Because for SPLC killing Charlie Kirk was a feature not a bug!

Watch: GOP Rep. Declares SPLC "Absolutely" Culpable In Charlie Kirk Assassination

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-gop-rep-declares-splc-absolutely-culpable-charlie-kirk-assassination

BY TYLER DURDEN

FRIDAY, APR 24, 2026 - 10:55 AM

Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news,

Rep. Andy Ogles was adamant when asked if the Southern Poverty Law Center bears responsibility for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Tennessee Republican connected the dots between the SPLC’s long-running smear campaign against conservatives and the fresh Trump DOJ indictment exposing the group’s fraudulent operation funding the very extremists it claimed to oppose.

In a bombshell interview on The Benny Show, Ogles laid out the case plainly, tying the SPLC’s “heat map” of supposed hate groups directly to the violence that claimed Kirk’s life. 

The timing couldn’t be more damning: just one day after the DOJ dropped its 11-count indictment against the SPLC for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering tied to over $3 million in donor funds secretly funneled to KKK leaders, National Socialist Movement members, and other violent extremists.

As we highlighted, the Trump DOJ’s action exposed the SPLC’s decade-long scheme. 

The group raised millions by promising donors it would dismantle racist hate groups—then turned around and paid their leaders to stage activities the SPLC could report on, all while branding mainstream conservatives as the real threat. 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it bluntly: “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.”

Ogles made the direct link to Kirk’s murder crystal clear.

“Absolutely, if you and I did that, they would be coming after us. They threw everything at us that they could… just follow the facts… If the right was doing this to the left, I mean, we all would have been in jail,” Ogles stated.

He continued: “Kudos to the DOJ for going after this. It can’t be lost, ladies and gentlemen, when you think about the murder of Charlie Kirk, when you think about some of these hate crimes that have happened across this country, would they have happened had it not been for this vile rhetoric from the left?”

Ogles didn’t stop there. He zeroed in on the SPLC’s infamous “heat map” that painted Kirk and Turning Point USA as dangerous extremists right up until the activist’s assassination.

“People need to understand that this conspiracy that was built by the left to paint the right as racist and Nazi and violent is totally fabricated!” he declared.

“So that begs the question, this HEAT MAP that they created, this vile contempt for Republicans, how did that play into Charlie Kirk’s murder?”

“Were they there on January 6th? You have millions upon millions of dollars. I mean, even in Nashville, you had the Patriot Front, they were posing as Nazis, marching in Nashville, right? You have a conservative organization, several in my district that are on this heat map of being the alt-right hate groups.”

The SPLC’s pattern is now impossible to ignore. For years the group has wielded its “hate map” like a weapon, smearing pro-life organizations, border security advocates, and America First voices as domestic threats. Kirk called them out repeatedly—exposing the fraud before his death. The SPLC kept attacking anyway.

The Trump DOJ’s indictment confirms what Kirk and countless others warned about: the SPLC wasn’t fighting hate. It was profiting from it, using donor cash to prop up the very groups it listed while targeting conservatives who dared push back against open borders, woke indoctrination, and deep state overreach.

The SPLC’s rhetoric helped create the toxic environment where political violence against figures like Kirk became thinkable. Ogles is right to demand real consequences. When the left’s smear machine gets exposed funding actual extremists, the same rules they demand for everyone else must finally apply.

The broader picture shows a pattern of leftist hypocrisy now unraveling under Trump’s DOJ. Multiple outlets have covered the indictment, confirming the SPLC secretly paid informants inside the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist groups from 2014 to 2023.

The group deceived donors, hid payments through shell companies, and used the resulting “reporting” to justify its bloated budget and political hit lists.

Charlie Kirk was right about the SPLC all along. His murder demands more than thoughts and prayers—it demands justice. The Trump administration’s move to hold these frauds accountable is a vital first step in restoring sanity and protecting free speech from the real inciters..

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How NYC’s elite high schools discriminate — on mayor’s orders

Yi Fang Chen’s son certainly had the grades to get into New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School.

Just one problem: He’s the wrong race.

Chen’s son was the victim of the city’s Discovery Program, which was meant to be a limited, optional back door into the city’s specialized high schools for disadvantaged students who failed to meet the test cut-off.

But in 2018, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio vastly expanded Discovery admissions.

He ordered these competitive schools to offer 20% of all seats to Discovery students, with the explicit intent of admitting more black and Hispanic students at the expense of Asian teens.

Under the state’s Hecht-Calandra law, those schools — world-renowned for their 15 Nobel laureate alums — must admit students based solely on their scores on the objective, anonymous Specialized High Schools Admission Test.

