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Famous NFL football players Benjamin Watson and Emmanuel Acho are jumping on the anti-Charlie Kirk bandwagon — and like everyone else, they’re taking the Turning Point USA founder out of context and smearing his character while they do it.

“Since hearing of the murder of Charlie Kirk and seeing such unjustifiable graphic violence my heart has been torn and my spirit uneasy. I was neither fan nor follower of Charlie, but I was aware of his influence. While respecting his humanity and right to dialogue, my critique of his words and opinions was pointed,” Watson wrote in a post on Facebook.

“I found Charlie’s verbal attacks on black men, women, and their achievement reprehensible and utterly inexcusable. His derogatory words were a form of violence and dehumanization. He routinely amplified stereotypes and platformed prejudice, giving license to masses with similar sentiments. He did this while routinely proclaiming the name of Jesus,” he added.

While Watson went on to call Charlie’s assassination an “evil, unconscionable act,” it doesn’t change that he also became one of the many actively slandering the Turning Point founder in his passing.

And BlazeTV contributor T.J. Moe is not a fan.

“I have a lot of disdain for Ben Watson for the damage that he’s done over the years, and this adds to it. You know, Ben Watson, I think, reads the Bible, at least contends to. He should know that Proverbs 6 states the things that God hates. One of them is a lying tongue, and he lied about every word of what he just said about Charlie Kirk,” Moe tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

But Watson is not even close to the only former NFL player going after Kirk.

“Charlie Kirk’s death has led me to an uncomfortable conversation that I want to facilitate. To my white brothers and sisters, how would you hope your minority friends respond to the celebration of Charlie Kirk’s life when he has very publicly said things like this,” sports analyst Emmanuel Acho says before playing several out-of-context clips of Charlie speaking.

One of the clips showed Charlie saying “Cenk” to Cenk Uygur. Acho assumed Charlie was calling an Asian the “C-word.”

“He’s calling someone by their name. He’s not calling them a c***k. Acho couldn’t be bothered with doing that level of research as it relates to taking Kirk out of context at every turn and just leaning into sound bites,” Whitlock says.

“Engage with the actual argument,” he adds.

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The transformation of Twitter into X was certainly a watershed moment. But it was nothing compared to the transformation of X into a feeding tube for xAI.

Hold that thought in your head as I pivot for a minute to something that stuck out in my feed the other day: a worthy neologism. Many of us are starting to feel like even with the bazillion channels of wordy content on X, there is sort of nothing on. Another way of saying this is that we already know exactly what’s on; we’ve seen it all before.

When software exhaustingly consumes the world, we want to be bricked.

Rainmaker founder Augustus Doricko touched on this recently when he reflected (on X) that, as a Zoomer, the scriptedness of it all is taken for granted. “It’s all politicized, everything. All the time. I’ve never known anything but hyper polarized internet politics discourse. Zoomers know which side of an issue every influencer and politician is going to land on the moment they read the headline. Zoomers could practically write their commentary for them. … There are no surprising thinkers.”

Speaking as an Xennial, I relate — it really feels deranged to me that now a majority of my life has been spent unable to evade online discourse involving, to take a random example, Ezra Klein. Nothing personal — it’s just really evident that our political regime is still fixed around the principle that talking matters and that even the largest things are justified — can only be justified! — by people talking about them.

This approach has resulted in a fixity of “Voices” hardened all the more by the relentlessly taxonomical character of the digital medium, which flips Marx’s critique of capital on its head by solidifying even the most airy and ephemeral of things by locking them into place in the one huge fractal bracket of the internet: everything identified down to the smallest unit according to its classification. Like the Great Chain of Being but for transforming subjects into objects.

A bit creepy considering how much we associate digital life with disincarnation … but a strong reminder that to be incarnate is to be in the flesh, not merely to be matter; embodiment requires a body, a given body, given by God — not a golem, a cap table, an Excel sheet. All that “free” information flying around is more like a caged bird. The taxonomy is the tax — and the debtor’s prison.

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You can hear the cries each day of people sure they have no choice but to spend inordinate hours on “this hellsite,” and while the perpetual gossip and envy and resentment and profane curiosity and so forth are certainly hellacious, the lack of surprise is a real killjoy — a special curse levied against the online intellectual, who can feel himself unaliving into a petrified rock crystal the minute he can’t find a new idea, a new insight, a fresh source of soyface, an of-the-moment mind-blower.

We all have our fatal weakness here. Speaking as a longtime online coiner of terms and concepts, I’m always monitoring the situation for fresh, vine-ripe terms and concepts to munch on, savor, share. And these are declining along with everything else, it seems, as the direction of all human-generated content flows toward the great maw crystallizing everything into the ultimate taxonomy. Zoomer slang can’t innovate fast enough …

And yet what to my wondering eyes should appear but a poaster coining a new term relevant to just this torment: “The algorithm is a military grade dopamine drip designed to subject us to levels of fatigue addiction beyond our comprehension.”

Many people might look at this and go yeah, yeah, we know, we know. But have you encountered the phrase “fatigue addiction” before? I didn’t think so … yet it so well captures the strange and uncanny character of our experience becoming unalived into mere objects by way of our virtual entombment in the great bracket of nonbeing.

As the “Naked Gun” reboot is out, I flash on that other spoof flick that probably won’t be remade — “Dracula: Dead and Loving It.” We all know how many people wake up, log on, and post obsessively about how exhausted they are. What is this? Yes, we are way too obsessed; many believe that only obsession is sufficient any more to provide any motile force to anything, which indicates just how petrified are the rock crystals we all already feel we are. Yes, we are therefore way too obsessed with obsession itself; but are we not also increasingly monomaniacal, toward an asymptotic point, about our own exhaustion? Are we not in the grip of a love of exhaustion?

There’s a phrase called “system working as designed” that we ought to see at work here. We consume vast quantities of drugs that make us exhausted and seek out meds that simulate exhaustion. We want to “hit the wall.” We want to sacrifice ourselves to “the grind.” We want it to be “so over for us.” We envy the objects that overshadow us everywhere we turn. We don’t want to find our identities forever in oppositional ideology. We want to find them in rocks. In sand. Real ones, that don’t have to think all the time, like our hyperactive silicon does. When software exhaustingly consumes the world, we want to be bricked.

In the end, however, at the end of this trail of petrification, we must encounter the final source of our will to paralysis: fear — the fear of life itself and its source. Yes, go back to Proverbs to see that fear of God is the beginning of wisdom; but few today seem fearful at all of God’s punishment, whereas many seem absolutely terrified of the implications of being created in the image of an incomprehensibly loving God. But only confronting this fear can show the way out from the labyrinthine entombment of addiction to fatigue, to the experience of the life going out of you and the rock crystal creeping in.

