The FBI is looking into at least seven social media accounts and seeking to determine if anyone knew of a plot to assassinate Charlie Kirk before he was shot and killed last week, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/exclusive-fbi-investigating-social-media-accounts-that-appeared-to-indicate-foreknowledge-of-kirk-assassination/">reported</a> on Monday, citing three sources familiar with the investigation.
The Free Beacon also published archived screenshots of some of the posts the FBI is investigating. One post mentions Kirk getting assassinated one week before the influential conservative commentator was gunned down. The X account @TallyHallAlbum wrote on September 3, “itd be funny if someone like charlie kirk got shot on september 10th LMAO.”
Another X account, @NajraGalvz, posted a day before the assassination, “Charlie kirk is coming to my college tomorrow i rlly hope someone evaporates him literally.” In a follow-up post, the X user added, “Lets just say something big will happen tomorrow.” In the X bio for @NajraGalvz, the account says it identifies as “nonbinary.” Hours after Kirk was assassinated, @NajraGalvz posted, CHARLIE KIRK GOT SHOT BRO I PROMISE I DIDNT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.”
One social media account that celebrated Kirk’s assassination uses an X handle that is nearly identical to a TikTok profile that follows the assassin’s trans-identifying roommate, Lance Twiggs, The Free Beacon reported. The X account churbum75m (SAW TYLER JUNE 30) posted after Kirk was pronounced dead, “WE F***ING DID IT.” Churbum75m is also on TikTok, following Twiggs, who has 839 followers.
The Free Beacon reported that in a video posted on TikTok, another social media account said that “charles james kirk … does not know what’s coming tomorrow. be ready … this isn&#8217;t a threat it&#8217;s a promise.”
The posts and some of the accounts that the FBI is looking into were all deleted within days of Kirk’s assassination. The Feds are also investigating whether any pro-transgender groups online knew about plans to kill Kirk in advance, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/14/us-news/charlie-kirk-assassination-investigation-widens-to-probe-pro-trans-online-groups/">reported</a>. The FBI probe is reportedly looking into groups on the online gaming platform, Steam, along with leftist groups in Utah.
FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday that DNA found on the towel that was wrapped around the suspected assassin’s rifle matches the DNA of Tyler Robinson, who was arrested on Friday. DNA found on a screwdriver on the roof of a campus building also matches Robinson’s DNA, according to Patel.
The suspected assassin’s roommate, who appears to be in a romantic relationship with Robinson, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-charlie-kirk-killer-reportedly-lived-with-trans-identifying-partner?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=12&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Suspected+Charlie+Kirk+Killer+Reportedly+Lived+With+Trans-Identifying+Partner">fully cooperating</a> with the FBI as investigators continue to probe the assassination, Fox News reported over the weekend. According to authorities, Robinson expressed his dislike of Kirk at a family dinner and also mentioned that Kirk was scheduled to speak at Utah Valley University before the conservative was assassinated.
Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox told The Wall Street Journal that it’s become “very clear” to investigators that Robinson was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.”

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Five days after I left my short stint heading news partnerships at X, a friend texted me with the details of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Assuming I was cooling off after a long period of eating, breathing and sleeping Elon Musk&#8217;s social platform, this note was intended as a simple ICYMI to someone who didn’t miss much – one that I am grateful to have received.
I didn’t know Charlie Kirk, but every aspect of my recent job was influenced by his work. X is the home of countless communicators aiming to follow Kirk&#8217;s pattern of boldness, eloquence, and clarity. I haven’t done the math, but my guess is for every 100 aspiring Charlies, none manage to fill the mold.
Opening X on my phone Wednesday afternoon ushered me into a world I feared was becoming extinct. Post upon post was an appeal to pray. Pray for Charlie. Pray for Erika. Pray for the children. Pray for the hearts, the minds of young people. Pray for a nation divided. Yes, there was a lot of other noise on X – there always is – but the call for prayers was overwhelming.
This was a different call to action than the one I remember witnessing when my Twitter use was beginning to take flight. In 2012, with a 6-year-old, 2-year-old, and 2-day-old at home, I scrolled through post after post after the December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook, encouraging us to shelve the thoughts and prayers and focus on solutions instead of platitudes. As an editor in the Wall Street Journal’s newsroom at the time, I tended to agree the thoughts and prayers line was getting a little old.
I relived that nine years later when a 15-year-old shot up Oxford High School, a short drive from my house. Ethan Crumbley&#8217;s bullets killed and injured classmates, including one who had sat in the backseat of my car on road trips to gymnastics meets. Prayers seemed like a slice of the equation, but damn we needed to do something about guns.
In our world, there is an urgent need for prayerful petitions and also a need for action. But, there is a pecking order.
Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith explained that pecking order Friday during a press conference. After running through the predictable lists of shoutouts to law enforcement and public officials, he paused before saying, “Most of all, I would like to thank the public and specifically I would like to thank the public who turned to prayers and who turned to positiveness for us … we needed those prayers. That’s what we needed to get through this.”
If social media is, as Utah Governor Spencer Cox deemed it during the same event, “a cancer,” its rot lies in its stubborn insistence on trying to replace real life. These platforms can be a tool for good, enabling free speech and breaking down geographic, generational and socioeconomic barriers that limit or prevent physical relationships. However, these platforms – like most media – have little appetite for nuance and too often trick us into thinking that words only have meaning if they are shouted in a digital town hall.
