Cleveland fire chief on leave after social media post about Charlie Kirk assassination

https://www.cleveland19.com/20...-kirk-assassination/

“In it, he shared an image of an assault rifle with a caption stating, ‘Bring out the next sacrifice!!’”

In the Navy I was in the Cleveland Fire Chief might have been seen as volunteering.

ABC anchor resigns after being suspended for on-air Charlie Kirk tribute

https://notthebee.com/article/...tm_campaign=09172025

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Originally posted by Plugugly:
ABC anchor resigns after being suspended for on-air Charlie Kirk tribute

https://notthebee.com/article/...tm_campaign=09172025

Wow! is all I can say. Way to declare who you are, ABC station. I don't understand though, did she just said aloud her tribute? Or was there a video? I see the picture of Charlie Kirk behind her so....

"Things are in the saddle and ride mankind."
- R.W.Emerson

We have all seen, and maybe taken part in, discussions of the ways in which cell phones and computers have changed our lives for the worse.

I'd like to bring something new to the discussion.

Years ago, while surfing the web, I came across an international online club of growers of huge pumpkins. I'm talking 500 pounds and more. They exchange photos of their pumpkins, which they wax to a high gloss. Discussions revolve around mutual admiration, the best way to feed the pumpkins, how to get the deepest orange, and so on.

What struck me was that a relatively small number of people had found one another and created a group. They might all be hundreds and even thousands of miles from one another, and if not for the Internet, would never have linked up.

So it is with psychos like Kyle Robinson, who are relatively few, but together they create groups that fantasise about torturing and assassinating leaders on the right, like Charlie Kirk. Without cell phones and computers, they never would have found one another, and their destructive effects on society would be minimal.

In a real sense, things--cell phones and computers-- created them. And no matter what we think, we don't control cell phones and computers. They ride us.

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In a real sense, things--cell phones and computers-- created them. And no matter what we think, we don't control cell phones and computers. They ride us.

I had a video suggested to me yesterday, and I think it’s worth a watch. It’s long, and he takes a while to make his point, but it’s well-made. He addresses a lot of that in here as well. Cell phones haven’t made us better people, a better society. The promise of society advancing because of how interconnected we are via the internet and cell phones has proven to be incorrect.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:... I don't understand though, did she just said aloud her tribute? Or was there a video? I see the picture of Charlie Kirk behind her so....

Click on the link, give it a few seconds and the Tweet with video is below.

Here, let me Tweet that for you.

https://x.com/BeniRaeHarmony/s...charlie-kirk-tribute

Read the terminations letter sent to Karen Attiah, from the WA PO

https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/1967768001651814810

The Washington Post September 11, 2025

Karen,

I am writing to inform you that The Post is terminating your employment effective immediately for gross misconduct. Your public comments on social media regarding the death of Charlie Kirk violate The Post’s social media policies, harm the integrity of our organization, and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff.

Among other requirements, the Company-wide social media policy mandates that all employee social media postings be respectful and prohibits postings that disparage people based on their race, gender or other protected characteristics. The policy also reminds employees that everything they post is a reflection on the Company and should not affect the integrity of The Post’s journalism. Your postings on Bluesky (which clearly identifies you as a Post Columnist) about white men in response to the killing of Charlie Kirk do not comply with our policy. For example, you posted: “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is... not the same as violence” and “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.”

In addition, just last year, Opinions leadership asked everyone in the Opinions Department to review the newsroom social media guidelines, attached those guidelines to an email to the Department for review, and reiterated in that email the “bedrock principle that our use of social media must never harm the journalistic integrity or reputation of The Post”.

The poor judgment exhibited by your public comments regarding Charlie Kirk arise against the backdrop of documented performance concerns, which have been raised with you. Given these concerns, and in light of your recent unacceptable Bluesky posts, we cannot tolerate the risk your performance poses to The Post.

Please remove any reference to your affiliation with The Washington Post on any public-facing profiles immediately.

