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Books Heated Rivalry SFF Reading Recommendations for the Characters of Heated Rivalry We’ve got romantasies, queer fairy tales, feminist adventures, and more! By Alex Brown | Published on February 3, 2026 Image courtesy of HBO Max/Crave Comment 0 Share New Share Image courtesy of HBO Max/Crave You can tell what shows I’m obsessed with when I start thinking about book recommendations. Midway through my third re-watch of Heated Rivalry, a reading list began forming in the back of my mind. Consider this book list as me putting on my librarian hat, stretching out my reader’s advisory skills, and sitting down with the characters who have been living rent free in my brain since November 28, 2025. If these people walked into my library today and asked me what they should check out, these are the science fiction, fantasy, and horror titles I’d hand them. Shane Hollander should read… Photo credit: HBO Max Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee Shane has a lot on his plate. He’s secretly gay in a notoriously homophobic environment. He’s biracial Japanese and white in a predominately white country and in a predominately white sport. He’s undiagnosed neurodivergent and masking all the time. He manages a ton of expectations from all corners, including those of his adorable yet prickly boyfriend. The show—and, to a greater extent, the book—doesn’t do as much as it could with his racial background, so I want to give him something with an Asian main character (Japanese Canadians are unfortunately few and far between in speculative fiction). I want to give him a story that covers familial pressure, overachiever burnout, and choosing your own path. And I want to give him something cozy and with an HEA so he has something calming and joyfully queer. Hence this young adult fantasy romance. Brenda and Kat live in alternate versions of Los Angeles, one with magic and one without. A chance encounter leads to a new relationship, not to mention dragon-sized cats, a life-threatening prophecy, and college apps.  Ilya Rozanov should read… Photo credit: HBO Max The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch I think some folks would be tempted to give Ilya something tough or action-packed, but we all know Ilya is a secret cinnamon roll. He keeps his sweetness under wraps, but when he pulls himself up out of the water and begs Shane for a kiss, yeah, this is a guy who would totally read a romance novel. He probably wouldn’t tell anyone about it, and Shane would find lying around his house and assume it was something Svetlana left behind, but all the pages with sex scenes would be dogeared. The other reason I want to give this to Ilya is because, well, it’s about rivalry. Sebastian and Thio are grad students at a magical university forced to work together on a project. They initially seem to hate each other, but heat simmers under all that tension. Like Ilya, both main characters grapple with troubled relationships with their parents. Familial expectations set off ripple effects that push Thio and Sebastian together and pull them apart. It’s also fun and sexy enough to balance out the emotions I think this will trigger in him. Scott Hunter should read… Photo credit: HBO Max Dead & Breakfast by Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor Scott needs a book that will keep his attention but also not be overly serious or too intense. Despite his grand and very public gesture in episode 5, his story isn’t really about coming out. Rather, it’s about living the life he deserves. He wants to have hockey and Kip, not one or the other, and figuring out if and how to do that is what drives his storyline. (It also directly influences Ilya and Shane’s story; they don’t go to the cottage without Scott making his move first.) Scott should get a book where he can see two queer men in love and living the life they want together, open and happy and free. Thor and Hillis’ love interests are married couple Arthur and Sal. They run a failing B&B in a small Oregon town… and they’re also vampires. When a body turns up in their front yard, the men must untangle the mystery before anyone else dies. Dead & Breakfast isn’t free of bigotry, but readers also know this is a cozy fantasy rooted in kindness and compassion. Whatever else is threatening Arthur and Sal, we know their relationship is strong enough to last. That’s something Scott needs to hear. Kip Grady should read… Photo credit: HBO Max The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane I don’t want to give Kip anything too sugary. He seems like the kind of guy who would be interested in something thoughtful and exploratory. The Story of the Hundred Promises is, on the surface, a trans retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Darragh, a trans sailor, sets out to find the missing enchanter. Years ago, the mage helped him transition, and how Darragh wants em to help his ailing father. Darragh’s quest would resonate with Kip, not for the details of it but the overarching themes of not letting anything stop him from being his true self and giving space for those who cause harm to put in the restitution work. Kip is out and proud, he has family and friends who support him no matter what, and goals for the future. He knows what he wants and is willing to put in the work to get it. I also think he’d dig Cochrane’s beautiful narrative style and the quiet romance. I’m sure he’s never read anything like this before. Rose Landry should read… Photo credit: HBO Max Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi  This adult romantasy is fun, wild, and sexy. Galilee Kincaid gets caught up in a tug-of-war between angels of Heaven and demons of Hell. Her adventures pull