Nancy Mace Moves to Boot Ilhan Omar from Committees Over "Disgraceful" Charlie Kirk Remarks

GOP Rep. Targets Omar's Education, Budget Posts After Assassination ControversyIn a fiery response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s eyebrow-raising comments about the late Charlie Kirk, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is taking aim at the Minnesota Democrat's committee seats. Mace announced Monday on X that she's filing a resolution to strip Omar of her spots on the House Committee on Education and Workforce and the Committee on Budget, calling Omar’s remarks "disgraceful."

"BREAKING: We're filing a resolution to strip
@Ilhan of her committee assignments after her disgraceful remarks on Charlie Kirk’s assassination," Mace posted, sharing images of the resolution.

The resolution accuses Omar of smearing Kirk and implying he was to blame for his own murder during an interview with progressive outlet Zeteo. It also claims Omar reposted a video on X that "disparaged the character of Charlie Kirk and those mourning his death." This move is the latest salvo from Republicans who've had it with Democrats they see as downplaying Kirk's assassination or tying it to his conservative firebrand status.

The uproar kicked off after Omar's Zeteo interview, where she took shots at Charlie’s past rhetoric and the GOP's response to his death. "He was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd," Omar said, also accusing Kirk of dismissing slavery’s impact and arguing "Juneteenth shouldn’t exist." When interviewer Mehdi Hasan called out those painting Kirk as just a guy seeking civil debate, Omar ineloquently doubled down: "There is nothing more effed up, you know, like, than to completely pretend that, you know, his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so."

Omar didn't stop there. She blasted Republicans for hypocrisy in criticizing Democratic rhetoric: "These people are full of s--t. And it's important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness, and have, you know, empathy, which Charlie said, 'No, it shouldn't exist,' because that's a newly created word or something." She added, "Like, I have empathy for his kids and his wife and what they’re going through."

Facing backlash, Omar took to X to defend herself, insisting she "disagreed with Charlie Kirk vehemently about his rhetoric" but doesn't "wish violence on anyone." She accused "right-wing accounts" of spinning a "false story" to "villainize the left" and distract from "Donald Trump gins up hate on a daily basis." Still, she called Kirk's death "mortifying" and claimed she condemned the murder multiple times.

Mace's resolution is a classic GOP counterpunch, reflecting the party's growing frustration with Democrats they view as soft-pedaling Kirk's death. Whether it gains traction in the House remains to be seen, but it's clear the bad blood between Omar and her critics isn’t cooling anytime soon.

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Trump Orders Second Airstrike on Drug Boat, Slams Cartels as National Security Threat

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced Monday that U.S. military forces, acting on his direct orders, carried out a second airstrike against a Venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing three traffickers and torching a shipment of narcotics bound for American shores.

The operation, conducted in international waters within the U.S. Southern Command's area of responsibility, targeted what Trump described as "confirmed narcoterrorists" from Venezuela transporting "illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!) headed to the U.S."

In a post on Truth Social accompanied by an unclassified video clip of the explosion—a vessel erupting in flames and thick black smoke amid several figures on deck, Trump wrote: "This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility."

The strike marked the latest escalation in Trump's aggressive campaign against drug cartels, coming just weeks after a similar operation earlier this month that the president said eliminated nearly a dozen members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.

No U.S. personnel were injured in Monday's action, according to the White House.Trump, fresh off boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for a trip to New York to attend a Yankees baseball game, used the post to issue a stark warning. "These extremely violent drug trafficking cartels POSE A THREAT to U.S. National Security, Foreign Policy, and vital U.S. Interests," he continued. "BE WARNED — IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU!"

The move builds on heightened U.S. naval deployments in the Caribbean earlier this year, aimed at squeezing drug routes off Venezuela's coast while pressuring strongman Nicolas Maduro, whom the administration accuses of overseeing vast trafficking networks through proxies like Tren de Aragua, Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, and Venezuela's own Cartel of the Suns.

In August, the U.S. doubled its reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest to $50 million, citing his regime's role in flooding America with fentanyl and other poisons.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaking to reporters last week, laid out the scale of the problem: "Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like TDA, Sinaloa, and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country. To date, the DEA has seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates with nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself."

The strikes underscore Trump's vow to treat cartels as terrorist entities, a designation his administration has pushed to unlock broader military tools against them. Critics, including some Democrats, have raised concerns about escalation risks in the region, but supporters hail the actions as a long-overdue crackdown on the opioid crisis claiming tens of thousands of American lives annually.