This is delusional. And it is in delusion where evil most comfortably resides, camouflaging itself as anything it can to make its work feel less evil. Anyone who has been introduced to the advice C.S. Lewis’s senior devil Screwtape passes along to his nephew Wormwood, knows that evil is most content when it is considered banal and impotent.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination, specifically its aftermath, reminds us of two important things. One, even the best of us can’t always stand in the way of evil. And, the most effective way to confront evil is by doing the thing that feels most powerless in the fog of war: prayer.
While evil doesn’t walk around wearing a nametag saying “Hello, My Name is ____,” its influence and presence leaves an unmistakable mark in its wake. Cunning and relentless, evil tends to be as persistent as it is crafty. Evil will strike again and that strike will catch us by surprise like it did on 9/11 and nearly 24 years later on 9/10.
In this instance, we are wise to take advice ladled out on X in the wake of a martyr’s death. “Pray, fool, pray.” For our fight is not against flesh and blood but powers and principalities working to tear our union apart.
Imagine a world where social media, for all its ills, drives us to the increasingly unfamiliar spot of being on our knees in a relatively powerless position. That world gives us hope when we realize that being on our knees is actually the most powerful posture there is.
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John D. Stoll is a writer based in Rochester, Mich. He worked for 13 years at Wall Street Journal as a reporter, editor and columnist, leaving in 2020. He most recently ran news partnerships at X.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Khloé Kardashian used her platform on social media to call out some Americans&#8217; callousness toward the assassination of conservative Charlie Kirk, and additionally &#8220;liked&#8221; a post that ripped the media for its role in ginning up hate that contributed to Kirk&#8217;s murder.
On her Instagram account, which has more than 300 million followers, Kardashian shared the following post on her stories.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know where to start,&#8221; the post reads. &#8220;Something is deeply wrong and we all feel it, even if we don&#8217;t say it out loud. We&#8217;re watching people get murdered in public and no one even flinches.&#8221;
&#8220;A woman is stabbed to death on a bus. A man is killed in front of a crowd,&#8221; it continues, seeming to reference the murder of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska and the assassination of Kirk.
&#8220;And people record it &#8230; like it&#8217;s just another trending video. Those videos go viral. And we just keep scrolling like it&#8217;s normal,&#8221; the post concludes. &#8220;Like this is life now.&#8221;
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Kardashian also liked an even more explicit post. As can be seen on Instagram, Kardashian liked a screenshot of an X post from Patrick Bet-David that reads, &#8220;One of the most important voices in America was just shot in Utah. Praying for Charlie Kirk and his family.&#8221;
It continues: &#8220;The media can&#8217;t wash their hands of this. Every time they pump division and scream racism, they stir hate and create the environment where things like this happen.&#8221;
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Kardashian has a long history of supporting far-Left causes, like Black Lives Matter, and promoting abortion mill Planned Parenthood.
However, more recently, she took heat for criticizing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, for her handling of the devastating L.A. wildfires earlier this year. “Mayor Bass you are a joke!!!!” Kardashian wrote on Instagram.
Kirk, 31, was assassinated while answering questions at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He had massive influence with young conservatives, having founded Turning Point USA at just 18 years old. Kirk was also widely known for routinely speaking openly about his Christian faith.
Kirk&#8217;s suspected assassin Tyler Robinson, 22, was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,&#8221; according to Republican Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
“It’s very clear to us and to the investigators that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,” Cox <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/who-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-suspect-814fd21f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Wall Street Journal this weekend.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/details-revealed-about-suspected-charlie-kirk-assassins-leftist-ideology?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Details+Emerge+About+Suspected+Charlie+Kirk+Assassin%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Leftist+Ideology%E2%80%99">Details Emerge About Suspected Charlie Kirk Assassin’s ‘Leftist Ideology’</a>

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The response from the Left to the assassination of conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has been nothing short of sickening. They have justified and even celebrated his death — and some have begun to face consequences for their actions.
MSNBC&#8217;s Matthew Dowd was the first domino to fall, after he essentially argued during live coverage of the assassination that Kirk had encouraged the politically-motivated violence that claimed his life.
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MSNBC just FIRED Matthew Dowd for his vile, disgusting comments with Katy Tur. Good.
Next, do Katy Tur.
And CNN it’s time to show the door to Van Jones too. These propaganda peddlers have poisoned America long enough. <a href="https://t.co/bSEIjaADI6">https://t.co/bSEIjaADI6</a> <a href="https://t.co/nwER8o1eyv">pic.twitter.com/nwER8o1eyv</a>
— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) <a href="https://twitter.com/KylieJaneKremer/status/1965985271620710411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Following Dowd&#8217;s ouster, MSNBC sent a letter to all employees urging them to &#8220;do better,&#8221; Matthew Foldi reported. &#8220;A letter was sent to all MSNBC staff admonishing them &amp; saying they &#8216;need to do better&#8217; following Matthew Dowd’s firing for his heinous comments about Charlie Kirk,&#8221; he posted.
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Rare win from corporate media executives.
A letter was sent to all MSNBC staff admonishing them &amp; saying they “need to do better” following Matthew Dowd’s firing for his heinous comments about Charlie Kirk.
