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>https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/17/makeshift-charlie-kirk-and-iryna-zarutska-memorial-appears-outside-us-embassy-in-moscow-a90547
>https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/shot-during-debate-who-charlie-kirk-is-and-1757535589.html
>https://www.kyivpost.com/post/59880
>https://www.lucorg.com/charlie-kirk-and-ukraine/
>https://www.homin.ca/en/charlie-kirk-and-ukraine/
>https://unn.ua/en/news/he-was-against-aid-to-ukraine-called-for-giving-crimea-to-russia-and-criticized-zelenskyy-what-is-charlie-kirk-known-for
This shows who is our friend, and who is our enemy.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/attorney-general-pam-bondi-backlash-right-hate-speech-rcna231713
In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Attorney General Pam Bondi has pushed the idea of cracking down on “hate speech,” an idea that puts her at odds with Kirk’s own political legacy and has her facing heat from some high-profile conservatives.

“There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech,” Bondi said in an interview on “The Katie Miller Podcast” that aired Monday.

The death of Kirk, a giant in the conservative political space who co-founded Turning Point USA, has sparked an internal fight on the political right about the limits of free speech. Many of Kirk’s most fervent supporters, who also overwhelmingly back President Donald Trump, have said speech should not be limited, including some who have directly gone after Bondi.

Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson called the idea that “hate speech” is a crime a “lie.”

“Any attempt to impose hate speech laws in this country ... is a denial of the humanity of American citizens and cannot be allowed under any circumstances,” he added.

Conservative commentator Erick Erickson said that Bondi was a “moron” and that her comments didn’t reflect the law.

Bondi quickly backtracked, clarifying that the Justice Department would only go after speech that led to violence.


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> "I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."

>- President Donald J. Trump

>https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1968472434224337221?t=zJCHw0wBhkn-vEOP78Tibw&s=19

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>Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu-NAYsgxdg

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html

> ABC pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments

> ABC on Wednesday night pulled the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late-night show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and hours after the head of the Federal Communication Commission suggested ABC’s broadcast license was at risk

> Jimmy Kimmel, during his opening monologue for Monday night’s show, had suggested that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Kirk, was aligned with President Donald Trump’s MAGA — Make America Great Again — movement.

> “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.

> “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” he added.

> ″ ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesman told NBC News on Wednedsday.

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Whether beards are compatible with a life of service has long been a question for militaries across the world. Now, it seems the answer is settled in the US: facial hair is not acceptable in a Trump-era army.

The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has ordered the US military to adopt new grooming standards which ban beards and other types of facial hair.

A memorandum of understanding released by the Pentagon states: "The grooming standard set by the US military is to be clean-shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance."

The policy change follows a rapid, force-wide review of military standards as part of Mr Hegseth's plan to embed a "warrior ethos" within the US military.

The memorandum goes on to state that personnel can apply for a shaving waiver from a medical officer, but this will only apply for a limited period.

"Unit commanders will initiate separation of service members who require a shaving waiver after more than one year of medical treatment," it says.

>https://www.forcesnews.com/usa/hair-raising-new-rules-could-see-personnel-kicked-out-us-military-having-beards

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-chief-patel-says-no-credible-information-others-involved-epstein-crimes-2025-09-16/

FBI Director Kash Patel told a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday there was no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and underage girls to anyone but himself, seeking to defuse criticism of the Trump administration's move to end its review of the case.

The Justice Department's July decision not to release additional material enraged many of President Donald Trump's hardline supporters, who expected his administration to reveal connections between Epstein, who died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, and other wealthy and powerful people.

"We have released all credible information," Patel said.

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Democrats promise to shutdown the government. They look forward to it. it would probably be an improvement
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5508947-looming-government-shutdown-threat/
Democrats say shutdown necessary to send ‘message’ to Trump

Democratic senators say that unless Republicans scrap their plan to advance a “clean” seven-week continuing resolution, they don’t see any option other than defeating it as a way to send a “message” to President Trump.

Doing so would almost certainly trigger a government shutdown, something Democrats avoided earlier this year but is increasingly looking inevitable this fall.

Democratic senators, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the looming shutdown has been the chief topic of discussion in recent caucus meetings.

They said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who took enormous heat from his left flank after voting for a GOP funding bill earlier this year, has not laid out any plan B to avert a shutdown before the Sept. 30 deadline.

“Donald Trump gave us the middle finger, there is no alternative,” said one Democratic senator, who requested anonymity to discuss caucus strategy.

