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The Worst Journalist, Ever

Posted on | June 14, 2026 | No Comments

Juan Maurice Thompson

You probably never heard of Juan M. Thompson, because I hadn’t either until Andy Ngo called attention to his case, which has somehow been forgotten by most of the media, but in 2016 and 2017, Thompson made national news — not in a good way. A St. Louis native from a bad neighborhood, Thompson won a scholarship to Vassar College, once an all-women’s school, but dropped out before graduating. He had worked a couple of internships before somehow talking himself into a job at The Intercept in late 2014. Barely a year later, Thompson was fired:

In February 2016, the [Intercept] appended lengthy corrections to five stories by reporter Juan M. Thompson and retracted a sixth, about Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, written over the previous year, focused on the African-American community. Shortly afterward, a note from editor Betsy Reed indicated that Thompson had been fired recently after his editors discovered “a pattern of deception” in his reporting. According to Reed, he had “fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name”.
Reed apologized to readers and to those misquoted. She noted that some of Thompson’s work, most of it using public sources, was verifiable. Editors alerted any downstream users of the affected stories, and promised to take similar action if further fabrication came to light.
Thompson suggested that the greater problem was racism in the media field.

Yeah, sure — “the greater problem was racism.” There has never been an answer to the question of how Thompson talked himself into that job, for which he clearly was not qualified. Notice that his problem was basic reporting — picking up the phone, calling sources, taking notes, etc. — and he attempted to conceal his failure by literally making up quotes from people, including fake “sources” he invented. This would be a firing offense in any case, but Thompson’s fakery involved at least one bogus “exclusive” that got picked up nationally:

Mass murderer Dylann Roof

A June 2015 report by The Intercept which alleged Dylann Roof was dumped by a girlfriend for a black man years before he killed nine people in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was fabricated, the website said Tuesday [February 2, 2016].
In a post titled “A Note To Readers,” Intercept Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed wrote that staff had “recently discovered a pattern of deceptions in the actions” of reporter Juan Thompson. . . .
The website on Tuesday retracted Thompson’s story on Roof and issued corrections on four other stories.
In his June 18 story on Roof, Thompson claimed he spoke by phone with the shooter’s cousin, “Scott Roof.” Two members of Roof’s family have since told The Intercept they do not know such a person.
Thompson’s story attributed quotes to “Scott Roof” about Dylann once dating a girl who left him for a black man. “He kind of went over the edge when a girl he liked starting dating a black guy two years back,” the quotes read. “Dylann liked her…The black guy got her. He changed. I don’t know if we would be here if not.”

No such person as “Scott Roof” existed, and yet this June 2015 story got picked up in all kinds of media (including the UK Daily Mail) and was not retracted until more than seven months later. You might compare Juan Thompson’s fabrication to the similar scandal of Jayson Blair at the New York Times, except that Blair’s fakery did not involve anything as egregious as Dylann Roof’s infamous slaughter, which killed nine people in a Charleston church. For more than half a year, it seems, nobody bothered to fact-check the hoax Thompson perpetrated at the Intercept, but once they did, they discovered he’d faked practically every story he wrote for them. As awful as this was, however, it was not even the worst thing Thompson did. He literally became a terrorist:

Juan Thompson, a former reporter for The Intercept who was fired after it was revealed he fabricated stories, has been arrested for allegedly making bomb threats against Jewish Centers as well as the Anti-Defamation League, according to authorities. The news comes on the heels of a rash of threats and attacks directed at Jewish communities in the U.S.
According to a federal complaint, Thompson, 31, made more than a half-dozen bomb threats against Jewish schools and community centers both in his name and that of an ex-girlfriend, apparently to intimidate her. …
The DOJ issued a press release on the arrest that states, “Today, we have charged Juan Thompson with allegedly stalking a former romantic interest by, among other things, making bomb threats in her name to Jewish Community Centers and to the Anti-Defamation League.”

