Flotsam and Jetsam - The Kirk Assassination - Who's Next?

Of course, the public murder of Charlie Kirk is still the lead topic. John Sexton at Hat Hair catches Anxious anxiously admitting, Investigators Suspect Anger Over Kirk's Stance on Trans Issues Could Be the Motive. From NewsBusters, ABC Claims Trump Is Blaming The Left For Kirk's Murder Before Motive Is Known. Well known leftie legal eagle Lawrence Tribe is still holding out for the assassin being ultra-MAGA. At Fox, Harvard Law professor spreads debunked rumor about Charlie Kirk assassination suspect. "Distinguished legal scholar faces social media backlash for sharing false narrative about Tyler Robinson." Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley "It remains impressive how liberals can spread disinformation with impunity while supporting censorship in the name of combating disinformation. https://yahoo.com/news/articles/harvard-law-professor-spreads-debunked-135621593.html Laurence Tribe's claim that Kirk's shooter was MAGA takes disinformation to a new delusional level..." Bonchie at RedState, Governor Cox: 'Investigators' Know Kirk Assassin Was 'Deeply Indoctrinated With Left-Wing Ideology'. Sundance at CTH, Governor Spencer Cox Confirms Charlie Kirk Assassin Was in a Romantic Relationship with Transgender Roommate. Joe Weber at JTN, Suspect in fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk 'not cooperating' with authorities, says Utah Gov Cox. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "They’re flagrantly lying about Charlie, & now they’re flagrantly lying about the governor who’s handled Charlie’s murder with grace & leadership. Cox said he prayed the killer wasn’t from Utah. Alas, the killer is a leftist from Utah. These posts twist it into a disgusting lie." Quote Matt Whitlock @mattdizwhitlock "27 million views, 268,000 likes for a complete lie. We are seeing the limitations of the Community Notes model when someone like Shannon Watts can intentionally alter a quote, blow it up, and there’s not even a note making clear she’s lying because they can mass vote it down." Shipwreckedcrew, The Death Penalty for Tyler Robinson -- What Is The Court Procedure Under Utah Law? "The sentence is imposed by the Judge, but the Judge does not have the discretion to override a unanimous decision by the jury." AP crows, Patel faces congressional hearings after missteps in Kirk assassination probe and turmoil at FBI. Yes, the FBI did detain and look at 2 people briefly, before Robinson was arrested. Compare and contrast to Robert Mueller's years long persecution of Steven Hatfill in the anthrax investigation. Sundance at CTH is Defending Kash Patel from Himself. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, hear House Republicans Demand Investigation Into Left-Wing Networks After Charlie Kirk Assassination. Did any Soros money filter down to the assassin? From WokeSpy, Trump Eyes Soros Prosecution, Possible RICO Charges in Wake of Charlie Kirk Assassination. From Sundance, Three Background Facets in the Charlie Kirk Assassination. Tom Knighton at BA hears an Expert Claim Kirk's Assassination Probably Won't Be the Last. Bob Spencer at PJM notes Okay, Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next. Mark Judge, (remember him?) at PJM, Why the Left is So Hard to Defeat "In short, the left are babies with mental problems and violent fantasies."

