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Flashback: Dem candidate fundraised with commentator who mocked Charlie Kirk death
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As conservatives across the nation remember Charlie Kirk on his first birthday since his assassination, some are also remembering how many on the left, including elected officials, refused to condemn those mocking his death, or who even stood by them.
Just over a week after Kirk’s murder, Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat currently running for U.S. Senate, participated in a fundraiser for her campaign hosted by liberal commentator Rebecca Schoenkopf who posted on social media mocking Kirk hours after his shooting.
Schoenkopf, who runs a leftist Substack blog, mockingly reposted a news story on Bluesky with the caption “o.o” about people paying witches on Etsy to curse Kirk.
The day after Kirk’s killing, Schoenkopf criticized the firing of professors who mocked Kirk and sarcastically called Kirk “a hero to the end,” blaming him for building an environment of hostility.
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Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (right), who is running for the U.S. Senate, participated in a fundraiser for her campaign with a liberal commentator who mocked Charlie Kirk (left) after his death. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
“Boy sure seems like we’re firing a lot of professors this week for bull**** made up specious selectively edited reasons. Charlie Kirk built that. A hero to the end,” wrote Schoenkopf.
In a blog post that same day she wrote, “Anyway, Charlie Kirk got shot at Utah Valley University yesterday, and he is dead … Kinda seems like we should do something about guns.”
The next day, she criticized the firing of a person who she said, “correctly pointed out that Charlie Kirk unfortunately espoused a lot of hate.”
Her blog, which previously called Kirk a “racist, antisemitic, oppressed-by-sign-language, short-pants wearing human Adobe pinch tool,” has also posted several pieces mocking Kirk’s death.
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Charlie Kirk speaks before he is assassinated during Turning Point’s visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
In one article posted on the blog, titled “Second Amendment Comes For Charlie Kirk,” the author wrote that Kirk “was an enthusiastic participant in the drive to push American politics toward constant outrage and violent rhetoric.”
The author concluded by writing that “it seems that with his murder, we’re now getting closer to that moment a Kirk fan dreamed of right down the road from me in Idaho, when patriots could finally start shooting Democrats.”
Another post published on Schoenkopf’s blog titled “The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them,” called Kirk a “professional s***lord” and “low-rent troll,” and argued that “being the victim of a senseless assassination doesn’t ennoble anything the man did in his career of trolling, lying, and pushing hate.”
Another blog post concluded with a video of Virginia Baptist pastor Howard-John Wesley calling Kirk “an unapologetic racist, sowing seeds of hate and division,” and saying, “I am sorry, but there is nowhere in [the] Bible where we are taught to honor evil, and how you die does not redeem how you lived. You do not become a hero in your death when you are a weapon of the enemy in your life.”
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An image of slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk is placed at a memorial in his honor, at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Sept. 29, 2025. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
McMorrow has taken a very different tone, posting on the day that Kirk was shot, “I’m horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah. Violence like this is abhorrent, and is never, ever acceptable,” and “even if we virulently disagree, we stand for free speech, and nowhere should free debate be more encouraged or protected than college campuses.”
Despite this, McMorrow participated in a fundraiser hosted in Schoenkopf’s Detroit home on Sept. 21, eleven days after Kirk’s killing.
Schoenkopf wrote a blog post explaining her support for McMorrow, saying, “she’s tired of offering olive branches to people who f****** light them on fire.”
“I want a senator who’s good and f****** mad, and who understands how good and f****** mad we are, and who won’t s*** on progressives (or centrists, or libs) to make herself look better to some Democratic consultant in the sky,” wrote Schoenkopf.
On the day of the fundraiser, McMorrow herself wrote on social media that “since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we’ve seen too many use his murder as an excuse to divide, to blame the so-called ‘radical left,’ from the President of the United States to colleagues in my own legislature.”
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Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow holds up a Project 2025 book during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Political violence has no party, and if we can’t come together on both sides of the aisle to bring our states and our country together and to speak out in a unified voice against anyone who would seek to settle differences with violence instead of in conversation or at the ballot box, then our nation will stay divided. Stoking hate, division, anger, and fear only serves to continue this horrible cycle,” wrote McMorrow.
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In response to Fox News Digital’s request for comment, a campaign representative for McMorrow pointed to her two social media posts addressing Kirk’s killing.