As the president heads to Yankee Stadium, pointing emphatically toward his plane in a photo snapped by White House photographers—the message from the Oval Office remains clear: The hunt is on.

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DNA evidence on Charlie Kirk's shooter is in

FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell on "Fox & Friends" Monday, claiming they have the goods on Tyler Robinson, the guy fingered for trying to take out Charlie Kirk. DNA evidence, straight from the scene.

Patel didn't mince words: "I can report today that the DNA hits from the towel that was wrapped around the firearm and the DNA on the screwdriver are positively processed for the suspect in custody." 

The probability that the DNA belongs to someone else rather than Robinson, is practically zero. Profiling, which compares genetic markers, is very precise. The probability of two unrelated people sharing the same DNA profile using the standard 13 to 20 markers used in forensic analysis, is less than 1 in a billion! So in addition to visual evidence, the shooter's father's statement, and his LGBTQ partner's statement, the chances that Robinson is not the shooter is slim to none.

Cops say Robinson pulled a stuntman move, leaping off a roof at Utah Valley University right after the shooting, then hightailed it through some woods into a nearby neighborhood leaving behind a DNA-drenched towel and a screwdriver. The only thing missing was an inscription with his name on these items.

Right now, Robinson is cooling his heels under "special watch" in Utah, giving cops the silent treatment. He might not be talking, but that DNA's got plenty to say.

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Another hater arrested for disgusting act outside Turning Point USA headquarte4rs

In Phoenix, outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA, a scene unfolded that could only be described as a grotesque parody of dissent. A young man, draped in the irony of a black t-shirt emblazoned with the American flag, was caught desecrating a memorial dedicated to Charlie. This act of vandalism, on a somber Sunday, was not merely an assault on stone and sentiment but a calculated affront to the very ideals the memorial sought to honor.

The scumwafer, later identified as 19-year-old Ryder Corral, was seen rampaging through the tribute, kicking over flowers, vases, and flags with the petulance of a child toppling a sandcastle. 

His rampage, spanning some 15 yards, was mercifully cut short when onlookers, no doubt incensed by the spectacle, wrestled him to the ground. The police, swiftly intervening, carted him off in handcuffs, a fitting denouement for such a craven display likely inspired by a media with a leftist agenda. 

One cannot help but note the grim coincidence: Corral's attire bore a striking resemblance to the t-shirt worn by Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the September 10 shooting of Kirk. A pattern, perhaps, or merely the uniform of a certain strain of reckless defiance?

The Phoenix Police Department, with characteristic efficiency, issued a statement: "Corral will be booked on multiple charges to include criminal damage and disorderly conduct," they declared. "An updated media advisory will be sent out once Corral is booked and a booking number is available." One wonders what animates such acts, whether it is ideology run amok or simply the thrill of destruction. What is clear, however, is that this was no mere tantrum; it was a deliberate desecration, a middle finger raised not just to Kirk but to the broader cause he represents. In an age where memorials are battlegrounds and symbols are weaponized, Corral's actions remind us that the fight for meaning is as fierce as ever.

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They Got Him! Here's what we know.

Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at press conference

The alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, has been arrested. He confessed killing Charlie Kirk to his father who told a family friend, who told the FBI. 

Robinson even went on Discord and bragged about his crime. Allegedly, sure.

Below is a mugshot of Robinson.

The suspect was apprehended in an historic time period.

Kash Patel, Gov. Spencer Cox (R), and Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith spoke at a press conference this morning. 

According to the FBI, there were several inscriptions on the casings of the rounds that were recovered. Below is a tweet outlining these writings:

Gov. Cox spoke about the violence in the nation and why we are focused on Charlie's assassination. It's "an attack on the American experiment," and that attacking freedom of expression makes it 'more difficult that people can share their ideas.' He added that we need to have, at the very least, a 'clash of ideas' freely.

Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk.

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State Dept, may revoke visas of foreigners who "glorify violence" after Charlie Kirk assassination

Let's cut through the crap with some cold, hard facts. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative youth influencer, father of two, and co-founder of Turning Point USA, has sent shockwaves through the nation. And now, the State Department is stepping up, signaling they're done playing nice with foreigners who cheer for violence on our soil. This is what happens when you let the woke left's obsession with "tolerance" fester unchecked, people die, and the government finally wakes up.

