Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday in front a massive crowd at Utah Valley University. Officials provided confirmation on Friday that the evidence suggests that the suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson of Washington County, is another radical leftist.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) indicated at a press conference on Friday that Robinson's roommate showed investigators messages on Discord allegedly sent by the suspected assassin, providing insights into the shooting and Robinson's apparent ideological capture.
'Hey fascist! Catch!'
In addition to apparently discussing the need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, the messages allegedly referred to Robinson's engraving of ammunition.
Cox confirmed that investigators found an inscription on a spent fire casing that read, "Notices bulges, OwO what’s this?" — a reference to an online meme that has been used to mock gay furries — as well as the following inscriptions on unfired shell casings:
When pressed about the meaning of the engravings, Cox noted that the "Hey fascist! Catch!" inscription "speaks for itself."
A family member of Robinson told investigators that the suspected assassin had become more political in recent years, said Cox.
Utah State University confirmed that Robinson attended USU for one semester in 2021 before dropping out.
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During a recent dinner, Robinson allegedly said in conversation with another family member that Kirk was coming to UVU. "The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate," Cox said.
In the moments immediately before Kirk was struck in the neck by a single shot fired from a distance of roughly 200 yards, he was asked by an audience member, "Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?"
"Too many," said Kirk.
There was, for instance, the March 2023 Covenant School massacre in Nashville, where a trans-identifying woman murdered three 9-year-old children — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs — and three adults — teacher Cynthia Peak, custodian Mike Hill, and head of school Katherine Koonce.
'Is this the end of a dark chapter in our history or the beginning of a darker chapter in our history?'
In April 2024, a male-identifying woman planned to shoot up an elementary school and a high school in Maryland but was thankfully stopped in time by police, then later convicted.
The attendee then asked, "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?"
Kirk responded, "Counting or not counting gang violence?" and then was knocked back by the assassin's shot.
Robinson, who has been booked into the Utah County Jail, is not the first radical captive to leftist thinking allegedly to draw blood in recent weeks.
The trans-identifying man who shot up a Catholic church full of children last month in Minneapolis displayed statements on his weapons that include, "Where is your God?"; "Kill Donald Trump"; and "I'm the woker, baby ... Why so queerious?"
The trans-identifying radical who allegedly gunned down a father in a Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, park on Aug. 28 is another leftist who allegedly stated, "The protection of Palestine requires the eradication of western based genocidal white supremacy," condemned "f**khead crackers"; and said of Israelis, "We should kill them all, save Palestine and be jus [sic] be done with it."
Governor Cox compared the violent trend to the campaign of violence waged on American soil in the second half of the 20th century
"Is this the end of a dark chapter in our history or the beginning of a darker chapter in our history?" said the governor. "If you look at true political assassinations in this country of someone of this stature, this feels a lot like the late '60s."
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, leftist terrorists routinely committed political murders and bombings. For instance, the Weather Underground — an offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society — executed scores of bombings, including the Jan. 29, 1975, attack on the headquarters of the U.S. State Department.
"We will be brave," President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday. "We have radical left lunatics out there, and we just have to beat the hell out of them."
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A Texas A&M student whistleblower recently provided Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison with video evidence that she was thrown out of a children's literature class for objecting to a woke instructor's propagation of perverse gender ideology and DEI.
The whistleblower provided Harrison not only with offending course materials and audio from her disheartening conversation about the propagandist with Texas A&M President Gen. Mark Welsh but with emails from the English department head, who spoke of an apparent deal to keep the student out of the class.
Harrison, certain the controversy over the taxpayer-funded propaganda would have otherwise been swept under the rug, brought the matter to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's attention as well as to the attention of the Trump administration, demanding immediate action.
Things have since gone sideways for the indoctrinator central to the story as well as for her enablers.
While two people have already been removed from their positions, this controversy is far from settled.
In addition to the university's Board of Regents asking Texas A&M University System Chancellor Glenn Hegar to "audit every course and ensure full compliance with all applicable laws," which might flush out more propagandists, there are now calls for Welsh's removal.
