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#1 House Democrats Successful in Tabling Mace’s Resolution to Censure Omar - Tierra Cunningham for ABC News, Defender of the Republic/FreeStateGirl, Cory Mills/Charlie Kirk/Sunshine Bandit, Ivan Raiklin/Will Chase, jim, Tom McClintock/RagingMutton, and Helvidius Priscus/Cory Mills on X
Four House Republicans joined Democrats to tank GOP Rep. Nancy Mace’s effort to censure and remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from committee assignments over comments she made following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The final tally was 214-213, with two Republicans and three Democrats not voting. The GOP defections were Reps. Mike Flood of Nebraska, Jeff Hurd of Colorado, Tom McClintock of California, and Cory Mills of Florida. With the defeat of the Omar censure resolution, Democrats will now drop their effort to censure Mills over several accusations that he has denied...
#2 Trump Targets Antifa Movement as ‘Terrorist Organization' - Reuters, The White House/Donald J Trump (community note), Dustin Grage, Black Garrett, The Rabbit Hole, Andy Ngo, C3, and Mostly Peaceful Latinas on X
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signaled new action against left-wing groups following the assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, targeting the anti-fascist antifa movement as a "terrorist organization." Trump said on Truth Social that he was "designating" the movement as a terrorist organization. "I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices," Trump wrote...#3 Susan Monarez, Former CDC Director, Tells Senate Committee ‘True Reason’ She Believes She Was Fired - Cheyenne Haslett and Alexandra Hutzler, Calley Means, Bonchie, Camus/PatVBall, Susan L. Burke/Vigilant Fox, and A Second Chance Around/The HighWire on X
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez on Wednesday said she was fired by President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for "holding the line on scientific integrity." Monarez gave a detailed timeline before the Senate's Health Committee on the chain of events that she said led to her abrupt ousting. A pivotal moment, she said, was an August meeting in which she said Kennedy told her to preemptively accept recommendations from a CDC vaccine advisory panel and to fire career officials overseeing vaccine policy. "I would not commit to that, and I believe it is the true reason I was fired," Monarez said. Monarez said Kennedy was "very upset" when she pushed back in the meeting...
#4 Kim Jong Un Bans Words Like ‘Hamburgers’, ‘Ice-Cream’ in North Korea - The Indian Express, ForPol, ADAM, PhatzNewsRoom, shorts91, and Dallas Steele/Birdy on X
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has banned the words like ice-cream, hamburger and karaoke for being “too Western,” along with several other anglicised terms, as part of a broader cultural crackdown in his country. According to reports from Daily NK, tour guides working at the country’s newly opened Wonsan beach-side resort have been ordered to avoid foreign and South Korean vocabulary when interacting with visitors. Guides are undergoing a state-run training programme where they must memorise officially approved slogans and expressions...
#5 Jimmy Kimmel Live! Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Comments After US Government Pressure - Sian Cain and Oliver Holmes for The Guardian, Scott Jennings, Jack Paso, Jaxie/Pop Base, Dave Portnoy, Piers Morgan/Keith Olberman (community note), and Roseanne Barr/David Frum (community note) on X
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show has been suspended “indefinitely” after the US government put pressure on broadcasters to crack down on the comedian, who had accused Donald Trump’s political movement of exploiting the killing of Charlie Kirk. ABC, which Disney owns, announced on Wednesday night that it would remove Kimmel’s show from its schedule for the foreseeable future. “Jimmy Kimmel Live! Will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson said in a statement. Pre-empting means ABC will broadcast another show in the slot instead. The stunning move to remove one of the US’s most influential late-night TV talk shows has been criticised as part of a sweeping government attack on the free speech of critical voices in media, academia, and business...
