There is a way to turn things around in California…just not right now, and not as fast as I would like.

Arthur Schaper | June 12, 2026

In a previous article, I analyzed the big winners and losers of the California primary. I didn’t mention my preferred candidate, Sheriff Chad Bianco, because to me he’s still a winner, even if the rest of the state (and Trump) rejected him.

California needed saving, and I believed that the sheriff was just the man to get the job done.

I thought Trump’s endorsement wouldn’t matter.

I went through 5 minutes of grief after I saw Bianco getting a distant fourth place in the gubernatorial race. I went through the stages of grief fairly quickly, arriving at the place of acceptance. When I could look at the assumptions I operated under and see where I went wrong, it gave me hope — and I hope it gives hope to others — that there is a way to turn things around in California. But just not right now, and not as fast as I would like.

My calculations were way off for this race. I had such hopes. Not only did Bianco lose, but Republicans running in my state assembly and state senate districts got locked out of the general election, too!

Reality TV actor Spencer Pratt, as an outspoken common-sense independent candidate for mayor, lost his chance to challenge Karen Bass for Mayor of Los Angeles in November.

Where did I go wrong? What did I learn?

1. I thought that Californians really had suffered enough, and they were ready to go in a new direction. Look at all the homes that went up in flames in Pacific Palisades! Across the states, homes have gone up in flames due to poor forestry and water practices from the Democrat-run government. The election results indicate that Californians have not suffered enough. They haven’t learned that voting Democrat means more destruction.
2. I thought the DEI dominance of the Democrat party would frustrate their candidates and allow two Republicans into the Top Two for governor and other races. Every identity and interest group in the state of California gravitates towards their preferred candidate. Former state controller Betty Yee would get the Asian vote. The California state superintendent of schools, Tony Thurmond, would get the black vote. Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villagosa and former Congressmember Xavier Becerra would compete for the Hispanics. Tom Steyer, with billions to burn, played Bernie Bro, embracing the most aggressive left-wing policies. Katie “Karen” Porter would get the single white female vote. However, Democrats, even though they are determined to articulate intersectionality as much as possible (no straight white males, please!) their drive for power remained number one, and they figured out how to winnow the field (force out Swalwell, sideline Mahan), and ensure at least one Dem made it through to the Top Two.
3. I assumed that the hardcore progressive Berniecrats and Democratic Socialists of America would harm the Democrats with their own infighting and help Republicans. Tom Steyer blanketed the state with mailers, including high-propensity Republican voters like me. California State legislators and statewide officials split behind Steyer or the more Establishment Democrat (Porter, Becerra, Swalwell). Ultimately, Big Business and Big Labor still call the shots in California Democrat politics. Their paid politicians will pay lip service to progressive platforms, like advancing single-payer health care, enacting a ban on gas-powered everything, and eviscerating the Second Amendment. In the end, however, just like in prior elections, California Democrat power brokers muted support for the most progressive policy positions and sidelined the Berniecrats. The Democrat party of California is performative, not progressive, and they promoted Becerra to advance into the general election.
4. The California Republican Party faces some serious soul-searching. They face an electorate that is two to one liberal against them. The Democrat dominance is not just concentrated in the big cities, but is spreading to the suburbs. Orange County, California, was a bastion of conservatism from FDR. While the state went blue in presidential elections from 1992 onward, Orange County stayed red. Those days are gone now. For so long, I hoped that Republicans in California could change their brand, reshape their outreach, and augment a more common-sense policy platform to appeal to disaffected Democrats and independents. Sadly, Trump Derangement Syndrome has proven too malign for liberal voters to overcome. Democrats will not vote for more reasonable people unless the candidates are registered independents, like the current Los Angeles County District Attorney, or are Democrats unafraid to buck their party and the system, like Los Angeles City Councilwoman Tracy Park.
5. Trump is the boss, even when I don’t like his endorsements or choices. The boss may make mistakes, but the boss still makes the final call. The Republican Party is now Trump’s party, even in California. He has been good for the national party, since he has adopted working-class populism to win the Rust Belt. That political coalition does not resonate in blue coastal states like California. Trump expanded the electoral map and the demographics of the GOP. Those gains have not helped California. The Golden State has become an amalgam of aggressive public sector unions, festering hot beds of indoctrination in universities and public schools, plus an overwhelming population of illegals and recent arrivals committed to getting rich off the government. With interests like those, sound constitutional conservative policy cannot break through. I don’t blame Trump; I blame the liberal majority in California. And this disappointing reality reverts back to my first lesson: California voters want their abject liberalism, even if those policies cause nothing but suffering.

