Random News and Notes 25 June

We start off in Texas. A Collin County Grand Jury has returned a murder indictment against Karmelo Anthony. You may remember this case from back in April. Anthony, now 18, stabbed Austin Metcalf to death at a track meet in Frisco Texas. If it matters, Metcalf was white and Anthony is black.

Anthony and his family have been grifting off the murder. A give send go campaign had raised more than $500,000. This was turned into a new car and a new nearly-million dollar house. No word on when the trial will start.

One of the greatest cities in the world has just signed its own death warrant. The New York City Dems have just selected a Marxist-jihadi as their mayoral candidate.  Zohran Mamdani beat former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the primary, held yesterday.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say Mamdani is a Marxist. He campaigned on bringing government run grocery stores to the city and increasing rent control among other uber-left proposals. And the jihadi sobriquet is also well earned. He has repeatedly and vocally called to ‘Globalize the Intifada‘. Then there is his oft repeated statement that he “understands why 9/11 happened”.

There are other candidates running, Curtis Sliwa as a Repub and current mayor Eric Adams as an Indy, but they are just window dressing. The demos in NYC are such that whoever wins the Dem primary is going to be the new mayor.

I am just glad I don’t have any need to go to NYC anymore.

At least some of you have seen the WaPo and CNN reports about the strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site. Well, there is now a criminal investigation into the leak behind those reports. SecDef Hegseth announced it during a Q&A at the NATO summit.

I really hope whoever this is – and I suspect it’s more than one person – has their affairs in order. I get the feeling they will be seeing the inside of a federal prison before too long.

Speaking of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, The IAEA released its assessment. It says the enrichment program has been halted and many of the storage areas were destroyed.

…were destroyed.

Look, your editor was the victim of DIA ‘take’ on more than one occasion. There is a reason for the joke about military intelligence. That said, whatever low-level analyst that was working on this preliminary report – low confidence prelim btw- didn’t have everything in front of them. That much is clear from the news reports we’ve seen so far. The IAEA knows exactly where the cascade and centrifuge halls were under the rock at Fordow. I’d trust their assessment over that of DIA. At least for now.

Normally, I write a little blurb then drop a tweet and another blurb. This one is a bit different. Mads Mikkelson was barred from entry to the US recently. It was not because of a meme on his phone. CBP cleared it up a bit:

Our President is a master troll. And yes, it’s real.