Jimmy Kimmel, above, will return to the air on Tuesday night, but the free speech battles are far from over. Randy Holmes/Disney/Getty Images

Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC tonight — but not in every market.

With Sinclair refusing to air Kimmel’s show on its ABC-affiliated stations, and Nexstar not yet commenting on its plans, this free speech tug-of-war is far from over.

And as CNN’s Jake Tapper told Seth Meyers on Monday night, “it doesn’t end” with Kimmel.

MAGA media commentators are raging against ABC’s parent Disney, with some influential pundits publicly pressing the Trump administration to take action against the company, calling to mind FCC chair Brendan Carr’s “We can do this the easy way or the hard way” line from last week.

Any such action would stretch well beyond the

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