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.'”

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

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?

LEFTIES DOUBLING, TRIPLING DOWN: ‘Stop Killing Us,’ Straka Tells Lefties Screaming ‘Nazis’, Threatening Rally Goers.

DOGS BITES MAN: David Hogg Tries to Make Yet Another Tragic Shooting All About Him. “If I ever get killed by one of these right wingers politicize the fuck out of my death immediately (I’m talking before my blood runs cold) and use it to pass as many gun laws as possible and raise as much money as you can to primary Dems who refuse to support gun laws.”

SCOTT PINSKER: Charlie Kirk, George Floyd, and EVERYTHING Different About the Left and the Right.

FASTER? PLEASE! ‘Liquid Uranium Rocket Cuts Mars Trip to 6 Months’: Ohio State Scientists Achieve 1,800-Second Nuclear Engine Performance. “In a groundbreaking pursuit to advance space exploration, The Ohio State University is pioneering the development of a novel propulsion system that could revolutionize travel to Mars and beyond. Known as the centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket (CNTR), this innovative technology aims to enhance rocket performance while significantly reducing the risks associated with engine operations. By utilizing liquid uranium to heat the rocket propellant directly, the CNTR system promises to double the efficiency of conventional nuclear engines. As the race to explore the solar system intensifies, this advancement could play a pivotal role in realizing human missions to distant celestial bodies.”

COULD WE PLEASE JUST GET ONE NORMAL NEWS STORY FOR A CHANGE? Possible Kirk-Related Bomb on Fox News Van Fizzled, But That’s Not the Weird Part…

PRINT THE POSTER: Office Depot Fires Employee Who Refused To Produce A Charlie Kirk Poster Because It Was ‘Propaganda.’

SAY ANYTHING: Jasmine Crockett Claims ICE Came Out of Slave Patrols.

OH, CANADA — THANK YOU:

POWERFUL! Thousands of Canadians in Calgary sing the American National Anthem at a memorial for Charlie Kirk. pic.twitter.com/NvcQGMCzJD

— Kian Simone (@kiansimone44) September 15, 2025

Britain, too.

Is this not the case? pic.twitter.com/VWjEHpiPkn

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) September 14, 2025

“I bid you stand, Men of the West.”

CONGRESS SUCKS: Congress close to missing ‘basic’ budget deadline for 29th year, watchdog group says.

Congress is on its way to missing a “basic” budget deadline for the 29th year in a row, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Meanwhile, the deficit so far into the current fiscal year is larger than the same period last year.

“We’re less than a month away from a possible government shutdown, and lawmakers are once again finding themselves without a plan to keep the government funded,” said Maya MacGuineas, CRFB’s president. “If all 12 appropriations aren’t signed into law by September 30, it will be the 29th year in a row that they failed to meet the most basic deadline in budgeting. That’s not a streak to be proud of.”

MacGuineas said that the current spending showdown is the latest example of how broken the budgeting process is in Washington.

There’s a process?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: MSNBC Might End Up Getting a Corporate Exorcism. “MSNBC has been able exist as the ratings-challenged cable propaganda mill for so long because it’s pretty much been a charity project of the massive corporation behind it. It could hide behind the NBC News division. That security blanket is going away. The fact that the network doesn’t have anybody watching it is going to be more glaring now.”

#RESIST: Dem Mayor Orders Flags To Full Staff Post Charlie Kirk Assassination, Firefighters Say No.

“Good morning, all. As directed by the mayor, all City of Aurora buildings, including the fire stations, are to have their flags at full staff,” the memo from Fire Chief David McCabe of the Aurora Fire Department posted by Franck Ricci, a retired New Haven, Connecticut, firefighter, read. “I know everyone has their own opinion on whether the flag should be at full or half-staff, but that is irrelevant. Someone will be coming around to raise all station flags to full staff.”

The memo went on to say that any manipulation of the flags to place them back at half-staff would be viewed as “a violation of a direct order.”

The source on the ground told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the local firefighters’ union reached an agreement with Laesch that no member of the union would have to raise the flag to full staff. A video posted to X by Ricci appears to show Fire Assistance Chief of Operations Matt Anslow moving the flag to full staff.

“In flagrant disregard for unity, the mayor and chief raised the flags, chasing cheap political points over national mourning, exposing the left’s relentless pursuit of division over decency,” Ricci told the DCNF.

You stay classy, Dems.

CATHERINE SALGADO: The Actual Charlie Kirk 2nd Amendment Quote Lefties Lie About. “Did Charlie Kirk say it is acceptable for people to die so we can have guns? Of course not. He actually gave a highly reasonable speech on the necessity of the right to keep and bear arms.”

