Phillips’ framing is laughable. A petition with 942 signatures out of 46,500 students – less than 2% — is not proof of a hostile campus. It’s a fringe minority trying to make noise. The reality? Kirk packed in 3,000 people, one of the biggest audiences of his career, far beyond the 500-1,500 he typically draws. Students wanted to hear him, engage him, and challenge him. That’s the entire purpose of these debates.
To twist that into a narrative of “tension” is disingenuous. Kirk wasn’t gunned down because the campus didn’t want him there. He was assassinated by someone with a vendetta – motive still unknown. For ABC to imply otherwise is manufacturing drama off the back of a tragedy. It’s shameful.
Great job by law enforcement! Utah governor Spencer Cox gave some excellent, challenging remarks.
Interestingly, FBI Director Patel said this at the end of his remarks today: “To my friend Charlie Kirk: Rest now, brother, we have the watch – and I’ll see you in Valhalla.” In Norse mythology, there were five possible realms the soul could travel to after death. The fifth of those was Valhalla, which was ruled by the god Odin and was called the Hall of Heroes. The masses of those killed in combat (known as the einherjar), along with various legendary Germanic heroes and kings, live in Valhalla until Ragnarök, when they will march out of its many doors to fight in aid of Odin against the jötnar. When heroes fall in battle it is said that Odin needs them to strengthen his forces for the Ragnarök.
Valhalla was idealized in Viking culture and gave the Scandinavians a widespread cultural belief that there is nothing more glorious than death in battle. The belief in a Viking paradise and eternal life in Valhalla with Odin may have given the Vikings a violent edge over the other raiders of their time period.
I believe that Patel is Hindu, so this is an interesting comment for him to make.
“Senate Republicans, in a unanimous 53–45 vote, invoke the nuclear option — cutting the confirmation threshold from 60 to 51 and stripping Chuck Schumer and the Democrats of their power to block President Trump’s nominees.”
“When the truth comes out, and it will come out, people are going to see the full picture. This young man came from a family that understood right from wrong. His own parents turned him in. That is not the story of a family without morals. That is the story of a family doing what is right, no matter how painful.
And when it is revealed that he was radicalized by a school system that no longer teaches children how to think but tells them what to think… when it is exposed that they are trained to believe anyone who disagrees with them is a “fascist”… then this nation will have to face a reckoning. Because what has been done to our children is nothing short of catastrophic.
We are raising generations poisoned by ideology instead of anchored in truth. We are watching classrooms become factories of resentment and rage. And now the fruit of that indoctrination is spilling out into our streets in the form of violence.
If the adults in the room do not rise up now, if parents, leaders, and communities do not reclaim our schools and fight for our children, then the future that lies ahead is darker than anyone wants to imagine. What is happening in our education system is an abomination. To deny that is to deny reality itself. And if we refuse to confront it, then the violence we have just seen will not be the end. It will be the beginning.
Charlie Kirk lived and died for the truth. And it is now incumbent on every single one of us to do the same. To learn how to debate the other side the way he did, to speak the truth with clarity and conviction, and to win people over one by one. Because if we do not rise to that challenge, if we do not carry forward the example Charlie set, then the darkness will consume this country.”
“Journalist Michael Shellenberger just dropped the hammer…and said what the media will NEVER admit about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
This isn’t about one deranged shooter.
This is about an ENTIRE malignant culture that made political violence inevitable.
Now @shellenberger says it’s time for those responsible to be held accountable.
“Look, I think it’s not likely to happen but the people that did this dehumanization need to take responsibility for it.”
“I don’t think that it’s good enough not to just express lament about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”
“I think the media, the left, the universities in particular, need to own up to the fact that they participated in the very dehumanization that they for decades had been criticizing when done by people on the right.”
“I don’t think that healing is going to be possible until some acknowledgement of really a decade-long dehumanization of roughly half of the country.””
