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Charlie Kirk’s memorial hasn’t even happened yet, and already the left has found its own martyr in Jimmy Kimmel. The late night “comedy” show, which had already seen its ratings fall to abysmal levels, was suspended after Kimmel’s hateful and inaccurate remark about Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, being a member of the “MAGA gang.” He also accused Republicans of politicizing the tragedy to “score political points.”

“It says an awful lot about the left that they’re so concerned about Jimmy Kimmel, and now Jimmy Kimmel is the victim in this Charlie Kirk thing,” says Glenn Beck, calling it “gross and offensive.”

But instead of apologizing for spreading a categorically false statement (Robinson’s own family has confirmed his radical leftism), Kimmel is apparently going to “double down” on his political commentary at a new job.

What we are experiencing is a “great sifting,” says Glenn. “You now know who the people are that celebrate death.”

The latest example, of course, is the ghouls cheering Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but they’ve shown their true colors many times before. Whether it was Hamas’ brutal slaughtering of innocent people on October 7, the monsters behind “shout your abortion” and similar pro-choice campaigns, the countless people who heroized Luigi Mangione for allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, or the cold-blooded fiends who lamented that Thomas Matthew Crooks’ bullet missed its mark, there’s no denying the stark line in the sand between them and us.

While this sorting is scary, Glenn says it’s ultimately a positive thing. “I’d like to know those who are so misguided, so misinformed, and so on the wrong track that they have made me an enemy. They’re not my enemies. They’re enemies of God and God’s principles in freedom, and God will sort all that out. We just have to stand up for what we know is right and never ever give in,” he says.

As lies circulate — like the recent rumor that Charlie’s own people killed him — we need to be armed with the truth. “You just have to speak the truth relentlessly and with peace because they will certainly destroy themselves in their arrogance.”

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Anti-ICE protesters were back outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility located near Chicago in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday. Tensions in the metro area are higher since Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s enhanced crackdown in Chicago, is now fully underway.

Similar to the previous week, the crowd blocked road access to the ICE site, forcing ICE’s Special Response Team and Border Patrol agents to move people away to allow vehicles to leave the scene.

One man allegedly threw a tear gas canister, and another person allegedly bum-rushed the agents arresting the first man.

Among the agitators were Democratic House candidates Daniel Biss and Kat Abughazaleh, who are running to replace outgoing Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Il.) in the 9th congressional district. Biss is the current mayor of Evanston, and Abughazaleh used to work for far-left media watchdog group Media Matters for America.

A video posted by Biss shows he was active in the crowd’s attempt to use their bodies to stop a federal vehicle from leaving the facility’s driveway. Tear gas and pepper balls were used by federal agents to clear the road.

“We. will. not. be. intimidated,” Biss further posted on X.

Abughazaleh posted video from earlier in the morning when a federal agent was forced to haul her away from the driveway after she refused to move. Abughazaleh then appeared to slip and landed on the ground with a tremendous thud.

RELAED: ICE agent ‘seriously injured,’ suspect dead in Chicago operation gone wrong

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“This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights,” Abughazaleh whined.

“What ICE just did to me was a violent abuse of power — and it’s still nothing compared to what they’re doing to immigrant communities. I’ve been fighting the right as a journalist and now I’m running for Congress to do the same in D.C.,” Abughazaleh continued before posting a link for people to donate to her campaign.

The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

Unlike last week when Blaze News was present for protests, federal agents on Friday took at least two rioters into custody. One man allegedly threw a tear gas canister, and another person allegedly bum-rushed the agents arresting the first man.

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Some feminist.

Jon Stewart normally works the Monday beat at “The Daily Show” as part of his modest comeback tour. The faux anchor decided to pick up an extra shift this week, eager to weigh in ASAP on the suspension of fellow far-left talker Jimmy Kimmel.

Joaquin Phoenix, Cillian Murphy, Sharon Horgan, Steve Coogan, and Peter Gabriel are among the participants in a new activist video promoting … wait for it … Palestine.

He knows how much his country needs him, and it couldn’t wait until Monday. Bless his heart.

And, in the process, Stewart bumped the person who was slated to sit in the anchor chair. That’s Desi Lydic, who just won her second Emmy mere days ago for her work on the show.

Must be nice to be a progressive hero who can mansplain to a successful woman why he needs to take the big seat at a moment’s notice …

Rainning it in

Dwight keeps making sense.

Actor Rainn Wilson from “The Office” is a curious figure in Hollywood. He’s spiritual, but not a Christian. He’s left of center, but not someone decrying the rise of “fascism” every five minutes.

And most shocking of all, he’s aghast that some of his fellow liberals have souls so small you can’t see them without a microscope.

Wilson shared the reaction he saw from some fellow liberals after they learned that conservative icon Charlie Kirk was murdered by a leftist. We’ll let him share more:

I spoke to a couple of — let’s say liberal friends — at an event … and they were like, ‘You won’t find me shedding any tears.’

It was a little bit of a good-riddance thing, and it’s like, ‘Guys, NO!’

We cannot think or talk that way. That is not OK.”

He’s right, but it’s often the norm on the far-left side of the aisle, alas …

RELATED: Coldplay singer asks 80,000 fans to ‘send love’ to ‘Charlie Kirk’s family’ during final tour stop

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Mostly piecemeal protests

Variety’s photo editors got a workout this week.

Kimmel’s firing sparked a passionate protest outside Disney offices in New York and Burbank, or so we were told. The scribe assigned to the story used all the rhetorical tricks possible to play up the outrage, with foreboding phrasing like “Disney faced the consequences of its decision …” and “The crowds slammed ABC, Disney, and Brendan Carr.”

The images told the real story – tightly cropped photographs that hid the scope of the protests. This story mentioned 200 people. A separate story said 300 people showed up.

Disney is quaking in its boots, no doubt. The walls are most certainly closing in …

‘Imagine’ there’s no audience

Here we go again.

Remember all those celebrity videos where the stars assembled for the current thing? No makeup. Robotic phrase repetition. Faces you’ve never seen before among some legit stars. Exhausting.

The worst of the worst? The BLM-era “I Take Responsibility” cringe-fest featuring Aaron Paul, Kristen Bell, and Stanley Tucci.

Et tu, Stanley?

That Gal Gadot “Imagine” sing-along during the pandemic was a close second. Even liberals loathed that one, offering a rare moment of bipartisan agreement.

Maybe that’s why we didn’t get many, if any, during the 2024 presidential campaign.

But now? They’re ba-ack.

Joaquin Phoenix, Cillian Murphy, Sharon Horgan, Steve Coogan, and Peter Gabriel are among the participants in a new activist video promoting … wait for it … Palestine.

“We have to tell the truth on behalf of the people of Palestine,” Brian Cox says in the clip. U.S. photographer Nan Goldin adds, “It’s always been the artist’s role in society to speak out, to risk speaking truth to power.”

Risk? Being pro-Palestine is the trendiest thing to do in celebrity circles. Shout “Free Palestine” and expect your agent’s phone to buzz and buzz.

Cheno-wimp out

Try sharing some heartfelt thoughts for the late Charlie Kirk. Wait: Kristin Chenoweth did just that, and she had to quasi-backpedal later.

I’m sorry if emotion gets involved here, forgive me. I saw what happened online with my own eyes, and I had a human moment of reflection right then. I came to understand that my comment hurt some folks, and that hurt me so badly. I would never. It’s no secret that I’m a Christian, that I’m a person of faith. It’s also no secret that I am an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, and for some, that doesn’t go together. But for me, it always has and it always will.

Here’s a thought: Why not grieve the death of a father and husband, gunned down in cold blood in front of his wife and daughter, without feeling the need to explain yourself to the raging, unhinged leftists who follow you on social media?

For a Hollywood star like Chenoweth, that would be speaking truth to power.

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While Jimmy Kimmel looks for something to do on Friday night, many of the television stations that used to broadcast his suspended show will instead air a tribute to Charlie Kirk.

‘Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country.’

The Sinclair Broadcast Group is the largest owner of ABC-affiliated stations, 30 in all, and it is behind the push to show a Kirk tribute.

A statement from Sinclair said that all of its stations will air the tribute in Kimmel’s time slot and that it would offer the tribute to other ABC stations as well.

A list of the Sinclair-owned ABC stations is available to search here.

After finding whether there is a local station in your area, go to the station’s website to find the specific time and channel for the tribute on that station. For most stations, the Kirk tribute will air at 11:30 p.m. ET.

The tribute might be available on non-Sinclair ABC stations. You can find your local ABC station here.

For instance, the website for ABC 10 in Sacramento has a page for television listings for that station here. Scrolling to 8:30 p.m. PT, there is no tribute scheduled yet for that station.

Blaze News has reached out to ABC 10 for comment.

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Sinclair Vice Chairman Jason Smith released a statement explaining the company’s objection to Kimmel’s comments about the Kirk assassination.

“Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country,” said Smith.

“We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, constructive dialogue in our communities,” he added. “We appreciate FCC Chairman [Brendan] Carr’s remarks today, and this incident highlights the critical need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks.”

The company said it would not lift the suspension of the show until Kimmel apologized and gave a “meaningful personal donation” to the Kirk family as well as Turning Point USA, the advocacy group Kirk founded.

“Regardless of ABC’s plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not to return ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to our air until we are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold the standards expected of a national broadcast platform,” Sinclair added.

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On the rare occasions I can face visiting London these days, I always make sure to stop in at Banya No.1 in Hoxton. From the outside, it’s unprepossessing — just another modern block with a buzzer door — but when you get inside and go downstairs, it’s like you’ve been transported beyond the new Iron Curtain to Moscow or St. Petersburg or Novgorod.

It’s a proper Russian spa — a banya — complete with sauna, huge wooden-barrel plunge pool, freezing showers, treatment rooms with tables, and even a little cafe where you can sit and gobble pelmeni (delicious little stuffed dumplings) or have a hearty bowl of borscht (beetroot stew with meat).

Sauna treatment has been used, with great success, to treat police officers suffering chronic health issues as a result of repeated exposure to methamphetamine, for example.

And, of course, there are the staff, all of whom are authentic Russki, from the charming girls on the desk to the sullen myrmidons who patrol the saunas and abuse you with various implements for an extra fee — although you get the feeling they’d happily abuse you without payment too.

It’s a shame, but also a blessing, that I don’t live close to London. I’d be at Banya No. 1 all the time. If money were no object, I’d recreate it at home. I’d have a fragrant cedar-clad sauna with a big brick oven in it, and I’d pay a couple of former goons from the vory v zakone called Andrei and Pavel to keep the wood burning and beat me with birch twigs and scour me with Siberian pine tar to my heart’s content. Heaven.

I’d do this not just because it’s fun and a potent way to reduce stress — and we could all do with a bit less of that right now — but also because going to the spa is good for you in other ways.

Toxic baste

You’ve probably heard talk of the detoxification benefits of sauna before. They’re very real, and as I try to impress on my readers as much as I can, we all need to be detoxing our bodies. We’re constantly exposed to harmful chemicals in our daily lives, and anything we can do to reduce the amounts that get into and accumulate in our bodies is a good thing.

Sweating is one of the principal routes for harmful chemicals to leave our bodies, as well as in our urine and feces and when we lose (or give) blood. Particular chemicals, such as bisphenol A (BPA), a plasticizer with endocrine-disrupting effects, are generally found in greater quantities in our sweat than in our urine or blood, which is a clear sign that sweating is the main way our bodies dispose of them.

Sauna treatment has been used, with great success, to treat police officers suffering chronic health issues as a result of repeated exposure to methamphetamine, for example. It’s being trialed as a treatment for a range of other health conditions.

Fat chance

Sweating appears to be particularly effective for detoxification when combined with fasting or a calorie-restricted diet. Rodent studies show that being in a fasted or dieting state pushes harmful chemicals out of the body’s diminishing fat stores and toward the skin, where they can then be sweated off.

Many harmful chemicals are lipophilic, and as a result, when they get into our bodies, they end up in our fat stores. That’s actually one of the many important functions of fat — as a kind of vault for harmful chemicals, to seal them away and keep them out of other tissues — and it’s probably why a reliable effect of regular exposure to harmful chemicals is to put on fat. It’s a protection mechanism.

(This is also probably one of the reasons why celebrities who go on drugs like Ozempic end up looking so terrible, even when they lose loads of weight — search for before-and-after pictures of podcaster Ethan Klein if you don’t want to sleep tonight. Because of their terrible diets and lifestyles, fat people have enormous stores of toxic chemicals in their bodies, and if they suddenly lose weight with Ozempic or Mounjaro or whatever, their tissues are flooded with them. This could actually be quite dangerous, and it’s one of the many reasons you should prefer traditional methods of weight loss — exercise and changes to diet — over these new drugs when possible.)

Hot air

If you want to sauna regularly, you have various options. Of course, you can join a gym or health club with a sauna. That’s easy enough. If you want to sauna at home and you’ve got space in your garden, you can get a wooden barrel sauna for a few thousand dollars or convert a shed or outbuilding. You’ll find plenty of good guides online for building your own sauna.

If you don’t want to build a permanent structure, you could go the Native American route and build a little sweat lodge in your garden with a tent and some rocks. Dig a hole, put a tent (preferably canvas) over it, fill the tent with hot rocks heated on a fire, sit inside the tent, and pour water on the rocks. Voila: steam in a confined space. A sauna. Again, you’ll find helpful tutorials all over the internet.

There are also infrared sauna kits that can be used indoors and folded away and stored easily if you don’t have a great deal of space. They’re pretty reasonable.

But there may also be an even simpler and cheaper option. Just have a hot bath.

Tub-thumping

Yes: A hot bath probably confers all the benefits of a sauna. In fact, it may even be more effective at boosting your health than a sauna, according to a new study I wrote about recently on my Substack. It’s worth noting that the study didn’t compare the detoxification effects of baths and saunas due to sweating, but if you’ve ever sat in a hot bath, you’ll know you sweat plenty. Sweating takes place underwater, too, but you just don’t feel it.

What the new study does show is that hot baths offer superior metabolic, cardiac, and immune benefits to saunas, in large part because the heating effect of being immersed in hot water is much, much greater than sitting in a heated enclosure. Water conducts heat 24 times more efficiently than air, and your whole body — or most of it — is in direct contact with the water the entire time.

RELATED: Sun’s out, guns out: Finally, therapy even men can enjoy

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Save our swimmers

I have one caution about hot baths, though, and it’s for my male readers. Protect the family jewels. Boiling them is even worse than toasting them (see my note about testicular tanning in a previous installment).

Why? Heating the testicles is associated with reduced fertility, whether as a result of working in a furnace or as a welder, or through taking regular hot baths or saunas. The effects can be long-lasting, even after just a single session.

One study from the 1960s showed that it takes between 10 and 12 weeks for sperm counts to return to normal after just 30 minutes of intense scrotal heating. If you’re going to take regular hot baths as a man, I’d recommend keeping your testicles out of the water, however you see fit. You can arch your back a little bit, or you can put some ice on your balls in a flannel or use a proper ice pack.

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The House has passed a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk’s legacy and condemning his horrific assassination. Although the resolution garnered bipartisan support, dozens of Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to honor Kirk.

The resolution passed in a 310-58 vote, with 95 Democrats joining 210 Republicans to commemorate the conservative activist. That being said, 38 Democrats voted present, 22 didn’t vote at all, and 58 voted against the resolution all together.

‘The Democrat party is clearly so morally bankrupt that many of them have lost all sense of decency.’

Notably, the House unanimously passed a resolution condemning the assassination of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member who was brutally gunned down in her home in June.

Despite unifying behind their fellow Democrats like Hortman, House progressives like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan refused to formally condemn Kirk’s assassination.

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Here is a list of all the Democrats who voted “no” on the resolution honoring Kirk and condemning his murder:

Rep. Gabe Amo of Rhode IslandRep. Joyce Beatty of OhioRep. Wesley Bell of MissouriRep. Sanford Bishop of Georgia Rep. Shontel Brown of OhioRep. Andre Carson of IndianaRep. Troy Carter of LouisianaRep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of FloridaRep. Yvette Clarke of New YorkRep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina Rep. Jasmine Crockett of TexasRep. Danny Davis of IllinoisRep. Veronica Escobar of Texas Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York Rep. Cleo Fields of Louisiana Rep. Shomari Figures of Alabama Rep. Valerie Foushee of North CarolinaRep. Maxwell Frost of FloridaRep. Sylvia Garcia of TexasRep. Jimmy Gomez of California Rep. Al Green of TexasRep. Jahana Hayes of ConnecticutRep. Steven Horsford of Nevada Rep. Glenn Ivey of MarylandRep. Jonathan Jackson of Illinois Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington Rep. Hank Johnson of GeorgiaRep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California Rep. Robin Kelly of IllinoisRep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois Rep. Summer Lee of PennsylvaniaRep. Lucy McBath of Georgia Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey Rep. Robert Menendez of New Jersey Rep. Kweisi Mfume of MarylandRep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New YorkRep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts Rep. Mike Quigley of IllinoisRep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois Rep. Emily Randall of WashingtonRep. Bobby Scott of Virginia Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama Rep. Lateefah Simon of California Rep. Marilyn Strickland of WashingtonRep. Emilia Sykes of OhioRep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan Rep. Bennie Thompson of MississippiRep. Rashida Tlaib of MichiganRep. Lauren Underwood IllinoisRep. Nydia Velazquez of New YorkRep. Maxine Waters of California Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida

RELATED: Why did Cory Mills come to Ilhan Omar’s rescue?

