June 9, 2026

GOOD ADVICE:

Posted at 7:19 pm by Stephen Green

HEH:

Posted at 6:22 pm by Stephen Green

TO BE FAIR, AFTER APRIL, THE SPLC DENOUNCING A MAN WITH A NAZI TATTOO REALLY IS NEWS: Republican Lawmaker Presses SPLC Boss On Whether Graham Platner’s Nazi Tattoo Should DQ Him From Senate.

Earlier: “The SPLC paid $350K to an officer of the National Socialist Movement and Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club.” Much like Platner himself, it’s 21st century Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between International and National Socialists.

Posted at 4:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

APPARENTLY, E&E WAS A TRADE PUBLICATION WITH ONE CUSTOMER — YOUR TAX DOLLARS:

Heinlein wrote that “A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore,” and the same applies to so-called journalists.

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

BREAKING: We Have the Verdict in the Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial.

A Collin County jury has delivered its verdict in the trial of Karmelo Anthony, who faced murder charges for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, 2025. Now he knows his fate.

The jury found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder.

The facts of this case were never particularly complicated. Anthony, also 17 at the time, wandered under a tent belonging to Memorial High School during a rainy multi-school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium. He had no business being there. Multiple student athletes asked him to leave multiple times.

Anthony reportedly told students, “Touch me, and you’ll find out,” and “If you want me to move, you have to move me.”

Austin Metcalf, by contrast, told him, “I’m not going to fight you at a track meet.” Multiple witnesses testified that Metcalf had no interest in a physical confrontation. At least one witness said Anthony appeared to be “looking for a fight.” Throughout the exchange, Anthony kept one hand inside his backpack. Some students thought he was bluffing. He wasn’t.

Prosecutors called 21 witnesses who built a clear picture: Anthony escalated a verbal dispute into a deadly encounter by pulling a knife from his backpack and driving it into Austin Metcalf’s chest. After the stabbing, Anthony told a police officer, “I’m not alleged, I did it. He put his hands on me. I told him not to.”

The defense bizarrely tried to spin all of that as self-defense, essentially asking jurors to believe that a teenager who invited physical contact with “touch me and you’ll find out” and had brought a knife with him was somehow the victim.

Summer riot season to commence shortly?

Posted at 4:07 pm by Ed Driscoll

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Do So Many Prosecutors Let Criminals Who Have Illegally Converted GLOCK Pistols Walk? “In any case, whatever scary or misleading lingo politicians employ to justify these gun bans, it’s just so much noise if criminals who illegally modify guns aren’t actually prosecuted. On May 30, for instance, St. Louis, Missouri police ‘detained two people in [a recklessly-operated] vehicle and found several guns that had been modified with auto-sear switches, converting them to fully automatic firearms.’ The police department publicized the arrests, saying the city was ‘safer today because of the proactive work of these detectives, which led to dangerous weapons being removed from the streets.’ Nevertheless, the dangerous individuals themselves were reportedly and inexplicably back on the streets.”

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

CHANGE:

Posted at 3:39 pm by Stephen Green

BECAUSE OF COURSE:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: More than 10,000 applicants vie for 15 affordable apartments in Seattle.

More than 10,000 applicants are vying for 15 rent-reduced apartments under a new Seattle affordable housing program funded by a city tax on workers who make more than $1 million a year.

Amazon, Microsoft and other companies fought the tax, but voters approved it in a 2025 referendum.

The program was expected to create only several hundred apartments a year, as the so-called social housing developer constructed new buildings.

But the first allotment of apartments is even smaller because the social housing developer decided to buy an existing luxury apartment building and won’t require tenants to leave.
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The Social Housing Developer announced last month that it purchased a 150-unit building by the Pike Place Market for around $60 million.

It looks to me like The Social Housing Developer used taxpayer money to buy a luxury apartment building because the profits are better, and that they’ll get around to the less lucrative affordable housing stuff sometime between mañana and inshallah.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green