Welcome everybody to an imprompt to stream of the Bituation Room podcast show all the things, all the people.

We got to get into everything that has been happening in the last, I don't know, 12 hours, 24 hours.

Ever since ABC decided to pull Jimmy Kimmel's late night show indefinitely.

I want to get into all the different aspects of this.

I was wondering whether to do just like a video and cut it up and put it out for y'all.

There's just too much.

And I want to be here live a little bit early.

I usually stream around 1 o'clock.

But look, time is a wasting. but let's just open it and just say

uh legalized comedy oh you know what i'm saying when's it going to be legal let's let's wait for it

and let's also let's also wait for all of the free speech warriors, be they, podcasters, comedians,

you know, friends of the current regime. Let's wait for them to speak out. Any moment now,

any moment, any moment, they'll say a little something, something, and then they'll just shut up about it.

Let's get into exactly what happened. We're going to get into talking about what this means

and what it has meant for the media landscape and the 1% versus the 99% more generally.

I want to talk about censorship and freedom of speech as it pertains to Democrats as well.

And then finally, what is being rolled out against liberal organizations, nonprofits,

community organizations, incredible groups that have done everything from

get out the vote organizing drives to running local candidates to immigrant legal defense funds

because we are awaiting on baited breath the executive order that effectively revokes the 501

C3 status for hundreds of organizations that again have done this incredible work and have truly

kept people alive both in the kinds of advocacy and the activism that they do,

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