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Bible sales see massive jump after Charlie Kirk’s assassination
Sales of the Christian holy book increased by 36 percent in September, compared with the same month last yearwww.the-independent.com
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Charges have been dropped against aTennessee man who has been behind bars for more than a month after posting a meme featuring Donald Trump in a group setup as a memorial for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Larry Bushart, 61, from Lexington, Tennessee – about 110 miles from Nashville – was booked into jail on September 21 for posting a meme quoting President Donald Trump when he responded to a 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa, saying, “We have to get over it.”
Bushart posted the meme on Facebook and organized a vigil after Kirk's death. He captioned it, “This seems relevant today.”
However, members of the group interpreted Bushart’s post as a threat against their local high school, which is also called Perry County High School.
“Investigators believe Bushart was fully aware of the fear his post would cause and intentionally sought to create hysteria within the community,” Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems told The Tennessean.
Bushart was then arrested and charged with making threats of mass violence on school property and activities.………
www.independent.co.uk
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Charges have been dropped against aTennessee man who has been behind bars for more than a month after posting a meme featuring Donald Trump in a group setup as a memorial for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Larry Bushart, 61, from Lexington, Tennessee – about 110 miles from Nashville – was booked into jail on September 21 for posting a meme quoting President Donald Trump when he responded to a 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa, saying, “We have to get over it.”
Bushart posted the meme on Facebook and organized a vigil after Kirk's death. He captioned it, “This seems relevant today.”
However, members of the group interpreted Bushart’s post as a threat against their local high school, which is also called Perry County High School.
“Investigators believe Bushart was fully aware of the fear his post would cause and intentionally sought to create hysteria within the community,” Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems told The Tennessean.
Bushart was then arrested and charged with making threats of mass violence on school property and activities.………
Tennessee man has charges are dropped over Trump meme relating to Charlie Kirk vigil
Charges have been dropped against a Tennessee man who has been behind bars for more than a month after posting a meme featuring Donald Trump in a group setup as a memorial for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
www.independent.co.uk
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A former Georgia teacher of the year finalist has filed a federal lawsuit against her school district, saying that she was "unconstitutionally punished" for social media comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
In the complaint, which was filed on Monday, Michelle Mickens claims that she was placed on leave and asked to either resign or be terminated after discussing Kirk's political positions on her private Facebook page.
Mickens, an English teacher at one of Oglethrope County's high schools, argues that she was exercising her First Amendment rights with her comments and that the school district's response was politically motivated retaliation.
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.- Charlie Kirk," the post read.
The post led to a back-and-forth with her followers, where Mickens criticized Kirk but said she was against violence.
"I don't condone violence of any kind, and I certainly don't condone this, but he was a horrible person, a fascist full of hate for anyone who was different," she wrote. "While I'm sad that we live in a country where gun violence is an epidemic, the world is a bit safer without him. I didn't respect him at all, and he's part of the hatred and vitriolic language we hear so much now. I pray that without him."
The next day, Mickens says she was called to the office, where she was informed the school has received a complaint from someone over the post. She later learned from a friend that a former classmate had taken a screenshot of her post and shared it publicly on X, calling on readers to contact the principal at her school.
When she later spoke to the principal and the school superintendent, Mickens says they suggested she delete the post and issue an apology, but she told them that she wanted to consult her attorney before responding. The next school week, she was asked to remain home and found out her access to school emails had been removed.
The lawsuit claims that other employees of the school district have not been disciplined for pro-Charlie Kirk views, including several teachers who Mickens claims have posted photos wearing pro-Kirk T-shirts at school.
Mickens had worked in Georgia high schools for 24 years and had been a finalist for the 2022 Georgia Teacher of the Year. The complaint says that she had never received a formal complaint about her professional conduct before this incident...............
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In the complaint, which was filed on Monday, Michelle Mickens claims that she was placed on leave and asked to either resign or be terminated after discussing Kirk's political positions on her private Facebook page.
Mickens, an English teacher at one of Oglethrope County's high schools, argues that she was exercising her First Amendment rights with her comments and that the school district's response was politically motivated retaliation.
Teacher claims Charlie Kirk posts led to retalitation
According to the complaint, Mickens posted a direct quote from Kirk hours after his assassination on her private account, which she claims was only viewable by close friends."I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.- Charlie Kirk," the post read.