her into the bed of Lucifer, but he’s not the only fallen man who desires her. In order to explain this rec, I have to spoil the story a bit. If you like love triangles where instead of choosing between two men, the woman decides “Why not both?” then this is for you. I don’t think Rose would actually want to be in the middle of a Hollanov sandwich—and Shane and Ilya definitely don’t want that either—but I think she’d get a kick out of the rec. It’s got enough sharp edges to hook her in and enough heat to keep her entertained. She’s a woman who knows what she wants and is growing in power. She’d enjoy reading a story about a woman who comes into her strength while also getting the romance of a lifetime. Svetlana should read… Photo credit: HBO Max The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar The River Has Roots is a gorgeous, lyrical book that tells the story of two sisters, one who is murdered and the other who tries to save her. I think Svetlana would resonate with Esther and Ysabel’s feminist adventures and battles with the patriarchy. Svetlana comes from a hockey background and is also a biracial Black Russian woman. She’s had to fight for her place in male-dominated worlds more than Ilya realizes. The magical beings they encounter as the story unfolds offer both hope and retribution. It’s not men who save the day but the sisters. They find power in telling their own stories instead of letting others dictate it for them. Hayden Pike should read… Photo credit: HBO Max The Others by Jared Poon Hayden is a guy who could use more fun in his life. At home, he’s all dad all the time. At work, he’s Mister Hockey Man. In between that he seems to do little else but hang out in his hotel room and call Shane at inopportune moments. Fun is the name of the game in this Singaporean urban fantasy. There are magical beasties, scheming gods, and office shenanigans. Like hockey, working for DEUS is a team effort, something Ben Toh, our protagonist, learns the hard way. Hayden might be a secondary character in the TV show, but here he could see how everyone has a role to play. This is also the kind of book he could binge or pick up and put down, depending on the chaos level of his children. It’s a wild ride that starts with its foot on the gas and only accelerates from there. Elena Rygg should read… Photo credit: HBO Max Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan Now, I know Elena isn’t evil, but she is bold, strong-willed, and outspoken in a world that doesn’t usually appreciate that in women. In romance stories, women of color are often cast as the brazen, sassy sidekick to one of the love interests, usually a white person. In MM romance, it’s not uncommon for the woman sidekick to be saddled with a shitty man for a partner, in love with one of the men, or playing the part of the tragic harlot, innocent sister, or secret bigot. Her whole life revolves around one of both of the love interests. Elena, on the other hand, says “fuck you” to anyone trying to reduce her down to a sidekick. She has her own life and lives it to the fullest. Kip and Scott are a part of that life but not the whole of it. I’m giving her a book about a woman who is cast in a role she doesn’t expect and makes it her own. Rae may not have thought of herself as a villain, but she’s going to have so much fun with it. She and Elena are more than the roles they play. Maria should read… Photo credit: HBO Max Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri Maria is a hard cookie to rec for, largely because on the TV show she does end up mostly playing the part of Kip’s sidekick. We also don’t know that much about her. (Her role in the book is bigger, and I hope we’ll see more of that in season 2.) So, taking both the show and the book into consideration, I want to give her something dramatic, narratively compelling, romantic, and sprawling. Suri’s reimagining of British history and mythology would give her a lot to chew on. We don’t know Maria’s ethnic/racial background—in the book her last name is Villanueva, however, the actress who plays her, Bianca Nugara, is Sri Lankan—but as a woman of color in Canada she’s definitely experiencing the ripple effects of colonization. I’m sure she could relate to living in a country who tells stories to itself about its great and noble history while also ignoring the blood of the oppressed, exploited, and colonized soaking the pages of its history. Maria seems like she’d be obsessed with the timeless romance between Simran and Vina, the witch and the knight falling in love and dying in each other’s arms over and over again, and would text Kip cryptic comments about the book. Kyle Swift should read… Photo credit: HBO Max Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles Kyle is tricky to talk about because he’s barely in the first season but he has his own book in the series, Common Goal. We don’t have confirmation that the TV series will do his romance storyline, but it seems likely (why make him a character at all if he isn’t going to turn up again). Based on the TV version and where his journey takes him in the book, I think this historical fantasy romance is a good option. Saul is a disgraced soldier turned archeologist-for-hire. He meets Randolph, a powerful arcanist with a mysterious past. The shift in their relationship from attraction to desire to romance surprises both of them. Kyle’s interest in ancient art and architecture would pull him into this book. George Grady and Yuna and David Hollander should read… Photo credit: HBO Max The Changeling by Victor LaValle Parenting is hard. Like, really hard. Or so I hear. I want to give these parents a book about the horrors of parenting, because why not. The Changeling is about what happens when a