Suspect Arrested for Charlie Kirk Shooting: President Donald Trump announced the arrest on Fox and Friends early this morning. Later, at a news conference in Utah, officials identified the suspect as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. They’d arrested him late Thursday night in St. George, Utah, about 250 miles from the site of the shooting. “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox began. “We got him.”
What Led to Robinson’s Arrest? Cox says a family member of the suspect contacted a family friend and that family friend contacted a sheriff’s office. The family friend alleged that Robinson had confessed to shooting Kirk, or suggested he’d carried out the assassination. On Fox and Friends, Trump suggested the family friend was a minister involved with law enforcement. Details are scant at the moment.
What Evidence Did Officials Present? Cox said video surveillance allegedly showed Robinson arriving near campus in a Dodge Challenger about four hours before the shooting. Officials say physical evidence and Discord tie him to the shooting.
Was the Ammo Actually Engraved? It was, Cox said. But none related to “transgender ideology” as the Wall Street Journal erroneously reported yesterday. The unfired casings allegedly read: “Hey fascists! Catch!” with five arrows (possibly an input for a videogame), “If you read this, you are gay, LMAO” and “Oh bella caio, bella caio, bella caio caio caio” a possible reference to the Italian anti-fascist song. On the fired casing, a meme: “Notices bulges owo what’s this?”
What Is Known About Tyler Robinson? At this point, very little. This story is developing.
How Are Things in America? A day after Kirk’s assassination, a series of threats to at least seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) led to shut downs, lockdowns and cancelled classes. Nobody was hurt. The FBI said it was taking the “hoax threat calls” very seriously. In a statement, the Congressional Black Caucus said the threats were “not only vile–they are a chilling reminder of the relentless racism and extremism that continues to target and terrorize Black communities in this country.”
VP Vance Flew Kirk’s Body to Arizona on Air Force Two: A video posted to social media shows Vance carrying his casket. Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who said Tuesday that Democrats owned this shooting, plans to introduce a resolution allowing his body to lie in the Capitol Rotunda “should the Kirk family wish.” Republican Congresswoman Paula Luna suggested placing a statue of Kirk in the Capitol.
Smooth Move: Two people detained and released after Kirk’s shooting death are still facing threats. “They were never suspects, they were people of interest,” Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said. Huh, where’d they get that impression? From his department’s joint statement with the FBI on Wednesday that named them and said they’d been taken in as suspects? Releasing the names of people who have only been detained is dangerous, but the FBI has probably fired everyone who knew that.
Land of the Free: State Department Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau warned “foreigners” on Thursday that they were not welcome if they praised, rationalized, or made light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Seems like an attack on their free speech. I’m sure Republicans will leap to their defense.
Home of the Brave: Far-right influencers, violent extremists, and an anonymous website are identifying people for allegedly celebrating or glorifying Kirk’s death. The usual suspects are in play—including LibsofTikTok’s Chaya Raichik, unofficial Trump advisor and influencer Laura Loomer, and former Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio—but the hunt mostly revolves around the website “Charlie’s Murderers.” They’re exposing people’s names, jobs, locations, and social media accounts. Many of the highlighted posts did not glorify or promote violence, WIRED reported.
Pardoned Insurrectionists Calling for Civil War: One extremism expert told Mother Jones Kirk’s killing may “energize the far-right to intensify political violence, from street clashes and armed paramilitarism to calls for racist terror.” That said, a lot of these people are grifters. “These people cry civil war when Cracker Barrel changes their logo,” Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, told Mother Jones. He doesn’t think they’re going to swarm DC tomorrow. But the messages could inspire lone actors, experts said.
Political Violence: Authorities said the 16-year-old who shot two students at Evergreen High School in Colorado had been “radicalized” by “some extremist network” they didn’t name. The Denver Post reported that he expressed white supremacist views and showed an “interest in mass shooters in the days before the attack.”
No Drills? Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez proposed blocking funding for mandatory school shooter drills unless parents of students under 16 can opt out their kids. In Washington state, schools conduct drills once a month. Data from Everytown for Gun Safety, which pushes for gun control, says there is no data to support they reduce shootings, reduce injury, or prevent death. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended keeping children out of “high-intensity drills and exercises,” and supports the active consent of students.
