The Shadow Docket: Last Week Tonight

(LastWeek Tonight) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

1984 Future is here now: Whitney Webb

(Investigative Insights TV) It Begins: Plan for 2026 (They're not hiding it) | Whitney Webb

Trump to give kids $1,000 then take power

Renee Good's ICE poem 'To Dissect...Pigs'

(DemocracyNow.org) "We had whistles. They had guns": Nationwide (ICE out for Good campaign) protests over ICE killings

(KTLA 5) Massive Los Angeles uprising: peaceful anti-ICE protest

On Learning to Dissect...Pigs

By Renée Nicole Macklin [Good] R.I.P.

Police Pig I (creator.nightcafe.studio)

i want back my rocking chairs,

solipsist sunsets,

& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.

 

i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores

(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—

the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):

 

remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils,

& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.

(Pod Save America) Shocking new video of ICE police state abuses in Minneapolis goes viral

under clippings of the moon at two forty five AM I study&repeat

               ribosome

               endoplasmic—

               lactic acid

               stamen

 

at the IHOP on the corner of powers and stetson hills—

 

i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—

maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.

 

it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge that used to sit, a cloth against fevered forehead.

can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the classroom

AOC opines on Trump and JD Vance's killer ICE agent who killed Good

 

               now i can’t believe—

               that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—

all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

• 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize | Academy of American Poets

Some donuts with that, Fat@$$? Starbucks employee draws on cup and gets fired (MSN)

• Literary Hub » Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem
• We are not "pigs": Disabled woman pulled from car for blocking agents in Minneapolis
• PIG!? Starbucks apologizes for 'PIG' cup given to Kiefer officer
• Starbucks Corporation apologizes for 'pig' cup given to deputy (MSN)
• Starbucks employee serves LA sheriff's deputy coffee with hand-drawn pig on cup
• Three little pigs dressed as police officers in a city alley with brick buildings in the background | Adobe Stock
• Pig [Trump official?] wearing fashion costume, disguised as a police officer in urban cityscape
• ICE Out for Good concludes Day One with overwhelming peaceful actions | American Civil Liberties Union
• Who is killer ICE Agent Jonathan Ross? Amy Goodman reveals the truth about this misogynist murderer on Democracy Now! today

(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Noem flails on CNN over ICE shooting; protester schools Fox News; Trump's oil meeting: A Closer Look

Kimmel on Trump's response to Minneapolis: send more ICE agents, get Nobel Peace Prize

(Jimmy Kimmel Live)

Standup comedy: Minnesota not so nice (Sammy Obeid)

(Sammy Obeid) Minnesota not so nice | stand up comedy

Renee Nicole Good Is Murdered

By Cornelius Eady (1954–)

The killer is the one who chooses to kill.

Up rides the super cops,

The cancellation squad.

A dormant virus, melted from

The ice pack,

And the conversation

Is end-stopped when

The shell cracks her

Car window, does its

Dumb duty,

Brings silence

To a poet’s mind.

The President says:

You’re a terror bot

If you don’t comply.

Homeland security

Puts on a ten gallon

Texas size hat,

Says see what f*cking

With the bull gets you.

There is a picture of her

Just before it tips rancid,

Just before she’s dragged

Into how they see her.

I wish I could read the words

As they blaze their last, unsuspected

Race through her skull.

A language poem that ends on

The word

Impossible.

• Renee Nicole Good Is Murdered by Cornelius Eady (Poems | Academy of American Poets)

ICE on Good: "F*cking b*tch"

Israel/USA foment protests in Iran as pretext for attack by Bibi lackey Trump

Man drives through anti-Iran crowd

7 million+ Anti-Trump marchers: No Kings

• (CNN) Trump releases A.I. of King Trump in a crown in a fighter jet releasing raw fecal matter on insolent pro-democracy marchers and protesters.
• Why Trump hates his TIME Magazine cover

Go to: Documenting Defiance in Los Angeles No King rally, Oct. 18

Controlled opposition in '1984': Goldstein

Character analysis: Goldstein in Orwell's 1984

Jewish savior figure, The Messiah Goldstein

(Exam Word) Character Analysis. Emmanuel Goldstein occupies a central role in the Party’s (as opposed to the Proles’) narrative, serving as a symbol of rebellion and a tool of control.

Goldstein only appears on screens during the Two Minutes Hate ritual and never directly in the story, his presence looms large as the alleged leader of the resistance (The Brotherhood), the enemy within, against the Party.

