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Florida Primaries: Vindman Loses, Jews Win, Very Bad Night for Hasan Piker

Posted on | August 18, 2026 | No Comments

Florida’s 25th District is the main House “battleground” in the state this fall, after the district was redrawn to give the GOP a 10-point edge. The incumbent Democrat, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, won by a margin of less than 5 percent in 2024, and his seat is one of the most vulnerable for Democrats nationwide in the midterm fight to control the House.

Controversial left-wing podcaster Hasan Piker endorsed Moskowitz’s primary opponent, DSA-backed Oliver Larkin — and got stomped.

That’s a big “L” for Piker, and sets up a November showdown between Moskowitz and Scott Singer, the mayor of Boca Raton, who calls himself a “lifelong Jewish Republican” and is 100% pro-Israel. So there’s no place for the pro-Hamas vote to go in that election and, meanwhile, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz got 45% of the vote to win her Democratic primary against four black challengers, including socialist Elijah Manley, who accused Wasserman-Schultz of trying “to take away black representation.” While I am certainly not a big fan of Debbie . . .

The biggest win for our side, however, involved a far-left radical pulling an upset in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Ashley Moody. This is a special election. Moody was appointed to fill the term of Marco Rubio after he became Secretary of State, and the winner of the November election will serve until the next regular election in 2028. On the Democratic side, all the money and media attention went to Alex Vindman, who infamously inspired the 2019 impeachment of President Trump. Despite his enormous fundraising advantage, however, Vindman managed to lose to a kook:

Progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon scored a major upset over former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, setting up a general election race against Republican Sen. Ashley Moody.
Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran who rose to prominence as a witness during President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment hearings, was viewed as a heavy favorite against Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, heading into Tuesday’s contest.
Vindman raised $16 million for his campaign, a significant number for a Democrat in red-leaning Florida, while Nixon brought in just over $900,000.
Vindman was recruited to run for the seat by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in an effort to expand its map during a midterm election cycle that is expected to be favorable for the party. . . .
Meanwhile, the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee quickly took a swipe at Nixon.
“Florida will never elect a socialist to the US Senate and we look forward to Ashley Moody’s victory in November,” spokesman Nick Puglia said.

There is zero chance that Democrats take that seat now. Vindman’s defeat in the primary not only involved a waste of $15 million in campaign cash, but further humiliated the Democratic Party establishment, particularly Chuck Schumer. While the chances of Democrats taking back the House are still pretty good, the chances of Schumer becoming Senate Majority Leader again are not good at all now.



 

Category: Election, Florida

In Th Mailbox: 08.18.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 18, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day They Manufactured Russiagate, Top 20 Times “Misinformation” Was Actually the Truth, and The FBI Vs. General Flynn
357 Magnum: July Gun Sales Rebound, also Improvised Guns in South Australia
EBL: Nigella Lawson’s Turmeric Fish Curry, Hayden Panettiere RIP, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, North River Steamboat, and Simple Summer Fish
Twitchy: Fredo’s Delusions of Grandeur, Dearborn Mayor Proclaims His Name Is “Just As American As Any Other” (Spoiler: It’s Not), and James Talarico’s Latest Stunt Shows How Well He’s Doing With Black Voters 
Louder With Crowder: “We are enforcing the laws that they wrote”, Here Are Some Of The Best Moments From Andrew Wilson Vs. Candace Owens Debate, Tim Pool on what REALLY happened when he “walked off” his debate, Two women forced to cover up their pro-women’s sports t-shirts at a WNBA game, and Undercover reporters expose voter fraud in Minnesota, so of course the state is threatening to arrest THEM
Vox Popoli: Two Perspectives on The Absurd, Clown World Lunacy, Never Assume Stupidity, The Mystery of the Missing Novelist, and Two Days to Go
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Death of a Fabulist Race-Grifter
Cedar Sanderson: Competence Porn, Pantophage, and Mixtape Monday – Cicadas Screaming
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Establishment Cause
Postcards from Barsoom: The Self-Cancellation of Jason Arday
Mazelit Airaksinen: Nurse Fired For Calling Jews “Vermin” Now Claims She Was With Murderer On The Night Ke Killed,  also, Palestinian-American Dentist Calls For “Death To Zionists Everywhere”
John C. Wright: Cliche, Archetype, Character
Stoic Observations: Bourgeois Fragility

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CDR Salamander: Mid-August Maritime Melee – On Midrats, also, So We Have A Shipbuilding National Security Presidential Memorandum
Elizabeth Nickson: Absurdistan Is Under The Weather
Glenn Reynolds: It Takes Two Hands To Handle A Whopper
Racket News: No, Jason Arday Wasn’t The Media’s Fault, also, Note to Readers,
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Capybaras, Falls, Liars, & Chocolate

