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Assassin Apprehended? Trump Says So UPDATE: Suspect Is Tyler Robinson, 22 UPDATE: Confirmed Antifa Motive

Posted on | September 12, 2025 | Comments Off on Assassin Apprehended? Trump Says So UPDATE: Suspect Is Tyler Robinson, 22 UPDATE: Confirmed Antifa Motive

Thursday night’s press conference was pretty much a nothingburger and I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve been getting frustrated with the long delay in catching the Utah shooter. Now, however, the president himself says the FBI finally got their man:

President Trump announced Friday that a suspect has been arrested for Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
“I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” during a live interview at the cable giant’s Manhattan studio
‘Somebody who was very close to him turned him in,” the president said.
The suspect was allegedly believed to have fired a single shot from an elevated position about 200 yards from the tent where Kirk, 31, was seated at the university’s Losee Center, authorities and sources previously told The Post. . . .
Officers from at least four law enforcement agencies were involved in the manhunt, including the FBI, the Orem Police, the Utah Department of Public Safety and the Utah Valley University Police.

UPDATE 9:58 a.m. ET: The name of the suspect is Tyler Robinson, age 22. We still await the beginning of the press conference.

UPDATE 10:22 a.m. ET: The main briefer at the press conference was Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who laid out the evidence and testimony that led to the arrest of Tyler Robinson. According to witnesses, Robinson had become “more political,” and expressed “hate.” His messages on Discord were part of the evidence. Governor Cox quoted the Antifa messages inscribed on the bullet cases found in the rifle that Robinson used.

 



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.11.25

Posted on | September 11, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.11.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Peter Grant needs your help. 
Just flew in from Vegas and are my arms tired but I’m going to at least try to get caught up on all the substackery. Kind of glad that right now I can only post to X from the Son of Silvercon account, which is strictly nonpolitical. Well, as much as a resolutely non-woke, pro-nuclear convention can be, anyway.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Mostly Crime-Free Weekend in Chicago, 
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part IX, 
EBL: Cubera Snapper : The Rest of the Fish, Poland scrambles NATO defenses due to Russian drones in Poland airspace, Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog “Rainbow Connection”, Pumpkin Everything, and Israel launches strikes against Hamas leaders in Qatar’s capital Doha
Twitchy: Scott Jennings Has Some Brutal Advice For Dem Rep Seth Moulton, Ireland & Spain Won’t Participate In 2026 Eurovision Contest If Israel Does, and I Should Have Stayed Off TikTok – Appalling Responses To Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Louder With Crowder: Charlie Kirk was shot dead in public, and MSNBC wondered if it was a Trump supporter, Tom Homan torches smug Mika Brzezinski, counters her virtue signaling with stone-cold facts on Boston immigration raids, Popular woke radio host agrees Trump-Epstein letter is a hoax… but thinks it was PLANTED by pro-Trump people, CNN gets snippy at former Trump official over hilarious meme, acts as if Trump will literally napalm Chicago, and Revel in the smugness as Jimmy Kimmel shares his feelings about being on the forefront of “defending democracy”
Vox Popoli: Baseless Con, Focus on the Homeland, The End of Anti-Racist Liberalism, No Confidence in France, and Monday Night McCarthy
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Toxic Empathy
The Abbey of Misrule: “The only way out is through”
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Everyone Is A Lesson, also, The 72-Hour Rule
Upstream Reviews: Jade Torch – The Killing Thought
Gab: Train Murder Reveals The Toll Of Anti-White Hate
Stoic Observations: American Political Violence
Postcards From Barsoom: Peace Has Been Murdered And Dialogue Shot In The Throat

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: AUKUS – Too Important To Balk On, also, Back To Subic Bay…With Friends?
Dana Loesch: Restorative Justice Helped Kill Irina Zarutska, Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Today, RIP Charlie Kirk, also, The Yankees Give A Master Class In Grace
Don Surber: The $14 trillion emergency, also, DEI judges suck
Matt Taibbi: Activism, Uncensoted – Resistance In DC As Federal Surge Continues, The Trump Trap, and Massachusetts Hits New Low With Latest Self-Loathing Flag Designs
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday, also, Byron Donalds Supports “In God We Trust” Being Inscribed On All State & Federal Buildings
STUMP: September 2025 Public Pension Roundup, also, World Suicide Prevention Day 2025

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FBI Press Conference Scheduled on Developments in Charlie Kirk Case UPDATE: Has 4chan ID’d the Killer?

Posted on | September 11, 2025 | Comments Off on FBI Press Conference Scheduled on Developments in Charlie Kirk Case UPDATE: Has 4chan ID’d the Killer?

