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September 15, 2025
CORN, POPPED:
He told everybody on Discord that he did it.
Every Antifa Discord server is in full panic right now.
Because I’m pretty sure the gov will be looking very very hard at private servers that are stirring up political violence.
Don’t bother scrubbing, Discord saves everything even… https://t.co/o9xUuiDXKm
— Grummz (@Grummz) September 15, 2025
Trump needs to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.
LEFTIES DOUBLING, TRIPLING DOWN:
It’s to make the family feel unwelcome and unsafe in their home. To scare their children. To bully the parents away from expressing themselves politically.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 15, 2025
In reference to this:
Just four days after the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, @arlingtondems are “chalking” messages of hate towards @StephenM and @KatieMiller just blocks away from their home.
I asked them to explain “Miller is preying on families” and all were too cowardly to respond. pic.twitter.com/BIVgRtCYfG
— Corey Inganamort 🪚🌴🪚 (@TheBirdWords) September 14, 2025
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NEW FRONTIERS IN DESPERATE FALSE EQUIVALENCY:
We “cancelled” the Dixie Chicks by not buying their music or going to their concerts.
You canceled Charlie Kirk by assassinating him.
We are not the same. https://t.co/KSEWhvxEXF
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 15, 2025
AS THEY SHOULD: After Wayne, MI Church Shooting, Other Local Churches are Taking Security Far More Seriously.
Helen and I were walking and cut through the parking lot of a local baptist church, to be met by a rather large and formidable woman openly carrying a holstered Glock. She was friendly enough, and clearly decided we were not a threat to the kids in the church daycare playground, but she was on guard, and rightly so.
SPACE: Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket cleared to fly again after April 29 launch failure. “The approval follows a months-long review of the failed ‘Message in a Booster’ mission in April, during which the rocket’s first stage broke apart moments after separation and compromised the vehicle’s second stage. The closure of the investigation, which was announced on Aug. 26, clears the way for Firefly to resume Alpha launches, the preparations for which the company says have already begun.”
Godspeed.
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BULLETS AND BALLOTS: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk.
Behind all of this was one overarching message: Do not fear. You have truth behind you. An entire fellowship of young conservatives stands behind you too. Charlie is here today to show you that conservatives like you can stand tall in hostile spaces. You can also do this. You should also do this. They do not own the public square. You do not need to be afraid.
That was the message of the man who was murdered this week.
This message had an obvious corollary: if we show up, then we will win. Recall that Trump did not win the 2016 popular vote. This caused a lot of nihilism among young conservatives. Many believed that the American people were too corrupted for a conservative movement to win majority support. Others thought that the American power structure—the en vogue term was “the cathedral”—would never allow a fair fight and would grind actual resistance to dust. He who believes thus either retreats from the public entirely or looks to less democratic solutions to the nation’s problems.
Charlie Kirk thought otherwise. He insisted that conservative populists could win the fight for the public square even if that fight was rigged against them. This faith was the foundation of his public persona and the engine that propelled the organizations he led. Kirk went out of his way to debate his ideas openly with opponents from the other camp. As a true populist leader should, he moved among the people, constantly talking with ordinary citizens of all persuasions. Kirk thought in terms of ballots, not bullets. When many to his right fantasized about Caesar and Sulla, he chased votes. He did not think nationalists needed to adopt extreme measures to win. Persuasion and mobilization—the traditional tools of self-government—would be enough.
Kirk saw America as he saw college campuses: the problem was not that America lacked conservatives or populists, but that too many of the conservatives it had were inexperienced, apathetic, or afraid. All they needed was an invitation to show up. The organizations Kirk built did this inviting.
These were the methods of the man who was murdered [last] week.
Related: Charlie Kirk saw himself as holding back a revolution.
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, there was a brief moment where people of both parties seemed to hope that it would mark a change in direction for the course of the country – an end to the demonization of the other side, a tamping down on the tone of our virulent political debate. That was as fleeting as an election cycle. But now with Kirk’s bloody violent murder while doing exactly the same thing he encouraged so many young people to do – using free-speech rights to stand up for what they believe, publicly and without fear of debate with the other side – the lesson many on the right may take away is that there is no future for such engagement.
The consequences of such a move would break from Kirk’s mission, and serve to accept the message the American left, from its most powerful elites to its core electorate, has been sending loud and clear since 2016: that there is no place for Republican views in society, that they are Nazis and fascists and existential threats, people who should be hounded and punched, and whose deepest pain is your path to joy. And why shouldn’t they take that lesson? There is no purpose to debate when at the end, the other side just wants you dead all the more. Can we even share a country with these people who hate us so much?
The reason not to take that path is because it’s the opposite of what Kirk himself believed and exemplified, as he told us over and over again. In a profile in Deseret published on the eve of his fall campus tour just last week, he vocalized his purpose as calling his fans and fellow young conservatives to something higher than just hating the other side:
“My job every single day is actively trying to stop a revolution,” Kirk said. “This is where you have to try to point them toward ultimate purposes and toward getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children. That is the type of conservatism that I represent, and I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue, of lifting people up, not just staying angry.”
The worst thing the young American right could do now in this moment is turn Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom into a lesson fundamentally at odds with his mission. Really, after all this, could you blame them? The American left hated Charlie Kirk. They mocked his approach to debate. They smeared him for his conservative beliefs. But they and the country may be about to learn what comes next, and learn it hard.
More: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Flipped a Remarkable Switch in the MAGA Movement.