relationship fractures. Emma believes her newborn isn’t human, and the aftermath of that rage leaves Apollo reeling. LaValle explores motherhood, fatherhood, and parenting, as well as colonization, race, and parental expectations. We only see George, Yuna, and David as parents in the TV show. We see them from the perspective of their sons, Kip and Shane, and their sons’ boyfriends, Scott and Ilya; we don’t see them as people in and of themselves. With this book they can explore parenting from the perspective of other parents. Showrunner Jacob Tierney should read… Reverie by Ryan La Sala Jacob, if you’re looking for your next adaptation, Ryan La Sala is a good bet. Any of his queer YA books would do—The Honeys and Beholder for surreal horror, The Dead of Summer for eco-horror with coral zombies, Be Dazzled for cosplay and coming out—but Reverie is the perfect blend of chaotic, intense, and moving that would work well with Tierney’s vibes. Kane’s memories have been altered to erase his friends, and the discovery of the person who is behind the spell upends his world. Reality bends and worlds burst in and out of existence, and at the center of the storm is Kane and his ex-friends. I’d love to see Tierney take on fantasy, especially how he would handle the scenes with the baddest drag queen in all of YA fantasy fiction.[end-mark] The post SFF Reading Recommendations for the Characters of <i>Heated Rivalry</i> appeared first on Reactor.

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On September 1, 1859, Carrington was observing the Sun when he witnessed the most powerful event ever recorded. It bears his name today.

Journalists are rarely arrested, in part because the media elites freak out, since they apparently can never commit a crime if they're trying to interview people. Former CNN host Don Lemon can't be part of a mob violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, to which they added churches. Now if a journalist was part of a mob invading an abortion clinic, we all know the Left would freak out about that. MRC external affairs manager Jerris Jackson and MRC Free Speech America staff writer Tom Olohan joined the show to discuss Lemon and ICE and every left-wing vice. Media elites suggested the Lemon arrest was an unprecedented descent into authoritarianism. But in March of 2024, Biden's FBI arrested journalist Steve Baker of The Blaze for being present with January 6 protesters. None of them objected to that journalist's arrest.  Ten years ago, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris charged pro-life activist David Daleiden with 15 felony counts in California for recording conversations without consent. He interviewed Planned Parenthood staffers who explained how they sold dead baby parts for profit.  As usual, the standards are based on whether or not you're on "the right side of history," and conservative journalists aren't considered journalists. Their activists are journalists, and our journalists are propagandists.  At least the Sunday shows appeared to be hedging on Lemon. CBS didn’t mention it, NBC touched on it in one question, and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos faced strong pushback from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. But on Friday night's "Thunderdome" (CNN NewsNight), host Abby Phillip incorrectly claimed that Lemon was not named in a part of the indictment where he was in fact included. She wound up being corrected by panelist and New York Post correspondent Lydia Moynihan. “The indictment obviously suggested that he posted himself at the main door, he prevented people from exiting.” Speaking of CNN, their CEO Mark Thompson was confronted by leftist staffers at an internal town hall who "questioned the behavior" of conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings, claiming he used inappropriate terms on television like...."illegal aliens." One Democrat who's faced off with Jennings, Julie Roginsky, complained on Substack that he is “rude, dismissive, and antagonistic in ways that feel personal rather than substantive.” How would that make him stand out on CNN, considering how rude and antagonistic they are toward Republicans all the time?  Finally, Trump fans eagerly turned out and loved the new Melania documentary – and the very liberal movie-critic mob couldn't stand it. Early projections are that it will make $8.1 million at the box office in its opening weekend, much more than the first estimates of $3-5 million. The Hollywood Reporter sounded crestfallen: "No one saw that coming." They should have.  Watch the podcast below. The audio is here. Spread the word about our media-bias busting.         https://youtu.be/xdaaIqxXwqk?si=D9kIvzB_g0_7RmHq

One way "public" broadcasters demonstrate their dramatic leftist bias is by which books and authors they promote. On January 27, they featured an interview by co-anchor Geoff Bennett of Howard Bryant -- former ESPN The Magazine columnist, and perpetual racial grievance machine -- lionizing the famous black Stalinist puppet and actor Paul Robeson. Bennett talked to Bryant about his new book, Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. That's a heroic athlete and a villainous communist. But not in the minds of the PBS elite. Geoff Bennett: At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, baseball great Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to publicly disavow the comments of another prominent black American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson….let's start our conversation with the key moment in your book, that testimony in front of the House un-American Activities Committee in 1949. Paul Robeson was this outspoken activist with Soviet sympathies and he had been quoted as