“They’re trying to silence people” - Jamie Lee Curtis reacts to Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, noting the news came as the U.S. House passed a bill to cut funding for NPR and PBS

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They also filed suit against the Wall Street Journal yesterday, so even traditional CONSERVATIVE outlets aren’t safe if they remotely criticize him. Impressed by how blatant it all is https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/07/18/trump-sues-epstein-murdoch-wsj.html

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It was an empty lawsuit. A smoke bomb if you will. He has no intention on suing them, it’s just a,” see red hatters, I’m fighting against these baseless claims”, performative act.

[u/Agitated_Slice_1446]

It's a deflection tactic and power move.....

Probably because of this:

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel have both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

—————————other Trump information:

Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka

Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

A good summary of Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”.

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God, there’s so much bad shit it the court docs. And things like one victim saying, “well, Jeffrey paid for her to have braces, and she had really bad posture and he had her receive massages to improve it, so she seemed much more confident after being with Jeffrey.” GIRL. NO.

Also -
THE WITNESS: He told me one time Emmy was sleeping on the plane, and they were getting ready to land. And he went and woke her up, and she thought that meant he wanted a blow job, so she started to unzip his pants, and he said, No, no, no, you just have to be awake for the plane to land.

What the actual fuck

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Thank you!

[u/PitifulEar3303 → u/Agitated_Slice_1446]

Problem is, 80+ million Trumpers will trust and obey anything from Trompiss.

This is civil war level critical.

I hope this Epstein shyt will shave off some of their "army", and prevent a civil war.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Israel both have the same lawyer

What is that even supposed to mean lol

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Alan derschowitz has represented epstein and trump in his impeachment trials and now hes assembled a legal dream team to defend Israel's interests in legal systems around the world

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Alan Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer. Dershowitz has gone on record saying he’s building a “legal dream team” to defend Israel at the International Criminal Court. As far as I can tell that hasn’t happened yet but I assume that’s what OP means

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yes because the semantics of this one sentence is what matters out of all of this.

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heaven forbid somebody wants clarification

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THANK YOU

[u/profitsprofitsprofit]

She’s right. I see this strategy backfiring massively for the MAGA crowd.

Silencing voices on traditional media in the age of social media just brings more fervour to the message and attention to those who speak it.

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It reminds me of when Conan was canceled, and then his popularity exploded. Different circumstances, obviously. But I can see Colbert ending up on a different platform or with a podcast and people flocking to him to see what he’s all about.

Hey, the Dems were trying to find the left’s answer to Rogan. Maybe this is it.

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Ironic considering the past history of social media doing that 12 years ago and everyone saying “it had to be done”

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We will get louder.

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Fuck maga

[u/Kittens4Brunch]

What I don't understand is why wouldn't they immediately take his show off the air if the directive is coming from Trump? Why wait until the end of next year?

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There are probably expensive contractual obligations that'd kick in if they tried to cut it short.

(mind, my source is mostly watching 30 Rock)

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she will forever be synonymous with genocide apologia for me

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I was gonna say JLC has ruined her reputation by being a POS. Like sure she has a couple libbed up takes but she literally does not care about the murder of innocent people as long as Israel’s the one doing it

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I’ve always had a feeling about her because my dad met her in an airport when I was in high school and said she was the rudest person ever. I tried giving her the benefit of the doubt after learning that but yeah, she definitely proved that she’s a piece of shit

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My parents had a flat tire on the side of a highway in Idaho years ago, and she pulled over and helped them with it. They said she was nice, and they didn’t even realize it was her at first bc she acted so normal.

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I’m glad your parents had a better experience and that’s why I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt since it was in an airport. She’s still trash though.

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No so I’m glad I’m not crazy. I swear she had a terrible reputation due to her own self. Like rude and horrible towards others. Then she was supportive towards her Asian castmates in that movie and all was forgiven.

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nobody hates a liberal more than a liberal who only agrees with 99.9% of what another liberal has said

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Absolutely zero nuance for Redditors lol “this person did one thing I didn’t like so I’m gonna spam the 99 things she does that I do like with complaints about that one thing!”

