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BumRushDaShow

(168,267 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:37 AM 17 hrs ago

Education Department hangs banner of Charlie Kirk

Source: The Hill

03/01/26 5:46 PM ET


The Department of Education hung a banner of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk outside its headquarters as the country prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday.

Kirk was publicly assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University last year by 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who was charged with multiple crimes, including aggravated murder, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in their case against Robinson.

Kirk founded Turning Point USA to promote conservative values on college campuses across the country. President Trump and Vice President Vance have credited him for helping them win the 2024 election.

Kirk’s image hangs alongside separate banners honoring Catharine Beecher and Booker T. Washington. A banner next to them reads “Empowering our States to tell the Stories of our Heroes in American Education.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5762093-ed-department-hangs-banner-of-charlie-kirk/

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Education Department hangs banner of Charlie Kirk (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago OP
Spam deleted by MIR Team menzmag 17 hrs ago #1
Hate-filled white racist supremacist wolfie001 16 hrs ago #2
Target practice? twodogsbarking 15 hrs ago #3
The Hill has convicted Tyler Robinson... BaileyBill 14 hrs ago #4
I always wanted to hang Charlie Kirk....... lastlib 12 hrs ago #5
OMFG. I mean, I'm not surprised but... Alice B. 12 hrs ago #6
WTF? We're truly on the Bizarro World Universe now. Martin68 11 hrs ago #7
Makes me ill. Doodles 11 hrs ago #8
Republicans have been trying to get rid of the Department of Education ever since Reagan. They look at it as a tool for Martin68 11 hrs ago #10
Paintball, anyone? RussBLib 11 hrs ago #9

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

lastlib

(27,996 posts)
5. I always wanted to hang Charlie Kirk.......
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:04 AM
12 hrs ago

But after he was shot, it was superfluous. With this, I would pay good money to whomever shot a flaming arrow into that banner and torched it.

Doodles

(133 posts)
8. Makes me ill.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:38 AM
11 hrs ago

As a retired middle school teacher after 35 years, this is just one more horror. Are all of Miller’s minions required to sit in a room 24-7 & come up with at least 20 horrors a day and implement them immediately?

Martin68

(27,476 posts)
10. Republicans have been trying to get rid of the Department of Education ever since Reagan. They look at it as a tool for
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:55 AM
11 hrs ago

brainwashing children. That's what they are using to for now.

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