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On Sunday, September 21, nearly 100,000 people gathered at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for the memorial service of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Thousands more gathered in a nearby overflow arena, and according to Charlie’s executive producer, over 100 million people streamed the service online, not counting replays.

The event kicked off with a powerful worship session led by the biggest names in Christian music, including Brandon Lake, Chris Tomlin, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, and Phil Wickham.

But even when speeches began, the majority of them given by high-profile conservative media figures, like Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, and Benny Johnson, as well as several Trump administration officials, including Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and President Donald Trump, the presence of God remained steady. Every single speaker who took the stage either shared the gospel message, highlighted Charlie’s faith in Jesus Christ, or read directly from scripture.

While there were many powerful addresses, most notably the one given by Charlie’s widow and TPUSA’s new CEO, Erika Kirk, during which she graciously forgave her husband’s alleged murderer, Pastor Rob McCoy perhaps made history with an altar call that reached millions across the globe simultaneously.

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Pastor McCoy, Charlie’s longtime pastor from Godspeak Calvary Chapel in California, began by asking all Christians — those who “profess Christ as their Savior” — to remain seated.

Referring to Jesus’ words in Matthew 10:32-33, he said, “The Bible says if you profess me before man, I’ll profess you before my Father in heaven. It requires an act of faith — you stand. That’s what Charlie did every day on campus with death threats. He stood because he knew in whom he had trusted, and he wants to give you the gift of the why and what he did, and that is his Savior, Jesus.”

“While believers are seated, if there’s any in this room and across the globe that would desire to receive Jesus as their Savior, as Charlie did as a young man and now is in the presence of his Savior, I’m going to ask you to put action to your faith, and I’d ask you to stand right now to receive the Lord. Don’t be ashamed — stand!” Pastor McCoy encouraged.

Video footage shows several people in the stadium standing up at this invitation. The potential thousands of streaming viewers who stood up from their couches is anyone’s guess.

Pastor McCoy told the standing group that angels were rejoicing in heaven over their decision to follow Christ — as was Charlie. “He’s stoked and he’s excited about your commitment to his Savior,” he roared over the cheering crowd.

But the standing wasn’t over.

“For this remaining moment, if you’ve given your heart to the Lord and someone is seated next to you, I want that person who is a believer to stand and pray with you,” McCoy said to the thousands of professing Christians.

As the stadium filled with prayers and embraces, the scene evoked the monumental altar calls of Billy Graham, whose 1973 Seoul crusade drew over 1 million attendees in person, with tens of thousands responding to the gospel.

Yet in the digital age, Pastor McCoy’s invitation — broadcast to over 100 million online viewers — may rival or even surpass those historic moments in sheer global reach, potentially making it the largest altar call since Graham’s satellite-linked events decades ago.

Charlie Kirk’s memorial didn’t just commemorate a life of bold conservatism; it sparked a profound spiritual revival, proving that his greatest legacy was pointing others to the eternal hope found in Christ.

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With respect to the recent designation of Antifa as a terror group, it’s likely that we’re about to watch some serious application of Palantir technologies to the digital and physical domestic battle spaces. Internecine squabbles, foreign agents and actors, a spiraling away from anything like a shared vision at the citizen level — all will exacerbate the confusion as this push goes forward. We humans are going to be forced to get acquainted fast with how AI, politics, and justice get along.

It’s going to be messy. It’s already messy. Narrative itself is under scrutiny. The discourse that got the aggregate elements of the right gathered up around the election of Trump is disintegrating under the weight of the rapid merger of technology and humanity. Few understand this. Fewer understand what is about to drive the further dissolution of that discourse.

Highly reliable sources within the special operations forces community have confided to this author the high probability of Antifa access to support, training, and supervision from high-level former SOF personnel.

Meanwhile, something new in the way of counterterrorism ops needs to be accomplished. Network mapping and the building of target folders are standard; the defunding and disruption of thousands of small cells are now under discussion. At present, no one has an iron lock on how deep or wide the networks underwriting Antifa extend. What are Antifa investigations going to reveal, financially, politically, and in corporate and social media?

It would appear at this point that nothing is off the table: enemies foreign and domestic, entities digital and corporeal, corporations and state-sponsored groups practicing fifth-generation warfare — are all up for scrutiny. Months before Antifa’s recent designation as a domestic terrorist group, ICE conducted a physical raid on an Antifa-adjacent suspect allegedly housing illegal migrants in his apartment in downtown Portland, Oregon.

While we can presume this was part of the ICE-Palantir collaboration, the trend is toward total integration of prosecutorial and information resources under, or centralized/coordinated with, Palantir. The emergence of digital technology as the potential cause of, and solution to, America’s violent social decay makes for a strange and emotionally fraught American quagmire.

Is transgenderism a network nexus?

It’s one made all the stranger by the starring role — at the nexus of madness, narrative, identity and digital politics — played by so-called transgenderism and by “trans” individuals.

RELATED: Man who tried to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as transgender, new docs show

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Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer is only the latest in a rather extensive run of alleged and convicted murderers to identify, to varying extent, with the transgender identity. What is this phenomenon? Opinions vary. The numbers are stark, however. People, particularly biological men, identifying as transgender are radically prone to suicide. And increasingly, it seems, political violence.

Auron MacIntyre went live on X on Friday, Sept. 19. His monologue included the statement, “If you are almost religiously dedicated to mutilating children as a rite of passage for your political movement, then I can’t really debate your political movement with you any more.”

MacIntyre is correct. There is a fundamental divide. It’s religious in nature, by default of expressed intent. This divide will be sorted out, at least in part, with the help of ostensibly secular AI. The question remains, however: How much of the problem, the identitarian political violence and its ecology, which is about to be prosecuted, actually stems from or relates back to the same digital technology that will used in prosecution?

Some would doubt the legitimacy of this odd central role taken up by, or granted to, the transgender phenomenon. It may be no coincidence. It may be that the phenomenon itself is, in part, related very closely to the designs and aggressive expansion of digital technologies themselves. The relationships between transgenderism and transhumanism — between the cellular hive-like construction of the internet chat spaces and the disembodied solitariness of the online social interactions — are recursive, mutually reinforcing. There are loops between the human and his technological inventions that are not well enough understood.

What links trans, Antifa, and ex-special forces?

As AI steps onto the domestic counterterrorism scene, consider that Antifa has within its ranks several high-level, former special operations actors. Highly reliable sources within the special operations forces community have confided to this author the high probability of Antifa access to support, training, and supervision from high-level former SOF personnel.

Several ex-SOF operators have famously self-identified as transgender either while serving or after separating from the military. Special operations is known to be very plugged in and tech-capable. Whatever the depth or oddity of the coalition, be assured that these actors understand counternarrative, sacrifice, subterfuge, and misdirection, to say nothing of kinetic action. They will allocate human resources as or more ruthlessly than any soulless corporation.

The human mind today (forget about the AI substitute) is so mind-bombed and under so many psyops that it is severely ill equipped to manage holistic environments. Binary circuit construction seems to force binary, computational, linear thinking.

If transgenderism is, in fact, somehow or other, directly tied to the dangerously warping dynamics of technology, what will be the nature of that interaction going forward? We don’t know yet. The emerging scenario is the type of hyper-dynamic environment created in fifth-generation-type multi-actor conflicts.