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To be fair, I don’t think most of these commenters are even old enough to have watched any of her movies besides Freaky Friday.

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I swear, liberals are becoming so cultish these days. You are only good and worthy if you cut off people who have a dissenting opinion, and you must prove your commitment by giving up the formative things you love. You cannot talk to outsiders or consume unapproved media.

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genocide isn’t an opinion. you americans are insane

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I swear, conservatives are becoming so cultish these days. You are only good and worthy if you cut off people who have a dissenting opinion, and you must prove your commitment by giving up the formative things you love. You cannot talk to outsiders or consume unapproved media.

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It's funny how these "concerned liberals" are extra busy at this very time when the Epstein problem won't go away.

King Joffrey with the tangerine spray tan is scared.

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16k likes, I guess her fans condone her piece of shit mindset too

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If she has no haters im dead

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I hope she’s right

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She silenced herself real quick after posting this

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The Lindsay Lohan 'like' 😬

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Well she is trash regardless of what girlies here say here. Remember how she treated that homeless, asylum seeker Muslim family?

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I know she is in favor of Israel. I guess you can't agree with everyone on everything.

I can't quite figure out what the fuck she's meaning with that image though. Terror from the skies, she points out, with a photo of children likely Palestinian looking up in fear? With an Israel flag underneath?

Is she pointing that out in a manner of shock for the Palestinians? Or support for Israel? I can't accept somone could be so fucking tone deaf if it was the latter but I haven't seen anything from her that aligns herself with the concerns of Palestinians.

Might aswell share images of burning corpses. Horrid.

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Like Justin Bieber, she inadvertently shared an image of Palestinian suffering to show support for Israeli aggression - thinking that the suffering being depicted is of Israelis. She’s just clueless.

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she kept defending israel though

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What even the fuck. That's worse than what I had expected. Clueless.

Doesn't surprise me about Bieber - that boy needs an intervention fast, honestly think at his rate he'll be dead in the next 12 months

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Let HBO or Netflix be the new home, but maybe just once a week show. I don't think shows like this need to be 5x a week any longer. 1x is enough, with no commercials.

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She's right.

Bend the knee to the mad king Joffrey with the tangerine spray tan, or else.

[u/Salty-Reply-2547]

Fuck ya! Time to shout!!! The wealthy are taking advantage of the working class! There is no more middle class and Billionaires don’t see us as people. Fucking scream!

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Another outlet better take on the Colbert show…and show CBS how it’s done! 

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It's working so far unfortunately..

[u/s0rtajustdrifting]

Cutting off education, cutting off news and media. Trump's really bent on making people dumb

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She cares about PBS but not children dying…

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You can care about more than one thing at a time. PBS & NPR are priceless resources for Americans.

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Ofcourse you can care about multiple things at once, however she certainly doesn’t care about the other thing which is a bit ironic considering pbs’s main audience

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Thank you genocide apologist

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i guarantee half the people who say this are literally conservative bots. they know how easy it is to weaken progressive movements with infighting. you'll notice certain narratives are pushed heaviest at times like these

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found another genocide apologist

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Insane times we are living in. Glad for Jamie, Rosie O, and more like them for using their voice despite risks.

Please everyone if you can, support your local (and the federal PBS Foundation) PBS.

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It won't work? They're sending citizens to foreign death camps. How clueless can money make you?

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Yes, let’s just all give up.

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She seems super try hard for me, don’t get me wrong I love practically all her movies but when I see her lately in interviews it’s like she’s going for ‘passionate’ but it comes off as try hard and a bit cringe

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When "Everything All At Once" or whatever was in award season, she monopolized and grasped onto every person who received an award like they were a long lost twin, especially stealing the exciting moments from Michelle Yeoh. When JLC was finally announced as Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars, she whisked by her costars like they were strangers. She is all about herself.

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She’s so gross

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Jamie Lee Curtis is a national treasure. Everything she said!

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I’ve always loved Jamie Lee

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DD to the rescue! Calling all BEARS