professionalism and accountability.” That’s needed now more than ever. The changes sweeping the media landscape since President Donald Trump returned to the White House are vast and significant. They are a hopeful sign that the Left is losing culture war. Kimmel is just the latest left-wing demagogue to face consequences. Here are some of the other remarkable developments we’ve witnessed this year, as I outlined in my recent speech to the National Conservative Conference about this media counterrevolution. After years of hearing Republicans promise to defund PBS and NPR, it finally happened. The nearly 60-year-old Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funded with your tax dollars, announced it was shutting down. The long-troubled U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to support freedom and democracy throughout the world but instead undermined American values, is a shell of its former self. Stephen Colbert, another late-night host who spewed nothing but hatred for President Trump, will be without a job next year after CBS canceled his show and permanently ended “The Late Show.” CBS’ new parent company, Skydance, made several eye-catching promises in its bid to acquire CBS’ parent company Paramount. These were outlined in letters sent to Carr in July, promising CBS’ reporting would be “fair, unbiased, and fact-based,” it would feature viewpoints from “across the political and ideological spectrum,” and eliminate DEI initiatives. At MSNBC, Joy Reid lost her job and Rachel Maddow railed at her employer and then lost her staff to layoffs. Lester Holt announced his retirement as anchor of NBC Nightly News. Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran went on a social media rant about White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller then found himself fired by ABC News. He then turned around and accused the network of “failing the American people” for not attacking President Trump more vigorously. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said the editorial page would focus on personal liberties and free markets, prompting editor David Shipley to quit on the spot. The Post lost 75,000 subscribers over that change alone. A few months later, notorious Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler left the paper, along with dozens of other longtime employees. The Associated Press was barred from the Oval Office and Air Force One over its politicized stylebook and refusal to call the Gulf of America by its proper name. The Pentagon replaced NBC News, The New York Times, NPR, and Politico in its press corridor with the New York Post, Breitbart News, One America News, and HuffPost. Perhaps the most surprising news of all: ABC paid Trump $15 million to settle a defamation case, CBS paid him $16 million to settle a lawsuit over Kamala Harris’ heavily edited “60 Minutes” interview. To top it off, Trump this week announced a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times. Expect to hear cries of self-censorship, complaints of a “fascist takeover,” and comparisons to “Kremlin suppression.” But the truth is simpler: They’re losing their power, and they can’t stand it. Our counterrevolution needs more warriors like Brendan Carr. The stakes couldn’t be higher and now is our moment to act. The post ABC Dumps Jimmy Kimmel Over Sick Charlie Kirk Joke appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will designate Antifa, a loose coalition of activist groups that has engaged in violent riots across the country in recent years, a terrorist organization. “I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” the president posted on Truth Social. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices,” Trump added. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” “Left-wing organizations have fueled violent riots, organized attacks against law enforcement officers, coordinated illegal doxing campaigns, arranged drop points for weapons and riot materials, and more,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “The Trump administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities,” she added. “This effort will target those committing criminal acts and hold them accountable.” While protests in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement occasionally grew into violent riots before 2020, the riots that followed protests in the name of George Floyd that summer set a horrifying record for violent destruction. Property Claim Services reported in 2021 that the protests between May 28 and June 8, 2020, resulted in more than $2 billion in insurance payouts, the largest “riot and civil disorder catastrophe” on record. At least 26 Americans lost their lives in the riots, including black people like 77-year-old retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn. According to the State Department, under Executive Order 13224, which President George W. Bush signed after Sept. 11, 2001, the designation of an organization as a terrorist organization leads to many immediate consequences. Federal law enforcement will have the ability to block the designated organization’s access to property or ability to conduct transactions, and the legal system will deter donations or contributions to such organizations. The designation will draw public attention to the group, and will alert other governments to American concerns about support for terrorism, among other things. The post Trump Announces Major Action to Curb Antifa appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Sen. John Cornyn pressed a former Department of Health and Human Services official on why the department failed to vet all members of a household before placing an unaccompanied alien child in that home.   “Senator, first of all, many of the allegations about improper vetting … actually occurred before I got to HHS,” Mary Giovagnoli, former ombudsman for unaccompanied children at the HHS, told Cornyn at a Senate committee hearing.   “I’m talking about on your watch,” the Texas Republican interjected. “Did you see children placed with sponsors in households where the other members of the household were unvetted?”  “Sir, my job was to receive reports from all stakeholders, and investigate those reports,” she said, adding that she was not involved in the vetting. Giovagnoli lost her job at HHS earlier this year during the Trump administration’s reduction of the federal workforce.  “Well,” Cornyn said, “don’t you think it would be a good idea to vet the other members of the household to see if maybe, let’s say, one of them is not a sex offender?”   Vetting of sponsors has improved, Giovagnoli responded, contending that calling the home where a child is placed and receiving no answer is only one data point and not cause for immediate concern.   Calling the home of a sponsor and receiving no answer means “you don’t know about the welfare of that child,” Cornyn.  “No, it doesn’t, not at all,” Giovagnoli shot back, adding that the child welfare system would place multiple calls.   “So, you think losing … ” Cornyn began before Giovagnoli interrupted him and said children in homes where sponsors do not answer the phone are not lost.   “How do you know what’s happened to them? Nobody’s answering the phone,” the senator asked.   Rep. Cornyn Exposes Witness' Disregard for Child Safety in Favor of Illegal Aliens@JohnCornyn confronted Former Ombuds for Unaccompanied Children at the Department of Health and Human Services Mary E. Giovagnoli for failing to verify that sponsors in households where children… pic.twitter.com/cjn5wjUJCl— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) September 17, 2025 The terse exchanges came Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing, “Another Biden Blunder: Missing Unaccompanied Alien Children and Criminal Sponsors.”   Between fiscal years 2019 and 2023, more than 448,000 unaccompanied alien children were transferred from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody to the custody of HHS. Most of those children were placed in the care of a sponsor.   Among the 448,000 minors to enter the U.S. in recent years, ICE failed to issue more than 233,000 notices to appear in immigration court and more than 43,000 migrant children who were given a notice to appear in immigration court failed to do so, Joseph Cuffari, DHS inspector general, told members of Congress in July.   The vetting of sponsors applying to host unaccompanied alien children has been “abysmal” in recent years, according to Chris Clem, a retired chief patrol agent at the U.S. Border Patrol in Yuma, Ariz.  Clem, also a former senior adviser to HHS, says he recalls an instance in which a home visit was conducted of a potential sponsor for an unaccompanied migrant child. The woman was found to have a gang affiliation, and the home was determined a “general unsafe environment,” but the decision was overruled, and a 17-year-old migrant child was placed with the woman.  The minor was “found dead a few months later with his pants down with an adult male who was unconscious in the back seat of a car,” Clem said.  In another instance, he said, a 14-year-old migrant child was placed in the care of a 30-year-old male who claimed to be the girl’s brother, but no verification was done to ensure a family connection. The girl was raped, according to Clem, and became pregnant.   President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice “refused to prosecute the case, but fortunately, the state of Ohio detained this individual,” Clem said. “The current Department of Justice filed federal charges and received an indictment by the grand jury,” he added.   Biden Administration Let More Than 479K Unaccompanied Children Into US, Many Faced Sexual ExploitationRetired Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem reported that many children who crossed the border were exposed to violence and sexual exploitation by their sponsors, recalling the case… pic.twitter.com/m8dwCXHnyL— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) September 17, 2025 Ali Hopper, president and co-founder of the organization GUARD Against Trafficking, told members of Congress during the hearing that her research of the crisis along the southern border “exposed an assembly line of exploitation.”   In recent years, “children moved through cartel-controlled routes carrying slips of paper naming the sponsors they were instructed to request. We saw those slips ourselves,” Hopper said. “Border Patrol processed them, HHS released them, [nongovernmental organizations] received them, government contractors transported them, step by step,” she said.  ALI HOPPER: 'Children Were Sent To Addresses Later Discovered To Be Sex Clubs'At the Senate Judiciary hearing, @ali_hopper reported that under the Biden administration, thousands of unaccompanied children were allegedly handed to cartel-controlled sponsors and to registered sex… pic.twitter.com/Go8Y057eCO— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) September 17, 2025 Many of the children who entered the U.S. alone during the Biden administration remain missing, but the Trump administration is working to find them and has already located more than 13,000.   The post Cornyn Grills Ex-HHS Official on Failures in Vetting Sponsors for Unaccompanied Alien Children  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Sen. James Lankford says he will be reintroducing legislation Thursday to protect religious student organizations on campus from being discriminated against because of their religious beliefs, practices, or standards for leadership.  “Freedom of religion, speech, and association are constitutionally protected rights in every place in America, including America’s campuses,” Lankford, R-Okla., told The Daily Signal. Lankford is a longtime advocate for religious freedom on America’s college campuses, having urged the Biden administration to uphold Trump-era religious liberty protections in a public comment with several other senators and in a letter to then-Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. “This bill makes clear that public colleges must grant religious student organizations the same rights as every other student group. At a time when our nation needs hope and unity, the ability to exercise your faith must be protected, not cast aside,” the Oklahoma senator said of the legislation, initially introduced in March 2023. Lankford’s legislation, the Equal Campus Access Act of 2025, would prevent federal funding that is allocated under the Higher Education Act of 1965 from being awarded to any public institution of higher education that denies to a religious student organization any right or benefit it gives to other student groups because of the religious student organization’s religious beliefs, practices, or standards for leadership.  Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is also set to speak on the legislation tomorrow with 24 senators co-sponsoring the bill. The legislation also will be introduced in the House of Representatives, where Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Education Committee, is its sponsor.  “All too frequently, we hear about instances of students’ free speech and free association being restricted on college campuses, especially due to their religious beliefs,” Walberg told The Daily Signal. “While the Trump administration and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to protecting student liberties on campuses, we’ve seen other administrations try to undermine the foundational principle of academic freedom and the right to religious expression. Our legislation will ensure that future administrations cannot erode religious freedom and ideological diversity on college campuses,” the Michigan congressman said.  The legislation has been endorsed by 50 representatives of major religious organizations across the denominational and sectarian spectrum in the United States. That list includes Nathan Diament, the executive director of public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America; Basharat Saleem, the executive director at the Islamic Society of North America; Donna M. Carroll, the president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities; and Galen Carey, the vice president of government relations at the National Association of Evangelicals.  Most of the religious leaders also signed a letter supporting the bill, which stated in part, “Faith-based student organizations should not face discrimination on college campuses  solely because they require their leaders to agree with their core religious beliefs. Basic religious freedom—and common sense—require that a religious group be permitted to require that its leaders agree with its religious message and mission. Unfortunately, on too  many college campuses, religious student organizations are denied this essential freedom.” The bill has also been endorsed by Alliance Defending Freedom, which is known for its legal defense of religious liberty.  The introduction of the legislation comes in the aftermath of the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, who was killed by a gunman Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. Kirk was a free speech activist known for standing up for Christian principles in the public square. The post EXCLUSIVE: Oklahoma Senator Reintroduces Bill Protecting Religious Groups on Campus appeared first on The Daily Signal.

This is a preview of this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.” Watch Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with BlazeTV host and author Steve Deace on The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel. Episode premieres on Sept. 18 at 6:30 a.m. eastern time. Last week, the conservative movement lost “the best of us.” Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10 for his conservative values and martyred for his unyielding faith in Jesus Christ, two things that made Charlie “the brightest light that we had,” says Steve Deace, a BlazeTV host and a personal friend of the Turning Point USA founder. Deace gives a special tribute to Charlie, who I got to know at a Turning Point event and later his visits to my college campus, on this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.” Deace’s response to his friend’s death is raw, searing, and real. Charlie, Deace said, was “a true Renaissance man.” “A lot of people that have a vast giftedness become jack-of-all-trades master-of-none types where they’re just pretty good at a lot of things,” Deace explained. But “Charlie could could be an ace broker behind the scenes of political deals and alliances” and “Charlie could be one of the great evangelists and apologists of the era at the same time.” Their friendship had deepened in recent years as the Turning Point USA founder worked to bring the gospel to college campuses all across the country. Deace told The Daily Signal that “there was no difference from him publicly or privately.” “I had a chance in the last few months to have a few sit-down private dinners with Charlie,” Deace continued. “He was aware of the influence and power that he had, but it was in a self-aware way. It was not in a narcissistic way.” “What does the word ‘meek’ mean? When the Lord says, ‘The meek shall inherit the earth,’ what does that mean?” Deace asked rhetorically. “Because he didn’t say ‘weak,’ he said, ‘meek.’ Meek is power under control. In many respects, that was what we saw of Charlie Kirk.” Because Charlie was such a bright light, “the enemy wanted to take him out,” Deace said.  Charlie’s death has left a hole in the hearts of millions all over the world. It leaves an even larger hole in the conservative movement.  In many ways, that “void is impossible to fill,” Deace said. “It’s going to take a movement now that picks up the pieces of what happened to him.” To honor Charlie’s memory, it’s time for conservatives to “get more aggressive,” Deace continued. “We need to mourn, and it’s okay to mourn,” he said. “Frankly, his legacy demands that we do. And then, when we’re done, we clean off our faces, we wipe the last bit of tears from our eyes and snot from our nose, and we get up, and we get back on offense.” The post Steve Deace: Charlie Kirk Was ‘the Best of Us’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.