And Chen’s son scored so close to the Stuyvesant cutoff that he would certainly have been admitted — if not for the Discovery expansion.

The city’s discriminatory intent to exclude Asians worked exactly as it was meant to against him.

On Thursday, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court on behalf of the Chen family, seeking to overturn the Discovery Program’s overt racial discrimination.

My organization, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New York, supports it wholeheartedly.

And Chen’s lawsuit is only the most recent attempt to halt this blatant anti-Asian educational bias.

Another lawsuit filed by Asian families against the city over this discriminatory Discovery expansion is working its way through the courts — and has been for seven long years.

That case, originally filed in 2018 as Christa McAuliffe Parent-Teacher-Organization, CACAGNY, et al. v. De Blasio, has had to be updated with two different name changes, as mayors have come and gone.

How many more mayors’ names will we need to swap in for this case?

It’s an outrage that CACAGNY’s lawsuit still sits in the US Court for the Southern District of New York.

The monumental and far more complex SFFA v. Harvard racial-discrimination case against affirmative action in college admissions made it out of Boston’s district court in under five years.

The revolutionary Brown v. Board of Education case that ended school segregation raced out of a Kansas district court in just five months — and for that matter, the United States won World War II in four years.

Yet CACAGNY’s case has languished, and is still gathering dust.

To double the outrage, the same Yi Fang Chen now suing the city was an original plaintiff in CACAGNY’s 2018 suit.

Back then, the district court removed her from the case on the grounds that her ‌son, then a first-grader, was “too young” to challenge anti-Asian discrimination in high school admissions.

Now her son has grown up — and has been denied admission by the very same racially discriminatory policy that Chen was prescient enough to challenge nearly eight years ago.

In effect, she was punished for being able to see the future.

So Chen has returned to district court — proving, painfully, that justice delayed is justice denied.

Every year for the past seven years, hundreds of Asian-American students just like Chen’s son have been harmed.

New York City and the well-funded NAACP — which volunteered its own members as co-defendants in the case — have erected one delay after another.

They know such tactics can wear out authentic grassroots associations like CACAGNY.

Groups can change membership and become inactive; students can “age out,” or families can move away.

The wear-them-down tactic worked exactly as intended: Of the six original plaintiffs in the 2018 lawsuit, CACAGNY stands as the last remaining active plaintiff.

As well, the city is probably hoping to wait out this current Supreme Court.

That’s because its justices ruled in SFFA v. Harvard that “the only way to stop discrimination by race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race” — exactly CACAGNY’s position.

This is not how our legal system is meant to work.

This time around, Chen’s son deserves his chance to be justly served by the court.

As for CACAGNY’s case, the district court’s slow-walking, unfair maneuvers must end.

They harm hundreds of students each year — and make a mockery of justice.

Wai Wah Chin is the founding president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New York and an adjunct fellow of the Manhattan Institute.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/opinion/how-nycs-elite-high-schools-discriminate-on-mayors-orders/

By 

Wai Wah Chin

Published April 24, 2026, 3:15 a.m. PT

Government schools

Heartless teacher allegedly dragged nonverbal student, 9, across rug, leaving him with gruesome burn

https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/tennessee-teacher-allegedly-dragged-nonverbal-student-9-across-rug-leaving-him-with-gruesome-burn/

By 

Anna Young

Published April 23, 2026, 2:27 p.m. PT

Stop calling illegal aliens migrants! All cultures are not equal!

Migrant seen cooking cat on makeshift fire at children’s playground

https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/world-news/migrant-cooks-a-cat-at-childrens-playground-in-italy/

By 

Chris Bradford

Published April 22, 2026, 6:17 a.m. PT

If it doesn't work just do more of it..."Despite the lack of long-term financial independence cited in the Yolo County study, advocates continue to push for the expansion of such programs."

Is this program really aimed at helping people or proving jobs for bureaucrats? Giving money to people who make poor decisions does not stop them from making economically poor decisions because they don't know better

California ‘basic income’ experiment fails to provide ‘financial independence,’ study finds

https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/california-basic-income-experiment-fails-to-provide-financial-independence-study-finds/

https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/california-basic-income-experiment-fails-to-provide-financial-independence-study-finds/

By 

Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News

A California guaranteed income pilot program intended to lift families out of poverty failed to lead participants to long-term financial independence, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis.

The Yolo County Basic Income (YoBI) program provided “no-strings-attached” cash assistance to a highly targeted group of at-risk residents.

While the payments served as a temporary lifeline, researchers found that, for the “significant majority” of participants, the program was not enough to break the cycle of poverty.

“While [Basic Income] reduced some of the immediate urgency around money and allowed families some stability, most participants still had unmet financial needs,” the study reported.

