ABC has a contact form for show feedback. This is the message I sent:
I am writing to express my deep disappointment and outrage at the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. By bowing to FCC pressure and silencing one of the most prominent voices in late-night television, you have chosen to cave to authoritarianism rather than stand for free expression and the independence of the press.
The role of satire and commentary is essential in a democratic society. When a corporation as powerful as Disney or a network as visible as ABC decides to muzzle one of its hosts out of fear of regulatory retribution, it sends a chilling message: that corporate interests outweigh principles, that government intimidation works, and that audiences should accept a sanitized, controlled version of reality.
You have an obligation not just to shareholders, but to the public, to stand firm against political interference. Instead of suspending Jimmy Kimmel, you should have defended his right to speak truth to power. This decision undermines both ABC’s credibility and the broader tradition of free and open dialogue in American media.
I urge you to reconsider your actions and reinstate Jimmy Kimmel immediately. Anything less is a surrender to censorship and a betrayal of the very values your network should uphold.
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Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall: It’s Not You. It’s the Food.
The Trump administration seems to agree to an extent. On Tuesday, Mr. Kennedy released a new report from the Make America Healthy Again commission, which correctly identified the rise in diet-related chronic disease as being driven by a food environment that is increasingly composed of highly processed foods. But instead of suggesting policies for reducing their consumption, the report makes vague recommendations. When it comes to ultraprocessed foods, it says only that the government will “continue efforts to develop” a definition for them and will recommend reducing consumption of highly processed foods in forthcoming dietary guidelines that Americans have traditionally struggled to follow. That doesn’t go far enough.
If large swaths of the population were being sickened by a poison released from an industrial plant, no one would suggest that the solution is to just offer home filters, wearables and supplements. The only real path to restoring health would have to include mandating the removal of the poison from the environment.
Robust US economy may not need Trump's big reforms
"Success for the Trump administration would be to do no harm to the exceptionally performing economy it is inheriting," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. On their face, the planned combination of tariffs, deportations, and deficit-funded tax cuts "will do harm. How much ... depends on how aggressively these policies are pursued."
Referring to recent U.S. performance that has outstripped that of other developed nations and surprised many economists, Dynan said that "if you believe the economic growth in excess of trend is from immigration, it is going to be hard to get numbers as large as we saw in the latter part of the Biden administration."
Jacobin: How Big Oil Made It Harder to Fight the Los Angeles Fires
The new report, released Wednesday by the Climate Center, a think tank focused on California climate solutions, details how oil and gas companies and their allies used campaign donations, lobbying dollars, and legal pressure to establish a tax loophole that allows corporations to reduce their taxable state income by avoiding reporting foreign profits and losses, if the company elects to do so.
This tax loophole, called the “water’s edge election,” is California’s largest business tax break. The loophole allows corporations to avoid paying more than $4.3 billion in state corporate tax revenue each year and specifically gives oil and gas companies upward of $146 million in annual tax breaks, researchers found.
While meat-based options remain available, the two daily Chef’s Specials are now always plant-based. So far, the program has been hugely successful, with over half of patients opting for the plant-based dishes and 95% saying they were satisfied with their choice.
Initially, the plant-based meals were only offered at lunchtimes, but they have proved so popular that the scheme will be extended to dinner. This is despite the fact that only 1% of patients identify as vegetarian or vegan.
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Anthropocene: A 15-year snapshot of US diets reveals a gradual shift away from beef
By using data from a national dietary survey of US adults between 2003 and 2018, and conducting a life cycle analysis on the reported foods, the researchers found that the diet-related greenhouse gas emissions of US citizens almost halved, falling from 4 kilograms of CO2 equivalent to 2.45 kg CO2e over the 15 year study period.
The main reason for this decline emerged clearly in the data: over this same period, daily beef consumption plummeted by an average 40% per person, which accounted for nearly half of the diet-related dip in emissions. But it wasn’t just beef: the data showed a slow shift away from all animal-based foods, including dairy, eggs, chicken, and pork—all of which US citizens gradually consumed less of in 2018 than 2003.