Congressional markups are normally lowkey affairs. Not so today as Oversight Committee and Oversight Dems debate crime in American cities and the use of the military for law enforcement in DC and other cities: apnews.com/live/donald-tr…

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"The Trump administration is reviewing material about slavery, the destruction of Native American culture, climate change and more at federal parks after employees flagged information that could be “disparaging” to Americans." apnews.com/article/trump-…

"This is an ongoing situation. We can confirm that Charlie Kirk has been shot. He is in the hospital, and we are praying for him at this time," says Aubrey Laitsch, the public relations manager for Turning Point USA.

A Turning Point USA official says Charlie Kirk is at the hospital but "it doesn’t look good.” Confirmed Kirk was shot in the neck. CBS News

BREAKING Charlie Kirk is in critical condition at a hospital after being shot at Utah Valley University event, an AP source says. apnews.com/article/charli…

I asked Trump about how Charlie Kirk is doing. "He's not doing well," he said on the phone. "It looks very bad." How Trump is feeling: "Not good. He was a very, very good friend of mine and he was a tremendous person."

A saving grace of the last decade of heated US politics has been the relative absence of political violence like that of the 60s/70s. With Trump attempt, the MN assassination, and this horrific Kirk shooting, things are moving in a truly awful direction. Pray for him and us.

BREAKING: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at an event in Utah, President Trump says. apnews.com/live/utah-vall…

Trump says he is ordering all U.S. flags lowered to half-mast in honor of Charlie Kirk

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… We need to make the same thing happen this time.

The flag on the North Lawn of the White House has been lowered to half-staff.

Three HBCUs — Alabama State University, Hampton University and Virginia State University — have received campus threats ASU and VSU are on lockdown, and Hampton has canceled classes today and Friday

Senate staff just got an alert: "Capitol Police are responding to an incident at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Headquarters. Staff are asked to remain clear of the police activity."

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox revealed that bullet casings in the Kirk assassination were engraved with "notices bulges OWO what's this?" and 3 unfired casings that read "hey fascist! catch!", "Oh bella chow bella chow chow chow chow" and "if you read this you are gay lmao"

Gov Spencer Cox (R-UT): “social media is a cancer”

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R): "Social media is a cancer. And I would urge people to log off, turn off, and touch grass."

"Three down arrows" being widely interpreted as a common antifa logo. But given that the full description is "up right down down down" and the guy plainly had internet brain poisoning worth noting that this is also a meme from the game Helldivers 2

Utah governor says Charlie Kirk assassination suspect is believed to have acted alone and the investigation is ongoing. apnews.com/article/charli…

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is making an impassioned plea for Americans and young people to use the horror of Charlie Kirk's public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and division. apnews.com/article/utah-g…