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A small-business owner in North Texas is facing severe backlash and danger to his business after voicing concern over the rapid cultural shift that mass Indian immigration has brought to his city. The threats to his livelihood include a recent emailed extortion attempt.

Daniel Keene, who owns Boundaries Coffee — a local coffee shop with two locations in the DFW Metroplex — posted a video on X showing an entire street in his neighborhood blocked off for a block party celebrating an Indian festival. The video shows the street blocked off by cars and people. Keene captioned the video, “I want my kids to grow up in America, not India.”

The post went viral on X, and he has since received hundreds of threatening calls, texts, and emails.

‘You must pay $20,000 or our games will BEGIN.’

The threats have turned into action, as his business has been targeted with hundreds of fraudulent negative reviews as well as calls insulting his employees and family. He is now fighting against a massive wave of insults, slanders, and racial animosity from people claiming to be Indian, both here and abroad.

Keene told Blaze News he was unprepared for the attack: “I was shocked by how rapid, and how intense, and how organized it was.” He has deleted the original video, saying the stress became too much for his family.

The hundreds of negative reviews on Google have been particularly damaging. Many reviews complained about a dirty lobby and bad conditions, even though both locations are drive-thru only.

“Review bombings,” or large numbers of coordinated and often fraudulent negative reviews on platforms like Google Maps or Yelp, can be incredibly damaging to small businesses, which rely on these applications to bring in customers. Keene said he believes these reviews, complaints, and threats seemed to be carried out entirely by Indians — either in the U.S. or in India.

On September 8, things escalated when someone claiming to represent a network of millions of Indian-Americans in the United States sent an email that appears to be an attempt to extort Keene.

The email read, “We will blast your business and profiles to over 6 million Indian Americans in America. If they each write negative reviews it will ruin your business. We have all proof regarding this. You must pay $20,000 or our games will BEGIN. Let me know if your [sic] ready for instructions.”

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In addition to this apparent extortion, the coffee shop owner has received threats against himself and his family; profane messages about his wife, who is pregnant with their third child; and slanderous messages calling him a pedophile.

Comments on the shop’s various social media pages include accusations of racism but also comments about Keene burning in hell, his children, and other graphic insults. Other users took to X to attack Keene, insulting and taunting him as the attacks increased.

One influencer on X who goes by the name Sidharth took the occasion to mock Keene, writing, “I don’t really think you can afford a home in that neighborhood,” and promising that “the day of reckoning is not far away.” Blaze News obtained screenshots of the post, which has since been deleted.

In response to a request for comment, Sidharth told Blaze News: “My comment would be to focus on the rapid xenophobia and sweeping generalizations against Indian Americans under the pretext of ‘H-1B.'”

Despite the intensity of the attacks and the harm done to his business, Keene says he stands by his comments about Indian immigration. The post expressed what he says is a growing frustration among Texans about the economic and cultural impact that Indians settling in the area have had.

“I don’t have any racial animosity towards Indians,” Keene said. “I would never use racially charged language about somebody.” His issue is not with Indians as people, he says, but with the immigration policies that have changed the demographics of the city where he was born and raised.

“I just want to live on an American street. … As an American, I feel like that’s my right.”

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Keene was born and raised in Southlake and grew up in the DFW Metroplex area. After going to school and spending time in Arkansas, he came back to find the demographics shifting from the massive influx of Indian immigrants, many of them on H-1B or other work visas. He says that his frustration is “the normal experience of an American who is getting pushed out.”

Native Texans have been almost entirely priced out of the neighborhood where he lives, so now it is “almost entirely Indian.” He says the cultural shift has been hard for his family: “They don’t like us; we don’t share anything in common with them.”

Despite his frustration and the threats he has received, Keene says he does not harbor animosity toward Indian people. Rather, he expressed his discontent with the policies that he says have resulted in these demographic and cultural changes. “I oppose the use of the H-1B visa, specifically in the DFW Metroplex.” He believes that these policies have changed the culture of the area and make life harder for the native population.

Keene says he has been frustrated and disheartened by the contrast between his native Texan friends and neighbors and this new influx of wealthy Indian immigrants. “I’m losing my neighbors, the Americans. These guys are getting driven out of the neighborhoods. … Pretty much anyone below 35 is struggling.”

“Every house I’ve ever looked at is Indian-owned,” he continued. “… My home is Indian-owned. My street is Indian.”

In addition to his home, he rents the two properties for his coffee shops, as well as a warehouse. All four properties are Indian-owned.

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Texas has received the second-most Indian immigrants of any state in the country, about 11%. Recent data shows that there are currently about 2.1 million Indians in the U.S. on visas, and the average household income for Indian immigrants is $166,200, compared to $77,600 for native-born American households, according to a 2023 study. India took in a total of $118.7 billion in remittances last year — the most of any country. Of that, $32.88 billion, or 27.7%, came from the United States.

Keene said that he has received support from friends and various voices online as word of the harassment campaign has spread. However, the negative publicity has made it much harder to continue growing his business.

The Little Elm Police Department and the Collin County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment. The India Association of North Texas requested that Blaze News direct inquiries via email. Emailed requests for comment have not been answered as of time of publication.

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President Donald Trump signaled a desire on Monday to have his administration designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. The liberal media appears keen to use a misleading narrative to shield anarcho-communist militants from a possible crackdown.

Various outlets and publications have suggested that Antifa cannot be designated as a single terrorist group because “Antifa” is supposedly a catch-all term for a motley patchwork of radical leftist groups that just happen to dress the same, use the same slogans, target the same kinds of people, engage in the same kinds of violence, share the same base ideology, and share the same origin.

CNN, for instance, rushed this week to assert, “It wasn’t clear who or what exactly Trump would designate; Antifa is a loosely organized movement without a distinct leader, membership lists, or structure.”

Asad Hashim, a D.C.-based Agence France-Presse news editor, noted in a Monday piece that has been circulated by various liberal papers, “Antifa — short for ‘anti-fascist’ — is an umbrella term for diffuse far-left groups, and is often mentioned in right-wing talking points around violence at protests.”

The liberal media and their friends in the field adopted this same framing when Trump labeled Antifa a terrorist organization in 2020, only to find himself undermined by then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, who told Congress that “it’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology.”

Politico, for instance, suggested in June 2020:

Antifa doesn’t appear to have any organizing structure and is connected only by an amorphous political ideology. There’s not much more than anecdotal evidence and blurry Twitter assertions that organized antifa groups showed up at the recent protests, executing any sort of “well-trained” tactics.

