Author name: Josh Slocum

Race

Mother of Teen Killer Thinks Her Family Are the Real Victims

Imagine two parties:

1. A father whose son was stabbed in the heart and killed by another teen
2. The mother of the teen who killed the father’s son

Which one is the victim? Think that sounds easy? Not in 2025. If you’re the mother of confessed knife-killer Karmelo Anthony, you believe that you and your family are the real victims. Karla Hayes, mother of Karmelo Anthony, called a press conference and berated the public for “discriminating” against her family and for being angry that her son killed another boy. 

Only blacks in America would have the nerve. Oh yes, race is very much at issue. Karmelo Anthony is black, and Austin Metcalf, the teen he killed, was white. In this insane racial hothouse called America 2025, public sympathy is on the side of the confessed killer’s family. The Anthonys have already taken in a half-million dollars in online donations, and the media reports that they’ve begun spending it on a Cadillac Escalade and a new McMansion to live in. 

The family press conference started off with an even more astonishing display of chutzpah, with a man named Dominique Alexander speaking for Karmelo Anthony’s family. It turns out that Jeff Metcalf, father of the boy slain by Karmelo Anthony, showed up at the Anthony family press conference. Dominiqe Alexander, a self-described clergyman, chastised Jeff Metcalf for showing up, saying Metcalf was “disrespectful” to Metcalf’s dead son. 

During her tirade, Karla Hayes, mother of the accused Karmelo Anthony, shouted that she had raised her son correctly in a two-parent family “with structure.” It is not clear, then, why she has a different surname than her knife-wielding son, or just what kind of “structure”  she was referring to. 

The family’s been having a red letter week, as their very good boy, who didn’t do nothin’ wrong and acted in self-defense, they say, got his bail reduced to a nice affordable $250,000. Karmelo Anthony is resting comfortably under home arrest until his trial. 

You can watch Karla Hayes put on crocodile tears and yell at the world in this video from Collin Rugg’s X account:

Here are some of the reactions:

Illegal Immigration

Maryland Senator Flies to El Salvador to Beg for Criminal To Bring Back to US

If the past 10 years hasn’t been enough to convince people that Democrat politicians have literally lost their minds and their souls, then the latest from Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen may do the trick. At issue is a man the media insists on describing only as a “Maryland man.” He is not merely, or even really, a “Maryland man.”

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvador citizen who has been in the US illegally for years before being deported back to El Salvador by the Trump administration. Why was he deported? Because he was here illegally, but also because two immigration courts agreed with border officials that he was part of the infamous international and violent MS-13 gang. 

Over the past few weeks the Trump administration and the activist federal courts have been tussling over Garcia. Federal courts have tried to stop the Trump administration from deporting foreign aliens, including Garcia. Some claim Garcia was here “legally” although he’s an illegal (no, it can’t be made to make sense), and judge James Boasberg is hopping mad that the executive branch did not obey his probably-extra-legal order to turn planes around in mid-air and bring illegals back to the U.S. 

Whatever the true details of this fine legal wrangling, it boils down to this: The Democrats and the courts are moving heaven and earth to bring back to the U.S. an El Salvadoran man who is in El Salvador. There isn’t any way to look at this and come up with any legal or moral framework that makes sense. 

In comes Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, whose heart so bleeds for Garcia that he, Van Hollen, got on a plane to El Salvador in hopes of talking the country’s president into releasing Garcia back to the United States. Yes, really. 

You’ve got to hand it to Van Hollen; he has chutzpah. Here he is in front of microphones demanding that El Salvador’s president Naybi Bukele give Garcia, an El Salvador citizen, to him to take back to the U.S.!

El Salvador, in more diplomatic language, told the senator to piss off. 

Let’s see what the American public had to say on X. 

This one’s brutal and funny. 

Courts, Race Politics

Family of Black Teen Who “Allegedly” Killed White Teen Strikes it Rich with Donations

Conservatives often say that liberals and leftists have no principles, but that’s not true. The prevailing liberal orientation to the world, at least in the U.S., could be called “sympathy for the devil.”

