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Erika Kirk slams CONSPIRACY theories about her late husband Charlie’s assassination

In an emotional and defiant interview on Fox News‘ “Outnumbered,” Erika Kirk, widow of slain Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk, lashed out at conspiracy theorists spreading unfounded claims about her husband’s assassination.

She called such rhetoric a “mind virus” and demanded an end to the harassment of her family and organization. The remarks come as prominent right-wing commentator Candace Owens and others have fueled speculation about Charlie’s death, questioning the official narrative and even suggesting TPUSA leadership may have been involved.

According to BrightU.AI‘s Enoch, Charlie’s assassination in September 2025 has been the subject of various conspiracy theories . Some conspiracy theorists argue that the incident was a staged event, orchestrated by Kirk himself or his organization, to gain sympathy, attention or funding.

The decentralized engine adds that other theories suggest the incident being a false flag operation, carried out by unknown parties to advance a political agenda. Some argue that the event was designed to stoke fear and division among conservatives, while others suggest it was an attempt to discredit or silence Kirk and his organization.

“Come after me, but leave my family alone”

Erika, who assumed leadership of TPUSA following her husband’s murder, did not hold back in her condemnation of those profiting from baseless theories.

“Come after me. Call me names. I don’t care. Call me what you want. Go down that rabbit hole. Whatever,” she said. “But when you go after my family, my TPUSA family, my ‘Charlie Kirk Show’ family – when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they’re in on this? No.”

Her frustration was palpable as she described the toll these theories have taken on TPUSA staff, many of whom witnessed Kirk’s murder firsthand during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

“My poor team is exhausted, and every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do, relive that trauma all over again?” she asked. “They watched my husband get murdered. I have no idea how I would have reacted if I was there that day.”

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Outrage: University of Utah Student Suspended For Exposing Anti-White Professor’s Rhetoric

According to a report at Campus Reform, “A student is facing discipline after exposing a university professor’s extensive history of racist, anti-white social media posts.”

A student named Craig Jones was suspended from campus for two whole years simply for posting flyers exposing the anti White, hateful tweets of Professor Ashton Avila, according to Libs of TikTok.

A letter sent to Jones accused him of “intimidating and threatening behavior by repeatedly targeting and calling out a University of Utah Asia Campus faculty member.”

In other words, at the University of Utah, it’s forbidden to call out race-baiting and anti-White hate if a professor is engaging in this type of bigotry.

Jones was given a choice between accepting the sanctions or taking his case to a hearing with a neutral decision-maker.

The professor accused of racist tweets teaches in the Department of Film and Media Arts.

Among the professors outrageous tweets are “The only thing stronger than white fear is white guilt, “Yes, I want to walk into every room with the confidence of an average white man”, But I’d also like average white men to walk into every room feeling like none of their qualifications will ever be enough but they still need to find a way to prove they deserve to be there.”

She also made positive posts about the alleged killer of the United Healthcare CEO, the alleged killer being Luigi Mangione.

“She reposted one tweet that read, “Luigi Mangione is going to win Dancing with the Stars,” wrote another that said, “Y’all, this is it. Luigi is going to announce Reputation,” and asked in another, “Ok, but can Biden add Luigi to the pardon list?”

Avila calls herself a “queer Mexican-American writer-director” and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Film Media and Gender & Women’s Studies.

This professor’s most recent work includes directing a season of the “LGBTQIA+ series Guys Like You.

She also played a part in anti-Christian films, including “Have a Little Faith”.

Have a Little Faith is about “A rebellious teenager is determined to get kicked out of her new Christian High School and teach the new boy she meets there what it really means to ‘have a little Faith.’

In addition to her work their its clear this professor is left wing  “She teaches a “Diversity in Film” class, which “will focus on topics including but not limited to: feminism, gender, sexuality, race and economic class systems.”

In addition to this course, Prof. Avila put together a “Queer Representation with Cinematographer Savannah Bloch” event during Pride Week.

It should be clear at this point that the student in question did nothing wrong and, on the contrary, exposed the hate being espoused by a person tasked with education at the University of Utah.

Clearly, things are backwards in academia.

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Politically Correct ‘Dignity Index’ Would Inject Social Credit Scores Into Public Education

The University of Utah recently opened the first official office for the Dignity Index, a program based on an eight-point scale that rates how statements sound during political or social disagreement. Project UNITE, the Index’s creator, is marketing the speech-classification framework to politicians, business leaders, and educators across the country, and several school districts and universities have already adopted the tool.

The Dignity Index was created by the nonprofit Project UNITE and piloted in Utah through a partnership with researchers at the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, David Eccles School of Business, and Hinckley Institute of Politics. As detailed in the Utah Pilot Project Technical Summary, the demonstration phase relied on Eccles School and Gardner Policy Institute leadership and a team of 22 trained student coders who scored political statements each week on the Index’s eight-point scale. The Dignity Index categorizes speech from Level 1 — described as the most contemptuous — to Level 8, which reflects language focused on connection and cooperation (“we’re bound together”). According to the Dignity Project’s public materials, the model is intended to help students and adults recognize how their tone affects political dialogue.

In 2022, the project expanded nationally with the involvement of Tim Shriver, co-founder of CASEL — which stands for Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning — and the CEO of the nonprofit UNITE, which focuses on depolarization efforts. Shriver, who helped coordinate the rollout, has described the scale as part of a strategy to reduce “contempt” in American public life.

How the Index Works

The Index was initially used in public-policy settings and in analyzing statements made by political candidates during the 2022 Utah congressional races. Since then, its use has widened. The Irvine Unified School District in California recently piloted the model in a classroom setting, describing it as a tool for “strengthening understanding and connection” during discussions. Program materials encourage students to examine statements, identify where they fall on the scale, and reflect on ways to de-escalate disagreements.

Proponents of the Index argue that it helps teach civil discourse at a time when classrooms face rising tensions around political and social issues. In a local news outlet, Salt Lake City School District Superintendent Elizabeth Grant made the district’s intent clear: “We want to reduce contempt in our community, broadly and more specifically, in our district. Our emphasis is on dignity.” To that end, the district is now turning to the Dignity Index.

The project promotes what it calls three primary “effects”: the Electrifying Effect, where individuals request coaching or workshops; the Mirror Effect, where participants reflect on their own tone; and the Agency Effect, where users feel empowered to reduce contempt in their communities.

Because the Dignity Index focuses on tone, perception, and emotional communication, it has found an audience within the broader SEL (social-emotional learning) landscape. The school district in Salt Lake City has already used CASEL’s SEL competencies — self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making — and is preparing to integrate the Index into its existing lessons on communication and conflict resolution.

Technology companies have also shown interest in frameworks that classify speech based on tone. Google’s Perspective API, for example, uses machine learning to rate online comments for “toxicity,” while Microsoft’s Responsible AI guidelines include similar tone-classification categories. The Dignity Index’s numeric structure is compatible with many of these systems, which are already used in some digital-citizenship programs.

While the Index is currently working with pilot programs, its expansion has also prompted questions from parents and education-policy commentators about how the tool might function in a school setting. Parent organizations that have previously opposed SEL programs have said they worry that classroom tools focused on tone may pressure children to adjust how they speak about controversial issues. Although concerns about indoctrination and viewpoint discrimination have been documented in reporting on SEL generally, my research finds no major published studies have yet evaluated parent response to the Dignity Index specifically.

Privacy and civil-liberties advocates such as the Future of Privacy Forum and several digital-rights groups have warned that tone-classification technology used in school settings must be closely monitored to prevent unintentional data collection or algorithmic bias. Ethics and free-speech commentators have echoed these worries. Jack Marshall, writing at Ethics Alarms, has expressed concern that tone-scoring frameworks could constrain students’ ability to speak openly on moral and political issues.

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“Hate Speech Disguised as Activism”: Controversy Erupts Over Statements Against White Men

A new controversy has erupted in the United States after an activist, in an interview recorded in public, openly celebrated the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk and made a series of radical statements against white men, whom she described as “the greatest threat” to human well-being.

In the recording, which quickly went viral, the interviewee not only expressed joy over the death of a conservative leader but also justified her stance based on “personal experiences,” making it clear that she does not rely on data, studies, or concrete evidence. Her aggressive rhetoric has sparked outrage among Republican circles and analysts who consider this type of identity-based discourse extremely dangerous.

In her statements, the woman asserted that “white men are literally the greatest threat to humans being fed, housed, clothed, and having their basic needs met,” claiming that her judgment comes solely from what she “knows” rather than verifiable data. When asked to provide examples or statistics to support her claims, she replied: “I’m not a data analyst, I just know the experiences.”

The conversation grew even tenser when the activist directly held the reporter accountable—simply for being a white man—implying that he has supposed “privilege” just by being present conducting the interview. She tried to reinforce this argument by pointing to the presence of homeless individuals nearby, claiming that “none of them” looked like the reporter, although he immediately clarified that white people also experience homelessness.

When the reporter attempted to steer the discussion into a rational direction by asking, “What do you think we should do about white men?”, the interviewee evaded a concrete answer but made it clear that, in her view, the mere existence of white people in public positions constitutes a form of oppression.

The most serious point, however, was her initial statement: “F*** Charlie Kirk… I’m glad that guy is dead.” For Republican analysts and free speech advocates, this kind of rhetoric not only normalizes hate speech but also seeks to dehumanize a specific group of people based on race, justifying symbolic and social violence under the guise of “activism.”

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Some evidence appears to be missing in Charlie Kirk murder case: Report

Apublic records request with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office found that video footage of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson turning himself in no longer exists, a Utah news outlet reported Wednesday. 

Kirk, who is remembered for his staunch Christian faith and for founding the conservative grassroots organization Turning Point USA, was assassinated at a rally in Utah in September. Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder, two counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child for Kirk’s death.

Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby told KUTV 2 News that Robinson was taken to his office days after the shooting, where he was greeted by two plainclothes detectives. But a public records request found that video showing Robinson entering the Washington County Jail and holding area no longer exists. 

“We do not have any records responsive to this portion of the request, as Tyler Robinson did not go to or enter the jail area,” a records officer with the sheriff’s office told the outlet. 

The outlet then filed another request a few weeks later that more broadly requested footage of Robinson walking into the department, which the sheriff’s office again said it did not have. 

“Our office does not have any applicable records responsive to this request, as the surveillance footage is no longer available after the 30-day retention period,” the officer said.

When asked whether the footage was ever shared with another law enforcement agency or department, the office said, “It is my understanding it was never sent out to any agency.”

Criminal defense attorney Rudy Bautista told the outlet that the office not having the footage was “concerning.” 

“For the state of Utah, we would certainly hope that this video is available,” Bautista said. “If, in fact, it has been destroyed and not preserved, it’s very concerning. And if it has, then it’s very concerning that they’re telling you they don’t have it. If they no longer have it, I would have expected to say that this video has been provided to the Utah County law enforcement.”

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Whoa! Surveillance Video of Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin is Missing from Sheriff’s Office!

A bombshell investigation by a local Salt Lake City station has uncovered that critical surveillance video showing accused murderer Tyler Robinson turning himself in to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office has mysteriously disappeared.

KUTV 2News had requested the surveillance footage of Robinson’s surrender just weeks after the brutal assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

Kirk is said to have been gunned down with a single .30-06 rifle round on September 10, while speaking at a Turning Point event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The shooter allegedly used a scoped Mauser Model 98 bolt-action rifle.

Robinson’s parents and a family friend brought him to the police station to turn himself in less than two full days after the shooting, after allegedly recognizing the weapon found by police and shared with the media.

“Our job was not to interview; our job was just to get him here,” Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby during a press conference on September 17. “Within the hour, my friend drove Tyler and his parents to my office, where he was greeted by plainclothes detectives.”

2News submitted public-records requests for the surveillance footage of Robinson walking into the sheriff’s office and any holding-area video.

“We do not have any records responsive to this portion of the request, as Tyler Robinson did not go to or enter the jail area,” a records officer with the Sheriff’s Office told the station.

The station reported, “Holding room video was denied as part of the investigation.”

When pressed with a broader request for any surveillance video of Robinson entering the building, officials suddenly changed their story, claiming the footage no longer exists because it was automatically deleted after the department’s 30-day retention period.

Specifically, the reporters requested “surveillance video showing Tyler Robinson walking into the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.”

“Our office does not have any applicable records responsive to this request, as the surveillance footage is no longer available after the 30-day retention period,” a records officer told the reporters.

The office stated the video was “never sent out to any law enforcement or legal agency,” meaning the main investigating agency in Utah County never received it, and no one bothered to preserve it.

Veteran Utah criminal defense attorney Rudy Bautista, who has handled capital cases for 26 years, told 2News the disappearance of the video is deeply troubling.

“For the state of Utah, we would certainly hope that this video is available,” Bautista said.

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BOMBSHELL: Charlie Kirk’s Head of Security Releases Text Messages Showing UVU Police Chief Promised ‘I Got You Covered’ Regarding Rooftop Vulnerabilities

In an interview on the Shawn Ryan Show, Brian Harpole, Charlie Kirk’s head of security, publicly revealed text messages with Utah Valley University Police Chief Jeff Long in which they discussed the rooftop vulnerabilities and the chief vowed, “I got you covered.”

The exchange took place in the days leading up to Kirk’s September 10 speaking event at UVU, where the Turning Point USA founder was fatally shot by a gunman who is said to have fired from a rooftop position.

Speaking to Chief Long, Harpole informed him that he was told students had access to rooftops and walkways directly above the area where Kirk would be speaking.

When asked if he wanted access to the roof, Harpole replied that it would be ideal to either lock it down or allow one of his own men to post up there.

Chief Long responded: “I got you covered.”

Harpole thanked him, but did not follow up or ask him what that meant.

Neither of the men involved in the conversation clarified who would be covering the roof, whether private security or law enforcement.

Harpole indicates that he believed this meant law enforcement would be covering the rooftops.

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Utah Activist Judge Hands Democrats a Win — Tosses GOP-Drawn Congressional Map and Imposes Plaintiff’s Version Ahead of 2026 Elections, Projected to Give Dems +1 Seat

The Utah Third District Court has struck down the congressional map crafted by the Republican-led state legislature, labeling it an unconstitutional “gerrymander” and replacing it with a map drawn by left-wing plaintiffs.

The new map, which the court claims better complies with the state’s anti-gerrymandering initiative, is projected to give Democrats an additional seat in one of the nation’s deeply red states.

At the heart of the controversy is the court’s decision to affirm a lower court injunction blocking the legislature’s maps (S.B. 1011 and S.B. 1012, known as Map C), claiming they violated Proposition 4 — a 2018 initiative designed to curb partisan gerrymandering.

The Court, led by Judge Dianna M. Gibson, has thrown out the legislature’s S.B. 1012 (Map C) and S.B. 1011, both approved earlier this year by the state’s duly elected representatives.

And instead adopts “Map 1,” drawn by the plaintiffs themselves, after declaring that the legislature’s map “unduly favored Republicans.”

“Map C was drawn with partisan political data on display,” wrote Gibson.

“Map C does not abide by Proposition 4’s traditional redistricting criteria ‘to the greatest extent practicable.’ And, based on the evidence presented, the Court finds that Map C was drawn with the purpose to favor Republicans—a conclusion that follows from even S.B. 1011’s metric for partisan intent—and it unduly favors Republicans and disfavors Democrats.”

“In short, [the Legislature’s map] does not comply with Utah law,” Gibson wrote in her ruling.

“Because the Lieutenant Governor’s November 10, 2025, deadline for a map to be finalized is upon us, the Court bears the unwelcome obligation to ensure that a lawful map is in place, which the Court discharges by adopting.”

Gibson’s opinion dismisses the legislature’s chosen criteria as “biased,” while elevating the plaintiffs’ computer-generated maps as the new standard for “neutrality.”

“Under the only reliable ensemble of computer-simulated maps that comply with Proposition 4’s requirements offered by the parties, Map C is an extreme partisan outlier—more Republican than over 99% of expected maps drawn without political considerations,” she wrote.

“The Court therefore finds that Map C is an extreme statistical outlier not only when compared to Dr. Chen’s simulations, which universally comply with Proposition 4’s neutral criteria, but also when compared to subsets of Dr. Trende’s simulations as they approach compliance with Proposition 4’s neutral criteria.

“Given Map C’s level of pro-Republican favoritism and extreme statistical departure from maps drawn to comply with Proposition 4’s neutral criteria given the state’s political geography, the Court credits Dr. Chen’s conclusion that Map C’s partisan characteristics cannot be attributed to compliance with those criteria or the state’s political geography,” she wrote.

Under the court-imposed Map 1, Utah’s longstanding 4-0 Republican advantage could be broken for the first time in decades, despite the state voting Republican in every presidential race since 1968 and in every congressional district by double digits.

The last time the state supported a Democratic presidential candidate was in the national Democratic landslide of 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won the state.

In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama narrowly won Salt Lake County, the state’s most populous county, marking the first time a Democrat had carried that county since 1964. The new map creates a Democrat-leaning district centered around Salt Lake County.

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Google Adds Age Check Tech as Texas, Utah, and Louisiana Enforce Digital ID Laws

Google is preparing for a new era of digital age checks as state-level rules in Texas, Utah, and Louisiana begin to reshape how app stores operate.

To get ahead of these requirements, the company has introduced the Play Signals API in beta, a system built to help developers adapt to laws that will soon mandate age-based controls.

Starting in early 2026, each of the three states will enforce its own version of the App Store Accountability Act.

Texas’s law takes effect first, followed by Utah and Louisiana a few months later. Each statute requires app marketplaces to confirm the age range of their users through “commercially reasonable” verification methods.

Developers will be responsible for interpreting those signals and tailoring their apps accordingly. In some regions, they will also have to inform Google Play if a product update could require new parental consent.

For testing purposes, the company is providing a FakeAgeSignalsManager so that developers can simulate data before the laws officially apply.

Google’s rollout of its new Play Signals API is part of a broader shift toward a verified internet, one where digital access is increasingly tied to proof of identity.

The company’s beta API is being framed as a neutral compliance tool, but its function sets the stage for a more monitored web.

While the stated purpose is child safety and regulatory compliance, the architecture being built threatens to erode one of the internet’s core principles, pseudonymity.

The data points that determine whether someone is over 13 or over 18 can easily evolve into a persistent set of identifiers, linking activity across apps, accounts, and even devices. Once these signals are standardized, nothing prevents them from being combined with advertising, analytics, or behavioral tracking systems.

The result could be a world where age verification quietly becomes identity verification, and where “commercially reasonable” checks amount to permanent user profiling.

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Charlie Kirk suspect’s trans lover Lance Twiggs goes missing 6 weeks after political assassination

The transgender lover of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer has seemingly vanished from his hometown six weeks after the political assassination that shook the country.

Lance Twiggs, 22, has been on the down-low since his boyfriend Tyler Robinson allegedly shot the Turning Point USA co-founder dead and then sent Twiggs a string of text messages confessing to the slaying, according to feds.

Twiggs has steered clear of his $1,800-per-month love nest on the outskirts of the isolated desert oasis of St. George.

Authorities previously said that he is cooperating with authorities, but Twiggs has refused to speak with media while Robinson awaits trial in a Salt Lake City jail cell.

Robinson made a brief court appearance on Monday, where he mounted the legal argument that fellow accused political assassin Luigi Mangione used in his case.

The Utah native asked that he be allowed to wear civilian clothes in future appearances, arguing that a jail jumpsuit could prejudice the jury pool against him. He also asked to appear in court without shackles.

The judge granted him the first request, but denied the second, in a partial win for Robinson. Mangione made a similar argument in his case — though it does not appear his judge was as agreeable, and he was subsequently seen in his federal lockup fatigues.

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