"Maybe the worst thing I’ve seen today is Ezra Klein’s smarmy 'Charlie Kirk practiced politics exactly the right way' in Thursday’s New York Times. …

Author Mark Harris said it better than I could on Bluesky: 'You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics.'"

~ Joan Walsh

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/20

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/

"T'o pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.'”

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/21

"Kirk’s most ardent fans can, and will, believe what they want. The truth is that he infuriated a lot of us because he spread toxic lies across this country like a blanket of Agent Orange (David Corn and Joan Walsh iterated a number of them this week). And while he often had an impressive battery of facts at his command, his manner of debating involved a lot of dishonest rhetorical legerdemain."

~ Michael Tomasky

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/22

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=28acfe2da49d2b9a7f177458256f2540.2184&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

Jay Kuo says that now we know the suspect in Kirk's murder, Tyler Robinson of Utah, it's time "to talk about the disinformation we were bombarded with" — specifically, how major media outlets like Wall Street Journal immediately jumped on the anti-trans bandwagon and circulated unverified rumors about the shooter being trans. Donald Trump Jr. — of course — then amplified the rumors.

Which turn out to have been utterly false.

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/23

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/what-we-know-versus-what-we-were

#dynastic grooming.
#charliekirk
#NoKings !

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@RememberUsAlways Both are finally DEAD. Forever. #GoFuckYourself #CharlieKirk #GOP #Nazi #Cunts

Then and now.
#CharlesManson
Vs
#CharlieKirk

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"At least 15 people have been fired or suspended from their jobs after discussing the killing (of #CharlieKirk) online, according to a Reuters tally based on interviews and public statements. The total includes journalists, academic workers, and teachers":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlie-kirk-critics_n_68c5a9b5e4b0efc9da5fea41 "Other people appear to have done little more than point out that a longtime gun control foe had been shot to death."
#Selfcensorship #politics #SuppressingDissent #WeAreLessFreeThanWeWere #ReadMyNextMessageForGoodNews

The #dynastic grooming machine fuckery in corporate media.
"Conservatives had latched onto reports – that have since been retracted – that the #casings for #bullets found with the gun that police suspect was used to kill Kirk were engraved with markings indicating “trans ideology”."
#fraud
#charliekirk
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/charlie-kirk-killing-alleged-shooter-motivation

#charliekirk

In which I.... Yeah.

"Bad Obsession: On the Death of a Thirty-One-year-old White Male American."

https://personal-blog.fixermark.com/posts/2025/on-the-death-of-a-thirty-one-year-old-white-male-american/

#CharlieKirk #guns #America

#charliekirk would have been under the 35 year age limit to run for #POTUS in #election2028.

#Republicans had been grooming this kid for decades to set Kirk up for #election2032.
#coup
#dynasty
#census
This is why the outrage over Kirk's murder is from the Republican #grooming machines.
#election2026
#2026election
#NoKings !

@CatDragon

#MAGA #grooming process includes a "trophy wife" for dynastic integrity.
#charliekirk
#NoKings !

When the hyper partisan grift machine is the point 👉
"The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry."
She thanked Donald Trump, saying through tears that her husband loved the US president, and vowed to keep her husband's work alive, continuing his campus tour, radio show, and podcast."

Mourning her husband replaced by a political grift in less than 24 hours.
#charliekirk
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-13/erika-kirk-pays-tribute-to-late-husband-charlie-kirk/105770008

So the working theory is this was a assassination because #nickfuentes was mad at #CharlieKirk over the #Epstein files and the murderer was all up in that weird corner of right-wing politics?

It's actually starting to make sense why #civildiscourse can save your life.

Kids are getting involved in hyper partisan Republican politics and the results are clear.
https://bsky.app/profile/segfaultvicta.bsky.social/post/3lynns5iuu22f

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"David Shuster: "Según funcionarios de Utah y entrevistas policiales con su familia, #TylerRobinson odiaba a #CharlieKirk porque Kirk no era lo suficientemente conservador. Robinson, según se informa, admiraba a Nick Fuentes. Los republicanos ahora están eliminando publicaciones X sobre demócratas más rápido de lo que el Departamento de Justicia borra el nombre de Donald Trump en los archivos de Epstein"."