It seems like all of a sudden, the tolerant, loving, compassionate, empathetic left has decided to celebrate murderers right out in the open. Sure, many on the right could argue that the left has always approved of force and violence, but in the past those who did at least felt some social pressure to hide their appetites. Not anymore. Violence-loving lefties will tell you right out on social media that they wished the 2024 would-be assassins had succeeded in killing Donald Trump. They also like to engage in what they accuse conservatives of doing: “victim blaming.” Check out this poll—38 percent of voters said Trump himself was to blame for attempts on his life. Maybe it was that tight dress he was wearing. 

Lefties are equally unashamed to cheer on the rash of violent attacks on Tesla dealerships. The electric car company, owned by billionaire and Trump advisor Elon Musk, has endured dozens of incidents of vandalism and firebombings in the past few months. The arrest of a Colorado man (who wears blue lipstick) for an arson attack on a Tesla dealership in New Mexico, and vandalism at the state’s Republican party headquarters, is only the latest in a string of reports of lefties gone feral. 

It is no surprise, then, to see the outpouring of financial support for confessed killer Anthony Karmelo. The black teen has been charged with murder for plunging a knife into the heart of 17-year-old white high schooler Austin Metcalf on April 2 in Frisco, Texas. According to media reports, Metcalf told Karmelo to move out of his seat, and Karmelo reacted by knifing him. Metcalf died on the scene as his killer asked arresting police if he could claim “self-defense.”

It looks like just about any old excuse will get this guy off the hook if his recent successes are any indication. On April 14 a judge reduced his bail from $1 million to $250,000, so Karmelo walked out free except for home arrest. 

But the winning keeps on coming: as of April 15, a fundraiser for the knife killer set up by his family has netted $433,000, surpassing the amount donated to the family of the slain boy. The family says they’re going to buy a brand-new house with security because they feel “threatened.”

Let’s see what the public has to say. Naturally, poor little Karmelo has some backers. 

But more people reacted with sanity. 

Immigration

Judge Rules Columbia Protestor Mahmoud Khalil can be Deported

On April 11, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has the authority to deport a Syrian man at the center of pro-Palestinian and anti-Jewish demonstrations and mayhem at New York’s Columbia University. 

Judge Jamee Comans said Mahmoud Khalil, 30, can be deported and that the State Department has the legal authority to expel green card holders (non-citizens) deemed to be agitating against U.S. foreign policy interests. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Khalil never mentioned to the U.S. that he worked in the office of the British embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, that dealt with Syrian issues. DHS said this made Khalil “inadmissible at the time of his adjustment” because he misrepresented himself and his past. 

What riled the U.S. government was Khalil’s involvement with “student” protests against Israel at Columbia University. During these demonstrations, some students and activists denied Jewish students the right to freely move about the campus, threatened them, and took over university buildings by force. 

Judge Comans ruled that Khalil was “deportable” under a law cited by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that allows expulsion of guests in the U.S. who take actions deemed to be antithetical to U.S. foreign policy. 

Advocates for Khalil and pro-Palestinian demonstrators say this is a violation of “free speech,” and that Khalil is being politically persecuted. His lawyer Sabrina Mohamah told media that the decision was “unjust and alarming,” and “a blatant violation of the First Amendment.”

Department of Homeland Security director Kristi Noem countered this view, stating that it was a “privilege” to be given a visa to study in the U.S. and that the country does not have to host guest who support terrorist organizations. “Good riddance,” she said in reaction to the ruling. 

Khalil has been held in custody in a Lousiana prison since March 8 when he was arrested. The court ruling gives him until April 23 to file for relief in the courts, so he’ll be cooling his heels in the U.S. for a bit longer. 

The protests against Israel kicked off at Columbia and other universities after the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists. The militants breached the Israeli border and slaughtered thousands of young people attending an outdoor music festival, raping women and abducting hundreds. Leftist “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators in the U.S. accused Israel of waging “genocide” against Palestinians through its aggressive military response. 

The White House announced the court decision on X/Twitter, using an image of Donald Trump from the day he visited a McDonald’s. The image shows the president waving “goodbye” from a drive through window. 

Predictably, the social media thread drew widely divergent responses. Some users expressed anger at the Trump administration, but most were supportive:

Others were quite happy to see the U.S. get tough:

LGBTQ+

First Court Decision to Rescue a Child from “Trans-Affirming” Mother Comes from Australia

Is it possible that 10 years of complete madness about so-called “transgender” children may be coming to an end? If the following court case in Australia is anything to go on, we may have some hope. 