That was May 2017. I don’t know whether to say it’s ironic or merely predictable that the ex-girlfriend targeted by Thompson in this bizarre scheme was white. In December 2017, Thompson was sentenced to federal prison. A couple of months later, Associated Press reported:

Nearly two dozen times, Francesca Rossi called law enforcement to complain that an ex-boyfriend was harassing her online, posting nude images of her, sending notes to her bosses that she had a sexually transmitted disease and making it appear she was running guns and trafficking in child pornography.
But they couldn’t make it stop and couldn’t even make an arrest for almost a year, until the man set off a national panic by posing as Rossi to make bomb threats against Jewish centers across the country. That turned it into a major federal case that ended with her tormentor, Juan Thompson, arrested within days and eventually sentenced to five years in prison.
Rossi spoke to The Associated Press in her first interview since the criminal case ended in December.
“It went on for months. I thought I was going to die and no one could help me,” Rossi said. “In the end, the only way that my abuse was legitimized is because he went after such a large community of people, and because there was so much hysteria over it.” …
Legal and policing experts say her experience is an extreme example of how law enforcement is ill-equipped to handle the growing threat of online crime, even though laws have recently been passed in 38 states addressing cyberstalking and revenge porn. …
Part of the complexity in the Thompson case, for example, was that Thompson used 25 different devices that allowed him to mask his identity. …
Rossi told the AP that she met Thompson through an online dating site in late 2014. He worked as a journalist with The Intercept; she as a social worker. They bonded over their commitment to reform. And for a while, their relationship was great. …

(Permit me to interrupt and repeat what I’ve said so often before, namely that online dating is for losers. The very fact that someone is using a dating app can be construed as evidence that nobody they actually know in real life is willing to date them. But let’s return to Francesca Rossi and her not-entirely-surprising tale of woe.)

But by the spring of 2016, he’d moved into her Brooklyn apartment and trouble came with him. She started getting harassing texts from ex-boyfriends. The wife of another ex-boyfriend sued, saying she’d given him a sexually transmitted disease, a lawsuit that turned out to be a hoax. Another posted a naked picture of her online.
Rossi panicked. She contacted Carrie Goldberg, a lawyer specializing in online harassment and she quickly figured out that only one man was behind the harassment: Thompson. He’d been posing as her exes for months. Rossi believes he was trying to make her feel bad so he could intimidate and control her.
“Juan was going through all of my stuff and I had no idea,” said the 33-year-old Rossi. “He somehow gained access. I never gave him access to any of my passwords. But he had everything on me. He had been reading my texts and my emails for at least a year.”
Rossi broke up with him, but then things got worse. …

(Breaking up with a psychopath is never easy.)

Thompson telephoned, emailed and texted her relentlessly, she said. Sometimes, he posed as others, terrorizing Rossi and her family, including her 92-year-old grandmother. He called and wrote her office. He used every major social media platform to trash her. He even posted her information on a website where men promote violence against women.
“Technology gave him utter access to me,” she said. “Every time my phone buzzed, I felt sick. I mean, I thought he was going to kill me. I felt like my life was over.”
But since she didn’t know his physical address, she couldn’t get a permanent restraining order. Police at her local precinct closed Rossi’s harassment case in October 2016. The FBI was still slowly looking into the case. . . .
Over 150 bomb threats were reported against Jewish community centers and day schools in 37 states and two Canadian provinces. It was national news. Authorities blamed most on an 18-year-old Israeli-American Jewish hacker arrested in Israel last March. But federal officials said Thompson made a dozen of the threats.
Thompson was arrested in his native St. Louis early last March [i.e., 2016]. By June, he’d pleaded guilty to making hoax threats and cyberstalking.

The harassment of his ex-girlfriend, which turned into a national terrorism investigation, was no doubt the most reprehensible of Thompson’s behavior. However, she was not his only victim. Doyle Murphy is editor-in-chief of the Riverfront Times in St. Louis:

In the days before Juan Thompson’s arrest [in March 2017] for his part in a string of bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers across the U.S., the St. Louis native seemed a little extra crazy, which is saying something.
This is a guy who took imaginary trips to Cuba and Senegal. He dubiously claimed he was with the Standing Rock protesters in North Dakota and that he’d bought a house in Detroit. He lied about the weirdest things. . . .
At the Riverfront Times, we published a cover story about Thompson last February. He was a north St. Louis native who was once a reporter with a job at The Intercept in New York City, a news site best-known for its cache of documents from national security leaker Edward Snowden. But Thompson had been fired after the site caught him making up details and sending bogus emails, including some masquerading as the site’s editor.
Thompson blamed racism and also claimed to have cancer. But we uncovered additional problems with his work, going all the way back to his college days with the student newspaper at Vassar College, a prestigious university in Poughkeepsie, New York. Thompson had overcome an impoverished background to attend college there, but failed to graduate. He still landed a few good media jobs — only to crash and burn when his sourcing didn’t check out.
After our cover story, we followed up later with a short account of his brief tenure for an online news site. I wrote the stories. Thompson was pissed. He emailed my boss and tried to get me fired. When that didn’t work, he emailed me.
“You are a white piece of shit who lies and distorts to fit a narrative,” he wrote me in October. “Thankfully no one reads you or the rft and you will spend the rest of your career aggregating stories about shootings.”
Things were quiet for a while after that, but then came the fake Twitter accounts. My wife and I were sitting on our couch one night when she tapped me on the elbow and showed me her phone. Someone had created a brand-new Twitter profile claiming I was a rapist. The person tweeted at her, my boss and other journalists around St. Louis. It was an insane — and, though it’s hard to believe I even have to say it — completely untrue accusation. …
We finally contacted the St. Louis police department’s cyber crimes unit. I still remember the detective stopping me before I could get the full explanation out.
“Does this have anything to do with Juan Thompson?” he asked.
I had not even said Thompson’s name yet. I didn’t want to accuse him prematurely, although the fake accounts and the penchant for revenge had me fully convinced it was him.
It turns out police were already investigating complaints Thompson had been harassing his ex-girlfriend in New York. They couldn’t tell me much about her case, but the pattern of weird cyberattacks was the same. I called one of Thompson’s old roommates, whom I had quoted in an earlier story. He too was under attack. Someone was sending anonymous messages to his employer and and graduate school, claiming he was a racist. …
All we could do was watch what Thompson was doing online, try to link it to the attacks on me and my family and brace ourselves for the next hit. …
If you believed his posts, he was jet-setting across the world. He was also railing against capitalism, white women, police, liberals, Trump and so many others.

This pattern of demonizing others, seeking scapegoats for one’s own personal failures, is certainly not limited to Juan Thompson. It’s characteristic of narcissistic personality disorders, and if you’ve ever had the unfortunate experience of dealing with such a person, you know what a nightmare it can be. Given the high-profile nature of Juan Thompson’s crimes, it’s weird that I had never heard of him until Andy Ngo mentioned him Friday. What’s even weirder is how this bizarre saga has completely disappeared, and is so rarely mentioned anymore. You’d think there would have been at least a Netflix documentary about this story.

He’s dead now. Died of a drug overdose in September 2024, but his death went largely unnoticed for a while. His ex-girlfriend’s lawyer tweeted about it in late October 2024, but it was not until March 2025 that his death was reported in St. Louis Magazine by Sarah Fenske, who had formerly been Murphy’s boss at the Riverfront Times:

As the editor in chief of the Riverfront Times during its coverage of Thompson’s fabrication scandal and, a year later, his arrest, I had a front-row seat to some of the havoc he wreaked. I didn’t save the anonymous emails he sent me about Murphy, but I remember they were ugly. And even after Murphy figured out that it was probably Thompson who was falsely accusing him, and even after the St. Louis Police confirmed to Murphy that they were already looking at him for similar offenses, the attacks continued—through Twitter and through emails, to Murphy’s wife, to me. Thompson anonymously contacted other media outlets suggesting they should look into Murphy; I felt obligated to contact them proactively to explain that Murphy was not a perpetrator, but a victim of harassment.

Now that he’s dead, Juan Thompson can no longer harass anyone, and it’s safe to call him The Worst Journalist, Ever.

He certainly earned that dubious honorific.



 

Category: Crime, Journalism

FMJRA 2.0: Keepers & Discards

Posted on | June 14, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, the Senators sent their keeper list in to Pete, and now we’re waiting for the owners to get off their butts and do the same. Complicating matters is that Pete is between jobs, and four of this season’s owners have gone MIA, so if you’ve ever wanted to try out Dynasty League Baseball, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor.
We decided to keep RF Dave Winfield, 3B Bill Madlock, SS Bucky Dent, 2B Len Randle, C Jim Sundberg, 1B Mike Hargrove, LF/GM Tom Grieve, SP Jim Kaat, RP Charlie Hough, and RP Jim Bibby. We also have a promising collection of rookies, who will help patch holes here and there, so depending on how the draft goes we might be contending again this year.
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So many roster holes. So few draft picks.