The post led to a back-and-forth with her followers, where Mickens criticized Kirk but said she was against violence.
"I don't condone violence of any kind, and I certainly don't condone this, but he was a horrible person, a fascist full of hate for anyone who was different," she wrote. "While I'm sad that we live in a country where gun violence is an epidemic, the world is a bit safer without him. I didn't respect him at all, and he's part of the hatred and vitriolic language we hear so much now. I pray that without him."
The next day, Mickens says she was called to the office, where she was informed the school has received a complaint from someone over the post. She later learned from a friend that a former classmate had taken a screenshot of her post and shared it publicly on X, calling on readers to contact the principal at her school.
When she later spoke to the principal and the school superintendent, Mickens says they suggested she delete the post and issue an apology, but she told them that she wanted to consult her attorney before responding. The next school week, she was asked to remain home and found out her access to school emails had been removed.
The lawsuit claims that other employees of the school district have not been disciplined for pro-Charlie Kirk views, including several teachers who Mickens claims have posted photos wearing pro-Kirk T-shirts at school.
Mickens had worked in Georgia high schools for 24 years and had been a finalist for the 2022 Georgia Teacher of the Year. The complaint says that she had never received a formal complaint about her professional conduct before this incident...............
Georgia teacher placed on leave over social media posts about Charlie Kirk suing school district
The former Georgia teacher of the year finalist claims she was "unconstitutionally punished" for private Facebook posts about Charlie Kirk.
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A former Georgia teacher of the year finalist has filed a federal lawsuit against her school district, saying that she was "unconstitutionally punished" for social media comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
In the complaint, which was filed on Monday, Michelle Mickens claims that she was placed on leave and asked to either resign or be terminated after discussing Kirk's political positions on her private Facebook page.
Mickens, an English teacher at one of Oglethrope County's high schools, argues that she was exercising her First Amendment rights with her comments and that the school district's response was politically motivated retaliation.
Teacher claims Charlie Kirk posts led to retalitation
According to the complaint, Mickens posted a direct quote from Kirk hours after his assassination on her private account, which she claims was only viewable by close friends.
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.- Charlie Kirk," the post read.
The post led to a back-and-forth with her followers, where Mickens criticized Kirk but said she was against violence.
"I don't condone violence of any kind, and I certainly don't condone this, but he was a horrible person, a fascist full of hate for anyone who was different," she wrote. "While I'm sad that we live in a country where gun violence is an epidemic, the world is a bit safer without him. I didn't respect him at all, and he's part of the hatred and vitriolic language we hear so much now. I pray that without him."
The next day, Mickens says she was called to the office, where she was informed the school has received a complaint from someone over the post. She later learned from a friend that a former classmate had taken a screenshot of her post and shared it publicly on X, calling on readers to contact the principal at her school.
When she later spoke to the principal and the school superintendent, Mickens says they suggested she delete the post and issue an apology, but she told them that she wanted to consult her attorney before responding. The next school week, she was asked to remain home and found out her access to school emails had been removed.
The lawsuit claims that other employees of the school district have not been disciplined for pro-Charlie Kirk views, including several teachers who Mickens claims have posted photos wearing pro-Kirk T-shirts at school.
Mickens had worked in Georgia high schools for 24 years and had been a finalist for the 2022 Georgia Teacher of the Year. The complaint says that she had never received a formal complaint about her professional conduct before this incident...............
Georgia teacher placed on leave over social media posts about Charlie Kirk suing school district
The former Georgia teacher of the year finalist claims she was "unconstitutionally punished" for private Facebook posts about Charlie Kirk.
the right wingers are most likely celebrating about the teacher getting let go because the nowadays right wingers do not like any left wingers which is why usa has been divided so much since 2020 even thought the division in usa started in 2016
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HOUSTON — The Texas chapter of the country’s second-largest teachers union sued state education officials on Tuesday, alleging their investigation of comments by 350 educators about Charlie Kirk’s killing last year violates free speech protections.
The lawsuit, filed by the Texas American Federation of Teachers in federal court, notes that two days after the conservative activist was fatally shot during an appearance at a college in Utah, Texas’s education commissioner sent a letter to superintendents warning that the state would investigate Kirk-related posts by educators on social media considered “reprehensible and inappropriate.”