A second Democratic senator said a brief shutdown would give Democrats a “win,” even if it doesn’t result in any concrete policy concessions from Republicans. This Democrat said doing so would send a “message” to Trump that the White House can’t continue to steamroll Congress.

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https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexico-drugs-cartel-oseguera-trump-586f0cec?st=PCGcVC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
From a heavily guarded mountain hideout in the heart of the Sierra Madre, 59-year-old Nemesio “Mencho” Oseguera reigns as the new drug king of Mexico, aided in his ascendance by America’s resurging love of cocaine and the Trump administration’s escalating war on fentanyl.

Oseguera spent decades building his Jalisco New Generation Cartel into a transnational criminal organization fierce enough to forge a new underworld order in Mexico, displacing the Sinaloa cartel, torn by warring factions, as the world’s biggest drug pusher.

The Sinaloans, Mexico’s top fentanyl traffickers, got caught in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, which promised to eradicate the synthetic opioid. The crackdown has left an open field for Jalisco and its lucrative cocaine trade, elevating Oseguera to No. 1.

“‘Mencho’ is the most powerful drug trafficker operating in the world,” said Derek Maltz, who served this year as interim chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration. “What is happening now is a pivot to much more cocaine distribution in America.”

Cocaine sold in the U.S. is cheaper and as pure as ever for retail buyers. Consumption in the western U.S. has increased 154% since 2019 and is up 19% during the same period in the eastern part of the country, according to the drug-testing company Millennium Health. In contrast, fentanyl use in the U.S. began to drop in mid-2023 and has been declining since, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For new users, cocaine doesn’t carry the stigma of fentanyl addiction. Middle-class addicts and the tragic spectacle of homeless crack-cocaine users in the 1990s helped put a lid on America’s last cocaine epidemic.

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https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-russia-china-disinformation-putin-trump-bce0174644351c70811ae4a847ffa767

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war.

Chinese and pro-Iranian groups also spread disinformation about the shooting, with those loyal to Iran’s interests backing antisemitic conspiracy theories while bots linked to Beijing claimed that Kirk’s death shows that the United States is violent, polarized and dysfunctional.

America’s adversaries have long used fake social media accounts, online bots and disinformation to depict the U.S. as a dangerous country beset with extremism and gun violence. Kirk’s killing has provided another opportunity for those overseas eager to shape public understanding while inflaming political polarization.

“Charlie Kirk’s Death and the Coming Civil War,” tweeted Russian ultranationalist Alexander Dugin, whose influence earned him the moniker “ Putin’s brain,” referring to Russia’s president. Pro-Russian bots blamed Democrats and predicted more violence. Russian state media published English-language articles with headlines claiming a conspiracy orchestrated by shadowy forces: “Was Charlie Kirk’s Killer a Pro?”

“We’ve seen multiple Russian campaigns attempting to exploit” Kirk’s killing, said Joseph Bodnar, senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. In many cases, the campaigns aren’t adding new claims but are recycling ones that emerged from American users. “They’re picking up domestic actors and amplifying them.”

In each case, those spreading the disinformation have tailored it for their own ends. Chinese propaganda has focused on the violent nature of Kirk’s death, painting the U.S. as a nation of violent gun owners and political extremists.

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https://www.axios.com/2025/09/16/kash-patel-hearing-epstein-trafficking
FBI Director Kash Patel said Tuesday that the bureau has "no credible information" that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked young women to other individuals beside himself.

The big picture: Bipartisan demands for transparency in the disgraced financier's case have plagued the Trump administration and Hill lawmakers for months following the FBI and Justice Department's conclusion that there was no incriminating list of Epstein's clients.

Driving the news: Patel, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, said there is, "no credible information, none" that Epstein "trafficked to other individuals."

If there was such evidence, Patel emphasized, "I would bring the case yesterday."
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) pressed the director, questioning if Epstein trafficked women to "no one," to which Patel replied, "for the information that we have."

Catch up quick: In a memo obtained by Axios in July, the DOJ and FBI stated that there was no "credible evidence" that Epstein blackmailed prominent figures, nor was there any information on which an investigation into "uncharged third parties" should be based.

It also concluded that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while being held in a Manhattan prison.

