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We’re seeing just the very beginnings of some of western culture’s darkest times, if things don’t begin to change quite rapidly.

Belfast is on fire. Nationalist militants clad in black have been patrolling “street-by-street” and molotoving buildings known to house migrants (on the public dime). The tipping point was a Muslim immigrant attempting to behead a man in the middle of the street in broad daylight.

I can’t say I’m shocked even slightly. I and many others have predicted this outcome. What’s more shocking to me is that it took this long.

The politicians are also corrupt. They want more illegals. They want more foreigners. Foreign cultures don’t just stop being what they are because they moved to Minnesota, or Michigan, or Northern Ireland and the UK.

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A Texas jury took less than four hours Tuesday to convict Karmelo Anthony of murder for stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf in the heart at a high school track meet.

The guilty verdict seemed obvious. Witnesses testified that Anthony refused to leave another team’s tent, repeatedly threatened Metcalf and then pulled a knife from his backpack.

Still, outside the courthouse, protesters tried to spin the case into evidence that racism is alive and well in America.

Protesters chanted “Free Karmelo” as the case reached its conclusion, apparently committed to pretending that a dead white teenager was the aggressor for asking a kid from another school to leave his team’s tent.

“What do you want us to do?... I’ve got five boys,” one black woman said.

“Anytime a white man or white child can go and put their hands aggressively on anybody and something like this occur, it’s SELF-DEFENSE!” another said, according to a video captured by independent journalist Nick Sortor.

But, in Texas, murdering white people is still illegal.

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A Sudanese man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a “serious assault involving a knife” Monday night, according to Irish police.

A video of the attack is circulating on social media. In it, a man ululating unintelligibly sits on another man’s chest, apparently trying to cut his head off.

Politicians are very concerned ... about how right-wingers are responding to the video.

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OPINION: Spencer Pratt should sue. Something’s amiss. MAGA world smells it. If ever there were conservative pouncing to be done, now’s the time.

As if I need more motivation: Democrats and lib media are busy saying nothing weird happened.

So how’d it all go down? Ballot harvesting. Late AF ballot harvesting from highly organized far-left groups. I consider it kind of wild that Nithya Raman would give a concession speech only to win FIVE DAYS LATER.
Talk about the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.

And Raman’s leftmost hand is a hodgepodge of NGOs and “get out the vote” organizations masquerading as nonpartisan. Sucking up taxpayer funds to canvass the urban sprawl for disaffected youth, homeless people, and bewildered elderly. In other words: People for whom civic duty is the farthest consideration imaginable.

They then “help” those people fill out “ballots” and those ballots are “dropped” days after election day. Raman had no idea this was happening. She had no internals on this because those people don’t answer polls.

This is not how elections should be decided. We all know it in our bones to be true. You can bus people to polling places. You can raise hell in the town square and hope to motivate. But going door to door with ballots, that’s pure insanity.

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The defense in Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial rested Monday without putting Anthony on the stand, capping a day in court that did little to help the defense’s case that Anthony was acting in self defense when he allegedly fatally stabbed Frisco Memorial student-athlete Austin Metcalf at a track meet.

Prosecutors rested Saturday after calling 21 witnesses, including multiple students present at the track meet who testified that Anthony repeatedly refused demands to leave the Frisco Memorial track tent. Witnesses for the prosecution also accused Anthony of escalating the confrontation and reaching into his backpack — presumably to grab the knife — as Metcalf asked him for a final time to leave.

The prosecution asked a 16-year-old witness, “Was this self defense or murder?”

“This was murder,” the witness replied.

The defense tried to soften that picture by eliciting testimony that Anthony was smaller than Metcalf, had been invited to the tent by a student he knew, and warned Metcalf not to touch him. A defense witness also said Anthony was crying after the stabbing, saying, “I told him not to touch me.”

But the defense’s most important witness suffered serious damage during cross-examination.

That witness originally claimed Anthony was surrounded before the stabbing — a detail that would have helped the defense’s self-defense theory. But when the prosecution played video of the stabbing, it showed that the witness was on the field and not even looking at the Frisco Memorial tent during the incident.
The witness walked back his claims.

Closing arguments are set for Tuesday, and then the jury will deliberate on a verdict.

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Sally Choi, the art director on “Obsession,” took to Instagram Friday to complain about being underpaid for her work.

The film “was made for $750K and is projected to make $250M,” Choi writes.

“How much I made: $300/day as Art Director. This came out to $6741.36 after taxes. No mileage.”

“Obsession” was filmed in 26 days, according to lead actress Inde Navarrette. That’s a decent rate, especially considering Choi only had one credit to her name prior to “Obsession.”

Then, Choi reveals a critical piece of information. She “did know the rate beforehand and agreed to it …”

So, Choi entered into an agreement and both parties fulfilled their side of the agreement. Yet Choi persists in painting herself as a victim of injustice.

As the Hollywood Horror Museum tweeted, with regards to Choi’s carping: “When you work on a movie, you don’t know what’s going to happen. It could be a hit, flop, streaming, never get released.”

“Instead of being happy to be associated with a hit, and using it to get a new job, this art director will be known as a complainer.”

That’s precisely right. A savvier individual would be overjoyed to claim partial credit for an out-of-nowhere sensation.

What might have been the beginning of a lucrative career looks, instead, like the collapse of a fledgling one.

