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Flesh-Eating Screwworm Outbreak Threatens Texas Cattle Industry as Critical Sterile Fly Facility Faces Multi-Year Delay

A dangerous New World screwworm outbreak has been confirmed in Texas livestock for the first time in decades, raising serious concerns for the already struggling cattle industry, while an important domestic sterile fly production facility remains years away from full operation.

The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the first case in early June in a calf in Zavala County, Texas.

Additional cases have since been detected in cattle and a goat in Texas, and in a dog in New Mexico.

“This is believed to be an isolated case; however, because the dog’s recent travel and exposure history remain unknown, USDA and state partners have initiated inspection of additional animals in the dog’s home and increased outreach in the area while continuing to investigate the animal’s movement history,” the USDA said in an announcement.

The parasite, whose larvae burrow into the flesh of warm-blooded animals and feed on living tissue, poses a major threat to livestock, wildlife, and potentially pets.

While no human cases have been reported in the current outbreak, the screwworm can infest people in rare instances.

The U.S. cattle industry herd is already at its lowest level in 75 years due to droughts, high feed costs, and other factors.

The added expense of increased monitoring, quarantine measures, and treatment for infected animals is expected to further strain operations and could push beef prices higher for consumers.

According to a wire from Nerve News, “The most effective method to combat screwworm involves breeding sterile flies to disrupt the parasite’s reproductive cycle. However, a facility under construction at Moore Air Base in Texas will not begin producing sterile flies until November 2027, with full capacity not expected for several years. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins acknowledged the delay, stating that the US will not be able to eradicate the parasite until the facility reaches full production, but expressed optimism about containment efforts.”

“We’re not going to be able to eradicate it until we’ve got the couple hundred million more flies coming in, but we will be able to contain it,” Rollins said.

Once complete, the facility is expected to breed up to 300 million sterile flies per week.

In an effort to contain the outbreak, quarantines have been placed in multiple Texas counties, and surveillance efforts have been expanded.

USDA APHIS has begun releasing sterile flies in affected areas using existing inventory from Panama and Mexico.

Canada has implemented temporary restrictions on certain livestock imports from Texas as a precaution.

The USDA urged, “While not common in people, if you notice a suspicious lesion on your body or suspect you may have contracted screwworm, seek immediate medical attention.”

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Black Commentator Has the Solution for the ‘White People Problem’ in America

I’m exhausted, man. These opinions are outdated, but here we are discussing the Karmelo Anthony case. Anthony fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf in Frisco, Texas, in 2025 during a high school track meet, a case that attracted national attention. Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison. 

It has unleashed a storm of controversy due to the racial overtones of the case. Larry Reid, a Black commentator, went on a tangent about how integration has benefited the Black community, but now it’s time for Black people to return to Africa. It’s the solution to the so-called “white people problem” in America, or something (via Breitbart):

“I want you to begin to think about this America and the white people problem that we have… As a collective, let’s drain this place of its benefits and make our mass exodus and go home and build.”

“Civil rights did not make white people that are infected with whiteness stop being racist. They still raised racist children that run this country to this day.”

“You come from a land that flows with milk and honey. They pulled you out of that land ancestrally and brought you to a place to where your royalty was not recognized. Used your black power, your black mysticism, your African spirituality, and your physiological superiority to build this country and give everybody reparations except you.”

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Judge in Karmelo Anthony Case Calls the Murderer a ‘Nice Kid’

Collin County District Judge John Roach defended his decision to bar cameras and livestreaming from Karmelo Anthony’s high-profile murder trial, calling it “an easy decision” made to protect the fairness of the proceedings, but raised many eyebrows when he called the killer a “nice kid.”

In a post-verdict interview with WFAA, Roach described the now-convicted 19-year-old Anthony as “a nice young man who committed a crime and he understands today more than any day before the consequences of committing a crime like he did.”

Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison last week for the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a Frisco high school track meet in April 2025.

The stabbing occurred at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, when Anthony, who was on school suspension and not supposed to be at the event, approached the tent area belonging to rival Memorial High School.

Witnesses said Metcalf told Anthony to leave, and a confrontation ensued.

Anthony then pulled out a knife he had brought and stabbed Metcalf in the chest, piercing his heart.

Metcalf died in the arms of his twin brother.

Anthony admitted to the stabbing but claimed self-defense. A jury rejected that claim.

Judge Roach explained his camera ban during the interview.

“Yes, it was an easy decision. I’ll tell you why. My primary goal in every case is to make sure the defendant and the prosecution get a fair trial. Period.”

The judge acknowledged that the decision angered some people but emphasized he was not there to make anyone happy. Roach said he had to balance the media’s right to know what was happening with the need to prevent outside commentary or public pressure from influencing the jury or proceedings.

