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Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman blasted his party for playing up their outrage over talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension on Thursday, arguing Democrats should be instead focused on preventing the “chaos” a government shutdown would unleash across the country. Up against a Sept. 31 deadline to fund the government, Democrats spent Thursday railing against Kimmel’s […]

News The Batman: Part II The Batman: Part II Villain Tease Sparks Speculation About Hush, Court of Owls, and More But seriously, it’d be cool if it was Hush. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 18, 2025 Credit: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. The Batman: Part II is now officially moving into production, with filming set to start in April or early May 2026, according to director Matt Reeves. Reeves, who wrote the script for the sequel with Mattson Tomlin, also shared a teaser for who the villain might be when talking on the Emmys red carpet with Josh Horowitz of Happy Sad Confused.  Reeves shared that, for his Batman movies, he wanted to push “even further into the character of Bruce Wayne because the first story is so much about The Batman.”  He added, “I always wanted the movies to be focused on his character… I never wanted to lose [Robert Pattinson, who plays Bruce Wayne] as the center of these stories and so that is what we set our aim on—so picking the villain that digs into what that does, that goes into his past and his life—that was what drove that discussion.”  If that wasn’t enough to intrigue fans, he also said that what we’ll see in The Batman: Part II has “never really been done in a movie before.” The rogues gallery is vast, but there are a few villains that could fit the description Reeves laid out. The most direct, perhaps, is Hush. Hush, aka Tommy Elliot, was childhood friends with Bruce. Unlike Bruce, however, he is a sociopath who tried and failed to murder his parents for money and, once he and Bruce were grown-ups, he concocts a revenge scheme on Bruce because he blames Bruce’s father for saving his parents’ lives and thus ruining his moneymaking endeavor.  Hush is far from the only candidate, of course. Reactor’s Slack was abuzz with other possibilities, including the criminal syndicate The Court of Owls, which has been around since Gotham’s founding, as well as Hugo Strange and Red Hood. Other names that popped up include Scarface, Calendar Man, Mad Hatter, and Man Bat (you never know!).  The possibilities are many, and the speculating is fun while we wait for more news on the sequel, including who will eventually be cast as said villain. [end-mark] The post <i>The Batman: Part II</i> Villain Tease Sparks Speculation About Hush, Court of Owls, and More appeared first on Reactor.

The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok temporarily banned an independent news outlet after flagging two videos in which lawmakers pay tribute to Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination. TikTok flagged two videos from Off The Press, an independent news brand “for Americans who feel the mainstream media ignores the stories they care about most,” as violating “Community Guidelines.” TikTok later told Off The Press that its account—which had nearly 40,000 followers—had been permanently banned. The social media platform restored the account Wednesday, but flagged a third video, leaving Off The Press vulnerable to another ban. “As social media platforms emerge as the dominant source of news for Americans, it is absolutely critical that moderation is conducted fairly and reasonably,” Off The Press Managing Editor Julian Baron told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “What we’ve seen from TikTok is arbitrary takedowns of important news content, specifically videos of lawmakers making remarks on Capitol Hill. That cannot be the norm.” “This sends a chilling message about how much control social media companies have over our public discourse and how easily it can be mismanaged or abused,” he added. Violating TikTok ‘Community Guidelines’ TikTok flagged an Off The Press video featuring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., urging the House of Representatives to pray in response to news that Kirk, who founded the conservative youth grassroots organization Turning Point USA, had been shot last week. Off The Press posted the video last Wednesday and appealed TikTok’s adverse decision on Friday, and the social media platform rejected the appeal about a half-hour later. Off The Press Screenshot TikTok also flagged a video featuring Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., saying he is sending thoughts to Kirk’s family. The company said the news outlet’s post violated its “Community Guidelines.” Off The Press Screenshot On Saturday, TikTok banned the news outlet’s account. Off The Press Screenshot After The Daily Caller and The Daily Signal reached out to TikTok for comment, the social media company restored the account, but it flagged as “ineligible for recommendation” a video of Melania Trump, the first lady, responding to Kirk’s death. Screenshot TikTok did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about how these posts may have violated its “Community Guidelines.” The guidelines encourage “Safety and Civility,” stating, “We don’t allow threats, encouragement or glorification of violence, promotion of crime, or instructions on how to commit harmful acts.” The guidelines also forbid “content that promotes hate or attacks people based on protected attributes like