#6 Media Decries ‘Cancel Culture’ as Those Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Online Continue Getting Fired - Joseph A. Wulfsohn for Fox News, End Wokeness, The Critical Drinker, Riley Gaines, Steve, Dale Stark, and Donald Trump Jr./Cernovich on X
The legacy media is slamming what many outlets have described as a "cancel culture" campaign from the right targeting those who've been fired for celebrating the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. However, several outlets are downplaying the callousness of the social media posts in question. "After Kirk’s killing[,] a growing chorus of conservatives wants his critics ostracized or fired," a headline from The Associated Press read Sunday. The AP wrote, "After years of complaints from the right about ‘cancel culture’ from the left, some conservatives are seeking to upend the lives and careers of those who disparaged Charlie Kirk after his death...
#7 Scores of Libs Are Leaving the Dems Over Ghoulish Celebrations Over Charlie Kirk's Death - Matt Vespa for Townhall, Happy Liberation Day!, Susan's Amusing, chuck harrison/Wall Street Apes, Tammy/Jasmine Crockett, 𝕊𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝔼𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕣, and Adam Francisco on X
There is a tendency to be too online. Social media has become an integral part of our lives, for better or worse, and it’s certainly a central fixture in media and journalism. The polling on political violence was damning. While it didn’t show that most liberals/progressives support political violence, it did show that way too many do. It’s not an existential crisis, but it reveals that there is a rot among the American Left that must be squashed. An American liberal is six times more likely to justify acts of political violence—that’s disturbing. One thing that should give us hope is that there are normie liberals out there, because there appears to be a mass exodus from the Democratic Party over the Charlie Kirk assassination...#8 Netanyahu Forced to Deny Israel Was Behind Charlie Kirk Assassination After ‘Monstrous Lie’ - Alex Croft for Independent, matt, Dyor, Axelle, GenXGirl/Prime Minister of Israel, voice of safdar, and Citizen Press Network on X
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed online claims that Israel was in some way linked to Charlie Kirk’s murder as a “monstrous, big lie.” Kirk was shot dead at Utah Valley University on 10 September and suspect Tyler Robinson has been charged with his murder. But ever since his death, liberals and conservatives across the U.S. have pointed the blame at each other with accusations over who is responsible. This has led to baseless conspiracy theories, including claims that Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad, a MAGA loyalist, or a member of the ultra-right-wing Christian white nationalist “Groypers” were behind the murder...
#9 Trump Greeted by King, Thousands of Protesters in UK Visit - ABC News, The White House, The Royal Family, Ron Smith, Florence Lox (community note), Paul A. Szypula, and Nick Sortor (community note) on X
President Donald Trump kicked off his state visit to the U.K. on Wednesday by traveling to Windsor Castle to meet with King Charles III. Trump is the first elected political leader in modern times to be hosted for two state visits by a British monarch, having already been hosted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2019. The president and first lady, Melania Trump, attended a state banquet with the royal family in Windsor Castle later in the evening. Trump arrived in Windsor aboard Marine One earlier on Wednesday, having spent the night at Winfield House in central London. He and Melania Trump were greeted in the castle's Walled Garden by Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton...
#10 CEOs Of Discord, Steam, Twitch, Reddit Summoned To Washington Over Online Radicalization - Tyler Durden Zerohedge, Fox News Radio, IGN, Floyd, deborah green, Bethany S. Mandel/Hugh Hewitt, Ed Krassenstein/Jay_A_Rod/arts, and Lala News & Stuff on X
The White House has declared war on Marxist revolutionary groups and dark-money-funded NGOs after recognizing the severity of the nihilistic accelerationist movement spreading across America, especially now after realizing the security threat - dubbed "civil terrorism" - in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. The administration now sees more clearly that endless color revolution-style operations - whether protests, riots, or armed attacks on federal agencies such as ICE and Border Patrol - are supported by left-wing groups, and supported or even directly funded by certain NGOs. As Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller said earlier this week, the mission is to "identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy" these left-wing organizations that "promote violence in this country." In the crosshairs of federal agents investigating the Kirk assassination is the Marxist revolutionary group Armed Queers Salt Lake City and its founder…