The current framing of Antifa is also reminiscent of the descriptions used by so-called experts and media types in reference to another outfit easily recognizable to most Americans as a terrorist organization: al-Qaeda.

The Justice Department’s abstract for terrorism expert Yonah Alexander’s book “Usama bin Laden’s al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network,” — published just months ahead of the September 11, 2001, attacks — describes al-Qaeda as a “loosely knit network” “comprised of various terrorist organizations, such as the Egyptian al-Jihad and dozens of others” that was heavily funded by Osama bin Laden and served “as an informal organizational structure for extremist Arab-Afghans, along with thousands of new recruits and supporters in some 55 countries.”

‘It is polymorphous, deliberately shifting its shape and style to suit changing circumstances, including the addition of new, semi-autonomous affiliates to the broader network.’

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, PBS’ “Frontline” amplified the suggestion by Saudi dissident Saad Al-Fagih that contrary to the description given by American law enforcement of a well-organized cell organization, al-Qaeda was less an organization and more a “phenomena” [sic].

When reporting on the manufacture and use of the deadly substance ricin in 2004, NBC News noted that following America’s invasion of Afghanistan, “al Qaeda has become more diffuse, transforming itself into a loose-knit collection of underground cells.”

While some in the media appear to have used such descriptions to question action or continued action against the terrorist group, others proved willing to admit that these characteristics were strategic on the part of the terrorists.

A 2005 article published in the First Monday journal noted that “according to the latest thinking, Al Qaeda is now more important as an ideology than an organization, a network than a hierarchy, and a movement than a group. It is increasingly amorphous, though initially it seemed tightly formed.”

The author, researcher David Ronfeldt, noted further that “while Al Qaeda may look amorphous (i.e., shapeless), the deeper reality may be that it is polymorphous, deliberately shifting its shape and style to suit changing circumstances, including the addition of new, semi-autonomous affiliates to the broader network.”

‘Some Antifa leaders have been active for more than 40 years and may hold high-ranking positions in unions or nonprofits.’

“Today, now that Al Qaeda has more affiliates, the network and franchise concepts remain in play, but the emphasis is on Al Qaeda’s evolution into a decentralized, amorphous ideological movement for global jihad,” added Ronfeldt.

Kyle Shideler, a senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told Blaze News, “The categorization you see in much of the mainstream media is deliberately misleading. It is true that Antifa is organized along decentralized, non-hierarchical lines, in keeping with their ideology as anarchists and autonomous Marxists. But it is also true that they think and write extensively, almost obsessively, about that organization and structure.”

Years ago, “a ‘Forming an Antifa Group’ manual was published which described specific steps to create your own Antifa group and then how it is networked into larger groups. So in this sense it [is] absolutely false to say they don’t have structure,” continued Shideler. “They have precisely the structure they want, which is designed to make them challenging for law enforcement to confront, and which is based on over 100 years of anarchist and Marxist organizing theory.”

It’s also not true to say that Antifa is devoid of leaders.

Shideler noted that in the leftist group, “leaders are determined not by titles but by force of personality, capability, training, or experience. Some Antifa leaders have been active for more than 40 years and may hold high-ranking positions in unions or nonprofits.”

Shideler indicated that when briefing law enforcement officials, he often likens Antifa to an outlaw motorcycle club or to street gangs.

“Gangs are made up of smaller clubs or cliques which are networked together by a shared brand, imagery, or iconography,” he said. “As the Antifa manual says, adopting the name Antifa comes with ‘certain obligations.'”

‘The Trump administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities.’

Contrary to the suggestion by some liberal media personalities, Antifa’s characteristics, real or imagined, don’t preclude officials from applying the terrorist label.

Shideler noted that the actual statute that controls the definition of terrorist and terrorist activity for the purposes of foreign terror designation — under the Immigration and Naturalization Act — “is fairly loose.”

A group “of two or more people … can be designated if it, or any subgroup connected to it, engages in terrorist activities. Those connections do not have to be financial, although they are often the easiest to prove,” said Shideler.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to Blaze News, “Left-wing organizations have fueled violent riots, organized attacks against law enforcement officers, coordinated illegal doxxing campaigns, arranged drop points for weapons and riot materials, and more.”

“The Trump administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities,” continued Jackson. “This effort will target those committing criminal acts and hold them accountable.”

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America’s youth are struggling, and they need help fast.

Currently, 1 in 5 U.S. children ages 2 to 19 are obese. Over the past 20 years, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes “in the 10‐ to 19‐year‐old population has doubled.”

I sincerely believe that it takes good parenting, not a bunch of strangers, to raise a well-adjusted child.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that by 2060, the number of American children and teenagers with type 2 diabetes could increase by an incredible 700%!

In terms of mental health, things are not much better.

Sadder and dumber

“Among adolescents, mental health, substance use, and suicide are concerns,” the CDC notes. “Data obtained directly from youth can tell us more about the scope of these problems.”

In 2023, “40% reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year,” “20% reported seriously considering attempting suicide in the past year,” “16% reported making a suicide plan in the past year,” and “9% reporting attempting suicide in the past year.”

Perhaps most concerning of all, American children are becoming dumber.

Thanks to the release of the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress report, we now know that “the average reading score for the nation at grade 4 was 2 points lower compared to 2022 and 5 points lower compared to 2019.”

Likewise, “the average reading score for the nation at grade 8 was 2 points lower than in 2022 and 5 points lower compared to 2019.”

How about math? “In 2024, the average score at fourth grade was 2 points higher compared to 2022 and 3 points lower compared to the pre-pandemic score in 2019.” Among eighth graders, “the average score was not significantly different from 2022 but was 8 points lower compared to 2019.”

When it comes to science, the trend continues. “In 2024, the average science score at eighth grade was 4 points lower compared to 2019. Scores in 2024 decreased at all five selected percentiles compared to 2019.”

Help starts at home

It is quite difficult to read these statistics and remain optimistic about the future. I hope it is not too late to reverse course; nevertheless, doing so will be much easier said than done.

A myriad of reasons are to blame for the sudden and steep decline in children’s physical and mental well-being. Some blame corporations for pushing ultra-processed, sugar-laden foods. Some blame technology companies for getting kids addicted to screens and social media.

I, however, blame the parents.

I reject the mantra that it takes a village to raise a child. I sincerely believe that it takes good parenting, not a bunch of strangers, to raise a well-adjusted child.

Parents should be responsible for what their children consume. As the ones buying the groceries and paying for their children’s expensive devices, it’s incumbent upon parents to teach their children about moderation, discipline, and all the other life lessons that turn them into responsible adults.

