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Welcome back, Wake Up Right fam! If anyone tries to tell you millions of non-citizens living in the U.S. don't hurt everyday Americans, show them story:
Dallas home prices dropped 9% after President Trump's H-1B crackdown sent foreign buyers from India heading for the hills. What did Trump change? He…
📈 Raised the minimum salary threshold
💵 Imposed new fees
🔎 Directed the Labor Dept to target employer fraud
The equation is simple: Less demand = lower prices. Now extrapolate that to the millions here illegally. Supply and demand doesn't care about your feelings.
📈 U.S. added 172K jobs in May, 2X expectations
🏗 Manufacturing wages are up 7.4% from last year
☪ Muhammad, founder of Islam, died on this day in 632
📘 George Orwell's 1984 was published on this day in 1949
Sources: Fox Business, Breitbart, History, History
Trial reveals teen murder was not self defense
Karmelo Anthony's self-defense story took a beating Saturday, as a string of teen witnesses told a Texas courtroom he provoked the deadly clash with Austin Metcalf — then pulled a knife on a kid who refused to fight back.
The details: Anthony [left] is on trial in Collin County for fatally stabbing Metcalf [right] at an April 2025 track championship. Witnesses described a one-sided escalation to the jury that ended with Metcalf bleeding out on the ground.
Multiple teens testified Anthony refused repeated requests to leave a rival team's tent and turned aggressive, allegedly taunting them: "Touch me and see what happens."
Metcalf replied, "I'm not going to fight you," before Anthony allegedly drew a knife from his backpack and stabbed him.
"That's lethal force against non-lethal," one 17-year-old classmate of Metcalf testified, flatly rejecting the self-defense claim.
Undercutting the defense: Anthony’s defense rests on his claim that he was ambushed. Saturday's testimony directly contradicted it.
One witness said he saw no one crowding Anthony – undercutting the "ambush" narrative.
Even a witness friendly to Anthony admitted there's no reason to bring a knife to a track meet.
The numbers: Prosecutors plan to call 35 witnesses across the expected two-week trial.
Racial element: The case became a racial flashpoint from day one. Anthony is Black, Metcalf was White. And supporters poured roughly $600,000 into Anthony's defense fund on GiveSendGo.
"We gonna stand by ours, regardless,” was the reaction from one Karmelo supporter outside the courthouse when asked what her reaction would be if it was revealed the teen did not act in self-defense.
Big picture: Anthony faces life in prison if convicted.
The last word goes to Metcalf. His last words were: “He stabbed me.”
Horrific.
[Source: NY Post]
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Cali counts Spencer Pratt Out
Reality star Spencer Pratt was sitting in second place and headed for a November runoff in the Los Angeles mayoral primary – until a week of late ballot drops in California erased his lead and handed the slot to a socialist instead.
The details: On election night, Pratt, the lone Republican of note, led Democratic Socialist city councilmember Nithya Raman by nearly 10 points.
Six days later, Decision Desk HQ projects Raman the winner, after days of counting mail-in-ballots reversed the result.
Every ballot batch counted after Election Day broke heavily for Raman.
Where the vote stands today: With 83% of the vote in, Mayor Karen Bass leads at 34.7%, Raman sits second at 27.1%, and Pratt trails at 26.7%.
The rulebook: California's top-two system advances the two leading finishers to November regardless of party — Bass locked up first place, leaving Pratt and Raman to fight for the second slot.
Let’s talk about these late batches: They were primarily made up of two types of ballots:
Vote-by-mail ballots that were postmarked by election day but received after election day.
Provisional ballots, which are typically used when a voter isn't on the roll, lacks ID, or is at the wrong precinct.
Pratt is suspicious: Pratt didn't allege fraud outright – he let a number do the talking. He flagged that the post-election drops had swung the race by more than 43,000 votes and noted it roughly matches the number of homeless people living on LA’s streets. Pratt wrote on X:
"43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before? Probably nothing," alongside a screenshot of an article reading "43,699 people experienced homelessness on any given night in the City of Los Angeles."
DOJ investigates: The Trump Justice Department has opened "multiple election fraud investigations" into California's elections, the Trump-appointed Los Angeles U.S. attorney revealed on Friday, and dispatched a prosecutor to observe the ballot count. No evidence of fraud has been released so far.
The last word goes to President Donald Trump, who in an interview with NBC News over the weekend said: "Do you think it’s appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they’re nowhere close to picking a winner?… Because they're cheating on the election."
[Source: Daily Wire]
Today’s story comes from Wayne.
My father was born as the youngest son in a family of eight children whose parents were sharecroppers in rural Oklahoma.
During the Great Depression their Christmas presents consisted of a few pieces of hard rock candy each.
When WW2 broke out, my father enlisted immediately and after training found himself in the third wave on D-Day on Omaha Beach.
The first two waves had consisted of mostly engineers that were supposed to clear the way of obstacles for the rest of the troops.
Unfortunately, many of them were floating in the water or face down on the beach when the third wave got there.
The Germans had practiced for the invasion for months leading up to the event but had failed to account for the continued firing and the resulting overheating of their weapons. This break allowed for the Allied advance which my father was part of and which paved the way for the Allied victory.
Over one-half of my father’s unit was killed that first day.
Less than a year later when the war in Europe ended, only six of those in his original company were left.
My father was fortunate to survive the war and returned home to marry his sweetheart and be the father of four sons of his own. Others were not so lucky.
My father didn’t set out to be a hero or patriot. He only wanted to serve his country and protect the American way of life.
This year D-Day and Father’s Day are only two weeks apart.
For some of us they might as well be the same day!
ICYMI: We’re reclaiming June as American PRIDE Month — a celebration of the country we love, the people who built it, and the stories that remind us why America is worth defending.
Got a story about why you’re proud to be an American? Reply to this email and send it my way. I’ll feature my favorites all month long.
🇮🇱 The Pentagon reportedly raised the threat of Israel spying on U.S. officials to the highest level, as tensions over the way forward in the war with Iran intensify. Read more.
🚀 Israel and Iran traded fire early Monday in retaliatory strikes that threatened to drag the wider Middle East back into a full-scale regional war. Read more.
👍 Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were terminated. Read more.
🤖 Anthropic is warning that AI is advancing so fast that humans could lose control, urging top companies to coordinate an emergency pause button before the technology goes too far. Read more.
🍟 A white McDonald’s employee remains in intensive care after police say his black coworker allegedly threw hot cooking oil at him during a shift. Read more.
🛰 NASA ordered International Space Station astronauts to briefly take shelter inside a docked SpaceX capsule Friday, as cosmonauts worked to repair a new leak on the Russian side of the orbiting lab. Read more.
🔫 An Indiana University graduate was gunned down in a downtown Indianapolis parking garage while on his way to meet up with his parents at a baseball game. Read more.
🤖 META is considering raising $85 billion by selling equity to fund its AI investments, sending shares down more than 5% on Friday. Read more.
🏴 Two California men – Bereen Dzayee and Elias Shamsaldeen – have been charged over an ISIS terror plot to kill U.S. Special Forces with grenades and drones. Read more.
🏀 WNBA star Brianna Turner criticized the league’s patches in honor of the United States’s 250th anniversary, stating that “no WNBA players would have been free 250 years ago.” Read more.
🚆 Five people were stabbed inside New York’s Penn Station in a random attack by a deranged homeless man. Read more.
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