Jon Stewart returned to his roots this week, and by that we do mean the roots of his hair. While calling out Republicans for their hypocrisy around free speech, the Comedy Central host threw on a black wig as a callback to what his hair used to look like in the 2000s.

After playing several clips of rightwing pundits calling the left the “thought police” and comparing Democrats to George Orwell’s “1984,” Stewart pointed to the many words the Trump administration is removing from the federal government as well as their actions toward pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. The Trump administration is currently trying to deport the Columbia University graduate in the wake of his activism. Columbia has also agreed to place its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department under “academic receivership” for at least five years as a “precondition” for restoring funding.

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