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Although similar resolutions have been passed unanimously in the Senate, House Republicans have pointed fingers at the “morally bankrupt” Democrats who refuse to condemn Kirk’s murder.

“Their silence spoke volumes,” Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney of New York said in a post on X. “Americans won’t forget.”

“The Democrat party is clearly so morally bankrupt that many of them have lost all sense of decency,” Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota said in a post on X. “Absolutely shameful.”

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Late-night talk show hosts reacted to the suspension of their peer, Jimmy Kimmel, from his Disney-operated show.

Kimmel’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was indefinitely taken off the air following his claims that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was a President Trump supporter.

‘Americans are free to express any opinion we want.’

“… the MAGA gang desperately [is] trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on Monday.

Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair soon announced they would pull the show from their feeds, and ABC subsequently suspended the production.

Thursday night, the three other top late-night hosts provided their reaction to Kimmel’s suspension, which resulted in an awful display of either coordination or parallel thinking.

Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” was the first to air at 11 p.m. ET. After Stewart joked that “some people” would say the Trump administration was coldly “consolidating power” and using “intimidation” to silence people, he sarcastically added, “not me, though; I think it’s great.”

Stewart then went over to his diverse cast of seven reporters/fill-in hosts, whom he asked, “Is Donald Trump stifling free speech?”

In unison, they all answered in monotone, “Of course not, Jon. Americans are free to express any opinion we want.”

Unfortunately, this predictable sketch was then replicated by host Jimmy Fallon just minutes later.

RELATED: Farewell to Stephen Colbert, fake laughs, and lame late-night bias

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” which airs at 11:35 p.m., wasted no time covering the Kimmel debacle. In his opening monologue, Fallon referred to Kimmel and said, “A lot of people are worried that we won’t keep saying what we want to say or that we’ll be censored.”

But the comedian assured his audience that he would “cover the president’s trip to the U.K. just like I normally would.”

Fallon then began giving a report, which was interrupted by voice-overs that were complimentary to Trump. For example, Fallon said, “President Trump just wrapped up his three-day trip to the U.K., and —” with the voice-over finishing the remark with “looked incredibly handsome.”

This continued before Fallon repeatedly, and painfully, inserted Trump and “Epstein files” into more jokes about the president’s trip to the U.K.

If audiences still weren’t tired, they could simply endure the rest of Fallon’s show to get another nearly identical bit from Seth Meyers an hour later.

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At 12:35 a.m., the “Late Night with Seth Meyers” host said the Trump administration is “pursuing a crackdown on free speech,” before switching gears and sarcastically saying, “I’ve always admired and respected Mr. Trump.”

“I’ve always believed he was a visionary, a [sic] innovator, a great president, and even better golfer,” he went on.

Meyers continued, “If you’ve ever seen me say anything negative about him, that’s just AI.”

The repetition of the similar bits across the three shows was only overshadowed by how quickly they happened. With Stewart’s monologue getting into its sketch about 20 minutes into the program, that places Fallon’s mirrored monologue just 15 minutes later. Then, audiences got to see the same comedy bit recited an hour later on the same network.

In an awkward display of the show’s true bias, Meyers’ Thursday episode also featured a drag queen who goes by the name “Jinkx Monsoon,” who identifies as “trans-femme.”

Hilariously, Meyers repeatedly referred to the actor — whose real name is Jerick Hoffer — as a woman.

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For over a week and a half, Texas A&M’s president has been under fire for his now-viral behavior — caught on video — talking to a student who objected to the gender ideology taught in a children’s literature class. Now, the president is facing the music.

Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III will step down on Friday following a deepening controversy involving former gender studies senior lecturer Melissa McCoul. McCoul was using course materials including the Trans Student Educational Resources “Gender Unicorn,” a visual graphic suggesting that gender identity and gender expression are distinct from sex and that there are other sexes besides male, female, and intersex.

‘His ambivalence on the issue and his dismissal of the student’s concerns by immediately taking the side of the professor is unacceptable.’

After a whistleblower shared objectionable course materials and video of her exchange with McCoul and with Welsh, she demanded to the president’s face that the lecturer be fired. Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison (R) amplified the issue on social media after he became aware of what the student was fighting against.

“It took tremendous courage for a relatively young lady to stand up to an authority figure alone as a sole voice in that class — to somebody who had the potential to fail her, to harm her professionally,” Harrison told Blaze News. “And she had the courage not just to stand up to the professor but to take her concerns all the way to the president of the university and to have the foresight to record him.”

RELATED: ‘Fish rots from the head’: Student claims some scalps after exposing trans propaganda at Texas A&M — but the fight’s not over

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Although McCoul was fired on September 9, a day after Harrison shared the incident on X, many have insisted that there was a deeper rot that needed to be removed, starting with Welsh.

“His ambivalence on the issue and his dismissal of the student’s concerns by immediately taking the side of the professor is unacceptable,” Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R) said on X. “Most parents, students, and Aggie alumni expect Texas A&M to reflect the values of our state and our nation as well as A&M’s rich history. If President Welsh will not or cannot reflect those values, then change needs to happen.”

Rep. Harrison celebrated Welsh’s resignation in a Thursday evening X post: “WE DID IT! TEXAS A&M PRESIDENT IS OUT!! Another MASSIVE victory for the LIBERTY BOTS against the Austin Swamp Rats! As the first elected official to call for him to be fired, this news is welcome, although overdue.”

With an eye to the future, Harrison added, “Now … END ALL DEI AND LGBTQ INDOCTRINATION IN TEXAS!!”

Blaze News reached out to Welsh for comment.

Board Chair Robert Albritton said regents will appoint an interim president and initiate a national search for a permanent president “in the coming days,” according to WFAA.

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The House narrowly passed a short-term funding bill that keeps the government open and boosts funding for security for government officials in light of Charlie Kirk’s atrocious assassination.

The GOP-led continuing resolution is a slim 91-page bill that keeps the lights on through November 21. In accordance with the White House request, the bill also includes spending anomalies that increase funding for security, allocating $30 million for Congress, $30 million for the executive branch, and $28 million for the judicial branch, totaling $88 million.

‘Republicans are doing the actual work of governing.’

The CR passed the House Friday morning in a 217-212 vote, with Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana bucking their party.

Just one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, joined 216 Republicans to keep the government open before the September 30 funding deadline.

RELATED: Exclusive: GOP slams Democrat spending plan as ‘stale leftovers’ riddled with radical left-wing policies

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“House Republicans passed a clean continuing resolution that preserves President Trump’s rescissions and keeps the government funded while we work to finalize conservative full-year appropriations bills and return to regular order that will deliver real results for the American people,” Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (Texas) said.

“Now the Senate must act swiftly to pass this CR and avoid the costly disruption of a government shutdown. House Republicans are doing the actual work of governing while Democrats demand a progressive reckless wish list instead of working with us to put Americans’ priorities first.”

Although one Democrat eventually aided Republicans in passing the continuing resolution, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is still digging his heels in.

Schumer and his Democrat colleagues are insistent that the Republican-led funding bill will push the government to shut down. Democrats even proposed their own funding alternative that boasts a hefty $1.5 trillion price tag, including a continuation of $350 billion worth of Biden-era subsidies, funneling millions to illegal aliens and left-wing organizations, and reversing billions of dollars in spending cuts Congress already codified.

RELATED: Why did Cory Mills come to Ilhan Omar’s rescue?

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Despite Democrats’ grandstanding, the Republicans’ resolution is headed to the Senate and is expected to sail through sometime next week.

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The left is in an uproar, accusing conservatives of pushing Jimmy Kimmel off the air and of hypocritically undermining their own First Amendment principles.

Yet, Kimmel’s exit was driven by a fed-up network responding to market forces. The left has looked the other way when conservative outlets battled federally funded censorship campaigns targeting their voices, including as recently as December 2024.

‘Jimmy Kimmel got canceled by his own Democrat-run network because his own affiliates finally got fed up with his garbage ratings, his garbage behavior, and his garbage lies.’

The now-defunct Global Engagement Center, a subdivision of the State Department, was formed under the Obama administration and tasked with the mission “to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.”

While the GEC was initially created to protect Americans from “disinformation” from other countries, it was used against several American media outlets, including Blaze Media.

Under the Biden administration, the GEC expanded its so-called disinformation efforts, partnering with the Global Disinformation Index, a United Kingdom-based nonprofit. GDI claims to provide “independent, neutral, and transparent data and intelligence to advise policymakers and business leaders about how to combat disinformation and its creators.”

This partnership allowed the Biden administration to finance the censorship of American media without violating its goal of countering foreign propaganda.

RELATED: Biden-Harris deep state censorship scandal EXPOSED: Here’s who’s fighting back

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The GDI published a report in 2022 that listed American outlets it deemed the “least risky” and the “riskiest” for publishing “disinformation.”