MEGYN KELLY: People Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder Can’t Be Reasoned With, Only Defeated.

One of the things that I heard, I think at The New York Times — I can’t keep my leftists straight — I think was saying about Charlie, he was “very controversial.” He said things like Martin Luther King was a bad guy. Yes! Yes, he did say that. You know why? Because MLK’s own biographer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, broke the story that MLK was in back rooms allowing women on his staff to get sexually molested by others right in front of him, and seemed to kind of enjoy it.

That’s what Charlie is talking about. The stories no one else would talk about. That Charlie had questions about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You know why? Because Charlie actually studied people like Shelby Steele, who wrote all about how the black middle class was rising prior to the reign of Lyndon B. Johnson, who infantilized the black community, setting them back by generations with his Great Society programs. Do some homework!

This is a mainstream school of thought within the intellectual African-American community. That’s where Charlie got it. Never mind that. F-ck you for not doing your homework and just trying to paint him as some crazy racist. It’s ridiculous. That’s New York Times take.

So I have been avoiding taking all this out because — just like, you’re not going to convince these people, and why should we bother? Who gives a sh-t? We’ve already moved on without them.

You can’t persuade them. You can’t persuade these lunatics who are online celebrating that Charlie’s dead to be kind. Save it, Utah governor. You can’t. Just stop.

These people need to be defeated, not reasoned with.

How do you reason with someone who’s already decided you’d be better off dead?

ROBERT SPENCER: Okay, Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next. “If, however, the leftists who posted these hit lists thought they would terrorize their targets into silence, they were in for a disappointment. Like Rowling, Shapiro was defiant, saying: ‘We will never stop debating and discussing. We will never stop standing up for what America is and what she should be. And we will never let Charlie’s voice die.'”

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES: How carrying enough water to make return-trip propellant simplifies a Starship mission to Mars.

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 and 2000. Many were the product of NASA and industry study teams, while others were the work of committed individuals or private organizations. I compiled a history of human mission studies through 2023. Essentially all of these mission design concepts were deemed impractical but now, if the SpaceX Starship proves flightworthy, new possibilities could finally emerge as the constraints on space travel change.

All of these studies were carried out in the era of constrained mass. Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) to produce propellants for ascent from Mars and reliance on efficient recycling of gaseous and liquid wastes. Landing massive loads presented major challenges. The “initial mass in low Earth orbit” (IMLEO) was the dominant design parameter. None of these mission designs could be taken as practical and affordable, and a human mission to Mars remained a chimera of paper studies not going anywhere fast.

With the advent of reduced launch costs implemented by SpaceX, the rules of the game are changing. When the Starship becomes operational and can deliver 100 metric tons to Mars, we will have come full circle. The game is no longer to minimize mass, but rather to use large amounts of mass to reduce complexity and risk in moderate missions, and to pursue more ambitious missions than could previously be contemplated. The Starship will use chemical propulsion with a large amount of propellants. The political impediments of NTP are bypassed. It is claimed (but yet to be proven) SpaceX will be able to land huge loads on Mars.

Let’s get going on that next Starship flight test, please.

YES: Thank God Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Was Captured ALIVE. “From Lee Harvey Oswald to Thomas Matthew Crooks, whenever the suspect in a high-profile assassination attempt is killed pre-trial, it provides an opening for crazed conspiratorial gobbledygook. Hell, we’re still debating JFK’s assassination — and that was more than 60 years ago — and it remains unclear how and why Crooks got within a whisker of murdering Donald Trump.”

MSNBC, SMDH:

🚨 WTF?! MSNBC is now saying there is NO "THEME" in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, DESPITE Tyler Robinson having anti-fascist engravings and an anti-Nazi song on the bullet casings.

They want to bury it. "Nothing to see here. Look away." NEVER.pic.twitter.com/PDE6QsqMst

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 12, 2025

MORE GOOD NEWS: Trump Administration Aborts UN’s Cultural Colonialism From U.S. Foreign Policy.

NEXT: Trump to deploy National Guard to Memphis to crack down on crime. “The president said that ‘the mayor is happy’ and ‘the governor is happy’ about the pending deployment.”

JAMIE K WILSON: Censorship, Consequences, and the Five Levels of Suppression.

THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE AIR:

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Germans gathered at the US Embassy in Berlin to hold a candlelight vigil for Charlie Kirk.

The event was described by locals as “spontaneous” and not pre-planned.

A political earthquake has occurred across the West. https://t.co/OynBbGENeF pic.twitter.com/ObJ6iPEW6d

— Vince Dao (@VinceDaoTV) September 12, 2025

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: I Can’t Even Put This Week’s Top Story in the Headline. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn where foot models draw the line, how not to impersonate a nurse, and what they’re driving in Canada these days.”