Through his role in the narrative, symbolic significance, and broader implications, Goldstein becomes a multifaceted character who represents the complexities of dissent, propaganda, and manipulation in a totalitarian regime. More at lak12.com/book/character...

• Republican Adam Kinzinger warns Donald Trump is becoming a ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ president
• Exam Word, Feb. 13, 2025; EckhartsLadder; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Now it's 1984? New 'Orwell: 2+2=5' (trailer)

Orwell 2+2=5 - Official Trailer (2025)

(PBS News Hour)

(TYT Sports) Anthony Bourdain on Trump's ego, narcissism

The Decline of Western Civilization (A-HC)

Punk is bad, stupid, and scary. What are these jerks talking about?

The Decline of Western Civilization is a 1981 American documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris.

In 1981, the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) Chief Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city [1].

The film is the opening act of a trilogy by Spheeris, depicting music scenes in Los Angeles in the late 20th century.

The second film, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988), covers the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1987–1988.

The third film, The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998), chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. More

Steven Blush "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" part 1 of 5

(Miami Herald) Interview: Steven Blush author of American Hardcore

Based on a history book

American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980–1986 is a documentary directed and produced by Paul Rachman and written by Steven Blush [1][2]. It is based on the 2001 book American Hardcore: A Tribal History also written by Blush [3]. It world premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Sept. 22, 2006, on a limited basis by Sony Pictures Classics. The film features some early pioneers of the hardcore punk music scene including Bad Brains, Black Flag, D.O.A., Minor Threat, Minutemen, SSD, and others [4]. It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Feb. 20, 2007. More: American Hardcore (film)

• American Hardcore | official trailer (2006)
• The Decline Of Western Civilization Part III trailer #1 (1998)
• The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III | FULL MOVIE | Penelope Spheeris | music documentary
• American Hardcore (2006)

Ratings bonanza for Kimmel, thanks Trump

Trump threatens Jimmy Kimmel and ABC, escalator fiasco at the UN, and Ethan Hawke interrupts

Meanwhile, Trump welcomes his master Bibi ✡

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) 5,050,661 YouTube views and counting. Sept. 24, 2025: JKL! is back to work again doing his show for most of the country, thank Gosh the 'The Golden Bachelor' has not been pre-empted, Kimmel heard from Do Jo Trump who posted on his Truth Social (Twitter knockoff) with threats moments after the taping of the show Tuesday night, Trump claimed it was the ratings that got Kimmel “fired,” Trump is an old-fashioned 80s movie-style bully, many of its staffers got crazy texts from their loved ones over the last week, there was a fun little conspiracy theory heard on right wing Newsmax today, according to MSNBC the FBI has a recording of Trump’s border czar Tom Homan taking a big bribe in a bag from undercover agents with $50,000 cash in it, Team Trump is worked up about the escalator stopping while the Donald was at the UN yesterday, and Ethan Hawke interrupts the monologue when Jimmy thanks the more than 400 entertainers, actors, writers, directors, and producers who signed the ACLU letter supporting the show. #Kimmel

Right wing Benny Johnson, the new Charlie Kirk, show Epstein ALIVE on his Pedo Island

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(Fox News) BREAKING: Trump speaks on 'what suspended Jimmy Kimmel'

Jimmy Kimmel's ratings soar despite legal threat from Trump

What has happened to the ratings?

Real reason Kimmel grew shaggy beard?

Before the fracas, Kimmel would get about 1.6 million monologue views. Tuesday's return saw the number of viewers skyrocket, quadrupling even though he has been pre-empted/banned from Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting stations. Those make up about a quarter of viewers. About 6.26 viewers watched live on TV, with many many more going uncounted watching on livestream, social media, and YouTube. The monologue currently has 26 million YouTube views, which is common. His key demographic (ages 19-49) that advertising salespeople love is the best it's been in a decade, according to Conan Nolan at NBC News (NBC4 LA).

Will he shave beard to keep his sky-high ratings?

Kimmel’s return breaks his YouTube record: Most-watched monologue ever

James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 24, 2025

(WatchMojo.com) 10 celebrities who HATE Jimmy Kimmel: Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Gutfeld, Piers Morgan, Megyn Kelly...

Now if only Disney didn't just raise its prices

Kimmel's emotional and highly anticipated return to ABC very quickly became the most popular 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' monologue on YouTube. Nexstar and Sinclair really missed out. The affiliate groups boycotting Jimmy Kimmel Live! missed airing — and selling ads — on what’s rapidly become Kimmel’s most-watched monologue of all time on YouTube.