According to the GDI, the top 10 “riskiest” media websites included:

New York PostReason MagazineRealClearPoliticsThe Daily WireThe BlazeOne America News NetworkThe American ConservativeThe FederalistNewsmaxThe American Spectator

GDI labeled NPR, AP News, the New York Times, ProPublica, and Insider among the top 10 least risky.

The federal government’s funding of GDI prompted a lawsuit in December 2023 from Texas, the Daily Wire, and the Federalist. The lawsuit called it “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation.”

RELATED: Obama’s Global Engagement Center — the ‘worst offender in US government censorship’ — is officially dead

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“Conservative commentators and news outlets like the Federalist were blacklisted, censored, and illegally targeted for destruction by the federal government for years, and Jimmy Kimmel never said a word,” Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of the Federalist, told Blaze News.

“Jimmy Kimmel got canceled by his own Democrat-run network because his own affiliates finally got fed up with his garbage ratings, his garbage behavior, and his garbage lies,” Davis continued. “Charlie Kirk, who was murdered in front of his wife and children because of his beliefs, is an actual martyr. Jimmy Kimmel is a pathetic crybully who’s finally getting a taste of his own medicine.”

The GEC was officially shut down in December 2024.

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The Department of Homeland Security fired back at Portland, Oregon’s accusations of “land use” violations at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the city during arresting operations.

As previously reported by Blaze News, Mayor Keith Wilson (D) announced that his administration will be issuing the “land use violation” after an overview of federal records “from a 10-month period show more than two dozen detention policy violations of the facility’s land use conditions of approval with the city, which does not allow detainees to be kept overnight or held for more than 12 hours.”

‘The southwest Portland ICE facility is a processing center, not a detention center.’

Wilson’s office further took issue with wooden boards being placed over the building’s windows and doors, which were put in place by ICE to prevent damage from the numerous violent protests and riots by Antifa radicals.

The DHS will be given an opportunity to appeal the city’s citation.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Blaze News the city’s investigation was not extensive enough to be taken seriously because it “amounts to nothing more than a FOIA request, without any effort to verify facts with ICE.”

“Another day, another sanctuary politician attempting to prevent the brave men and women of ICE from removing the worst of the worst, including rapists, murderers, pedophiles, and gang members from the U.S. Mayor Wilson’s claims of substandard conditions at ICE facilities are categorically FALSE. All detainees receive proper meals, medical care, and access to family and legal counsel,” McLaughlin continued.

RELATED: ICE facility in Portland under daily siege by Antifa militants as riots spread

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“Furthermore, the southwest Portland ICE facility is a processing center, not a detention center. Detainees are briefly processed before being transferred to detention facilities,” she explained. “ICE has taken action to ensure that detainees are not held for more than 12 hours, including by increasing staffing and other resources provided by the One Big Beautiful Bill. Secretary Noem has called on states and local government to assist with bed and detention space — but Portland has not answered that call for its nation.”

The facility in the southern portion of Portland has been an easy target for local far-left and communist activists. The location was targeted during the 2020 BLM and Antifa riots, in addition to the federal courthouse downtown. The rioters gather at night and stand in front of the driveway to try to prevent federal vehicles from entering or leaving, forcing agents to remove them physically or with crowd-control munitions.

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk is horrific and diabolical. The world lost a pioneer, a civil rights activist, a humanitarian, and, above all, a devout follower of Jesus Christ.

But I also truly believe we lost something even more profound: an evangelist. He carried the spirit of the Millennial and Generation Z evangelist. Everywhere he went, Charlie preached Jesus.

If the person on the other side of the argument is not worthy of dignity, love, or respect, then hate will surface.

This horrific event is also another glaring reminder that the political climate in America is deteriorating. It is tempting to despair and to be discouraged by the enormity of the problem.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination must serve as a moment of reckoning. Whether you agreed or disagreed with his political stance, there is no denying that he was a courageous leader for Christ and a bold voice in our culture today. He stood up when others stayed silent. We need the same courage and conviction in our world today.

So we must ask: What has led to the surge in political violence and division in America today? The Bible clearly states that everyone — regardless of skin color, political affiliation, faith, background, or anything else — is created in the image of God. Full stop. There are no exceptions, and there is no room for disagreement.

Our responsibility is moral, not just social or societal. We are called to recognize and honor God’s image in others, especially those we disagree with. That is the practical import of God’s command in Matthew 5 to “love your enemies.”

This kind of love is fundamentally opposed to what is happening in America right now, where people are reduced to issues and stances and image-bearers are written off as unworthy of love. We are never in a position to make that decision. The whole witness of scripture, the very life of Jesus, forbids it.

Such a view of others naturally infects our dialogue. If the person on the other side of the argument is not worthy of dignity, love, or respect, then hate will surface.

Now translate that to social media, where there are no tangible consequences for the venomous comments and angry tirades. Couple this with the algorithms that are designed to create echo chambers and endless confirmation and affirmation bias. We are served caricatures of the “other side” while sitting alone on our devices instead of sitting down with someone we know and disagree with over a cup of coffee. We trade dialogue for social destruction.

Why? Because we do not have to risk damaged relationships because the relationships were not real in the first place.

The problem is not disagreement. Disagreement is healthy, especially in a democratic society. The problem is how we disagree. It’s the volume, temper, and tone. It’s the cancellation that comes afterward.

No longer do we disagree in the context of respectful relationships. Instead, we have endless networks of “friends” we don’t really know who tell us what we want to hear and join us in our derision of those who disagree. We are seeing the tragic reality that this online existence — which has become the air we breathe culturally — bubbles over into violence in the real world. Violence that, in the case of Charlie Kirk, has now robbed a wife and kids of their husband and father, but also a bold voice who shared Jesus with a generation searching for truth.

RELATED: Charlie Kirk’s death tests America’s moral and civic compass

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The ultimate problem lies even deeper beneath the surface. It is an issue of hope. When politics becomes ultimate and elections are an existential battle for the soul of the nation, we have already lost in the ultimate sense.

There is no political salvation. This world is not permanent. Any hope placed in politics is misplaced. Political participation is important and right. But it won’t save us. Only God can do that. Our focus should be on Him and His agenda.

That doesn’t mean we do not participate in politics, but it dramatically changes how we participate. It means we serve to advance the Lamb’s agenda, not the donkey’s or the elephant’s. It means we love those on the other side of the aisle because we know their ultimate destiny matters more than our disagreements, even over important issues.

And it means that in the face of an atrocity like the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we set aside politics and come together and unite to surround his family in prayer as they grieve. We recognize that our fellow image-bearers are hurting and bear that burden with them.

When we choose to turn on the light of Christ in the darkness, we open the door for America to move forward and truly begin to heal.

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If you’re like me, nearly every single social media post in your feed over the last week has been about the senseless assassination of Charlie Kirk. And emotions are running high.

From those who loved him. From those who hated him. From those who didn’t really follow him but are lamenting the state of discourse in our country.

The emotions you’re feeling as a result of this and any other type of atrocity are wasted if you drink them away.

I came across one post in particular in which an emotional person suggested a way to cope with everything that’s happened. And I found myself yelling out, “No! Don’t! That’s the last thing you should do. And I don’t think Charlie would want you to, either.”

What is it?

Have a drink. “Pour one out” for Charlie, the colloquial term for having a drink for a fallen friend.

Maybe you’ve seen those posts. We live in a culture that uses anything as an excuse to imbibe. To drink. To get drunk. But especially culture loves to capitalize on tragedy. It tells us that drinking alcohol is not just a way to handle difficult emotions, but the best way to handle difficult emotions, tragedy, and grief.

Your candidate loses an election? Drink.

Work sucks? Drink.

A family member passes away? Drink.

Your team loses? Drink.

The kids are a little feral? Mommy, drink a lot!

So when someone so respected, who spoke on behalf of a generation, is brutally murdered in broad daylight, culture wants you to drink that atrocity away instead of sitting with those painful, confusing, and whatever-else emotions.

In fact, even though drinking is at an all-time low, we’ve still been programmed to think that drinking to deal with our uncomfortable feelings is right, good, and necessary. At minimum it’s accepted.

Trust me, I know.

Hitting rock bottom

I’m the best-selling Christian author who became an alcoholic (not the other way around) after hitting the toughest stretch of my life a few years ago. I knew what I should do to best handle all the emotions in that season, but instead, I took the easy path: I drank all the uncomfortable feelings away.

It wasn’t until I found myself a year and a half into a bottle with no bottom and a “night in” that ended with me drunk, alone, and wading in my own excrement at 1 a.m. in Miami’s South Beach that I asked, “What has my life become?”

I’m not saying that having a drink in the wake of Charlie’s murder means you will become an alcoholic. But if I’m being honest, I never thought I’d get to the point I did either. “I don’t look like those people who drink their lives away,” I told myself. And I didn’t. But rock bottom still came.