On the Run? Bellevue Police are still searching for a man wanted for killing and robbing 54-year-old Jason David Clark. The men were drinking when a fight broke out over the $3,000 he was carrying, police say. Detectives believe the man may have left the state.
Capitol Hill Crisis Center: The King County Council advanced plans for the 24-hour crisis center, part of a broader countywide plan. Nathalie and I wrote about it in May.
Well-Laid Plans: Friday is the last major public hearing about Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan—the blueprint we use to decide how the city will grow over the next 20 years. Council members have introduced more than 100 amendments to the plan, which is about as unhinged as it sounds, but The Urbanist made a helpful cheat sheet for the most important ones. You have two chances to tell City Council how you feel: One that starts at 9:30 a.m. for remote speakers, and one that starts at 3 p.m., for in-person commenters. (You can register here.) If you want to listen to what your neighbors have to say, you can spend your day in City Hall, or watch the live stream on the Seattle Channel. Watch along for angry (but totally not racist) NIMBYs, wonky urbanists, and Sara Nelson resenting every second that the public gets to speak in that hall.
Weather: It’s cloudy, but the sun will come out eventually. Expect a high near 71 today.
Jealous? Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a failed coup d’état to overturn the 2022 election, disband courts, hand power over to the military, and assassinate the then president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro could go away for 27 years if his ticker doesn’t give out first (given the 70-year-old’s heart condition, his lawyers are likely to ask for house arrest). Brazil has seen 15 coup attempts since overthrowing its monarchy in 1889. Until now, a plotter had never been convicted.
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Charlie Kirk, the conservative founder and president of Turning Point USA, said during an organizational event on Wednesday that gun deaths in exchange for the preservation of Second Amendment rights is part of America’s reality.
Kirk’s comments come about one week after three children and three adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
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“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death,” Kirk said at a Turning Point USA Faith event on Wednesday, as reported by Media Matters for America. “That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am—I think it’s worth it.
“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.”
@50, We’re all reading his own words and arriving at our own interpretation without your help so you can kindly shove it up your ass at any time.
If that’s how you choose to take it I’m not surprised because it explains so much about you that we already know, but it’s perfectly reasonable to hear this statement knowing it was in response to a shooting that took the lives 6 people including 3 kids and assume they were at the front of his mind when he said it. Even if they weren’t, it’s not like kids aren’t routinely murdered by people exercising the same constitutional rights he was so grateful for.
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113
51: You get vulgar when cornered. Of course you would point to the most leftist rag to support your talking point.
You always pout about dirty words when you’ve got nothing left to give but accusing newsweek of being a leftist rag in 2025 is a genuine lol. Unless you want to argue this quote is made up the political leaning of the rag that published it is immaterial anyway. Just give it up already.
53: We simply disagree with what Charlie Kirk said. Be an adult and accept that you don’t always get your way.
I already told you to believe whatever you want. I’ve been asking you to extend the same grace to the rest of us.
In that clip in the Newsweek article, Charlie makes the accurate comparison to automobile deaths as the price of liberty to own a car, is analogous to the 2nd amendment to owning a gun.
If the logic is brutal, that’s not the fault of the logic.
The logic isn’t brutal, it’s fucking idiotic. I can’t drive my gun to work or the hospital because it’s only use is killing, maiming, or terrorizing living things. We also have much more rigid safety regulations for cars and their ownership and operation than guns. I would ask you to try again but i don’t care what you think and will not be moved by anything else you have to say about it. Really, you can let it go at any time.
@33: I’m sorry you didn’t get your Sulla moment honey. This particular act of political violence wasn’t perpetrated by the kind of person you had hoped, and I know that’s disappointing, but you need to calm down now.
@56: Cooli you and Nancy Mace should be on a professional Twister team, I swear!
57: You drive a car by being a responsible driver, same with guns. Both carry an inherent danger to the owner and to others, but as responsible Americans we accept our responsibilities without the needs for bans on either.
53, all that can be true and a reasonable person can also believe charlie kirk thought dead kids are a prudent deal in exchange for people like his own murderer having unrestricted access to guns because he said as much in the immediate aftermath of a school shooting
@59 i mean
@50 you complete dolt, you just restated what I said (agreeing with it) then said I was “fooled” — pretty rich.