Bill Melugin, one of the few journalists still doing actual reporting, dropped a bombshell on Fox News about the Kirk assassin. We're talking messages scrawled on the gun and ammo, palm prints, and video surveillance capturing the moments after the shooting. The FBI is scrambling, releasing imagery and begging the public for help to ID the shooter, who's still on the loose. A high-powered bolt-action rifle, ditched in a wooded area, was used to fire a single shot from a rooftop 200 yards away, striking Kirk in the neck during his "American Comeback Tour" at Utah Valley University. 

Ironically, Charlie was answering a question about mass shootings involving transgender individuals. ironic, It's sickeningly ironic that the left's sacred cows might be tied to this tragedy. The event drew 3,000 people, and now one of conservatism's brightest voices is silenced.

Enter Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau, who has had enough of the X platform turning into a cesspool of violence-glorifying rhetoric. He posted, and I quote, "In light of yesterday’s horrific assassination of a leading political figure, I want to underscore that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country." Landau is clearly "disgusted" by foreigners on visas praising or rationalizing Kirk's murder online. 

Landau responded by directing consular officials to monitor social media and take "appropriate action." That's right, Big Brother is watching, and for once, it's watching the right target. Landau even invited people to snitch on foreigners posting this garbage, saying, "Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention so that the @StateDept can protect the American people." 

Good. It's about time we stopped coddling those who cheer for our destruction.

This isn't new territory for the State Department. They've already yanked over 6,000 student visas for overstays or crimes like assault, DUI, burglary, or even "support for terrorism." Apparently, that's what passes for "diversity" in the Biden era. 

Back in June, they announced they'd be snooping on visa applicants' social media, demanding accounts be set to public. Now, Landau's doubling down, specifically targeting replies to his own X post for evidence of foreign nationals cheering Charlie Kirk's death. This is what happens when you let the left's "free speech for all, no matter how vile" mantra run amok; people start thinking they can glorify murder without consequences.

Let's be clear: Kirk's assassination isn't just a tragedy; it's a wake-up call. The left has spent years demonizing conservatives, painting us as the root of all evil while excusing every form of radicalism as "expression." 

Now, a conservative leader is gunned down, and the same crowd that cries "hate speech" when you misgender someone is suddenly silent, or worse, celebrating. The State Department's move to crack down on visa-holding foreigners who applaud this madness is a start, but it's not enough. We need a cultural reckoning. We need to stop pretending that every opinion deserves a platform, especially when it's calling for blood. 

As Landau put it, "foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome." Period. Maybe it's time we applied that standard to everyone, not just foreigners. Facts don't care about your feelings, as Ben Shapiro says, and neither should our national security.

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BREAKING: Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk shot! Latest Update

UPDATE: It has been reported that Charlie Kirk has died. This is a very recent report and has not been confirmed.

On a crisp September 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, the unthinkable went down. Charlie Kirk, the firebrand conservative and founding leader of Turning Point USA, was gunned down during a speaking event at Utah Valley University. It was 12:10 PM, just 20 minutes into a heated Q&A, when a single shot rang out from the Losee Center, some 200 yards off, piercing the air like a cold blade. 

Grainy videos hit the web fast, showing Kirk under a tent emblazoned with "The American Comeback" and "Prove Me Wrong," jolting back as the bullet struck. Bystanders reported that blood came from his neck. Chaos erupted as people immediately ran for cover. 

Kirk crumpled from his chair, and was quickly whisked away by his security crew to a hospital, his fate still a question mark.

Police nabbed a suspect, but they're keeping tight-lipped on who or why. The FBI, under Director Kash Patel, is circling like hawks, backing up local badges. Utah Valley was locked down, cleared out the campus, and classes canceled for the day.

The outrage poured in from all corners. President Trump took to Truth Social, calling Charlie "a great guy" and begging for prayers. VP JD Vance, Utah's Governor Spencer Cox, and Senators Mike Lee and John Curtis piled on with support. 

Even California's Gavin Newsom, no fan of Kirk's politics, slammed the attack as "disgusting, vile, and reprehensible," preaching against political bloodlust. Gabby Giffords, who survived a 2011 hit, chimed in, horrified, condemning the violence.

Thus far, nobody has blamed President Trump for the shooting, but it's early.

This isn't just a one-off. CNN's tally marks this as the 46th school shooting of 2025, another grim tick in America's rising tide of political mayhem. The motive is still a mystery, and the feds are digging. 

For now, it's wait-and-see in a country that's feeling more like a powder keg by the day. A country where some who have fled their own dangerous country seeking asylum, have themselves ended up victims of crime and murder.

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Student test scores lower than whale poop

Well, folks, the Nation's Report Card just flunked America’s kids yet again. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the academic yardstick we've been using for decades to measure how our students stack up, dropped its latest bombshell Tuesday, and it's a doozy. 

Math and reading scores for 12th-graders have hit rock bottom, plumbing new depths of educational despair. And no, this isn’t some post-COVID hangover; the slide started years before the WuFlu turned classrooms into Zoom nightmares.

"Scores for 12th-graders in math and reading continued their years-long slide, reaching new lows on national tests, new data released Tuesday shows." 

Yes, the numbers are uglier than a public school lunch menu. The decline was already in motion pre-pandemic, but policymakers were crossing their fingers for a 2024 rebound. Spoiler alert: they got a face full of failure instead. "Average scores fell to their lowest levels since the current versions of these tests were first administered in both math and reading, as did scores for the lowest-performing students."

The NAEP sorts kids into three buckets: proficient, basic, and below basic. Guess which one's getting crowded? "The number of students scoring below basic has increased," and it isn't just a blip. In reading, the 2024 average score was the lowest since the test kicked off in 1992. A whopping "32 percent of high school seniors scored below 'basic,'" which means they can't even pick out details in a text to figure out what it's saying. 

Math was even worse. The average score is the lowest since 2005, with "45% of high school seniors" flunking the "basic" mark, highest percentage in two decades. Only 33% are ready for college-level math, down from 37% in 2019. But I bet students understand terms about what a gender-fluid, two-spirited, non-binary person is.

Here’s the kicker: the bright kids at the top? Untouched. "Students at the very top have not seen their scores decline at all but students near the bottom have seen their scores collapse." For a decade, the floor's been caving in on low performers, while the 90th-percentile kids keep sipping their intellectual lattes, unfazed. Lesley Muldoon, NAEP's head honcho, put it bluntly: "The test scores show more students are not reaching what would be considered ‘basic’ achievement across subject areas." She insists "proficient" isn't an impossible bar, but when nearly half your seniors can't hit "basic" in math, maybe it's time to rethink what's "reasonable."

By the way, it isn't just high schoolers. Eighth-grade science scores tanked too, with "38 percent of students scoring below the basic level, compared with 33 percent in 2019." At this rate, we'll be lucky if these kids can spell "science" by graduation.

So, what's the culprit? Remote learning during the pandemic sure didn't help, especially for the kids already scraping the bottom. But this nosedive started five or six years before COVID. Enter the usual suspect: screens. 

D. Graham Burnett, a Princeton science historian, nailed it: "With the ubiquity of screens, it seems inevitable that in the future, fewer people will engage with lengthy texts." He's hopeful the "cultural inheritance" of books can survive through speech or memorization, but good luck convincing a TikTok-addled teen to memorize anything longer than a 15-second dance routine.

The comments section on this story is a goldmine of real talk. A high school teacher with 25 years in the trenches laid it bare: "This is not entirely pandemic related. Educators have been witnessing a massive academic decay over the past 10-15 years. This slide in academic and emotional maturity correlates to the gaining impacts and interactions with cell phone technologies and streaming tv services." Kids aren't curious anymore, he says. They don't read, don't see adults reading (actual books, not screens), and are "widely ill-informed" unless a TikTok influencer spoon-feeds them. They can't sit still, crave constant validation, and "crumble or walk away at the slightest hint of friction or difficulties." He said, "The focus required to allow an author to unfold a narrative is an endangered quality."

A recent high school grad chimed in, echoing the same grim truth: "We are so susceptible to whatever is said on TikTok. For some reason, people will believe anything said with enough conviction." 

Motivation is in the gutter too. Why bother when college grads are slinging burgers under a mountain of debt? Add in "lack of focus" (blame the screen-fried brains and questionable ADHD diagnoses) and a system that passes kids who do zilch. "I remember in my geometry class a boy never did a single assignment," the grad wrote. "He only took the tests and routinely did poorly. However, his parents caused a fuss and he was given a high enough grade to move onto the next class." 

Look, screens and social media aren't the devil for everyone; top students seem to handle them fine. But for the kids at the bottom, swapping math homework for hours of TikTok doom-scrolling is a one-way ticket to academic oblivion. Maybe it's time we admit that "scrolling" isn't a subject, and "basic" shouldn't be a pipe dream.

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