And I wish someone had told me sooner that drinking away my challenging emotions can easily turn into something I thought it never would — because it can turn you into someone you thought you’d never be.

Charlie didn’t drink

I think Charlie understood that, too.

“The top-performing people I’ve ever been around, they are very against alcohol, against substances,” he said on his show in May in a video titled, “Why I Don’t Drink.”

“And they’ll tell you they perform better, they think clearer, they have better memory, better recall, more energy, more pace.”

“I also find that some of the people that drink the most, they’re hiding something, they’re masking something,” he concluded.

Let pain fuel your purpose

If Charlie Kirk’s murder has affected you, don’t mask this pain. I beg you, please don’t. Because it can end up doing things to you that are way worse in the long run.

RELATED: A drunkard’s terrifying vision: The dark truth behind alcohol’s ‘spirit’ name

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In the end, the emotions you’re feeling as a result of this and any other type of atrocity are wasted if you drink them away. They just are. Instead, I want to suggest that you use them to motivate you — to boldness, to action, to something better. Don’t numb them; name them. And then use them as fuel. Do good as a result of this evil.

In fact, Charlie knew there wasn’t just a better option but a best option when it comes to what to do with complex emotions, an option that has transformed my life: Bring those emotions to the great healer, Jesus. While I didn’t know Charlie personally, I think, from everything I’ve read and seen, that’s what he would have wanted.

But whatever you do, I know this: He wouldn’t have wanted you to “pour one out” for him.

Or maybe, I guess, that’s exactly what he would have wanted. Pour it out. Leave it alone. Put it down.

He did.

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A study carried out by the Henry Ford Health System between 2000 and 2006 looked at the medical records of over 18,000 kids — 16,000 of whom were vaccinated — and what they found was not what the pharmaceutical companies wanted to hear.

“The study began by explaining it set out to reduce vaccine hesitancy by assuring parents the CDC vaccine schedule is safe. Instead, what these researchers found was that vaccinated children had 4.29 times the rate of asthma, 3.03 times the rate of autoimmune disease, and 5.53 times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders, which included 3.28 times the rate of developmental delay and 4.47 times the rate of speech disorder,” managing partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP, Aaron Siri explained in a hearing.

“All of these findings were statistically significant. These findings were troubling, including because these chronic health issues can be caused by immune system dysregulation, and vaccines can cause immune system dysregulation,” he continued.

“Overall, the study found that after 10 years, 17% of the unvaccinated children had a chronic health issue, while 57% of the vaccinated children had at least one chronic health issue, often multiple,” he added.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is blown away by the results.

“I mean, rinse and repeat with the same leftist narrative,” Gonzales says. “They’re trying to, you know, call Aaron out. Of course, we’re all quacks, and you know, crazy conspiracy right-wing nut jobs, fill in the blank.”

The Guardian called the study a debate of “the same myths,” while the publication Stat10 called it “fundamentally flawed.”

Siri himself is well-aware that these articles are not actually attacking the information in the study.

“When it comes to vaccines, what you often get are emotional reactions from people … name calling, ad hominem. Does the substance get addressed? Not really, but that’s what it often devolves into,” Siri tells Gonzales.

“You’ll hear all the time, people say, ‘I believe in vaccines.’ And that really carries a truism,” he says, adding, “Nobody ever says, ‘I believe in cars. I believe in chairs. I believe in floorboards.’ No, but they say that because a lot of what you hear about vaccines are based on actual belief. They’re not based on the data.”

Del Bigtree, CEO of Informed Consent Action Network and the host of “The HighWire,” couldn’t agree more — and points out something quite scary about vaccines.

“It’s now becoming obvious that they’ve never done a randomized controlled placebo-based trial prior to licensure. That’s all but been conceded now. And so we never established safety, meaning, we never proved that vaccines were as safe as a saline injection, as every other pharmaceutical product would have had to,” Bigtree tells Gonzales.

“So now you’re left with products we have no idea what the safety is,” he says, adding, “and that’s what’s so interesting about this study.”

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Prosecutors said a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus was crowded on Sept. 8, and it was difficult for riders to exit, WBZ-TV reported.

Investigators said it was around 1 p.m. when 32-year-old Luz Pineda, who was with her 3-month-old baby, wanted to get off the bus at the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard/Warren Street stop in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, WCVB-TV reported.

Prosecutors said the woman — who has no recollection of the incident — suffered a facial cut, a ruptured blood vessel, and a concussion.

But a 63-year-old woman apparently was in the way.

Pineda allegedly asked the woman to move from the exit, but she refused, WBZ said. Prosecutors said the pair began to argue, Pineda started screaming at the woman, and then she kicked the woman’s shopping cart off the bus, WBZ noted.

Pineda allegedly then upped the ante, turning her attention to the victim herself.

Prosecutor Jacqueline Cassano said Paneda “pushed her off the bus,” WCVB reported, adding that video shows the victim being pushed off the bus and landing face-first on the sidewalk.

RELATED: Witnesses say elderly man asked woman to ‘be nicer to passengers’ — then she pushed him out bus door. He died a month later.

Prosecutors added that Pineda took off her sweatshirt and put her hair up in a bun, WBZ said, possibly to change her appearance to evade police. Pineda later was seen leaving the bus through a door with a stroller, WCVB added.

Bystanders as well as the bus driver stood over the victim before paramedics arrived to render aid 20 minutes later, WCVB reported, adding that prosecutors said the woman — who has no recollection of the incident — suffered a facial cut, a ruptured blood vessel, and a concussion.

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Police said a witness recorded video of the incident and posted it on social media. Investigators were able to corroborate it with surveillance video from the bus. Pineda was allegedly identified in the video by neighbors and two anonymous individuals.

Pineda’s defense attorney said she was coming back home from an appointment at Boston Children’s Hospital with her 3-month-old, who was born prematurely. He said he hadn’t viewed the video but that the victim was preventing Pineda and her baby from exiting the bus.

Pineda also has prior charges for assault and battery on a family member and a guilty probation for trafficking cocaine, which she violated.

Pineda was arraigned Thursday on a charge of assault and battery on a person older than 60 causing injuries, WCVB reported. Pineda pleaded not guilty during the hearing in Roxbury District Court, WBZ added.

RELATED: Female school bus driver accused of choking middle school boy who has special needs: ‘Put her hands around his neck and started squeezing and scratching’

A judge set Pineda’s bail at $5,000 and said she must stay away from and have no contact with the victim or any witnesses, WBZ noted, adding that she also was ordered to stay off MBTA property, including buses and trains.

Pineda is due back in court Oct. 3 for a pretrial hearing, WBZ said.

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The left and the right have been at each other’s throats in the past week attempting to pin accused assassin Tyler Robinson’s motives on the other side. However, one obscure and patently false theory has gained more traction online than expected, frustrating many on the right.

Claims have abounded that Robinson is connected to the Groypers or the Groyper Army, a group of online supporters of Nick Fuentes, a provocateur and political gadfly who positions himself to the far right of Turning Point USA and promotes an America First agenda. The main argument of this theory, explained by Forbes, for example, is that the Groypers have famously been at “war” with Charlie Kirk and mainstream conservatism, often criticizing Turning Point USA’s stances on several issues.

These claims are baseless, as even Fuentes has stated.

‘Unfortunately for them, that claim doesn’t fit any of the facts on the ground (not that they give a damn about that).’

On Saturday, Fuentes suggested his enemies were using the theory to “frame” him and his supporters: “My followers and I are currently being framed for the murder of Charlie Kirk by the mainstream media based on literally zero evidence. After the Left gunned him down, they celebrated and justified it. They said I was next. Now they are blaming me.”

RELATED: Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin — now facing death penalty — makes his first court appearance

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Reuters published a story on September 13 that included a statement allegedly from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Rachel Kleinfeld suggesting that the symbology on the bullet casings indicates that the shooter was a part of the Groyper movement.

According to an editor’s note, the article has been corrected and no longer includes this statement, although it is unclear whether it was corrected because editors realized it was false or if it was improperly attributed to Kleinfeld. It does not appear that Reuters issued an official retraction, and those statements were subsequently repeated by other outlets. The speculation was also largely entertained on social media.

For those reading into the messages on the bullet casings, the engravings are ideologically scattered at best and politically incoherent at worst. The engravings reportedly read: “Notices bulge OwO, what’s this?”; “Hey fascist! Catch!” alongside an up arrow, a right arrow, and another three arrows pointing downward; the words of prominent Italian anti-fascist song “Bella Ciao”; and “If you read this you are gay LMAO.”

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

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Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire effectively dispelled the claims that Robinson was a Groyper or even a right-winger, noting the “fascist” label on one of the bullet casings. In a post on X, Walsh said, “Unsurprisingly the Left is gearing up to pin this on Nick Fuentes by claiming the killer was a Groyper. Unfortunately for them, that claim doesn’t fit any of the facts on the ground (not that they give a damn about that). The killer labeled Kirk a ‘fascist.’ That is a term only ever used by the Left as an insult to the Right. The idea that he killed Charlie for not being right wing enough, but also considered Charlie a ‘fascist,’ is totally incoherent. Absolute nonsense.”