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In The Mailbox: 06.12.26

Posted on | June 13, 2026 | No Comments

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Call for Authors: Based Romance Books Post
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

For all the leftards whining that Elon Musk is now a trillionaire.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day The Black Ships Came To Japan (1853), Minnesota’s $9 Billion All-You-Can-Steal Explainer
357 Magnum: Two Armed Citizens Stop Kidnapping, also Nerdrotic versus Legacy News Outlets
EBL: SpaceX IPO Takes Off, Fun Friday – Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Appeal Fails, Triggerfish Throats, Anti-Migrant Protests Continue in Northern Ireland, and Why do we bring Somalis to the West?
Twitchy: Here’s Why Leftists Are Ignoring These Working Folks Profiting From Elon’s “Greedy” IPO, “How Wonderful…We Never Anticipated This”, and Fetterman Torches Platner As Bona Fide Dirtbag
Louder With Crowder: Spencer Pratt concedes mayoral race, and both Karen Bass and Nithya Raman are gonna HATE what comes next, Socialist Mayoral Candidate Who Wanted To Defund The Police “Suddenly” Backtracks On Statements, Trans man fired from daycare after offering to kiss an 11-year-old, but he claims he was fired for “transphobia”, Austin Metcalf’s Dad Unloads on Karmelo Anthony Family, and Two, ahem, “teens” hold up two little kids running a lemonade stand at gunpoint, and police could use your help
Vox Popoli: That’s Not the Secret, Disclosure Days, Books and More Books, A Pipeline to the Stars, and Natives and Americans
According To Hoyt: I’m taking an unscheduled day off, Decay is a Choice, Come The Revolution, Make a Joyful Noise, and And Marry our Fortunes Together
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #4, also, Shooting Digital Retro-Style
Stoic Observations: Disparate Impact vs. Equal Protection
Upstream Reviews: Imperator