It is also misguided to put all the blame for students performing poorly academically on the broken public school system. As a former public school teacher, I understand most government-run schools are failing to properly educate America’s millions of students.

But, again, what about the parents’ role in their children’s education? Are the parents doing everything they can to ensure that their children are on the right academic path? Are the parents demanding more from the public schools that their taxes fund? Are the parents at all engaged in their child’s education? Are parents monitoring the garbage their kids encounter on social media?

These are the types of difficult questions we must ask.

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Children crave discipline

When I taught high school students years ago, I held them accountable. At the time, many of the students whined and complained. They said I was “mean” because I didn’t let them get away with stuff that most other teachers would.

The funny thing is that many of those students came back years later and thanked me for holding them to such a high standard. Deep down, they craved order and discipline.

Children need adults to keep them in check. Sometimes, they need tough love. They need help, and no government program can provide the support that they so desperately need right now.

A strong family unit always has been and always will be the backbone of a healthy society. America, if we want to save the children, we must save the family.

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More and more disturbing information about Tyler Robinson, the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk, is surfacing as the investigation progresses. One of the most significant revelations is that Robinson’s roommate, who has been cooperating with the FBI, is also his romantic partner.

Although authorities have not confirmed the name of this person, despite many X posts claiming his name is Lance Twiggs, they have confirmed that he is a biological male who identifies as transgender and is currently in the process of “transitioning” to a female.

This is a critical piece of information. Between the Nashville Covenant and Annunciation Catholic School shootings, as well as other trans-perpetrated crimes, we cannot ignore the clear tie between transgender ideology and violence.

But CNN’s Dana Bash prefers we do exactly that and pretend the correlation doesn’t exist.

In a recent interview with Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R), Bash asked how Robinson’s partner’s sexual identity was relevant to the investigation.

BlazeTV Sara Gonzales, alongside contributor Matthew Marsden and guest Adam Johnson, reacted to the clip on a recent episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“Well, some outlets are reporting that the suspect lived with a transgender partner. Is that accurate? And are investigators looking at this part of his life as a possible motivation?” Bash asked.

“Yes, definitely. And yes, I can confirm that. I know that has been reported and that the FBI has confirmed that as well — that the roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female,” Cox replied, noting that Robinson’s partner has been “incredibly cooperative” in the investigation.

“And how is that relevant to the investigation when it comes to the motive?” Bash retorted.

Sara is appalled. “I don’t know, Dana. Do you have two brain cells to rub together? Like, it would be completely obvious to anyone who’s listening to the left continue today, this very moment, continue telling all of us that Charlie Kirk was a transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, enter keyword here,” she says.

“The mental gymnastics these people are doing to not have to admit what we already see in front of us is true is truly spectacular,” she continues.

How about “the fact that it was written on the freaking bullets!” adds Marsden, referring to the disturbing inscriptions on some of Robinson’s bullets.

“The LGBTQIA+2 community is a death cult. They cannot exist without coming after our youth and convincing them to also be a part of their group. And that is why Charlie was the target,” Johnson says.

“Charlie went after the hearts and minds of those that were captured in our schools with Marxist ideology from a very young age. And he recaptured their minds. He broke them free. He allowed them to understand that there is truth, there is morals, and that living our lives in a Christian way — in a way that serves our Lord and Savior, in a way that serves our community — is the right way to live,” he continues.

“And that is why they took him out. Because if we recapture our youth, we recapture our country.”

To see the footage of Bash’s ignorant comments and to hear more of Sara and the panel’s discussion, watch the episode above.

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A 41-year-old New Jersey man named Everton Thomas fled to Canada after shooting and killing a man during a poker game at his home in Camden, police say.

Harold Miller, 48, had been reported missing in June, and his vehicle was later found in Pennsauken, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. A police investigation used security video footage and cellphone data to determine that he had been playing poker with Thomas at his home on Baird Boulevard on June 12.

The mother, when allegedly explaining her actions, said, ‘A wife got to do what she’s got to do.’

Police said the footage showed Miller never left the home again.

The video also captured the sound of a gunshot at the home, according to police.

Everton Thomas’s 22-year-old son, Deshawn Thomas, and 41-year-old wife, Sherrie Parker, then allegedly purchased a chainsaw and cleaning items to bring back to the residence, according to police. They also obtained containers and trash bags.

Police said surveillance video showed Everton Thomas and his son making several trips to the dumpsters at Tamarack Apartments to load containers and drive away.

When police searched the home on June 20, they said they recovered a loaded firearm with one round in the chamber. They also found bloodstains which later matched the DNA of the missing man.

Everton Thomas allegedly fled from the U.S. to Canada the next day.

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On Sept. 5, Everton Thomas was charged with first-degree murder, and he, his son, and his wife were charged with desecration of human remains.

Prosecutors say the son told police that his father had woken him up and asked him to “chop up” a body. The mother, when allegedly explaining her actions, said, “A wife got to do what she’s got to do.”

Neighbors had said they smelled a strong odor coming from the residence that appeared to be something decomposing, according to WPVI-TV.

Everton Thomas was arrested and is awaiting extradition to New Jersey.

Miller’s remains have not been found.

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Over the weekend, the world mourned the murder of Charlie Kirk. In London, crowds filled the streets, chanting “Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!” and holding up pictures of the fallen conservative giant. Protests in his honor spread as far away as South Korea. This wasn’t just admiration for one man; it was a global acknowledgment that courage and conviction — the kind embodied by Kirk during his lifetime — still matter. But it was also a warning. This is a test for our society, our morality, and our willingness to defend truth.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recently delivered a speech that struck at the heart of this crisis. She praised Kirk as a man who welcomed debate, who smiled while defending his ideas, and who faced opposition with respect. That courage is frightening to those who have no arguments. When reason fails, the weapons left are insults, criminalization, and sometimes violence. We see it again today, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Charlie Kirk’s life was a challenge. His death is a call.

Some professors and public intellectuals have written things that should chill every American soul. They argue that shooting a right-wing figure is somehow less serious than murdering others. They suggest it could be mitigated because of political disagreement. These aren’t careless words — they are a rationalization for murder.

Free speech vs. glorifying murder

Words matter. Celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk is not free speech. It is a glorification of evil. Parents and communities have every right to demand accountability from those in positions of trust. A teacher, professor, or public official who cheers violence has revealed the state of his or her heart. Scripture reminds us, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” A society that tolerates murder is a society that has lost its moral compass.

Some will argue that holding such figures accountable is “cancel culture.” They will say that we are silencing debate. They are wrong. Accountability is not cancel culture. A critical difference lies between debating ideas and celebrating death. Debate challenges minds. Celebrating murder abandons humanity. Charlie Kirk’s death draws that line sharply.

