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GiveSendGo yanks convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony's fundraiser

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Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death by Karmelo Anthony at a Frisco, Texas high school track meet, April 2, 2025
Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in state prison after a jury found him guilty of murder...

The family of Karmelo Anthony can no longer raise money from supporters through GiveSendGo following the conclusion of his criminal case.

The Anthonys were able to raise more than $600,000 in the wake of the then-17-year-old's prosecution in connection with the fatal stabbing of track star Austin Metcalf during an altercation on April 2, 2025.

The controversial fundraiser was hosted by GiveSendGo, which attracted thousands of donors who bizarrely viewed Anthony's prosecution as the product of racial injustice. Evidence shown at trial proved otherwise.

In a June 9 statement posted on its website, GiveSendGo said that the fundraiser has been closed because Anthony's trial was over.

Comment: Aaaaand the Anthonys are now (allegedly) broke:
Karmelo Anthony, the Texas man convicted of the murder of 17-year-old track star Austin Metcalf, is pleading with taxpayers to pay for his appeal attorney despite pocketing more than half a million in a controversial online fundraiser.

In a court filing submitted after his conviction and 35-year prison sentence, 19-year-old Anthony said he was too poor to afford a new set of attorneys for the appeals process.

Public defenders are typically available for criminal defendants as they challenge their convictions, but financial hardship must be proved.

In the document, Anthony called himself a "penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal," according to WFAA ABC 8 News.

It is not immediately clear what issues Anthony intends to raise on appeal.

Texas law permits individuals to appeal their convictions within 30 days after their sentences are announced, according to the outlet.

The "penniless" description is at odds with the $625,000 he and his family collected through a GiveSendGo campaign.

Anthony raised the six-figure sum after his family and supporters portrayed his prosecution as an example of racial injustice. Anthony, the now-convicted aggressor, is black, while Metcalf, who died in his twin brother's arms, was white.



Bullseye

A Conservative's audit of the Left's ruling assumptions

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© Robert Alexander / Getty Images fileThe United States Supreme Court Building
The mirror they refuse to look into.

There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.

The clichés, observations, and aphorisms collected here are not talking points manufactured in a think tank. They are the distilled residue of lived political experience — hard-won pattern recognition from citizens, scholars, commentators, and statesmen who have spent years watching the same contradictions repeat themselves under different headlines.

Victor Davis Hanson notices that progressive hierarchy licenses progressive hypocrisy. Don Surber reminds us that incentives are more reliable than ideology. Ian Bremmer, borrowing from Thucydides, warns us what civilization looks like when law gives way to appetite. A Daily Signal headline captures in nine words what a criminology textbook takes nine chapters to prove. Together, these observations form a mosaic: a portrait of a political movement that has systematically abandoned the constitutional, cultural, and civilizational foundations that made ordered liberty possible in America.

Briefcase

Hunter Biden invested in a pandemic firm collaborating with Daszak's EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab

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© nexusnewsfeed.com/KJNHunter Biden • Wuhan Institute of Virology
Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners - an investment firm led by Hunter Biden - was a lead financial backer of Metabiota, a pandemic tracking and response firm that has partnered with Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP) was an offshoot of Rosemont Capital, an investment fund founded by Biden and John Kerry's stepson in 2009, that counted Biden as a Managing Director.

Among the companies listed on archived versions of the firm's portfolio is Metabiota, a San Francisco-based company that purports to detect, track, and analyze emerging infectious diseases, The National Pulse can reveal.

Financial reports reveal that RSTP led the company's first round of funding, which amounted to $30 million. Former Managing Director and co-founder of RSTP Neil Callahan - a name that appears many times on Hunter Biden's hard drive - also sits on Metabiota's Board of Advisors.

Star of David

Israel 'emptying' Al-Aqsa facilities to undermine Waqf, watchdog warns

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© Ahmed Gharabli/AFPIsraeli forces during a raid into Al-Aqsa Mosque as Muslim worshippers gather for Friday noon prayers • Jerusalem's Old City • April 2026
Palestinian monitoring group says authorities are targeting four key sites across the mosque complex as part of broader effort to sideline Jordanian-backed Islamic Waqf.

Israel has emptied four facilities within the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex that served as offices for the Islamic Waqf, in what a monitoring group has described as an escalating campaign against the Jordanian-backed body.

The Al-Quds International Institution, a Palestinian organisation that monitors developments in Jerusalem, said on Tuesday that Israeli authorities have used "manufactured security pretexts" to target the facilities.

According to the group, Israeli forces raided the sites in recent months, broke their locks and prevented the installation of replacements.

The facilities were then left open, while anyone attempting to enter them was expelled because they had been used for "activities that threaten security".

The four sites are the Dome of Imam al-Ghazali, located above the Bab al-Rahma prayer hall along the eastern wall of the complex; Dar al-Hadith al-Sharif in the northeastern section of Al-Aqsa; Qubbat Sulayman, an open-air domed shrine opposite King Faisal Gate; and Qubbat Musa, located near Bab al-Silsila (Chain Gate).