Likely we will see, by default, an even greater and more explicit dependence on — and a giving over of power to — artificial intelligence. It will be easy to accept such moves as the human responsibility for justice decisions, always contested and imperfect, becomes more easily externalized.

The sheer volume of subdivisions and clique-making available to the cyber-individual, and the multitude of digitally sequestered spaces (chat rooms, forums, comms apps) enabling those moves, has grown so vast as to surpass the powers of human analysis. Investigation without AI would lag years behind the action curve of terrorism, while the unraveling and decoding of financial networks in support of now-designated terror groups is probably only possible with an entity native to those cyber networks.

We’ve entered the era of digital domestic counterterrorism. So has AI — and those who wield it most powerfully.

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An Ohio barista was fired after she wrote a disparaging message on a customer’s cup.

Since Charlie Kirk’s murder, a video of a young woman asking him what he orders at Starbucks has gone viral. Kirk revealed in the video that due to his frequent speaking engagements, he orders “literally just Mint Majesty tea with two honeys” to preserve his speaking voice.

Starbucks called the writing on the cup ‘unacceptable.’

Since then, Americans have honored the late activist by ordering his favorite drink at their local Starbucks. In Middletown, Ohio — the hometown of Vice President JD Vance — a woman said her local Starbucks proved to her exactly why she does not frequent the business.

“The girl at Starbucks thought she was cute,” wrote Autumn Perkins. The customer added that even though she is not a big fan of the company, she decided to support Kirk by ordering his favorite drink.

Attached to Perkins’ Facebook post was a photo of her coffee cup that showed the words “racists fav drink” written on it.

“Thank you Starbucks for proving to me exactly why I prefer to support my small local Christian owned and operated coffee shop,” Perkins added.

However, after revealing she had complained to the store manager, Perkins said she heard back from the location the following morning.

RELATED: Leftist streamer calls Charlie Kirk’s memorial a ‘Nazi rally’ — and humiliates himself

The Kroger in which the Starbucks is located contacted Perkins to let her know the employee had been fired, she claimed.

“Between last night and this morning I have had several Kroger employees reach out to me and they took this very seriously. As a long time customer of this particular Kroger location I am pleased with the way they quickly reacted and responded,” the customer wrote. “Thank you Kroger for doing what was right.”

A Kroger spokesperson provided comment to the Cincinnati Enquirer and stated the actions of the former employee do not reflect the grocer’s values.

In a comment to Fox News Digital, Starbucks called the writing on the cup “unacceptable.”

“We have clear policies that prohibit negative messages to help preserve a welcoming environment,” Starbucks added. The company also confirmed the employee in question had been fired by Kroger.

Typically, Starbucks baristas write the customer’s name on the drink, and while it is unclear if Perkins requested her own name or Kirk’s, the latter gesture has also become popular enough that Starbucks released a statement about it.

RELATED: Remembering Charlie Kirk: A tribute to his BlazeTV impact

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Videos have circulated showing Starbucks customers not only ordering Kirk’s favorite drink, but asking for his name to be written on their cup.

Starbucks said it had reviewed some incidents of customers claiming rude messages had been written on their cups instead, but in at least one instance, the message was written after the customer received the drink.

Nonetheless, Starbucks has plainly stated that “when a customer wants to use a different name — including the name Charlie Kirk — when ordering their drink in our café, we aim to respect their preference.”

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President Donald Trump taunted the United Nations in an off-script moment, confronting foreign leaders for failures and inaction.

During a Tuesday address to the U.N., Trump emphasized his administration’s accomplishments on the foreign policy front while criticizing the inaction of those in the assembly. In true Trump fashion, the president went on and roasted the U.N. for having a faulty teleprompter and a broken escalator.

‘These are the two things I got from the United Nations.’

“I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal,” Trump said. “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle … and then a teleprompter that didn’t work.”

Trump quipped that if he and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, weren’t in such “great shape,” they would have fallen off the escalator.

“These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” Trump added. “Thank you very much.”

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“I didn’t think of it at the time because I was too busy working to save millions of lives, that is the saving and stopping of these wars,” Trump said, referencing the lack of support from the U.N. “But later, I realized that the United Nations wasn’t there for us. They weren’t there.”

RELATED: UN showdown will decide if the Abraham Accords are built to last

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Trump criticized the U.N. for not “living up to their potential,” questioning the utility of the organization altogether.

“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” Trump asked. “The U.N. has such tremendous potential. I’ve always said it. It has tremendous, tremendous potential. But it’s not even coming close to living up to their potential for the most part. At least for now.”

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We recently marked the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords, a historic diplomatic breakthrough that upended decades of conventional thinking about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The agreement was intended to transform the Middle East, rewarding realism over extremism and demonstrating that peace pays.

In many ways, it has succeeded. But now, five years in, we face a moment of clarity. As France and Saudi Arabia lead a call to recognize the Palestinian state, the accords need recalibration.

Arab states cannot ask for access to Israel’s markets, security expertise, technology, and military protection while staying silent as the international system moves to target the Jewish state.

On Sept. 15, 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain ended their boycott of Israel and established open relations. Morocco soon followed. Embassies opened. Flights took off between Tel Aviv and Dubai. And with that, the Middle East began to shift in a direction few thought possible.

Despite the trauma of the Oct. 7 massacre and the seven-front war against Israel that ensued, the accords have endured. Israeli tourists still visit Abu Dhabi and Manama. Business conferences continue. Flights remain regular. The economies of these Arab nations have benefited greatly from Israeli trade, technology, and innovation.

Security without reciprocity

According to the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, bilateral trade between Israel and the UAE alone reached $3 billion in 2023. In Morocco, Israeli firms have invested in agriculture, water management, and cybersecurity. The economic dividends of peace are real and growing. Israel has helped create new pathways to prosperity across the region.

Moreover, Israel has also systematically dismantled regional threats — namely, Iranian proxy forces in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon. It has rolled back Tehran’s nuclear capabilities through daring strikes aided by U.S. air power. It has kept Red Sea shipping lanes open by taking the fight directly to the Houthis. These actions make the region more stable for all.

Ironically — and tragically — Israel receives warnings from the very countries that have benefited from this new regional architecture. Back off against Hamas in Gaza. Don’t extend sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. Lay off Hamas leaders who are enjoying protection in Qatar. Don’t relocate displaced Gazans — or else.

The list of Arab red lines imposed on Israel keeps growing, always with the vague threat of harming the accords.

This is not the behavior of true allies. It is the posture of parties who want to enjoy the benefits of peace without shouldering the responsibilities of partnership.

The UN test

As the United Nations General Assembly convenes, the imbalance is coming to a head. A growing international pressure is mounting to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. Hamas, a group committed to Israel’s destruction, would celebrate such a move as a political victory.

The message would be unmistakable: You murder Jews, you get a state.

If the Abraham Accords mean anything beyond commercial convenience and one-way security guarantees, participating Muslim countries must not allow this to happen. The same governments that send delegations to Tel Aviv and sign investment deals in high tech must now reject any declaration of Palestinian statehood that rewards violence and bypasses good-faith negotiation.