@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance

David Shuster: "According to Utah officials and police interviews with his family, #TylerRobinson hated #CharlieKirk because Kirk wasn't conservative enough. Robinson reportedly admired Nick Fuentes. Republicans are now scrubbing X posts about Democrats faster than the Department of Justice erases Donald Trump's name in the Epstein files."
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #extremism

What happened to #CharlieKirk happens to dozens of innocent #people in #Gaza every day. Where’s the #media coverage? Where’s the #outrage?

#CharlieKirk has died for the second ammendment rights. He didn't just talk shit, he walked it too, right into the grave

@Sexabled #Spoiler: #CharlieKirk ist ein politischer "#Lackmußtest" und den verkacken grade sehr viele…

Facebook deleted a viral post by Piotr Wilkin, a Polish philosopher, regarding the right's reaction to Charlie Kirk's death.

It was a very important post, so I translated it into English, so you can read it too.

Do read it.

https://orynski.eu/post-about-charlie-kirk-deleted-by-facebook/

#charliekirk #USA #politics

Did he need to die? #charliekirk #assassination #death #politics #politicalviolence #left #right #conservative #hatemonger #tolerance #paradoxoftolerance #schoolshooting #evergreen #annefrank #media #racism #whitenationalism #republican #speaker #influence #blog #boost #writer

http://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/09/12/the-diary-of-anne-frank/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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#CharlieKirk #USPOL #Fascism #Fascist

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Jalls Stacey Patton © eee ® 7h-Q I am on Charlie Kirk's hit list. His so-called “Professor Watchlist,” run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. | landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life. For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: “bitch,” “c*nt,” “n****r” They threatened all manner of violence. They overwhelmed the university's PR lines and the president's office with calls demanding that | be fired. The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm. And | am not unique. Kirk's Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse.

In June, two Democratic legislators were shot along with their spouses. Even their dog was shot.

One had to dive on top of their child to protect them.

Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed.

Trump didn’t attend the funeral.

There was no widespread condemnation of political violence.

Shortly after a gunman targeted the CDC and killed a police officer.

There was a school shooting in Denver today that sent 3 kids to the hospital.

The culture must change and gun control is long overdue.

No more “thoughts and prayers”. It’s time for action and change.

#uspol #guns #charliekirk #fascism #guncontrol

"Ours is a world where some deaths are mourned publicly and others are never acknowledged."

~ Garrett Bucks

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/1

https://thewhitepages.net/p/how-do-you-respond-when-a-famous

"I continue to believe we should condemn this violence, even if, in the same breath, we condemn people who only condemn attacks on people in their own political party. That’s because rejecting violence isn’t about Donald Trump or MAGA. It’s about who we are and who we want to be. I, perhaps foolishly, refuse to let them make me change what I believe in."

~ Joyce Vance

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/2

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/on-political-violence

"Once unleashed, political violence comes for everyone.

It doesn’t know what side of the aisle you’re on or what your ideology might be, who your allies are or what your vision for the future includes."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/3

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

"We can see that promoting hatred and division is itself among the most pernicious drivers of both assaults on our sensibilities and also directly upon the lives and well-being of innocents everywhere inside and beyond our borders.

Shooting an individual because of their political views is abhorent.

So too is denying someone in need medical care for the same reason.

So too is inciting hatred against those who are different."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/4

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/finding-clarity-in-moments-of-pain

"So too, is stripping away the fundamental rights and ignoring the laws that are meant to protect those we see as rivals or as somehow 'less than' the rest of us.

Raising up the mechanisms of violence, deploying them into the places we live, and directing helmeted, masked thugs wielding weapons and cudgels, that too is not only a reprehensible form of political violence but it also sends a dangerous message that emulating it is not only acceptable, it is patriotic."