You will receive a separate letter from The Post’s Benefits Department concerning your eligibility for any other Post benefits upon termination.

In the event that you have left any personal items on the premises, we will make arrangements to return them to you and for you to return any Post equipment you have in your possession.

Sincerely,

L. Wayne Connell

Wayne Connell Chief HR Officer The Washington Post

The full Tyler Robinson indictment can be read at the link below. The entirety of the text messages with his "love bunny" can be found at the end...

Tyler Robinson Indictment

I wouldn't expect anything less from this repugnant piece of trash:

https://x.com/PeHedjuk/status/1968339061309149610

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Cleveland fire chief on leave after social media post about Charlie Kirk assassination...

Yeah, being a Mystic Knight of the Sea does not put you on a higher moral plane.

Discord, chat platform scrutinized in Kirk assassination, used by Canadian leftist networks to circulate political target files, lawyer says

https://www.thebureau.news/p/d...direct=true&utm_med=

Lawyer alleges federally funded Canadian Anti-Hate Network has aided Antifa-aligned groups that are compiling private dossiers on citizens via Discord.

Discord, the communications platform now under scrutiny as U.S. investigators examine chat room messages involving the alleged assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is also being used by left-wing Antifa-aligned networks in Canada to organize and share dossiers on political targets, according to Toronto lawyer and independent journalist Caryma Sa’d.

In a wide-ranging interview for The Bureau Podcast, Sa’d, who has covered a proliferation of street protests in Canada, alleged that Antifa-aligned networks rely on gated Discord servers to coordinate harassment campaigns and “dox-style” targeting of foes. Even more alarming, she said, is that some of the information shared would not be publicly available, suggesting that government, legal, or union insiders may have leveraged sensitive data.

What makes her claims especially relevant in the current climate is her belief that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), a federally funded nongovernmental organization, has been involved in what she perceives as Antifa’s targeting activity in Canada. Because Canada’s Liberal government has directed nearly $1 million to CAHN, and because the group liaises with public safety agencies to disseminate its perception of extremist threats, Sa’d argues this has skewed the state’s focus, overlooking the growing threat of violence from Antifa.

Sa’d says that both she and some of her clients have been singled out, and she describes Antifa as a loosely aggregated, cell-like organization that transcends the U.S.–Canada border, operating simultaneously in online forums and in street collectives. These protests, she says, often coalesce under a “solidarity” banner that brings together activists for trans rights, Indigenous rights, migrant rights, encampment movements, safe-supply campaigns, and pro-Palestine demonstrations.

“If we think of Antifa as a movement, it’s not, at least to my observation, like, ‘here’s your card, you’re now a card-carrying member and please pay your dues,’” Sa’d explained. “It’s more like a cell structure and there is both an online and a real-world component. It’s organized regionally, but particularly the online aspect can be national and international. And Discord plays a huge part in this because it allows people to connect online in private servers.”

Public records show that CAHN has received a total of $908,400 in federal funding across three agreements since 2020: $268,400 under Canadian Heritage’s Anti-Racism Action Program; $440,000 under Canadian Heritage’s Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program; and $200,000 from Public Safety Canada’s Community Resilience Fund for a two-year project running from April 2024 to March 2026.

Sa’d said this funding is problematic because, in her view, CAHN “takes public money to put targets on private citizens.”

“How I came to be interested, particularly in Antifa, is the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,” she said. “It is an NGO that purports to document and fight against specifically far-right hate. And in having such a narrow focus, I think that has created almost a vacuum that has allowed the far left to metastasize.”

She pointed to an Ontario court ruling that found CAHN had assisted the Antifa movement.

In an interview with The Bureau, Sa’d described how Discord servers are tiered, with some rooms requiring special access. In exclusive spaces, she said, dossiers on political targets are shared.

“The information isn’t always publicly sourced,” she said, “which would suggest that some of the participants have access to information by virtue of being public servants or members of particular unions. And I don’t say any of this lightly. In my travels, I’ve encountered people from various professions—teachers, professors, nurses, bureaucrats, lawyers, political staffers—who are involved in this movement.”

