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House members to get $10k a month for personal security after Charlie Kirk assassination

ouse members will get $10,000 a month for personal security after the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, the chamber’s leaders announced.

The effort follows the assassination last week of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.

On Wednesday, House leadership made the decision to double the monthly total currently available to legislators in a pilot program created this summer to increase security for members, POLITICO reported.

House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil said that the funds to increase the pilot program amount were previously allocated and have been repurposed to bump it up to $10,000, according to the Washington Examiner.

Several House Republicans discussed their dissatisfaction over the $10,000 monthly amount with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Steil.

The additional security funding comes after Kirk, 31, was shot and killed by an assassin last week at Utah Valley University during a Turning Point USA event. Tyler Robinson, 22, has been arrested as the suspected shooter.

Later, when asked if Republican leadership would add more money for member security to the stopgap directly, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said there were “ongoing conversations.”

“We said that at the beginning of the week — is that we’re working with our members to find out how to properly make sure that everybody has the security they need to be safe,” Scalise said.

New York Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle said that “more needs to be done” to ensure the security of lawmakers and congressional staff, “but this is an important and necessary start.”

Steil said, “The goal is having leg[islative] branch [appropriations], which is engaged right now in a conference, of them identifying the appropriate funding level as we go forward.”

The additional security funding announcement comes after a $32 million injection in funds for a program that has been in existence that lets Congress members request security through partnerships between the Capitol Police and local law enforcement agencies. The $32 million is part of the stopgap spending bill. The expansion of the pilot program is funded from a separate pot of money from the current fiscal year.

“The funding can be authorized, we need to make sure that that money is in the right buckets,” Steil said.

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Sick: Oberlin College Student Leader Wants to “Bring Back Political Assassinations” Following Politically Motivated Murder of Charlie Kirk

Julia Xu is a radical leftist student at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, who serves on the college’s advisory board of the school’s Gender, Sexuality, and Attraction Initiatives and participates with Students for a Free Palestine.

Following the politically motivated murder of Charlie Kirk, Julia voiced her support for political assassinations as a way to silence political opponents.

In a social media post under the handle @bringbacktheguillotine, she said, “We need to bring back political assassinations.”

She continued, “I don’t feel bad and I don’t think that everyone deserves the right to free speech. Some people should be afraid to express their opinion in public.”

The Post contacted Xu, who appeared to backtrack, saying she apologizes and is “deeply remorseful” for her statements.

Although Oberlin condemned Xu’s apparent support of political violence, it does not appear that she will face any formal consequences.

Oberlin’s President Carmen Twillie Ambar said, “Last week, in an open letter, I wrote ‘there is no place for political violence in the America that I love.’ It threatens our sense of safety and well-being and it violates the sanctity of the nation’s civil discourse.”

“I want to emphasize that the views expressed in the student’s post do not reflect those of the faculty member who teaches the class referenced. Nor does the student’s post reflect the views of Oberlin College.”

The college has not addressed how it will keep conservative students safe on its campus in the face of a fellow student advocating for executions.

The Gateway Pundit has reached out to leadership at Oberlin and will update this story if they provide a comment.

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Teacher LIES About High School Student Who Was Suspended After Being Assaulted For Wearing MAGA Hat in Honor of Charlie Kirk

A high school boy in Laguna Beach, California, was suspended after being accosted for wearing a MAGA hat in honor of Charlie Kirk.

Laguna Beach is a liberal enclave in mostly conservative Orange County, California.

Zach Hornstein wore a MAGA hat on campus at Laguna Beach High School last Thursday to honor Charlie Kirk, just one day after the TPUSA founder was assassinated at an event at Utah Valley University.

Hornstein said a girl grabbed his MAGA hat and threw it into the trash in the girls’ restroom. The girl used profanities to attack Trump.

He then jokingly told a group of girls to leave the country if they didn’t like the US.

“I made a joke towards them and said, ‘If you don’t like it here, Canada’s open borders, feel free to go,’” Zach Hornstein told Fox 11.

This is when a teacher lied about what Zach Hornstein said to the group of girls.

“They’re saying I told a group of girls to go back to where they came from, which I never said that,” Hornstein told Fox 11. “When they called in the girl that was involved, she literally told them that I never said that.”

Hornstein’s mother blasted the school and said her son was targeted for his conservative political beliefs.

“I think it’s a double standard,” Hornstein’s mother, Janet Semenova, said. “I think kids who have certain political beliefs are held to a different standard than kids who have other political beliefs.”

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Pennsylvania Mayor Sparks Outrage After Saying He Is ‘Glad’ Charlie Kirk Is Dead

Bernville, Pennsylvania Mayor Shawn Raup-Konsavage (D) sparked outrage after posting on social media that he is “glad” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is dead.

“This is what MAGA represents, This is what Trump lowered flags for. If this represents you then I don’t want to hear that you are offended that I’m glad he is gone,” the Bernville mayor posted.

This is not the first time that the mayor has enflamed controversy.

After the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, he posted, “Try harder.”

“That Trump post that he had posted, there was a lot of controversy with that in this town, a lot of hatred towards him after that,” Mark Rodriguez, a Bernville resident, said.

“Me, I really don’t care honestly, but it’s sad when everybody judges this man based on his opinion. He’s done great things for this town; he’s helped a lot and with all this going on it seems like he just shelters himself now,” Rodriguez continued.

Wayne Lesher, the Bernville council vice president, said, “He said what he wanted to on his own Facebook page which is freedom of speech and all that, but I certainly don’t agree with it and I think what he said was terrible. You’re celebrating the death of somebody; that’s nothing to celebrate.”

“It does have consequences. Several people have lost their jobs because of what they said, and you have freedom of speech to say what you want but you can pay for it too,” Lesher continued.

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Days After Charlie Kirk Assassination, Randi Weingarten Calls Conservatives ‘Fascists,’ Compares to ‘Nazis’

The head of one of the nation’s largest teachers unions is back to calling conservatives “fascists” and “authoritarians” and making comparisons to “nazis” just days after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated. 

President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Randi Weingarten ran an excerpt of her new book “WHY FASCISTS FEAR TEACHERS: Public Education and the Future of Democracy” in Rolling Stone on Tuesday. The article airs her often trot-out claims painting concerned parents and conservatives as fascists for cracking down on DEI materials, gender ideology indoctrination, and pornography in schools.  

Here are a few lines from her book, per Rolling Stone: 

“Democracy is people power. But fascists want one leader or a small group of elites to have all the power. And that is what’s happening in the United States right now — with billionaire Trump having enabled his shadow governing partner Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, to act as his co-president.”

“Authoritarians actively attack truth, knowledge, and critical thinking because an uninformed public is easier to control. Degrading public education and critical thinking skills may only prime more Americans to not recognize disinformation and misinformation and take authoritarian leaders like Trump at their word.”

“In other words, those inclined to support authoritarianism exhibit a general avoidance of or allergy to critical thinking. And authoritarians like it that way.”

“It makes me wonder whether far-right extremists are trying to deliberately inculcate an anti-critical thinking, pro-authoritarian disposition by undermining public education.”

“And what do fascists do when they’re worried that students might learn about the truth on their own? They ban books. Book bans are a very old and deeply disturbing tactic that, frankly, I never thought we’d see with such horrifying scope and scale in our country…This has profoundly disturbing precedents. In March 1933, an election consolidated Hitler’s power. Two months later, Nazis ransacked the Institute for Sexual Science, a pioneering medical center that studied gender and sexuality. The institute advocated for queer rights. Nazis removed all of the books from the institute — 20,000 books in total — for the first book burning in the Nazi regime. Book burning is part of a broader fascist pattern of attacking knowledge, freedom of information, and critical thinking.”

Weingarten’s article was published as far-left Democrats continue to essentially victim-blame conservatives for the horrific shooting death of 31-year-old Kirk, calling for divisive rhetoric to be turned down, even as people on the left cheer for his murder in droves and suggest Kirk deserved his fate.

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Discord Scrutinized In Kirk Assassination, Used By Canadian Far-Left Networks To Circulate Political Target Files, Lawyer Says

Discord, the communications platform now under scrutiny as U.S. investigators examine chat room messages involving the alleged assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is also being used by left-wing Antifa-aligned networks in Canada to organize and share dossiers on political targets, according to Toronto lawyer and independent journalist Caryma Sa’d.

In a wide-ranging interview for The Bureau Podcast, Sa’d, who has covered a proliferation of street protests in Canada, alleged that Antifa-aligned networks rely on gated Discord servers to coordinate harassment campaigns and “dox-style” targeting of foes. Even more alarming, she said, is that some of the information shared would not be publicly available, suggesting that government, legal, or union insiders may have leveraged sensitive data.

What makes her claims especially relevant in the current climate is her belief that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), a federally funded nongovernmental organization, has been involved in what she perceives as Antifa’s targeting activity in Canada. Because Canada’s Liberal government has directed nearly $1 million to CAHN, and because the group liaises with public safety agencies to disseminate its perception of extremist threats, Sa’d argues this has skewed the state’s focus, overlooking the growing threat of violence from Antifa.

Sa’d says that both she and some of her clients have been singled out, and she describes Antifa as a loosely aggregated, cell-like organization that transcends the U.S.–Canada border, operating simultaneously in online forums and in street collectives. These protests, she says, often coalesce under a “solidarity” banner that brings together activists for trans rights, Indigenous rights, migrant rights, encampment movements, safe-supply campaigns, and pro-Palestine demonstrations.

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ABC Reporter ‘Apologises’ For Calling Suspected Kirk Assassin’s Messages “Touching”

As we highlighted yesterday, ABC News reporter Matt Gutman single handedly sunk the legacy media to a new low by turning Tyler Robinson’s cold messages confessing to the murder of Charlie Kirk into some sort of demented love drama.

Gutman described the messages, in which the suspected assassin confessed to Kirk’s assassination to his transgender lover and debated how he would retrieve the weapon he used, as “touching.”

Eveyone who saw it was completely disgusted.

But not surprised.

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Unraveling the web of deception: Charlie Kirk’s assassin and the FBI’s false flag

  • Official Narrative Collapses: Authorities arrested Tyler as the alleged shooter, but the story lacks visual evidence, bullet recovery, and credible logistics—raising suspicions of a cover-up or staged event.
  • False Flag Indicators: The assassination bears hallmarks of a false flag, including FBI deception history, decoy operatives, a vanished private jet, and inexplicable security failures similar to Trump’s attempted assassination.
  • Motives and Beneficiaries: Israel, the CIA, domestic extremists, or globalists may be behind Kirk’s killing due to his anti-globalist stance, with potential aims to incite violence or justify authoritarian policies.
  • Orchestrated Chaos: The event fits a pattern of destabilization—media manipulation, eroding public trust, and AI-driven job loss—to pave the way for draconian “solutions” like martial law or digital ID mandates.
  • Demand Transparency: The inconsistencies demand independent investigation. Americans must reject official narratives, prepare for deeper conspiracies, and resist complacency in the face of escalating tyranny.

The Official Narrative Crumbles Under Scrutiny

The assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has sent shockwaves through America, raising urgent questions about who was truly behind the attack. While authorities swiftly arrested an alleged shooter—identified as Tyler—the official narrative is riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions, and outright absurdities that suggest a deeper conspiracy at play.

A Patsy or the Real Shooter?

The government’s version of events strains credulity:

  • No Visual Evidence: Despite ubiquitous surveillance cameras, there is no footage of Tyler carrying a rifle, assembling it on a rooftop, or fleeing the scene.
  • Impossible Logistics: Officials claim Tyler disassembled and reassembled a precision rifle multiple times—a process requiring specialized tools—while simultaneously changing clothes mid-operation.
  • No Recovered Bullet: Despite claims of a sniper shot, no bullet has been recovered, making forensic verification impossible. Ballistics matching, often touted as definitive proof, is itself a Hollywood myth—bullets cannot be conclusively linked to a specific firearm.
  • Destroyed Crime Scene: Kirk’s security team hastily dismantled the scene, removing cameras and banners that could have provided critical evidence.

False Flag Hallmarks

The suspicious circumstances surrounding Kirk’s assassination bear the hallmarks of a false flag operation:

  1. Government Deception: The FBI and other agencies have a documented history of staging or enabling attacks to justify crackdowns on civil liberties (e.g., Oklahoma City, 9/11).
  2. Decoys and Misdirection: Reports indicate multiple “decoy” individuals were present, suggesting a coordinated effort to mislead investigators.
  3. Private Jet Anomalies: A private jet linked to the event mysteriously disappeared from public tracking systems, raising questions about elite involvement.
  4. Security Failures: Despite heightened tensions, Kirk’s security detail failed to detect or neutralize the threat, reminiscent of the Secret Service’s inexplicable lapses during the Trump assassination attempt.

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Obama Defends His Mass Migration ‘Experiment’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

Former President Barack Obama is trying to manage and redirect the huge civic conflicts that he fuelled with his “experiment” in nation-changing mass migration.

“[I] insist that in that process of debate, we respect other people’s right to say things that we profoundly disagree with,” Obama told a September 16 public meeting at the Jefferson Educational Society, six days after progressives began celebrating Kirk’s shocking murder.

“I didn’t know Charlie Kirk … I think [his] ideas were wrong,” he said, adding:

I can disagree with some of [Kirk’s] broader suggestions that liberals and Democrats are promoting conspiracy to displace whites and replace them by ushering in illegal immigrants. Those are … topics that we have to be able to discuss honestly and forthrightly.

Krik repeatedly criticized migration as a wealth-shifting, population-changing imposition by the bipartisan establishment.

Yet at the same event, Obama acknowledged that mass migration is an elite-driven “experiment” which has created and fuelled civic conflict.

“There’s never been an experiment [emphasis added] like this, where you have people from every corner of the globe show up in one place,” Obama said, adding:

[We] say, based on these ideals — we hold these truths to be self-evident…all men are created equal … and a constitution and a Bill of Rights and a democracy — that we can somehow figure out how to get along and maintain our private beliefs and pray to god in our own ways, and retain aspects of the cultures that we bring from wherever it is that we’re coming from, and yet still decide that we are all Americans … and try to make it better for each successive generation.

“I think George W. Bush believed that [it is possible] … I know John McCain believed it. I know Mitt Romney believed it,” Obama added at 23 minutes.

The imposed diversity has generated civic conflict, Obama admitted:

The point is, is that bipartisanship worked pretty well in Washington when everybody looked the same. And it was harder to do when people started seeing that, “Hey, those folks are now here, too.”

“The country right now is going through sort of a political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before,” he admitted.

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‘F*ck That Guy. He’s a Fascist:’ John Carroll U. Lab Director Celebrates Assassination of Charlie Kirk

John Carroll University Director of Laboratory Services Jeffrey Your reacted to the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk by sharing a slew of posts mocking and celebrating the murder of the 31-year-old husband and father of two.

Your, who works at the Jesuit Catholic university in Cleveland, Ohio, reacted to Kirk’s assassination by sharing posts declaring “Some men improve the world only by leaving it,” and lamented those who want people “to stop taking pleasure at the idea of somebody else’s death.”

The John Carroll University director also shared messages stating, “Charlie Kirk was shot today. First off — fuck that guy. He’s a fascist,” and “now the headlines want me to clutch my pearls because violence finally touched him? Spare me.”

“I extend absolutely no empathy for people like that,” another post read, smearing Kirk as a “racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, sexist, white nationalist mouthpiece” and falsely accusing the late Turning Point USA founder of standing for “nothing but hate.”

Another social media post shared by Your in reference to Kirk stated, “Say stupid things, win stupid prizes” while another bizarrely accused the murdered Turning Point USA founder of “inciting violence” and being the “cause” of violence in the United States.

Another post shared by Your wished for Kirk’s children to “grow up to live in a country that is the total opposite of everything their father envisioned.”

“Another vile human being exposed celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk,” Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) reacted in a Wednesday X post, adding, “This is a sickness of the mind. John Carroll should fire Jeffrey Your immediately.”

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