Let’s hope that Comcast is not alone in putting MSNBC in place <a href="https://t.co/GZoPFsJJIF">pic.twitter.com/GZoPFsJJIF</a>
— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1966549335266447595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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An Office Depot employee was also terminated over the weekend for refusing to print a poster of Kirk for a prayer vigil, telling members of the group Michigan Forward that the poster was &#8220;political propaganda.&#8221; The poster in question featured a photo of Kirk along with the words, &#8220;The Legendary Charlie Kirk, 1993-2025.&#8221;
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To our customers <a href="https://t.co/XYlcFPpInN">pic.twitter.com/XYlcFPpInN</a>
— Office Depot (@officedepot) <a href="https://twitter.com/officedepot/status/1966689535812587608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A Secret Service agent who said that Kirk deserved to be killed was placed on leave and is expected to be fired, Nick Sorter reported, citing a source within the Department of Homeland Security.
&#8220;The Secret Service Agent who publicly said Charlie Kirk DESERVED to be kiIIed has officially been placed on LEAVE, expected to be imminently FIRED, per DHS,&#8221; he said.
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🚨 BREAKING: The Secret Service Agent who publicly said Charlie Kirk DESERVED to be kiIIed has officially been placed on LEAVE, expected to be imminently FIRED, per DHS
FAFO!
Enjoy unemployment, loser. <a href="https://t.co/QedIJ7Q0DB">pic.twitter.com/QedIJ7Q0DB</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1966519468508454930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Other reports indicated that an advisory board member at Cincinnati Bengals star <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-15094793/joe-burrow-foundation-charlie-kirk-judge-ted-berry.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus">Joe Burrow&#8217;s</a> charitable foundation was terminated for posts celebrating Kirk&#8217;s murder, as was a <a href="https://x.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1966164567547146740">communications specialist</a> with the Carolina Panthers. A number of others have either been terminated or suspended — and calls are still going out for more to come.
Clemson University stopped short of firing anyone who posted celebratory comments after Kirk&#8217;s murder, saying in a statement that unless the post was considered to be a &#8220;genuine threat which is not protected by the Constitution,&#8221; there was no need for the university to take any action.
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A statement from Clemson University: <a href="https://t.co/BAmaXdiqfJ">pic.twitter.com/BAmaXdiqfJ</a>
— Clemson University (@ClemsonUniv) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClemsonUniv/status/1966566274038681750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A former Biden aide expressed her &#8220;concern&#8221; on Monday after President Donald Trump did not appear publicly for several days, sparking rumors across social media that he was unwell or even dead.
Meghan Hays, who served as a special assistant to former President Joe Biden, said that Trump&#8217;s absence from the public eye coupled with a series of posts on his Truth Social platform was proof that the White House was not being &#8220;transparent&#8221; about whether or not the president was in good health.
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🚨NEW: Ex-*BIDEN* Admin Official Meghan Hayes HAS NERVE to sound alarm about Trump&#8217;s health based on few days out of spotlight🚨
&#8220;I think that it’s really disconcerting. The president has been very vocal with press all the time. I think in August he spent 26 days doing public… <a href="https://t.co/f2aPlcEgJS">pic.twitter.com/f2aPlcEgJS</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1962663368717705279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hays appeared on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Lead&#8221; on CNN, where she told host Phil Mattingly that Trump&#8217;s behavior was &#8220;disconcerting&#8221; and &#8220;concerning&#8221; — despite the fact that she herself had worked in a White House that had actively hidden Biden from both the press and the public.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I think that everyone would like to know. I think that it’s really disconcerting,&#8221; she said of Trump&#8217;s weekend spent firing off a few social media posts but otherwise staying away from the press and the public. &#8220;The president has been very vocal with press all the time. I think in August, he spent 26 days doing public events or talking to press. So to go down for 6 days and just have a slew of Truth Social posts that are very chaotic and people can’t follow all of them — it’s very concerning, and I think that people — it could be raising questions.&#8221;
&#8220;The president could just be taking a few days down in August — which is normal for presidents to do. Or there could be actually something wrong. The problem is we don’t know. And they’re not being transparent about it,&#8221; she argued.
Mattingly reeled the segment back in, saying that he wasn&#8217;t &#8220;totally opposed&#8221; to Trump &#8220;going dark for a couple of days,&#8221; especially since, as Hays had noted, he had been going nonstop for the entire month of August.
The rumors of President Trump&#8217;s health were put to rest on Tuesday when the president spoke live at the White House about the new location for Space Command headquarters &#8212; Huntsville, Alabama.

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In a viral video from Dundee, Scotland, three schoolgirls stand on a hilltop. One clutches a knife and a hatchet, brandishing them toward an advancing man. Another shields a third girl in a pink sweatshirt, her voice breaking as she cries: “Don’t touch my sister, she’s twelve!”
It is a moment that distills civilizational decline. In that scream lies the sound of failure — the burden of defense shifted from the strong to the small, from institutions to children. Collapse rarely announces itself with flames and rubble; more often, it creeps in through abdication. 
The state’s first response was not to <a href="https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/08/26/fourteen-year-old-scottish-girl-arrested-for-resisting-probable-assault-by-migrants-n2193258">confront the predator, but to charge the girl</a> for holding a weapon to defend herself and her sister.
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Credit: @Basil_TGMD/X.com. UK Child Defends Self.
This is the inversion of justice that defines too much of Western life today: The fear of offending a racial and religious minority outweighs the fear of harming innocent civilians, including and especially young girls and women. “Tolerance” is stretched to excuse the intolerable, and girls are left to bear the costs of the public class’s cowardice. The impulse to confront evil has been hollowed out, replaced by the reflex to punish those who resist it or even name it.
