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It all came together in Game 5.

The Texas judge who presided over Karmelo Anthony's murder trial described him as a "nice young man," but stood firmly behind the jury's stiff prison sentence in the high-profile case.

Pratt’s early lead over Councilwoman Nithya Raman evaporated, with Raman now set to face Karen Bass.

Why China's Population Decline Is Irreversible

Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times,

China’s demographic collapse is so advanced that even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent a massive population decline because there are simply too few women of childbearing age.

The ageing crisis facing China is well documented and widely reported. The crisis stems from a combination of longer life expectancies and a reduction in births below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. The result is a smaller workforce, a smaller pool of taxpayers, a smaller group of consumers driving the economy, and a growing population of retirees who need financial and medical support.

China’s ageing crisis, however, is so acute that this framing misses a crucial structural issue.

Currently, the pool of women capable of bearing children is so depleted that even an overnight return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent substantial population decline.

China has approximately 190 million women of childbearing age. Even if the fertility rate immediately rose to 2.1, the population would still decline by more than 40 percent by the end of the century. The demographic pyramid has already determined the outcome. The trajectory is irreversible.

China’s population has contracted for four consecutive years. According to the National Bureau of Statistics’ 2025 Statistical Communiqué, the total population stood at 1.40489 billion at the end of 2025, a net decrease of 3.39 million people. Births numbered 7.92 million against 11.31 million deaths, yielding a natural growth rate of negative 2.41 per thousand, the steepest annual loss on record outside of the 1959–61 famine caused by Mao’s misguided policies.

The 2024 uptick, driven by the auspicious Year of the Dragon, proved to be an outlier. Births fell 17 percent in 2025, reaching the lowest level since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.

Rhodium Group’s April 2026 analysis projects that even if births remain at 2025 levels for the next decade, the annual population decline will widen to 7.6 million by 2035, implying a cumulative loss of nearly 60 million people between 2026 and 2035, roughly equivalent to the population of France.

By mid-century, RAND projects that China could lose 250 million people from its current population of 1.4 billion. The United Nations’ longer-range estimate puts China’s population as low as 663 million by 2100 if current trends persist.

The crude birth rate of 5.63 per thousand in 2025, confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics, was the lowest since 1949. China’s total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen to approximately 1.0, less than half the replacement level of 2.1, placing it among what demographers classify as “lowest-low” fertility societies, alongside South Korea and Singapore.

The one-child policy, which began in 1980, prevented hundreds of millions of births, reducing the average number of children per family from six to fewer than two. As the CCP became aware of the looming demographic collapse, the policy was relaxed to allow two children in 2016 and then expanded to three children in 2021.

However, the shift to a two-child policy resulted in only a brief uptick in births, while the expansion to three children had almost no meaningful impact.

The cohorts now entering peak childbearing age are the children of the one-child generation, already a reduced cohort, and are now themselves having fewer children than their parents did. Each generation compounds the deficit of the last.

In major cities, the situation is worse still. Beijing’s population aged 20 to 29 fell from 4.6 million in 2015 to 2.5 million in 2024, a drop of more than 2.1 million, while residents aged 60 and above rose by more than 1.7 million during the same period. Shanghai recorded approximately 107,000 births against 164,000 deaths in 2025, a natural decrease of 57,000, offset only by net in-migration of more than 100,000. Rhodium Group notes that China’s most-developed coastal provinces are growing solely through internal migration, not reproduction.

The number of women of childbearing age has been further reduced by sex-selective births. China’s sex ratio stands at 1.04 males per female overall, with the imbalance more pronounced in younger cohorts. The population of women in their twenties fell by 35 million between 2010 and 2021. Those women were never born. They cannot be incentivized, legislated, or subsidized into existence.

On current decline projections, China’s elderly population aged 65 and over stands at 211 million, while the 50 to 64 age cohorts add another 325 million. Those cohorts will die before a new generation reaches maturity. United Nations projections estimate that China’s population will fall from 1.4 billion to 633 million by 2100 under current trajectories, the largest absolute population loss of any nation over that period. Even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility would not reverse the trend.

With only 190 million women of childbearing age, there are simply not enough potential mothers to offset the mortality burden of the older generations. The 40 percent decline estimate is conservative relative to the UN baseline because it assumes fertility immediately and permanently returns to 2.1, a scenario no demographer currently projects.

The CCP is not unaware of the crisis. Xi Jinping has publicly called for a new culture of marriage and childbearing. The government has extended maternity leave, offered cash bonuses for newborns, and eliminated tax incentives on contraceptives. None of these measures have worked. In fact, they have all been tried before and failed. South Korea, facing a similar ageing crisis, spent roughly $280 billion on pro-natalist programs over two decades, more per capita than any country in history, and still watched its fertility rate fall from 1.08 in 2006 to 0.68 by 2024.

Money and incentives cannot manufacture women who were never born. The demographic collapse is now mathematically guaranteed. The CCP may have finally defeated China.

Tyler Durden Thu, 06/11/2026 - 23:25

Red Sox president Sam Kennedy is not impressed with his team's season so far.

At least a few members of the group climbed over the counter to continue viciously berating the man as he attempted to throw French fries from the fryer at the assailants.

Black Activism In America Has Become Cultural Poison

Much like the feminist movement (or any leftist movement), black rights activism in America has mutated from its original form into something bizarre and monstrous.  Civil rights conflicts tend to be born from legitimate grievances if a society's intention is to create general "equality" under the law.  But this is only the surface view, the lipstick, the young and naive version of what these movements are all about.

They appeal to the western sense of honor, reason and fairness. However, there is such a thing as suicidal empathy.  The western world has become so infatuated with the idea of total equality that many people are willing to overlook the undeniable and sometimes dangerous differences between ethnic groups and their subcultures. 

Lacking the ability to discern and yes, discriminate to a logical degree, is not something the west can afford to do.  What happens when civil rights become a license for cultural elimination?  White people, a minority in decline with 11% of the global population, have to stop exercising empathy and start exercising caution. 

The Karmelo Anthony case is just one of many examples of expansive minority violence against white Americans being justified in the name of civil rights.  To be sure, there are many black conservatives out there who do not agree and they are being targeted by left-wing activists for speaking out.  But sadly, a vast majority of blacks in the US are captured by the far-left plantation. 

They don't want to leave, because woke ideology tells them they are perpetual victims.  And in the mind of perpetual victims everything is permissible.  All behavior is justified, including murder and the destruction of the host civilization.  Even Austin Metcalf's family, the true victims in this situation, are not safe.

Low-IQ animals scream racist slurs at Austin Metcalf’s family as they leave the courthouse 🚨

They then block their car in to stop them from leaving peacefully…

Imagine your brother/son was just murdered and you have to deal with these hysterical freaks ↘︎ pic.twitter.com/qwwciAkMV6

— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) June 10, 2026

The interesting thing about the political left and minority movements in general is that they reveal their hand every time they suffer a loss, as much as when they celebrate a win.  These are frothing and rabidly emotional groups and they cannot control themselves in the slightest.  With the sentencing of Karmelo Anthony for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, the "champions" of civil rights are out in force threatening mob violence, attacks on innocent white bystanders and they are calling for more murders.

In other words, they want revenge for Karmelo Anthony being rightfully punished.  They believe they are above punishment.  They believe they are beyond the law.  They think they should be allowed to do whatever they want to white people because they see themselves as victims of white society.  This kind of mentality only ever leads to one thing: Tragedy. 

Karmelo Anthony supporter: "What do I tell my 5 boys? What do we do now!?"

Uh… don't murder? pic.twitter.com/DGrnCbhhe6

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 9, 2026

Walking away is exactly what Karmelo Anthony should have done.  It's what any sane person with half a brain would do.  But, in a weak ghetto culture where pride is inflated and misplaced, if someone "disrespects" you, it's the same as if they tried to kill you.  Therefore, killing them is not only reasonable, it's applauded by your peers. 

"Austin Metcalf got what he deserved, Rosa Parks days are over" pic.twitter.com/dprgvKOf0r

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 8, 2025

Reverse the skin colors of the people involved in this scenario and see if people like this woman make the same argument.  If it was Austin Metcalf that stabbed Karmelo Anthony over a shove, they would be calling for Metcalf's head.  They would be calling Metcalf a coward and a psychopath.  If Metcalf was exonerated for murder by the court system, there would be riots in the streets.   

There is no reasoning with such people, because they don't want justice, they want power. 

🚨 NOW: BLACK PANTHERS are attempting to launch a RACE WAR outside the Collin County Courthouse after Karmelo Anthony was found GUILTY

“We got to tell our kids the truth that this is a RACIST-ASS COUNTRY We gotta tell them the truth.”

“THIS IS A WAR”

“Don't NOBODY want to hear… pic.twitter.com/MoCQSQRQlE

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 9, 2026

Shocking video out of Florida shows a black man riding up to a White man and accusing him of being on the jury that convicted Karmelo Anthony before punching him, despite him being tried in Texas.

“I thought you wuz on da jury selection fo Karmelo, my b.” pic.twitter.com/Wqekvvnisj

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) June 10, 2026

Punishment for crime, for black activists, is an act of war.  And once again they claim to be the victims, the defenders, the righteous rebellion.  And so, there's nothing to be done.  The violence will simply continue - A new "fiery but mostly peaceful" summer is on the horizon.  And, the only thing that will stop it is an immovable mountain of consequences. 

When the reaction from civilized society against black activists is swift and merciless, this is when their culture of chaos will end. 

Tyler Durden Thu, 06/11/2026 - 23:00

One of the key pieces of the Panthers' offense has been extended for three years. 

Right after starring in the one-person show "Every Brilliant Thing," the actress ran about 10 blocks to make it to Game 5 of the NBA Finals on time.

Alvin Campbell, 45, the brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, was convicted of sexually assaulting women while posing as a rideshare driver.

Congratulations to the Left. To all the progressives, socialists, communists, anarchists and former normal liberals, you won! You pulled it off.

Chaminade’s Thomas Gamba is one high Flyer.

A flight from the UK to the US usually lasts around seven hours, so when the beer ran dry, the Scots switched to wine, the pilot told WBZ-TV.

No one seems to have much of an idea when Luis Robert Jr. might return from the back injury that landed him on the 60-day IL. 

The Liberty on Thursday passed their biggest test yet, beating the Atlanta Dream 104-90 in what was arguably New York’s best showing of the season. 

It comes with the territory of being a semipro athlete.

US Investigating Iran War Critic Trita Parsi, Co-Founder Of Non-Interventionist Think Tank

Via Middle East Eye

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into prominent Iran war critic Trita Parsi, according to a report in the Free Press.

According to US officials and documents reviewed by the pro-Trump outlet, officials are looking into the possibility of deporting Parsi, who holds both Iranian and Swedish citizenship.

via the Quincy Institute

Parsi, who is co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and co-founded the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), has been a vocal opponent of the ongoing US attacks on Iran.

A Trump official told the Free Press that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been "very clear" in his intentions to tackle “people who support adversaries of ours and whose work furthers their agenda and undermines our security.

“Anyone who seeks to undermine the US, we're taking a hard look at," the official said.

Since the beginning of the US-Israeli attack on Iran in February, the Trump administration has increasingly targeted figures of Iranian descent in the US.

In April, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarina were detained and had their residency permits rescinded after they were – incorrectly – identified as relatives of former Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by far-right influencer Laura Loomer.

Despite denying their links to Soleimani, the pair remain in custody in Texas.

The US also detained and revoked the green cards of relatives of former Iranian minister Masoumeh Ebtekar in April.

Parsi is a critic of the Islamic Republic whose family fled to Sweden to escape persecution in Iran. He has faced attacks from Iranian monarchists and pro-Trump figures over his opposition to the conflict.

He has also been highly critical of US backing for what many call Israel's genocide in Gaza and its attacks on Lebanon.

Speaking to Middle East Eye in May, Parsi warned that the US's ability to secure a deal with Iran would ultimately come down to its ability to restrain Israeli attacks in the region.

"If Trump either cannot or will not do so, then the value of any agreement with Washington comes sharply into question," he said.

A couple of years ago, the Quincy Institute, an anti-interventionist think tank, tallied which experts most often testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee between 2021 and 2024, under both Democrats and Republicans. The second most frequently invited think tank was…

— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) June 9, 2026

"A ceasefire that leaves Israel free to reignite hostilities at will – while the United States remains unable to prevent itself from being dragged back into conflict – offers little assurance of stability. Under such circumstances, the utility of a deal with Washington diminishes dramatically."

MEE contacted the US State Department and the Department of Homeland Security for comment, but had received no response from either at time of publication.

Tyler Durden Thu, 06/11/2026 - 22:35

“Total burn down.” That sounds like what Karen Bass and a leftist City Council have done, metaphorically, to Los Angeles.

The retracted Intelligence Community Assessments selectively excluded evidence and intelligence, mischaracterized sources “to suppress alternative analyses,” omitted key information related to source quality and relied on an “ethically flawed medical study,” Gabbard’s office said in a memo to congressional leaders. 

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out The New York Times for publishing a "hit piece" from frustrated ex-employees.