Trump will move on. Perhaps the California Republican Party can rebuild and have a future? Will there be any hope of the Republican Party brand resurgence when Trump retires? A successor can build on Trump’s current policy successes, learn from his messes, restore GOP suburban outreach, and bring in disaffected upper-middle-class moms and dads. Republicans in California have to find a way to bridge that gap, including tech elites and factory workers. There are signs that such a shift can happen.

Hispanic voters, especially in California, are moving to the right, but there is a need for real economic freedom and change. The decline of public schools and the rise of homeschooling suggest that the younger generation will be more independent and certainly more open to constitutional conservative thinking. With those kinds of changes, they will open up to the Republican Party.

If we want constitutional rule restored for certain in California, it will take a religious revival, which can happen. Argentina was a socialist basket case for 100 years. Only as Christian revival surged throughout the country, a new generation of voters began to reject the bland, played-out legacy of socialism. Then, outspoken charismatic libertarian economist Javier Milei announced his bid for president, with a new party, and then took the Argentine political class by storm as their new president.

Californians can wake up, and they can vote themselves out of political bondage. Of course, not just a change of minds in younger voters, but the welcome intervention of election integrity measures from the federal government will go a long way to ensuring a viable political system in California where the constitutional rights and the everyday needs of Californians can be respected and relieved.

American Thinker

Until you are willing to harm the left more than they are willing to harm you, they will win. It’s really that simple.” —Aimee Terese on X

You’ll just have to stand by on whether this war with Iran is over or not, since the Shia true believers’ practice of Taqiyya is a permission structure for lying to infidels (us) when necessary — like, to advance global chaos that will bring the return of the Hidden Imam (Mahdi) to fill the world with justice, and establish Islamic rule. (Got that?) One might wonder, of course, whether the majority of Iran’s people have had enough of the true believers in charge and their true belief in apocalypse.

President Trump’s promise to bring exactly that down on them seems to have had a clarifying effect. The option remains open to “bomb the shit out of them,” as he put it, while keeping their economy in a Macumba Death grip choke-hold. In preliminary strikes Thursday, the US Military might have demonstrated an ability to go after whatever they have left of missile and drone launch sites. In any case, skeptics abound. . . but, admit it, an actual peace agreement would be quite a coup.

It would be distasteful most of all to the mass formation lunatics of America’s Lefty-left “Resistance.” Anything that advances our country’s actual interests is hateful to them. In fact, when you think of it, the Lefty-left is in thrall to the same sort of world-ending chaos as the mullahs and their IRGC henchmen. The mullahs have their vision of the post-apocalyptic Islamic utopia and the Lefty-left has its dream of a post-revolutionary socialist nirvana where everyone is equal (except those who are more equal — and get to boss around the rest of us.)

Yeah, it’s an old story here in Western Civ, this recurring drive to level the existing social hierarchy so as to abolish the tendency of some people to do better in life than others. It never works out. It always leads to mass slaughter of some kind. It always ends in rueful disappointment and a return to the free-for-all that is the human project. The outstanding question might be: why do so many in the West continue to believe it?

The current uprising comes out of the strange conversion of Liberalism to Lefty-left Democratic-Socialist Progressivism. Remember, liberalism was pure live-and-let-live, with an emphasis on minimal government intrusion in our affairs, especially economic affairs. The Liberals of Boomerdom — the campus nirvanas of the 1960s — were contemptuous of government generally, but especially the FBI and the CIA. And, of course, the hippie vanguard was socially and culturally all about the freedom to do your own thing. Freedom of speech was a leading concern.

The Lefty-left, as it evolved under Barack Obama and “Joe Biden,” was about rigid intolerance for opposing ideas and maximal government involvement in your life, especially economic and sexual — making a pass at a girl became subject to litigation. The FBI was loosed on dissenters from Lefty-left policies. Juridical sadism became systematized as Lawfare. The Lefty-left constructed a huge censorship apparatus; no more freedom of speech. They used law and regulation to attempt social leveling; no more discipline in school for black kids because . . . racism! Discriminate against Whitey for jobs. . . anti-racism! Election fraud = “our democracy.” You see how all that went?

Turns out, they wanted to use the government to overthrow the government! And the social order it rode in on! Hence, the ten-year-long crusade to destroy one Donald Trump, the peculiar “Gray Champion” of our Fourth Turning, who turned out to be a staunch counter-revolutionary, that is, an opponent of this new Democratic-Socialist Progressive (wannabe-communist) corps of chaos agents.

One schematic way of understanding this dynamic is Peter Turchin’s theory of Elite Overproduction. By the early 2000s, with anybody and everybody going to college, there were not enough job positions in the real productive economy for this spewage of college degree-holding entrees to the Professional / Managerial Class. By this time, coincidentally, the colleges they were graduating from were infested by three generations of Marxist professors — i.e., adults enjoying cozy institutional security, with no experience in the real world, free to indulge in Marxian revenge fantasies and make them the basis of their teaching.

It was the perfect setup for the emergence of a matrix of NGOs and political activist orgs that could employ all these college graduates which the real economy had no place for. And the new hires were pre-programmed in the ideology of grievance, tinged with racial and sexual animus in addition to economic complaint.

So, voila! — America (and Western Civ generally) became infested with these pernicious Lefty-left operations, which became symbionts of the government themselves, many of the orgs dependent on government (USAID) to fund their activities and pay the management. They got scads of additional money from wealthy freelance chaos maestros like George Soros, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Reid Hoffman, Neville Roy Singham and others.

Mr. Trump is dismantling that matrix and the funding flows associated with it, at the same time that he attempts to reconstruct an economy based on the production of real goods. As it happens, that matrix of orgs amounts to the consolidated racketeering operation of the Democratic Party, and the party is going garishly insane at the prospect of losing its means to power.

The Lefty-left now is the Democratic Party. It has nothing whatsoever to do with what we used to call Liberalism. It’s a party of envy-driven, sadistic fanatics. And it is no accident that such a mind-set leads them to construct a permission structure for lying about everything they do. It’s all there in their primary manuals-of-operation: Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, and Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation.

In this way, they are just like the Shia mullahs of Iran who are privileged to lie to infidels who threaten their lust for apocalypse. Mr. Trump doesn’t trust the insane mullahs and their IRGC wing-men, and he certainly shouldn’t trust the apparatchiks of the Democratic Party. Each, in its own way, represents a kind of performative adolescent rebellion, and both them require a kind of resolute parental response: Daddy is in da house . . . and you’d better behave. Believe this: after Iran, the Democratic Party is next. The hammer of law will be coming down.

https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | June 12, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

If the Anthony clan is representative of the intact black family that conservatives like Ben Shapiro are always clamoring for, then we should rethink that proposition.

Bill Ponton | June 12, 2026

There is something rich about Karmelo Anthony describing himself in his court filing as a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal,” after his parents squandered the crowdfunded defense fund of $625,000 on meals at Cheesecake Factory, luxury handbags, and a new home in a gated community, presumably needed to foil attempts by relatives to sponge off them.

If the Anthony clan is representative of the intact black family that conservatives like Ben Shapiro are always clamoring for, then we should rethink that proposition. The elder Anthony instilled in his son arrogance, machismo, and a sense of victimhood, a deadly cocktail that no sane father would want to foster. Both parents show a disturbing lack of remorse for the actions of their little pit bull.

If the family’s crowdfunding success is any measure of wider black support, then we should also ponder what the civil rights movement has wrought. In the six decades since MLK’s, “I have a dream” speech, white parents must still caution their children about upsetting their black classmates in any fashion, lest they end up with a penknife in their chest.

If Democrat U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett’s defense of Anthony is any measure of tribalism in this country, then “Houston, we have a problem.” Whereas liberal white women scold white men for being toxically masculine, black women, like Crockett, are big cheerleaders of black men’s hyper-aggression.