Also, @56, guns = cars is the stupidest shit the right has come up with, but OK: license, registration, insurance, inability to get a license if you don’t pass the test or are judged incapable. I mean, sure, guns = cars is the way to go.
“Judge not, lest ye be judged” is a directive from Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:1) that warns against making hypocritical or condemning judgments of others, emphasizing that the same standard of judgment used on others will be applied to oneself.
Antifa Mormon was not on my bingo card
I’ve known a few blue haired transgender communists and they have all been lovely people.
@57,
There is no regulation for owning a car. Anyone with money can buy one.
There are regulations (with hand slaps for violations) for operating one on a public roadway.
You can have a record of DUI, and even DUI manslaughter, and legally buy a car. There are no background or even legally required license checks.
Firearms create equality. The 125 pound, 80 year old female has the option of not facing a 25 year old, 200 pound linebacker that has broken into her home in a physical mismatch. She can face him on equal terms with a firearm. In those grave extremes, firearms give the victim an equal chance.
Laws make the use of deadly force lawful in such extremes and firearms put the victim on equal fighting terms with the victimizer.
They also give citizens a fighting chance against those that would involuntarily subjugate them. We have the most powerful military in the world. How did that work out for us when we tried to involuntarily remake Afghan society in our image? Don’t get me wrong, I wish the Taliban didn’t exist to stone women to death. My point is that armed Afghans got agency they would not have had, first with the Soviets, and then with us. They had no agency against being dictated to absent access to guns.
This society has agency against a Trump (or Progressive) dictatorship, to use or not use, only to the extent it is armed.
The biggest use of firearms? Recreational shooting. 8 billion rounds a year are puchased by civilians. Less than 25k wind up in humans. We sell 13 million autos a year and a similar number of humans are mained by only 13 million of those 4,000 pound projectiles. So which is more benign as a percentage of objects purchased?
I have three of seven households across my alley that don’t own a car. Its not a need/want of theirs. I don’t judge the 4 of 7 that choose a car (and a $25,000 parking space) with the risk of their indulging that need/want with that projectile.. Likewise with with those of them that choose a firearm. I practice the tolernace for others choices that you only preach.
@54: In multiple threads now, you’ve stated your unsupported opinion of what Charlie Kirk said, as if your unsupported opinion had the status of an actual fact. Also in multiple threads now, one of us liberal types has quoted, with citation — at length, and in context — what Charlie Kirk actually said. Do you wonder why you can’t simply quote what he said, when we can do so as easily as we do?
@33: Continuing the theme of not quoting anyone, you made numerous assertions about what Barth wrote, without once quoting even one single word that Barth has actually written. Do you wonder why you provided no quote, no URL, no support of any kind whatsoever for your opinions?
You guys can get back to us with actual quotes — backed up by URLs, of course — any time you like. Until then, we’ll continue to judge your opinions as unfounded, and treat them accordingly.
@68,
Here’s a thing Kirk said that I somehow haven’t seen widely reported amidst everything.
“MLK was awful. He’s not a good person.”
https://baptistnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-in-his-own-words/
MLK!?!
In deference to Phoebe, I’ll reiterate that Kirk didn’t deserve to die. But will also note that he was a total and complete piece of human shit while alive. And anyone here defending him may want to grab a roll of toilet paper and take a look in the mirror.
@50: “…Kirk made a logical philosophical observation that the 2nd Amendment comes at a cost of some lives because it’s not a complete ban on guns…”
Do you actually believe that Kirk’s violent death via gunshot helps to protect your liberty? A simple ‘yes,’ or ‘no,’ will suffice. Do tell.
68: I did reference the exact quote the other day:
“It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”
Which simply means:
Unless there’s a total gun man, there will be gun deaths every year – but it’s worth it. Hell yes it’s worth it. Don’t you agree?
70: No more than a fatal automobile accident helps protects my liberty to drive a car.
biped, have you thought about like just going away? Nobody wants you here
@71: “Unless there’s a total gun man, there will be gun deaths every year…”
Even with a total gun ban, there would still be gun deaths every year. There would just be far, far fewer of them. Charlie Kirk might still be alive. (As might an entire school’s worth of children.)
“Hell yes it’s worth it. Don’t you agree?”