saying -- it turned out the quote was somewhat exaggerated, but he was saying that black Americans would never fight for a country like the U.S. against a country like the Soviet Union that believed in their equality. And this was Robinson's response in front of the committee: After an archive clip of Robinson’s testimony, this assumption-loaded exchange took place: Bennett: Paul Robeson, we should remind folks, was a giant of his time. Is his disappearance from popular memory, is that a historical accident or a deliberate act of forgetting? Bryant: It's a 100 percent deliberate act. And it shows the power of the Cold War and the power of McCarthyism and so much of the language that we're hearing today about enemy of the people and the enemy within. This is what it was back then. And I think there was no greater disqualifying word, no greater weapon against an American citizen than to call them a communist at that time…. It didn't matter if the accusation was 100% accurate.  Again, host Bennett set Bryant up to bring up ominous modern Trump parallels, while draining out Robeson’s unforced, disgustingly fulsome support of the mass-murdering Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (support that began before the dread Joe McCarthy uttered a word against Robeson), to retain him as a pristine victim of the Red Scare, rather than an eager cheerleader for Stalin’s Red Terror. As Paul Kengor noted via The American Spectator: In 1952, shortly before Stalin’s death, Paul Robeson was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize, which he unhesitatingly accepted. And when his beloved Stalin perished in March 1953, Robeson was moved to tears and to verse. He responded with a poetic eulogy titled, “To You Beloved Comrade.” He tearfully recalled the unforgettable moment when he elevated his son, Paul Jr., at the site of Stalin, as if lifting the boy in the air to present him with some sort of supernatural commission. Robeson waxed reverently of this “kindly,” “good” man of “wisdom,” “deep humanity,” and “understanding.” Stalin’s “noble example” and “daily guidance” had left Russians a “rich and monumental heritage.” The death of the “great Stalin,” reported a heartbroken Robeson, left “tens of millions all over the earth bowed in heart-aching grief.” PBS and NPR will never interview Kengor -- perhaps because they fit the title of his book Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. That manipulation continues! Prodded by Bennett, Bryant extended his ominous parallels with the Trump Administration and Joe McCarthy, while neither of them breathed a word about Stalin.  Bryant: ….The complacency that we have today is very, very similar to the complacency that people felt back then, that the country wouldn't go as far, that we still believed in our institutions, and the institutions would save us and that common sense would prevail. And you think about that, it sounds very similar to how we are today, that this is just the time and we will get through it. But the effect of the Cold War, the effect of McCarthyism on Paul Robeson's life, the United States did not allow him to leave the country. They refused to issue him a passport, which was unconstitutional, and yet it happened. There were all kinds of legal and extralegal things that took place there that really destroyed this man…. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 1/27/26 7:43:05 p.m. (ET) Geoff Bennett: At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, baseball great Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to publicly disavow the comments of another prominent Black American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson. That fateful testimony is the subject of a new book, "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America," by journalist and author Howard Bryant. I sat down with Bryant recently to unpack the parallel lives of these two trailblazing men and the forces that ultimately pitted them against each other. Howard Bryant, welcome back to the "News Hour." Howard Bryant, Author, "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America": Yes, thanks for having me back. Geoff Bennett: And let's start our conversation with the key moment in your book, that testimony in front of the House un-American Activities Committee in 1949. Paul Robeson was this outspoken activist with Soviet sympathies and he had been quoted as saying -- it turned out the quote was somewhat exaggerated, but he was saying that Black Americans would never fight for a country like the U.S. against a country like the Soviet Union that believed in their equality. And this was Robeson's response in front of the committee: Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball Player:   I have been asked to express my views on Paul Robeson's statement in Paris, to the effect that American Negroes would refuse to fight in any war against Russia because we love Russia so much. I haven't any comment to make, except that -- on that statement, except that, if Mr. Robeson actually made it, it sounds very silly to me.   