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>The judge overseeing the New York state case against Luigi Mangione dismissed terrorism charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson but allowed other charges, including second-degree murder, to stand.
>Mangione, 27, had been facing state charges of first-degree murder, terrorism, stalking and multiple firearms offenses. He is still facing federal murder charges as well as additional state charges in Pennsylvania. He has pleaded not guilty
>During a hearing in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, Justice Gregory Carro ruled that evidence presented to the grand jury wasn't sufficient to warrant the terrorism charge.
>"While the defendant was clearly expressing an animus toward UHC, and the health care industry generally," Carro said in his written decision, "it does not follow that his goal was to ‘intimidate and coerce a civilian population,’ and indeed, there was no evidence presented of such a goal."
>It was Mangione's first appearance in state court since February. He was shackled and dressed in a beige prison jumpsuit and took several notes during the hearing.
>Mangione's defense attorneys had attempted to have his state case dismissed over claims that it conflicts with the federal indictment. They have sought to block federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. And they also want to block prosecutors from using evidence collected during Mangione’s arrest in December, arguing that officers failed to read him his Miranda rights and conducted a warrantless search of his backpack.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/luigi-mangione-latest-new-york-judge-dismisses-terrorism-charge-allows-murder-count-to-stand-125151529.html

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https://ovniologia.com.br/2025/09/rep-tim-burchett-nhis-have-operated-underwater-bases-on-earth-for-millennia.html

Congressman Tim Burchett has made startling claims, suggesting that non-human entities (NHIs) could have been present on Earth for millennia, operating submerged bases, according to direct accounts from Navy personnel, which he cites as his main source.

In a recent interview with Washington, D.C. journalist Matt Laslo of Ask a Pol, Burchett stated that these entities “are on this Earth for who knows how long” and that, while many believe they come from far away, “maybe they came millennia ago, but they are here and in these deep-water areas.”

The Tennessee congressman, who serves on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, referred to data indicating a concentration of Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs) in five or six deep-ocean regions, where sightings are more likely. According to Burchett, Navy personnel have directly reported encounters with underwater vessels moving at “hundreds of miles per hour,” while human technology reaches only about 40 miles per hour underwater. This speed discrepancy represents a technological gap that, according to current underwater physics, would be impossible, given that water is roughly 800 times denser than air.

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https://apnews.com/article/monarez-cdc-vaccines-kennedy-rfk-jr-194fd4336aaa74cb6e7c715d0605b47e

The U.S. public health system is headed to a “very dangerous place” with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team of anti-vaccine advisers in charge, fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Susan Monarez warned senators on Wednesday.

Describing extraordinary turmoil inside the nation’s health agencies, Monarez and former CDC Chief Medical Officer Chief Debra Houry said Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, and his political advisers repeatedly rebuffed data supporting the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

Monarez’s revelations to senators raised serious questions, even among some Republicans, about Kennedy’s self-professed commitment to employ “gold-standard science” for developing public health guidance, including around the nation’s vaccination schedule. Her testimony was given to the Senate’s health committee just a day before a vaccine panel is set to consider major changes to the routine vaccinations recommended for the nation’s children.

Monarez, who was fired after 29 days into her tenure over vaccine policy disagreements with Kennedy, told senators that deadly infectious diseases like polio could be poised to make a devastating comeback if the health secretary and his team continue their public campaign against routine shots.

“I believe preventable diseases will return, and I believe we will have our children harmed by things they don’t need to be harmed by,” Monarez said before the Senate health committee.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2r8lvjn2o
The man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk confessed to killing the right-wing activist in a message to his roommate, prosecutors have alleged, as they announced seven charges against him.

Tyler Robinson, 22, left a note under a keyboard for his roommate to discover, said Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray. He added that the roommate was Mr Robinson's romantic partner.

According to Mr Gray, the note said: "I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I'm going to take it."

Describing the hidden note, Mr Gray said Mr Robinson had sent a text message to his roommate reading: "Drop what you're doing, look under my keyboard."

After reading the apparent confession, the roommate, who has not been named and is co-operating with investigators, replied: "What? You're joking."

Mr Gray cited further text message exchanges between Mr Robinson and his roommate, who he described as "a biological male who was transitioning genders".

In one exchange, the roommate, who has not been named, asked Mr Robinson why he had killed Kirk.


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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-inquiry-finds-top-israeli-officials-incited-genocide-gaza-2025-09-16/
A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had incited these acts - accusations that Israel called scandalous.
The U.N. report cites examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others who have reached the same conclusion.
"Genocide is occurring in Gaza," said Navi Pillay, head of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and a former International Criminal Court judge.
"The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza.