"History is a set of lies agreed upon." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Illinois lawmaker proposes Charlie Kirk Day in the stateState Senator Neil Anderson (R-Andalusia) has introduced Senate Bill 2694 to permanently honor the life and legacy of Illinois native Charlie Kirk, who was murdered on September 10, 2025 while speaking to a group of students at a Utah college campus.
“Charlie Kirk, a man of strong faith, a devoted husband and father, dedicated his life to fostering open and honest dialogue,” said Senator Anderson. “He stood unafraid in challenging prevailing narratives and consistently did so through peaceful demonstrations rooted in the belief that free speech is worth protecting. His voice resonated far beyond Illinois, but he never forgot his home state.”
The legislation would amend the State Commemorative Dates Act to recognize September 10 each year as “Charlie Kirk Day” in Illinois. If approved, it would be listed among dates that recognize people or events. It would not be an official holiday...
Get your sick-up bag ready. Back to NPR:
“Much as Martin Luther King Jr. Day reminds us of the transformative power of one individual’s fight for justice and equality, Charlie Kirk Day would stand as a testament to the enduring importance of free speech and open debate in our society. While their causes were different, both lives underscore the truth that courage and conviction can inspire generations.”
Also too, this, from Raw Story:
Charlie Kirk statues would be mandated on every campus with red state's new legislation
One Republican state lawmaker in Oklahoma now wants to require every public university in the state to erect statues to slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk.
On Friday, Jeffrey Sachs — an assistant professor at Nova Scotia's Acadia University — called attention to a bill by Oklahoma state senators Shane Jett (R) and Dana Prieto (R) that would mandate every public university in the Sooner State build a "Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza." The bill, which has been filed as Senate Bill 1187 and does not yet have a formal name, would force universities to set aside a portion of real estate in a visible public location — like the quad, the student union or main entrance pathways — "to maximize public awareness and utilization."
Senate Bill 1187 would also make it a requirement for schools to erect a statue of both Kirk and his family, and to include a plaque honoring Kirk as "a voice of a generation, modern civil rights leader, vocal Christian, martyr for truth and faith, and free speech advocate."
Or, to quote Bill Shakespeare, "Tis too much proved -- that with devotion's visage/ And pious action we do sugar o'er/ The devil himself."
So let's take a look one of hundreds of similar or worse quotes from Charlie Kirk, man of faith:
"[Joe Biden is] a bumbling, dementia-filled Alzheimer’s, corrupt, tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America.” -- Charlie Kirk, "The Charlie Kirk Show", July 24, 2023.
And, of course, there's Charlie Kirk, free speech champion. From The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Charlie Kirk’s Watchlist Made Some Professors’ Lives a ‘Living Hell’
For Tobin Miller Shearer, a professor of history at the University of Montana who had received death threats after being placed on a Turning Point USA target list, news of Charlie Kirk’s murder on a college campus in Utah prompted a flood of emotions. “I cried for our nation, for what this will mean for his family, for all the harm he did in his life, for all of us,” he said. “It was a horrible moment in all of its complexity.”
After those threats, Shearer moved his class on the history of white supremacy to a secret location, with a campus police officer on guard. “I did not want any threats on my life to ripple out and affect my students,” said Shearer, who heads Montana’s program in African American studies.
Shearer was one of hundreds of professors whose lives had unexpectedly intersected with Kirk’s when their names ended up on Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist.
Kirk created the watchlist in 2016 as a signature product of his new nonprofit. Its mission, it says, is to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” It’s based on published news stories about “radical” behavior by professors, but also informed by recordings leaked by students and tips from the public.
The publicly searchable database has grown to more than 300 professors, who are grouped into categories including diversity, equity, and inclusion, climate alarmist, feminism, abortion, terror supporter, racial ideology, and LGBTQ.
And from
The Baltimore Banner:
Faculty placed on Kirk’s ‘professor watchlist’ fear for their safety and the future of higher education
Charlie Kirk spent much of his career trying to reshape higher education, frequently attacking professors by name and crusading against colleges and universities across the country.
After the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA was assassinated Wednesday, some of the professors he targeted worry for their own safety and feel anxious about the climate of distrust the 31-year-old sowed among young people.
“I feel less safe after Kirk’s murder,” said Nathan Connolly, a history professor at the Johns Hopkins University. “I think that his death, like his life, ripens murderous fruit.”
Connolly and more than two dozen other university faculty in Maryland appeared on Turning Point’s “professor watchlist,” a website the conservative activist group founded in 2016 to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”...
And from The Chicago Sun-Times:
Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watch list
An online database compiled by Turning Point USA, affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, identifies nearly 50 Illinois college instructors it labels “radical professors.”
Nearly 50 instructors from public and private colleges across Illinois are named in an online database dubbed “Professor Watchlist” that was created by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk to unmask “radical professors,” WBEZ has found.
Since landing on the list, some professors have gotten hateful emails, online messages and letters threatening rape or death, and in some instances they have seen that activity intensify since Kirk’s death.
WBEZ reached out to all of the roughly four dozen Illinois-based instructors on the nonprofit Turning Point USA list. All those who responded said the allegations lodged against them were distortions of their work.
The site includes the professors’ names, head shots, a brief description on what they did to land on the list and, in some cases, contact information for their department...
I could go on and on, but you understand the point.
This is all of a piece with former Confederate states during the Civil
Rights era putting up monuments to traitors and (some) incorporating the
Confederate flag into their state flag as a giant "Fuck You" to the civilized world's attempts to
drag their bigoted, backwards asses into the 20th century.
It's also of a piece with Grover Norquist's Ronald Reagan Legacy Project,
the goal of which was to slap up Reagan's name everywhere, so that every
county in the country would have at least one prominent landmark named after
Reagan.
It's also of a piece with Trump awarding Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, which was the equivalent of pinning a halo on a sewer rat. And yet there was president Donald Trump, during a State of the Union speech, awarding highest
civilian honor in the land to a monster whose life’s work was the slow,
methodical poisoning of the American mind. And when Limbaugh finally
kicked off in 2021, the Beltway’s Very Serious People and the entire
Republican media complex went into full sainthood mode, solemnly concluding
that he was a some kind of sage, patriotic conservative voice and
champion of the truth, when what he actually left behind was a
half-century-long audio snuff film: cruelty-as-entertainment,
industrial-grade racism, pig-eyed misogyny, gay-bashing, and the endless
flogging of whatever half-baked conspiracy floated up that morning from the
fetid wingnut fever swamp.
It's also of a piece with Trump and Hegseth re-renaming military bases after
Confederate traitors, reversing the trend of taking down monuments to
Confederate traitors, and the Biden administration removing the names of
Confederate traitors from those same military bases.
Lord Whorfin may be right that "History is made at night." --
-- but history becomes agreed upon and passed down the generations by the
active efforts of those who codify it in monuments, street names, songs, official days of
memory and observation, and the texts of history books as yet
unwritten.
For example, the "history" of Horst Wessel, the 22 year old Nazi goon who, in 1930, was living with a a former prostitute named Erna Jaenichen. Their landlord, who had Communist sympathies, got into a dispute with Wessel. The landlord's friends confronted him, and during the altercation, Wessel was shot. He died of his wounds a few weeks later. It was ugly, and personal, and linked to Berlin’s underworld, but Nazi propagandists laundered it into the death of a sainted martyr. The Horst-Wessel-Lied became a Nazi anthem and was elevated to near-sacred status, second only to the German national anthem during the Third Reich. His funeral was staged as a massive propaganda spectacle.
And had the Nazis not been crushed by the Allies, that propagandized, fascist "history" would be what American children would be studying in history classes today.
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