"America and Texans can now see how dishonest and how liberal the leadership of this once great university is," Harrison said. "We need a lot of people to be fired, and we need a lot of budgets to be cut so that Texas can lead the nation once again."
Senior lecturer Melissa McCoul, whose stated areas of research include "gender studies," can be heard discussing "gender and sexuality" at the outset of the video captured by the student whistleblower.
A slide titled "Gender Unicorn" can be seen projected at the front of class. This Trans Student Educational Resources graphic suggests that so-called gender identity and gender expression are distinct from sex assigned at birth and that there are sexes besides male, female, and intersex.
'You are under a misconception that what I am saying is illegal.'
According to TSER, this graphic was created as an alternative to "The Genderbread Person" to better reflect "genders outside of the western gender binary."
Harrison obtained other instructional materials from the children's literature course that indicate the gender unicorn was by no means the most provocative piece of gender agitprop pushed in the class.
For instance, one slide emphasized that it's not "too 'adult'" to talk to young children about "queerness" and complained that "heteronormativity leads to compulsory heterosexuality." There were also DEI and critical race theory materials in the class.
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When McCoul proceeded to the next slide, which was titled "TRANS REP," the student whistleblower spoke up: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching because according to our president, there's only two genders, and he said that he would be freezing agencies funding programs that promote gender ideology."
"This also very much goes against, not only myself, but a lot of people's religious beliefs," the student continued. "And so I am not going to participate in this because it's not legal, and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs."
McCoul said in response, "You are under a misconception that what I am saying is illegal."
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When the student pushed back, volunteering to read President Donald Trump's executive order concerning the government's recognition of two sexes, male and female, the lecturer said, "You do have the right to leave. What we are doing is not illegal, and if you would like to make the claim that it is, you need to talk to the department head."
McCoul further expressed doubt that the student would be "effective in stopping me from teaching things that are biologically true because I do have the legal and ethical authority, ... and it's time for you to leave."
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"It took tremendous courage for a relatively young lady to stand up to an authority figure alone as a sole voice in that class — to somebody who had the potential to fail her, to harm her professionally," Harrison told Blaze News. "And she had the courage not just to stand up to the professor but to take her concerns all the way to the president of the university and to have the foresight to record him."
'I know for a fact that Texas A&M knew about this for a long time.'
An audio recording obtained by Harrison allegedly captures Welsh, Barack Obama's chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, shutting down the possibility of McCoul's termination and acknowledging that other students took issue with McCoul's instruction.
"You're trying to pick a fight here. What do you want?" Welsh appears to say in the recording.
"I'm not trying to pick a fight," the student whistleblower responds. "No, sir, I'm not."
After the student confirms that she is seeking McCoul's ouster, Welsh appears to say, "Okay, well, that's not happening."
Blaze News has reached out to Welsh for comment.
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Harrison, who also obtained audio of the university president apparently indicating that he supports the development of new LGBT courses, said that Welsh's response was "condescending."
"I know for a fact that Texas A&M knew about this for a long time, that they covered it up, and then, instead of punishing the professor and the department head and the president, the leadership of Texas A&M concocted what was basically a cover-up scheme," Harrison said. "They offered the student a deal to keep her quiet."
Screenshots of emails between the head of the English department, Emily Johansen, and the student, show that Johansen: flagged the student's "disruptive behavior"; referenced McCoul's request that the student "no longer attend class sessions for the rest of the semester"; suggested the student's in-class recordings were unacceptable; and alluded to a deal whereby the student could keep her grade but no longer attend the class.
"They tried to silence her, and they tried to keep the public from ever seeing that video," Harrison said.
On Sunday, the conservative representative asked Gov. Abbott to take action and asked for the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services to "take any appropriate action(s) to ensure that Texas universities receiving federal funds are complying with President Trump’s Executive Orders."
Blaze News has reached out to McCoul, Johansen, the HHS, the Education Department, and Vickie Spillers, the executive director of the Texas A&M Board of Regents, for comment. Abbott's office referred Blaze News to his tweets on X regarding the topic.
