Let me be clear about what just happened in the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Because the celebration is traveling and the discrepancies aren't.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years.
FACT: The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours.
FACT: There were zero Black jurors on this jury.
FACT: The prosecution used peremptory strikes to remove 100% of eligible Black jurors while keeping a white educator after claiming they didn't want educators on the jury.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony never stood up. The confrontation happened while he was seated. Austin Metcalf was standing over him.
FACT: The jury had the option to choose manslaughter. They chose murder.
FACT: The "sudden passion" defense which would have capped the sentence at 2 to 20 years was rejected.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony's mother was the only witness called during the punishment phase. She asked for mercy. The prosecutor responded: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
FACT: Karmelo Anthony will be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence, roughly 17.5 years. He is 19 years old.
Now ask yourself, if the races and sizes were reversed, if Karmelo was 6'1" standing over a seated smaller white teenager who reached up with a knife, does this even go to trial?
You already know the answer.
Say his name. Karmelo Anthony.
Stay Dangerous.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you". Wise words that still ring true today spoken by an upstanding Texan, LBJ in 1964… let it sink in that it’s now 2026.
Sen. John Kennedy admits on Fox News that the Republicans and Democrats reached a deal to fund TSA, but Trump said, “No. No deals with the Democrats.”
Kennedy says, “It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week.”
This is the Trump shutdown!
Here are the Republicans who just voted to block TSA funding:
Sen. Banks (R)
Sen. Barrasso (R)
Sen. Blackburn (R)
Sen. Boozman (R)
Sen. Britt (R)
Sen. Budd (R)
Sen. Moore Capito (R)
Sen. Cassidy (R)
Sen. Collins (R)
Sen. Cornyn (R)
Sen. Cotton (R)
Sen. Cramer (R)
Sen. Crapo (R)
Sen. Cruz (R)
Sen. Ernst (R)
Sen. Fischer (R)
Sen. Graham (R)
Sen. Grassley (R)
Sen. Hagerty (R)
Sen. Hawley (R)
Sen. Hoeven (R)
Sen. Husted (R)
Sen. Hyde-Smith (R)
Sen. Johnson (R)
Sen. Justice (R)
Sen. Kennedy (R)
Sen. Lankford (R)
Sen. Lee (R)
Sen. Lummis (R)
Sen. Marshall (R)
Sen. McConnell (R)
Sen. McCormick (R)
Sen. Moody (R)
Sen. Moran (R)
Sen. Moreno (R)
Sen. Mullin (R)
Sen. Murkowski (R)
Sen. Ricketts (R)
Sen. Risch (R)
Sen. Rounds (R)
Sen. Schmitt (R)
Sen. Scott (R)
Sen. Scott (R)
Sen. Sullivan (R)
Sen. Thune (R)
Sen. Tillis (R)
Sen. Tuberville (R)
Sen. Wicker (R)
Sen. Young (R)
BREAKING: Both Democrats and Republicans have offered President Trump an "off-ramp" proposal that would fund all of DHS except ICE (it would fund TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, CISA, etc.) via a quick Senate vote, with ICE funding handled later through budget reconciliation.
TRUMP TURNED IT DOWN!
This is now the TRUMP SHUTDOWN!
Massive TSA chaos at LaGuardia today — endless lines, missed flights, pure frustration.
Not an accident: Republicans are blocking Democratic bills to fund TSA while ICE negotiations continue.
Travelers suffer because GOP won’t pass clean TSA pay. ✈️😡
Trump says the budget is too tight to lower health care costs or the cost of groceries.
But now Republicans are already talking about seeking billions more in taxpayer dollars for war with Iran.
REPORTER: "I saw some handles out there."
LEBRON: "She's a volleyball player. Don't get my wife mad. My wife is done with basketball. But she do got good handles and a good form but my wife ain't playing that. Not another one. That's it." 🤣
https://t.co/h9DExQ85Hc
History has seen this playbook before and it never aged well. It wasn’t about pride or culture then, and it isn’t now. It’s about division dressed up as entitlement.
Let that sink in