That is a simple request. Oppose any resolution that turns mass murder into political capital. Refuse to legitimize a governing entity that hides behind Arab civilians while murdering Israeli babies. Deny cover to Hamas leaders enjoying luxury Doha hotels while Israeli hostages waste away in Gazan dungeons.

Partnership has obligations

A partnership, by definition, is not a one-way street. It should include joint efforts to dismantle the machinery of terror, not vague calls for “restraint” every time Israel is attacked. Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Houthis threaten the entire Middle East. Israel has done the hard work of confronting these threats directly.

RELATED: Why does the mainstream media keep blaming Israel for Gaza’s humanitarian crisis?

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Over the last half-decade, Israel and the Abraham Accords nations have redefined what was possible in the Middle East. They created a new model for cooperation based on mutual interests rather than historical grievances. But Israel has faced repeated admonitions from its new allies about what it must not do to defend itself.

That is not sustainable. It is not even moral.

Arab states cannot ask for access to Israel’s markets, security expertise, technology, and military protection while staying silent as the international system moves to target the Jewish state.

The Abraham Accords are still the best way forward. Five years later, the time has come to define what true partnership means. That starts with refusing to reward terror and standing up, publicly and clearly, at the United Nations this week.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris lamented the fact that she passed up on Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in the 2024 election, citing concerns that having a gay man on the ticket would have sunk her candidacy.

In a rare interview following her historic loss in November, Harris reflected on the choices she made during the 2024 campaign that may have led to her downfall. Although Harris said she was enthusiastic about Buttigieg as a contender, she ultimately decided against selecting the former transportation secretary because having a gay man on the same ticket as a black woman “would be a real risk.”

‘The stakes were so high.’

In Harris’ new book “107 Days,” the former vice president admitted that Buttigieg was her first choice and that he would have been an ideal running mate “if [she] were a straight man.”

“To say that he couldn’t be on the ticket, effectively, because he was gay, is hard to hear,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told Harris.

RELATED: Dozens of ‘morally bankrupt’ Democrats vote against condemning Charlie Kirk’s assassination

Harris initially tried to deny that her choice was made based on Buttigieg’s identity but rather because of the narrow window she had to make the crucial decision. Despite her attempt to soften the blow, Harris acknowledged that the stakes were “so high” that she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) instead.

“No, no, no, that’s not what I said,” Harris responded.

“To be a black woman running for president of the United States and as a vice presidential running mate, a gay man, with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad, but I also realized it would be a real risk.”

“It wasn’t about any prejudice on my part but that we had such a short period of time,” Harris added. “And the stakes were so high. I think Pete is a phenomenal, phenomenal public servant. And I think America is and would be ready for that. But when I had to make that decision with two weeks to go, you know, and maybe I was being too cautious … but that’s the decision I made.”

RELATED: CBS host suggests Republican ‘rhetoric’ to blame for Charlie Kirk assassination

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Buttigieg later said he was “surprised” to see the excerpt of Harris’ highly anticipated book, saying he believes in “giving Americans more credit.”

“My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you’re going to do for their lives, not on categories,” Buttigieg told Politico.

“You just have to go to voters with what you think you can do for them,” Buttigieg added. “Politics is about the results we can get for people and not about these other things.”

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Nexstar announced on Sept. 17 that its owned and partner television stations affiliated with Disney’s ABC television network would cease carrying “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for the foreseeable future. The company cited Kimmel’s comments, namely his false suggestion that the homosexual leftist arrested for allegedly assassinating Charlie Kirk is a Trump supporter and a member of the MAGA movement.

‘We stand by that decision.’

This was a consequential move, not only because Nexstar owns 32 ABC affiliates out of a total of 200 stations but because this got the ball rolling for Sinclair Broadcast Group to follow suit and ABC to announce that it was suspending the poorly performing show.

RELATED: ABC backtracks on Kimmel suspension days after a radical suspect shoots up an affiliate station

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ABC buckled and reversed its suspension; however, Sinclair indicated on Monday that it “will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming.”

Nexstar alerted Blaze News on Tuesday morning that it too would be holding its ground.

The company said in a statement, “We made a decision last week to pre-empt ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ following what ABC referred to as Mr. Kimmel’s ‘ill-timed and insensitive’ comments at a critical time in our national discourse. We stand by that decision pending assurance that all parties are committed to fostering an environment of respectful, constructive dialogue in the markets we serve.”

“In the meantime, we note that ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ will be available nationwide on multiple Disney-owned streaming products, while our stations will focus on continuing to produce local news and other programming relevant to their respective markets,” added the statement.

Blaze News has reached out to Disney for comment.

This is a developing story.

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A 65-year-old male working as a substitute classroom assistant at a Florida elementary school was arrested for child abuse last week, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said.

David Jones was assigned to a special-needs classroom at Oakhurst Elementary School in Largo, deputies said.

‘As a special-needs mom, I’d probably be in a lot of trouble if that was my kid.’

After lunch on Sept. 15, a 6-year-old — who has autism and is semi-verbal — was hitting and kicking as a sign of communication, deputies said.

Jones swung a lunch box containing a metal canister, striking the victim in the face and causing a welt on the victim’s forehead, deputies said.

On Sept.16, deputies said Jones admitted to the incident and stated it was a “knee-jerk” reaction when dealing with the victim, whom he knew has special needs.

Jones was charged with one count of child abuse and taken to the Pinellas County Jail, deputies said.

Jail records indicate that Jones — who stands 6’1” and weighs 280 pounds — was booked into jail Sept. 16 and released on his own recognizance Sept. 17.

RELATED: Arrested school district superintendent resigns amid claims that teachers mentally, verbally abused special-needs students

WTSP-TV said in a Sept. 16 broadcast that Pinellas County Schools fired Jones.

“Pinellas County Schools has zero tolerance for staff behavior that jeopardizes student safety or the integrity of our schools. The safety and well-being of our students remain our highest priority, and we are committed to ensuring that every child is treated with kindness, dignity, and respect,” the district told the station in a statement.

Numerous individuals were livid over the incident. Here’s a brief sampling:

“I am beyond over seeing this type of behavior from adults,” one commenter said. “Granted special-needs child[ren] can be challenging, but it’s the school’s responsibility to ensure proper training and to protect all children in their care. I am a mom of a special-needs adult now, and this really hits hard! Glad they have done the right thing!””Schools need to do better screening teachers and staff,” another commenter noted.”As a special-needs mom, I’d probably be in a lot of trouble if that was my kid,” another commenter admitted. “There is absolutely no reason for that.”

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As all of us at Blaze Media continue to grapple with the heartbreaking loss of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, we are compelled to reflect on his most powerful moments on BlazeTV over the years.

Since 2019, Charlie has been a regular guest on the shows of several BlazeTV hosts.

In years past, he and Glenn Beck have nerded out over history, celebrated American exceptionalism, and lamented the corruption of academia. Together, they dismantled the leftist argument that America is a democracy rather than a constitutional republic, defended the Electoral College, and speculated about the encroaching threat of socialism.

He and Allie Beth Stuckey explored the dynamics of young conservative America, where faith, family, and patriotism are making an extraordinary comeback (largely thanks to TPUSA). In 2020, they courageously exposed the deep corruption in the Black Lives Matter movement, fully aware that they would face backlash.

