Payday Report: Hundreds of Educators Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Assassination Comments As Feds Threaten Funds Mike Elk Sep 18, 2025 In Texas alone, more than 180 educators and school support staff have been suspended for comments they made about Kirk’s assassination on social media. There, Texas Education Agency (TEA) commissioner Mike Morath has ordered school districts to investigate their staff and find out which ones had posted about Kirk’s death. “That is frankly unprecedented. I’ve been in education for almost 30 years now. I’ve never seen a commissioner send a letter like that saying that they’re starting investigations en masse of the entire education community,” Texas American Federation of Texas (AFT) President Zeph Capo told KDFW. In Florida, the state’s education commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas encouraged educators to come forward about comments made by fellow educators about Kirk’s death, not on social media, but in private by other educators. “What we’re seeing right now is certainly what feels to me to be McCarthy-like,” Florida Education Association President Andrew Spar told WBPF. “Where people are being encouraged by the commissioner and by others to essentially hunt for, teachers or staff or professors who are saying something that someone has a problem with, however small it may be, and to essentially expose that, to dox teachers, to threaten teachers and staff and professors.”
Political targeting.
CNBC – FCC Chair Carr says ‘we’re not done yet’ after Jimmy Kimmel suspension by ABC Published Thu, Sep 18 20259:53 AM EDT Dan Mangan Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday that ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel appeared to “mislead” the American public about facts regarding conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killing in the days leading up to his show’s suspension. Carr also told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” that “we’re not done yet” with the changes in “the media ecosystem” that are consequences of President Donald Trump’s election last fall. ABC on Wednesday night said it was pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely” because of the host’s comments, which linked Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
Misleading.
Independent – Fox News revives birtherism attacks on Obama before DNC speech Jesse Watters said he’d send a television producer to both Hawaii and Kenya to ‘get the truth’ about the former president’s heritage – James Liddell Wednesday 21 August 2024 15:39 BST “That’s why we’ll be sending Johnny [producer on The Five] to Hawaii to get the truth about the birth certificate,” Watters told viewers. “This time we will dig deep and find out what really happened.” Co-host Greg Gutfeld intervened saying that the producer must get his passport, before Watters retorted: “To go to Kenya.” “I meant to Hawaii, just to see him do it. Ask him what the exchange rate is for the Hawaiian dollar,” Gutfield sniggered. Today, some conspiracy theorists still subscribe to birtherism, despite the release of Obama’s birth documents and confirmation of his birth by the Hawaii Department of Health before the 2008 election.
My letter to reps:
I haven’t been a big fan of late night tv in decades, but it seems inappropriate for the FCC to be dictating what comedians on talk shows are allowed to say. And by inappropriate, I mean unconstitutional. Brendan Carr should be removed.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.