Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. It’s proof that you still have power | Robert Reich

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Disney saw hurricane-level blowback over the talkshow host’s suspension, thanks in large part to consumers

ABC says “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to the airwaves next Tuesday – less than a week after Trump’s henchman Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said on a podcast that Kimmel’s remarks were part of a “concerted effort to lie to the American people”.

Carr threatened that the FCC could “do this the easy way or the hard way” – suggesting that either ABC and its parent company, Walt Disney, must remove Kimmel or the regulator would have “additional work” to do.

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