race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.” Nothing in the guidelines suggests videos of lawmakers’ responses of sympathy and prayer after a shooting would violate them. Americans ‘Deserve to Know’ “Americans deserve to know exactly what their elected lawmakers are saying—unfiltered and without bias,” Baron told The Daily Signal. “That’s what we strive to provide at Off The Press. Any roadblocks in accomplishing that mission, especially from social media companies, are a threat to the free and fair flow of information.” “The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk was a moment of national mourning and fear,” Baron added. “At times like this, the public seeks guidance and leadership from their elected officials. There is nothing controversial about connecting Americans with their lawmakers, especially during instances of national tragedy.” Questions About TikTok “TikTok is a weapon of the Chinese Communist Party,” Wes Hodges, acting director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Technology and the Human Person, told Politico this week. ByteDance, the social media platform’s parent company, operates out of Beijing, and under Chinese law, all China-based companies must make data available to the Chinese Communist Party. Last year, Congress passed a law banning TikTok if it did not divest from ByteDance within nine months. In January, the Supreme Court upheld the law and affirmed that TikTok must divest from ByteDance or face expulsion from American mobile application stores.   Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has signed multiple executive orders extending the deadline for the U.S. TikTok ban, signing the latest extension on Tuesday.  Once critical of the platform, Trump now claims it is important for his younger supporters. The White House joined the platform last month. TikTok did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time. The post ‘CHILLING’: TikTok Bans Independent News Outlet Over Lawmaker Speeches About Charlie Kirk appeared first on The Daily Signal.

As Congress faces an end-of-September deadline to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown, Democrats are making big demands on health care—including undoing Medicaid reforms and extending COVID-era tax credits. Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet, D-Mich., joined fellow Democrats at a press conference Thursday in demanding an extension of expiring health care premium tax credits instituted under then-President Joe Biden. “We are standing at a precipice, where almost 20 million people across this country are about to lose a health care tax cut,” said Rivet. “I have authored a letter where we saw 36 Democratic battleground members sign on, calling on leadership and calling on Republicans to join us in reinstating the [Affordable Care Act] tax credit.” Those enhanced tax credits have emerged as a main issue for Democrats, many of whom are seeking to use their shutdown leverage to force Republicans to extend them before they expire at the end of the year. The credits were introduced during Biden’s administration under the American Rescue Plan Act to subsidize the cost of health care premiums as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and then were further extended, and set to expire at the end of 2025 by Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act—which no Republican voted for. The Democrat legislation expanded the reach of the health care tax credit to higher earners, while also boosting the savings it provided. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., while not ruling out an extension, has signaled he’s not a fan of the policy and doesn’t feel a need to address it in the seven-week stopgap funding bill he is pushing to keep the government open. A shutdown could lead to federal employees not being paid and federal government services being cut off. “They don’t expire until the end of the year, and so we have until December to figure that all out,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday. “Republicans have concerns about those policies, if you look at how much they’ve been abused … . People make $600,000 a year and get a government subsidy for their health care.” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) The Daily Signal asked McDonald Rivet if she thought Democrats should demand an extension be added to the seven-week spending bill, and what she thought of Johnson saying that discussion can wait. “It’s easy to say that the discussion can wait when you’re not worried about paying your premium payments, but people are going to get these bills now,” she told The Daily Signal.  “What’s important is that we stand with the American people, and we fix this right now,” she continued, saying that the extension cannot “get caught in the various morass of what’s happening in Congress—processes, by the way, that most American families don’t know anything about … . We just have to move. The rest of it is just political mumbo-jumbo that we hear out of Congress.” A reporter then asked a colleague, Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., if Democrats would shut down the government over the issue. Democrats have shutdown leverage in the Senate, where Republicans would need at least seven votes from their caucus to bring a spending bill to a vote. “That’s the Republicans’ choice,” Horsford replied. “They control the House, the Senate, and the White House. They have the power, but they also have the choice, and it’s because of the cuts to health care that we are facing this dire situation with a potential Republican shutdown.” But it appears that even if Democrats had their demands on the extension fulfilled by Republicans, that would not guarantee that the government remains open—perhaps a primary reason why Republican leadership is not so eager to attempt a deal on the matter. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev. (Jemal Countess via Getty Images) Horsford, pressed further by reporters on whether resolving that issue would avert a shutdown, laid out a laundry list of additional health care grievances. “On top of the premium tax credits, you’ve got the cuts to Medicaid, you’ve got the cuts to cancer research, you’ve got the cuts to [the National Institutes of Health], you’ve got the defunding of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” he said. “You’ve got the dismantling of community health centers and rural hospitals, like the ones that I represent—two in Nevada—that could close. So, it’s not about one piece.” If Democrats do get a deal on the tax credit, it would be to the chagrin of many fiscal conservatives. “Look, the bottom line is that if the Democrats wanted them to last forever. They should have put that in the bill,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., previously told The Daily Signal. “COVID is over. The Democrats’ law is going to expire, and I think it should expire. It’s too expensive to renew.” The post Dems Have Big Health Care Demands in Budget Battle, But Will GOP Accede? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In the wake of ABC suspending late night host Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday evening, NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert kicked off On Balance by calling out the “liberal elites” acting like “drunks” who’s “drug of choice is Trump hatred.” He also took a victory lap for the responsible management of Nexstar in blocking Kimmel’s show. Vittert popped a whole in the liberal media’s swiftly cobbled together narrative that Kimmel was fired for telling jokes. He pointed out that Kimmel wasn’t doing a bit, instead lying to his ABC audience about Charlie Kirk’s assassin being part of the “MAGA gang”: VITTERT: It comes after Kimmel went out of his way to suggest the suspect in Charlie Kirk's murder was actually part of MAGA. [Cuts to video] KIMMEL: We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.     “What Kimmel said wasn't controversial. It was just plain wrong. It's the drunk who grabs a bottle and takes another swig to prove to you that they don't have a problem,” Vittert chided, with an analogy he would return to. “Kimmel embodied the liberal elite of America. And what you saw in that clip fully display the liberal elite of America and their drunken-like he training of Donald Trump and Trump's followers.” Vittert poured another round for his “drunks” analogy by calling attention to how Kimmel and the other liberal elites (including the liberal media) couldn’t get enough of hating Trump and his supporters, which was why they thought Kimmel’s lies were jokes: Drunks famously say they don't have a problem. They play the victim and they blame everyone else. Everyone has somebody like this in their lives. So now replace what I just said with Democrats. Their drug of choice is Trump hatred. And that kind of explains America today because Democrats – and not all but the liberal elite of America, the Jimmy Kimmel's, refused to admit they have a problem. Despite the fact “[p]rosecutors say they know who did it and why” and how the evidence “is clear, convincing, and undisputed,” “it feels like almost half of America and most of the media refused to admit,” Vittert lamented. He then played a clip of washed up day-time TV host Montel Williams falsely claiming Kirk’s assassination was a “crime of passion,” as Vittert paraphrased. “Montel is entitled to his opinion. He is not entitled to his own facts,” he scolded. “For example, and we know this, two of the shell casings referenced fascists. ‘Hey, fascist’ was written on one. That's a label we hear often given to Trump and his supporters.” He also called out Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman (NY) for returning to the stochastic terrorism America had been condemning for leading to Kirk’s murder: VITTERT: Even in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, members of Congress are still painting Republicans and their supporters as Nazis and fascists. The latest comparison comes today from New York Congressman Dan Goldman. [Cuts to video] GOLDMAN: This is the authoritarian playbook. And then it gets worse because he's politicizing and weaponizing the Department of Justice as his own personal revenge and retribution arm. That is how our democracy gets degraded. And ultimately his goal is very clearly to take it over as his own authoritarian rule. [Cuts back to live] VITTERT: Goldman said that today after everybody had already said we need to turn down the temperature. Before going to his first guest, Vittert stated that the current wave of political violence is “coming from the left” and that “[t]he liberal elite are drunk hating on Trump. It is a drug of tight for them. And for the first time now they have been made to pay a real price.” He also commended NewsNation’s parent company for deciding to pull Kimmel’s show from their network of ABC affiliates: Our parent company Nexstar announced this afternoon that it would not carry his show on our ABC affiliated stations for the foreseeable future. After Nexstar made the announcement, the ABC network pulled Kimmel off the air completely. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: NewsNation’s On Balance September 17, 2025 9:00:35 p.m. Eastern LELAND VITTERT: I think it is now fair to say the breaking news, things in America are changing rapidly and we start with the news from ABC, not ABC News, but the network says they are suspending Jimmy Kimmel, he's the late night host. It comes after Kimmel went out of his way to suggest the suspect in Charlie Kirk's murder was actually part of MAGA. [Cuts to video] JIMMY KIMMEL: We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them. [Cuts back to live] VITTERT: What Kimmel said wasn't controversial. It was just plain wrong. It's the drunk who grabs a bottle and takes another swig to prove to you that they don't have a problem. Our parent company Nexstar announced this afternoon that it would not carry his show on our ABC affiliated stations for the foreseeable future. After Nexstar made the announcement, the ABC network pulled Kimmel off the air completely. Kimmel embodied the liberal elite of America. And what you saw in that clip fully display the liberal elite of America and their drunken-like he training of Donald Trump and Trump's followers. We have Trump ally Benny Johnson on what sobriety might look like in America. Also this hour, General Mark Kimmit tells us if the west is ready for a drone war in Russia. Hint: We're not. Congressman Jason Smith on the dangers of Republicans ignoring the economic pain. Plus NewsNation's Brian Entin with an exclusive look inside the collapse of Hollywood. Our last story is closely related to our first one. And here it goes. Drunks famously say they don't have a problem. They play the victim and they blame everyone else. Everyone has somebody like this in their lives. So now replace what I just said with Democrats. Their drug of choice is Trump hatred. And that kind of explains America today because Democrats – and not all but the liberal elite of America, the Jimmy Kimmel's, refused to admit they have a problem. And that's our Why It Matters segment tonight. A week ago. Hard to imagine it's been a week. Charlie Kirk was murdered. Prosecutors say they know who did it and why. They have shown us the evidence. It is clear, convincing, and undisputed. Yet, it feels like almost half of America and most of the media refused to admit. For example, Montel Williams told CNN's highest-rated show the assassination was a crime of passion. [Cuts to video] MONTEL WILLIAMS: I don't believe he was motivated politically. I think this is motivated emotionally. I think this was a emotionally stunted person who literally – I’m going to say it this way, just hear me” tried to defend his significant other, not trying to defend some ideology. [Cuts back to live] VITTERT: Montel is entitled to his opinion. He is not entitled to his own facts. For example, and we know this, two of the shell casings referenced fascists. “Hey, fascist” was written on one. That's a label we hear often given to Trump and his supporters. Even in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, members of Congress are still painting Republicans and their supporters as Nazis and fascists. The latest comparison comes today from New York Congressman Dan Goldman. [Cuts to video] REP. DAN GOLDMAN (D-NY): This is the authoritarian playbook. And then it gets worse because he's politicizing and weaponizing the Department of Justice as his own personal revenge and retribution arm. That is how our democracy gets degraded. And ultimately his goal is very clearly to take it over as his own authoritarian rule. [Cuts back to live] VITTERT: Goldman said that today after everybody had already said we need to turn down the temperature. You, our viewers, are fair-minded people. And I've heard from a lot of you, rightly so. The political violence has also come from the right. And that is true. We deal with issues here fairly. That's what makes us different. But the political violence from the right was in the past. We deal with the present. And right now the attacks are coming from the left. They are inspired by the left. The liberal elite are drunk hating on Trump. It is a drug of tight for them. And for the first time now they have been made to pay a real price. (…)

The college campus is “the least diverse place in America” – a place where it’s dangerous to express different points of view – slain conservative Charlie Kirk once warned in a video he hosted for PragerU. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on September 10 of this year while speaking at Utah Valley University. Today, while they’ve obsessed over and achieved many types of diversity (race, sex, gender, etc.), college campus across the U.S. have virtually eliminated the freedom to express differing points of view, Kirk explains in his five-minute video: “At most colleges today, that’s a dangerous, revolutionary idea – if that different point of view is not on the left.” … “College is a place where they want everyone to look different, but think exactly the same. It’s like a freaking cult.” “And God forbid if a conservative speaker should show up on campus” and praise America’s virtues, Kirk says. If conservative ideas didn’t have merit, there’d be no need to protest and forbid them, because they’d just die out on their own, Kirk notes. What’s more, obsession with diversity can actually prevent a person from obtaining education, Kirk explains: “If you don’t study Shakespeare because he was a white male, you have been deprived of learning from the most brilliant playwright who ever lived.” “At some point you have to stand up, separate yourself from the crowd, and say, ‘Enough!,’” Kirk concludes, issuing a call to action: “It’s time to diversify thought on campus. It’s time to demand a real education. God knows, you’re paying for it.”