At NYPo, Fired MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd defends twisted remarks about Charlie Kirk killing that got him axed “Keep in mind when the anchor came to me to comment on the ‘national environment’ the only thing known at the time was shots were fired and there was no reporting yet that Kirk was the target or had been shot at,” so he went straight to blaming Kirk. At Da Wire, Hegseth ‘Closely’ Tracking Posts Celebrating Charlie Kirk Murder From Military. “We are tracking all these very closely — and will address, immediately. Completely unacceptable.” At Red State Ward Clark at RedState says Now There's This: Los Angeles Refuses to Fly Flags at Half-Staff and Nick Arama at RedState wants you to Watch: Man Arrested for Allegedly Damaging Charlie Kirk Memorial - What He Wore Is Raising Eyebrows. Twitchy, Man Dressed as Charlie Kirk Assassination Suspect Tyler Robinson Tramples Turning Point HQ Memorial. Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC, "WATCH: Man tramples on Charlie Kirk memorial at TP USA. He is taken to the ground by onlookers and then arrested. He traveled about 15 yards through the memorial, kicked over flowers, vases and flags and balloons, according to our photog." WokeSpy, Brawl Erupts During Vigil for Charlie Kirk at Idaho State Capitol. Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl, "Fight broke out at the Charlie Kirk vigil on Wednesday night when a protester yelled, “F*** you Charlie Kirk!” People pummeled and tackled him. Others intervened to try to keep the peace. Police finally calmed the situation and removed the evil agitator." James Woods @RealJamesWoods "A teacher in a Los Angeles high school calling for mass murder. Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass have anything to say about this?" At RVM, ‘We Did It’: Pretend Female Olympian Celebrates Charlie Kirk Assassination "USA Cycling issued a statement Friday distancing itself from former athlete Chelsea Wolfe after the transgender BMX rider posted celebratory remarks on social media about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk." Amy Curtis at TownHall, Trustee Resigns As Oxford Union Faces Backlash After President-Elect Celebrates Charlie Kirk’s Murder. PJM's Matt Margolis thinks What This School Teacher Did to His Students After Charlie Kirk’s Death Is Unimaginable. "On September 11, a teacher at Corvette Junior Public School in Toronto allegedly showed a classroom of ten- and eleven-year-olds the horrific assassination video of Charlie Kirk. According to a report from the New York Post, the teacher didn’t just show the video once—he played it repeatedly, forcing children to relive the violence over and over while delivering a tirade on “antifascism” and transgender politics, and declaring that Kirk “deserved this fate.”" Sarah Arnold at TownHall is skeptical of TMZ’s Harvey Levin Walk-back of Staff's Applause for Kirk’s Death, Now Warns of 'Civil War'. Rick Moran at PJM reports The 'Largest Firing Operation in History' Gets 50,000+ Submissions of People Happy That Charlie Kirk Died. From Fox, Inappropriate comments about Charlie Kirk assassination gets workers fired "Workers lose jobs following controversial Charlie Kirk comments." Nux @Nux_Taku, "Millions of ‘tolerant’ psychopaths are terrified that they’re losing a game that they’ve designed the rules for. I come bearing fantastic news though, my dear ‘tolerant’ psychopaths. The ‘cancel culture’ that you did such a great job designing, was created to oppress and ruin the lives of people with opinions you hated or jokes that offended you. . . " The redoubtable Julie Kelly at substack, call them The January 6 Rules "The criminalization of free speech and support for cancel culture for everyone--from President Trump down to his voters--related to Jan 6 established new rules. Now, it's time to follow them."

From RCP, Megyn Kelly: People Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Murder Can't Be Reasoned With, Only Defeated. Breitbart cites Maher: Calling People Hitler Is Wrong, Makes It Easier to Justify Killing, Trump Also Demonizes People. From the NYPo ed board, After Tyler Robinson, the left must finally quit encouraging political violence. From News Wax, Political Discourse Devolves to a State of War. Just Loki @LokiJulianus, "People can't decide if the problem is radical left-wing terrorists on Discord, radical left-wing terrorists on Reddit, or radical left-wing terrorists on college campuses. If only there was a common denominator we could focus on." Mike LaChance at LI reads Michael Shellenberger: The Anti-Civilization Left Has Become a ‘Death Cult’ “They need to take accountability that there are consequences for what they are doing, and it was to program an entire generation into an utterly absurd fantasy that the United States was being taken over by fascism.” At Althouse, "[N]o matter the direction of the tragedy, the end result is the same — the right grows angrier at the left, and the left grows angrier at the right...." and "Every other recent president has said that he saw his role as transcending partisanship at least some of the time, to serve as leader of all Americans..." "From "In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission/President Trump does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all Americans" by Peter Baker, in the NYT. Who is taking an accurate measure of the consistency and ferocity of the divisiveness of the various Presidents?" At NewsBusters PBS Doubts Trump Can Be a Good Leader After Charlie Kirk's Murder, well, they didn't like him before Kirk was murdered either. 

Sundance hosts Sunday Talks – House Speaker Mike Johnson Discusses Impact of Charlie Kirk Assassination on Washington DC. unseen1@unseen1_unseen, "Martyrdom is an amazing force to behold. In my lifetime, I've never seen it, until now. I've read about it, but I've never seen it in action. Truly, an eye-opening event. Millions of hearts changed in a short amount of time. Evil exposed that has lurked in the shadows for decades. Hearts opened in prayer. It's a force unto itself that catches like kindling but can burn for decades." At Hat Hair, Looks Like All of Long Island Came Out for Last Night's Vigil. Matt Vespa at TownHall Here's What Shocked a Former MSNBC Analyst About Erika Kirk's Heartbreaking Address. "What shocked former MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin is that CNN and MSNBC never cut to the broadcast." Da Caller hears Harris Faulkner Rebuke Corporate Media For Not Covering GOP Press Conference On Charlotte Stabbing. Da Blaze, The deadly concoction that made Iryna Zarutska’s murder possible.