The forthcoming “Women and the West” report, which I authored for Independent Women, reckons with this reality. It documents how Western societies practice what scholars call “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NknDCkgdENQ">suicidal empathy</a>” — the refusal to confront illiberal practices, even when they imperil women. It is why <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/grooming-gangs-in-uk-thrived-in-culture-of-ignorance-casey-report-says">British authorities ignored grooming gangs</a> that preyed on thousands of girls, because the men were Pakistani Muslims and the girls were largely white. It is why Sweden, once among the safest nations on earth, now faces <a href="https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/sweden-immigrants-crisis/">epidemic levels of sexual violence</a>. Why a Dundee schoolgirl is treated as a criminal while her desperate cry — “She’s twelve!” — is brushed aside.
But the tragedy extends beyond abandoned girls. It is also about men stripped of their civilizational role as protectors. Where were the men in Dundee? Where were the men in Rottingham and in the other cities across the UK while their daughters were being raped? We know the legal system bears the brunt of the blame: Those who act are punished. In the UK, even those who speak out about what happens risk jail.
America knows this story too: <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-interrogation-of-daniel-penny">Daniel Penny,</a> a Marine veteran, intervened on a New York subway to restrain a violent man threatening passengers. For protecting strangers, he was not honored but indicted. The message on both sides of the Atlantic is too often: step forward, risk prison; stay silent, stay safe. But safety purchased by silence comes at the cost of culture itself. A society that criminalizes protectors breeds passive men and terrified women. Ultimately Americans rallied around Daniel Penny. Our commitment to free speech and to the sacred concept of the right to self-defense trumped our tendency for suicidal empathy. Will the UK rally around this brave girl in Scotland? 
The fate of women has always been the measure of a civilization’s strength. Where law is upheld and courage honored, women thrive. Where cowardice reigns and defenders are vilified, women and girls suffer first and most. From Kabul to Cologne to Dundee, the pattern holds.
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True liberalism never meant limitless tolerance. It meant ordered liberty: borders that protect sovereignty, cultures bound by shared norms, and institutions willing to enforce justice without apology. Instead, in the name of inclusivity, we deny reality, manipulate statistics, silence dissent, and prosecute children while excusing the predators who terrify them.
A frightened girl’s cry — “She’s twelve!” — is not just a viral clip. It is a warning. We have reached a point where the natural defenders of civilization — its men — are absent or penalized, and where its most vulnerable — its girls — are forced to take up arms in their stead.
Strength sustains freedom. Freedom safeguards women. If the West cannot recover the will to defend its daughters and honor its sons who rise to protect, then our undoing will not come by invasion from without but surrender from within.
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Meaghan Mobbs, PhD, is the Director of the Center for American Safety and Security at Independent Women. She is the President of the R.T. Weatherman Foundation, a private operating foundation, providing humanitarian support in Ukraine. She is a presidential appointee to the Board of Visitors at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a gubernatorial appointee to Board of Visitors at the Virginia Military Academy.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The beloved family restaurant Cracker Barrel is taking serious heat online for a rebranding effort that many fans absolutely despise.
The main update is a logo change for the first time in 47 years. 
The Southern country-themed restaurant chain first opened in 1969. It got its name from the 19th-century practice of people gathering to socialize around a barrel full of crackers outside a country store. While the original logo had just text, most customers are more familiar with the version that debuted in 1977, which included a man sitting next to a barrel.
The new logo follows the current trend of simplification and features a basic font on a plain background with no graphics. The restaurant said in a <a href="https://www.crackerbarrel.com/newsroom/news-releases/2025/aug/cracker-barrel-teams-up-with-country-music-star-jordan-davis">press release</a> that the new logo is &#8220;rooted even more closely to the iconic barrel shape and wordmark that started it all.&#8221;
But the public does not appear to be convinced.
“As a brand designer that worked at [Cracker Barrel] for almost 9 years, watching them commit brand suicide is&#8230; something,” one popular <a href="https://x.com/rikoruss31/status/1958251796557705270">response</a> on X says.
“President Trump needs to federalize Cracker Barrel and deport this CEO to Bukele’s  ̶t̶o̶r̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶m̶p̶ correctional facility as soon as possible,” Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles joked.
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President Trump needs to federalize Cracker Barrel and deport this CEO to Bukele’s ̶t̶o̶r̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶m̶p̶ correctional facility as soon as possible. <a href="https://t.co/C1YD89euYe">pic.twitter.com/C1YD89euYe</a>
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1958330927802990765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Cracker Barrel has been a staple for years, and they have always embraced tradition and old fashioned dining,” another person <a href="https://x.com/RedsRepair95/status/1958249125763498403">wrote</a>. “The logo was recognizable to generations of people. Why change something that didn’t need to change?”
&#8220;Depressing,&#8221; another person said.
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“Honestly, the feedback’s been overwhelmingly positive that people like what we’re doing,&#8221; Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino said during a recent appearance on Good Morning America. The exec joined the company in 2023 after working in senior roles at Taco Bell, Mattel, Sprinkles Cupcakes, and Starbucks.
&#8220;Cracker Barrel needs to feel like the Cracker Barrel for today and for tomorrow…the things that you love are still there. We need people to choose us, and we want people to choose us,&#8221; Masino added.
In addition to the logo change, the restaurants have been undergoing remodeling to look more modern. The exec insists store managers are keen to get their stores on the list for a remodel, but again, the reactions on social media seem to be mostly negative. 