Charlie also appeared alongside Sara Gonzales, where he unapologetically confronted the existential threat of China, the effectiveness and necessity of Trump’s tariffs, and the atrocious reality of abortion.

He and Jason Whitlock navigated the complex legacy of the civil rights movement, examining how efforts to address inequality contributed to the breakdown of the black family, the ongoing race war, the disturbing trends in the LGBTQ+ community, and discriminatory policies like DEI and affirmative action. They scrutinized Martin Luther King Jr., raising tough questions about whether he truly merits the honor the nation has bestowed upon him. They also boldly criticized conciliatory pastors who avoid addressing cultural wars with scripture, opting instead to appease and preach the secular world’s definition of “love.”

No matter who he was speaking with or what topic he was examining, Charlie was always Charlie — bold, brilliant, patriotic, and deeply devout.

In this special tribute, we revisit our favorite Charlie moments — reminiscing on the qualities that made him irreplaceable, not only in our nation but also in our hearts.

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk left many Americans stunned, angry, and grieving. For those who loved him, admired his courage, or relied on his voice in the public square, the loss feels personal and almost unbearable.

Christians face a sharper question: How do we respond to the killer who took his life?

Forgiveness does not excuse evil. It does not mean the legal system should look away. It does not erase grief. But it does keep hatred from having the final word.

The human heart cries out for justice. We want the killer to feel the pain he caused. Scripture acknowledges that longing. In Psalm 13, David pleads, “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?” It is a lament, an honest cry from a wounded soul. God hears that anger.

Yet in Gethsemane, Christ redirected such impulses. When Peter lashed out and cut the high priest’s servant’s ear, Jesus stopped him: “No more of this!” (Luke 22:51) He healed the man who had come to help arrest Him. The cycle of vengeance broke under His touch.

That choice now confronts us.

At Charlie’s memorial in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, his widow, Erika, gave a stunning example of what it means to walk that path. Standing before thousands, she said through tears:

My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life. … That young man — I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do.

She added, “The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love — love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”

Erika refused revenge: “I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: ‘Eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?’ And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie.”

Her words challenge us: If the wife of a murdered man can forgive, why not us?

Forgiveness does not excuse evil. It does not mean the legal system should look away. It does not erase grief. But it does keep hatred from having the final word. Christians are called to stand apart from the world’s rage.

That calling is not easy. On our own, it is impossible. But through the Spirit of Christ, we can echo His command: “No more of this.” We entrust justice to God while extending the mercy we ourselves received.

RELATED: Why Charlie Kirk’s murder feels personal — even if you never met him

Paul’s life proves that no sinner is beyond reach. Before his conversion, Saul approved of Stephen’s stoning and hunted Christians (Acts 8:1). By every human measure, he was an enemy of the church. Yet Christ met him on the Damascus road and transformed him into the apostle who carried the gospel to the nations. If God’s mercy could reach Saul, it can reach anyone.

The church’s witness matters now. Will we mirror the world’s anger, or will we display Christ’s mercy? That will require prayer, tears, and the daily work of the Holy Spirit. But the command is clear: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).

So let us grieve Charlie Kirk. Let us lift up his family and friends. Let us pray even for the man who killed him, while still pursuing earthly justice. In doing so, we honor Christ’s call to mercy and the God-given duty to uphold righteousness.

Forgiveness is not optional. It is the very heart of Christian faith. On the cross, Jesus looked at His executioners and said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).

That is our charge now.

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Disney temporarily suspended the poorly performing “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show from its ABC television network on Sept. 17 after the show’s eponymous host suggested that the homosexual leftist arrested for allegedly assassinating Charlie Kirk is a Trump supporter and a member of the MAGA movement — an assertion that has no factual basis.

In the wake of the suspension, ABC and two key owners of the network’s affiliate stations — Sinclair and Nexstar, the latter of which was first to say it would pull the show — faced significant backlash from a motley crew of Democrat lawmakers, leftist activists, and Hollywood script-readers.

‘They’re next.’

Just days into the left’s temper tantrum over the programming change, a radical allegedly launched an attack on an ABC affiliate station.

On Friday, someone opened fire on the Tegna-owned KXTV/ABC 10 television station in Sacramento while it was occupied. According to the amended criminal complaint, three apparent bullet holes were discovered in a north window of the station’s lobby, and crime scene investigators later recovered a spent projectile from a doorway inside the building.

Tegna said in a statement obtained by KCRA-TV, “We can confirm that shots were fired into our station at KXTV earlier today. While details are still limited, importantly all of our employees are safe and unharmed.”

The Sacramento Police Department arrested Anibal Hernandez Santana shortly after the attack and charged him with assault with a firearm, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, and willful discharge of a firearm in a negligent manner. Police cut him loose on bail the following day.

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Detectives with the Sacramento Police Department subsequently searched Santana’s vehicle and discovered a handwritten note that allegedly read, “For hiding Epstein & ignoring red flags. Do not support Patel, Bongino, & AG Pam Bondie [sic]. They’re next. – C.K. from above,” said the complaint.

Just hours after his release on Saturday, the FBI arrested Santana and slapped him with federal charges..

The apparent critic of the Trump administration faces three counts: possession of a firearm within a school zone, discharge of a firearm within a school zone, and interference with a radio communication station.

If convicted on the federal counts, Santana, presently being held on a federal hold at the Sacramento County Main Jail, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the charge of discharging a firearm within a school zone. He also faces up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine for the charge of interfering with a radio communication station.

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho reportedly indicated that the evidence suggests the shooting was a politically motivated crime but did not say whether prosecutors believe the suspect targeted the ABC affiliate over Kimmel’s suspension.

An X account that allegedly belongs to Santana is replete with liberal memes and anti-Trump commentary.

On Sept. 18, the X user Al Hernandez Santana wrote, “Where is a good heart attack when we need it the most?? Please Join in my thoughts and prayers for the physical demise of our fearful leader.”

‘He’s an unrepentant liar, and affiliates have every right to demand accountability.’

A week earlier, the X user wrote, “Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie Kirk and his family. May the prudence of his cost-benefit analysis for 2A rights vs. school shootings live on forever.”

“The authoritarian oligarchy is now complete. CBS+ caving, big law firms in DC, the subservients FBI and AG, university presidents stepping down, fan boys SCOTUS, public radio, ICE goons. We are going to have to ‘fight like hell’. Rules don’t apply if election was stolen. FIGHT,” the user tweeted in July.

Blaze News has reached out to Disney, Nexstar, and Sinclair for comment regarding whether threats have played a role in recent programming decisions. Blaze News has also reached out to the FBI for comment.

The day of the Sacramento shooting, Sinclair announced that it would “continue to air ABC network programming as scheduled in the late-night time period.”

While Sinclair initially planned to run a Charlie Kirk special in Kimmel’s time slot on Friday, the company opted instead to run the special on “The National News Desk” YouTube channel.

Despite wavering on the Kirk special, Sinclair announced on Monday evening that it “will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming.”

Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” lauded Sinclair for blocking Kimmel’s show and noted that “Kimmel has yet to apologize for saying the assassin was MAGA, and he was reportedly going to double down. He’s an unrepentant liar, and affiliates have every right to demand accountability.”

It’s presently unclear whether Nexstar — set to acquire Tegna, which owns the shot-up affiliate ABC station — will similarly keep Kimmel off the air.