The Daily Caller called out CNN anchor Abby Phillip for spreading the theory that Tyler Robinson may be a Groyper because he dressed up in a tracksuit for Halloween. Theories abounded that the costume was a reference to the “Slavic squat” meme, which features a cartoon of a frog squatting and smoking a cigarette, dressed in a tracksuit.

On Friday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) shared Robinson’s own family’s characterization of his politics. “During a recent dinner, Robinson allegedly said in conversation with another family member that Kirk was coming to UVU. ‘The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate,” Cox said.”

The family also reportedly shared that Robinson had become “more political” in recent years, which further weakens the already spurious theories otherwise. “There clearly was a leftist ideology with this — with this assassin,” he added Sunday.

The X account Anonymous, which has nearly 5.3 million followers, also disseminated claims that Robinson was a Groyper “based on his memes and rhetoric” as well as from anonymous posts.

While many outlets and social media users noted the potential connection to the Groyper movement, some cautioned that the Pepe the Frog meme is used in many other online contexts as well. As one Bluesky commenter noted of this meme, “Its the anon mask of its time, ended up so widely used by so many different types of edge lord that it has no meaning other than ‘Ive been deep in the internet too long.'”

To the contrary, more evidence has since come out that likely places Robinson well away from the right wing. For instance, officials claim that Robinson was in a romantic relationship with a trans-identifying male roommate who wants to transition into a woman.

In a post shortly after Charlie Kirk was shot, Fuentes said, “This feels like a nightmare. One of the most horrific things I’ve ever seen. I feel absolutely gutted and devastated. Pray for Charlie Kirk’s soul, his young family and for our country. The violence and hatred has to stop. Our country needs Christ now more than ever.”

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A left-wing fanatic allegedly killed the most popular, well-connected, and starry-eyed young idealist on the right at the exact time the most aggressive administration since Richard Nixon is in the White House, the House of Representatives is rowdy and Republican, a far less rowdy GOP controls the Senate, alternative media is reaching parity, and Republican voters are actively engaged.

The Democrats could not have found a worse field to fight on.

Republicans just need to stop playing footsie and take this fight seriously.

This moment is historic, and for once the Grand Old Party is poised to meet it. Charlie Kirk’s cowardly assassin changed everything, and Democrats are just beginning to realize the extent of their trouble.

Here’s what this country and its government can do now, and in the near future, to make sure the system that produced and propelled Kirk’s killer is finally and mercifully dismantled.

The colleges

Charlie was murdered on a college campus for debating ideas colleges don’t welcome or tolerate. The American university system, its accreditation power, and its staff foster the protected breeding grounds for the extremism plaguing the country, but they’re not invulnerable. Republicans just need to stop playing footsie and take this fight seriously.

It starts with the governors. Republican governors have no reason to tolerate state schools that undermine the public safety and the future of the country. That process lies with the state boards of regents, which call the shots for these schools. For decades, Democrats have appointed ideologues for their cause to these boards while Republicans have used them to reward donors who want box seats for the big game. That needs to end now.

Republican governors must take their appointments seriously, and voters need to take those appointments seriously as well. The Republican Party has done an admirable job of remaking the judiciary by forcing candidates for the executive to lay out the judges they’d choose. This success can be repeated with education. “What’s your plan for the university board of regents, Mr. Candidate? And what will you do to make sure state-run schools teach the kind of skills and values the state and its voters want to see taught?”

Red states have a serious problem with institutional capture by Democrats. Republicans have the power to change that. Let Charlie’s awful murder now give them the will.

But what about private universities? The federal government has a heavier hand than the states and has power to compel even private schools on certain fronts.

One key is the 1983 Supreme Court precedent set by Bob Jones University v. United States. That questionable ruling used an undeniably ugly school policy (banning interracial dating for students and staff) to strip the school’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. In doing so, the then-liberal Supreme Court set a broad precedent: That the federal government can remove the tax status of an organization that has policies “contrary to public policy” and that “cannot be viewed as conferring a public benefit within the above ‘charitable’ concept or within the congressional intent underlying 501(c)(3).”

It’s an awful ruling, but would Justice Amy Coney Barrett overrule a precedent set to end a racist practice? Would Chief Justice John Roberts or his left-wing colleagues? That seems unlikely, so at the moment, Bob Jones gives Washington a powerful weapon to wield against private universities that are enforcing segregated housing, queer-only spaces, intimidation and limits on free speech, militant trans lessons, and other orthodoxies that are “contrary to public policy” or that “cannot be viewed as conferring a public benefit.”

And then there’s Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, which established that “fighting words” — or “a direct personal insult or invitation to exchange fisticuffs,” as further defined by Texas v. Johnson — are not protected by the First Amendment. States are the front line for enforcement, so don’t count on California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s government to protect speakers on campuses, but scenarios exist that empower Washington to step in, including when fighting words are used to deprive someone of civil rights. Campus radicals routinely try to block political opinions they don’t agree with and stop Christians and Jews from speaking openly on campus, but it would still be a difficult prosecution for the feds.

An easier option might mean bypassing civil rights laws to prosecute more straightforward cases, like solicitation to commit a crime of violence or conspiracy against rights, both of which could be used to protect people who are threatened or attacked for using their First Amendment rights.

Remember: Public speech is a federally protected activity that cannot simply be ignored by Democrat states.

Then there’s the anti-riot act and the law against transmitting threats across state lines (i.e., on social media). Bring them all to bear. Invite your friends!

President Donald Trump could further instruct the Department of Education to issue guidance that opens colleges up to financial civil liability for violent political disruptions. The executive order would be based on the Ku Klux Klan Act (more on this later), which helped defeat that band of violent militants by creating structures for financial liability around their activities. He could even call the order the “Disrupting the New Left Klan,” or something similar.

These tools all exist. And when you threaten their money, you’ll see American institutions work to break free of their radical captors.

The nonprofits

Colleges and universities aren’t the only nonprofits using the perks the American people have granted them to spread radicalism and criminality. The left-wing nonprofit sphere, already handicapped by internal radicalism and wounded by the end of USAID, provides a lot of the resources, funding, and organization behind the political street violence.

The Department of Justice can begin by investigating the big guys in the room, many of which either backed violent radicals and organizers during the 2020 riots and recent Los Angeles riot or funded organizations that took active roles in these criminal disturbances.

These include the Open Society Foundations and the network run by billionaire Shanghai resident and China propagandist Neville Roy Singham, which includes the People’s Forum, Code Pink, the United Community Fund, and the Justice and Education Fund.

The mother-ship sources of funds that have ended up in the bank accounts of violent political groups and their legal enablers should be frozen immediately. Those funds stay frozen until the Department of Justice and Congress can discern what kind of violence, unrest, and disorder they are funding. This sort of deep dive will also mean investigating the board members, officers, and staff of these rich and powerful organizations.

The federal government can go for plenty more than the big fish, too. The microscope can be trained on Arabella Advisors and New Venture Fund, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, Telescope Fund, Impetus Fund, North Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, Arnold Ventures, all associated grantee organizations, and all known perpetrators of domestic lawlessness and disorder.

Investigations should focus on allegations of financing Antifa-style groups, protest coordination leading to violence and illegal disruptions, and any ties to recent assassinations or murders. Investigators must have the authority to subpoena financial records, communications, and witness testimonies across state lines.

President Donald Trump has also floated using anti-racketeering RICO laws, which could be applicable to everyone from the foundations to the militants they empower. For decades Republicans wouldn’t dare go after these types. That kind of breathing room naturally breeds the kind of legal sloppiness you simply do not find in the nonprofits of the long-scrutinized and persecuted American right.

Stop the money going toward the violent radicals targeting American cities, schools, agents, and police, and you’ll cripple their revolution.

Disrupting the New Klan

There’s an irony in the similarities today’s masked left-wing militants share with the Ku Klux Klan, and that irony would be even more delicious if some of the laws written to combat the Klan were used against our new political terrorists.

Using already written laws is essential, given the small majorities in the House and Senate. Fortunately, the Ku Klux Klan Act, first passed during Reconstruction but updated twice in the 1980s, provides several powerful tools for going after domestic radicals.

Consider, for example, the federal statute covering “conspiracy to interfere with civil rights.” Section 3 specifically targets “two or more persons” who disguise themselves to “either directly or indirectly” deprive someone of equal protection under the law.

Further, the law creates civil liability for “two or more persons” from so much as planning:

to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy.

Masked rioters disrupting speeches on college campuses fall squarely in line here with this already existing (and tested) law.

The neigboring statute goes even farther, creating civil liabilities for those who even know about the plans to attack or intimidate political speech. Suddenly, those left-wing internet chats seem a little risky, don’t they?