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Rule 5 Sunday: Nice Flex

Posted on | August 17, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Stayed up late last night watching Oppenheimer, about which I had mixed feelings, but it did have several nude scenes with Florence Pugh, so that was nice. Mulling over whether I want to review it on the Substack or elsewhere.  
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Strait of America, Fever Enforcers, The Liberty Tree, Charmian Carr, Michael, The Hardacres, “Les parapluies de Cherbourg”, “Tous les garcons et les filles”, and Deleted scenes from Fury

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Sarah Tolley, Fish Pic Friday – Cheryl H, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Changes, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Yes, I Will Have A Beer

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FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start

Posted on | August 16, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

After a horrendous wipeout at Fenway, the Senators bounced back and took two out of three from the Royals at Metropolitan Stadium; it would have been a sweep but Charlie Hough blew the save, allowing two runs to the Royals in the 7th and 8th innings, and we couldn’t come back against Paul Lindblad. We’ll be taking on Pete’s Brewers at Milwaukee County Stadium tomorrow morning.
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FMJRA 2.0: The Usual Horrible Start to the Season
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The Feds Put the Cuffs on Heidi
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In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)
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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Weirdo Charged With Defacing WWII Memorial

Posted on | August 15, 2026 | No Comments

That’s a photo Melissa Farris posted to Facebook five years ago, when she was 36 years old. Farris is reportedly from Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

She was arrested this week on federal charges after she vandalized the World War II memorial in D.C., pouring soap bubbles in the fountain and spray painting “Clean Hands Dirty $” on a wall of the memorial.

In a social media post, Farris claimed the motive of her vandalism was “to push my whistleblower case into the courtroom.” A quick scan of her social media revealed that, during the COVID pandemic, Farris undertook to renovate an old school bus to live “off-grid.” A few days before being charged for vandalizing the memorial, Farris had been ticketed for illegal camping after she parked the bus a few blocks from the memorial. As soon as I read the news report stating that Farris is 41 years old, my first thought was, “Man, that’s been a hard 41 years.”

Those images are from a video Farris posted to Facebook on Friday, basically confessing to her crime. And like I said, it’s been a hard 41 years. What sort of substances has she been abusing? Meth? Alcohol? Anything she can get her hands on? Can we all just agree that she’s been negligent in terms of her skin-care routine? However bad she looked with her nose piercing and pink hair as a plump 35-year-old, it was much better than her scrawny wrinkled 41-year-old face. And also, she’s crazy.

At some point after driving her blue “Forevertime” bus to D.C., Farris stood in front of the White House panhandling for “weed.”

Doesn’t she have family in Kentucky who care about her? One must assume that Farris has somehow become estranged and alienated from her family, which theory would explain a lot about her behavior. One incentive to live a respectable sort of life — sober, working, keeping regular habits — is to maintain good relationships with others. If you start doing drugs, dyeing your hair weird colors and living “off-grid,” you’re not likely to be on friendly terms with those of your relatives and neighbors who do live respectably. Instead, you’ll be associating with other similarly alienated types, who encourage your disreputable behavior. After this pattern continues a while, bad things will happen.

How does someone become “homeless,” after all? Contemplating the problem of homelessness, many Americans who live “paycheck to paycheck” are tempted to think that we are just one misfortune away from being in such a situation ourselves. However, when we investigate the actual circumstances of the homeless, we discover that it is not mere bad luck that explains the problem. The vast majority of the homeless population are either mentally ill or addicted to drugs, or both. Many of them are, in fact, habitual criminals who ended up on the streets after being released from prison, and couldn’t find anyone — not their parents, not their siblings — willing to take them in. Bad behavior causes broken relationships, and this is the real “moral of the story” for the rest of us, if we don’t want to end up on the streets. We ought to live in such a way as to endear ourselves to others: “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable,” as Ben Franklin said. That means doing basic things, like getting up in the morning and going to work. It means things like being honest, sober and respectful of others, avoiding wrath and envy.

Something I’ve told my kids is, don’t hang around trash. You are a decent person from a good family, therefore certainly you should be able to find friendship among respectable people. My own father used to scold me in my youth about associating with hoodlums and ne’er-do-wells. Although some of those hoodlum buddies actually grew up to be respectable folks, with the benefit of hindsight, I have a deep appreciation for my father’s wisdom in this matter. Everybody wants to have friends, and friendship is necessary in life, but rebellious youth will choose other rebels as their companions, and this usually leads to trouble.

Most of us are capable of learning from these experiences — which is why some of us erstwhile hoodlums eventually become respectable — but others are more persistent in the pattern of bad behavior and bad associations, and that’s how Melissa Farris ended up in D.C., crazy as hell, making national news for vandalizing the WWII Memorial.

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!