“I know I made people mad, but I’m not here to make them happy either,” he stated. “As long as I follow the law, I sleep well at night.”

Roach pushed back against suggestions of any personal connection to the Metcalf family, saying he would not have recognized Jeff Metcalf, Austin’s father, before the trial.

He defended the jury’s verdict, noting that jurors were selected in accordance with the law, heard the facts presented in court, and rendered their decision.

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Trolls Ignite Social Media Firestorm with Photos of Protesters Peeing on Murder Victim Austin Metcalf’s Grave

Outrage and disgust went viral this week as internet trolls posted doctored photos on social media of purported black protestors urinating on white murder victim Austin Metcalf’s grave.

The photos appear to show images of holders of X accounts “pissing” on Metcalf’s grave in reaction to 19-year-old killer Karmelo Anthony’s conviction earlier this week by a Texas jury.

“FUCK AUSTINNNNN METCALF,” one photo of a young women desecrating the grave was captioned, allegedly by an account attributed to “Mari Hicks.”

Anthony, who is black, was convicted of fatally stabbing Metcalf, who is white, in the heart after he refused to leave the stadium tent of the victim’s team at a high school track meet.

The conviction resulted in protests outside the courthouse and prompted some black leaders to say the trial was unfair because the jury did not have any black panelists.

Some of the photos were tagged with “#FreeKarmeloAnthony,” “#AustinMetcalf,” and even “#F–kEm.”

The urination photos on X became a racial flashpoint, causing the X platform to blow up with reaction after they were featured on the popular conservative account Libs of Tik Tok which claimed the individuals in the photos were BLM activists.

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Activists Claim Karmelo Anthony Received Worse Treatment than Dylann Roof, who Was Sentenced to Death

There is an apparent contrast in the public response to the cases of Karmelo Anthony and Dylann Roof, as Anthony has received support from activists, commentators, and elected officials following his murder conviction and 35-year sentence for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, while Roof was sentenced to death in 2017 for murdering nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.

Among the latest critics is ESPN Radio host Peter Rosenberg, who objected to the way Anthony is being discussed in public and questioned calls for severe punishment. He spoke on a recent episode of “The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show,” Rosenberg acknowledged that Metcalf’s death was a tragedy but argued that he did not understand why Anthony should have “the book” thrown at him.

“Why is the solution to all of these things, ‘How badly can we punish the teenager who did it?’ I understand the feeling of anger and pain that the family would have,” Rosenberg said. “I don’t understand why we govern our laws based on that, though. It’s obviously an overall tragedy, and obviously, punishment should take place. But why is the Metcalf family going to be better off because Karmelo Anthony gets the book thrown at him and they decide he’s a murderer?”

His comments came after Anthony was charged with murder in connection with the April stabbing death of Metcalf during an altercation at a Texas high school track meet. Rosenberg is not alone in criticizing the treatment of Anthony.

Danielle Hairston, president of the American Psychiatric Association’s Black Caucus, contrasted Anthony’s case with that of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who murdered nine worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.

“They’re sentencing him to over 30 years, Karmelo Anthony. But they took this dude to Burger King,” Hairston said, referring to reports that Roof was given food by law enforcement officers after his arrest. “The adultification is traumatizing.”

Rep. Christian Menefee (D-TX) called Anthony’s conviction as a “travesty” and suggested racial bias influenced the outcome, arguing that Black defendants are often denied the same self-defense protections afforded to others. Rep. Troy Carter (D-LA) also expressed sympathy for Anthony and suggested the case deserved further review, saying that Anthony “certainly appears to have been being attacked and defended himself.” He also tied the case to broader concerns about racial disparities in the justice system.

While Anthony has received significant public support, Roof received one of the harshest punishments available under American law with little comparable public opposition. In January 2017, a federal jury sentenced Roof to death after convicting him on dozens of federal hate crime and murder-related charges stemming from the massacre of nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Anthony was also treated with leniency when Collin County Judge Angela Tucker lowered his initial first-degree murder bond from $1 million to $250,000, allowing him to await trial on house arrest with GPS monitoring. According to reporting from FOX 4 Dallas, this bond reduction resulted in immediate online backlash, which included a doxxing campaign that exposed Judge Tucker’s personal home address on social media.

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The Karmelo Anthony Problem

On April 2, 2025, Karmelo Anthony went to Memorial High School looking for a fight. Though he was participating in a track meet, he felt the need to bring a knife in his backpack. Once at the school, he sat in the tent of the opposing team. When confronted by Austin Metcalf, who told him to leave, Anthony reached into his backpack and said, “Touch me and see what happens.” Metcalf then grabbed Anthony in an attempt to forcibly move him out of the tent. Anthony then used his knife to stab Metcalf in the heart, killing him almost instantly.