Numerous members of the union, which has 66,000 members in Texas, were then reprimanded, placed on administrative leave and fired, the lawsuit said.
“A few well-placed Texas politicians and bureaucrats think it is good for their careers to trample on educators’ free speech rights,” said Zeph Capo, the union’s president. “They decided scoring a few cheap points was worth the unfair discipline, the doxing, and the death threats targeted at Texas teachers. Meanwhile, educators and their families are afraid that they’ll lose everything: their livelihoods, their reputations, and their very purpose for being, which is to impart critical thinking.”
Jake Kobersky, a spokesman for the Texas Education Agency, said 95 of the 350 complaints remained pending this week — the rest had been “closed as ...dismissed/unsubstantiated.”
“The educators subject of a closed complaint will not face a state sanction,” Kobersky said in an email, noting that, “No state sanctions have been applied at this time — again, the review and investigation process is still ongoing with 95 of the complaints.”
Kobersky said, “TEA can’t comment on outstanding legal matters.”..............
The lawsuit, filed by the Texas American Federation of Teachers in federal court, notes that two days after the conservative activist was fatally shot during an appearance at a college in Utah, Texas’s education commissioner sent a letter to superintendents warning that the state would investigate Kirk-related posts by educators on social media considered “reprehensible and inappropriate.”
Numerous members of the union, which has 66,000 members in Texas, were then reprimanded, placed on administrative leave and fired, the lawsuit said.
“A few well-placed Texas politicians and bureaucrats think it is good for their careers to trample on educators’ free speech rights,” said Zeph Capo, the union’s president. “They decided scoring a few cheap points was worth the unfair discipline, the doxing, and the death threats targeted at Texas teachers. Meanwhile, educators and their families are afraid that they’ll lose everything: their livelihoods, their reputations, and their very purpose for being, which is to impart critical thinking.”
Jake Kobersky, a spokesman for the Texas Education Agency, said 95 of the 350 complaints remained pending this week — the rest had been “closed as ...dismissed/unsubstantiated.”
“The educators subject of a closed complaint will not face a state sanction,” Kobersky said in an email, noting that, “No state sanctions have been applied at this time — again, the review and investigation process is still ongoing with 95 of the complaints.”
Kobersky said, “TEA can’t comment on outstanding legal matters.”..............
350 Texas teachers targeted for posts about Charlie Kirk, lawsuit says
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Julie Strebe, a 55-year-old sheriff’s deputy in the small Bible belt town of Salem, Missouri, was on a date with her husband at a Buffalo Wild Wings when her husband slid his phone across the table.
On Facebook, people were demanding Strebe’s immediate termination, calling her a “wacko” with “extreme mental health issues”.
It was the afternoon of 13 September 2025, just a few days after Charlie Kirk had been killed by a sniper’s bullet on a college campus.
Shortly after his assassination, Strebe had posted on her personal Facebook page: “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.”
In comments underneath, she did not mince words. She called Kirk a racist, a sexist, an antisemite and the kind of person who wants to see gay people, like her own son, stoned to death. “I don’t feel bad,” she says, months later, speaking from her home. “I refuse to feel bad for this man, and the hateful things he stood for.”
When she heard people were calling for her to be fired, Strebe told her superiors that she would take her offending posts down. But it was too late. Her posts had escaped containment.
On Facebook, and in phone calls to her workplace, she was called a lunatic with a badge and gun or a “corrupt cop”, who couldn’t be trusted to execute her duties as law enforcement.
Some locals apparently worried that if Strebe pulled them over for a routine traffic stop, she might fire her weapon at them if they were wearing a Maga hat.
People from her home county of Dent, which voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election, used homophobic slurs against her son online.
Her husband’s woodworking business was targeted too, as was the Facebook page for his charitable side gig, where he dresses up as the Grinch and visits children’s hospitals over the holidays.
“I’ve been a cop for 19 years,” Strebe says. “I believe that everybody should be treated fairly. And that’s what I’ve done my entire career. And this one statement was completely just twisted. It’s very frustrating.”
Strebe is one of a group of Americans who endured similar ordeals after Kirk’s death. Some were called out for their unkind, even giddy, social media reactions to news of the far-right activist’s assassination.
Others were harangued for merely quoting Kirk’s own words – particularly his comments about how a certain number of gun deaths are an acceptable cost to maintain the gun rights vouchsafed by the second amendment.