From NYPo, Bureaucrats’ jobs-report fiasco is a national shame — and heads must roll. NewsBusters sees DEFEAT: CNN Actually Admits Massive Jobs Revision a ‘Stain on Joe Biden’s Legacy’.

Nick Arama at RedState hears Karine Jean-Pierre Drops Interesting Nuggets in Oversight Grilling - Then Former Biden Aides Get Nasty. "While the ex-White House spokesperson acknowledged Biden, now 82, was “not the same speaker he was when she met him,” Jean-Pierre couldn’t attribute a reason for the “speaking change,” the source added." WokeSpy, Whoopi Goldberg Rips Dems for Not Continuing Cover Up of Joe Biden’s Mental Decline. Salena Zito at Hat Hair cites Rahm Emanuel: Democrats Have Lost Touch With Roosevelt, Johnson and Truman, but they got in touch with Stalin.

At Hat Hair, Betsey McCaughey writes Zohran Mamdani is a Red Flag of What a Brainwashed Electorate Will Choose and Larry Elder notes Mamdani signals Democrats' Antisemitism Problem. 

WKRG, Woman charged with election fraud in Northwest Florida. That thing that never happens keeps being discovered. 

From US News, Appeals Court Rules Trump Administration Can End Legal Protections for More Than 400,000 Migrants. News Wax, Appeals Court: WH Can End Legal Protections for More Than 400K Migrants. At Fox, Sotomayor admits conservative Supreme Court colleagues frustrate her, tries to look for 'good' in them, the implication being that what they're doing is bad. Liz Shield at Am Great reports Senate GOP Invokes ‘Nuclear Option’ to Confirm Batches of Trump Nominees.

WokeSpy chortles New York AG Letitia James Ticketed Over Violation Amid Fraud Investigation "New York Attorney General Letitia James has been cited by the city’s Department of Buildings for an illegal fence at her Brooklyn residence, a property already at the center of a federal mortgage fraud investigation, as reported by the New York Post." A hundred million dollar fine ought to cover it, don'tcha think? From the Center Square CA, California DOJ declines records requests on Trump admin lawsuit spending.

At First Things, The Epstein Myth. I think he just enjoyed indulging rich friends.

The Beeb reports Man accused of Trump assassination attempt cut off by judge as trial begins. Cory Routh is clearly whacked, but then crazy people are dangerous, to cite Stacy McCain.

Liz Stauffer at LI reports an Illegal Alien Charged with Capital Murder in Gruesome Beheading of Texas Motel Manager, “The suspect then kicked the [Nagamallaiah’s] head twice into the parking lot and proceeded to pick it up and carry it to the dumpster and put it inside.” John Sexton at Hat Hair, Illegal Immigrant Beheads Dallas Motel Manager. At Insty, GOOD LORD: Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "BREAKING: Per multiple federal sources to @FoxNews, the suspect arrested in the grisly machete beheading of a motel manager in Dallas, TX yesterday is a Cuban illegal alien who was released into the US by the Biden admin in January despite having an active deportation order. . . " John Sexton, Chicago: ICE Agent Dragged by Car Shoots Driver. Victory Girls, Jasmine Crockett Says ICE Is The New Modern Day Slave Patrol. Shipwreckedcrew, Trump's DHS Sends 14 West African Illegal Aliens To Ghana Via "Third Country Deportation" Policy -- Judge Chutkan Outraged. "Not surprisingly, she believes every word written in the complaint by the plaintiffs' attorneys."

Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav, "Republican mega donor Larry Ellison and his son are about to control CBS News. They are now also trying to acquire the company that owns CNN. Larry Ellison is also one of Elon Musk’s best friends and is an investor in Tesla and X." At Althouse, "If all this comes to pass, it will cement [Bari] Weiss as a key figure in shaping the national news environment, just five years after her much publicized resignation from the New York Times..." ""... over what she characterized as a censorious and hostile workplace. This came in the wake of the resignation of the editorial page editor, James Bennet, after a staff uproar over the publication of Senator Tom Cotton’s opinion piece calling for military intervention against Black Lives Matter protesters.... If Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press goes through, Weiss will probably be in a position to recruit a network of snitches and rightwing thought police, both from within existing CBS staff and from her own publication, ensconced throughout one of the four largest US media conglomerates. From "Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go?/After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into an unshakable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elites" (Guardian)."