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Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino should face charges for this crime against humanity <a href="https://t.co/auBFPi4bpr">pic.twitter.com/auBFPi4bpr</a>
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“The new cracker barrel remodel is biggest architectural catastrophe since penn station i’m so serious,” one person said. 
“Cracker Barrel? more like&#8230;Corporate Sterile,” another agreed.
“This is a war crime,” echoed a third.

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Cracker Barrel Blasted For Rebrand That Scraps Beloved Logo: ‘Crime Against Humanity’

Cracker Barrel Under Fire For 'Depressing' Logo Redesign, Rebrand: 'Crime Against Humanity'

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As California Governor Gavin Newsom gets floated as a top contender for the Democratic Party in 2028, he&#8217;s going all in on anti-Trump rhetoric, but with a new twist.
In recent weeks, the social media account for the governor&#8217;s office has been posting rants on X that copy the tone and style of President Donald Trump&#8217;s off-the-cuff statements on Truth Social. While imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery, Newsom is copying Trump in an attempt to give the president &#8220;a wake-up call.&#8221;
Earlier this month, the Governor Newsom Press Office X account raised eyebrows when it began posting warnings to Trump in all-caps and closed out with Trump&#8217;s signature line: &#8220;THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.&#8221; Newsom&#8217;s Trump impersonation began over the Republican effort to redraw Congressional maps in Texas, which would likely strip five seats from Democrats.
&#8220;DONALD TRUMP, IF YOU DO NOT STAND DOWN, WE WILL BE FORCED TO LEAD AN EFFORT TO REDRAW THE MAPS IN CA TO OFFSET THE RIGGING OF MAPS IN RED STATES. BUT IF THE OTHER STATES CALL OFF THEIR REDISTRICTING EFFORTS, WE WILL DO THE SAME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!&#8221; Newsom&#8217;s press office <a href="https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1954957300843917466">wrote</a> last Monday.
In the following days, the governor&#8217;s X posts only became more Trump-like.
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DONALD “TACO” TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, “MISSED” THE DEADLINE!!! CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS,” THEY WILL BE HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!). BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR…
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1955411757540970603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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WHEN SPEAKER “LITTLE MAN” JOHNSON IS STANDING IN “THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE,” HE CAN THANK DONALD “TACO” J. TRUMP. TRUMP MISSED A SIMPLE DEADLINE — SOMETHING HE HAS OFTEN DONE WITH HIS MANY FAILED BUSINESSES — NOW CALIFORNIA WILL “FIRE” HIM WITH NEW, “MORE BEAUTIFUL MAPS.” HIGHLY…
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1955654178556223673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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DONALD IS FINISHED — HE IS NO LONGER “HOT.” FIRST THE HANDS (SO TINY) AND NOW ME — GAVIN C. NEWSOM — HAVE TAKEN AWAY HIS “STEP.” MANY ARE SAYING HE CAN’T EVEN DO THE “BIG STAIRS” ON AIR FORCE ONE ANYMORE — USES THE LITTLE BABY STAIRS NOW. SAD! TOMORROW HE’S GOT HIS “MEETING” WITH…
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1956179690449985876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Newsom was asked last week whether the social media posts were part of a specific strategy from his team.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I hope it&#8217;s a wake-up call to the president of the United States for following his example,&#8221; Newsom replied. &#8220;If you&#8217;ve got issues with what I&#8217;m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns about what he&#8217;s putting out as president. So, to the extent it&#8217;s gotten some attention, I&#8217;m pleased, but I think the deeper question is how have we allowed the normalization of his tweets — Truth Social posts — over the course of the last many years to go without similar scrutiny and notice.&#8221;
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is asked what&#8217;s behind recent tweets on the <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovPressOffice</a> account where he appears to be mocking President Trump.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just following his example&#8230;.the deeper question is, how have we allowed the normalization of his tweets and Truth Social posts over the… <a href="https://t.co/aQe4Rw167G">pic.twitter.com/aQe4Rw167G</a>
— Daniela Pardo (@danielapardotv) <a href="https://twitter.com/danielapardotv/status/1956087527871537577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
Despite what Newsom says, Trump&#8217;s social media presence has been in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/politics/donald-trump-twitter-use-campaign-2016.html">spotlight</a> since he jumped into politics in 2015, and it has been the <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/queens/politics/2017/07/28/trump-s-use-of-social-media-to-announce-major-policy-changes-unprecedented--political-consultants-say">subject</a> of endless legacy media <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/donald-trump-facebook-social-media-capitol-attack">scrutiny</a>. The Left&#8217;s backlash to Trump&#8217;s social media snipes only added to the momentum that pushed Trump across the finish line in 2016 and again in 2024.
The White House blasted Newsom over the social media tactic, calling it inauthentic.
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“Nothing about Newscum is authentic — from his rehearsed answers to his flip-flopping policy positions – he goes whatever way the wind blows… so it makes sense that he would try to mimic the President’s wildly successful communication strategy. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Gavin’s behavior is just getting weird at this point,&#8221; White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Daily Wire.
For Newsom&#8217;s X presence, the Trump parodies appear to be working — at least in terms of raw engagement. Before the press office X account began posting like the president, it would usually see between 200 and a few thousand likes, and some posts would hit 2,000 reposts if they were lucky. But when the governor&#8217;s office posts parodies of Trump, that&#8217;s a different story. Some of Newsom&#8217;s Trumpian posts reached over 100,000 likes and racked up around 15,000 reposts.
