CBS Cancel's Stephen Colbert's Late Night show

Boooo!

Possibly for Political Reasons?


Following the announcement of the cancellation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and the retirement of "The Late Show" franchise in May 2026, several channels are available for viewers to express their concerns and disappointment to CBS.

 
To contact CBS regarding the cancellation, you can use the following methods:

--Online Feedback Form: Fill out a feedback form on the CBS website to submit your message to the appropriate department.
--Phone: Call CBS customer service at + (888) 274-5343 for immediate assistance with your inquiry.
--Social Media: Reach out to CBS via their official accounts on platforms like Twitter (@CBS), Facebook, or Instagram to engage with them directly.

 
If you wish to send a letter to Stephen Colbert, you can address it to him at the Ed Sullivan Theater. You can also reach out to him via his agent, manager, or publicist, with contact information available online.

Some politicians, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, have suggested that the cancellation might be related to political reasons, especially given Colbert's criticism of Paramount's settlement with Donald Trump. If you believe this to be the case, you may consider contacting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to express your concerns about potential political interference in the media.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/media/colbert-cbs-late-show-cancel-paramount-trump 

TVF BOARD MEETING

 

Happening tonight!

JULY 16th

6:00 PM 

SUPPORT LGBTq+ RIGHTS

What: Board Meeting

Who: Tanana Valley State Fair Association

When: 6pm July 16 (tonight)

Where: Agricultural Museum

Why: Come provide comment on how important an inclusive fair is to you, and support the community members who are serving on the board.

Fairbanks's PLAG-- an organization for  our trans, gay & lesbian citizens is requesting your supportive presence at a public meeting this evening.  Apparently, there is a BIG local movement to exclude their them/ events from the fair and other community venues. The language at public meetings has been provocative  misinformation promoting fear & hate. PFLAG is asking the community to: 

"...show up to the Tanana Valley State Fair Association Board meeting on Wednesday, July 16 at 6:00 p.m. in the Agricultural Museum on the fairgrounds. (Enter through the far blue gate. You can park immediately on your right. It's the small barn with a greenhouse next to it).

Just having your supportive presence would make a big difference, but also members of the public can give a 3-minute comment. "

Let's support FA I's LGBTQ community ensuring the promise of "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness" for everyone. Each American deserves the same rights.  The propaganda, hate & exclusion is a big problem.  Consider going to show support. Take friends!!

Deportation News

 

I hope this holds:

Federal judge orders stop to indiscriminate immigration raids in Los Angeles

NPR article:

July 11, 202511:08 PM ET

Adrian Florido

A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered the Trump administration to stop carrying out immigration sweeps in which she said federal agents have been indiscriminately arresting people across southern California without reasonable suspicion that they're in the country illegally.

Since early June, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol and other federal agencies have been roving Los Angeles and surrounding counties arresting thousands of people in what civil rights lawyers characterized in a lawsuit last week as an unconstitutional and "extraordinary campaign of targeting people based on nothing more than the color of their skin."

In her order, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, said there is "a mountain of evidence" to support the claim that agents are arresting people solely based on their race, accents, or the work they're engaged in, in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable government seizure.



MORE:

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5462618/federal-judge-orders-stop-to-indiscriminate-immigration-raids-in-los-angeles

ALSO:

ABC7 (Youtube video)

Federal judge says DHS must stop broad, race-based immigration arrests

The judge's decision blocks DHS agents from stopping individuals based on factors like their race or the language they speak.

READ MORE

https://youtu.be/4OweLEd5ghc?si=4Bl1k-wB4ufL3Cv0 

New York Times:

Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.

A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration on Friday from making indiscriminate immigration arrests in the Los Angeles area and from denying detainees the right to consult with a lawyer.

The two temporary restraining orders issued by the judge represented a sharp rebuke of tactics that federal agents have employed in and around Los Angeles during waves of immigration raids that began last month.

READ MORE:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html 

Legal Observing & Copwatch

 

With the ramp up of ICE, sometimes dressed in camo like terrorists, with masks and huge guns, snatching people off the street without a warrant, legal observing becomes important. Be sure to document what you see (or video). Here's a website with info:

History of Legal Observing

The idea of community members watching law enforcement officers through organized patrols originates from the Black Power Movement. According to the NYC-based Justice Committee, the practice was started by the Black Panther Party in 1966. The Black Panthers conducted armed citizens’ patrols in order to monitor the behavior of law enforcement officers in the Oakland Police Department. This practice later became known as copwatch. Many local activist organizations continue to copwatch today.