History offers us lessons. In France, mobs cheered executions as the guillotine claimed the heads of their enemies — and their own heads soon rolled. Cicero begged his countrymen to reason, yet the mob chose blood over law, and liberty was lost. Charlie Kirk’s assassination reminds us that violence ensues when virtue is abandoned.

We must also distinguish between debates over policy and attacks on life itself. A teacher who argues that children should not undergo gender-transition procedures before adulthood participates in a policy debate. A person who says Charlie Kirk’s death is a victory rejoices in violence. That person has no place shaping minds or guiding children.

RELATED: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’: Remembering Charlie Kirk

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For liberty and virtue

Liberty without virtue is national suicide. The Constitution protects speech — even dangerous ideas — but it cannot shield those who glorify murder. Society has the right to demand virtue from its leaders, educators, and public figures. Charlie Kirk’s life was a challenge. His death is a call. It is a call to defend our children, our communities, and the principles that make America free.

Cancel culture silences debate. But accountability preserves it. A society that distinguishes between debating ideas and celebrating death still has a moral compass. It still has hope. It still has us.

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A 71-year-old man who falsely claimed to have shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk and distracted police immediately after the shooting has been charged with possessing child sex abuse material.

The bizarre twist was reported by the Utah County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday after police searched George Zinn’s phone during an investigation following the scene he caused at the shooting.

‘Agents did see several images on the phone of prepubescent girls scantily dressed.’

Video from the shooting showed Zinn being dragged away by police as he yells, “Shoot me!” as his pants fall to the ground.

He later allegedly admitted to investigators that he was trying to distract the police to help the real shooter escape. Zinn is known for crashing numerous political and entertainment events in the Salt Lake City area.

The Utah Department of Public Safety had said he was released but charged with obstruction of justice.

On Monday, police said they discovered more than 20 “graphic” images of child sex abuse on his phone. He was allegedly sharing the images with other parties.

“Those agents did see several images on the phone of prepubescent girls scantily dressed,” the sheriff’s office said.

Zinn was charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

RELATED: Explosive alleged text messages between suspected Kirk killer and his transgender roommate obliterate liberal narrative

Law enforcement officials arrested Tyler Robinson for the killing of Kirk and released evidence that included text messages allegedly made by the suspect confessing to the crime.

Funeral arrangements for Kirk are scheduled for Sunday at State Farm Stadium.

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Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train didn’t help her until some time had passed — and Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck doesn’t believe it’s his place to judge.

“I’m torn about how I feel about the people on the train because my first instinct is, they did nothing. They did nothing,” Glenn says.

“What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?” Glenn asks.

However, after Glenn and BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere imagine their wives in the same situation, they realize it’s not their place to judge.

“It’s tough to put yourself in that situation. It’s very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Like, everybody can do that very easily on Twitter,” Stu says.

“When you’re in a vehicle that doesn’t have an exit with a guy who just murdered someone in front of you, has dripping blood off of a knife that’s standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you, there is probably a different standard there that we should all kind of consider,” he continues.

“When I’m thinking of my wife, my advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs,” Stu says.

While Glenn agrees, he does hope he himself would have taken action.

“I would hope that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her, you know, help her up off the floor, at least be there with her as she’s seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute,” Glenn says.

“And that’s the other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly,” he adds. “A minute will seem like a very long period of time in that situation, but it’s a very short period of time in real life.”

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Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin — 22-year-old Tyler Robinson — made his first court appearance Tuesday afternoon in Utah.

During the virtual hearing, Robinson was briefly seen on video wearing what appeared to be a bulletproof vest. The only words Robinson spoke were his full name in response to the judge’s request for him to state it: “Tyler James Robinson.”

‘I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I’m going to take it.’

The judge noted that he reviewed Robinson’s financial status declaration, found the defendant “indigent,” and would assign an attorney to represent him. The judge also said Robinson would remain in custody with no bail.

A trial team representative stated that a pretrial protective order was submitted on behalf of Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk; the judge granted that request. The trial team representative added that it had just submitted to the court a notice of the state’s intent to seek the death penalty against Robinson.

The judge then read the charges against Robinson, which Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray formally brought against the suspect just two hours prior.

Those charges include aggravated murder and felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury. Gray in his earlier news conference Tuesday said the state is alleging in regard to the latter two charges “aggravating factors” because it’s believed that Robinson “targeted” Kirk because of the TPUSA founder’s “political expression” and knew that children were present at the scene and would “witness the homicide.”

RELATED: Utah County attorney formally charges Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin

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The other charges include:

One count of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, for “moving and concealing the rifle used in the shooting.”One count of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, for “disposing [of] the clothing he wore during the shooting.”One count of witness tampering, a third-degree felony, for directing his roommate to “delete his incriminating texts.”One count of witness tampering, a third-degree felony, for directing his roommate to “stay silent if police questioned him.”One count of commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child, a Class A misdemeanor, for “committing homicide knowing that children were present and may have seen or heard the murder and did so” based on Kirk’s “political expression.”

RELATED: Explosive alleged text messages between suspected Kirk killer and his transgender roommate obliterate liberal narrative

After the judge read the charges against Robinson, he soon declared the hearing in recess. The judge earlier stated that the next hearing — which also will be virtual — is set for 10 a.m. Sept. 29.

Blaze News previously reported that Gray also stated that Robinson texted his transgender roommate and told him to drop everything to look at a note he had left under his keyboard. According to charging documents, the note read: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I’m going to take it.”

Gray also confirmed that Robinson had begun to date his biologically male roommate, who had begun transitioning to female. An alleged text chain between Robinson and his roommate also appears to undermine a left-wing narrative about a possible motive that painted Robinson as right-wing due to his family connections.

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A senior national security analyst for CNN is being criticized heavily for misleading her followers about the possible motivation for the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Law enforcement officials continue to investigate what led Tyler Robinson to allegedly shoot and kill Kirk while he spoke at one of his campus events at Utah Valley University. Some of the evidence released supports the suspicion that Robinson was motivated by political animus against Kirk’s conservative beliefs.

‘Suggesting she’s knowingly lying is more creditable than the fact she’s this dumb.’

Juliette Kayyem said that her reading of the evidence led her to conclude nothing about the possible motive for Robinson’s alleged actions.

“I have read a lot about Charlie Kirk’s killer’s family, his history and writings. A partisan can find what they are looking for,” she wrote. “But to date, from what we know, there is no dominant political ideology. Instead it’s a stew of irony, violence, gaming fetish and Discord.”

Kayyem was immediately assailed for what many saw as a dishonest and biased assessment of the available evidence.