X/Twitter user Stephanie Bastiaan brings us the news, based on reporting from The Australian. 

An Australian court has, finally, recognized that telling a child that he or she is “born in the wrong body,” and setting the child on a path to a “sex-change” is just plain old child abuse. The court ruled against the child’s mother, and for the father. As it is in almost every case, “transitioning” a child is the act of the mother, and appears to be part of a maternal psychological imbalance rather than anything allegedly wrong with the child. 

The family members are not named, but Australian judge Andrew Strum stripped custody from the boy’s mother. He gave custody to the father, who had tried to stop his wife’s project of “transitioning” their son. The mother claimed her son had been “gender dysphoric” since the age of six, and began taking him to a so-called “gender clinic.” She also started sewing him custom underwear to “flatten” the crotch and hide the appearance of male anatomy. 

The court found that no doctor or clinician had actually diagnosed “gender dysphoria” in the child, and that this appeared to be entirely the mother’s project. Of course, there is no such thing as a “transgender” child (or a “transgender” person) at all, regardless of whatever absurd diagnoses medical professionals may claim. 

According to the case, the mother was trying to start injections of  so-called “puberty blockers,” powerful chemicals that stop normal puberty and set children up for permanent sterilization and other problems. This is the usual course for what are called “trans kids,” with many left permanently unable to have children, along with a host of other potentially life-shortening medical ailments. 

Medical associations and famous clinics are completely captured by the lunatic idea that some children need sex changes. The renowned Mayo Clinic writes approvingly, and falsely, about how “safe” puberty blockers are. 

Not only that, but the court found that the expert witness testifying for the mother was in truth a radical political activist who worked to have children removed from families that would not consent to the barbaric procedure. The entire ruling can be read here.

Here’s a sampling of public opinion on Bastiaan’s X thread. It looks like people are waking up to what “transing” your child actually is–Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, the psychiatric derangement that animates mothers to sicken their child when he is actually healthy in order to gain public adulation and sympathy. 

Race, Race Baiting

Social Media Users Debate If It’s Really Murder if Victim is White

Until America’s woke phase beginning in about 2015, most of us wouldn’t have believed that our friends, family, and neighbors could believe as they believe, and act as they have acted. When the government violated the constitution during the “pandemic,” the vast majority of adult citizens rolled over and took it. They shut their businesses down, they obeyed illegal orders and stayed inside their homes. But more, millions of Americans cheered these legal and civil liberties violations while turning their own family in to snitch lines. 

We are not the people we thought we were; now we know how many of us would have been good Germans. 

But our compliance, our cooperation with “authorities” who work against our own interests, didn’t pop up overnight. For decades Americans have been under a set of moral myths that developed during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The movement did not merely and only bring fair legal enfranchisement to black people, a goal all civilized people shared. It went further, and made saints out of black people and demons out of whites. 

In 2025, the seeds sown in the 60s are blossoming into rotten fruit. Despite the obvious reality of wildly disproportionate criminal violence committed by blacks, “respectable” media and white Americans won’t tell the truth. They blame white people for the actions of black criminals, going so far as to excuse or justify murders of white people when a black person feels like expressing displeasure. 

The recent killing of white 17-year-old high school track competitor Austin Metcalf by, allegedly, a black teen, is a case in point. According to sources so far, Metcalf was at a track meet and noticed the teen sitting in his (Metcalf’s) assigned spot. When the other teen refused to move, Metcalf allegedly moved the teens’s backpack. This, according to online commentary, justified the black teen stabbing Metcalf in the heart. 

Take this example: 

That’s right. It’s socially acceptable in 21st century American to justify an apparent murder when the victim is white and pissed off a black man who didn’t want to follow the rules of courtesy. Mr. Baggz calls anyone pointing this out a “white supremacist.”

Let’s see what onlookers had to say. We’ve got some other black commentators who also think it’s cool to kill if you feel dissed:

Not everyone, though. 

LGBTQ+, Sports

USA Fencing Expels Female Who Refused to Compete Against “Trans Woman”

The left—which is still every cultural, political, academic, professional, and sporting organization—has been in its temper-tantrum-to-cope “phase” since Donald Trump was elected late last year. No one knows how long it’s going to last, and it’s not showing any signs of slowing. 

