• Sniper attack at Dallas ICE facility: At least three people were injured when a sniper opened fire at the ICE Field Office in Dallas, Texas, this morning. When police searched the nearby rooftops, they found the attacker dead with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem released a statement on X that there were multiple injuries and fatalities, although police statements have only confirmed one fatality so far. An ICE spokesman told NBC News that two of the victims have died and that a third is in the hospital. No ICE agents were harmed; the victims were ICE detainees.

• Jimmy Kimmel is back from his time-out: Jimmy Kimmel made his return to some ABC affiliates last night, although the large Nexstar and Sinclair affiliates continue to preempt his show. Kimmel addressed his heinous assertion that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was anything but a left-wing maniac inspired by continuous left-wing rhetoric that calls people like Kirk far-right threats to democracy. Kimmel contended that he wasn’t trying to make light of Kirk’s death, “nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for his actions.” Still, that’s exactly what he did. Kimmel intended to deflect blame from the Leftmedia he so willingly supports. Kimmel’s best moment came when he reflected on Erika Kirk’s speech on Sunday, during which she publicly forgave the assassin, Tyler Robinson. He called Erika’s actions “a selfless act of grace” and “an example we should follow.”

• Routh guilty of attempted assassination: Yesterday, Ryan Routh was found guilty (though New York Times readers were briefly told otherwise) of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in September of last year. Routh, who represented himself during the trial, responded to the guilty verdict by attempting to stab himself in the neck with a pen before four U.S. Marshals quickly restrained him. He was found guilty on five federal criminal counts and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. The evidence of Routh’s intention to assassinate Trump was overwhelming. It included a handwritten note wherein Routh asked the world to “complete the job” should his assassination attempt fail. The FBI provided evidence of the firearm and tactical gear that Routh had on him when apprehended, as well as digital proof of the meticulous efforts Routh put into scheming out his assassination plot. It was also clear that Routh is not a mentally stable individual.

• Harris launches embarrassing book tour: Kamala Harris is trying to sell a book about her failed presidential campaign last year; it isn’t going well. “The Morning Meeting” with Mark Halperin spent an enjoyable two minutes going over Harris’s questionable decision to throw blame on staffers who still have a lot of sway in the Democrat Party. On Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, Harris failed to explain or even defend her decision not to choose Pete Buttigieg as her running mate due to his homosexual lifestyle. In her appearance on “The View,” Harris dove into her fateful October 2024 appearance on the show, during which she answered a question about what separates her from Joe Biden with the infamous, “Not a thing comes to mind.” Apparently, Harris had been unable to appreciate that voters wanted her to differentiate herself from the man who fell apart on stage that June.

• Dems win special House seat: Democrat Adelita Grijalva will fill the House seat vacated by the death of her father, Raúl Grijalva, in March. Grijalva won Arizona’s seventh district, which spans almost all of the state’s border with Mexico. Her swearing in will bring the Democrats’ House total to 214 seats compared to the narrow 219-seat majority Republicans hold. Two additional special elections are scheduled to be held this year to fill the seats of deceased Texas Democrat Sylvester Turner and Republican Mark Green, who resigned to enter the private sector in July.

• Strzok loses lawsuit over FBI firing: Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who led the investigation into the Russia collusion hoax but was exposed as virulently anti-Trump and subsequently fired as a result, lost his lawsuit over his firing. Strzok’s Trump derangement was exposed via a number of text messages with fellow FBI employee Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair. In his lawsuit, Strzok argued that his firing was retaliatory, done to placate Donald Trump, and that it violated his First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson found that the evidence did not support Strzok’s claims. His lawyers have yet to announce whether they plan to appeal. Last year, Strzok and Page agreed to a settlement with the Justice Department in a separate lawsuit over privacy invasion claims, whereby Strzok received a $1.2 million payout.

• Another academic refuses to retract lies about Kirk assassination: Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), wrote on September 12 that Charlie Kirk’s assassin “likely murdered Kirk because he was not right-wing enough.” Wolfson, a media studies professor at Rutgers University, went on to falsely suggest that Republicans are fascists, language also used by Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk’s killer. After the Kirk memorial on Sunday, Wolfson said of Stephen Miller’s speech, “They are saying our rhetoric is dangerous, meanwhile this dude lifts key parts of his speech directly from Goebbels.” If Wolfson is worried about Nazi rhetoric, he should look to his own organization, which defended a University of Pennsylvania lecturer in 2023 for anti-Semitic cartoons showing Zionists drinking the blood of Palestinians. Neither Rutgers nor the AAUP has responded to requests for comment relating to Wolfson.

• Leftist psycho targeted four justices: Nicholas Roske, the would-be assassin of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, had his sights set on more justices. According to a Justice Department sentencing memorandum released on Friday, Roske also targeted three other sitting justices. Who those justices were was not clear, but the DOJ noted that Roske stated he was “shooting for three” assassinations. Besides Kavanaugh, Roske searched the addresses and homes of three other justices extensively and marked their “locations on Google maps.” Based on his rationale for targeting Kavanaugh, it’s likely that the other justices were also conservatives. This episode establishes yet another instance of leftist-motivated political violence that was thankfully thwarted.

• Numerous laid-off government employees rehired: For hundreds of federal government employees who were laid off following cuts directed by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, their departure has turned out to be temporary. Many of them have been rehired by the same federal agencies from which they were previously let go. For example, the General Services Administration has offered numerous former employees who managed government workspaces an opportunity for reinstatement. According to a former GSA real estate official, “Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed. They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.” A similar refrain has been expressed at several other DOGE-shrunk agencies, resulting in the overall originally touted government cost-cutting measures being significantly reduced.

Headlines

• Trump rejects meeting with Schumer, Jeffries over “ridiculous demands” to avert government shutdown (Just the News)

• Major automakers call for EPA to ease tailpipe emissions rules (CNBC)

• Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes (Ars Technica)

• Turning Point USA draws 2,000 at first tour event since Kirk’s assassination (Fox News)

• Humor: 7 causes of autism newly revealed by RFK Jr. (Babylon Bee)

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