Hours after Harrison went scorched-earth on Texas A&M, Welsh announced that he had directed the provost to immediately remove the College of Arts and Sciences dean and the English department head from their administrative positions.
"Good," Gov. Abbott responded. "Now, fire the professor who acted contrary to Texas law."
The following day, Welsh claimed in an update that after it became clear that the children's literature course "contained content that did not align with any reasonable expectation of standard curriculum for the course, ... college and department leadership worked with students to offer alternative opportunities for students to complete the course, and made changes to ensure this course content does not continue in future semesters."
'The president of the university must be fired.'
According to Welsh, he only learned on Monday that "the college continued to teach content that was inconsistent with the published course description for another course this fall."
Welsh further indicated in the update that Texas A&M "abides by state and federal law" and that he had both fired the professor and tasked department heads with conducting an audit of course offerings to ensure they align with the course descriptions.
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The university system's board of regents also announced it had asked Texas A&M Chancellor Glenn Hegar to "audit every course and ensure full compliance with all applicable laws."
Alvin Lui, president of the parental rights advocacy group Courage Is a Habit, cast doubt on the value of these audits — audits Harrison deemed "pathetic."
"It doesn't matter what the curriculum says when you have these teachers that are trained at woke teacher colleges, and all teacher colleges are woke," Lui said. "They teach everything through the lens of a Marxist. They teach everything through the lens of a critical race theorist or a queer theorist. So it doesn't matter what the syllabus says. It doesn't matter what the course catalog says."
When asked whether the terminations of the two administrators and the lecturer were sufficient, Harrison told Blaze News, "Absolutely not. Not even close. A fish rots from the head."
"I'm a proud member of the fighting Texas Aggie class of 2004, and it's obvious now that I care more about Texas A&M than the leadership of Texas A&M does," the Republican state representative continued. "We have a code of honor: Aggies do not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do, and if the president of Texas A&M cannot abide by that code of conduct himself, that's more than sufficient grounds to fire him."
"This is a taxpayer-funded employee of the state of Texas," Harrison continued. "The people of the state of Texas are being taxed out of their homes, and they damn well don't want their money weaponized against them, their children, and their values to promote leftist indoctrination. The president of the university must be fired."
'Don't believe your child is safe from the woke mind virus spreading on college campuses just because they're in a state like Texas.'
Harrison suggested further that Texas A&M is not the only university in the state infected by DEI and gender ideology.
"Almost every single public university has an entire — not just a class or two — an entire undergraduate minor program in LGBTQ transgender studies. People think we're the bastion of bold Republican leadership. That's a myth," Harrison said. "The Texas Republican leadership in this state is weak, establishment, liberal, progressive."
When asked about next steps, Harrison referred Blaze News to his letter to Abbott where he asked the governor to direct his politically appointed regents at all of Texas' public universities to immediately "take all necessary action" to purge all remaining DEI and LGBT propaganda instruction and activities. In the letter, he also asked Abbott to call back the legislature for a special session to pass a total ban on such indoctrination within any state agency.
Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, told Blaze News, "DEI ideology needs to DIE. Gender ideology must be rooted out of all academic institutions if we want our country to return to sanity. The university radicals want to continue pushing our society off the rails, but we can save America by letting sane people take the wheel."
"This incident proves red states are not immune from woke ideology. Don't believe your child is safe from the woke mind virus spreading on college campuses just because they're in a state like Texas," DeAngelis continued. "The socialists infiltrate academia to brainwash your kids and advance their agenda. We must all be vigilant and fight back against the lunacy at our universities," DeAngelis added.
Lui noted that Americans are mistaken in thinking that the president's executive orders and laws alone will neutralize leftist indoctrination efforts. Instead, Lui suggested that Americans and American institutions must take proactive steps as the student whistleblower had in this case, using policy and laws as tools on the offensive.
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show returned in 2024 following a hiatus, but the brand has never been the same.
The company pushed pause on the show in 2019 after chief marketing officer Ed Razek resigned over remarks that were considered to be insensitive to transgender and obese models.
'Plus-size models are a byproduct of the body positivity movement.'