So many continue to hide their heads in the sand. I heard someone say today that the left wasn’t so mad about what Charlie was saying they were mad that the students were listening…think about it…,
#NEW Teachers, Doctors, & Elected officials celebrate Charlie Kirk’s ass*ssination
“Call me old fashioned, but I remember when we used to be okay with shooting Nazi’s” Dot Heffron, Clover Hill District
“For men like Kirk, death is for the expendable, it is a chillingly casual calculus”
Stacey Patton PhD
) “We must mock them and dance on their
graves”
Parron Baxtor {He/Him)
Another Nazi dead, rot in piss Charlie Kirk”
“Shooting Nazi’s isn’t political violence its human decency”
Phoenix Davaroux – Teacher at Vallivue School District, Idaho
“We shouldn’t mourn his death, even though he was a father”
Former Flint, Michigan City Counselor & Teacher Eva Worthing compares Charlie to Kirk to Hilter
This is an interesting piece about the rise in acceptance of violence among college students.
~ “According to FIRE’s annual College Free Speech Rankings survey, in 2020, the national average showed about 1 in 5 students said it was ever acceptable to use violence to stop a speaker. That number has since risen to a disturbing 1 in 3 students. […]
Students who identify as “Strong Democrats” are one of the few groups that haven’t markedly increased in support for using violence to stop a speaker, but only because they started at a higher rate of acceptance. Once the second most accepting of violence, they are now the second least accepting, thanks to a rise in acceptance by other groups. In other words, they didn’t get better — everyone else got worse. But consistently the worst group of all remains those who identify as “Something else.”
The portions of “Strong Republicans” and “Republicans” who accept the use of violence to stop a speaker have more than tripled in four years. Even acceptance among “Independents” has more than doubled. To give you a sense of how bad things have gotten, the group that currently accepts violence the least, Republican-leaning independents, would have ranked alongside those who accepted it the most back in 2020.” ~
NJ – This page says that this survey “includes 58,807 student respondents from 257 colleges and universities.”
These notes on the page mention several of them:
~ “1. The University of Virginia is this year’s top ranked school for free speech. Michigan Technological University, Florida State University, Eastern Kentucky University, and Georgia Tech round out the top five.
2. Harvard University is this year’s bottom ranked school for free speech for the second year in a row. Joining it in the bottom three are Columbia University and New York University. All three of these schools have an “Abysmal” speech climate. The University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College round out the bottom five and each has a “Very Poor” speech climate. […]
4. Since 2020, UVA, Michigan Tech, FSU, North Carolina State University, Oregon State University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University, George Mason University, Kansas State University, the University of Mississippi, the University of Chicago, and Claremont McKenna College have all consistently performed well in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings.” ~
Wandering Views 
https://notthebee.com/article/suspect-in-custody
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The headline for the linked article (I hit post before saving it):
Trump says Kirk suspect is in custody: “I think … we have him.”
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ABC doing just what they do…twist and lie
The Federalist Papers
Phillips’ framing is laughable. A petition with 942 signatures out of 46,500 students – less than 2% — is not proof of a hostile campus. It’s a fringe minority trying to make noise. The reality? Kirk packed in 3,000 people, one of the biggest audiences of his career, far beyond the 500-1,500 he typically draws. Students wanted to hear him, engage him, and challenge him. That’s the entire purpose of these debates.
To twist that into a narrative of “tension” is disingenuous. Kirk wasn’t gunned down because the campus didn’t want him there. He was assassinated by someone with a vendetta – motive still unknown. For ABC to imply otherwise is manufacturing drama off the back of a tragedy. It’s shameful.
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Great job by law enforcement! Utah governor Spencer Cox gave some excellent, challenging remarks.
Interestingly, FBI Director Patel said this at the end of his remarks today: “To my friend Charlie Kirk: Rest now, brother, we have the watch – and I’ll see you in Valhalla.” In Norse mythology, there were five possible realms the soul could travel to after death. The fifth of those was Valhalla, which was ruled by the god Odin and was called the Hall of Heroes. The masses of those killed in combat (known as the einherjar), along with various legendary Germanic heroes and kings, live in Valhalla until Ragnarök, when they will march out of its many doors to fight in aid of Odin against the jötnar. When heroes fall in battle it is said that Odin needs them to strengthen his forces for the Ragnarök.
Valhalla was idealized in Viking culture and gave the Scandinavians a widespread cultural belief that there is nothing more glorious than death in battle. The belief in a Viking paradise and eternal life in Valhalla with Odin may have given the Vikings a violent edge over the other raiders of their time period.
I believe that Patel is Hindu, so this is an interesting comment for him to make.
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The Harry Reid option. See how Schumer likes it now.
https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1966477787859951757?t=d_5AI5nHOt3YBOFp1UJTCw&s=19
“Senate Republicans, in a unanimous 53–45 vote, invoke the nuclear option — cutting the confirmation threshold from 60 to 51 and stripping Chuck Schumer and the Democrats of their power to block President Trump’s nominees.”
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Correct.
Now what are they gonna do about it?
https://x.com/AbrahamHamadeh/status/1966509715430552006?t=puhH5xZAMx_C6PBNHGhK8Q&s=19
“Charlie’s killer wrote, “Hey, fascist! Catch!” on a bullet.
He told people close to him that Charlie spread “hate.”
The killer used the exact same language that the radical left and the media use about all America First patriots.
That’s not a coincidence… He was radicalized.”
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Again, what are we gonna do about it?
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1966524847275843942?t=O57gTNZSOE4pWk-s6Yn6sw&s=19
“When the truth comes out, and it will come out, people are going to see the full picture. This young man came from a family that understood right from wrong. His own parents turned him in. That is not the story of a family without morals. That is the story of a family doing what is right, no matter how painful.
And when it is revealed that he was radicalized by a school system that no longer teaches children how to think but tells them what to think… when it is exposed that they are trained to believe anyone who disagrees with them is a “fascist”… then this nation will have to face a reckoning. Because what has been done to our children is nothing short of catastrophic.
We are raising generations poisoned by ideology instead of anchored in truth. We are watching classrooms become factories of resentment and rage. And now the fruit of that indoctrination is spilling out into our streets in the form of violence.
If the adults in the room do not rise up now, if parents, leaders, and communities do not reclaim our schools and fight for our children, then the future that lies ahead is darker than anyone wants to imagine. What is happening in our education system is an abomination. To deny that is to deny reality itself. And if we refuse to confront it, then the violence we have just seen will not be the end. It will be the beginning.
Charlie Kirk lived and died for the truth. And it is now incumbent on every single one of us to do the same. To learn how to debate the other side the way he did, to speak the truth with clarity and conviction, and to win people over one by one. Because if we do not rise to that challenge, if we do not carry forward the example Charlie set, then the darkness will consume this country.”
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“Journalist Michael Shellenberger just dropped the hammer…and said what the media will NEVER admit about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
This isn’t about one deranged shooter.
This is about an ENTIRE malignant culture that made political violence inevitable.
Now @shellenberger says it’s time for those responsible to be held accountable.
“Look, I think it’s not likely to happen but the people that did this dehumanization need to take responsibility for it.”
“I don’t think that it’s good enough not to just express lament about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”
“I think the media, the left, the universities in particular, need to own up to the fact that they participated in the very dehumanization that they for decades had been criticizing when done by people on the right.”
“I don’t think that healing is going to be possible until some acknowledgement of really a decade-long dehumanization of roughly half of the country.””
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1966274699517690119?t=2Ym9bln0o0YV-3hDbnbw6w&s=19
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“UPDATE:
– family member turned him in
– He discussed plans with roommate
– hid gun in bushes before
– bullet casings had antifa, lgbtq, and leftist messaging on them
– he was radicalized in recent years”
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1966518355826778128?t=AXZhGdnWuJBAGp1otTzG_A&s=19
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Absolute frauds.
https://x.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1966404613566812664?t=sVsfUeSecl7Wrj4G3ku47A&s=19
“The New York Times told millions of readers that Charlie Kirk was anti-semitic.
And then, quietly, they offered this correction that only a handful of readers see – that the opposite was true.”
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Another Hollywood idiot forgets the internet is forever.
https://x.com/RantyAmyCurtis/status/1965951210575507536?t=j1XmSVbBpn4TjV79jK-1wQ&s=19
“You wanted this. You don’t get to back away now.”
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So many continue to hide their heads in the sand. I heard someone say today that the left wasn’t so mad about what Charlie was saying they were mad that the students were listening…think about it…,
#NEW Teachers, Doctors, & Elected officials celebrate Charlie Kirk’s ass*ssination
Stacey Patton PhD
) “We must mock them and dance on their
graves”
Parron Baxtor {He/Him)
Another Nazi dead, rot in piss Charlie Kirk”
“Shooting Nazi’s isn’t political violence its human decency”
Phoenix Davaroux – Teacher at Vallivue School District, Idaho
“We shouldn’t mourn his death, even though he was a father”
Former Flint, Michigan City Counselor & Teacher Eva Worthing compares Charlie to Kirk to Hilter
“Just to be clear not all people who kill others
are mentally ill”
Dr. Billy Jean Miller
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An interesting eyewitness report:
https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/eyewitness-to-kirk-assassination-recalls-chaotic-aftermath/
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This is an interesting piece about the rise in acceptance of violence among college students.
~ “According to FIRE’s annual College Free Speech Rankings survey, in 2020, the national average showed about 1 in 5 students said it was ever acceptable to use violence to stop a speaker. That number has since risen to a disturbing 1 in 3 students. […]
Students who identify as “Strong Democrats” are one of the few groups that haven’t markedly increased in support for using violence to stop a speaker, but only because they started at a higher rate of acceptance. Once the second most accepting of violence, they are now the second least accepting, thanks to a rise in acceptance by other groups. In other words, they didn’t get better — everyone else got worse. But consistently the worst group of all remains those who identify as “Something else.”
The portions of “Strong Republicans” and “Republicans” who accept the use of violence to stop a speaker have more than tripled in four years. Even acceptance among “Independents” has more than doubled. To give you a sense of how bad things have gotten, the group that currently accepts violence the least, Republican-leaning independents, would have ranked alongside those who accepted it the most back in 2020.” ~
https://expression.fire.org/p/student-acceptance-of-violence-in?fbclid=IwY2xjawMxac1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF4NnRkdTA4R0tuOVg0UnBWAR4z5qimI3a49uDGqy0lN91w7cp2VK9FniIJe2jfCypkoUABklaYtbTsJPYwdw_aem_3Sr7Y6b-ZWn19LCXj1hdmg
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I meant to say “. . .interesting, but disturbing. . .”
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So do they reveal what colleges they survey Kizzie?
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NJ – This page says that this survey “includes 58,807 student respondents from 257 colleges and universities.”
These notes on the page mention several of them:
~ “1. The University of Virginia is this year’s top ranked school for free speech. Michigan Technological University, Florida State University, Eastern Kentucky University, and Georgia Tech round out the top five.
2. Harvard University is this year’s bottom ranked school for free speech for the second year in a row. Joining it in the bottom three are Columbia University and New York University. All three of these schools have an “Abysmal” speech climate. The University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College round out the bottom five and each has a “Very Poor” speech climate. […]
4. Since 2020, UVA, Michigan Tech, FSU, North Carolina State University, Oregon State University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University, George Mason University, Kansas State University, the University of Mississippi, the University of Chicago, and Claremont McKenna College have all consistently performed well in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings.” ~
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2025-college-free-speech-rankings
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Erika K8rk’s speech this evening:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1CQ74Wfr2R/
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I cried all the way through it Janice … my heart aches for her and I am ever thankful our Lord is her strength…❣️
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