An official in the governor&#8217;s office told The Daily Wire that the press office X account has seen an increase of over 250,000 followers, while its engagement rate has gone up by more than 50% since August 1. Much of that engagement is negative, with many X users blasting Newsom&#8217;s social media tactic. Conservative commentators have also ripped the Democratic governor for copying Trump.
Fox News host Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary under former President George W. Bush, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dana-perino-warns-gavin-newsom-to-avoid-cringey-x-presence-and-he-doubles-down-instead?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Dana+Perino+Warns+Gavin+Newsom+To+Avoid+Cringey+X+Presence%2C+And+He+Doubles+Down+Instead">said</a> on Monday that Newsom was &#8220;making a fool&#8221; of himself.
“You have to stop it with the Twitter thing. I don’t know where his wife is,&#8221; she added. &#8220;If I were his wife, I would say you are making a fool of yourself, stop it. Do not let your staff tweet, and if you’re doing it yourself, put the phone away and start over.”
Radio host Mark Simone <a href="https://x.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1955713499750961437">added</a>, &#8220;Gavin Newsom is now paying massive tribute to Donald Trump by imitating him, copying him, trying to be him &#8211; look at his latest tweets. He is becoming Trump and the crazy left loves it (also a great tribute to President Trump).&#8221;
Newsom&#8217;s idea to channel Trump is connecting with those on the Left.
Jon Favreau, a &#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; co-host and former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, replied to Perino, saying, &#8220;Humor and mockery can be quite effective!&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s pretty clearly a parody of Trump&#8217;s absolutely insane all caps, often non-sensical posts,&#8221; Favreau added. &#8220;Probably why all the people in my life who aren&#8217;t political junkies keep reaching out to say they don&#8217;t know much about Newsom but think the tweets are hilarious.&#8221;
Newsom&#8217;s Trump imitation isn&#8217;t the only social media tactic the Democratic governor has attempted this year. In February, Newsom <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/gavin-newsom-launches-another-podcast/63942809">launched</a> a new podcast, the first episodes of which focused on discussions with “leaders and architects of the MAGA movement.” The first three guests on Newsom&#8217;s show were Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, conservative commentator Michael Savage, and former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
Newsom said his podcast would seek to better understand conservatives while also asking how the Democratic Party could learn from Republicans&#8217; recent electoral successes.
“We already know what our disagreements are with the MAGA movement. I want to understand what the motivations are, the legitimacy of those motivations, and just really understand where people are coming from,” Newsom said. “They are influential — they are. They explain more things in more ways on more days about what’s going on and if we’re not trying to understand their motivations, we will be victims of their motivations.”
“At the same time, I want Democrats to come on and sort of challenge where we are on a lot of these issues,” he added. “And so I’m asking the same questions you’re asking of me: Where the hell is the Democratic Party?&#8221;
Newsom&#8217;s podcast launch was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-04-01/gavin-newsom-podcast-charlie-kirk-maga-2028-election-essential-california">viewed</a> by some as an effort to position himself as more of a moderate who&#8217;s willing to reach a hand across to Trump supporters, as he&#8217;s considered a potential frontrunner in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary.
Six months later, Newsom is back to focusing all of his attention on attacking the president as Democrats push back on most of Trump&#8217;s actions — from immigration crackdowns across the country to the deployment of the National Guard and federal agents in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

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The Victorian justice system in Australia on Friday found a Christian doctor who had been suspended for nearly six years over his Christian and conservative social media posts <a href="https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/dr-jereth-kok-found-guilty-of-professional-misconduct-over-54-online-posts/">guilty of professional misconduct</a>.
Dr. Jereth Kok, “who had no prior history of patient complaints or professional misconduct before his suspension — now faces a separate sanctions hearing in early 2026 that could result in the full cancellation of his medical license,” The Daily Declaration <a href="https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2025/07/28/dr-jereth-kok-guilty-of-professional-misconduct-for-social-media-posts-tribunal-rules/">reported</a>.
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🚨 An Aussie doctor has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
Not for harming patients.
But for posting Christian views, including memes &amp; satire from <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheBabylonBee</a>, on social media.
Yes, that can now cost you your medical licence in Australia.
Meet Dr Jereth Kok 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/eGtnuLkhuh">pic.twitter.com/eGtnuLkhuh</a>
— Kurt Mahlburg (@k_mahlburg) <a href="https://twitter.com/k_mahlburg/status/1949682050941792313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Some of the posts Dr. Kok published included two promoting The Babylon Bee, with one hilarious headline reading, “Instead Of Traditional Warfare, Chinese Military Will Now Be Trained To Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Troops,” and another titled, “Congressional Prayer Lasts Two Days As Democrat Includes All 5,787 Genders.” That title, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal reportedly ruled, “failed to respect gender diversity” and was “derogatory to LGBTQI+ persons.”
Kok was reportedly pilloried for quoting children’s rights advocate Katy Faust, the founder of Them Before Us; promoting the <a href="https://caldronpool.com/ezekieldeclaration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ezekiel Declaration</a>, a 2021 open letter signed by more than 3,000 church leaders that protested Australia’s proposed introduction of “vaccine passports,” and linking to an Australian Christian Lobby newsletter.