But he has a right to his personal views. And if he wants to sound silly when he expresses them in public, that's his business and not mine. Geoff Bennett: So how did Jackie Robinson find himself there pitted against Paul Robeson? Howard Bryant: Well, the biggest reason he found himself pitted against Robeson is from his employer, Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the man responsible for integrating the big leagues with Robinson in 1947. Jackie really felt a responsibility. He felt a loyalty to Rickey. Rickey really implored him to appear. Jackie didn't want to do it. He felt like it was not his area. He was not that well-versed in the politics and certainly not the politics of the Cold War. But he also felt another responsibility, which was in his memoir he would say that he did not want the white allies who were sympathetic to civil rights to abandon that fight if they felt that Black citizens were disloyal to the United States, and he felt a sense of responsibility to ensure that. Geoff Bennett: Paul Robeson, we should remind folks, was a giant of his time. Is his disappearance from popular memory, is that a historical accident or a deliberate act of forgetting? Howard Bryant: It's a 100 percent deliberate act. And it shows the power of the Cold War and the power of McCarthyism and so much of the language that we're hearing today about enemy of the people and the enemy within. This is what it was back then. And I think there was no greater disqualifying word, no greater weapon against an American citizen than to call them a communist at that time. And I think one of the things that I was really trying to get at is the tension in the African American community in this book, because so much of the Black establishment felt that Robeson was toxic, and they abandoned him as well and, in doing that, really isolated him and set the stage for the federal government and the rest of the country to really turn its back on him as well. It was certainly not an accident. Time did some of it but really it was deliberate because of the tensions of that period. Geoff Bennett: And how did Jackie Robinson come to think of that testimony later in his own life? Did he regret it? Howard Bryant: Well, exactly, Geoff. And I think that the -- regret is a hard word for Jackie, because he's an athlete, just like Robeson was an athlete. And it's really hard to admit that he was wrong. However, he and Paul Robeson both ended up at the end of their lives quite disillusioned at the lack of progress in the country, and Jackie especially. That's why the title is what it is. The questions of whether or not I did the right thing and whether or not I was being used or manipulated or whether Robeson was or whether we all were, Rachel Robinson gave a great interview in 1976 where she said that Jackie was a patriot. He was a citizen. And it was -- he was, my country, right or wrong. But he did receive -- she said, we got two bad pieces of advice that we never really lived down. One was Jackie Robinson's support of Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. And the other was this testimony and -- against Robeson in 1949. And so he didn't exactly say I regret doing it, but he did say, if asked to do it again, I would say no. So I think that's as close as we got to it. Geoff Bennett: You call this story an exposed route on the beaten path of the story of baseball integration. What made you want to write about this era and these men? Howard Bryant: Really, embarrassment was the first. I have been such a baseball fan for so long and I have been reading about Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson. And how many times if you read baseball history that Jackie Robinson testified against Paul Robeson? And then I just kept reading, and I felt like the story was so relevant to today. And it's so important. These two giants, how could it be that you had -- at one point, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black man in the world and Jackie Robinson, the most important Black athlete in the second half of the 20th century. How did this happen? How did they find themselves in opposition? What were the forces that put them in this predicament? And, to me, it was just so representative of this question that African Americans are constantly having and we have to this day about belonging and about patriotism and about that twoness, that ability to, one, be patriotic and feel like you are part of this country while at the same time living in at that time a segregated society and all of the forces that sort of came to it. It's a really important moment that I just felt was completely underreported. Geoff Bennett: Building on your point about the parallels between that time and our -- this current moment, what lessons do you think this story has for us right now? Howard Bryant: I think the biggest lesson to me when I think about -- especially when I think about Paul Robeson, is the power of the times that you live in. The complacency that we have today is very, very similar to the complacency that people felt back then, that the country wouldn't go as far, that we still believed in our institutions, and the institutions would save us and that common sense would prevail. And you think about that, it sounds very similar to how we are today, that this is just the time and we will get through it. But the effect of the Cold War, the effect of McCarthyism on Paul Robeson's life, the United States did not allow him to leave the country. They refused to issue him a passport, which was unconstitutional, and yet it happened. There were all kinds of legal and extralegal things that took place there that really destroyed this man. And, on the other hand, when it came to Jackie Robinson, we talk about April 15, 1947 as the transformative moment that it was, but we also don't talk about what it did to Jackie Robinson as a person. And so what I wanted to do was sort of break from a little bit of the mythology and dig into the effects of what these pioneering men have -- what they went through in real time and the -- and, really, when I think about it, how -- what is past is prologue. So much of what is happening then is happening now. Geoff Bennett: The book is "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America" by journalist and author Howard Bryant. Howard, always great to speak with you. Thank you. Howard Bryant: Thank you again, Geoff.