A website, titled Charlie Kirk’s Murderers, collated the names and personal information of such alleged offenders. The site has since been decommissioned – but it aided Kirk acolytes in mounting complaints to employers against those they deemed to be not sufficiently reverential.
By November of 2025, a Reuters investigationestimated that 600 people had been terminated, disciplined, investigated, suspended or otherwise admonished for their Kirk posts, likening the reaction to an ideological purge.
That’s how the Strebes felt when they started to notice people lurking outside their house. They set up security cameras on the perimeter.
A large truck parked on their block with a dinky, Sharpie-on-cardboard taped to its side that read: “Julie Strebe Supports the Assassination of Charles Kirk.”
“He could have done a much better sign,” laughs Strebe, as she prepares to pack up and move out of the town where she has made a life for 20 years. “It looks like a third-grader wrote it.”
Strebe was suspended, then fired. According to Strebe, superiors claimed that because she made her posts on the clock and did not disclaim they were her personal opinions, there were grounds for termination.
She also says that her bosses argued she had a history of making controversial social media posts while serving the public, but the only previous example they were able to cite was a 10-year-old post about shoddy local roadwork causing flat tires.
When approached for comment, the Dent county sheriff’s office told the Guardian that “we are prohibited by law from disclosing any information regarding that former deputy”.
“Basically they screwed me because of the mob mentality,” Strebe says. “This is everything I’ve ever done in my adult life. And they took it from me … I could have retired in six and a half years. Full pension. Can’t do that now.”……
www.theguardian.com
On Facebook, people were demanding Strebe’s immediate termination, calling her a “wacko” with “extreme mental health issues”.
It was the afternoon of 13 September 2025, just a few days after Charlie Kirk had been killed by a sniper’s bullet on a college campus.
Shortly after his assassination, Strebe had posted on her personal Facebook page: “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.”
In comments underneath, she did not mince words. She called Kirk a racist, a sexist, an antisemite and the kind of person who wants to see gay people, like her own son, stoned to death. “I don’t feel bad,” she says, months later, speaking from her home. “I refuse to feel bad for this man, and the hateful things he stood for.”
When she heard people were calling for her to be fired, Strebe told her superiors that she would take her offending posts down. But it was too late. Her posts had escaped containment.
On Facebook, and in phone calls to her workplace, she was called a lunatic with a badge and gun or a “corrupt cop”, who couldn’t be trusted to execute her duties as law enforcement.
Some locals apparently worried that if Strebe pulled them over for a routine traffic stop, she might fire her weapon at them if they were wearing a Maga hat.
People from her home county of Dent, which voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election, used homophobic slurs against her son online.
Her husband’s woodworking business was targeted too, as was the Facebook page for his charitable side gig, where he dresses up as the Grinch and visits children’s hospitals over the holidays.
“I’ve been a cop for 19 years,” Strebe says. “I believe that everybody should be treated fairly. And that’s what I’ve done my entire career. And this one statement was completely just twisted. It’s very frustrating.”
Strebe is one of a group of Americans who endured similar ordeals after Kirk’s death. Some were called out for their unkind, even giddy, social media reactions to news of the far-right activist’s assassination.
Others were harangued for merely quoting Kirk’s own words – particularly his comments about how a certain number of gun deaths are an acceptable cost to maintain the gun rights vouchsafed by the second amendment.
A website, titled Charlie Kirk’s Murderers, collated the names and personal information of such alleged offenders. The site has since been decommissioned – but it aided Kirk acolytes in mounting complaints to employers against those they deemed to be not sufficiently reverential.
By November of 2025, a Reuters investigationestimated that 600 people had been terminated, disciplined, investigated, suspended or otherwise admonished for their Kirk posts, likening the reaction to an ideological purge.
That’s how the Strebes felt when they started to notice people lurking outside their house. They set up security cameras on the perimeter.
A large truck parked on their block with a dinky, Sharpie-on-cardboard taped to its side that read: “Julie Strebe Supports the Assassination of Charles Kirk.”
“He could have done a much better sign,” laughs Strebe, as she prepares to pack up and move out of the town where she has made a life for 20 years. “It looks like a third-grader wrote it.”
Strebe was suspended, then fired. According to Strebe, superiors claimed that because she made her posts on the clock and did not disclaim they were her personal opinions, there were grounds for termination.