After Wednesday’s “now we’ve got him/now we don’t” confusion over whether law enforcement had arrested the gunman who assassinated Charlie Cook, today there is supposed to be a press conference where the FBI will announce the latest developments in the investigation.

UPDATE 4:55 p.m. ET: At this point, I am not going to name the person that the 4chan crew has identified as the likely shooter, but you can do your own search on X and decide for yourself.

UPDATE 5:40 p.m. ET: As I understand it, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are flying out to Utah for the press conference, which was delayed to make time for their arrival.

If that is correct — and I’m just repeating what was said on Fox News — then it’s quite likely they will be prepared to identify the suspect who, I would guess, is already in custody. In the meantime, we’ve got 4chan claiming that the shooter is what Andy Ngo would call “Trantifa,” the weird synthesis of trangenderism and Antifa that has emerged in recent years. If you want to learn more about transgenderism, I would refer you to my friend Cynthia Yockey, who has made herself an autodidactic expert on the phenomenon of autogynephilia. The intersection of radical leftism and psychiatric disorders should not be ignored.

We shall see what is said at the press conference.

UPDATE 6:45 p.m. ET: My friend Matt Margolis reports:

Investigators have already recovered what is believed to be the murder weapon, a high-powered bolt-action rifle, along with other forensic evidence, including a footwear impression, a palm print, and forearm imprints. FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Bohls said more than 130 tips have poured in from the public.
Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason detailed how investigators tracked the suspect’s movements. “Starting at 11:52 a.m. this subject arrived on campus,” Mason said. He explained that surveillance showed the individual making his way through stairwells and onto the roof before reaching the shooting position. After the attack, the suspect reportedly crossed to the other side of the building, jumped down, and escaped into a nearby neighborhood. Mason also noted that authorities have obtained “good video footage” of the shooter but have not yet released it.
The rifle found near the campus was an older-model Mauser .30-06 bolt action. It was discovered wrapped in a towel in a wooded area, with a spent cartridge chambered and three unspent rounds still in the magazine. Disturbingly, those rounds were engraved with messaging tied to transgender and “anti-fascist” ideology.

(Hat-tip: Charlie Martin at Instapundit.) This information would appear to fit with the identification made by 4chan, but we must wait for an official announcement. There is no word yet on when the postponed press conference will be rescheduled, but I’ll update if something breaks.

 



 

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Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Today UPDATE: Suspect Reported in Custody UPDATE: Nope, FBI Got It Wrong (Again)

Posted on | September 10, 2025 | Comments Off on Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Today UPDATE: Suspect Reported in Custody UPDATE: Nope, FBI Got It Wrong (Again)

About 2:45 p.m. ET, my phone started buzzing with messages that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had been shot while speaking on a college campus in Utah. The videos that circulated on X/Twitter looked very, very bad. Everybody started praying for Charlie, but about 4:40 p.m. ET, President Trump broke the news that Charlie had died.

UPDATE 5:20 p.m. ET: Ben Shapiro:

Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America – an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie.

At this point, by the way, the gunman is not in custody. The cops put someone in handcuffs immediately after the shooting, but apparently that was not the gunman. Until the shooter is apprehended and/or identified, we cannot know his motive, and I caution (as always in such situations) about making assumptions about the motive.

UPDATE 5:35 p.m. ET: It is an understatement to say that Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) have not exactly covered themselves in glory today.

UPDATE 7:20 p.m. ET: FBI Director Kash Patel and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox both separately have said that a suspect is in custody. Apparently, the shooter had a rifle and was on the rooftop of a building about 200 yards from where Charlie was speaking. We don’t know much more at this point. When more is known, I’ll post it.

UPDATE 11:45 p.m. ET: It’s now being reported that the “suspect in custody” has been questioned and released and is not the shooter. So that apparently means that the gunman escaped the immediate scene of the crime and his whereabouts are now unknown. Several people on X have pointed out that a “kill shot” at 200 yards indicates that this was a very skilled marksman, and his ability to escape after committing such a public atrocity can be interpreted as evidence of a very high level of planning. Don’t want to venture into conspiracy-theory territory here, but this doesn’t seem like the work of just some random kook.

 



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.08.25

Posted on | September 9, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.08.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

On the road for the next few days thanks to NSSAB and VA business. Blogging may be sporadic.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal, Part VIII 
357 Magnum: The Biden Administration’s Abandonment of Immigrant Children
EBL: The Duchy Darlings : Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, True Crime Story: Smugshot, The Rest of the Fish: Warsaw Grouper, Highest 2 Lowest, and Bernie Sanders Takes Big Pharma Bucks
Twitchy: Schiff and Newsom and Bass Oh My! Gutfeld Blasts The Tater For Using Mental Illness To Excuse Charlotte Killer, and Rolling Stone’s Latest Lie
Vox Popoli: Fear of a Dark Lord, Never Seen That Before, Mailvox: Tactical Dominance isn’t Victory, Most Authors Will Get Nothing, and Japanese PM Resigns
Upstream Reviews: The Charity Anthology For Lori Janeski Is Live! War By Other Means, and 24-Hour Warlock
Cedar Sanderson: The Mythos of AI, Midnight Sky Cake, and Botany & Graphite, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Update, You May Think I’m Rude, and Lessons
Stoic Observations: Clubbing In LA (1987), also, Thrillseekers
Jim McCoy: BasedCon AAR

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Greenland, AUKUS, & NATSEC Polar Politics – On Midrats, 
Dana Loesch: When Immigration Becomes Invasion, also, The Biden Administration Knew Puberty Blockers Were Bad News & Still Pushed Them
Don Surber: Childrens’ hospitals drop transgendering
Elizabeth Nickson: Trump’s Economic Triumphs Will End The Murderous Mercantilist British Empire
Glenn Reynolds: From Rabble-Rousing To Rabble Snoozing
Matt Taibbi: In Gaza, Does Silence Equal Violence?
STUMP: Political Mortality – STUMP Compilation As Of September 2025

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Rule Five Sunday: The End of Summer

Posted on | September 8, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: The End of Summer

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week’s appetizer from A.VO on X, who has clearly mastered the prompts.
As I’ve collected a week-long stint in Twitlag for expressing the wish that Xavier Becerra be hanged, I’d appreciate it if someone could post the links to X for me until next Sunday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Transgender Gun Ban Friday, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Casino Royale (1967), Restrictions on guns for trannies? “Scarborough Fair”, “Pick Yourself Up”, Bari Weiss & CBS News, MAGA Bombing Tren de Aragua Drug Runners, As Gouda As It Gets, Catch of the Day, The Infamous Scene That Took “Soul Train” Off The Air, Villa Amore, AI Rising, Fall Is Coming, and “Goodbye England’s Rose”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Morgan Hollie, Fish Pic Friday – That Salty Blonde, Kent County Coms Oppose New Striper Commercial Cutoffs, Thursday’s Tanlines, Bay Grasses a Mixed Bag in 2024, The Wednesday Wetness, Atlantic Redfish on the Decline?, Ride, Are New Menhaden Regulations Coming?, Labor Day Flotsam and Jetsam – Trump Still Not Dead, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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‘Blood Visibly Drips on the Floor as the Defendant Walks Away From the Victim’

Posted on | September 7, 2025 | Comments Off on ‘Blood Visibly Drips on the Floor as the Defendant Walks Away From the Victim’

The many mug shots of Decarlos Brown

The headline quotes from the affidavit for the arrest last month of Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Detectives obtained video from inside of the train car. The video is clear and of ID quality. The victim enters the train car and sits in the seats directly in front of the defendant. The train travels for approximately four and a half minutes before the suspect pulls a knife from his pocket, unfolds the knife, pauses, then stands up, and strikes the victim three times. Blood visibly drips on the floor as the defendant walks away from the victim. The victim goes unresponsive shortly after the attack. The defendant is the assailant on the video. There appears to be no interaction between the victim and the defendant.

The victim, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, was wearing her work uniform from Zepeddie’s Pizzeria, and likely boarded the Lynx train at the Scaleybark station. The arrest was made at the East/West Boulevard station, which is three stops north on the Blue Line.

“There appears to be no interaction between the victim and the defendant” — this deadly crime was entirely unprovoked. Brown just casually unfolds his knife, gets up and plunges the knife into the neck of an innocent woman who never even said a word to him.

The Daily Mail had Brown’s criminal history:

A man accused of killing a Ukrainian woman who moved to the US to flee the war in her home country has a lengthy criminal history that includes a previous assault on his sister, according to police records. . . .
Zarutska had only recently arrived in the US ‘seeking safety from the war and hoping for a new beginning’, her family said on a GoFundMe page.
Brown, meanwhile, is a career criminal who has spent most of his life in and out of prison, a Daily Mail review of police records found.
He was charged with misusing 911 as recently as January, when he told cops he believed someone had given him a ‘man-made’ material that controlled his actions.
He was released on no bail and was pending trial when he allegedly stabbed Zaruska to death [August 22].
Brown served five years in prison for a 2014 armed robbery and was released in September, 2020 — when he quickly resumed a life of crime.
Just months after his release from prison, on February, 2021, Brown was arrested for assaulting his sister in Charlotte and leaving her with minor injuries, according to police records obtained by the Daily Mail.
That same month, he was also arrested for injury to personal property and trespassing.
A police report from that incident said Brown ‘returned to the address after being told he was not allowed back and kicked and damaged the front door of the listed victim’s residence.’
In July 2022, Brown was then arrested again for a domestic disturbance.
‘[Brown] was arrested for disorderly conduct. The suspect was yelling and cursing, causing a disturbance and drawing the attention of multiple tenants while on the property the call for service was located,’ read the police report.
Brown’s arrest records go as [far] back as 2007, when he was still a minor.
Over the next seven years, he was arrested at least six times for crimes including felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon and communicating threats.

This is by no means an uncommon pattern. We see this pattern routinely. Murder is seldom the first crime on a career criminal’s rap sheet. They get arrested and turned loose, over and over, until finally they kill somebody, and only then do people ask, “Why was he out on the streets?”

Decarlos Brown was reportedly schizophrenic. Joe Bruno of WSOC-TV says his own mother wanted him locked up:

When Brown was released from prison, Brown’s mom says “he started saying weird things.”
She says she got Brown evaluated but his behavior became aggressive so she got an involuntary commitment order from the courts. He was placed under psychiatric monitoring for two weeks and diagnosed with schizophrenia. But after he was released she says Brown became so aggressive she had to kick him out. He became homeless.
In January, Brown was arrested for misusing the 911 system. Police say he called from the hospital and claimed someone gave him “man made material” that controlled when he “ate, walked and talked.” Despite his criminal past and homelessness, Magistrate Teresa Stokes allowed him to be released from jail on a written promise to appear. In court [in July] on this charge, his public defender questioned Brown’s mental capacity. Judge Roy Wiggins ordered a forensic evaluation.
Brown’s mom says the court should have never let her son be out in the community knowing he had mental health issues and previous arrests.
CMPD’s community policing team was well acquainted with Brown. They encountered him three times in 2024 and referred him to resources each time. CMPD has still not answered my questions asking what these resources are, if he accepted any of them, if police have any recourse if they keep encountering someone who refuses help and why Brown wasn’t arrested if he was accused of criminal activity.

How can this happen? A guy with an armed robbery conviction on his rap sheet, so dangerous that his own mother kicked him out of her house, so crazy that he calls 911 to report his delusions, gets turned loose without paying a cent of bail. His own public defender tells the judge that his client lacks the “mental capacity” to participate in court proceedings, the judge orders an “evaluation” — yet this violent psycho is nevertheless permitted to continue wandering the streets until one Friday night when the voices in his head tell him to stab a complete stranger in the neck for no apparent reason. Did I mention that in November 2024, Kamala Harris got 65% of the vote in Mecklenburg County? Because that’s the only possible explanation that comes to mind.

Democrats are objectively pro-crime. It is the de facto policy of the Democratic Party that mentally ill criminals should be turned loose on the streets until they stab somebody in the neck. Democrats are the psycho killer party, and the people who vote for Democrats don’t care how many people get killed as a result of their policy.

Like I keep telling y’all, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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FMJRA 2.0: Morning Glory Milking Farm

Posted on | September 7, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Morning Glory Milking Farm

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I may not have done a book post in quite a while, but as longtime readers can attest (and this website as well) this book by C.M. Nascosta is not anywhere near my normal tastes in books. However, being the public benefactor I am, I felt obligated to give this book a read and report on it. Now that I have done so, I must ask for your prayers and contributions to the tip jar, because brain bleach isn’t cheap.
Having said this, I must congratulate Ms. Nascosta. This is a well-written book, succeeding not merely as a sexual fantasy but as the sort of multi-species Hallmark movie script one might expect from a particularly raunchy D&D Fifth Edition session. Indeed, if you deleted the sex scenes, this wouldn’t look out of place on the Hallmark Channel. On the other hand, if you deleted the sex scenes, there would be no point to the thing, because the whole novel is about the mousy, fairly average looking heroine’s increasing sexual obsession with the strapping young minotaur who’s enjoying his regular visits to the glory holepharmaceutical company much more than he used to. The author is to be congratulated for not making the protagonist a Mary Sue but rather, a more sympathetic girl who’s trapped in a situation many of her readers are probably all too familiar with: a college graduate with degrees worthless in the job market, trying desperately to find some work – any work – that will keep her from having to move home into Mom’s basement. The bottom line? It’s a good, well-written fantasy on a couple of levels, and apparently the sort of thing horny women are reading these days. So in conclusion, I can do no better than to quote Honest Abe Lincoln: “If this is the sort of thing you like, then you will probably like it.”
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Just what it says on the can.

KiwiFarms Sues U.K. and It’s Awesome
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FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal
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Rule Five Sunday: Laundry Day
Animal Magnetism
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Bad Causes Attract Bad People (and Why NPCs Can’t Resist ‘The Current Thing’)
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In The Mailbox: 09.02.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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A Return to Frontier Justice?
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In The Mailbox: 09.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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