Kok <a href="https://x.com/k_mahlburg/status/1949682076459938279/photo/1">stated</a> in one post:
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I said above that “homosexual orientation may be addressed with therapy.” I view this as being a choice to be made by the individual. Because I do not think that orientation is a sin in itself, I do not think someone who has homosexual orientation must be urged by other Christians to seek therapy. If they wish to live a celibate life, without entertaining lustful thoughts, and without accepting a gay identity, then I do not see a problem with this. I think that an individual can be God-pleasing in this situation. If, on the other hand, he/she wishes to overcome his or her homosexual orientation in order to marry someone of the opposite sex, he/she may choose to have therapy. I believe that therapy can be successful, but I would hesitate to say that it will always be successful.
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Kok reposted a Spectator Australia article by Moira Deeming, a member of Parliament, on gender ideology in schools. In the article, she <a href="https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/08/the-cultural-juggernaut-of-transgender-ideology-not-kids-stuff/">declared</a>:
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&#8230; childhood gender dysphoria is a well-established, historically rare, psychological condition with objective diagnostic criteria. It has a long history of successful treatment using a watch and wait approach” coupled with psychological support. This approach affirms the child in their biological sex, avoids gender stereotyping and allows natural puberty to take place, resulting in approximately 85% of children outgrowing their dysphoria.  
However, in Australia as elsewhere, this unprecedented wave of gender dysphoric children has been systematically denied this highly successful, low risk method, which, upon being rebranded as “conversion therapy,” has been banned in jurisdiction after jurisdiction. Instead, gender dysphoric children are now labelled as “transgender’”and funneled into a radical and untested treatment pathway known as the “affirmative model.” But “transgenderism,” like the “Emperor’s new clothes,” exists only in the minds of believers. It is a theory developed in University Sociology departments, premised on the highly subjective and philosophical claim that a person’s sex can be “wrong.” It has never been proven to exist in the body through objective medical testing such as DNA analysis, brain scans or blood tests. 
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Aussie Christian Doctor Could Have License Revoked For Conservative Social Media Posts

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The official Democratic Party X account yanked down a post on Thursday night after its attempt to pin high grocery prices on President Donald Trump backfired.
The chart posted by the Democrats showed the prices of produce, meat, cheese, dairy, and alcohol hitting record highs in 2025. The Democratic Party captioned its post &#8220;Trump&#8217;s America,&#8221; but X users quickly noticed that the massive spike in grocery prices shown on the chart happened while former President Joe Biden was in office. There has been only a slight increase in prices since Trump stepped back into office in January.
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In a now-deleted post, the <a href="https://twitter.com/democrats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Democrats</a> account on X shared “Trump’s America” alongside a chart that read, “U.S. Grocery Prices Reached Highs in 2025.”
They really thought they scored a win. <a href="https://t.co/ofXALkwv9x">pic.twitter.com/ofXALkwv9x</a>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1948550364006916461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The official &#8220;Rapid Response&#8221; X account for the White House <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1948521565454516606">responded</a> to the Democratic Party&#8217;s post, highlighting the spike that occurred when Biden was in the Oval Office.
&#8220;Democrats deleted this tweet after everyone with eyes pointed out it showed grocery prices skyrocketed under Biden,&#8221; Washington Free Beacon Editor Peter Hasson <a href="https://x.com/peterjhasson/status/1948550822649889010">posted</a> on X.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s anything more Democratic Party than posting a chart of grocery prices exploding during the Biden administration in an attempt to blame Donald Trump,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/ianmSC/status/1948521575793524775">wrote</a> Outkick writer Ian Miller.
&#8220;This is the breathtakingly moronic tweet deleted by the official X account of the Democratic Party, which shows almost no inflation under Trump, massive inflation under Biden, then almost no inflation under Trump 2,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/rkylesmith/status/1948566240860987456">added</a> Wall Street Journal film critic Kyle Smith.
Under Biden, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm">inflation</a> hit a staggering 9.1% in June of 2022, and the cost of food skyrocketed 22% during Biden&#8217;s one term in office, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/us-news/democratic-party-effort-to-highlight-record-high-grocery-prices-completely-backfires/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">reported</a>. In Trump&#8217;s first six months in office, the average cost of food in U.S. cities has increased around 1%, according to federal <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDSL">data</a>.
Nearly every monthly Consumer Price Index report during Trump&#8217;s second term has defied economists&#8217; predictions, showing lower inflation levels than expected. The most recent report, however, did show a slight increase in year-over-year inflation as food, shelter, and energy prices rose.
The White House maintains that the economic data &#8220;proves that President Trump is stabilizing inflation and the Panicans continue to be wrong about tariffs raising prices.&#8221;

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The editor-in-chief of liberal magazine Mother Jones said the children of Vice President JD Vance should be booed so they &#8220;know now what their father is about.&#8221;
Clara Jeffery posted the comments on Bluesky, a social media app widely used by liberals who left X.
&#8220;People who feel bad for JD Vance&#8217;s kids as family gets booed at Disneyland,&#8221; Jeffery said. &#8220;I get it, but better those kids know now what their father is about. Other kids are watching their parents get shipped off to gulags.&#8221;
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Clara Jeffery, editor in chief of Mother Jones, says that it is for the best that JD Vance’s children be subjected to boos at Disneyland, so that they “know now what their father is about.” <a href="https://t.co/ovHPgKYGsP">pic.twitter.com/ovHPgKYGsP</a>
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In a second post, Jeffery <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/clarajeffery.bsky.social/post/3ltwwhdkyoc2a">said</a> Vance wants his children to be booed.