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: DNI Gabbard Declassifies Evidence Showing US Has Continued to Fund Dangerous Biolabs Overseas, Despite Trump Ban, Kennedy Center Appeals Order Requiring Removal of Trump’s Name, Iran’s World Cup Team Faces Tight Restrictions Amid Security Concerns, DOJ Investigates Philadelphia Over Concealed Carry Permit Practices, and A Conservative Audit of the Left’s Ruling Assumptions
BattleSwarm: Abbott: Build Your Data Centers, But Pay For Your Own Infrastructure, Commie Jihadis On The Grassy Knoll, California Election Fraud Update For June 9, Jeremy Clarkson: All UK Farmers Are Reform, None Are Labour , and How Ukraine Is Hammering Russian Logistics
Behind The Black: A galaxy as seen by Hubble and Webb, Two launches today by Japan and SpaceX, Parker makes 28th close fly-by of the Sun, Cosmologists: “We are STILL right! Dark energy does exist!”, and Only half of all social science can be replicated
Cafe Hayek: Greg Ip Is Mistaken Again About U.S. Trade Deficits, Debunking Trump’s Boast About His Tariffs, Remembering Lockdown Authoritarianism and Terror, Oren Cass Continues to Err Grievously About Trade, and A Full Interview by Stossel
CDR Salamander: So – GWOT will get a memorial? also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Not sure about this pardon push, SpaceX liftoff, The other “I need to know why they are disrespecting me for no reason” violent encounter, L.A. curiosity, and “This is what systematic and deliberate industrial-scale knowledge poisoning looks like”
Dana Loesch: Europeans Visiting for the World Cup Love America While Podcastistan Juicebox Bolsheviks Don’t,
Don Surber: ESPN created this monster, also, Gill at the grill
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: I confess to being unable to see how a victim’s race makes him either more or less dead, also, Can socialists learn anything?
Flopping Aces: The Data Center Doomers Aren’t Just Screaming, They’re Getting Paid
Gates Of Vienna: Culturally Enriched in the Restroom, Belfast Update, Beheading Thwarted in Belfast, Teach Your Children Well, and Hear Ye, Hear Ye
The Geller Report: BORDER HORROR: At Least 146,000 Migrant Children From Biden Open Border Policy Unaccounted For, KILLED, DISMEMBERED, SOLD, From Trump’s Landslide to Thune’s Takeover, US Becomes World’s Largest Oil Exporter, and University of Michigan Terrorists Indicted For Terrorizing and Threatening Jewish Community
Glenn Reynolds: Elon Musk Is A Genius And A Litmus Test
Hollywood In Toto: Kimmel’s Graham Platner Joke Proves Trump Broke His Brain, Social Reckoning Trailer Teases Left’s War on Free Speech, Cardi B Decries Karmelo Anthony Sentence, Jane Fonda Cosplays Free Speech Warrior on The Daily Show, and Is Jerry Seinfeld Getting Red-Pilled in Real Time?
Legal Insurrection: Democrats to Try and Use Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings Against Susan Collins, Wall Street Liftoff: SpaceX IPO Rockets to Historic Heights, Mellon Foundation-Backed AAUP Organization Seeks to Undermine Civics Schools, Thirty-Nine Years After Reagan at Berlin, the Fight Against Communism Still Demands Moral Clarity, and One of the Anti-Israel Activists Arrested by the FBI in Michigan Was a Medical Student
Nebraska Energy Observer: As It Was in the Beginning, The American System, Don’t Mess With Texas, Letting All the Magic Smoke Out, and Nowak
Outkick: Brewer Jacob Misiorowski breaks brains and radar guns, US fans out in full force ahead of USMNT’s first World Cup match, MLB announces drive-in screenings of The Sandlot with live games & fireworks for July 4th,  California Democrats under fire for “You’re not allowed to watch” World Cup post, and Officer’s romantic outings in patrol car lead to trouble/Naughty cruise sets sail/Unconventional attraction
Power Line: The politics of envy, SpaceX Goes Public, Spencer Pratt: I’m Not Going Away, For what it’s worth, and We regret to inform you
Racket News: To An Ivy League Professor Who Doesn’t Understand Equality,
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Endorses Scott Singer In FL-14 Bid
The Political Hat: Digital Big Brother In Arizona, Nekomimi Anarchy, You Can’t Restore What Wasn’t Lost Or Even There To Begin With, Quick Takes – Will DEI Die?, and Firing Line Friday: The Future of the American Theater
This Ain’t Hell:
Transterrestrial Musings: Spencer Pratt, Beware Medical “Experts”, Google, SpaceX Progress, and On The Artemis III Crew Selection
Victory Girls: John Cornyn Decides To Pick Fights And Play Sore Loser, Hunter To Gavin On Presidential Run: I’m Your HuckleBerry, Jasmine Ratchet’s Austin Metcalf Murder Lies, Republicans Have The Best Kind Of 2028 Problem, and James Talarico Wants To Talk About Real Men. Let’s!
Watts Up With That: Climate Alarmism’s Reset And The Policy Reckoning It Demands, Piketty’s Eco-Marxist Utopia – Why Degrowth and Global Redistribution Will Trap the Poor in Poverty, Everyone Wants Affordable Energy. Nobody Wants to Cut the Ribbon, Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot, and Crackpot Christians Worried About GB News!
The Federalist: Leftist Freak Out Over Elon Musk’s Trillionaire Status Embodies Their Hatred For Success, Newsweek Aghast At UFC Girls’ Star-Spangled Costumes After Defending ‘Right’ To Burn US Flag, The Black Lives Matter Lie Is Why Austin Metcalf Is Dead And Karmelo Anthony Is In Prison, The Texas Children’s Hospital Trans Kids Settlement Hasn’t Happened Yet, and White House Refuses To Say Whether Trump Admin Will Keep Funding Electric Mail Trucks
Mark Steyn: King of the Swingers Meets Emperor of Austria, Boss Lady: Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Whatever Will Be Will Be, An Odyssey To Ignore, Part III, and Of Pitbulls and Islamists

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In The Mailbox: 06.11.26

Posted on | June 12, 2026 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Flashback to 2020

