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9/13/25

Charlie Kirk Murder and the Ultra Right Nationalist Shooter

Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at Michigan's Capitol in Lansing in 2020.Nicole Hester / Mlive.com / Ann Arbor News via AP file

It has come to light that Tyler Robinson, the man being held for the murder of Charlie Kirk, is a follower of the group "Groypers" led by white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

The Groypers are an ultra-nationalist, far-right group rooted in meme culture, and they use a mixture of internet memes, coded language, and mainstream conservative imagery to obscure their extremist beliefs and attract new followers.

This as the Wall Street Journal reported, shell casings left in the woods by Robinson were engraved with messages of transgender and antifascist idiology."

Trump, emboldened by Robinson's parents, who said he had become more "political," told Fox News that “For years, those on the radical Left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now," Trump said," but in reality, the exact opposite may be true.

Kirk was murdered as he engaged in an open debate with university students in Utah, an activity that the Groypers openly despised. They had previously disrupted an event like this simply because it was inclusive.

The memes and engravings that the Wall Street Journal falsely described as "transgender" and "anti-fascist" were standard engravings from the ammunition manufacturer or memes that the Groyper movement frequently uses. The Wall Street Journal has walked back those provocations but has yet to issue an apology or a full retraction.

Wouldn't be ironic if Kirk was murdered for doing something I admire in a person, a willingness to engage in an open debate, something that most MAGA won't do?

I am relieved that the shooter was not a member of the LGBTQI community or ANTIFA. While I am not mourning his death, I do feel obligated as a Christian to say this: Rest in Peace, Charlie Kirk.

9/12/25

Appeals Court Rules Transgender people can obtain a passport

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk: Pexels

The First Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 4, 2025, ruled against Donald Trump keeping in place an injunction allowing transgender people the right to obtain passports that align with their gender identity.

In April, District Court Judge Julia Kobick granted a preliminary injunction requiring the State Department to allow six transgender and nonbinary plaintiffs in Orr v. Trump to obtain passports with sex designations consistent with their gender identity or with an “X” sex designation while the lawsuit proceeds.

Then, in June, Judge Kobick certified two classes of passport holders and expanded the preliminary injunction to include any class member applying to:

Obtain a new passport,

Change the sex designation or update their name on their current passport

Replace a lost, stolen, or damaged passport, or

Renew their passport within one year of its expiration.

This includes those who, under the Trump administration’s policy, were previously sent a passport with a sex designation listing their sex assigned at birth.