Touch me and see what happens. This is the ethos for which Anthony was willing to murder an innocent boy.

On paper, Anthony sounded as if he were a model citizen with a bright future. Coming from a stable, two-parent household, he was the captain of his own school’s track and football teams. He worked two part-time jobs and was a straight A student. At the time of his crime, he was a month away from graduation, and was planning on going to college. Until the moment he plunged his knife into Metcalf’s chest, he had never had any incidents with law enforcement.

What are we to make of this? How are we supposed to understand how someone as seemingly normal as Karmelo Anthony was willing, in a manner of seconds, to destroy the lives of others, not to mention his own life, over such a petty argument?

Touch me and see what happens. Anthony didn’t develop this ethos on his own. There is a sickness in black subculture in contemporary America, and the sickness is this: Too many young black males are immersed in a socio-racial ideology that glorifies violence, preaches that only the meanest dog on the block wins, and dictates that any perceived threat from anyone who “steps up to me” must be countered with a wildly disproportionate, overwhelming response.

With regards to this latter point, the sole purpose of a disproportionate, overwhelming response is to serve as a warning not only to the victim, but to whoever else is watching or who is later made aware of this incident. If pushing me results in me murdering you, people far and wide will think twice before “stepping up” to me. My reputation as an unpredictable, uncontrollable animal is forged and serves my interests in the long run, even if I’m punished in the short run.

Let us be honest. This sickness is prevalent among young black males more than any other group. The statistics don’t lie. And because of this sickness, and because of foot soldiers such as Karmelo Anthony willing to follow its orders, the result will likewise be predictable. People avoid sickness. And though Anthony will spend the next 35 years in quarantine, so to speak, there are still potentially millions of other infected carriers.

This sickness is evident in the Black Lives Matter riots that burned down entire cities and left dozens of innocent people dead. The sickness is evident in the almost exclusively black flash mobs that take over streets, malls, and beaches. The sickness is evident in the 20-person brawls that break out at Waffle Houses, in casino lobbies, and in Carnival cruise check-in lines. The sickness is evident in every attempt to resist law enforcement, and every escalation of a situation that in no way necessitated escalating. The sickness is evident in the Treyvon Martins and Eric Garners and Michael Browns and Jacob Blakes and Anton Sterlings who respond to any and all adversity with hyper-aggressive violence.

Whatever may be the incidental motivations for these crimes, underlying them is the darker, subconscious message. Don’t come near me. I’m not rational, and you can’t talk me down. I’m a rabid pit bull, and the more you anger me, the harder I’ll stomp you. I don’t follow rules, and you’d be wise to just stay out of my way.

This sickness festers like gangrene and rots the entire subculture, regardless of its other admirable components. A toxic mixture of never-ending racial grievance and a perverse pride in the urban “gangsta” lifestyle incubates, encourages, and spreads it. It’s the pathetic selfies holding the handgun in one hand and a wad of money in the other. It’s the bass-bumping car stereos through the neighborhood at midnight. It’s the infantile “statement” clothing, assuming it’s the correct size.

The problem with this messaging, aimed primarily if not exclusively toward the “white” dominant culture, is that the message is received exactly as intended. Don’t go near him. He’s not rational, and I can’t talk him down. He’s a rabid pit bull, and the more I anger him, the harder he’ll stomp me. He doesn’t follow rules, and I’d be wise to just stay out of his way.

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Texas Parole Supervisor Fired Over Racist Anti-White Post About Austin Metcalf Case: ‘Time for These Bigots to Start Burying Their Own Kids’

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice parole supervisor has been fired after posting vile anti-white racist comments on social media in response to the conviction of Karmelo Anthony for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

Donna Murray Robinson, who was a TDCJ Parole Supervisor working with the Board of Pardons and Parole, posted on Facebook shortly after Anthony’s conviction and sentencing earlier this week.

In the post, she expressed no sympathy for the Metcalf family and called for white people to start “burying their own kids.”

“I am a Parole Supervisor at TX DCJ,” Robinson began. “Karmelo will be ok I can almost assure you he will be protected on the inside. I for one don’t give fk about the family’s loss.”

Robinson continued, “It’s about time these fking bigots feel the pain that they have inflicted on other groups of people since the beginning of time!”

“I’m just glad we didn’t have to bury another black child. Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. FK’em I said what I said.”

Naturally, screenshots of her post rapidly went viral on X and across other social media platforms.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed her termination on Friday.

A department spokeswoman told The Dallas Morning News that Robinson was fired after a review of her public statements.

The spokesperson noted that the position “carries significant public trust and requires decisions free from personal bias.”