Lunatics are firebombing Elon Musk’s Tesla dealerships, Democratic senators with crazy psycho-looking eyes (hi, Cory Booker) are filibustering in the Senate for no reason other than attention. The left side of the aisle, full of women who claim to care about women’s issues, voted en masse against a bill to keep boys out of girls’ sports. And there’s still constant talk of “resistance” by hypnotized leftists who think they’re some sort of revolutionary vanguard in a dystopian novel. 

They’re still not giving in on the most absurd, hysterical plank of the modern leftist platform: transgenderism. It’s amazing. Even 10 years ago, if you had polled the average Democrat voter they would have obviously agreed that it wasn’t fair to allow men to compete against women in sports. They would have looked at you like you were crazy for claiming that a man who declares himself a woman is, actually, a woman. Now they shriek that you’re insane if you don’t believe it. 

It’s an increasingly stupid and desperate “look.” Take this announcement on April 3 from the professional organization USA Fencing:

What “range of perspectives” are they talking about? Debate over the plain fact that men and women are separate sexes. This is fencing’s professional response to public outrage over this:

What you’re seeing is a young woman who forfeited her match because the organization forced her to compete against a man who claims he’s a woman. USA Fencing expelled and disqualified the woman. That’s right–sporting organizations are still pulling this nonsense. 

From the responses on X, the public has had it. 

Democrats, LGBTQ+

Georgia Dems Walk Out of Chamber in Support of Sex-Changes for Criminals

Democrats across the country are playing Backwards Morality Day every day now. Here’s how you can play along with them:

  1. Find the most unsympathetic cause.
  2. Find equally unsympathetic, even monstrous people associated with the cause. 
  3. Call the monstrous cause and the unsavory people “marginalized” and “victims.”
  4. Dems will go all in on the monster cause and work to make new monsters. 
  5. Profit!

It sounds absurd because it is, and it is also true. Remember Trump’s speech to Congress, and how the Dems refused to clap for a 13-year-old boy with terminal brain cancer? Remember how every single one of them, including the Democratic women, refused to vote for a bill that would protect girls from having to play against boys (“trans girls”) in sports or share their locker rooms with them? 

The rules are simple. If you’re a bad person, the Dems love you. If you’re a criminal, the Dems love you. If you’re an illegal alien, the Dems love you. If you’re a normal American citizen, they absolutely hate you and want to do everything they can to drain more of your tax dollars to give away to dangerous, violent, or perverted scum. More below.

It’s not just in Washington, either. The Democrat politicians at the state level haven’t even begun to recover their sanity; they’re still living in woke world. Maybe they think if they keep pretending they’ll wake up one day and find that Donald Trump’s election was just a bad dream. Colorado leftists have introduced a bill that would deprive parents of custody in divorce cases if the parent won’t address their “trans” child (no such thing) by their made-up fake name. California’s legislature just nixed a bill that would have barred boys from girls’ sports teams. 

Now in Georgia, Democrat lawmakers threw fits and walked out of the chamber to protest a Republican-backed bill. What was it? A bill to stop the taxpayer funding of sex-change surgeries for prison inmates. Yes, really. 

Their fellow leftists applauded their colleagues as they left chamber as if they’d all just marched across the Edmund Pettis bridge or re-liberated the slaves. 

Let’s see what the public thinks. 

Hmm. Seems like the Democrats are out of step with sane Americans. Let’s see if we can find some support for the liberal champs. 

Nope. Doesn’t seem to be much. Most responses sound like this:

Tesla

Alleged Tesla Vandals Better Get Ready for Their Jailhouse Close-ups

Most people consider the early 90s MTV show “The Real World” (it launched in 1992) to have launched the reality television era. The show followed young adults as they left home and faced political, economic, and romantic realities on their own for the first time. As we all know, television gushed forth a glut of “reality” shows ever since, with most offerings upping the ante with rude, selfish, and abusive behavior among the cast members taking entertainment center stage. 

Entire generations of American kids grew up in the world of “reality TV.” To them, it’s always been normal to have a camera following ordinary people around indoors and out. Melodramatic and conniving behavior to friends and colleagues became an expected part of the plot; indeed, narcissism is the “drama” that viewers tune in for. It’s a chicken-egg question. Did the selfish diva behavior create reality TV, or did the TV create the behavior? 