“This is blatantly false. Killing a leading voice in the conservative movement because you hate what he stands for is a clear statement of leftist ideology for anyone not living in a George Orwell novel,” Fox News columnist David Marcus responded.

“He assassinated a conservative, and his family and friends say he embraced leftist ideology. His boyfriend is trans. There is no evidence that he was aligned with the right; only wishcasting,” reporter Chuck Ross replied.

“Dear @CNN, yet again your senior analyst is spreading misinformation online,” talk radio host Erick Erickson said.

“I’d like to believe she’s delusional; but suggesting she’s knowingly lying is more creditable than the fact she’s this dumb,” responded Mark Hemingway of RealClearInvestigations.

“We just may never know what motivated this furry-chasing gay with a trans boyfriend who used anti-fascist messaging during his assassination of a figure hated by the Left because they consider him an anti-LGBTQ fascist,” reads one popular response with 4.7K likes.

“Reading this made me feel dumber,” communications director Jeremy Redfern joked.

RELATED: ‘You woke us the f**k up!’ Greg Gutfeld fires off message on Fox News after assassination of Charlie Kirk

Many suspect that Robinson was motivated by support for the transgender movement, as he was dating a biological male who identified as transgender. Since Kayyem’s post on social media, prosecutors have released damning texts allegedly from Robinson that point to his leftist political motivation.

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Just a couple of months ago, Steve Deace spoke at an event at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, where Charlie Kirk regularly worshipped and collaborated on initiatives. Right before he walked on stage, Charlie leaned down and whispered a word of encouragement in his ear.

“Go hard,” he said.

Today, as we continue to wrestle with the loss of Charlie, we all need to take that advice to heart. It’s time to go hard.

But what does that look like? How do we “go hard” in a way that hits at the root of this violence and culminates in positive change?

At a recent event for Conservative Partnership Institute, Steve answered that question with three bold initiatives that we all bear the responsibility of ensuring come to fruition.

1. Punish evil

Steve beseeches all of us, but especially elected officials, to treat evil as such. Enough with leniency and delay. Either we punish evil, or we welcome it through the front door.

“The scriptures say the only reason God permits government on this Earth is to be an avenging angel, a sword of righteousness against evil,” Steve says.

“The people in this room who hold elected office and the ones who [do] not, you must punish evil. … You must!” he urges.

Failure to do so will have one outcome, he warns: “more evil.”

To the dissenters who argue that to meet evil with fitting consequences will backfire because Democrats will only return the favor, Steve has a sobering message: “They’ve already done it all! They’re all going to do it all over again. 2005 called, and it wants its talking points back. That’s not where we are right now. My friend’s body is cold to testify to that truth.”

But it’s not just Charlie’s tragic death that demands justice. There are many atrocities in this country that have yet to be addressed, Steve says. Whether it’s the deliberate invasion of illegal immigrants perpetrated by the Biden regime or the fact that the American people were lied to about Joe Biden’s mental acuity while a cabal of shadowy Democrats ran the country in his stead, justice has yet to be served on a number of iniquities.

“Who’s gone to prison for this? Who’s been referred to prosecution? Who’s been arrested?” Steve asks.

“We have to punish evil. If we don’t punish evil, there will be more evil. I promise you,” he reiterates.

2. Stop the contagion of political sadism

“We have a social contagion, and I’m not talking about trannyism. … This is actually worse. I will call it political sadism,” Steve says.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s near assassination and Charlie Kirk’s murder, the radical leftists have shown their true colors. Their brazen celebration of the attacks on people they consider their political enemies reveals just how sick and twisted they’ve become. They are reveling in “the physical suffering and debasement of people,” Steve laments.

It’s not even taboo anymore. “Now teachers, nurses, public officials, financial advisers just post this stuff under their names, and they’re proud to do it,” he says.

“It’s like a macabre carnival of ghouls fetishizing, turning the death of, I think, our best general into a kink that they cannot wait to satiate and rub in your faces and share with others.”

So what do we do? We employ one of the left’s favorite weapons: “cancel culture.”

“We have to publicly shame this out of existence. That’s the only antidote,” Steve says.

“I kind of like cancel culture when my side’s doing the canceling,” he admits.

“We have to [employ cancel culture] in return because they’re already doing all those things to us right now. This stuff has to be shunned. There should be a graveyard of lost jobs, lost careers. The social stigma to this should be overwhelming.”

3. Redden the red states

“Our red states have to be every bit as red as the blue states are blue,” Steve says.

He explains that blue states never eased up on their progressivism after Donald Trump became the president. If anything, they doubled down because “they have complete and total control of the governing infrastructure … [and] the policy-making” in their states.

So why aren’t red states doing the same?

“It needs to be inconceivable that they could propose these [liberal] policies in the places where we have total control,” Steve says, urging states like Wyoming and Idaho to become the right’s California and Massachusetts.

The attitude we need to have toward progressive voters moving into red states is this, he says: “You’re not going to move here because Google gave you a job and come here and vote communism and cultural Marxism into my state. … There’s more to life than a balance sheet, and part of that calculus needs to be the moral one.”

We need to adopt the bold stance Ronald Reagan took when he declared an arms race against the Soviet Union: “Do not launch on us, [or] we will launch on you.”

“We have to immediately establish that mutually assured destruction deterrent. We have to. If we don’t, I’m telling you right now, we’re going to bury more Charlies,” Steve says. “Well, we won’t bury any more Charlie Kirks because there’s nobody like him. The void he has left is immeasurable. But we’re going to bury more of us because they’re unbowed.”

The debate is no longer Republican versus Democrat or even conservative versus liberal. The debate is now: “Do I still get to be an American or not?”

How we respond to the death of Charlie Kirk will determine the answer to that question, Steve says.

“Don’t sentence your children and grandchildren to have to settle these disputes in unpeaceable means because we weren’t aggressive enough to defend them with the peaceable means we still have,” he pleads.

This is the fight Charlie was fighting until his last breath. That’s “why I am confident the next words he heard after that bullet ripped through his neck were, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant,’” he says.

We should all live our lives so that we, too, can hear these words when our time comes.

So “go hard,” Steve says.

Our future depends on it.

To hear his full speech, watch the video above.

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Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last year, caught a break this week when a New York judge dismissed one of the charges in the state case. Former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy joined “The Glenn Beck Program” on Tuesday morning to explain why.

Judge Gregory Carro dropped the terrorism charge against Mangione, concluding that there was “no evidence presented” that he broke the state’s terrorism law.

‘I just don’t think it trivialized the murder to say that it’s not a terrorism crime.’