&#8220;Also, JD Vance knows he&#8217;s going to be booed at Disneyland or the Kennedy Center or wherever,&#8221; Jeffery said. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have to go with his kids, but&#8230;he probably wants the optics of his family being booed. So&#8230;yeah.&#8221;
Jeffery has a history of viral social media posts. Last year, she attacked a flight attendant for wishing passengers a &#8220;blessed night.&#8221;
&#8220;Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a &#8216;blessed&#8217; night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans,&#8221; Jeffery said on social media. &#8220;Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic…&#8221;
&#8220;As my rowmate said, &#8216;This ain&#8217;t Montgomery, sweetie,'&#8221; Jeffery added.
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A legendary figure ever since last year when she had a meltdown because the stewardess wished her a blessed night <a href="https://t.co/1jddEuog78">https://t.co/1jddEuog78</a> <a href="https://t.co/2L3fb7oZvq">pic.twitter.com/2L3fb7oZvq</a>
&mdash; Jarvis (@jarvis_best) <a href="https://twitter.com/jarvis_best/status/1944814304932581521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In 2017, Jeffery suggested the name &#8220;tomahawk missile&#8221; offended Native Americans.
&#8220;That the missiles are called tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mother-jones-editor-says-tomahawk-missiles-are-joseph-curl">said</a>.
And in 2016, she <a href="https://x.com/neontaster/status/1944819505521189325/photo/1">recounted</a> an anecdote about her 8-year-old supporting Hillary Clinton.
&#8220;8 yo overheard me listening to it and said: &#8216;I hope Hillary Clinton makes history. Women&#8217;s rights are human rights. Go women, go women!'&#8221;
Despite the comments from Jeffery, Vance said he and his family enjoyed their Disneyland vacation. The vice president previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-newsom-tries-to-troll-jd-vance-over-family-disney-trip-but-vp-hits-right-back">shot</a> back at criticism from Gov. Gavin Newsom over the trip.
&#8220;Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance,&#8221; Newsom <a href="https://x.com/CAgovernor/status/1944155806079042021">said</a> on social media. &#8220;The families you’re tearing apart certainly won&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;Had a great time, thanks,&#8221; Vance <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1944433280041808120">replied</a>.

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Governor Gavin Newsom took a swipe at Vice President JD Vance on Saturday after learning that Vance and his family were enjoying a trip to Disneyland, referencing recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in California and other states.
Newsom, broadly discussed as a potential presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2028, responded to a post showing the vice president and his family smiling as they walked around &#8220;Bayou Country&#8221; at Disneyland — and he added his own comment: &#8220;Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.&#8221;
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Hope you enjoy your family time, <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t. <a href="https://t.co/GjvIUg8I2B">https://t.co/GjvIUg8I2B</a>
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) <a href="https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1944155806079042021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Critics were quick to challenge Newsom&#8217;s assessment, however, with a number pointing out that California law allows the state to tear apart families if parents do not accept their child&#8217;s chosen gender identity.
&#8220;In California it is completely legal for child protective services to tear a family apart if they don’t believe their child is transgender. I’ve met families that have had this happen,&#8221; detransitioner and activist Chloe Cole posted.
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In California it is completely legal for child protective services to tear a family apart if they don’t believe their child is transgender.
I’ve met families that have had this happen. <a href="https://t.co/dlHxHCgM8y">https://t.co/dlHxHCgM8y</a>
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1944459241873629656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Your state takes children away from their parents if they refuse to buy into transgender madness You actually have a law on the books that you signed, that says that if a child in another state wants surgery that will sterilize that child, and the parents object, that all they have to do is run away from home and then they can go in front of a judge and get the right to sterilize themselves. You don’t care about tearing families apart. You’re perfectly fine with it for the &#8216;right&#8217; cause,&#8221; Aaron Walker posted.
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Your state takes children away from their parents if they refuse to buy into transgender madness
You actually have a law on the books that you signed, that says that if a child in another state wants surgery that will sterilize that child, and the parents object, that all they… <a href="https://t.co/ykr5UFFItY">https://t.co/ykr5UFFItY</a>
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronWorthing/status/1944461712771465508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The governor who violated his own rules about eating out during the pandemic by feasting at the &#8216;French Laundry&#8217; lectures the VP about a perfectly lawful visit to Disneyland. Newsom’s petty hypocrisy knows no bounds,&#8221; Fox Business&#8217; David Asman added.
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The governor who violated his own rules about eating out during the pandemic by feasting at the “French Laundry” lectures the VP about a perfectly lawful visit to Disneyland. Newsom’s petty hypocrisy knows no bounds. <a href="https://t.co/3iP566dTNV">https://t.co/3iP566dTNV</a>
— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/1944248718301032492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Every person who breaks Americas laws are separated from there families while detained. Some for hours, some for days, some for decades. The onus is on the lawbreakers not law abiding citizens going about their day,&#8221; another reasonably pointed out.
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Every person who breaks Americas laws are separated from there families while detained. Some for hours, some for days, some for decades. The onus is on the lawbreakers not law abiding citizens going about their day. <a href="https://t.co/kpKqw8AHEg">https://t.co/kpKqw8AHEg</a>
— Rob O&#8217;Donnell (@odonnell_r) <a href="https://twitter.com/odonnell_r/status/1944425124309918004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But it was Vance himself who had the last laugh, saying simply, &#8220;Had a great time, thanks.&#8221;
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Had a great time, thanks <a href="https://t.co/dKKA76mqhd">https://t.co/dKKA76mqhd</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1944433280041808120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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