Fox News Digital also reached out to Schoenkopf for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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(WLUK) — Applications for Wisconsin’s 2026 elk season open next week.
The DNR says the application period begins Sunday, Mar 1 and will close on Sunday, May 31.
Selected applicants will be notified in early June.
For the third year in a row, there will be increased opportunity to pursue elk within the Central Elk Management Zone (formerly Black River Elk Range), as additional bull elk and antlerless harvest authorizations will be available through the state licensing system. The 2026 elk quota for the Central Elk Management Zone is six bull elk and six antlerless elk, up from a quota of four bull and five antlerless in 2025.
The Northern Elk Management Zone (formerly Clam Lake Elk Range) quota will be eight bull elk, subject to a 50% declaration by Ojibwe tribes.
During the open application period, applicants will have the choice to submit one bull elk license application and/or one antlerless elk license application, separately. Applicants can apply to any unit grouping with an associated quota for that authorization type (bull or antlerless). The order of drawing will be bull licenses first, followed by antlerless licenses. As a reminder, only one resident elk hunting license can be issued or transferred to a person in their lifetime, regardless of authorization type.
In 2026, there will be one continuous hunting season, opening Saturday, Oct. 17, and continuing through Sunday, Dec. 13, eliminating the split-season structure that was in effect from 2018-2025. This offers elk hunters more opportunities and flexibility to pursue elk in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin residents can submit elk license applications online through the Go Wild license portal or in person at a license sales agent. The application fee is $10 for each of the bull elk and antlerless elk drawings and is limited to one application per person, per authorization type. The DNR recommends that all applicants check and update their contact information to ensure contact with successful applicants.
For each application fee, $7 goes directly to elk management, monitoring and research. These funds also enhance elk habitat, which benefits elk and many other wildlife. If selected in the drawing, an elk hunting license costs $49.
Before obtaining an elk hunting license, all selected hunters must participate in a Wisconsin elk hunter education course. The class covers Wisconsin elk history, hunting regulations, biology, behavior and scouting/hunting techniques.
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Kansas has officially invalidated driver’s licenses and birth certificates for transgender residents who changed their sex designation on government documents under a law that took effect Thursday.
Roughly 1,700 individuals in Kansas will be required to obtain a new standard driver’s license at a cost of $26, according to the House Substitute for Senate Bill 244.
The state’s vehicle division informed residents that no grace period will be offered for those who need to update their IDs, according to The Kansas City Star.
“Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials. That means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credentials will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential,” the Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicle division said.
Trans rights activists take part in a protest April 20, 2024. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
The law also establishes clear rules for shared private spaces in government buildings, restricting their use to a single sex. This applies to facilities such as restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms and shower rooms where individuals may be partially or fully undressed.
The bill further reinforced a strict definition of sex and gender as an “individual’s biological sex, either male or female, at birth.”
Consequently, individuals or entities who violate the space restrictions may face significant civil penalties or potential criminal charges.
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A drone aerial view of downtown Wichita (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Individuals are also given the right to take legal action if someone of the opposite biological sex violates their privacy in these spaces.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, whose veto of the bill was ultimately overridden by the Republican-led Kansas Legislature Feb. 18, had previously called it a “poorly drafted bill with significant, far-reaching consequences.”
“It is nothing short of ridiculous that the Legislature is forcing the entire state, every city and town, every school district, every public university to spend taxpayer money on a manufactured problem,” she said. “Kansans elected them to focus on education, job creation, housing and grocery costs.”
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly previously tried to veto a bill that ultimately went into effect Feb. 26, 2026, restricting identification preferences for transgender state residents. (Rich Sugg/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Under the bill, entering a multiple-occupancy space designated for the opposite sex constitutes a violation. After a first warning, a second offense could result in a $1,000 civil penalty and a third or subsequent violation is treated as a class B misdemeanor.
Anyone who believes their privacy has been violated in such a setting may bring a civil lawsuit against the violator and seek $1,000 in liquidated damages, according to the bill.
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Government entities, such as state agencies or local districts, that fail to align with the new regulations are subject to steep fines. Entities face a $25,000 civil penalty for a first violation and $125,000 for each subsequent violation.
The law provides specific exceptions for entering spaces designated for the opposite sex, including custodial or maintenance work, medical or emergency aid, law enforcement duties, assisting someone who needs help or children under 9 accompanied by a caregiver.
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