Disney, which owns ABC, announced just days after a suspect shot up the affiliate station that it was bringing Kimmel’s show back.

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” read the statement from Disney.

“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the company added. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

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Walking, the original mode of technological carriage, is also the original meditative, curative, and social technology. Every medical, psychological, and even religious outlook today fails if it doesn’t factor in the myriad dimensions and incredible gifts granted to us by this ambulatory form.

The overlooked, underappreciated act of walking involves multiple feats of engineering genius rivaling, or exceeding, our most advanced scientific comprehension. It is also the fastest, cheapest, most accessible means of ensuring collective well-being.

In terms Marshall McLuhan might accept, walking is man’s experience of the world without extension. It reverts human bodies back into orientation with themselves and the laws of nature. It’s a stunning thing if you wake up to it fully: our cities, routines, living and working spaces are not built to allow for the one physical operation we are inarguably built to perform day after day. The fundamentals of the economic machine are dependent upon our not walking, in fact. It isn’t just the phone or the internet. It’s the whole endeavor of global, just-in-time, dispersed industrial society.

Our minds and our senses of well-being and freedom are attached irrevocably to the operation of walking.

The few small towns in Europe that are built for walkers are usually also built around churches, and these lucky citizens routinely outlive their neighbors and report higher levels of happiness and well-being.

The central nervous system is wired to initiate unconscious anxiety when the body doesn’t move properly. If the body doesn’t move enough, it compensates by shortening muscles, which adds more anxiety, and limits strength. All of this shortens lifespans. The whole of our beings is indivisible from walking. It catalyzes digestion, moves lymph. And breathing, particularly while walking, pumps spinal fluid up into the brain — flushing, repairing, retiming.

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The theorist Paul Virilio remarked that the progression from carriage in the womb, to mother’s back, to horse, and then to car is characterized all through the chain by an increase in speed. Technological additions to the workplace and to our homes all revert back to speed. The trade-off is evidently human health, happiness, and increasingly it seems, sanity. Another famous theorist, Jean Baudrillard, had a great bit where he pilloried the American runner, the jogger burning his way across the empty landscape, ignorant of every other face, just speeding toward his own death.

How to walk

From a engineering perspective, the human body is not built to sit or lift heavy weight. We can do these things, no problem. The body, however, isn’t fundamentally designed or optimized for such things. It’s built to walk, fundamentally. Every system in the body supports this activity: endocrine, cardiovascular, psychic.

The Postural Restoration Institute has studied the mechanics, made some prescriptions, and while it’s rather simple stuff, it isn’t entirely intuitive, and it’s worth watching a few videos before you begin a practice of walking. A couple tips: heel to toe, every step. Eyes up to the horizon. The arms and legs work via complex arrangement of fascia built into slings. We use muscle to walk, sure. But to actually hit a stride, which is where we retime with ourselves independent of mechanical technology, requires reacquaintance with these slings. It’s easier than it may sound.

Walking is sort of the ultimate example of humans taking ourselves, our gifts, and the unity of our experience for granted. We used to walk all day, all the time. We walked for the mundane and the sacred — we called the latter pilgrimage, and while the destination (God) was important, every monk and layperson understood the actual walking aspect was sort of the point.

Last tip: Walking upright allows for perfect, proper engagement of the diaphragm. This flat muscle, in concert with the intercostals woven into the ribs, works as a bellows to pull air in, as you may realize. What isn’t so widely understood is that this muscular action is also what makes the exchange, renewal, of spinal fluid happen. You can force it when seated, but it’s subpar.

The kicker is that our minds and our senses of well-being and freedom are attached irrevocably to the operation of walking. Almost everyone has had the experience of taking a walk to solve a problem. Or just to clear our minds of trivia and the day’s tedium. We seem to have built an entire civilization, replete with advanced social and political devices, and overlooked an essential basic human need. How much longer are we willing to ignore the image, the actual purpose of the form of our construction, before that form demands we return?

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A retired firefighter who was being investigated for allegedly possessing “horrific” child sex abuse material was shot and killed by Florida police when he pulled a gun on officers.

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said 68-year-old Gary Guckenberger came out of his home on Hatfield Court in Longwood and refused to follow orders from officers who were surveilling him.

‘It included bondage, sexual batteries, and the most horrific examples of abuse and neglect that any human being could ever imagine.’

Sheriff Lemma said the police department received a tip about Guckenberger and performed a search at his home before finding the material on his devices. The incident unfolded later as police were surveilling him.

“As we were conducting surveillance, Gary Guckenberger came out of his house,” Lemma said. “He was on a walker. He walked down to the middle of the driveway. … He immediately reached to his waistband, pulling a .38 revolver out of his waistband and start raising it up.”

Lemma said officers gave clear instructions to the man and then opened fire. Guckenberger was struck by two gunshots from deputies, according to Lemma. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

He said that Guckenberger possessed more than 100 very explicit videos and images of children between the ages of 3 and 9 years old.

“It included bondage, sexual batteries, and the most horrific examples of abuse and neglect that any human being could ever imagine,” Lemma said.

“We know at least on one occasion where he communicated with another woman about engaging in sexual activity with her child. And at this point, we don’t believe that that has ever occurred,” he added.

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“We have a responsibility as a society and as a profession to protect our most vulnerable. Our children, who are the victims of these heinous crimes, are at the top of that list,” Lemma said.

A Facebook post from the Seminole County Fire Department in 2013 congratulated Guckenberger for retiring from the department after 28 years.

“I would imagine that the members of the fire department and the fire chief are incredibly concerned about this,” Lemma added.

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ABC announced last week that it was indefinitely pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” The network cited his dishonest remarks about MAGA and the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk. Then on Monday, the network reversed itself. Kimmel is expected to return to the air on Tuesday night.

The original decision outraged the left. Activists immediately claimed it was a violation of free speech, pretending Kimmel was a victim of “cancel culture.” The network’s change of heart likely won’t please anyone, except for Kimmel and his staff. The irony? Kimmel himself cheered when others lost their platforms.

I still live with the fallout of his lies. Many others do too. For once, at least, Kimmel faces consequences.

This isn’t a man who deserves sympathy. I know from experience.

How Kimmel targeted me

Five years ago, while working for the California Republican Party, I promoted the party’s legal ballot collection efforts online. That one tweet turned into a smear campaign. Politicians and left-leaning groups smeared and defamed me. My own employers abandoned me.

Media figures amplified the false narrative. None did more damage than Jimmy Kimmel. Days after the controversy began, he ran a segment featuring my full name and photo. He falsely claimed my work was illegal and added a grotesque line suggesting that someone should stuff me into a ballot collection box. The box was too small to fit a person. The implication was obvious.

He wasn’t joking. The segment was a televised incitement that smeared my reputation and put my safety at even greater risk.

Living with the fallout

The consequences came fast. Threats filled my inbox. Law enforcement advised me to leave my apartment and lay low. Police guarded my parents’ home after they were harassed.

When my short-term contract with the California Republican Party ended, I couldn’t find work. Despite my clean record, military service, and two master’s degrees, doors kept closing. They still do. Kimmel wasn’t the only one who defamed me, but his national broadcast magnified the lies and hardened the damage.