Razek essentially saying the show is not for men or plus-size models was enough for the brand to slam the brakes on both their show and their appeal to women. Upon the fashion show's revival in 2024, Victoria's Secret made its allegiance clear — and it was not with their usual fan base.
Not only did the revamped show feature models over 50 years old, but it also showcased five plus-size models and two men pretending to be women.
In a new promo, the brand is doubling down and proving its 2024 return was not just the last gasp of a woke era, but it was only the beginning of its redrawn standard. Whereas the new genre of Victoria's Secret Angels may have been simple additions to the roster in 2024, in 2025, they are leading the charge ahead of the October show.
In the new promo — aptly titled "The Secret Is Out" — the fashion show features transgender model Alex Consani and plus-size model Yumi Nu front and center, while dragging out some of its legacy models who are widely accused as having facial surgeries.
It is not just the use of Consani that is troubling, but the model's backstory makes his inclusion even more disturbing.
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At just age 14, Consani gave an interview as "the world's first" and "youngest transgender model," according to Cosmopolitan.
"I was about three or four years old when I realized I was attracted to girls' clothes. So I slowly started wearing girlish clothes and became who I am today," the boy said.
Cosmopolitan eerily wrote that Consani "isn't just interested in looking pretty" but wants to achieve "greater tolerance for transsexuality."
Last year, Victoria's Secret featured Valentina Sampaio, a male model posing as a woman. The 28-year-old Brazilian also has a jaw-dropping background. According to Business Insider, he was told by a psychologist that he was transgender at just 8 years old before he started referring to himself as a girl at 12.
In 2020, Sampaio became the first female-dressing man to be in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is also where Nu, the plus-size model in the Victoria's Secret promo, made waves.
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Nu was the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover model in 2022 and was touted by People as the first "Asian curve model" to do so.
These types of titles are often associated with the new era of victim-centric models, including Anok Yai, who was also featured in the Victoria's Secret ad. Yai, 27, was described by Hola! as the the first "black model of South Sudanese descent to open major shows."
Also featured in the promo were veteran models Adriana Lima, 44, Lily Aldridge, 39, and Joan Smalls, 37.
Blaze News reporter Rebeka Zeljko said that while the brand is "clearly trying to relive the glory days," it has still made room for "ugly ideologies" to be represented.
"Trans models like Consani have become immensely successful in the modeling industry, where androgyny is viewed as versatile and desirable," Zeljko explained. "Plus-size models are a byproduct of the body positivity movement that ignored both health standards and objective beauty. In both cases, Consani and Nu clash with Victoria's Secret's original and beloved brand of hyperfemininity."
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Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who was previously known as Tim McBride, is the first “out” transgender person elected to Congress — and he is adamant that conservatives are the “weird” ones.
“They are obsessed with culture war issues. The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird, and it is bizarre. And the American people deserve serious legislators, serious elected officials who are focused on bringing people together,” McBride said
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is not even close to being on the same page.
“If you are to believe this man, who believes that he is a woman, that’s your first mistake, is trusting anything that this person says,” Gonzales says. “If you are to believe Tim McBride, the right is weird because we believe in biological truths and that biological men are men and women are women.”
“That is so weird. That is so bizarre,” she mocks, before pulling up a selfie McBride posted to Instagram in the women’s bathroom in 2016.
“Here I am using a women’s restroom in North Carolina that I’m technically barred from being in. They say I’m a pervert. They say I’m a man dressed as a woman. They say I’m a threat to their children. They say I’m confused. They say I’m dangerous. And they say accepting me as the person I have fought my life to be seen as reflects the downfall of a once great nation,” McBride wrote in the caption.
“I'm just a person. We are all just people. Trying to pee in peace. Trying to live our lives as fully and authentically as possible. Barring me from this restroom doesn't help anyone. And allowing me to continue to use this bathroom — just without fear of discrimination and harassment — doesn't hurt anyone. Stop this. We are good people,” he added.
“This is a man entering a woman’s bathroom and taking pictures of himself in a woman’s bathroom and posting it on social media for likes and clicks is telling you that it’s weird that you care that he’s doing this,” Gonzales comments, adding, “That is so mind-boggling.”
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