She also says that her bosses argued she had a history of making controversial social media posts while serving the public, but the only previous example they were able to cite was a 10-year-old post about shoddy local roadwork causing flat tires.
When approached for comment, the Dent county sheriff’s office told the Guardian that “we are prohibited by law from disclosing any information regarding that former deputy”.
“Basically they screwed me because of the mob mentality,” Strebe says. “This is everything I’ve ever done in my adult life. And they took it from me … I could have retired in six and a half years. Full pension. Can’t do that now.”……
More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice
Acolytes of the far-right activist urged employers to fire his critics. Now those who were terminated are suing and claiming their right to free speech
Fork Charlie Kirk and his racist supporters.Julie Strebe, a 55-year-old sheriff’s deputy in the small Bible belt town of Salem, Missouri, was on a date with her husband at a Buffalo Wild Wings when her husband slid his phone across the table.
On Facebook, people were demanding Strebe’s immediate termination, calling her a “wacko” with “extreme mental health issues”.
It was the afternoon of 13 September 2025, just a few days after Charlie Kirk had been killed by a sniper’s bullet on a college campus.
Shortly after his assassination, Strebe had posted on her personal Facebook page: “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.”
In comments underneath, she did not mince words. She called Kirk a racist, a sexist, an antisemite and the kind of person who wants to see gay people, like her own son, stoned to death. “I don’t feel bad,” she says, months later, speaking from her home. “I refuse to feel bad for this man, and the hateful things he stood for.”
When she heard people were calling for her to be fired, Strebe told her superiors that she would take her offending posts down. But it was too late. Her posts had escaped containment.
On Facebook, and in phone calls to her workplace, she was called a lunatic with a badge and gun or a “corrupt cop”, who couldn’t be trusted to execute her duties as law enforcement.
Some locals apparently worried that if Strebe pulled them over for a routine traffic stop, she might fire her weapon at them if they were wearing a Maga hat.
People from her home county of Dent, which voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election, used homophobic slurs against her son online.
Her husband’s woodworking business was targeted too, as was the Facebook page for his charitable side gig, where he dresses up as the Grinch and visits children’s hospitals over the holidays.
“I’ve been a cop for 19 years,” Strebe says. “I believe that everybody should be treated fairly. And that’s what I’ve done my entire career. And this one statement was completely just twisted. It’s very frustrating.”
Strebe is one of a group of Americans who endured similar ordeals after Kirk’s death. Some were called out for their unkind, even giddy, social media reactions to news of the far-right activist’s assassination.
Others were harangued for merely quoting Kirk’s own words – particularly his comments about how a certain number of gun deaths are an acceptable cost to maintain the gun rights vouchsafed by the second amendment.
A website, titled Charlie Kirk’s Murderers, collated the names and personal information of such alleged offenders. The site has since been decommissioned – but it aided Kirk acolytes in mounting complaints to employers against those they deemed to be not sufficiently reverential.
By November of 2025, a Reuters investigationestimated that 600 people had been terminated, disciplined, investigated, suspended or otherwise admonished for their Kirk posts, likening the reaction to an ideological purge.
That’s how the Strebes felt when they started to notice people lurking outside their house. They set up security cameras on the perimeter.
A large truck parked on their block with a dinky, Sharpie-on-cardboard taped to its side that read: “Julie Strebe Supports the Assassination of Charles Kirk.”
“He could have done a much better sign,” laughs Strebe, as she prepares to pack up and move out of the town where she has made a life for 20 years. “It looks like a third-grader wrote it.”
Strebe was suspended, then fired. According to Strebe, superiors claimed that because she made her posts on the clock and did not disclaim they were her personal opinions, there were grounds for termination.
She also says that her bosses argued she had a history of making controversial social media posts while serving the public, but the only previous example they were able to cite was a 10-year-old post about shoddy local roadwork causing flat tires.
When approached for comment, the Dent county sheriff’s office told the Guardian that “we are prohibited by law from disclosing any information regarding that former deputy”.
“Basically they screwed me because of the mob mentality,” Strebe says. “This is everything I’ve ever done in my adult life. And they took it from me … I could have retired in six and a half years. Full pension. Can’t do that now.”……
More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice
Acolytes of the far-right activist urged employers to fire his critics. Now those who were terminated are suing and claiming their right to free speech
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