Unlike Kimmel, I didn’t have millions in the bank or a network behind me. I was a junior staffer, recently out of the military, scraping by on less than $60,000 a year. His words carried a weight mine never could.

Kimmel’s hypocrisy

In 2023, NFL star Aaron Rodgers joked that Kimmel didn’t want the Epstein client list released. Kimmel threatened to sue him. Yet when Kimmel broadcast falsehoods about me — and encouraged violence against me — no apology ever came.

Kimmel even lectured Rodgers from his monologue: “When I do get something wrong, which happens on rare occasions, you know what I do? I apologize.” That’s an obvious lie. He certainly never apologized to me.

And I’m not the only one. He has encouraged vandalism against Tesla owners and, most recently, pushed the outrageous lie that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was a MAGA Republican — a smear made after evidence proved otherwise.

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Why ABC pulled the plug

Contrary to the left-liberal narrative, ABC’s move was not political interference. It was business. Kimmel’s audience had been shrinking for years. Just this month, his ratings fell another 11%. His rant about Kirk’s assassination would only have accelerated the collapse.

Networks have every right to act when a host becomes a liability. The First Amendment does not entitle Jimmy Kimmel to ABC’s airwaves.

Consequences at last

So, in reality, Kimmel’s return to late night may be short-lived. His career decline is his own making. But unlike his targets, he’ll be fine. He will walk away with a $50 million net worth. He’ll find plenty of work again.

I, on the other hand, still live with the fallout of his lies. Many others do too. But for a moment, at least, Kimmel faced consequences. And to borrow a favorite line from his liberal supporters: Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

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Republicans might finally take me seriously after years of warning: America suffers not from mass incarceration, but from mass under-incarceration. The system needs tougher sentences, not softer ones.

The brutal murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, allegedly at the hands of career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr. on a Charlotte commuter train, didn’t reveal anything new. It shocked the nation precisely because it put on camera what has become routine in our cities since the bipartisan “criminal justice reform” wave dismantled Reagan-era tough-on-crime policies.

Legislators will have a choice when they reconvene: Pass strong reforms like these or watch more innocent people die.

For every man like Brown who slipped through the cracks, at least 10 more walk free when they should be locked up for life.

Brown had been arrested 14 times since 2007. His record included assault, felony firearms possession, robbery, and larceny. He didn’t see the inside of a prison until 2014, when an armed robbery conviction earned him a mere four years. He racked up more arrests after his release in 2020, but neither prison nor psychiatric commitment followed. The justice system looked the other way.

The result was predictable. Brown’s obvious mental instability made him even more dangerous than an ordinary criminal. Yet over the last 15 years, Republicans and Democrats alike embraced “reform” that made second chances for the violent and insane a top priority. They weakened sentencing, gutted mandatory minimums, downgraded juvenile crimes, eased up on drugs and vagrancy, and abandoned broken-windows policing. Hard-won gains against crime and homelessness evaporated.

The final insult: Brown was last released on cashless bail by North Carolina Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, allegedly affiliated with a pro-criminal “second chances” group. But violent offenders don’t just get second chances. They get third, fourth, and 15th chances. Most criminals never even face charges. Prosecutors downgrade cases. Convicts skate on early release. The cycle spins on.

Look at the numbers. In 2024, the FBI’s incident-based reporting system logged over 12.2 million crimes. Strip away drug and gun cases, and the picture remains grim: 2.4 million violent crimes with no arrest. Another 1.25 million serious property crimes — arson, burglary, motor vehicle theft — with no arrest. Every year, more than a million offenders escape justice. Meanwhile, the nation’s prison and jail population sits at roughly 1.9 million.

Even when police make arrests, punishment rarely follows. In 2021, only 15,604 people went to prison for robbery despite 121,000 reported incidents. Just 4,894 went away for car theft out of 550,000 cases. Even homicide convictions lag far behind — just 6,081 murderers entered prison against more than 15,000 killings.

This isn’t a statistical fluke. It’s a system that fails to punish violent crime year after year.

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So what needs to change? Here’s a checklist every state legislature should adopt in the next session:

Ban public encampments on streets, sidewalks, and public property; allow lawsuits against localities that fail to enforce.Elevate porch piracy penalties, following Florida’s lead.Impose stiff punishments for organized retail theft and flash mobs.Tighten “truth-in-sentencing” laws to ensure violent offenders serve their full terms.Pass anti-gang statutes that cross county lines, fund prosecutions, and mandate enhanced sentences for gang-related crimes.Let prosecutors, not judges, decide whether to try violent juveniles as adults.Set mandatory minimums for carjackings, especially for repeat offenders.Impose harsh sentences on felons caught with firearms, and harsher still when they use them.Require parole violators to finish their sentences.Hold repeat offenders without bond; revoke pretrial release when new crimes are committed.Fund prosecutors’ offices to clear the backlog of violent felony cases.Strengthen “three strikes” laws to eliminate loopholes.Apply the death penalty to fentanyl traffickers.Mandate quarterly public reporting of judges’ sentencing records in a searchable database.Criminalize squatting and streamline removal.

Legislators will have a choice when they reconvene: Pass strong reforms like these or watch more innocent people die.

Social media outrage won’t fix this crisis. Neither will empty calls for “accountability.” As Iryna’s grieving family warned, “This could have been anyone riding the light rail that night.”

That’s the truth — and unless lawmakers act, it will be the truth again tomorrow.

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Streamer Destiny, whose real name is Steven Bonnell, has made a name for himself over the past couple of weeks after saying horrible things — including openly mocking Erika Kirk — in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination. And he just can’t seem to stop.

“This Charlie Kirk ‘memorial’ is indistinguishable from a Nazi rally and f**k anyone who wants to pretend it’s not,” Bonnell wrote in a post on X.

“We need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events so that they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature. The issue is, right now they don’t feel like there’s any fear,” Destiny said in another clip after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

“That was after?” BlazeTV host Pat Gray asks on “Pat Gray Unleashed,” adding, “Holy cow.”

However, Destiny’s vile rhetoric was around far before the shooting.

“Conservatives have been disgusting for years, which is why I don’t give a f**k about anybody that winds up at any of these rallies and gets shot or whatever the f**k. Okay? Because they had no problem making fun of Paul Pelosi,” Destiny said in an interview before the shooting.

“The entire world would be better off if these people were permanently removed from these platforms. Like, there is no downside and only upside to see people like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Tim Pool never be allowed to publicly broadcast their opinions ever again. It’s exclusively bad stuff that happens,” he added.

While Destiny seems to have no problem spewing divisive and violent rhetoric at conservatives in the wake of a serious tragedy — and his leftist fans eat it up — he hasn’t gotten away without some consequence.

Destiny held an event where he opened the floor to debate, much like Charlie Kirk once did, and not only was he heckled by fans that yelled, “Charlie Kirk’s life mattered,” but he was humiliated by better debaters.

“You know, it’s so interesting as a black man,” one man said to Destiny. “One thing I noticed about Charlie Kirk’s death, there wasn’t rioting in the streets like it was after George Floyd. And that’s the one thing that I noticed about Charlie Kirk’s death.”

