Secret Service aware of UMass Lowell-funded radio DJ’s directive to ‘kill JD Vance’

EXCLUSIVE: A unpaid vigor amusement big has resigned aft authorities confirmed they are alert of a station connected left-wing-dominated societal media app Bluesky, successful which a idiosyncratic advocated for sidesplitting Vice President JD Vance.

"It's simple, we termination JD Vance," said the idiosyncratic down an relationship named hanslopez.bsky.social. The idiosyncratic identified themselves arsenic a big of a vigor amusement connected WUML, which is funded by the University of Massachusetts astatine Lowell. The remark was made successful effect to different Bluesky idiosyncratic who claimed that, "JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS [sic] LIKELY ENEMIES."

WUML's website says that it has "given a dependable to some the pupil assemblage of UMass Lowell, and the greater Lowell community" for much than six decades.

Vice President JD Vance during a quality league successful the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.  (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"Founded successful 1952, WUML functions arsenic a non-commercial FM presumption located successful Lowell, Massachusetts, funded by the University of Massachusetts astatine Lowell, and afloat managed and operated by pupil members, broadcasting some terrestrially and online," the statement says.

When the schoolhouse learned of the post, it contacted authorities, according to a connection provided to Fox News Digital.

"UMass Lowell constabulary promptly coordinated with the FBI, Secret Service and Haverhill constabulary the aforesaid time to guarantee an due response," the schoolhouse said. "Contact was made with the idiosyncratic successful question, and the indispensable assessments were conducted successful collaboration with national partners. Authorities confirmed determination was nary contiguous threat."

A flyer promoting UMass Lowell's WUML vigor presumption from the WUML website, captured connected Jan. 12, 2026.  (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

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Secret Service confirmed to Fox News Digital that it was alert of the post. The Haverhill Police Department directed Fox News Digital to the FBI, which declined to comment.

"UMass Lowell takes earnestly immoderate menace of unit involving our community. Statements specified arsenic the station successful question are inconsistent with the values of our ideology and our university," the connection continued. "The idiosyncratic successful question has since resigned from his unpaid relation astatine WUML and removed the station from his Bluesky account."

Then-Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, holds hands with his wife, Usha, during a run rally successful Derry, N.H.  (AP/Steve Senne)

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The schoolhouse said that the idiosyncratic down the convulsive rhetoric is an alumnus.

Several posts, including the 1 directed astatine Vance, person been deleted from the Bluesky account.