I completely reject every link in the chain of reasoning you and Kirk proclaimed. The Second Amendment clearly protects the right of a “free state” to resist any attempt at disarmament by the newly-formed Federal government. It is not an individual citizen’s right, and never was. Two hundred years of American jurisprudence on this point were overturned by a renegade piece of judicial activism, paid for by the gun-makers’ lobby. Color me utterly unimpressed.
If the federal government actually becomes tyrannical, no number of gunfondlers could possibly do anything about it, no matter how enthusiastically each one wanked his hard ‘piece.’ Said government already has everything from rocket-delivered thermonuclear bombs, to flying killer robots. Holed up in your bunker? They’ve got 2,000# busters. Hiding in the trees? An over-the-horzion missile sets the entire forest ablaze. Flee across the countryside? Drones locate and shoot you, whilst you’re looking the other way. The way to prevent federal tyranny is to NOT elect an autocrat. Too bad you recently got that one wrong, as well.
@72: I asked for one word. As you started with ‘No,” I’ll take that as your answer. So he died for no reason. Therefore, how are any of the many many many other gun deaths helping us, exactly?
74: So weird to go off on a tangent on the real world practicalities over a philosophical argument, much less wanting me to quantify gun deaths to answer some contorted abstract question. Sorry, but I don’t have an answer for you.
@71 I definitely think Charlie Kirk’s death was worth preserving the 2nd Amendment, in fact we should celebrate his death as the blood of that proud patriot refreshed the tree of liberty. If you don’t celebrate Charlie Kirk getting sniped in the neck you must hate America and our freedoms.
@73 – Don’t care, too bad, so sad.
The idea that this kid was a “Socialist” is so incredibly stupid that you really have to wonder about the intellectual capacity of someone who would believe it.
And that QAnon nut who was killed the process servers got exactly what she deserved. She had a right to bear arms, but so did the guy who shot her. In any event, had she survived she would just be a drain on society.
Tyler Robinson apparently was living with a male to female transgender person. Which is fine. So that may have been his motivation to take the life of Charlie Kirk.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/13/us-news/charlie-kirk-shooter-tyler-robinson-lived-with-transgender-partner
@67 RCW 46.12.755 (a prohibition on can ownership) would like to remind everyone that NotMyopic is wrong.
@79*
the
Fasciis’re
gonna take
the Hint from
Capitalism and:
Devour
themSelves?
a long as they
don’t take Humanity
down along With, well
OKAY then.
but our
Precious fucking
Biosphere’s Rapidly Running
THE FUCK OUTTA Motherfucking TIME.
*for a ‘useful’ idiot
you can be quite
Helpful!
@80
‘he Hates
these CANS!?’
I Know you meant
“cars” but
it’s
Mister
MAGOO
fer fucks sakes
78: Robinson was a gun-enthusiast leftist with a trans girlfriend. The talk that he was a Nick Fuentes inspired assassin is petering out. Pretty unlikely that was to the right of Charlie Kirk.
The Stranger actually banned me a while back, when I told them, with the absolute certainty of common sense, that the perps would be black. Oh no, I was right again. Check your White Privilege, naive goofy Seattle progs. Maybe one of these guys can “dismantle” it for you, and “Abolish” your “Whiteness” while they are at it:
“Inside the violent Seattle burglary spree targeting celebrities from Macklemore to Ichiro”
https://komonews.com/news/local/macklemore-seattle-burglary-sports-legends-ichiro-mariners-julio-seahawks-true-crime-court-documents-public-safety-police-celebrity-news#
@80 – It’s illegal to own cans now? Wow Washington State is really going overboard! Does this apply to all cans, or just aluminum cans?
Read it and weep – if you dispute the truth of this, and imagine that you have better information than the FBI, or you think it is all a lie because it’s a link to Fox News, then I suggest you contact the FBI and tell them everything you know, instead of complaining to me about it:
“Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin lived with transgender partner who is now cooperating with FBI: Officials”
“Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin lived with his transgender partner, senior-level FBI officials told Fox News Digital.
Bureau officials confirmed that Tyler Robinson, 22, was in a “romantic relationship” with the unnamed person, who is a male transitioning to a female, and that they shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah. Those FBI officials told Fox News Digital that Robinson’s partner is fully cooperating with the FBI’s investigation.”