THEY ROUSED THE NORMALS:
Don’t know if people who live outside of LA can know how significant this is. https://t.co/p5d2JUXJE4
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) September 15, 2025
Most people just want to be left alone. Murdering Charlie Kirk for talking made most people realize the Left took away that option.
THEY HATE US, THEY REALLY HATE US!
I honestly didn't know that the Emmy's were still a thing. https://t.co/AVOabFQrgZ
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 15, 2025
They aren’t. https://t.co/i68pWGbHJ3
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) September 15, 2025
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JIM GERAGHTY: ‘Consequence Culture’ Comes for the Angry Left.
Back in 2021, actor LeVar Burton — beloved from years hosting Reading Rainbow and his role in Star Trek: The Next Generation — insisted that what many conservatives called “cancel culture” was simply a long-overdue reckoning of consequences for objectionable statements: “‘In terms of cancel culture, I think it’s misnamed,’ Burton said. ‘I think we have a consequence culture. And that consequences are finally encompassing everybody in the society, whereas they haven’t been ever in this country.’”
However you choose to label the phenomenon, I notice that now few folks on the left see the firings and dismissals after Kirk’s death as an example of “consequence culture.”
Last night, the AP wrote, “Some conservatives are seeking to upend the lives and careers of those who disparaged Charlie Kirk after his death.” In the 1,149-word article, you have to get to the 15th paragraph before you get even a description of that “disparagement,” referring to an assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University and professors at Austin Peay State University and Cumberland University: “All three lost their jobs for comments deemed inappropriate for expressing a lack of sympathy, or even for expressing pleasure, in the shooting of Kirk. One said Kirk ‘spoke his fate into existence.’”
Rolling Stone fumes, “Journalists, publicists, and college faculty have been fired after calling the right-wing influencer a divisive figure and making light of his assassination.” Well, maybe people shouldn’t “make light” of his assassinations, then? Is that too much to ask? Remember how everyone felt when Alex Jones insisted the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax? That’s how you sound to someone who liked the slain figure.
Alternatively, all these people who feel good when someone they disagree with politically is gunned down could try not expressing their views on social media for the whole wide world to see. If you say these things to your friends and family, the consequences will be much less severe.
Related: Should the Ghouls Publicly Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Lose Their Jobs?
In response to Charlie Kirk’s public execution by a demented sniper, cruel, callous, and frankly demonic expressions of solidarity and pleasure have exploded across social media. These reactions should not be exploited to attack an entire political party or movement, nor should we despair over the appalling words and conduct of a relative fringe. But the scope of this ugliness should not be understated either.
More:
PERFORMATIVE VICTIMHOOD FOR FUN & PROFIT: Another One Bites the Dust: WaPo’s Karen Attiah Fired for ‘Unacceptable’ Kirk Posts. “On reading the news, my first thought was, ‘Maybe she should have taken the buyout.’ My second thought was, ‘No, this is better.'”
WORDS OF WISDOM:
— Scottopia (@scotttopia) September 15, 2025
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Honestly, I don’t know about this. She wasn’t actually inciting anything, wasn’t attacking students or releasing personal information, she was just expressing a truly execrable, indefensible, and childish opinion. Opinions are generally protected speech. I suppose (I haven’t actually heard) that the University’s position is that students couldn’t feel like they could get a fair shake if their politics differed from hers, which is probably fair. If it’s okay to kill people over Charlie Kirk’s opinions, you have to assume she’d be okay with flunking them.
As I noted earlier, Eugene Volokh has a good roundup of the law on this stuff.
MORE: (FROM GLENN). The Chancellor sends this: “Violence on a university campus wounds the heart of our academic mission, and no statements endorsing a campus shooting can be acceptable to an institution.” Fair enough.
WELL: After Kirk shooting, Utah governor calls social media a “cancer.” Will we treat it like one?
If only there had been some sort of warning.
THIS COULD BE A VERY BIG DEAL:
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is investigating social media posts by at least seven different accounts that appeared to indicate foreknowledge of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to three people familiar with the investigation and screenshots obtained by the Free Beacon.🧵 pic.twitter.com/b6TB79V2Fj
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) September 15, 2025
Developing…
UPDATE: My apologies. There was supposed to be a second tweet with screencaps of the suspect accounts, but I had the wrong URL saved.
I’ll repost if I can find it again.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Found it.
If you're a leftist desperately claiming trans ideology had nothing to do with this shooting, you'd better buckle up. pic.twitter.com/V6MkCrlFjc
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 15, 2025
LOOKING HARDER: Charlie Kirk Murder Investigation Expands.
ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO SMOTHER: Whoopi Goldberg Rips Dems for Not Continuing Cover Up of Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline.
Whoopi Goldberg criticized fellow Democrats during a broadcast of “The View” on Wednesday, saying the party should have handled concerns over Joe Biden’s decline privately rather than making them public during the 2024 election cycle.
Goldberg’s comments came during a discussion of Kamala Harris’ newly released book.
“If the Democrats had kept their mouths shut and looked like, hold on, hear what I’m saying, if they had kept their mouths shut and took care of this in-house, as opposed to making it a public spectacle, I think people would have had a better feel about it,” Goldberg said.
What does that even mean?
THE VIEW OF THE WORLD FROM 9th AVENUE, 2025 EDITION:
New Yorker writer claims, astonishingly, to be unaware of a single leftist celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder pic.twitter.com/MCfnaPVzKT
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) September 15, 2025
Even with ubiquitous social media, the New Yorker has never been able to peer into its backyard:
But that’s because New Yorker staffers have always been proud to wear their blinkers: “Pauline Kael famously commented, after the 1972 Presidential election, ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.’”