Treasure Chest

How Bad Is Foreign Influence In America's Nonprofit Universe?

Committee members dig into foreign influence in American nonprofits
Committee members dig into foreign influence in American nonprofits, with several NGOs and far-left funding networks in the hot seat.
In February, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing titled "Foreign Influence in American Nonprofits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond." While Democrats deflected and tried to make the hearing about MAGA and free speech, the underlying topic remains important.

So how bad is foreign influence in America's nonprofit universe? It turns out: very bad.

The Muslim Brotherhood

Earlier this week, the New York Post published a story reporting that CAIR was under investigation by HHS for alleged fraud. The report referred to CAIR receiving $30 million in taxpayer dollars to resettle Afghan refugees, with little proof of how the money was spent.

Bullseye

Candace Owens: Ukraine conflict is 'ethnic cleansing' of Russian speakers

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© Getty Images / Brett CarlsenUS commentator Candace Owens.
The goal was to remove the population of eastern Ukraine and replace it with "other people", the US commentator has said

The Ukraine conflict appears to be an "ethnic cleansing" project aimed at removing the Russian-speaking population from the country's eastern border regions, US conservative commentator Candace Owens has said.

Owens made the remarks in an interview with Russian filmmaker and TV host Nikita Mikhalkov during a discussion about the roots of the conflict and the West's attitude toward Russia.

"I think what's happening in Ukraine is an ethnic cleansing," Owens said, arguing that it was "obvious" that large numbers of fighting-age men were being killed, and suggested that "the ultimate goal" of those behind the conflict was to move in "other people" to Ukraine's border regions.

No Entry

Ron Paul: We should not 'integrate' our military with any foreign nation!

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Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA's Section 224, the "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative," would "integrate" the Israeli military with our own, fusing technology, production, intelligence-sharing, and more.

As Ben Freeman wrote last week in Responsible Statecraft:
"The US and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes 'network integration' and 'data fusion.' In other words, the US military's data could soon be the Israeli military's data."
It is hard to think of a more "America last" position than handing the keys of the Pentagon (and our intelligence community) to a foreign country.

Comment: This article should never have had to be written.


No Entry

Why the Israeli real-estate expo in London must be cancelled

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© Henry Nicholls/AFPA demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a protest in London’s Parliament Square on 21 February 2024
If organisers of the "Great Israeli Real Estate Event" get their way, stolen Palestinian land will be traded on British soil this Sunday.

The event takes places annually in cities across the US and Canada, and has in recent years been coming to London, in an attempt to establish the capital as a regular feature of the expo. Despite keeping the London event under wraps in recent years, the secret is now out - and we're taking action to stop it.

We know that we can cancel the event, because it has been cancelled elsewhere: in 2024, organisers pulled out of Brooklyn amid widespread protest. This battle can be won, and we know how to win it.

This week, the Palestinian Youth Movement launched the Stop Stolen Land Sales campaign, bringing together more than 100 organisations in condemning the event and calling on the British government to cancel it.

We understand this event as the continuation of more than a century of Zionist expansionism and dispossession of Palestinians, and we call on Britons to recognise and reverse the active role that Britain has historically played in supporting the worst extremes of Zionism, at great cost to our people.

Bizarro Earth

UK cops admit DEI training pressured them to ignore dying white teen Henry Nowak

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© Hampshire ConstabularyPolice bodycam footage shows innocent victim Henry Nowak, 18, being forced into handcuffs by officers after he was stabbed repeatedly by a knife-obsessed Digwa. He begged not to be cuffed and said he couldn't breathe
Anti-white indoctrination and two-tier priorities left an 18-year-old bleeding out while officers believed his attacker's racism claim

Officers from the force that failed Henry Nowak have now admitted they felt "controlled and pressured to feel certain ways" after mandatory DEI sessions that hammered home 'white privileged' and unconscious bias.


The trainer outsourced to deliver the course was described as "deeply hateful of white people and British culture." Serving and former Hampshire officers told former Home Secretary Suella Braverman they were furious but stayed silent out of fear for their careers.

Multiple officers from Hampshire Constabulary have now gone on record about the ideological pressure inside the force.

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Arrow Down

China is learning to use less oil—and that's a bigger deal than it sounds

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© UnknownOil refinery • Changes ahead
Three months into the biggest oil supply disruption in modern history, China appears to have discovered something that should make oil bulls at least a little uncomfortable.

It can get by on less fuel than anyone thought.

China's gasoline and diesel demand has been falling for years as electric vehicles gained market share and economic growth slowed. But the latest drop has surprised even seasoned observers.

According to Reuters, gasoline sales at Sinopec, China's largest refiner and fuel retailer, fell 8% year over year in April, while diesel sales dropped 6%. Goldman Sachs estimates that consumption of gasoline and related products may have fallen by as much as 20%.

China has slashed crude imports since the Iran war began, with May imports plunging 29% to 7.8 million barrels per day — the lowest level in eight years. Until recently, many analysts viewed those cuts primarily as a function of China's enormous oil stockpile and high crude prices.