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The USS Liberty Explainer
357 Magnum: Pride Is Destroying Everything, also Some Predators Have 4 Legs
EBL: Fish Velouté, Oystergropenführer Graham Platner, The Unbearable Weight of Scott Pelley’s Ego, Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort, and “That Kite”
Twitchy: ABC News Shows Riot Damage After Asylum Seeker “Allegedly” Attacked Another Person With A Knife, World Cup Tourists Find Surreal Sporting Goods Store With A Firing Range & Also Discover Buc-ee’s, and “I’ve Watched This 67 Times!”
Louder With Crowder: Low-IQ Jasmine Ratchet’s latest defense of Karmelo Anthony is heartless, Dem rep promises that if American taxpayers don’t give black people reparations, they’ll stop voting, Mamdani announces eye-popping amount of taxpayer funds he’s investing in genital mutilation, Belfast Mayor brags about ‘diversity’ weeks before that diversity beheaded an Irishman in the street, and Several Homeless People Confirm They Were Paid To Vote For Karen Bass
Vox Popoli: Mailvox: The Significance of the Refutation, What if it Wasn’t Libel, Forgotten Sundays – Fable 5, Round Four Begins, and Where is the IRA?
Upstream Reviews: The Hunt for Confederate Gold
The Bugscuffle Review: Oh, look
Stoic Observations: Working The California Elections
john C. Wright: The Inevitable and the Deliberate

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In The Mailbox: 06.10.26

Posted on | June 10, 2026 | No Comments

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This election board work is kicking my ass. Fortunately we’ll be done in a couple more days after the last of the mailed-in ballots dribble in.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day Lady Liberty’s Torch Went Dark (1916)
357 Magnum: College Students Can’t Do Middle School Math
EBL: Hey Tater – Meet The New Boss, Karmelo Anthony Found Guilty of Murder, Dry Aged Queen Snapper, Belfast Beheading, and Mindhunter
Twitchy: The Bulwark on Graham Platner’s Many Scandals – BUT TRUMP! More Unhinged Reactions To The Karmelo Anthony Verdict, and Chicken Coup At The VP Mansion – JD Vance’s All-American Chicken Coop Goes Viral
Louder With Crowder: Presbyterian Church  (U.S.A.) Declares Clergy Must Be In Monogamous Relationships, And Not Everyone Is Happy About This, Mamdani goes all in on being pro-criminal with his latest anti-ICE rant, Seattle builds tiny homes to hide their homeless during the World Cup, and yes…drugs will be allowed, Trans activist with soul patch primaries sitting Democrat congressman for not being pro-trans enough, and James Talarico’s latest flip-flops on EVERYTHING are an exercise in how stupid Democrats think voters are
Vox Popoli: The Finding in the Folio, Napoleon at Chamartín, Israel Wants War, Escalation Initiative, and Revisiting Calculus
Ammo.com: Gun Ownership by State
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #3

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CDR Salamander: AUKUS Update II – Electric Boogaloo
Dana Loesch: Karmelo Anthony Found Guilty
Don Surber: NBA final shows TDS has infected the sports section
Racket News: American Elections Are A Joke,
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Stephen Spielberg & The New Yorker

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GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

Posted on | June 9, 2026 | No Comments

Murder is still against the law in Texas:

A jury in Collin County, Texas, has found 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the 2025 stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.
Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the Frisco Memorial tent at a regional track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony, a former student at Frisco Centennial, took shelter in the tent during a rainy portion of the day. Frisco Memorial athletes, including Metcalf, told him to leave the tent “roughly 15 times,” according to witnesses.
One 17-year-old student-athlete who went to Frisco Memorial with Metcalf told the court that Anthony, 19, did not act in self-defense. He kept his hands in his backpack until Metcalf shoved him, and then he responded by stabbing the teen in the chest.
“That’s lethal force against non-lethal,” the witness explained.
One of the key parts of Anthony’s defense is the claim that Austin and his brother Hunter ganged up on Anthony, forcing him to take the knife out of his bag to defend himself.
However, multiple witnesses testified that he never saw Austin or his brother gang up on Anthony.
Anthony’s lawyers pursued a self-defense case on behalf of their client. However, the jury ultimately found that defense unconvincing. Race played a role in the case. Anthony is black, and Metcalf is white.
Two factors did tremendous damage to Anthony’s self-defense case: First, Anthony did not take the stand in his own defense. A curious decision by his lawyers, given that an attempt to draw sympathy from the jury could have aided greatly in getting the charges reduced to manslaughter. Second, the majority of the prosecution’s witnesses – all of whom laid the blame for the incident on Anthony – were black.
Anthony’s self-defense case was dealt another blow Monday when it was revealed that even one of the defense’s witnesses said Anthony caused the incident.