Before former CNN anchor Don Lemon joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday to discuss his recent arrest, he was probably told by his lawyer not to say anything that would get him in trouble, so that left much of the outrage-mongering about the actual incident to the eponymous host. According to Kimmel, Lemon was “arrested for committing journalism” and accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of lying and hypocrisy for saying the administration will not tolerate people who disrupt worship services, although his evidence was practically non-existent. Kimmel began by introducing Lemon, “Our first guest tonight is a longtime TV and digital newsman who on Thursday night was arrested for committing journalism, which is a very serious crime under our current administration. Joining us now to share all the incredible details, please welcome Don Lemon.”   Jimmy Kimmel introduces Don Lemon as "a longtime TV and digital newsman who on Thursday night was arrested for committing journalism, which is a very serious crime under our current administration." pic.twitter.com/yhtIC1tNNh — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 3, 2026   As Lemon sat down, Kimmel continued, “Thank you for being here. I—and I hope you're okay. I hope you're mentally okay after what happened to you. How are you?” Lemon answered, “I don't know” and “That's a really—that's an honest answer. I don't know. I mean, I'm okay. But I'm not going to let them steal my joy, but this is very serious. I mean, these are federal criminal charges.” One of the unintended side effects of Lemon’s arrest is that it forced Kimmel to actually talk about the St. Paul church invasion. Of course, Kimmel sided with the mob, however, sarcastically noting, “Apparently there was a pastor at the church who was also a local ICE official, which is, I think, just as Jesus would want, and I believe we have some B-roll. Protesters interrupted the Sunday service. And you followed them in.”   Kimmel also sarcastically laments, "Apparently there was a pastor at the church who was also a local ICE official, which is I think just as Jesus would want." For his part, Lemon kept insisting he's just a simple journalist, "Well, listen, obviously in the middle of this, I can't… pic.twitter.com/PFliz5C5Zt — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 3, 2026   He then wondered, “You interviewed various people in the church. And afterward, well, you were arrested. Now, first I want to ask you, is there a difference between whether those protesters had the right to go into a church and whether a credentialed journalist like yourself had the right to go in and cover them going into the church?” Kimmel also omitted how Lemon is alleged to have obstructed the exit and not to have left after the pastor asked him to. As for Kimmel’s question, Lemon repeated his standard talking point, “Well, listen, obviously in the middle of this, I can't say a lot. There's a lot that I cannot say. But what I will say is that I'm not a protester. I went there to be a journalist. I went there to chronicle and document and record what was happening. I was following that one group around, and so that's what I did. I reported on them. But I do think that there is a difference between a protester and a journalist.” Later, Kimmel came back from a commercial with a clip of Bondi declaring, “Make no mistake, under President Trump's leadership and this administration, you have the right to worship freely and safely. And if I haven't been clear already, if you violate that sacred right, we are coming after you.” Kimmel reacted by huffing, “That is Pam Bondi, our attorney general, lying to us, using her freedom of speech to lie. And I think it's worth noting that last year the Trump administration made it legal for ICE agents to enter houses of worship, schools, health care facilities. But they're saying that it's not okay for journalists to do the same thing. I think that's interesting.”   After a clip of Pam Bondi saying you don't have a right to violate someone else's right to "worship freely and safely," Kimmel huffs, "That is Pam Bondi, our attorney general, lying to us, using her freedom of speech to lie. And I think it's worth noting that last year the Trump… pic.twitter.com/3ObQCSRkbO — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 3, 2026   What is the lie? Kimmel never specified. Nor did he care to explain his weird logic that compares law enforcement actions to private citizens invading private property. He did, however, ask, “While you were in custody overnight—we're talking about being in a holding cell. What's going through your mind? What are you doing? How do you pass that time?” Lemon lamented, “Well, the entire time it happened, you know, I said I thought it might happen. And my attorney, you know, called them or reached out—emailed them, reached out, and never heard back… I just kept chronicling in my head what I was doing, what I was seeing, what was happening, every time I had to go—because it was a holding room—every time I needed to go to the restroom, I had to knock on the door. They had to come get me and then take me to the bathroom and stand there while I was using—while I was peeing.” As for the media as an industry, Lemon decried people who platform those "who come on just to lie," which is ironic given Kimmel's evidence-free assertion that Bondi is lying and personal history.   