The crime of terrorism, under New York law, is defined as an “intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination, or kidnapping.”

“While the defendant was clearly expressing an animus toward UHC, and the health care industry generally, it does not follow that his goal was to ‘intimidate and coerce a civilian population,’ and indeed, there was no evidence presented of such a goal,” Carro wrote. The judge mentioned that federal prosecutors did not charge Mangione with terrorism offenses.

However, Carro stated that there was sufficient evidence that the suspect “murdered Brian Thompson in a premeditated and calculated execution.” As such, the second-degree murder charge still stands, which carries a potential penalty of 15 years to life in prison.

RELATED: Alleged manifesto of murder suspect Luigi Mangione highlights lessons learned from Unabomber: Court docs

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“To prove terrorism, you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt an intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” McCarthy told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck. “What the judge said is, this was very narrowly targeted at the health care industry and this particular health care executive.”

“I just don’t think it trivialized the murder to say that it’s not a terrorism crime,” he continued.

McCarthy also explained why Mangione is facing second-degree murder instead of first-degree murder. He stated that in the 1990s, former New York Gov. George Pataki (R) wanted to revise the state’s capital murder statute to revive the death penalty.

RELATED: ‘Saint Luigi’? America’s moral compass couldn’t be more broken

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“This ultimately was not a successful effort,” McCarthy remarked. “What they did was, they took the things that you could get the death penalty for, which in New York, were only things like killing a police officer or killing a prison guard in the prison, and they made those the only murder in the first degree.”

“They were trying to clean the statute in a way that murder one would be revived as capital murder,” he continued. “And all other murder was going to be second-degree murder.”

Mangione’s case, therefore, would not qualify for first-degree murder under New York law.

McCarthy believes that if the suspect is convicted in the federal system, he will likely get the death penalty.

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A new release from law enforcement officials very much points to a political motivation for the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said that accused murderer Tyler Robinson, 22, texted his transgender roommate and told him to drop everything to look at a note he had left under his keyboard.

‘I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.’

“I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” the note read, according to charging documents.

This text chain then ensued:

Image Source: Utah County Court Document screenshot.

Image Source: Utah County Court Document screenshot.

Image Source: Utah County Court Document screenshot.

The text messages appear to have been sent while Robinson was still in the vicinity of the UVU campus, Gray stated.

RELATED: Liberals spew hatred against moment of silence for Charlie Kirk on Thursday Night Football

Gray also confirmed that Robinson had begun to date his biologically male roommate, who had begun transitioning to female.

The text messages completely undermined a liberal narrative that had developed about the possible motive of the suspect. Many had tried to frame Robinson as a right-winger due to his family connections, but the alleged texts offer evidence in his own words.

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Outrage over comments about Charlie Kirk in a video shared by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota may lead to her being stripped of her congressional committee assignments.

The video criticized the conservative response to Kirk’s death and blamed the rhetoric on the right for creating the circumstances that led to his assassination. Omar reposted the video from her account on the X social media platform, according to screenshots captured online.

‘Its [sic] dangerous, disgraceful, and beneath the United States Congress. She must be stripped of every committee assignment. No excuses.’

“Kirk was a reprehensible human being … a stochastic terrorist,” said the commentator on the video. “With his last dying words, he was spewing racist dog whistles. Charlie Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein, and his monster shot him through the neck.”

In response, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said she would file a motion to punish Omar.

“Ilhan Omar has shown us exactly who she is: she defends political violence and refuses to condemn the loss of innocent lives when it doesn’t suit her agenda, even the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk,” she wrote on social media Monday.

“Its [sic] dangerous, disgraceful, and beneath the United States Congress,” Mace added. “She must be stripped of every committee assignment. No excuses.”

Omar responded to criticism related to a separate video where she criticized Kirk.

“While I disagreed with Charlie Kirk vehemently about his rhetoric, my heart breaks for his wife and children. I don’t wish violence on anyone. My faith teaches me the power of peace, empathy, and compassion,” she posted on Thursday.

RELATED: Ilhan Omar mocks Trump and others for praising Charlie Kirk: ‘These people are full of s**t!’

“Right-wing accounts trying to spin a false story when I condemned his murder multiple times is fitting for their agenda to villainize the left to hide from the fact that Donald Trump gins up hate on a daily basis,” she added.

Omar also appeared to reference the effort in an oblique message on social media Tuesday.

“To those claiming they’re for free speech while punishing and silencing those for exercising that right: You’re not pro-free speech,” she posted.

If the censure motion is successful, Omar would lose her seats on the House Education and Workforce Committee and the House Budget Committee.

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FBI Director Kash Patel revealed the real extent of the bureau’s investigation into Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the FBI was looking into “a lot more” than 20 people who were involved in a Discord chat with Kirk’s alleged assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. This development is the latest of mounting evidence against Robinson that has been made public.

‘We’re running them all down.’

“We’re also going to be investigating anyone and everyone involved in that Discord chat,” Patel said during the hearing.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri pointed to public reports that said there were as many as 20 additional users in the Discord chat shared with Robinson. Patel confirmed that there were in fact “a lot more” who are being investigated.

RELATED: FBI unveils damning new evidence against accused Charlie Kirk assassin

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“It’s a lot more than that,” Patel said. “We’re running them all down.”

Within just days, the FBI came out with evidence to suggest the probable political and ideological motive behind the assassination. Over the weekend, Robinson was confirmed to be living with his trans-identifying boyfriend, a biological man claiming to be a woman. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah also revealed the ideological messages inscribed onto ammunition found at the crime scene, including one bullet casing that read, “Hey fascist! Catch!”

Patel also confirmed Monday that DNA evidence was found on both a screwdriver located on the roof where the shooter is believed to have been and on a firearm recovered in the woods near the shooting. Both samples were a positive match to Robinson’s DNA, according to Patel.

RELATED: Alleged bomb plot near Charlie Kirk assassination lands Pakistani native and son with terrorism charges

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On Tuesday, Robinson was officially charged in connection with the assassination of Kirk at the Utah Valley University campus last week. He is facing charges of aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and felony discharge of a firearm.

Kirk, who was just 31 years old, leaves behind his wife, Erika, and their two beautiful children.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested several illegal aliens on Monday who were previously convicted of “violent and heinous” crimes, according to a press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.

‘Despite vile rhetoric about our ICE law enforcement officers, they continue to risk their lives every single day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals.’

The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the arrest of five illegal immigrants: Gustavo Guzman-Galindo, Jose Rolando Aguirre-Garcia, Raul Castaneda-Parada, Luis Gilberto Rodriguez-Villalobos, and Jason Nathaniel Lewis.