Sa’d said both she and her clients have been targeted, and that police have shown a persistent reluctance to investigate what she described as “verifiable, documented” harassment and swarming. “There just doesn’t seem to be an appetite to get to the bottom of this,” she said.

While she stopped short of attributing direct foreign interference to fomenting protest movements in Canada, Sa’d noted that footage of Canadian unrest is often amplified by outlets from hostile foreign states, and that protest narratives sometimes pivot inorganically in ways consistent with outside influence. Her conclusion was blunt: Canada’s institutions — from school boards to the Prime Minister’s Office — are politicized and vulnerable to extremism, and “cleaning house” in Canada’s approach to countering extremism is a prerequisite for restoring even-handed rule of law.



From 2024:

Discord leaker may face court-martial as Air Force levies new charges

https://www.airforcetimes.com/...-levies-new-charges/

Jack Teixeira has already faced one trial in connection with America’s most sweeping national security leak in years. Now he may face two.

The Air Force has charged Teixeira, an airman 1st class in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, with one count of disobeying a lawful order and two counts of obstructing justice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a service spokesperson said Wednesday.

The service alleges Teixeira, 22, accessed a trove of U.S. military secrets unrelated to his job as an information technology specialist on military communications networks, then tried to dispose of evidence as criminal proceedings loomed.

Teixeira was convicted in federal court earlier this year of illegally collecting highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other national security matters, then leaking them on the social media platform Discord over the course of several months. He pleaded guilty to all six charges against him and agreed to a 16-year prison sentence.

The Discord leaks revealed secret assessments of troop movements in Ukraine and the flow of supplies and equipment to Ukrainian troops, among other Pentagon secrets. Members of Teixeira’s Discord group have described the airman as someone “looking to show off,” rather than to become a whistleblower.

More at links

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Originally posted by Biker_dude:
Read the terminations letter sent to Karen Attiah, from the WA PO

https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/1967768001651814810

The Washington Post September 11, 2025

Karen,

I am writing to inform you that The Post is terminating your employment effective immediately.

Because you're a horrible excuse of a human being.

^^^^^^
It appears that Bezos ownership has improved the rag somewhat.

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Originally posted by Biker_Dude:
Read the terminations letter sent to Karen Attiah, from the WA PO

https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/1967768001651814810

The Washington Post September 11, 2025

I did follow the link and read through the posts that led to her firing. One of her posts made reference to political violence and “the two Democratic legislators shot in Minnesota” and she went on to say that “America moved on.”

The Dems have been searching for moral equivalence (in vain, I think) since Charlie Kirk was assassinated. She was referring to Minnesota state representative, Melissa Hortman and her husband, both shot and killed, and state senator John Hoffman and his wife, both shot and hospitalized, by Luther Boelter. The shootings have been labeled “political violence” and an “assassination,” by Tim Walz and the Democrats, but actual evidence that Boelter was politically motivated has not been shown to us, AFAIK.

All I want to say is that these people were Minnesota state government officials. If there wasn’t a big reaction to the shootings, it’s because nobody outside of Minnesota knew who they were. I’d bet a fair amount of money that few Minnesota residents, Democrat or Republican, knew who they were.

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All I want to say is that these people were Minnesota state government officials. If there wasn’t a big reaction to the shootings, it’s because nobody outside of Minnesota knew who they were. I’d bet a fair amount of money that few Minnesota residents, Democrat or Republican, knew who they were.

This has been my general position on the comparison between the 2 events as well.
Local exposure vs nationally/internationally known

Luther Boelter was appointed to a government board by none other than TamponTimmy.

There’s no hard evidence that Boelter was politically motivated. He may well have been, but there is no confession and only circumstantial evidence that it was: his so-called “hit list” was reported to contain mostly Democrats. What they hang their hat on is that he appeared to be very anti-abortion, based on the stances of Hortman and Hoffman. Oh, and the fact that Walz said it was.