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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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TOP CONSERVATIVE SPEAKERS VOW THEY ‘WILL NOT BE SILENCED’ AFTER CHARLIE KIRK’S ASSASSINATION

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

FOLLOWING KIRK’S ASSASSINATION, LAWMAKERS REACT TO LETHAL POLITICAL CLIMATE: ‘VIOLENT WORDS PRECEDE VIOLENT ACTIONS’

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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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Milwaukee Brewers overpower Detroit Tigers to win 12-4

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Brice Turang drove in four runs and David Hamilton had four hits as the Milwaukee Brewers routed the Detroit Tigers 12-4 on Tuesday night.

Despite missing their top three hitters, the Brewers put 19 runners on base and scored in double digits for the second time this season. They have won five of six.

All nine Milwaukee starters reached base at least once, and Detroit catcher/knuckleballer Jake Rogers limited the damage by pitching a scoreless ninth inning.

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Detroit lost its second straight after winning eight of nine.

Milwaukee used speed and small ball to take a 3-0 lead in the second inning. Garrett Mitchell led off with an infield single, took second on a walk and scored on Sal Frelick’s base hit. Hamilton beat out a bunt to load the bases.

After Blake Perkins struck out, Turang lined a two-run single to right. Turang, though, got caught in a rundown between first and second and the Tigers threw Hamilton out at the plate when he tried to score.

Detroit loaded the bases with no one out in the fourth, but Grant Anderson relieved Harrison and got Javier Báez to ground into a double play. That made it 3-1, but Anderson struck out pinch-hitter Kerry Carpenter to end the inning.

The Brewers made it 5-1 in the seventh on RBI singles by Turang and William Contreras.

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Milwaukee added seven runs in an 11-batter eighth, an inning that included the fourth triple of Gary Sanchez’s 12-year MLB career.

Detroit scored three times in the ninth inning to cut the final margin to eight runs.

The teams continue the series on Wednesday night with the second of three games. Detroit RHP Casey Mize (1-1, 2.78) is scheduled to face RHP Chad Patrick (1-0, 0.95).



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Ellison, Minneapolis, St. Paul update lawsuit against Operation Metro Surge with new data

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(ABC 6 News) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minneapolis and Saint Paul updated their lawsuit over Operation Metro Surge with new survey data on economic harm.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego conducted two surveys tied to the amended lawsuit. The lawsuit says the federal operation violated the Constitution and caused lasting economic damage.

The first survey was done between February and March and included nearly 1,400 residents. It found workers lost more than $240 million in wages during the operation.

A separate newly released survey of about 900 businesses found more than $600 million in lost revenue. The updated lawsuit from Keith Ellison and the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul adds that new data to its claims.

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Indianapolis, Carmel area fails air pollution measures in new report

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Indianapolis and the surrounding metropolitan area failed a number of critical air pollution measures in the American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air report.

The ALA’s annual nationwide report published each spring gives the Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie metro area an “F” in smog and soot pollution. The report analyzes emissions data over a three-year period from 2022 to 2024.

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Smog is ground-level ozone pollution and soot is particulate matter. The two comprise two of the six commonly found air pollutants in the United States according to the EPA.

Both pollutants form in part when coal-fired power plants and diesel engines burn fossil fuels. Smog and soot can cause premature death and other serious health hazards such as heart attacks, strokes, preterm births, asthma and cognitive decline, according to the ALA.

The lung health report ranks the central Indiana metro area in a number of categories with the region performing poorly in most. Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie ranked the 11th most polluted area for year-round particle pollution and 14th for short-term particle pollution.

Indiana children at risk from air pollution

And the rest of the state fares little better.

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More than 670,000 Hoosier children breath unhealthy levels of air pollution, the report says.

This year’s report focus on the risk to youth that polluted air can pose. Small lungs are particularly vulnerable, said Tiffany Nichols, ALA director of advocacy.

“Infants, children and teens have lungs that are still developing, which makes them more susceptible to the impacts of unhealthy air,” Nichols said.

To prevent today’s youth from developing diseases related to polluted air, the American Lung Association has been asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop rolling back clean air rules put in place by previous administrations. The Indiana chapter has also asked state lawmakers to take steps to protect air quality.

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Nichols grew up on the northwest side of Indy where the neighborhoods had been demolished to build I-65. Nearby trees were torn down to make way for the highway that would bring cars and trucks emitting harmful exhaust.  

“So, then you have these areas that are essentially like a pocket of unhealthy air, and then those neighborhoods also had a lot of factories,” Nichols said. “That exacerbated health conditions in many of those communities that are oftentimes less fortunate already.”

Data centers and rollbacks

While air pollutants have existed for centuries, the rise of data centers poses a new threat. State and local lawmakers, Nichols said, should also pay attention to these new potential sources of pollution both in Indiana and across the country.

“We’re asking that those companies that are interested in putting data centers in communities work with the local community,” Nichols said. “Since data centers have the potential to be another source of pollution we also ask that they use renewable, zero-ignition energy sources.”

The ALA report also urges the U.S. EPA to recommit to protecting people’s health from harmful air pollution.

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This year, the EPA has gone on what Administrator Lee Zeldin has characterized as a deregulation campaign that environmental advocates in Indiana have charged will lead to “death by 1,000 cuts.”

The current EPA, the American Lung Association report says, has “retreated from its public health foundation by rolling back clean air protections.”

Karl Schneider is an IndyStar environment reporter. You can reach him at karl.schneider@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @karlstartswithk or BlueSky @karlstartswithk.bsky.social.

IndyStar’s environmental reporting project is made possible through the generous support of the nonprofit Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.





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