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Another, certainly less talked about, story out of CBS this past weekend highlighted a 55-mile, 5-day mountain hike one secondary school’s freshman must complete in order to become sophomores.

Students at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark are required to make the trek with minimal supervision in teams of five. Each team has designated positions – cook, captain, navigator – and together they must manage resources, pace, camp, etc.

Benedict’s, which is Catholic, has two mottos: “Whatever hurts my brother or sister hurts me” and “Benedict’s hates a quitter.” The education kids receive there is both multifaceted and simple. Students learn through “experiential” training blocs, through traditional education blocs, and they also share in the responsibility of basic school operations.

The goal, as outlined by Benedict’s itself, is for students to become mathematically, linguistically, and religiously literate, of course, but also civically literate. To emerge with a sense of duty and promptly become functioning and contributing members of their communities.

As for the education, their graduation rate is near 100 and the percentage of students who pursue post-secondary education is near 100. Their median SAT score is 1100 and ACT score is 21-23. The school has produced famous athletes (in fact, olympians), personalities, journalists, lawyers and so on.

Oh, and 85% of the student body is either black or hispanic. CBS’s report didn’t say this explicitly, so I will.

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OPINION: Lefty morality was made up this entire time. It never truly existed. BLM, DEI, MeToo. It was always just about seizing power, politically or otherwise. That’s why it can be sidelined the moment it gets in the way of power.

The New York Times dropped a much anticipated piece of reporting on Platner’s history of abusive actions and statements towards women just yesterday, and astute observers on our staff here instantly recognized it for what it was: A “catch and kill.”

At the center of the story is one named source, Lyndsey Fifield, a longtime communications operative in GOP politics.

Fifield alleges to the Times – again, fully on the record – that he abused her during an on-again-off-again relationship while Platner was a bartender in Washington, D.C. She provided diary entries and text message screenshots and even names of people who could corroborate Platner’s abuse.

You can read her fuller statement (in the link below) about how the Times played her, but in short, they made promises they ultimately didn’t keep about including other, corroborating witnesses. They set Fifield up to appear as if she were a plant. Any aggressive lefty reading the copy would immediately make that connection without much help.

If you read The New York Times article with suspended partisanship, it’s clear the man is deeply flawed in nearly all the ways that used to be radioactive for liberals. He’s abusive toward women, allegedly even physically, and narcissistic to the extreme. He’s too online in exactly the kind of way liberals perennially accused the right of pipelining extremism. Under his Reddit handle, he rejoiced in the deaths of American servicemen.

He even bragged to people that if a man ever broke into his home, he’d rape the guy, but “not in a gay way.”
So he dropped a “no homo,” lol.

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The murder trial of Karmelo Anthony, the black Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing white 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco ISD track meet, is already drawing national attention — but Americans won’t be able to watch it unfold.

District Court Judge John Roach has barred cameras, audio and video recordings from the courtroom.
Now, jury selection and tensions outside the courthouse are adding new layers of chaos.

Prosecutors reportedly dismissed black prospective jurors after some indicated they’d be biased in Anthony’s favor. One potential juror allegedly said, “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail,” while others suggested they could not convict Anthony because he “looks like a child.”

Outside the Collin County courthouse, TPUSA Frontlines reporter Savanah Hernandez said activist Jake Lang showed up with a “White Lives Matter” sign and accused Anthony’s supporters of having “low impulse control,” saying that is “why Austin Metcalf is dead.”
According to Hernandez, Anthony supporters responded by chanting, “the only good cr*cker is a dead cr*cker,” while others screamed racial profanities at two white men who came to support Metcalf.

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President Donald Trump tapped Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard stepped down in May to support her husband through his cancer treatment.

Pulte, the grandson of billionaire PulteGroup founder William J. Pulte, will reportedly keep running FHFA while taking over the intelligence post, raising questions about whether it’s wise to have someone in the role whose attention will be pulled elsewhere.

The appointment allows Trump to avoid a Senate confirmation fight, as the Federal Vacancies Reform Act allows Trump to temporarily install an already Senate-confirmed official in another Senate-confirmed position for up to 210 days.

The bigger problem seems to be, though, Pulte’s lack of experience. He has no known intelligence background. Further, at FHFA, he has made headlines for helping push the 50-year mortgage idea, reportedly irritating Trump allies by jumping the gun on the proposal. He was also reportedly connected to the Trump-Jesus image that triggered backlash from conservatives earlier this year.

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On Saturday, May 30, riots engulfed Paris. American observers watched the videos and made the call: this is the end of the West. The great City of Light had fallen. It has been overtaken by barbarians. They weren’t at the gates; they were already inside.

But the story is far more complicated than that.

The riots Americans witnessed on their X feeds and TV screens were, truth be told, child’s play. Decades from now, historians won’t even take note of it, such is their insignificance. They will, however, take note of the far bigger systemic problems that largely go unnoticed in the daily stream of social media posts. The decline of the West is a much slower, drawn-out burn, one that cannot be captured by lurid images and videos of a single night of violent rioting.

So, if/when things really get bad, we Westerners may perhaps look back on this time with rose-tinted glasses. Instead of a one-off riot triggered by the victory in Europe’s biggest soccer tournament, perhaps the French will have bigger riots, more violent riots, more desperate riots, existential riots, erupting with ever-increasing frequency because, say, there is a major financial crisis, a currency collapse, a devastating economic depression, or a war. What will the streets of Paris look like then?

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