Trump’s Wednesday-night declaration that Antifa will now be treated as a domestic “major terrorist organization” is a strong step, but it will entail difficult application and invite legal pushback. American laws wisely empower the government with much less leeway for domestic groups than it has with foreign terrorist organizations. There is no statutory procedure for it.

Fortunately for White House policymakers, Antifa has a global presence, and if investigators can identify channels for money or communication between the chapters, they’ll have an easier time, just as the government has accomplished with MS-13 and other international drug gangs now designated as transnational criminal organizations.

The designation should serve to prioritize investigating and unraveling Antifa radical activities, as well as raising those activities from crimes to national security threats, with FBI, DHS, and ATF involvement. It could also give legal space for using Patriot Act powers to recover financial and phone records and aggressively pursue funders and the avenues they use.

“If you try to designate just Antifa as a single entity or movement, what I suspect you’ll find is that the bureaucrats will say, ‘We don’t know what that is; that’s not a thing that exists,”’ Center for Security Policy Director Kyle Shideler explained on BlazeTV’s “Blaze News: The Mandate” Monday night. The “faster and more effective” way to target them, he said, is to start abroad, then connect the dots to specific domestic groups.

The president could also direct the Department of Justice to trace funding back from bridge-blockers and other illegal disruptors to its sources and charge them with civil conspiracy. Given the international sources of some of this money, he could further instruct the Department of State to trace money from illegal unrest to hostile state actors like Cuba and Roy Singham’s China.

Next steps

There’s a hunger on the right for new laws to rein in the militant left. On Capitol Hill, Republicans face a narrow Senate majority that limits what they can pass. That doesn’t mean they should sit idle. Force votes. Put Democrats on the record and let voters decide.

Start with bills that hit the organizations fueling disorder. Pass laws that strip nonprofit status or tax breaks from groups that provide material support for riots, block public roads, or coordinate mass unlawful activity. Bar leaders of those groups from serving in other nonprofits or labor-union boards for a set period. Treat financier-enablers the way we treat organized crime and corrupt enterprises — follow the money and expose the patrons.

Most importantly, wield powers that already exist. Criminal prosecutions against backers of revolution pose constitutional hurdles, but civil penalties and financial-liability tools face far lower barriers. Use asset forfeiture, civil suits, treble damages, and regulatory sanctions to choke off funding.

Targeting money silences mobs far more effectively than a thousand press releases. Congress and state attorneys general should use those authorities aggressively — and make sure the public sees who defended the financiers.

Wield power responsibly and legally, but firmly. Target the many carve-outs the people have generously granted nonprofits and universities in the understanding that they would use their privileges to make our country a better and more prosperous place.

We’re in a very dangerous place. Support for political violence has skyrocketed among liberal and “very liberal” Democrats. If the levels we’re seeing there were mirrored on the American right, we’d be on the fast track to a terrible civil war.

We have a chance to stop that without surrendering any of our rights or granting the government sweeping new authorities. The beast is growing. We have to starve it now.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group has “indefinitely suspended” Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC late-night show — a show that had long struggled in ratings — after he falsely claimed Charlie Kirk’s assassin supported Donald Trump. Nexstar quickly followed. Together, Sinclair and Nexstar are the nation’s two largest TV station groups, with dozens of affiliates across the country. Their decisions this week sent shockwaves through the media landscape.

The reality is both companies acted independently, without government orders. Yet, the left instantly accused Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brandon Carr of pressuring the networks after he publicly commented on the suspensions.

Kimmel’s show didn’t collapse because of an FCC conspiracy. It collapsed because audiences walked away, and his bosses finally caught up.

That framing distorts reality. Corporations — not regulators — are making these editorial calls based on ratings and audience alignment. Demands for government intervention are not only unnecessary but intentionally misleading.

The ratings tell the story. Kimmel has been floundering for years. Nielsen data shows his program couldn’t even crack the top 100. Contrast that with Tucker Carlson, whose departure from Fox News sparked cheers on the left, even though his show ranked second across all of cable news. The double standard couldn’t be clearer. Success on the right is branded as dangerous. Failure on the left is brushed off as bad luck — or twisted into claims of political persecution.

Disney, which owns ABC, now faces added headaches as it negotiates high-stakes deals such as ESPN’s acquisition of the NFL Network. Even the suggestion of regulatory scrutiny rattles corporate boardrooms.

Meanwhile, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has openly celebrated the deplatforming of media voices she dislikes. Her office boasted about efforts to silence Carlson, insisting his rhetoric fueled political unrest. That same standard mysteriously vanishes when progressives cross the line.

The controversy over Kimmel’s suspension isn’t really about free speech — it’s about accountability. Networks have every right to cancel a program for poor ratings or editorial drift. They also have the right to cut ties over moral collapse, such as celebrating someone’s death or spreading lies to score political points.

Kirk’s assassination underscored this divide. Some teachers and professors mourned his loss. Others openly celebrated it. That grotesque reaction sent a chilling message about the culture we’re building: Dissent can mean destruction. When educators, entertainers, and media voices cheer violence or try to silence opponents, they abandon the principles of a free society.

The Constitution protects free speech from government intrusion. It does not shield public figures who abuse their platforms from the consequences of their words. Influence carries responsibility, and ignoring that responsibility corrodes the civic fabric.

I’ve seen this machine operate up close. Left-wing activists and their allies in media, corporations, and even the White House have coordinated campaigns to sideline voices like mine. Van Jones’ nonprofit targeted my employment. Advertisers applied pressure. Facebook and Twitter used deplatforming as a weapon. Yet, critics such as CNN’s Brian Stelter only complain when conservatives push back.

The hypocrisy is unmistakable — and it proves that “accountability” means one thing for the right and nothing at all for the left.

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Sinclair, Nexstar, and other broadcasters acted within their rights by making independent business decisions. The market — not federal regulators — should decide what content survives. Audience demand and grassroots engagement, not bureaucratic meddling, must shape the media landscape. Cancel culture turns toxic when it stops being about debate and becomes about erasing opponents.

What cannot be ignored is the double standard on full display. The left openly cheers efforts to deplatform and silence conservative voices — whether through government pressure, media campaigns, or activist intimidation — but cries foul when one of its own loses a platform because viewers tune out.

Kimmel’s show didn’t collapse because of an FCC conspiracy. It collapsed because audiences walked away, and his bosses finally caught up. His irrelevance made him expendable long before his latest lie about Kirk’s assassination. The market has spoken — and it spoke loudly.

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Last week, a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on drug prices that specifically targets pharmacy benefit managers, exactly as Big Pharma prefers. Pharmaceutical companies have spent years trying to convince the public and policymakers that PBMs are the bad guys in the prescription supply chain, shadowy middlemen inflating prices and hurting innovation. That narrative is convenient, but it is also wrong. PBMs are introducing competition, eliminating waste, and driving down prices.

Which is precisely why Big Pharma wants them out of the way.

The truth is that pharmacy benefit managers are effective. And that is exactly why drugmakers are going after them.

The pharmaceutical industry spends more money than any other sector to sway government policy. In 2024, it poured $90 million into campaign contributions and nearly $400 million into lobbying — much of it through former government officials now on the payroll. Drugmakers also shelled out a whopping $11 billion on advertising, a sum that conveniently buys more than consumer attention. It pressures media outlets to look the other way, a racket the Trump administration is finally moving to rein in.

After the black eye of the opioid crisis and the COVID-19 debacle, Big Pharma needs a scapegoat for high drug prices. It found one in a quiet, little-known player most Americans have never heard of, much less understood.

But the numbers are clear. A recent study shows pharmacy benefit managers deliver at least $145 billion in net value every year, even after costs. Compared with a system where manufacturers dictate prices, PBMs create an additional $192 billion in value across the economy. That money doesn’t vanish into corporate coffers. It flows back into businesses, households, and the wallets of working Americans.

PBMs accomplish this by negotiating directly with manufacturers and pharmacies. They aggregate buying power for millions of people. They secure rebates and discounts that most individual plans could never get on their own. In 2020, PBM-managed rebate structures created $51 billion in value for patients and plan sponsors. That is a competitive market in action.

PBMs are expected to save health plans and consumers about $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years, averaging $1,154 per person per year. And for every dollar spent on PBM services, the system saves $10 in return. By steering patients toward generics and bio-similars, PBMs helped the health system save $445 billion in 2023 alone. That is what efficiency looks like.

Perhaps more importantly, they improve health outcomes. When patients can afford their prescriptions, they are more likely to take them. That means fewer hospitalizations and fewer emergency room visits. PBM-driven programs have led to as much as a 16% increase in medication adherence and a 10% drop in inpatient admissions.

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It’s an obvious good to have healthier Americans. But it’s also good for a productive economy.