Was this a hate crime? That’s what a lot of commentary on this case has really been about. The circumstances surrounding the case make it seem as if Karmelo Anthony deliberately provoked a confrontation because he just wanted an excuse to kill a white guy. What we don’t have is any clear indication of what would have caused Anthony to choose this track meet as his opportunity to commit murder (whatever his motive) nor do we know why Austin Metcalf was targeted. Nothing about Karmelo Anthony’s behavior makes sense, in a rational or objective way, and until we have some further information, we can only speculate about his motive. Similarly inexplicable is why the killer decided to go to trial, rather than trying to get a plea bargain. His self-defense claim was implausible, and even the defense witnesses couldn’t justify such a claim.



 

Category: Crime, Racism, Texas

In The Mailbox: 06.09.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | June 9, 2026 | No Comments

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Primary elections today in Nevada, and I’m working on the county elections board. There may be an evening edition. There might not.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day The Wickedest City On Earth Fell Into The Sea (1692), A Day Trapped At Arica (1868), and The Horrifying Report Macron Didn’t Want France To Read,
357 Magnum: Man Protects His Sister from Attack
EBL: How is that Karmelo Anthony trial going in Texas? Fascist Groove Thang – Screwing over Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton, Shelter with Jason Stratham, Maine Kampf – Das Fatterland, and Perfect Mahi Portions
Twitchy: “They Claim To Fight Hate But Sow Division”, Ted Lieu Tries Picking A Fight With Will Chamberlain Over LA Vote Fraud, Gets Rekt, and Another Secret Graham Platner Social Media Account Shows Up And HOOBOY
Louder With Crowder: They’re Stealing The LA Election Right in Front of Your Eyes, AWFL leftist is a-ok with Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, but could never vote for a Jew, Jennifer Lopez doesn’t realize she makes the case AGAINST mass migration with who she says is allowed to be a NYer, Meal-kit company takes pride in encouraging butt stuff with their new social media promotion, and Mamdani introduces his anti-American “team” of socialists he’s endorsing for Congress
Vox Popoli: Comprehensive Failure, Work, Brothers, Why Chicago Lost the Bears, 10 Readers Wanted, and The Racism Police
Cedar Sanderson: The Thing Which Has Been, also, Eat This While You Read That – Frank Hood
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Rainbow Bridge called again, also, This is actual Texas
Weird Catholic: St. Norbert – Scourge of Spiders and Demons
Upstream Reviews: Out Law
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Age of Rebellion
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: AI – Bicycle or Train?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Revitalizing Merchant Mariners to Ensure A Maritime Renaissance Happens, also, AUKUS Update – Great News
Dana Loesch: Who Is Aleksandr Dugin? also, TPUSA and the Woke Reich
Don Surber: Trump ignores RNC & gets half the Hispanic vote
Elizabeth Nickson:  Not Civil War, Not World War, Not Riots in the Street
Racket News: Britain’s Great Self-Loathing Crusade, also, How Much Ethnocentrism Is Okay?
STUMP: Motorcycles – Death Trends in the United States 1999-2024,

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Rule Five Sunday: More About Agriculture

Posted on | June 8, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m not sure what she’s doing in the barn, but it looks like the good kind of mischief.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA YMCA, The Truth & Tragedy of Moriah Wilson, The Boroughs, The Cleaner, Italian Republic Day, Apex, Obsession, Countdown To America’s 250th, World Cup 2026, and Sunday Golf

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Grace Boor, Fish Pic Friday – The Reel Hilary Sue, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Pubs Pounce as Platner Problems Proliferate, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Yes, I Will Have A Beer

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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