“And it’s so interesting that you want to cherry-pick and nitpick and use odd examples that benefit you, but you deliberately want to have blind vision to see that the radical-left ideology that has been influencing this country for the past 20 years led to the death of Charlie Kirk,” he continued.

Destiny then stumbled on his words and brought up an irrelevant amendment to the DOJ’s website.

While Charlie Kirk’s events would draw thousands of supporters, Gray points out that there appears to be “maybe 24 people at the event.”

Executive producer Keith Malinak laughs, “And I think most were there to disagree with him actually.”

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President Donald Trump noted in his order establishing the Make America Healthy Again Commission that “autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s.”

The MAHA Commission’s chairman, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., subsequently indicated that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that the rate of autism among American children has gotten even worse.

“The autism epidemic is running rampant,” Kennedy said. “One in 31 American children born in 2014 are disabled by autism. That’s up significantly from two years earlier and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992. Prevalence for boys is an astounding 1 in 20, and in California it’s 1 in 12.5.”

‘So taking Tylenol is not good.’

Kennedy promised during a Cabinet meeting in April that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures” — an ambition the Autism Society of America said was “harmful, misleading, and unrealistic.”

Despite pre-emptive criticism by medical establishmentarians and the protest of the interim CEO of Tylenol maker Kenvue, Kennedy joined President Donald Trump and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz on Monday in formally identifying one of the alleged drivers behind the rise in American autism: the use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, during pregnancy.

Kennedy, who indicated that his agency is also looking closely at the potential link between vaccines and autism, noted, “The FDA is responding to clinical and laboratory studies that suggest a potential association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse neurological outcomes, including later diagnoses for ADHD and autism.”

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The health secretary indicated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration kicked off the process on Monday for a label change for acetaminophen to indicate that the use of the drug by pregnant women may be associated with an increased risk of neurological conditions like autism and ADHD in children.

The Department of Health and Human Services will also launch a nationwide public information campaign to alert parents and families to the possible risks of taking Tylenol during pregnancy, Kennedy said.

“The safety of acetaminophen against the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in young children has never been validated,” Kennedy said. “Prudent medicine therefore suggests caution in acetaminophen use by young children, especially since strong evidence also has associated it with liver toxicity. Some studies have also found the use of acetaminophen in children can potentially prolong viral illnesses.”

“So taking Tylenol is not good,” Trump said. “I’ll say it: It’s not good.”

White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to Blaze News, “President Trump pledged to address America’s rising rate of autism, and to do so with gold-standard science. Today’s announcement will make historic progress on both commitments.”

Ahead of the announcement, a spokesperson for Kenvue — whose company stock price took a nosedive on Monday — told Blaze News, “We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism. We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”

The company spokesperson suggested further in the statement: “The facts are that over a decade of rigorous research, endorsed by leading medical professionals and global health regulators, confirms there is no credible evidence linking acetaminophen to autism.”

Christopher Zahn, chief of clinical practice at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, similarly suggested in a statement to Blaze News prior to the Trump administration’s announcement regarding autism that “there is no clear evidence that proves a direct relationship between the prudent use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and fetal developmental issues.”

‘Failure to implement change in medical practice currently constitutes disregard for the ample evidence of harm.’

While Kenvue, the ACOG, and other outfits have suggested that there is no causal link between acetaminophen use and autism, there is at the very least an apparent association.

In a National Institutes of Health-funded 2019 study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, researchers led by Dr. Xiaobin Wang of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health collected umbilical cord blood from 996 births and measured the amount of acetaminophen and two of its byproducts in each sample.

The researchers found that “cord biomarkers of fetal exposure to acetaminophen were associated with significantly increased risk of childhood ADHD and ASD in a dose-response fashion.”

Acetaminophen, often sold under the brand Tylenol in the United States and Canada, is the most common over-the-counter pain and fever medication used during pregnancy and is reportedly used by well over 50% of pregnant women worldwide.

A 2023 scientific review published in the Swiss peer-reviewed journal Children concluded “without reasonable doubt and with no evidence to the contrary that exposure of susceptible babies and children to acetaminophen (paracetamol) induces many, if not most, cases of autism spectrum disorder.”

The review, led by Dr. William Parker, CEO of WPLab and visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also concluded that “the very early postpartum period poses the greatest risk for acetaminophen-induced ASD, and that nearly ubiquitous use of acetaminophen during early development could conceivably be responsible for the induction in the vast majority, perhaps 90% or more, of all cases of ASD.”

When asked about Kenvue’s apparent denial of a causal link between acetaminophen and autism, Dr. Parker told Blaze News:

Technically, the company is correct. Acetaminophen alone absolutely does NOT cause autism. Susceptibility to injury is absolutely required for acetaminophen to induce autism. Without susceptibility, which is caused by a very complex mixture of genetics, epigenetics, and environment, acetaminophen cannot induce autism. Almost all scientists working in the field are aware to some extent of the complex mix of genetic and environmental factors involved in the induction of autism.

In his response, Dr. Parker also referenced a 2024 study that he worked on which was published in the journal Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics. The study noted that “careful examination reveals no valid objections to the conclusion that early exposure to acetaminophen causes neurodevelopmental injury in susceptible babies and children.”

“Changes in medical practice should be implemented that effectively weigh the risks and benefits of neonatal and pediatric APAP use,” the study reads. “Failure to implement change in medical practice currently constitutes disregard for the ample evidence of harm despite the absence of any valid rationale for the view that APAP might be safe for neurodevelopment.”

On the matter of whether health officials should warn pregnant mothers about the increased risk of autism in their children associated with acetaminophen use, Dr. Parker noted that the “answer to this question is nuanced.”

“Evidence indicates that heavy use of acetaminophen during pregnancy may lead to neurodevelopmental problems, including autism and ADHD,” Dr. Parker said. “Heavy use is often associated with chronic pain management. Much less is known about the cost-to-benefit ratio of treating an occasional fever during pregnancy. Such treatments may have a net benefit for the fetus, although more work needs to be done to probe this topic.”

Dr. Parker emphasized to Blaze News that “we are absolutely NOT blaming parents and physicians for this. It is not a mistake for us to do what we are told is best for our children. The science is all about preventing injury in the future, not blaming people who are blameless.”

In an NIH-supported study published in August in the peer-reviewed medical journal Environmental Health, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles’ School of Public Health, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai systematically reviewed 46 “well-designed” studies incorporating data from over 100,000 participants regarding the relationship between neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and prenatal exposure to acetaminophen.

The researchers found that 27 of the studies reported “significant links” between acetaminophen exposure in the womb and NDDs and noted that “higher-quality studies were more likely to show positive associations.”

“Overall, the majority of the studies reported positive associations of prenatal acetaminophen use with ADHD, ASD, or NDDs in offspring, with risk-of-bias and strength-of-evidence ratings informing the overall synthesis,” the study reads.

When specifically evaluating the studies pertaining to Tylenol use and autism in children, the researchers found “strong evidence of a relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and increased risk of ASD in children.”

Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, a co-author of the study and a professor of environmental health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, noted in a statement obtained by Blaze News that he believes “caution about acetaminophen use during pregnancy — especially heavy or prolonged use — is warranted.”