Gustavo Guzman-Galindo. Image source: The Department of Homeland Security

Guzman-Galindo, an illegal alien from Mexico, was previously convicted of “criminal contempt, use of a child less than 17 years of age in a sexual performance, criminal sex act, and rape” in New York City, the DHS reported.

The 41-year-old was previously sentenced to seven years in prison, according to ICE.

Jose Rolando Aguirre-Garcia. Image source: The Department of Homeland Security

Aguirre-Garcia, also a Mexican national illegally in the U.S., was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Bexar County, Texas. ICE Houston arrested the 44-year-old on Monday, and he was previously sentenced to five years in prison.

RELATED: Exclusive: ICE rounds up violent criminal illegal aliens, including a convicted rapist

Raul Castaneda-Parada. Image source: The Department of Homeland Security

Castaneda-Parada, a third Mexican national illegally in the U.S, had a rap sheet in Durham County, North Carolina, for trafficking cocaine.

Luis Gilberto Rodriguez-Villalobos. Image source: The Department of Homeland Security

RELATED: ‘I don’t give a s**t what people think about me’: Homan outlines Trump admin’s immigration enforcement wins

Rodriguez-Villalobos, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was convicted of second-degree rape in Hempstead, New York.

Jason Nathaniel Lewis. Image source: The Department of Homeland Security

Lewis, a Jamaican national illegally in the U.S., was convicted of murder in Bronx, New York. ICE Buffalo nabbed the 49-year-old on Monday, according to the agency. He was previously sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

“Despite vile rhetoric about our ICE law enforcement officers, they continue to risk their lives every single day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Our ICE officers are facing a more than 1,000% increase in assaults against them as they carry out operations to remove criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods. Our brave law enforcement will not be deterred from enforcing the law and getting heinous criminals out of our country.”

“ICE will continue to enforce U.S. immigration laws to ensure criminal illegal aliens are identified, arrested, and removed, safeguarding communities across the nation,” the DHS press release read.

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The NASCAR world lit up over the weekend with tributes from drivers to Charlie Kirk at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

NASCAR’s Xfinity Series Food City 300 and the Cup Series’ Bass Pro Shops Night Race in Bristol, Tennessee, saw a huge outpouring of love for Kirk following his murder earlier in the week. Kirk’s life was taken at a university event in Utah on Sept. 10, leaving his wife, Erika, and two children behind.

‘I look up to his heroism when it comes to standing for God …’

Following the national anthem on Saturday, not only was there a flyover, but at the same time, a remembrance of Kirk appeared on the big screen over the racetrack. That was far from being the only tribute to Kirk, though, as at least seven drivers let their support be known.

This included race winner Christopher Bell — driver of the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 car — who dedicated his victory to Kirk.

“This week’s obviously been a very tough week, and, you know, there’s a lot on our mind, and this one’s for Charlie,” he said.

Tributes also poured in from from all the current drivers of Richard Childress Racing. Decals dedicated to Kirk were placed on Jesse Love’s Xfinity No. 2 car, Austin Hill’s Xfinity No. 21, Kyle Busch’s Cup No. 8, and Austin Dillon’s Cup No. 3.

Dillon was asked about his tribute and did not mince words when speaking about the “tragic incident.”

“I look up to his heroism when it comes to standing for God and I love some of his teachings of the Bible,” Dillon explained. “His ability to debate without really attacking someone. I thought that it’s just a very sad day; all I know it makes me want to get into the Bible more and learn more about Jesus and try and spread the word whenever I can.”

RELATED: Radio host makes insane complaint about Charlie Kirk tributes at NFL games — but actual players disagree

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With the entire team making tributes to Kirk, owner Richard Childress was not shy about commenting on the event and provided some of the kindest remarks heard from the sports world in reference to Kirk’s death.

“Charlie loved this country; he loved God,” Childress told Fox News‘ Laura Ingraham.

Calling the assassination a “senseless, senseless murder,” the team owner referred to Kirk as a “friend and a great American patriot.”

When Ingraham asked if he ever imagined something like Kirk’s death would happen in the United States, Childress remarked, “Some of the crazy stuff that you hear that these people come up with, I can’t believe it. … We’ve got the greatest country on Earth. If you’ve ever been to other countries, especially communist countries, you’ll understand what you have.”

RELATED: Beloved race car driver dies after mid-race catastrophe has officials tearing his car apart

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Jeremy Clements’ Xfinity No. 51 car from Jeremy Clements Racing also put a photo of Kirk on his car with the caption “RIP Charlie Kirk.”

Austin Green’s Xfinity No. 32 car for Jordan Anderson Racing also paid tribute to Kirk, simply writing his name next to the American flag above the rear driver-side window.

The outpouring of love by the drivers is by far the biggest showing of support for Kirk in any of the major sports to date.

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As news continues to break about Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer — who was believed to be living with a transgender woman at the time of the assassination — even more important news about Charlie’s life’s work is breaking.

Because more important than the suspect is Charlie’s legacy — which will never be silenced.

“A lion has been awakened in our country. I’ve never seen anything like this. And there’s evidence of the impact of this lion that’s been awakened,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“The social media accounts that are associated with Charlie Kirk and his wife, Erika Kirk, and Turning Point USA saw increases of epic proportions over the past four days,” she explains.

Charlie’s Instagram, Erika’s Instagram, their Facebook accounts, Turning Point USA’s accounts across the social media platforms — all of them have cumulatively gained at least 23.3 million followers as of two days ago.

“That’s not even the most up-to-date numbers in the last couple of hours. On Instagram, Charlie Kirk’s account gained 5 million followers. He now has a total of 12.2 million. 12.2 million. That’s almost tripling,” Wheeler says, shocked.

“Tell me, are you not getting the chills?” she asks, before noting that even on TikTok, “The Charlie Kirk Show” gained 2 million followers for a total of 9.3 million.

“These numbers are astronomical,” she says.

And the producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Andrew Kolvet, has even better news.

“I wanted to share a … report from TPUSA. The organization has received over 32,000 inquiries in the last 48-hours to start new campus chapters. To put that in perspective, TPUSA currently has 900 official college chapters and around 1,200 high school chapters, with a presence on 3,500 total,” Kolvet wrote in a post on X.

“Charlie’s vision to have a Club America chapter (our high school brand) in every high school in America (around 23,000) will come true much much faster than he could have ever possibly imagined. Truly incredible,” he added.

“I am not sure that there has ever been a moment in our nation where more people felt like Jesus Christ is calling you now,” Wheeler says. “If you’ve ever thought about going to church, do it now. Go to mass, walk in, cross yourself, ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to Christ, and he will.”

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