 

Category: Crime, Kentucky

In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 15, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Woman Defends Herself from Home Invader
Doug Ross: A Day Among the Slaves – Fanny Kemble In Georgia (1839),
EBL: Fever Enforcers, Jason Arday Found Dead, Mangione Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges, Friday French Fish, and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed killed thousands of dogs and cats in Detroit 
Twitchy: MI Voters Aren’t Buying Stepstool Abdul & CNN Can’t Figure Out Why, Trump Condemns Vandalism Of WW2 Memorial As Lunatic Bint Faces Charges, and “Comedian” Walter Masterson’s WNBA Rule Exposes His Hypocrisy
Louder With Crowder: Live Reaction: Andrew Wilson vs. Candace Owens – The Great Debate, Black mayor releases taxpayer-funded PSA calling on her constituents to shop at Black-owned businesses, Kamala Harris Cackles With Stacey Abrams Talking About Her Political “Attitude”, and Alleged “comedian” blames comedy and jokes for causing a trans genocide
Vox Popoli: The Damned Live in Fear, Cathedra Cometh, and Diversity Kills
According To Hoyt: I’m so sorry, The Cat’s Choice, THE MASKS ARE COMING OFF, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and AS THE SEASON ENDS
Monster Hunter Nation: Gun Runner – Graphic Novel- Kickstarter Live Now
Mazelit Airaksinen: NYC Doctor Apologizes For Remarks About Hasidic Jews

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American Greatness: JD Vance and RFK Jr. Refer Hundreds of Hospitals and Clinics to Justice Department For Criminal Investigation into Transgender Health Fraud, Trump Administration Urges Supreme Court to Review Mail-In Ballot Executive Order, DHS Considers $20 Million Purchase of Electric-Shock Gloves for ICE Agents, WNBA Denounces Critics as League Faces Pressure to Clarify Transgender Eligibility Rules, and War on Rowling Continues (Sans Facts)
American Thinker: The Fog is Lifting, Cancel Culture and the Mark of Cain, If Democrats Walk Like Socialists And Talk Like Socialists, Maybe They’re Socialists, ‘MAGA Barbie’ And The Subaru Magoos, and A New Book Provides Vital And Vivid New Insights Into Abraham Lincoln
BattleSwarm: Shapeshifting Talafreako Scrubs Radical Past, also, LinkSwarm For August 14
Behind The Black: Floating flakes on the flanks of Mount Sharp on Mars, Elon Musk’s private jet visits south Louisiana, The whittling away of Mars’ biggest volcanic ash field, Texas suspends issuing new grants to internet companies for providing broadband to rural areas, and Space Force buys two more Mira orbital tugs from Impulse Space
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Return on Investment, also, The un-scholarships
Don Surber: Just a gigolo
Flopping Aces: Ceuta: The Time-Lapse Photo Of the Collapse of Western Civilization, also, The devil went down to Minnesota
Gates Of Vienna: An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Toulouse, also, The Great Awakening — Resistance to Sharia Domination is Galvanizing in the U.S.
The Geller Report: Election Jihad: Reporters Disguised as Muslims Given Power to Vote for Eight Unregistered Voters, Qatari Newspaper Suggests The Day Is Not Far When a Muslim Will Be Elected US President, Democrat Clinton Judge Drops Trump Case Harvard Failed to Protect Jewish Students, 3:30 AM Public Call to Muslim Prayer in Minneapolis, and Mamdani’s Jihad Against Amazon
Hollywood In Toto: End of Oak Street – A Wild Spielberg Throwback, The Brink of War Makes Reagan Human, Not a Caricature, Margaret Cho Claims Trans Jokes Kill Trans People, Coyote vs. Acme Slams Hollywood’s Favorite Boogeyman, and Wait … Joe Rogan Hearts Candace Owens?
Legal Insurrection: One Day After Release, Criminal Illegal Alien Allegedly Kills 68-Year-Old California Man, Scott Wiener’s AI Attack on Opponent Backfires in Race to Replace Pelosi, California’s ‘Sustainability’ Bureaucracy Takes a Big Sip from Napa Valley’s Iconic Vineyards, Hasan Piker Demands Democrats Defend Him as Many Want to Distance Themselves, and Georgetown Federal Work-Study Comes With Required DEI Training
Nebraska Energy Observer: American Innovation, also, Neo
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Overcomes Injury Scare – Scores 29 Against Dallas, Golden Knights Unveil Quintessential Sin City Center Ice Design, Racist Bomani Jones Spouts More Racist BS, Minor League baseball team unveils “Nothing Night”, and Innocent wrestling with wife’s BF’s sister reveals affair/McDonald’s wedding
Power Line: Cue the outrage, A Master Class In Trolling [Updated], At SPA, Matt Bauer and son win relief, From Fauxcahontas to Flanagan, and What’s the Problem?
Racket News: The COVID Coverup Suffers A Blow In Court
Shark Tank: Rep. Fine Files Criminal Referrals Against Dan Bilzerian &  Anthony Sabatini Alleging Foreign Election Interference
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Peer-Reviewed WTF, also, Firing Line Friday: Deep Throat and the First Amendment
Transterrestrial Musings: Med Students And AI, Throttling The Bureaucrats, and The DSA’s Achilles Heel
Victory Girls: WNBA Tries And Fails To Figure Out What A Woman Is And Is Not, also, JD Vance Explains Why Young People Find Socialism Attractive
Watts Up With That: Call It What It Is – Texas Didn’t Order an Audit, The Green Climate Fund Ran Short of Other People’s Money, CO2 is Winning (Mitigation fail), Artificial Ignorance – The Political Falsehoods of Leading AIs, and New Study Details Massive Recent Sea Ice Expansion And Cooling in The Greenland Sea
The Federalist: A 7-Year-Old Boy’s Preventable Death Demands An End To Polite Silence, The Left Has No Idea What The Right Believes About Babies (Or Anything Else), The Balls Are In The WNBA’s Court, We Can’t Save The American Dream By Pretending Everything Is Just Fine, and Every Democrat Should Be Asked: What About ‘Woke 1’ Was ‘Crazy’?
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet: Wednesday August 12th, Firing Blanks, Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother, and Too Big to Win