The program differed from standard Universal Basic Income (UBI) by focusing exclusively on families with children under age 6 already enrolled in the state’s CalWORKs program and experiencing homelessness or housing instability.

Nolan Sullivan, the former interim director of Yolo County Health and Human Services, described the initiative in 2022 as a “super targeted basic income” (TBI).

“It’s not just like randomly distributing wealth amongst a group of people,” Sullivan said at the time. “We are laser-focused on one particular group … really trying to break the rule of generational poverty.”

Under the pilot, participants received monthly checks averaging $1,289 for a two-year period. The goal was to raise family income to 200% of the federal poverty leve

Yolo County is one of many local municipalities providing no-strings attached cash assistance in an attempt to alleviate poverty. 

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The UC Davis findings, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, highlight a recurring theme in guaranteed income experiments, the “survival mode” trap.

Participants reported that while the cash helped cover predictable expenses and pay down debt, it did not provide a cushion for the “unexpected.” Researchers noted that car repairs, medical bills or a sudden loss of employment quickly wiped out any progress made through the monthly stipends.

One participant told researchers that, without the program, the participant would likely be “out there looking for places to sleep.” However, the study concludes that, despite these “lived experience” successes in preventing homelessness, a clear path to total financial self-sufficiency remained elusive for most.

Despite the lack of long-term financial independence cited in the Yolo County study, advocates continue to push for the expansion of such programs. Similar pilots have popped up across the country, with Cook County, Illinois, recently turning its pilot into the nation’s first permanent guaranteed income program.

Critics, however, argue that these programs create a “fiscal cliff” by which recipients struggle even more once the temporary government funding expires.

Yolo County officials did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Elizabeth Warren is fine supporting a Nazi sympathizing, Jew hating, Islamist friendly candidate

Elizabeth Warren pressed after saying controversial lefty senate candidate Graham Platner is her ‘kind of man’

https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/media/elizabeth-warren-pressed-after-saying-lefty-controversial-senate-candidate-graham-platner-is-her-kind-of-man/

By 

Hanna Panreck, Fox News

Published April 23, 2026, 2:16 p.m. PT

The crazy and murderous...the chutzpah of pleading not guilty!

UMass Amherst ‘Chef of the Year’ Jeffrey MacDonald accused of murdering wife inside campus hotel room

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/us-news/umass-amherst-chef-of-the-year-jeffrey-macdonald-allegedly-murdered-wife-emma-macdonald-in-campus-hotel/

By 

Nicholas McEntyre

Published April 23, 2026, 10:24 p.m. PT

Texas substitute teacher, 27, charged with ‘improper relationship’ with students

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/us-news/substitute-teacher-27-charged-with-improper-relationship-with-students/

By 

Patrick Reilly

Published April 24, 2026, 6:48 a.m. PT

California has become 'Clockwork Orange'!

70-year-old woman strangled in horrifying Hollywood Hills home invasion

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/us-news/70-year-old-woman-strangled-in-hollywood-hills-home-invasion/

By 

Ross O'Keefe

Admitting the left are essentially narcissist thieves.

NYT Now Promoting 'Microlooting' as Social Justice

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/23/nyt-now-promoting-microlooting-as-social-justice-n3814210#google_vignette

It's pretty clear that one of the greatest threats to the left is social trust. 

I can say that with such confidence because just about everything the left does erodes it. Our public school teachers are encouraged to trans kids behind their parents' backs, government programs openly promote fraud, and prosecutors and liberals always side with criminals

So it shouldn't surprise me that Hasan Piker is the darling of the media, and that the New York Times featured Piker and Jia Tolentino, a writer at The New Yorker, to describe their love for stealing. 

Stealing, you see, is a form of promoting social justice, just as open borders, decarceration, DEI, rioting, assaulting law enforcement officers, and killing health care executives are. 

Yes, you heard that right. The Times' favorite Democrat also explained how Luigi Mangione murdering Brian Thompson was really totally justified. 

Spiegelman: But then when you feel this much anger — and it doesn’t feel like there’s hope for it to be changed in a regulatory way — I think that’s when you get to things like Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing the C.E.O. of United Healthcare, and there being an outpouring of glee for murder online, because it feels like, finally, someone can actually do something about health care.

I think 41 percent of Gen Z-ers felt that murder was morally justified. But it’s scary to be in a society where people feel that murder is morally justified. And I’m curious how we thread that line.

Piker: Yeah. Friedrich Engels wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare C.E.O., was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder. The systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care in this country — and the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths. And that was a fascinating story for me, because Americans are very draconian about crime and punishment. They’re very black and white on this issue.