Before suspension, staggering fall of JKL! ratings

Kimmel’s return to ABC on Tuesday night (Sept. 23, 2025, Rapture Day) featured a nearly 30-minute show opening that included the host’s emotional monologue where he thanked those who supported him during his suspension, attempted to clarify his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk and, most of all, passionately defended free speech. More: Hollywood Reporter

• AUDIO: Kimmel ratings chart goes viral to show ‘real reason’ he was suspended (News Busters)
• Ratings: Kimmel calls out 'bully' Trump over president's anti-free speech lawsuit threat (Entertainment Tonight)
• TMZ: Gambling on Kimmel monologue in Vegas

Fair and balanced coverage

Sky News host rips into Kimmel’s ‘pathetic’ tears after deliberate Kirk lie joke

(Sky News Australia) Sept. 24, 2025: Media Meltdowns: News host rips into Kimmel’s “pathetic” come back after deliberate Kirk lie [which was actually a joke taking a dig at MAGA gun nuts]. Angry right wing Australian Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power lashes out at Kimmel’s “pathetic” come back and his “crocodile tears.”

Meanwhile, SoCal car truck chase

(ABC) It's different because it's a stolen semi-truck that could lead a Convoy

Jimmy Kimmel is back! (UNcancelled)

Jimmy Kimmel is back!

Tickets for Jimmy Kimmel Live! are free and taping of the show is on Hollywood Blvd. in L.A.

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Kimmel cancellation. Why? (Archyde)

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 23, 2025: Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air and talks about all of the people who have reached out over the last six days including fellow late night talk show hosts, fans of the show, and those who don’t support what he believes but support his right to share those beliefs anyway, and he expresses that it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man...

No apology, but heartfelt crying

(FOX 11 LA) Kimmel clears the air with sincere display of emotions

I'll release Epstein Client List (if they remove me)

How important it is to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this, the Chairman of the FCC Brendan Carr telling an American company that “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Trump saying he has no talent and no ratings, being fortunate to work at a company that has allowed us to do the show we want to do for almost 23 years, not agreeing with the decision to have our show pulled off the air last Wednesday, Trump making it very clear he wants to see Jimmy and other late night hosts fired, and solidarity from the right, left and those in the middle. Then Jimmy talks to the new FCC Chairman (Robert De Niro), and gets into Trump’s day addressing the United Nations, the escalator breaking, having trouble with the teleprompter, and the headache he’s creating with his buddy RFK over Tylenol. Jimmy Kimmel is Back! #Kimmel

• Don John Trump is on Jeffrey Epstein's Client List
• Kimmel return monologue breaks his YouTube record
• Trump’s War on Free Speech exposes US hypocrisy

Trump's rage reaction to return

(ET) Trump slams ABC after Kimmel’s late-night return, threatens lawsuit

EXCLUSIVE: What do we at Wisdom Quarterly know about Jimmy Kimmel?

What's the big deal about now world-famous Kimmel? He can be very funny like with Matt Damon.

• The hilarious history of the Matt Damon/Kimmel feud

Divorces, dates Sarah, remarries, kids

Fortunate to grow up in Los Angeles, we have known and listened to Kimmel for more than 30 years. How? Long before he became famous, he lived in Las Vegas and wanted to be in radio. So he traveled to Hollywood and got a job as a comedian and sports reporter on the Kevin & Bean Show (K&B on KROQ FM), the morning zoo of the foremost alt rock station in the area. KROQ had a direct line to MTV with its DJs who became VJs and Loveline and determining hit songs.

KROQ's Kevin Ryder made Kimmel famous.

Soon after Jimmy arrived -- doing his many funny characters which he could never do now, Gay James, Mo the Angry Midget, Karl Malone in Blackface, and so on -- he met a nobody named Adam Corolla. Jimmy accepted a challenge to box someone and was taking it lightly. Corolla was an impoverished construction worker/carpenter, driving his rundown truck through the Valley, listening to K&B. He heard about the boxing match and decided to take his very green comedic chops, which he was working on at Groundlings Improv, down to the station to help Jimmy.

THE STRANGEST THING

• Nearly no one but us is likely to remember the paranormal aspect of Jimmy Kimmel's career success from early KROQ days.

Mysticism is very real.

How did psychics know I'd be famous?