The National Lawyers Guild, as the first integrated bar association in the U.S., took components from this practice and developed its Legal Observer® Program in 1968 in New York City in response to protests at Columbia University and city-wide antiwar and racial justice demonstrations. You may read more about NLG’s history in mass defense work here.

Today, legal observing is a distinct practice from copwatch. Legal observing acts as a direct form of protester legal support, connecting activists to a much bigger support infrastructure made up of arrest hotlines, jail support teams, community bail funds and legal defense funds, attorney referral networks, and more.

Monitor, observe, and document government conduct against First Amendment-protected activity,


Provide arrest support for protesters on the ground and help support teams track and help arrested folks, and


Empower activists and serve as a deterrent to unconstitutional behavior by law enforcement

Legal Observers® are one piece of a larger system of legal support infrastructure working to provide activists with the tools and confidence they need to make their voices heard. Official Programs provide their Legal Observers® with neon-green, trademarked hats, which have become a symbol of legal support for progressive movements in the United States and beyond.

MORE:

https://www.nlg.org/massdefenseprogram/los/

Concentration Camp Labor

 

I have worried about this idea since Trump got in in January because I’ve heard it before… that when Trump got elected a lot of people started buying stock in private prisons and companies that are contracted by states to run prisons. This is a very nefarious idea to denaturalize people and then arrest them and put them in a prison where you can make money off them. Is this what they will do?

Concentration Camp Labor

Cannot Become Normal

Timothy Snyder, Jul 04, 2025 (Substack)

With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.

Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp system followed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor.

We know this and have no excuse not to act.


What happens next in the U.S.? Workers who are presented as "undocumented" will be taken to the camps. Perhaps they will work in the camps themselves, as slaves to government projects. But more likely they will be offered to American companies on special terms: a one-time payment to the government, for example, with no need for wages or benefits. In the simplest version, and perhaps the most likely, detained people will be offered back to the companies for which they were just working. Their stay in the concentration camp will be presented as a purge or a legalization for which companies should be grateful. Trump has already said that this is the idea, calling it "owner responsibility."

We should remember what drew I.G Farben into Auschwitz: profit. But there are of course precedents for extreme exploitation in American history, including but not limited to the history of chattel slavery. And slavery is not entirely illegal in the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment allows slavery if only as punishment for a crime. The people described as "undocumented" or "denaturalized" (and other categories sure to be invented soon) are portrayed as criminals.

READ MORE:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

EXCUSES FROM LISA MURKOWSKI

July 1, 11 AM

She posts on FB:

This was one of the hardest votes I have taken during my time in the Senate.

My goal throughout the reconciliation process has been to make a bad bill better for Alaska, and in many ways, we have done that. In addition to extending pro-growth tax cuts, a larger child tax credit, and no tax on tips or overtime, we made a historic investment and modernization of the Coast Guard; enhanced our border security and national defense; funded aviation safety, including AWOS/VWOS systems that will save lives; and provided tax-exempt status for the Community Development Quota Program to help western Alaska communities establish a sustainable economy, among other provisions.

We have advanced new opportunities for resource development in the NPR-A, the Coastal Plain, and Cook Inlet that will help us create jobs and increase the share of revenues our state receives. I also co-led the Senate effort to restore a slightly longer phase-out for wind and solar tax credits while deleting a punitive excise tax targeting them.

Those provisions will benefit our economy, but it is the people of Alaska that I worry about the most, especially when it comes to the potential loss of social safety net programs—Medicaid coverage and SNAP benefits—that our most vulnerable populations rely on.

To address the bill’s shortcomings, we have helped our communities through a $50 billion rural health fund. This will mean hundreds of millions of dollars for Alaska hospitals, community health centers, and other providers. We secured commitments from the CMS Administrator to continue to address longstanding priorities which will directly help Bartlett, Fairbanks Memorial, Central Peninsula, and other hospitals in Alaska.

In the SNAP program, we have added tribal exemptions for work requirements, delayed cost-share penalties to help Alaska get benefits to the people who need them, and included work requirement waivers that align with our Medicaid policies. We also secured commitments from the Secretary of Agriculture to provide additional flexibilities to Alaska for SNAP.

But, let’s not kid ourselves. This has been an awful process—a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution. While we have worked to improve the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation—and we all know it.

My sincere hope is that this is not the final product. This bill needs more work across chambers and is not ready for the President’s desk. We need to work together to get this right. 

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