“Meanwhile, the rifle that the FBI believes was used to kill Kirk contained ammunition inscribed with anti-fascist messaging.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/charlie-kirks-assassin-lived-transgender-partner-who-now-cooperating-fbi-sources
86: I was hoping that was not the case because the trans community is already dealing with enough blowback and piling on doesn’t help anyone.
@85~ALL
Muxmobile
Cyberpanzer
Swastikartruks
are ILLEGAL now in
warshington the state:
we’ve
had More
Than Enough
Carnage allfuckingready.
@84 so whotf
Were you before
your Transgression
placed you in Purgatory?
@88 – DID NOT READ. I know it was directed at me though LOL
Multiple law enforcement sources have confirmed that Robinson lived with a transgender partner—a biological male in the process of transitioning to female—in a shared apartment in Saint George, Utah. The partner, described as being in a romantic relationship with Robinson, has been “extremely cooperative” and “fully cooperating” with the FBI’s investigation. This cooperation includes providing access to text messages and other communications between Robinson and the partner, which helped investigators confirm Robinson’s identity as the shooter and solidify the timeline of events.
Robinson’s father, a former sheriff’s deputy and registered Republican, tipped off authorities after recognizing his son from surveillance footage released by FBI Director Kash Patel. Despite the family’s conservative background, friends and investigators describe Robinson as the “only leftist” in his circle, with alleged ties to Antifa groups and a shift toward radical left ideology that sparked family arguments, including over Kirk’s politics. Utah Governor Spencer Cox described Robinson as “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.”
so his
Heroes
were Stalin
Lenin and Marx?
or more
the Centrist
Corporate Dem type?
you
whackos
and your fuck-
ing Superlatives
just
Dying
to have
your Martyrs
and Worship them too
oh & start
Hitlering the
Fuckoutta the USofA
“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.”
I tend to agree with this. Freedom is messy. Many people think that personal freedoms (of ALL kinds, not just gun ownership) always result in nice, tidy outcomes where everyone is happy. No. The more freedom and choice people have, the greater the odds of choosing wrong. I truly do not understand why personal freedom = everyone will make the right choice is the prevailing view.
Humans are animals with large brains, flawed, and often wrong. Giving us maximum freedom creates mild chaos, not order. We can’t have it all.
30 round magazines
weapons of War flooding
our streets coppers with fucking Tanks
all ‘cuz of one
little comma
unregulated
Mayhem
94: My goodness. Maybe lighting your hair(s) on fire will help.
Charlie Kirk was not-anti gay!
Charlie Kirk takes down an anti-gay extremest:
https://x.com/i/status/1966614434324816332
@95
not to
mention
the fucking
Flamethrowers
thnx for the Reminder!
All ‘cuz of one
Indecent lit-
tle comma.
speaking of mayhem:
Trump Promotes A “Charlie Kirk Act” To Establish A Ministry Of Truth
President Trump’s Truth Social account posted a viral video from TikTok on Saturday in which a Trump voter named Elly May blamed the assassination of Republican political operative Charlie Kirk on the press, urging the president to push for legislation which would make “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth.
“This amended act will hold media outlets, radio stations, educators, and content creators accountable for the false narratives and erroneous information they spread deliberately or irresponsibly,” the petition reads, proposing heavy fines for those deemed to be in violation.
The other issue is of course that giving the government the authority to penalize propaganda and lies means giving the government the authority to determine what constitutes propaganda and lies. They could decide it’s a lie to say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza [@wormmy!], for example, or that it’s propaganda to say the US shouldn’t be waging a proxy war in Ukraine.
The “Charlie Kirk Act” is being pushed in the name of fighting propaganda, but it would actually be giving the US government unprecedented authority over what Americans are permitted to say on any platform.
–by Caitlin Johnstone, September 14, 2025
oodles:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-promotes-a-charlie-kirk-act
with
Rupert
‘Uncle Snoopy’
Mudroach’s FOX ‘news’?
as the Ministry of Truth’s Ideal Role Model
what the fuck
could go Wrong?
adios, @tS!
buh-Bye, New Yorker!
Sayonara, Pod Save America!
see Y’all
@The Gulag!
or the
Poorhouse.*
hmmm. one
and the Same
in Trumpftopia.
*if you don’t Work
you Don’t
Eat.