I witnessed a display of it in college, when several black male students cut in line at the cafeteria. When a white student objected to their arrogant actions, black female students came up behind him and hit him over the head with a tray. They, like Crockett, are in full support of their black brothers, even if it means they stick a knife in a white boy’s chest from time to time.

By a miracle of God or aided by the fact that there were no black jurors, the jury trying Anthony did not shirk its responsibility, and removed him from society for the next 35 years (his first chance at parole is at 17.5 years). That is a good thing because you cannot convince me that he won’t pull that stunt again. By the time he is released at age 50 if he serves his full sentence, most of the fight should be out of him.

Something that should feel simple and innocent turned scary in seconds. Police say two kids running a lemonade stand in South Boston were robbed at gunpoint — by other kids.

Police said they responded to the reported armed robbery at 157 West Ninth Street, near E Street, around 4:44 p.m. on Wednesday, but two male youths had already fled the scene, according to police.

The victims, two juveniles, told officers they were operating their lemonade stand when the suspects made several passes by before approaching them and asking whether Apple Pay would be accepted as payment. Before the victims could even respond, police say the suspects grabbed their box of money, and one of them displayed a black firearm in his waistband.

Both suspects ran away in the direction of Dorchester Street, police added. No arrests have been made. Police released several blurry images and surveillance video of the two suspects walking near the lemonade stand.

Jennifer Byrne, the mother of the two kids, said the incident left her children traumatized.

“My daughter called me, I’m at work. She was in hysterics, crying, saying, ‘Somebody put a gun to us and took all of our money,'” she said. “They noticed two kids with masks over their face across the street they kept coming back and forth.”

She said the two youths went up to her kids and asked if they took Apple Pay, then lifted up their shirt and flashed a gun.

“My daughter said when they said ‘We’re taking it all’ she put her arms up in the air and said, ‘Just take it. Just take it.'”

A neighbor said they saw the suspects with the money box on Grimes Street. When they spotted her, she said they dropped it, grabbed the $50 inside and ran.

“My son is 12,” Byrne said. “He said one was smaller, he’d guess 10 or 11, and the other child looked a little older, maybe 14.”

She said her children weren’t hurt, but the family is shaken.

“My daughter, the youngest one, she’s nervous to walk the two blocks to her bus stop,” Byrne said.

The incident, which is being actively investigated by detectives, began circulating in Southie and on social media later Wednesday, according to Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, who contacted the police department to confirm the reports.

Flynn said in a Facebook post just before 10 p.m. that he was troubled by this serious incident, and that it cannot be downplayed or ignored.

“When someone robs a lemonade stand, you can’t continue saying we’re the safest city in America,” he said.

“Having younger people involved in this activity is troubling and it speaks to the work that needs to be done,” state Sen. Nick Collins added.

By NY Post Editorial Board

Unable, at least for now, to slake its bloodthirst by killing Israelis, Hamas is solidifying its brutal control over the hostages it still holds — the people of Gaza.

The fundamentalist monsters are reestablishing their reign of terror across the Gaza Strip, setting up a police state with prisons and detention centers in the same schools and hospitals they used to store munitions, manage communications and fire missiles.

It was all to be expected: In the first week of the ceasefire with Israel, Hamas dragged local enemies into the streets, labeled them “collaborators,” and shot or hanged them publicly to let everyone know who’s in charge.

Hamas can’t invade or bomb Israel right now, so it’s using the ceasefire to show the Palestinian people that it’s just as ruthless as ever.

And none of the Westerners who spent the war screaming “genocide” say a word, because that would mean admitting to the world that Hamas was always the combatant with total disregard for Palestinian life.

Hamas leadership knew perfectly well that perpetrating the heinous Oct. 7, 2023 attack would provoke Israel into a massive response.

Hamas knew this would result in civilian casualties.

That’s why the terrorists wove their military infrastructure into the daily life of civilian Gaza.

Even most tyrants want to protect their people, but Hamas views Palestinian lives as precious only when their sacrifice serves its propaganda purposes.

That’s why the terrorists wove their military infrastructure into the daily life of civilian Gaza.

That’s why, handed billions in international humanitarian aid, Hamas never spent a dime building civilian bomb shelters.

Nor did it invite Palestinian children and their mothers to shelter in its hardened tunnel system when the bombs began to fall.

Those women and children were worth infinitely more as “martyrs” than as living people.

It is impossible to avert one’s eyes from the United Kingdom’s cultural disintegration. It produces horrors that stand as a warning to all Western nations to guard their societies against their current influx of hostile foreigners.

Britain’s moral collapse has, notoriously, produced industrial-scale rape of English girls by Muslim men, mostly Pakistani. More recently, last December, it led to the videoed murder of a teenager, Henry Nowak, by a Sikh wielding the dagger of his religion.

Governments and police are complicit in many such crimes afflicting the British because they’ve fostered mass immigration from incompatible cultures and stoked predation on white people by softening or ignoring laws for fear of being called racist.

The latest shocking barbarism was perpetrated by a Sudanese migrant who pinned his neighbor to the Belfast pavement, stabbed him with a kitchen knife, gouged his eyes, and tried to behead him. Civilians running to the scene rescued the victim, but he is severely wounded.

The butcher, who held his knife aloft in triumph, arrived in Ulster in 2023 from Ireland, to which he had moved from France. What was he doing in the U.K.? Claiming asylum.

His unspeakable attack sparked riots — gangs burned cars and migrant houses. Prime Minister Keir Starmer reacted characteristically by condemning the riots and anti-migrant sentiment as “shocking and unacceptable” without commenting on the attempted murder. Another minister scolded a local Ulster MP for asking a parliamentary question about people from “alien cultures.” It’s the only question worth asking, but one the nation’s betters refuse to consider.

Hunter Biden has burst back onto the political scene with a social media spree marked by crude responses to Republican critics and self-deprecating humor about his troubled personal life.

As the son of former President Biden, his return to the public eye has quickly drawn the attention of hundreds of thousands of followers on the social platform X in a matter of weeks.

After spending most of his father’s presidential term under a cloud of controversy, social media users are flocking to Hunter Biden’s posts about a myriad of subjects — from resources for addicts to cryptocurrency to attacks on the Trump administration.

His sudden virality underscores the political world’s embrace of social media trolling and the growing public appetite for unfiltered takes and crass commentary. Cooper Teboe, a Democratic strategist based in California, said his clout, even if temporary, is “a testament to how much folks are just craving authenticity right now.”

“At least as far as it looks, he’s very much, you get what you see, which I think folks have really desired in our political discourse, given that so many, not all, but so many are so manufactured,” Teboe said.

Shortly after appearing on podcasts with right-wing influencer Candace Owens and independent journalist Andrew Callaghan, the younger Biden launched his X page on May 19, writing, “I’m Hunter Biden. You’ve never actually heard from me.”

Biden quickly began posting about his recovery journey, a topic Republicans zeroed in on while his father was in office, telling users, “To anyone in the fight right now: it gets quieter. Not easier. Quieter. In the quiet, you find out who you actually are.”

Biden said “thousands” wrote to him about their own recovery journeys since he started posting.

He also started poking fun at himself about his addiction, quipping that the bag of cocaine found in the White House in 2023 was “most definitely not his,” adding, “I would have never forgotten my drugs.” When one social media account suggested he run for president in 2028, Biden said he would find the real owner of the bag “and return it to them.”

Responding to a post encouraging him to use cocaine, Biden said, “Why does everyone keep saying this? I smoked crack. I would never have wasted cocaine by putting up my nose.”

After publishing a memoir in 2021, Biden rarely spoke publicly while his father was president. He was a political lightning rod for years, with President Trump’s aggressive attempts to link Biden’s work for a Ukrainian gas company to impropriety by his father leading to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019. Leaks of his laptop hard drive were an October surprise in the 2020 campaign.

Biden said on X over the weekend that “it was never just a laptop” and that someone had hacked into his cloud data and stole his devices.

Later, he became a key figure in Republican congressional investigations over the family’s alleged business dealings and accusations over influence peddling, and he was eventually interviewed by Congress as part of the former president’s impeachment hearings.

Republicans often took aim at Biden over his history of drug abuse and eventual criminal convictions on federal gun charges and a guilty plea for federal tax evasion. The former president issued a full and unconditional pardon to his son shortly before leaving the White House, wiping him of the convictions.