Sadly, our memory is imperfect as to the exact details. In those days there was another famous friend of Kimmel and Corolla named Ralph Garman (a voice comic long since forgotten to the oblivion of his own paywall podcast no one cared about and Corolla's former apartment roommate). Whatever might be said about Bean Baxter and Kevin Ryder, they were intensely interested in the paranormal. They played this off with jokes, gags, and James Randi-style skepticism. K&B used all of these as covers to repeatedly invite psychics, hypnotic past life regressionists, mystics, and others onto the show. They made so much fun of these real-life people that one had to wonder why they kept inviting them back. K&B ran a lazy show, preferring others to be funny and do most of the comedic work. They just picked great people to come on and do it.

Future Cmdr. Ralph Garman

Therefore, when it came time to be hypnotized or progressed (future life progression), they put in Jimmy and Ralph and Beer Mug rather than participating directly themselves. This was very shocking because they all clowned around and acted like nonbelievers, doubters, and jesters -- given our very scientific and secular society and city. That let them continue to be funny, whether the channels or visionaries they brought on were crazy or not, such as our favorite guest Bridget Nielsen.

Bridget: I birth human-ET hybrid children (BN)

Bridg-ET (the bridge between ETs and humans as a hybrid mom, bridgetnielsen.com) and an old couple who channeled The Beatles from heaven to bring NEW Beatles' music to the world. The point: It turned out that both Jimmy Kimmel and Ralph Garman, according to their progressions, will be very important in the future history of the human plane.

• Bridget Nielsen bridges ET and human races

What they described seeing and who they described being was stunning, making one wonder how it was that these apparent goofs were actually not on radio in one of the world's largest radio markets by accident. Kimmel becomes important when we are a space-traveling species, which has already happened.

Best friend Adam Corolla

Garman is a future ruler who sends many people off to war to die. The KARMA to fill these stations is uncommon. Kimmel was an atheistic-sounding Italian (Roman) Catholic. Did the personal experience under hypnosis make him a believer in rebirth? Or in keeping with his Jewish girlfriend Sarah and other secular Jewish friends in the Valley, did he just say "pshaw" and dismiss it all as parapsychological mumbo jumbo for the radio?

It was kismet and karma combined. They fell in love with each other, and Kimmel got Corolla a job on the show as Mister Birchum, the angry high school woodshop teacher. He was hilarious, so much so that he promoted up and up, until Comedy Central gave the duo a shot to create something. They came up with The Man Show. Corolla became the movie reviewer for K&B for movies he never saw. He was doing comedy in between construction jobs, as many future-famous friends partied in the Valley in a strange amalgamation of Hollywood talent:

Sarah Silverman, Kimmel's g/f

Ms. Sarah Silverman (Kimmel's girlfriend), a cluster of funny folks around HBO's Mr. Show with Bob & David such as Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jack Black, Brian Posehn, and the guy who went on to become SpongeBob SquarePants (Tom Kenny). Yada, yada, yada (Seinfeld was taping nearby in Studio City in the Valley) and somewhere storyboards were being drawn up for The Simpsons (which was created by the LA genius Matt Groening of Life in Hell comic strip fame).

One day we all got fired, but not Kimmel.

LA is a smoggy kitchen of half-baked ideas, with just a few hills between the dusty Valley and shiny Hollywood. It all comes around because this morning (Sept. 24, 2025), Kevin Ryder (the K in K&B) is back on KROQ FM and the old K&B Show is now Klein . Ally . Show.

The man who made Kimmel calls in this morning

Kevin Klein and Ally Johnson have been following the Kimmel saga, as has Kevin Ryder, who was personally on hand at the historic Hollywood Masonic Lodge on Hollywood Blvd., where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is taped. He cried more than Kimmel did and reported what happened inside as Kimmel received a 7-minute standing ovation as soon as he stepped out in front of the studio audience. He called in to talk about it:

Kevin Ryder calls in: Klein. Ally. Show. KROQ | Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025

Jump to the moment in the show when Kevin Ryder calls in

• RATINGS? Jimmy Kimmel's return monologue breaks his YouTube record (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Kimmel ratings over the years: He was No. 1 with young adults (Forbes)
• Kevin & Bean back on the air minus Bean (KLOS)
• VIDEO: Bridget Nielsen talks about her 10 hybrid human-space alien children aboard a local mothership
• How to remove the Tesla logo from your Musk Mobile
• The Klein Ally Show Final Friday Fiesta, Sept. 25, 2025
• Free tickets for the three-day Ohana Festival, Doheny State Beach, w/ Green Day, Cage the Elephant, Kings of Leon...

