+ According to a tally by Drop Site News, there have been at least 70 teachers, professors, administrators and journalists fired over remarks they made about Kirk since his murder.

+ Arizona sports outlet PHNX Sports fired its lead reporter on the Phoenix Suns, Gerald Bourguet, after Bourguet questioned why outrage over right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s killing was louder than outrage over school shootings, mass deportations, or the “hundreds of videos of horrific murders in Gaza (which Kirk cheered on)

+ On the night John Lennon was gunned down, Howard Cosell was ridiculed for briefly interrupting a Monday Night Football game of little consequence to break the news of his murder outside the Dakota. Yesterday, all but four NFL games held a moment of silence for rightwing podcaster Charlie Kirk and the four teams that didn’t are now under fire for not doing so…

+ RFK, Jr. at the Charlie Kirk memorial service at the Kennedy Center: “I met Charlie in 2001 and we became soul mates.” Kirk was 8 years old in 2001.

+ Intriguingly, Kirk was killed as his views on Israel, which he once boasted he would “kill and die” for, had begun to moderate, ever so slightly–evidence of just how deeply Israel’s genocide in Gaza has begun to blowback against its supporters in the US. He spoke out against GOP plans to expand laws banning anti-Israel boycotts, claiming attempts to suppress the BDS movement would backfire on the party and “play into growing narratives that Israel is running the U.S. government.” Kirk opposed the crackdowns on campus protests when they targeted US citizens:

+ Neighbor of Tyler Robinson: “The way he carries himself and speaks to others. I thought he’d be a C.E.O. or a businessman. He had good leadership qualities.”

- counterpunch.org/2025/09/15/an…

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