When his account abruptly popped up last month, dozens of users questioned whether it was even really Biden behind it. In a five-minute video explaining, he said he no longer has to take into consideration the complications of his family in the White House.

“It was never really about me. It was about power, it was about the presidency, and it wasn’t my place to be even more of a distraction that obviously my addiction and troubles created the administration or for anybody else,” he said.

For once casting a shadow on his father’s presidency, Biden’s story seems to be charming people online, including some Democrats.

In one repost of Biden’s video, a user wrote, “hunter biden could be one of the best follows here at the moment.” That post had 10 million views as of Tuesday morning.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told TMZ on Tuesday that while she does not know what Biden’s plans are in the political arena, she thinks he is “a very compelling advocate on addiction and recovery.”

“He’s able to really speak to people’s hearts and their experiences,” she said. “I think destigmatizing and showing the country that someone, in the prominent position that he’s already been in as the son of a president, can be publicly vulnerable about what it means to recover from addiction.”

Rachel Murphy Azzara, executive director of the grassroots movement Democrats Work For America, added on X, “You are showing the world how to recover with grace, strength and accountability.”

Biden has engaged with dozens of these comments, responding within minutes of each other.

Biden said, “We don’t have to be this way. We don’t have to be hateful and vengeful and so mean all the time,” but that hasn’t stopped him from trolling his critics.

In one post, he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “sadistic, infantile ugly f—,” just a week after the account for the Democratic National Committee told Miller to “shut up you ugly f—.”

Trolling has become increasingly common on the left as the party tries to hit back on Trump’s combative social media posts. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), a potential contender for the 2028 Democratic ticket, has been at the center of this strategy, often writing in all caps just like the president or using his key phrases.

Biden is following in his footsteps, using one of Trump’s signature lines to respond to an AI-generated poster for a “Biden 2028” run.

“I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people … photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end,” he wrote. “Thank you for your attention to this matter..”

In another, he mocked an advertisement for Donald Trump Jr., writing, “This is SNL material or even better #smokefleet material.”

The material may also be winning over some unlikely figures on the right, including influencer Ian Miles Cheong, who wrote on X, “Believe it or not, Hunter Biden is far more human and likeable than anyone could’ve imagined.”

“It’s easy to picture some out of his mind nepo-baby when stolen videos of a man in his worst hours are your only exposure to him,” Cheong wrote to his 1.2 million followers.

Biden has seized on this attention, saying he will “gladly take the title” of being “the MAGA whisperer,” and he went after the Trump administration’s Epstein files scandal and the “Oligarch class.”

Some questioned whether Biden is doing it for money, to which he responded, “Regardless, yes I’m broke AF, but how do you make money on here. Real question if you can help let me know.”

His charm comes as his mother, former first lady Jill Biden, has been less welcomed in her return to the public eye. The former first lady’s new memoir drew criticism from Democrats that it could unnecessarily ignite a conversation the Democratic Party wants to move on from following the 2024 loss.

Teboe suggested part of Hunter Biden’s charm is because users “have such a small expectation that Hunter is going to run for office someday.”

“He’s essentially a private citizen on Twitter, like you should do whatever you want,” Teboe told The Hill. “I think it’s a different thing when you expect trolling to propel you to whatever elected office you’re running for.”

Trump, asked last week about the prospect of a Biden run in 2028, pointed to embattled Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Planter: “If the guy from Maine can do well, I guess Hunter can do well too.”

The numbers “8647” were marked in the grass on the National Mall in Washington on Thursday.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images

Giant markings of the numbers 8647 appeared Thursday on the National Mall in Washington, prompting an investigation by federal authorities and claims of “political violence” by the White House.

U.S. Park Police responding to the incident Thursday morning.Nathan Howard / Reuters

An Interior Department spokesperson called the incident “deranged” vandalism that “will not be tolerated.”

“Any threat against the President is taken very seriously by the Department, and our U.S. Park Police will investigate this incident and hold those responsible accountable,” the spokesperson said.

U.S. Park Police told NBC News in a statement that they responded Thursday morning and that a probe is underway.

“The cause of the discoloration has not yet been determined,” the office said. “Grass samples have been collected for testing. The investigation is ongoing.”

The sequence of numbers is at the heart of a criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, who was indicted in April after the Justice Department argued he had threatened President Donald Trump’s life by posting a photo on Instagram of seashells arranged to display “8647.” Trump is the 45th and 47th president.

Restaurant veterans have said “86” is “everyday lingo” for an item that has run out and should be removed from the menu.

“Anyone who engages in or endorses political violence or assassination culture must be condemned in the harshest terms possible. They should also immediately seek psychiatric help to treat their severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has warped their brains and made them sick in the head,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement Thursday.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia — which would have jurisdiction over any potential case stemming from the incident — declined to comment.

The markings come days ahead of events on and around the National Mall to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S.Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

A federal judge said in a separate case this month that “8647” by itself is not a threat, ruling that a protest flag with those numbers flying outside a federal courthouse in Washington on land managed by the National Park Service did not need to be taken down since the phrase constituted free speech.

The incident on the National Mall comes days ahead of the United Fighting Championship fights scheduled on the nearby White House grounds Sunday and celebration events scheduled to take place on the Mall this summer in honor of the U.S.’ 250th anniversary.

NBC News

This is the second viral video in as many days of a white person being attacked and falsely accused of being on the Anthony jury.

The victim was not, and could not have been, on the jury. The murder trial took place in Collin County, Texas, not Florida.

The video was uploaded to Facebook by a woman named Mesha Keaton, of Tampa, who appears to be the attacker.

In the footage, Keaton approaches the man, who is sitting outdoors, and demands: “Hey, hey, weren’t you on the motherfucking jury selection?”

When he denies it, she insists, “Yes, you was,” before physically assaulting him.

She continues ranting during the attack.

WATCH:

VIDEO AT LINK………

Yet another black person in Florida has viciously attacked a White person in a racially motivated assault while accusing him of being on the jury that convicted Karmelo Anthony.

Arm yourself. pic.twitter.com/uuZtVjjayR

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) June 11, 2026

The entire encounter was filmed, apparently for content and attention.

This incident appears to be a copycat of another attack in Florida following Tuesday’s verdict.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported:

On Wednesday morning, a black man going by the username Combak KidBoe broadcast himself on Facebook driving through his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, on his bike looking for revenge.

He soon got his wish after stumbling upon a middle-aged man in a hat sitting on the ground, who was harming absolutely no one.

KidBoe demanded to know why the white man was on jury selection before slugging him in the face. He immediately recoils from the pain.

The woman with the innocent white man points out that KidBoe was wrong, but he continues to insist otherwise and tells the man, “You’re gonna die.”

WATCH:

VIDEO AT LINK………

Black man in Florida filmed himself in an anti-white, racially motivated attack, “down to 4 crackers na free karmelo” by punching a veteran in the head, all for internet fame. He told the veteran he was going to die after mockingly accusing him of serving on the jury that… pic.twitter.com/Sh7vmYT6ly— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) June 10, 2026

Anthony, a black teenager, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2025 stabbing death of white high school athlete Austin Metcalf at a track meet.

A jury sentenced him to 35 years in prison after rejecting his self-defense claim.

Despite the clear-cut evidence, the Black Lives Matter crowd has rallied to assert his innocence.

The outspoken pro-Israel comedian laughed off a troll’s request for a ‘Free Palestine’ message with a brief and pointed response.

Jewish-American comedian Jerry Seinfeld had a quick response on Wednesday for a troll who tried to challenge his known support of Israel.

A streamer known as FinesseFave approached the comedian, best known for the sitcom bearing his name, outside Madison Square Garden in New York, after the Knicks’ 107-106 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in game four of the NBA Finals.

While streaming live, the troll put a microphone in front of Seinfeld and asked: “Can we get a ‘free Palestine?'”

The comedian reacted by laughing and, without missing a beat, responded: “It doesn’t exist,” before walking away.

This is not the first time Seinfeld was harassed in public for his outspoken support of the Jewish state, nor is it the first time he shot back with a simple, yet witty and unapologetic response.

Last year, when an individual who asked for a selfie made a victory sign and called, ‘Free Palestine, the comedian responded: “I don’t care about Palestine.”

Israel National News