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In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 14, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Wi-Fi Attack on Delta Flight After DEF CON, also Don’t Bring a Crossbow to a Gunfight
Doug Ross: Operation Round River – The Graphic Novel,
EBL: Pan Seared Cod, Michael, I Remember Cy Young, and “Cortez the Killer”
Twitchy: Sophie Cunningham For WHPS? “Hurt People Hurt People”, and Jim Acosta Big Mad Trump’s Name Is Going Back On The Kennedy Center
Louder With Crowder: “I’m not a fascist, but the difference is...“, Ms. Rachel, who entertains your children, is all in on your tax dollars paying for slavery reparations, Alex Cooper responds to claims she planned fake sexual harassment allegation against Barstool, Elizabeth Warren tries to leech off the Spider-Man movie’s success to push her agenda, and Nancy Pelosi STILL claims she had no clue Joe Biden was mentally declining before America’s eyes
Cedar Sanderson: Heat Lamp Thieves,
Postcards From Barsoom: Gay Race Communism vs. The Swarm

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Don Surber: My ancestor saved Thanksgiving

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The Feds Put the Cuffs on Heidi

Posted on | August 13, 2026 | No Comments

Grudge, you say? Why would I have a grudge against Heidi Beirich, who did so much to make me famous as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist”? Probably the SPLC has removed her bylines from the various articles she wrote about me, decades ago, when her transparent purpose was to get me fired from The Washington Times.

Dr. Beirich failed in that effort, but about a year after I left The Washington Times and had become successful as a blogger and correspondent for The American Spectator, Heidi’s SPLC work paid an unexpected dividend by helping inspire The Great LGF Blog War of 2009. Longtime readers know all about that episode, which made me a hero to many who had gotten sick of the Lizard King’s bullshit, but I digress . . .

We previously discussed the nature of Herr Doktor’s wrongdoing (“Perfection: Ex-SPLC Boss Heidi Beirich Gave Money to Her Neo-Nazi Boyfriend,” June 16), but now she’s been cuffed:

Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) chief financial officer Heidi Beirich was arrested in California and charged in the Justice Department’s case alleging that the organization secretly used donor money to pay informants inside white supremacist groups, CNN exclusively reported Wednesday.
Beirich, who previously led SPLC efforts to monitor organizations it identified as extremist or white supremacist, was charged in a superseding indictment with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering, according to CNN.
Prosecutors allege Beirich helped oversee the use of donor funds to compensate sources operating inside extremist organizations. They also allege she shared a bank account with one of those sources while the two were in a romantic relationship.
“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a Wednesday news conference. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the U.S. attorneys and the agents working the case will keep on working it even after the initial indictment.” . . .
Beirich’s charges stem from the Justice Department’s larger case alleging that SPLC donor money was used for payments that donors were not told about and that some of the transactions were routed through shell companies. . . .
The indictment further alleges that Beirich was romantically involved with a source who infiltrated a white supremacist organization and stole documents for the SPLC. Prosecutors say the source was paid more than $1 million by the SPLC beginning in 2007. They also allege that Beirich and the source shared a bank account containing $140,000 that came from those payments.

One of two things will happen here: Beirich will accept a plea bargain, or else she’ll plead not guilty and go to trial . . . in Alabama. See, she was living out in California, but the feds brought the case in Alabama, which means Beirich would have to face a jury in Alabama, a state that went 65% for Donald Trump. Which is to say, she’d be wise to accept whatever plea deal the feds might offer. Either way, she’ll be a convicted felon.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave . . .



 

Category: Crime, Racism
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