“These statements are incompatible with TDCJ policy and values. They demonstrate bias and a lack of the impartiality essential to the fair administration of justice in Texas,” the statement said. “Discriminatory or inflammatory conduct that erodes public confidence in the criminal justice system will not be tolerated.”

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The Black Lives Matter Lie Is Why Austin Metcalf Is Dead And Karmelo Anthony Is In Prison

jury rightfully convicted Karmelo Anthony for murder and sentenced him to 35 years in prison, but if there isn’t finally a complete rejection of the toxic “Black Lives Matter” movement, similar events are going to play out well into the future. There will be more violence and, if justice is served, more young black men in prison.

At the heart of the BLM ideology is the lazy, destructive assertion that “black and brown” people are oppressed by whites and therefore minorities, particularly blacks, are entitled to exhibit antisocial behavior with impunity, such as resisting arrest, stealing, or, as in the case of Anthony, bringing a knife to a high school track meet in the event he decides to murder someone under the guise of self defense.

The undisputed events of that case are as follows: In early 2025, Anthony, then 17, attended a Texas high school track meet, where he entered the tent of a school team that was not his own, apparently to shelter from rain. He was told to leave by at least one person, student Austin Metcalfe, also 17.

Anthony protested, and when Metcalfe advanced toward him, Anthony, with his hand in his bag, warned Metcalfe to back off. Metcalfe pushed Anthony, and that’s when Anthony plunged his knife into Metcalfe’s chest, striking his heart. Anthony then fled before being apprehended by police. At some point shortly thereafter, he admitted to the stabbing.

Anthony’s defenders have demonstrated their adherence to the Black Lives Matter ideology, either knowingly or not, by maintaining that Anthony was justified in responding to a shove at a grade-school athletic event by thrusting a concealed blade into the chest of a teen. They say it’s similar to the 2020 case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who while being chased on foot by a violent mob shot three people, killing two of them.

The comparison is laughable. Rittenhouse was on scene attempting to help citizens stop race rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and protect the private property of his associates. After a convict, for no discernible reason, chased Rittenhouse, ultimately cornering him in a car lot, Rittenhouse shot him and attempted to notify police. When the mob grew alert, it also gave chase, only for Rittenhouse to trip and fall to the ground, at which point he fired more shots at his aggressors.

Rittenhouse was prosecuted and a jury acquitted, because the overwhelming evidence was that he acted in self defense. In contrast, Anthony wasn’t defending himself. He was engaging in antisocial behavior— the deadly kind.

That justice was served makes it no less a tragedy for Anthony and his family. They and their defenders buy into a degenerate, corrosive ideology, as made clear by Anthony’s parents immediately after the trial suggesting the verdict was tainted by racism. (There were, in fact, non-whites on the jury.)

It’s a tragedy that in these BLM-fueled events, the public cannot count on juries to deliver the right verdict every time. If we could, Derek Chauvin, the officer convicted of murdering drug addict George Floyd, wouldn’t be in prison.

Had Metcalfe been murdered in 2020 or 2021, the outcome might have been very different. BLM is currently weak, but it’s not dead. No one is safe until it is.

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Convicted Killer Karmelo Anthony Begs for Free Lawyer After Family Used $634K on ‘Living Expenses’

Convicted killer Karmelo Anthony is asking for a free lawyer to fund his appeal.

The request comes after a fundraiser raised nearly $634,000 for his family that went partly toward living expenses.

Killer Pleads Poverty

Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years behind bars on Tuesday.

He has since filed a notice of appeal to challenge the conviction.

He said in the appeal that he cannot afford a new lawyer, WFAA reported.

The documents describe him as a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal.”

Fundraiser Pulls in Big Money

The fundraiser was posted on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo on April 15, 2025.

That was less than two weeks after Anthony fatally stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

The campaign, titled “Help Karmelo Official Fund,” set a goal of nearly $1.4 million.

It ultimately raised just shy of $634,000.

The fundraiser has since been taken down.

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“Broken System” – Crockett Defends Convicted Murderer Karmelo Anthony… Because He ‘Only’ Stabbed Austin Metcalf ‘One Time’

Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony in remarks to TMZ.

Thankfully, Jasmine Crockett’s career in Congress ends this year.

Crockett admitted to TMZ that she was not at the Karmelo Anthony murder trial yet she insisted there is evidence of a broken system.

Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison after a jury convicted him of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf.

Numerous witnesses testified that Karmelo Anthony was the aggressor and instigated the fight with Austin Metcalf.

Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart. The teen track star died in his twin brother’s arms.

But Crockett feels sorry for convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony.

The Texas Democrat told TMZ that her heart is “broken” for Karmelo Anthony.

Crockett explained that Karmelo Anthony only stabbed Austin Metcalf one time, so it’s not really a serious crime.

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