#CharlieKirk #violence
/5

"Yes. We must admit it. There are those in positions of great power who have promoted our culture of violence…who continue to do so to this day."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/6

"Minutes after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at an event in Utah on Wednesday, far-right influencers and extremist communities lit up social media with calls for violence against the left."

~ David Gilbert

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/7

https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-reactions-charlie-kirk-shooting-civil-war/

"Trump is the reactor core of America's escalating political violence. You should not pretend otherwise. ...

Political violence, and the threat of such, are now the primary mode of communication of this regime that spent the week before Kirk’s murder bragging about shooting a small civilian boat in the Caribbean that had apparently turned back to avoid the menace America has become."

~ Jason Sattler

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence
/8

https://thecause.substack.com/p/trump-is-the-reactor-core-of-americas

"In fact, Trump is the GOAT of stochastic terrorism, and his entire political career is populated with numerous examples of his supporters attacking his critics and enemies."

~ Wajahat Ali

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence
/9

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/on-condemning-charlie-kirks-murder

"As right-wing figures move to blame Kirk’s assassination on “the left,” we’re witnessing the same dishonest attribution pattern that has defined their response to political violence for years. ...

When only violence from the left counts as political violence, when only progressive rhetoric gets treated as incitement, when only liberal politicians get held responsible for individual extremists—"

~ Mike Brock

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence
/10

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-dangerous-moment

(continued from /10)

"you’ve created a framework where authoritarian crackdowns become necessary responses to terrorism that somehow never applies to actual right-wing terrorism. …

This pattern repeats throughout history whenever democratic institutions come under authoritarian assault. Individual acts of violence get amplified into evidence of systematic threats requiring extraordinary responses.

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence
/11

"Fascists do civil violence better than civic democrats. It’s a foundational element of their political philosophy. It’s the verdict of logic and history."

~ Josh Marshall

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/12

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-death-of-charlie-kirk

"Things have changed and it’s not hard to pinpoint the moment when the normalization of political violence re-emerged among our political elites. To pretend otherwise would be to hide our heads in the sand—to deny the plain political reality of the moment."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/13

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk

"[Kirk's murder is] also a difficult thing to process for me personally, coming less than two weeks after a mass shooting at my kids’ school (and a couple months after the assassination of Melissa Hortman, who I knew a bit personally, not far from where I live). Whether I’m reflecting on my own life or the state of American society more broadly, it feels like the external world is coming unglued."

~ Aaron Rupar

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/14

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/reflections-on-charlie-kirks-assassination

"Shootings that were unthinkable when I was growing up in the 1990s are no longer so in this time of great destabilization. Yesterday’s violence will make it worse before it gets better.

But for things to get better, we need a future where Americans can partake in politics without fear of having their homes invaded or getting shot while speaking in public. That will require defeating the fascist movement that Kirk devoted his professional life to promoting."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/15

"And that means doing the distressingly difficult work of persuading Americans to reject demagogues who relentlessly hunt for scapegoats."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/16

"• The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

• The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter."

~ Mehdi Hasan

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/17

https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

"• The man convicted of orchestrating a series of hootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

• The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

• The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6, 2021, were Trump supporters."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/18

"• The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 was a Trump supporter.

• The men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 were Trump supporters.

• The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 was a Trump supporter."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/19

"• The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 was a Trump supporter.

There is no equivalent or even similar list of Obama or Biden supporters who have carried out murders, attempted murders, or violent attacks against Republicans or conservatives in recent years."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/20

Robert B. Hubbell quotes Amy Rock,

"Utah is the only state to have a statute specifically naming public colleges and universities as public entities that do not have the authority to ban concealed carry."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #Utah
/21

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/political-violence-has-no-place-in

Hubbell adds:

"Although Utah prohibits public colleges and universities from banning real firearms on campus, Utah prohibits the presence of simulated weapons on campus, 'such as toys, props, or weapons that do not work, and [which] cannot be used as decoration in university housing.'

In other words, an undergraduate in Utah can keep a loaded handgun on his desk in the classroom but cannot use a squirt gun as a frat party decoration."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #Utah
/22