Dr. Baccarelli and his colleagues recommended a “balanced approach” regarding acetaminophen use during pregnancy — a recommendation now echoed by the Trump administration: “Patients who need fever or pain reduction during pregnancy should take the lowest effective dose of acetaminophen, for the shortest possible duration, after consultation with their physician about their individual risk-benefit calculation.”

Zahn of the ACOG was among those who railed against Baccarelli’s systematic review.

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“Failing to treat medical conditions that warrant the use of acetaminophen is, at present, understood to be far more dangerous than theoretical concerns based on inconclusive reviews of conflicting science,” Zahn said in a statement to Blaze News. “Maternal fever, diagnosis of severe pre-eclampsia, and appropriate pain control are all managed with the therapeutic use of acetaminophen and can create severe morbidity and mortality for maternal and child health if they are mismanaged based on improper clinical recommendations.”

The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine also rushed to endorse Tylenol use during pregnancy following the publication of the damning review, noting that it “continues to advise physicians and patients that acetaminophen is an appropriate medication to treat pain and fever during pregnancy.”

“Ideally, you don’t take it at all,” Trump said during the press conference on Monday. “If you can’t tough it out or there’s a problem, you’re going to end up doing it.”

In addition to calling out acetaminophen for its alleged role in the explosion of autism cases, Kennedy identified leucovorin, which is also known as folinic acid, as a viable autism treatment.

Leucovorin is already used to treat cerebral folate deficiency, which has been associated with autism.

The same year that a review in the Journal of Personalized Medicine noted that leucovorin “is associated with improvements in core and associated symptoms of ASD and appears safe and generally well-tolerated,” a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was registered. The results of that trial, published last year in the European Journal of Pediatrics, were promising.

Researchers concluded that oral folinic acid supplementation “is effective and safe in improving ASD symptoms, with more pronounced benefits in children with high titers of folate receptor autoantibodies.”

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary indicated that his agency has initiated the approval of leucovorin calcium tablets for patients with cerebral folate deficiency.

“We have witnessed a tragic four-fold increase in autism over two decades,” Makary said. “Children are suffering and deserve access to potential treatments that have shown promise. We are using gold standard science and common sense to deliver for the American people.”

The biopharmaceutical company GSK promptly noted that it will submit a supplemental New Drug Application for leucovorin to update the label to reflect that it can be used to treat cerebral folate deficiency.

By addressing one of the alleged root causes of autism and mainstreaming a treatment might not only help American families tackle the disorder but spare them from what is, for many, a crushing burden.

Upwards of $60.9 billion are reportedly spent each year on children with ASD, and intensive behavioral interventions can cost anywhere from $40,000 to $60,000 per child annually.

Blaze News has reached out to the American Pediatric Society and to the HHS for comment.

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The Department of Homeland Security said that it would not comply with a ban on masks for agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

Newsom included the ban in a handful of new bills meant to interfere with federal efforts to deport illegal aliens in California. Another bill required school administrators to notify parents and students if there are federal operations near school campuses.

‘I’ve directed our federal agencies that the law signed today has no effect on our operations.’

On Monday, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin issued a statement saying the department would not comply with the order.

“To be clear: We will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban,” the statement reads.

“At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signed unconstitutional legislation that strips law enforcement of protections in a disgusting, diabolical fundraising and PR stunt,” McLaughlin added.

Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli of the Central District of California also rejected the ban.

“The State of California has no jurisdiction over the federal government,” Essayli wrote on social media.

“If Newsom wants to regulate our agents, he must go through Congress,” he added. “I’ve directed our federal agencies that the law signed today has no effect on our operations. Our agents will continue to protect their identities. When can we expect CA to pass a law banning Antifa members from wearing masks while committing state and federal crimes? I’ll wait …”

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Other bills passed by California Democrats include one that prohibits health care officials from disclosing immigration information of a patient without warrant or court order. A similar bill applied to school officials releasing information about students or parents.

Democrat lawmakers in other states have called for similar mask bans, including Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) drew the ire of the president when she publicly and proudly made horrific comments regarding Charlie Kirk in the wake of his murder.

“I do believe those of you who are interested in rewriting this hateful man’s history are full of s**t,” Omar told her audience to the shocking sound of applause.

“I don’t know. I think you’re the one that’s full of s**t, Ilhan, because you guys have to keep misrepresenting the things that he said to try to paint him as some sort of hateful person,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, disturbed.

President Trump is on the same page as Gonzales.

“I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible. Is she originally from Somalia? So, how are they doing this? How’s their government? Do they have a president? Do they have a council? Do they have anything? Do they have police? I love these people. They come from a place with nothing. Nothing. No anything. And then they tell us how to run our country,” President Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

“She should be impeached. And it should happen fast,” he added.

But Trump wasn’t done. He went on to attack the “squad” member on Truth Social, writing, “Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence.”

“All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America! P.S. Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it,” he added.

Omar wasn’t the only member of “the squad” to go after Kirk following his assassination.

“We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans, far from the working, quote, ‘working tirelessly to promote unity,’ unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.) said.

“This bitch was serving up, like, jack and cokes 10 years ago, and she’s going to talk about Charlie Kirk being uneducated,” Gonzales says.

“I’m just done with these people. But you know what?” she asks. “There is one thing that I am so happy about … which is that the masks are off.”

“At a time where the entire country, the average American, is horrified by everything that they’ve seen, is horrified by the fact that Charlie Kirk would be innocently sitting ready to have a conversation with those who disagree with him and just be picked off like that, publicly executed in front of the entire world. Everyone else is horrified,” she explains.

“These sociopaths in Congress, these Democrat sociopaths are the only ones … who say this stuff,” she adds.

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A pair of sisters were allegedly caught on video smiling and cursing as they destroyed a memorial for Charlie Kirk in Arkansas, but they aren’t smiling in the booking photos taken later.

Kirk supporters held a candlelight vigil at the town square in Bentonville on Sunday, and some apparently left a memorial near the steps of the Benton County Courthouse.

‘You’re not just trampling on their freedom of expression; you’re trampling on the memory of a person. You’re trampling on our Benton County values.’

That memorial allegedly became a target for Kerri Melissa Rollo and Kaylee Heather Rollo, who cursed Kirk’s name and flipped off a person recording their actions. They kicked over the candles in the memorial and ripped up the signs. The video recorder anonymously provided the footage to a Benton County justice of the peace.

On Wednesday, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said police arrested the Rollo sisters.

The Rollos were charged with criminal mischief in the first degree, and Kaylee Rollo was also charged with obstruction of governmental operations.

“Everyone has a right to be able to express their freedom of expression. But what the issue is, is when you trample on someone’s memorial, the human act of grieving,” said Benton County Justice of the Peace Joseph Bollinger. “You’re not just trampling on their freedom of expression; you’re trampling on the memory of of a person. You’re trampling on our Benton County values.”

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In a GoFundMe page set up for the sisters, Kaylee Rollo said that her sister had been fired from her job over the incident. They have raised over $7.7K for legal fees.

“This is direct violation of their first amendment rights and unconstitutional,” she wrote.

“Please help my sibling while they look for another job and stand against the tyranny that is creeping into the country,” she added.

On Friday, a judge set bail for Kerri Rollo at $15,000 and for Kaylee Rollo at $7,500. The former requested a public attorney, while the latter said she had her own attorney.

The Rollos are scheduled next in court on Oct. 22.

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