It’s probably both. But whatever the answer, we’re living in a very strange world in 2025 where just about any bad behavior is seen as “camera ready.” Time was that stealing a video tape of a rocker and a hot actress having sex was seen as a scandal—Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were angry and embarrassed when someone leaked their home video. That didn’t last long. Just over a decade later, a sex tape featuring then unknown Kim Kardashian and actor Ray J having sex was released by an adult video company. No one knows for sure, but there are allegations that Kardashian’s own mother leaked the tape to propel her daughter into super stardom. 

This cultural “evolution” may explain why so many criminals seem perfectly content not only to be caught on camera, but to film their own illegal activity for public applause. How else do we explain the brazen destruction of Tesla Motors dealerships by candy-poison-haired leftist activists? If you weren’t aware, the hard left has developed Elon Derangement Syndrome (Elon Musk, owner of Tesla) to complement their unbalanced obsession with Donald Trump. Angry, for some reason, at Musk’s attempts to cut federal government waste through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), these people are spray painting and setting Tesla facilities on fire in broad daylight, seemingly without a care in the world. 

Here’s one in Berlin, Germany:

As the X contributor Liberacrat wonders, is someone paying these criminal brats who claim to be fighting “rich fascists?”

Here’s another in Ottawa:

Here’s another one. This woman is taking part in the latest craze–”keying” Teslas. That is, property damage against some innocent driver. 

There are many more just like this if you care to look. 

Some of the vandalism has gone much farther than mere spray painting and scratching. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently announced that she’s charging the worst  of the perps with domestic terrorism. Cooper Frederick, 24, is charged with firebombing a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado. He looks strangely surprised in his mugshot:

From the responses on X, the public is in no mood for light sentences. 

Democrats, LGBTQ+

Democrats Do a Lucy-and-Ethel At the Candy Factory

In one of the most famous episodes of the classic TV series I Love Lucy, Lucy and Ethel get jobs in a chocolate factory. You know the drill. They’re manning the conveyor belt carrying finished chocolates as they come out of the machine needing to be wrapped and packaged. Slowly but surely, the conveyor belt speeds up and the ladies are having trouble keeping up. 

When the speed gets more than they can handle, Lucy and Ethel try to manage the runaway candy belt by stuffing chocolates in their mouths and shirts. It never occurs to them to just stop, reassess the situation, and take a different approach. They either can’t think differently, or they have no way to convince the operator to slow the whole thing down, so they try to keep it all together in a way that ends up ruining the candy and costing them their jobs. 

That’s how the Democrat party is “handling” the country’s swing to a conservative mood after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. The usual hysterics on major media just keep doing more hysteria faster—witness CBS’ Margaret Brennan laughably blaming the Holocaust on free speech in Germany.

Or take failed Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz (Governor of Minnesota), whose advice to a recent crowd of party faithful was to double down on the lunacy. Referring to the racist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies that America has soundly rejected, Walz says the Democrats can win if they just push more of those, and harder. 

“We got ourselves in this mess because we weren’t bold enough to stand up and say ‘you damn right we’re proud of these policies. We’re going to put them in, and we’re going to execute them’,” said Walz.

Oh, dear. 

Speaking at a rally put on by the Christopher Street Project, a PAC that aims to elect so-called “transgender” people to political office, the best the Dems can do is to pull a Lucy-n-Ethel. Take this woman, who tells the crowd that “her” “pronouns” are: he, she, they, and them. She works for Planned Parenthood as a nurse, she tells us from behind her Covid mask, and she’s very worried about lots of things. 

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1906843790737916171

Next up at the same event, we have Democrat Rep. Judy Chu of California delivering her message “loud and clear” in a strangely strangled, screeching voice: “Trans rights are human rights and human rights are trans rights!” At least she achieved symmetry. 

This kind of thing is of course red meat. . .I mean, plant-based protein. . .to the lunatic left, but how’s it playing in digital Peoria? Here’s what X/Twitter users had to say. 

Not so good so far. 

https://x.com/FemApologetics/status/1906844662645567880

Will they ever learn?


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