And yet, because of the pervasive pain that the private health care system had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand why this death had taken place. Even before they knew who the shooter was or what the motive was, we had universalized this pain so much so that virtually every American has a similar experience. A shared experience, where they have a loved one who spent their last days — instead of spending them with their family — spending it on the phone, talking to their health care provider to maybe get a little bit of economic respite so they don’t carry on medical debt for their next generation, for their next of kin.

That’s a harrowing process for a lot of people. And for them, that is murder; for them, that is torture. And that is the reason why, I think, the reaction to Luigi Mangione, especially by younger generations, was not so negative.

Yep, just a normal conversation at the New York Times, whose newsroom erupted in rage and fear that the paper allowed a U.S. senator to write an Op/Ed, and which fired the editor who approved it. 

And that Op/Ed? It argued that allowing people to riot and look was wrong. 

You can't make it up. Total moral inversion. 

Piker: Yes.

Tolentino: I would not be logistically capable of executing such a fact, but would I cheer on every news story of people that I see doing it? Absolutely.

Piker: I think it’s cool. We’ve got to get back to cool crimes like that: bank robberies, stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature. I feel like that’s way cooler than the 7,000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in.

Spiegelman: Would you steal from Whole Foods?

Tolentino: Yes. And I have, under very specific circumstances. I will say, I think that stealing from a big box store — I’ll just state my platform — it’s neither very significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest or direct action. But I did steal from Whole Foods on several occasions.

I’ve been involved in a neighborhood mutual aid group since 2021. And so every week I would go get groceries for Miss Nancy, my now family friend who lived nearby, and she wanted to go to Whole Foods. She wanted food from Whole Foods. And I was like, OK, great. And so I’d be getting Miss Nancy all of her groceries, and then I would finish, and I’d be like, oh my God, four lemons, I forgot four lemons. And on several occasions I was like, I’m just going to go back, grab those four lemons and get the hell out.

It's apparently now called "microlooting" and is perfectly acceptable because the system is oppressive. 

No, I am not kidding. Capitalism and property are evils that must be eliminated, so stealing is a form of #resistance or something. 

Piker: I’m pro stealing from big corporations, because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers. However, one thing that might even help your ethical dilemma is the fact that the automated process that they design, these companies know will increase shrink, right?

So it’s actually factored in. The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line of these mega-corporations regardless. And they still end up having increased profit margins, because they no longer have to pay the cashiers that they used to hire, as opposed to this automated system, knowing full well that people are still going to be able to steal a lot more efficiently, as a matter of fact, through the automated process.

Tolentino: Totally. I was looking things up, and shrinkage is roughly equal internally as externally. These companies expect it from their employees that they are disenfranchising constantly.

Spiegelman: But what about the argument that if everyone just starts stealing wantonly from these self-checkout machines, Whole Foods will eventually raise the prices?

Piker: Yeah, chaos. Full chaos. Let’s go. I mean, look, I’m in favor of fast and free buses and also government-owned storefronts. And two of those policies, the mayor of this beautiful city is currently working on.

Spiegelman: Would you encourage stealing in the same way from a Zohran Mamdani-run, city-owned grocery store with lower prices, and why?

Piker: No, I would not, because I feel like that’s taxpayer-funded, it’s union labor, and the prices are also adjusted regardless.

Tolentino: I think that hypothetical is interesting, right? Because if you look at it from a categorical imperative type thing, what if everybody did this? The converse is, oh, what if every major grocery chain stole from workers and consumers? And that is basically true, right? It speaks to the thing where harm committed by the individual, strangely, continually draws more ire than the same harm being committed by a structure. And so I kind of am inclined toward this. Everyone, try it. See what happens.

This is why, in urban areas, everything is behind a plexiglass shield. 

Piker and Tolentino are two of the most privileged people in the entire world. They have access to things that average people in the United States, no less the third world, can only dream about. 

And they are complaining about the system. As they sit down with a New York Times reporter in a nice room, discussing how the system oppresses everyone. 

For God's sake. If you ask the average person they claim to be fighting for, they would, to a person, condemn the very behavior that these communists are valorizing. 

I propose an experiment: send a million liberals to an island, each with a million dollars, and allow them to build a society. We can even help them by building the infrastructure of a city, and then let them figure out how to run it without police, businesses, and all the things they claim are unjust. 

Let them have open borders. We can ship all the illegal aliens there that they want. Give them all the homeless people they know so well how to help. Want Haitians? Somalians? Syrians? 

Have at it. And enjoy your MS-13 and Tren de Aragua pals too. 

I'm sure it would be paradise. 

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DAVID STROM  2:00 PM | April 23, 2026