We'll discuss it all at Descanso for Final Friday Fiesta with Klein and Ally, Sept. 26 (IG)

(The Late Show with [lone martyr] Stephen Colbert) Disney reinstates Jim Kimmel, the Rapture...

No! Fire him!! Pam Bondi, sue them all!!!

The censorship nightmare ends. Will Kimmel reign it in and stop raking the Orange One over the coals nightly? Will he apologize? Will he pay off [Karen] Kirk during her time of grieving with such hateful eyes as she pays beautiful lip service to evangelical Christian ideals? Probably. Disney-owned ABC is bringing him back, having been in negotiations since this all happened. What will Nexstar and Sinclair, cogs in the Network with the power to pre-empt the show on their stations, have to say about it? What will Trump's counter-reaction be? Satire to be made a felony for making people question authority.

• ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ unsuspended: Late-night hosts react
• Sinclair will refuse to air show, will pre-empt it with a dull news program: DC, Seattle, St. Louis, Columbus (Ohio), Las Vegas, Baltimore, and others (for a total of 38 nationally) will ban it from the air. Viewers will have to watch it on YouTube and in funny clips the next day
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! returning Tuesday as [boycotted] ABC lifts suspension [after 4 billion dollar blow to stock market valuation]
• ‘The View’ gets around to talking about Jimmy Kimmel
• Zohran Mamdani boycotts ABC's Town Hall over Jimmy Kimmel suspension
• 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' RETURNING after ‘The View’ hosts break silence on suspension (Access Hollywood)

Jimmy Kimmel to RETURN: ABC ends suspension starting Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025

Brian Steinberg, Variety, Sept. 22, 2025

Take that, Old Poopy Drawers!

Jimmy Kimmel will have more to say on late-night TV. Disney and ABC will bring the comedian back to its schedule starting Tuesday night.

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.

(HIGNFYUS) FCC vs Kimmel. Censorship. Follow the $$. Kirk's free speech motto

(CNN) Network is bringing him back, suspended him for being bad boy

It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the company said in a statement. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Boycott Disney: cancel my Mickey

(Secular Talk) Americans furious over Kimmel cancellation (Kyle Kulinski)

• Disney stock tumbles, streaming cancellations crash site amid Kimmel chaos
• A lot of people seem to be canceling Disney+ after Jimmy Kimmel decision
• Disney Plus subscribers quit in droves over Jimmy Kimmel axe
• Why are people canceling Disney? What to know about boycott

[Why was he cancelled?]

Now, who's the biznatch, Adult Diaper Man?

Disney’s decision to bench one of its signature [comedic] personalities came after two major station owners, Nexstar Media and Sinclair, said they would pre-empt his program following a Kimmel monologue last Monday during which he offered remarks tied to the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Hollywood wields more power than Mar-a-Lago?

And yet, after Kimmel was taken off the air, Disney faced protest from the creative community. On Monday, 400 celebrities — including people like Martin Short and Tom Hanks, who have created memorable characters for Disney in the recent past — signed a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union decrying the blow the maneuver delivered to free speech in America.

(Rational National) BREAKING: ABC reverses on Kimmel, reason is clear

What do corporations care? It's about money.

The decision to bring Kimmel back was approved by Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, and Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The executives acted based on what was best for the company, this person said, and not on external factors. Indeed, it remains unclear if all ABC affiliates will air Kimmel’s program.

Spokespersons for Nexstar and Sinclair could not be reached for immediate comment.  More

• Jimmy Kimmel, Disney work toward compromise to bring show back to ABC (Variety)

ABC suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ over [need to appease Trump's FCC to get approval of a merger to consolidate more power in one corporation using] Charlie Kirk comments [as a pretext]

This has made me more famous than ever.

(TODAY) Sept 18, 2025: ABC announces that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has been suspended “indefinitely” after the late-night host made comments on Monday about the shooting of Charlie Kirk. While many conservatives, including Pres. Don Trump, are applauding the move, Democrats and free-speech advocates are condemning it as a form of censorship. NBC’s Liz Kreutz reports for TODAY. #ABC #donaldtrump #FCC

Now as a result of all this censorship hoopla and corporate chaos, Kimmel's ratings are sure to skyrocket for his return Tuesday. Will he be able to hold onto them though?

• Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, 9/23/25; Klein . Ally . Show (KROQ 106.7 FM); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly