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Former Secretary of State and US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has expressed her concern over the reaction of American leaders following the murder of conservative figure Charlie Kirk, describing it as an "authoritarian model". In her first television interview since the 2024 election, Clinton stressed that this event is being used to attack political opponents, emphasizing that leaders in such times should try to unite the people, but, according to her, greater divisions are occurring. (snip) "Despite the pain and sadness that such an event causes, leaders must uphold unity and avoid deepening divisions ," she said.

Gun-control supporters stood outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home in Kentucky on Sunday night — protesting and hurling death threats at him — while broadcasting on Facebook Live. “Murder Turtle!” the demonstrators can be heard shouting on video, in reference to McConnell’s infamous nickname. “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” a person says at one point, while the others continue to yell.

A group of protesters supporting gun control gathered outside the home of Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. where one expressed that someone should "stab the motherf---er in the heart." The protest took place on Sunday night in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. McConnell is currently recovering from a fall he had over the weekend, leaving him with a fractured shoulder. Approximately 25 demonstrators stood on the sidewalk near McConnell's Louisville home, shouting "No Trump, no KKK, no Fascist USA!" while others called him names like "Murder Turtle" and made loud noises by...

Full title: Sen. Hirono Condemns McConnell Calling Leftist Protestors a 'Mob', Says It 'Dangerously Underestimates' Them Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Thursday for using the word “mob” in reference to left-wing protestors that have been targeting GOP lawmakers over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “It is the richest of ironies that the majority leader has taken to calling those opposed to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh a mob when several nights a month the president whips his supporters into a frenzy to attack his target of choice,” she said in a...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had to pull out of a public appearance yesterday due to threats following the leak of the draft majority opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Alito is the author of the draft opinion, which, in that form, would overturn Roe v. Wade and leave the issue of abortion rights to the individual states. Alito was set to appear at a judicial conference on Thursday, but the radical left has been protesting and calling for violence against the justices who voted to overturn Roe, and he has canceled. Ian Millhiser, a senior correspondent...

A Nebraska Democratic Party official was removed from his post on Thursday after an audio recording surfaced of him saying he's “glad” House Majority Whip Steve Scalise got shot last week. Phil Montag, now-former co-chair of the state party’s technology committee, was recorded saying he wishes Scalise, R-La., were “dead.” “His whole job is to get people, convince Republicans to [expletive] kick people off [expletive] health care. I’m glad he got shot,” Montag said in the audio recording. “I wish he was [expletive] dead.” The audio was posted on YouTube. Nebraska Democratic Chairwoman Jane Kleeb confirmed to FOX 42 that the...

Civility: For a brief moment after Rep. Steve Scalise was nearly killed by a crazed Bernie Sanders supporter, some prominent liberals uttered a few words about "toning down the rhetoric." If that pledge was sincere at all, it barely lasted a week. Actor Johnny Depp took the prize last week, when at a film festival in England he asked, "Can we bring Trump here," and followed that by asking "When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?" The audience roared with cheers and laughter. Depp later "apologized," saying it was a "bad joke" that "did not come out...

Days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the following post was made to a community page promoting an event entitled “Safeguarding our community from white Christian Nationalism” ...

President Trump has begun a major escalation in his long-running efforts to stifle political opposition in the United States, using the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to make the baseless argument that Democratic organizations and protesters are part of a violent conspiracy against conservative values and the American way of life.

@catturd2 The gruesome video of Charlie Kirk being assassinated has changed my life forever. I don’t know how to explain it, but I’ll never be the same. The gloves are off. You satanic evil demons on the left have pushed and pushed and pushed us too far. We’re not putting up with your fantasyland bullshit anymore. Unlike you, we’re peaceful and won’t do anything illegal - but don’t take our kindness for weakness. We’re united and the firings are just the beginning. FAFO! Cutesy time is over.

A student at Texas Tech University has been arrested after she was caught on camera mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination and gleefully dancing in the wake of his death. Students at the school were holding a vigil for the late conservative commentator on Friday when 18-year-old Camryn Giselle Booker was filmed jumping up and down and chanting 'F*** y'all homie dead, he got shot in the head.'

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Republicans on Sunday criticized some Democrats, suggesting language used by them contributed to Kirk's killing, claims that Democrats rejected. **SNIP** Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Trump's threats that his administration would go after the "radical left" that he blamed for political violence. "I want to be really clear about this. This is an example of something that is hurting," Buttigieg said. "We are not getting the leadership that we need to bring this country together from the White House." "The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down on...

Another day, another public execution. The talking heads on television and Twitter tell us not to worry too much: America is still strong. They repeat this sentiment after every waking nightmare. These horrific events are not the norm, they say. They’re just the actions of a few people on the “fringe.” But what is the American “fringe”? The “fringe” tried to incinerate the country in 2020. The “fringe” tore down statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The “fringe” control the universities and has spent years indoctrinating kids with discriminatory dogmas. The “fringe” created the policies that let violent, mentally...

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer responded to Governor Matt Bevin on Twitter after he said protests outside McConnell's home were 'embarrassing the city of Louisville.'

"You will NOT gaslight your way out of this. NOT this time. The Democrat Party must finally look in the mirror, condemn the political violence they’ve unleashed, and apologize for poisoning an entire generation into believing conservatives are “fascist threats” to democracy. Tyler Robinson got on that roof, took aim, and assassinated Charlie Kirk, because their propaganda worked." - Wesley Hunt View the video montage at the link:

The New York Times issued a correction Thursday, admitting it had wrongly attributed an antisemitic remark to Charlie Kirk when the late Turning Point USA founder was actually critiquing the comment. As part of its story on where Kirk stood on key political issues in the wake of his assassination, The Times reported Kirk was "repeatedly accused of antisemitism." Kirk was a staunch supporter of Israel and has been praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was...

The British arm of Charlie Kirk's campaign group accused Deputy PM David Lammy last night of 'fuelling violent rhetoric' against Right-wing figures. Mr Kirk, 31, a father of two, was shot dead during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday in what authorities called a political assassination. Yesterday, there was widespread fury at Left-wingers who celebrated the death of Mr Kirk and used it to score political points.

University of Michigan assistant professor Charles H.F. Davis stated on Thursday that the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is a “solution” to “violent rhetoric spewed by empowered people.” Davis’ research broadly focuses on “racism, oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education,” according to The Midwesterner. In addition to defending Kirk’s murder, Davis retweeted several posts that celebrated the assassination.

A newly unsealed federal complaint accuses a Downers Grove man of threatening to kill federal immigration officers and other public officials while stockpiling a small arsenal of weapons and ammunition marked with the names of political figures. .. The FBI says Stover used Bluesky and Facebook accounts to repeatedly post violent rhetoric from February through July 2025, including explicit calls to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “on sight.”