By lowering premiums and drug costs in public programs, PBMs save taxpayers money as well. This alone accounts for $47 billion in annual savings. And by accelerating patient access to new therapies early in the patent cycle, PBMs support pharmaceutical innovation instead of stifling it.

PBMs currently manage 95% of retail prescriptions and serve 91% of plan participants. That’s because they work. Businesses in the free market use services they value. And they value PBMs because they allow employers to offer more affordable coverage without sacrificing quality.

The truth is that PBMs are effective. And that is exactly why drugmakers are going after them. PBMs bring down net prices and demand accountability. That cuts into Big Pharma’s profit margins. So the industry has launched a campaign to reframe PBMs as a problem rather than a solution.

For example, a Biden-era Federal Trade Commission report that painted PBMs in a negative light should be viewed with skepticism. Even FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak emphasized that the report ignores the hard evidence of PBM-driven savings and warned that it was “a premature and deficient report,” adding, “Our job is not to score cheap points for transient political favor.”

“Though facile arguments that rely on ideologically loaded buzzwords such as ‘control’ or ‘power’ may stir emotions and make for entertaining social media posts and television interviews, ideological buzzwords are no substitute for rational, evidence-based research,” Holyoak said.

Sadly, some lawmakers are swallowing Big Pharma’s spin. Bills moving at both the federal and state level would gut PBMs — and hand drugmakers exactly what they want. Even a Brookings Institution analysis found that targeting PBMs won’t lower costs and would only weaken bargaining power against manufacturers.

That isn’t reform. It’s malpractice. Weakening the only players who force price discipline amounts to doing Big Pharma’s bidding at the expense of patients.

This fight isn’t about patients versus middlemen. It’s about competition versus monopoly. It’s about market discipline versus unchecked corporate power.

PBMs work because they negotiate, they drive better drug choices, and they deliver real value. When the most powerful industry in America is desperate to kill them off, you don’t need a think tank study to see what’s at stake. That fact alone tells you everything you need to know.

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The early ’90s were an interesting time to be a troubled teenager. After I spent years in a glorified orphanage, the New York state courts emancipated me at 16. I’d never have to go back to the house where my abusive mother ruled like a mental asylum nurse sicker in the head than her patients.

But it also meant living rough. The Salvation Army paid for me to live in a welfare apartment with a drug dealer roommate while I got on my feet after dropping out of high school. At night I’d wake up to go to the bathroom; when I turned on the light, three or four roaches on the wall would skitter away. It was worse in the kitchen, where at least half a dozen would greet me when I flipped the switch.

‘The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.’

That’s what’s been happening across America since Charlie Kirk’s murder on September 10, 2025. The lights went on, and thousands, maybe millions, of human cockroaches were caught in the fluorescent glare.

Cluster B nation

This is the first time many of you have seen the extent of the infestation. Before this, you comforted yourself with statements like, “It’s only a few troubled kids,” and, “It’s just a small minority of crazy people on social media.”

Now you know differently. Just like cockroaches, there are at least two or three functionally psychopathic people for every one you notice. The explosion of gleeful grave-dancing about Charlie Kirk’s murder has shocked the nation.

It didn’t shock me. For almost five years, I’ve been putting out a weekly show, “Disaffected,” that has a thesis: We are living in a Cluster B world.

What is “Cluster B?” This is the term for a set of personality disorders (moral and character disorders, a fancy name for “bad people”) that feature unbridled narcissism and exploitation of other people. My mother had narcissistic and borderline personality disorders; in practice, that meant a woman who screamed, lied, and blamed her own children for the abuse that she enacted on them.

When I figured out what my mother’s moral depravity really was, I saw that the political and cultural left I was then a part of had the same dark character.

Psychopathic society

The left — not just the fringe, but the beating mainstream heart — has a Cluster B personality disorder. It is narcissistic, emotionally unstable, pathologically dishonest, abusive, and conscience-free. The leftist mind delights in the murder of godly men like Charlie Kirk. The leftist heart turns black with erotic frisson contemplating how a lunatic exploded Mr. Kirk’s carotid artery with a rifle while thousands stood watching.

The Cluster B disorder grouping includes psychopathy, the state of having no conscience or care for the well-being of others, only a selfish desire to get what you want no matter the cost. Psychopathy frequently includes sadism, and sadism is everywhere right now.

Again, it’s not just the fringe.

Liberal podcaster “Destiny” (real name Steven Bonnell) indicated on Piers Morgan that Charlie Kirk was to blame for his own murder because he helped elect President Trump.

Have you noticed how many nurses, doctors, and other professionals, like pilots, feel comfortable cheering? If you haven’t, you’d better start noticing right quick or you’re not going to make it. That’s not a joke or a turn of phrase: You have liberals in your family and social circle who would see you dead, you personally.

Beyond the political

Nor is today like the political disagreements of the past. There has never been a time in American history when it was socially acceptable to display naked psychopathic glee over assassination. Bill and Carol may have voted for different candidates in the 1960 presidential election, but they didn’t go further than squabbling about it over dinner before turning in for bed. But today? If you were Bill, would you get into a bed with Carol without worrying that she might knife you in the night?

We are in a national emergency.

What you’re seeing is not political disagreement. It is not “clashing worldviews.” It is a battle between good and evil.

I don’t say that lightly. After years of functional atheism, I am only beginning to figure out what I think about God. But like most Americans, I grew up in a society that was steeped in Christian morality, no matter how much we try to deny it now. And I can see this for what it is: spiritual warfare.

‘The day is at hand’

This moment calls to mind a verse from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans: “The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.”

Charlie Kirk understood the urgency of this task. Although he was raised an evangelical Christian, when he started his political project, he was determined to keep religion out of it. But as time went on, he began to realize how inextricably the two were linked. Embracing Christianity is what made him such an effective speaker — and, for some, a dangerous one.

Like all of us, Kirk was human. You can go through the vast amount of footage of him talking off the cuff and find moments where his phrasing is perhaps less charitable than it should be, but to watch him engaged in his one-on-one debates — as few of his detractors seem to have done — is to see a man clothed in “the armor of light.”

This armor is what gave Kirk the confidence to confront the most hostile crowds. He knew he was right. Not because of his preternatural calm, or his quickness on his feet, or his impressive rhetorical skill. But because he possessed the truth. What drove him to work so hard, to make so many appearances, was his conviction that this truth was worth sharing.

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Truth heals

You can see it again and again in the clips: A student — often with the usual leftist signifiers of purple hair, tattoos, and piercings — approaches the mic, clearly nervous beneath the bravado. In the current liberal fashion, they often lead with their “identity,” as if daring Kirk to ridicule them. But Kirk doesn’t play into it. Instead of attacking their self-conception, he gently asks them to examine it.

One telling example has been making the rounds after Kirk’s death. In it, a shy young woman identifies herself as a “transgender male” and earnestly asks Kirk’s opinion on whether she should take hormones.

Kirk begins by thanking her for her honesty and willingness to speak, and then responds:

So, I’m going to have an opinion that very few people will ever tell you, which is, I want you to be very cautious putting drugs into your system in the pursuit of changing your body. I instead encourage you to work on what’s going on in your brain first.

I think what you need first and foremost is just a diagnosis, just someone that is going to listen to what you’ve gone through, listen to what else is going on.

My prayer for you, and again, very few people will say this, I actually want to see you be comfortable in how you were born. I know that you might not feel that way, but I think that is something that you can achieve. I think that with the right team and the right people, you don’t have to wage war on your body; you can learn to love your body.

At his best, Kirk wasn’t so much “debating” people as he was inviting them to examine their own arguments and assumptions in the hopes that they, too, could be guided to the truth. Whatever “win” Kirk sought would benefit his interlocutors more than him.

Donning the armor

Kirk’s talent, good will, and faith could not, in the end, protect him from an assassin’s bullet. People have called Kirk a “martyr,” but this 31-year-old man with a young family and big plans for the future didn’t willingly embrace death.

Of course, he knew it was a risk to address the audiences he did, and to do so took great courage. But he was not reckless; he was well aware of the threats against him and traveled with security. What he couldn’t imagine — what none of us could imagine — is that we now live in an America where an ordinary citizen can be killed in cold blood merely for expressing an opinion, an America where some will even cheer on the murder.

We understand now. And part of honoring Kirk’s legacy is to be ever vigilant to the threat his death revealed and to protect ourselves and our families from the evil forces marshaled against us.

We must also order our lives in accordance with the truth, as Kirk did. We must live in such a way that we encourage those already with us and inspire those who have yet to come around.

Yes, there is real evil in the world, and there’s nothing we can do with genuine psychopaths except to avoid or contain them. But for every stone-cold killer there are countless men and women who have slowly been poisoned by an insidious, evil ideology without even realizing it.

Ordinary people like you and me can guide them to the antidote, and we can hope they’ll be willing to take it. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and persevere in the battle Kirk fought with such honor and conviction.

Put on the armor of light.

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