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Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

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125 points voxadam | 5 comments | 22 Sep 25 20:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Animats ◴[22 Sep 25 21:06 UTC] No.45339433[source]▶
Kimmel will be back on the air next week.[1]

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/09/22/j...

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1. jonny_eh ◴[22 Sep 25 21:09 UTC] No.45339460[source]▶
Tomorrow, September 23.

> Following a suspension of the show for host Jimmy Kimmel's comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney says "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return to air on Tuesday, Sept 23.

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2. anigbrowl ◴[22 Sep 25 21:13 UTC] No.45339508[source]▶
Just in time for the Rapture - COINCIDENCE??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Edit: apparently HN readers are unaware that there's a viral belief going around that the Rapture is happening between Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

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3. platevoltage ◴[22 Sep 25 22:42 UTC] No.45340513[source]▶
I thought the Rapture was happening last night when I was shaken from a peaceful slumber by a 4.3 earthquake.
4. Jtsummers ◴[22 Sep 25 22:44 UTC] No.45340529[source]▶
RaptureTok, that was not a term I ever thought I'd read. I'll be playing D&D right in the middle of their predicted Rapture-window, guess I'll still be here on Thursday.
5. rimunroe ◴[23 Sep 25 17:01 UTC] No.45349790[source]▶
> Edit: apparently HN readers are unaware that there's a viral belief going around that the Rapture is happening between Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

While it's certainly being talked about a lot on TikTok, but I'm not sure how many people are posting there about how they really think it's going to happen. Last I looked a couple of days ago it looked like a few dozen accounts at most were posting original content about it, but there were tons of people making content satirizing it.

In general I think "trends" on TikTok get treated as though they're far more widespread than similar phenomena on other platforms, like Twitter.