Having lied through his teeth about his role in the conspiracy to violate the Free Exercise rights of the parishioners of Cities Church, Don Lemon decries corporate media platforming people "who come on just to lie." pic.twitter.com/3hfv2X0xDD — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 3, 2026   If Kimmel insisted on interviewing Lemon, he should’ve asked about his refusal to leave when asked and about the allegations he hindered people’s ability to leave. Lemon probably would not have answered, but if Kimmel wants to be a newsman in addition to a comedian, that should’ve been the bare minimum. Here is a transcript for the February 2 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2/2/22026 11:57 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Our first guest tonight is a longtime TV and digital newsman who on Thursday night was arrested for committing journalism, which is a very serious crime under our current administration. Joining us now to share all the incredible details, please welcome Don Lemon. Thank you for being here. I—and I hope you're okay. I hope you're mentally okay after what happened to you. How are you? DON LEMON: I don't know. KIMMEL: You don't know? LEMON: That's a really — that's an honest answer. I don't know. I mean, I'm okay. But I'm not going to let them steal my joy, but this is very serious. I mean, these are federal criminal charges. KIMMEL: Yeah. And time in prison can change a man, even if it's just one night. LEMON: Yeah, well, not yet. Don't get ahead of yourself, Jimmy. … KIMMEL: Apparently there was a pastor at the church who was also a local ICE official, which is, I think, just as Jesus would want, and I believe we have some B-roll. Protesters interrupted the Sunday service. And you followed them in. You interviewed various people in the church. And afterward, well, you were arrested. Now, first I want to ask you, is there a difference between whether those protesters had the right to go into a church and whether a credentialed journalist like yourself had the right to go in and cover them going into the church? LEMON: Well, listen, obviously in the middle of this, I can't say a lot. There's a lot that I cannot say. But what I will say is that I'm not a protester. KIMMEL: Right. LEMON: I went there to be a journalist. I went there to chronicle and document and record what was happening. I was following that one group around, and so that's what I did. I reported on them. But I do think that there is a difference between a protester and a journalist. … PAM BONDI: Make no mistake, under President Trump's leadership and this administration, you have the right to worship freely and safely. And if I haven't been clear already, if you violate that sacred right, we are coming after you. KIMMEL: We are back with Don Lemon. That is Pam Bondi, our attorney general, lying to us, using her freedom of speech to lie. And I think it's worth noting that last year the Trump administration made it legal for ICE agents to enter houses of worship, schools, health care facilities. But they're saying that it's not okay for journalists to do the same thing. I think that's interesting. LEMON: Yeah. KIMMEL: You — while you were in custody overnight — we're talking about being in a holding cell. What's going through your mind? What are you doing? How do you pass that time? LEMON: Well, the entire time it happened, you know, I said I thought it might happen. And my attorney, you know, called them or reached out — emailed them, reached out, and never heard back. But the entire time, I was thinking that I'm a journalist, and I just start thinking in my head, how many agents are there? Who am I riding in the truck with? Like, I wanted to keep mental notes of that. I couldn't — obviously I didn't have a phone or anything to write it down. So, that's what I was doing. People count their steps. I just kept chronicling in my head what I was doing, what I was seeing, what was happening, every time I had to go—because it was a holding room—every time I needed to go to the restroom, I had to knock on the door. They had to come get me and then take me to the bathroom and stand there while I was using—while I was peeing. ... LEMON: We don't need the people saying, “well careful what you're saying because we need access to the president and we don't want to lose this interview for the morning show.” You know what I'm saying? Or “We need to get our mergers and acquisitions done in Washington so don't piss off the president or he might sue us.” So, that's why I'm doing what I'm doing because I think there's a real need right now. This is an important time. This is not a time for folly. It's not a time for false equivalence and putting people on television and on news programs, giving them a platform who come on just to lie. I think people are sick of that. Some things—some things are objectively bad, Jimmy, and you don't have to—just because you say something critical of Donald Trump or Republicans doesn't mean that you have to go and say something. “Oh, well, you know the Democrats or Joe Biden—“ No. Some things are objectively bad, and I think it's important in this time to point that out.

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