Weekly Roundup: State Media, Jimmy Kimmel, and How Free Speech Dies

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 850-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad and Dan tackle the controversy surrounding Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, and free speech in the United States, while examining political and media reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death and the responses from Trump allies JD Vance and Steven Miller. They discuss the broader implications for media censorship, the growing power of state-aligned outlets, and how high-profile events are used to justify targeting dissent, particularly against left-wing groups, trans people, and critics of the Trump administration. The episode highlights the Heritage Foundation’s push to label trans people and allies as domestic terrorists, the chilling effect of government threats on universities and businesses, and the ripple effects leading to preemptive firings and resignations. Despite these alarming developments, Brad and Dan underscore the importance of resistance, hope, and refusing to give in to authoritarian trends. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.6	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad Onishi, author of Preparing for War,
0:49.5	the extremist history of white Christian nationalism and what comes next, founder of AccessMudi Media
0:53.9	here today with my co-host. I what comes next, founder of AccessMudi Media here
0:54.2	today with my co-host. I'm Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark
0:59.3	College. Happy to be with you, Brad, as always. We always get to hang out, but it's always over like
1:04.5	really terrible stuff to talk about. So maybe I'm not happy to be with you. Well, we are going to talk, as many of you I'm sure expect, about Jimmy Kimmel and the FCC and what seems to be a death knell to free speech and free media in the United States.
1:23.7	We'll link that to the ongoing reactions to Charlie Kirk's death, especially as they are coming from high-level actors in the Trump administration, namely J.D. Vance and Stephen Miller.
1:36.1	Now, we'll tie all of this in to the attack on Antifa and transgender folks that is being waged in the name of getting vengeance and justice for Charlie Kirk.
1:49.5	A lot to cover.
1:50.9	This is the straight white American Jesus Weekly Roundup.
1:53.4	Let's go.
2:15.8	Thank you. All right, Dan, I, I, yeah, yeah, one of those weeks could do a five-hour show.
2:17.0	We're not going to do that.
2:36.0	But I think we're going to start with Jimmy Kimmel and sorting out some of the facts, the details, the ongoings, the machinations, because there's a lot of anger and a lot of fear. And I think it's worth getting a lot of this straight. I'll throw it to you to start if you want to take us through some of the basic outlines, and then we'll get into some analysis.
2:39.0	Yeah, so just kind of walk folks through this.
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