In The Mailbox: 03.27.26

Posted on | March 28, 2026 | No Comments

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

You know what today is.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Microsoft or Microslop?
Director Blue: The 90-Day Empire,
EBL: Cutting Guide, “Anchors Aweigh”, and Really?
Twitchy: Nice Backpedal Bro – Kimmel’s Pathetic Attempt At Damage Control On Markwayne Mullin Joke Backfires Badly, “Fight The Oligarchy!” Bernie Sanders Caught In First Class While Government Workers Left Hanging, and Nerdeen Kiswani Targeted In Failed Firebomb Plot – Same Tactics She Defended As “Heroic Resistance”
Louder With Crowder: Corny leftist attacks Black ICE agents as “fascist,” and they laughed in the guy’s face, Lawyer makes mistake of getting into a fight with a judge, cries transphobia as he’s busted for contempt, Philadelphia leftists actually CHEER for more American soldiers to come home in caskets, Arrested, Charged, & Sentenced in 5 Hours – Ash Wednesday with Tommy Robinson, and Even legendary Bob Costas supports “banning” trans athletes from the Olympics – “Common sense is not transphobic”
Vox Popoli: 3GW vs 5GW, Yeah, It’s Going Great, and The Next Event
According To Hoyt: Odd, Springing Eternal, and Sleep Walking to Suicide
Upstream Reviews: Dracula’s Match, also, Failed YouTuber Matt Jarbo Makes Desperate Bid for Relevance
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: We Need Non-Inflationary Cash

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Biden Officials Identified Stroke Safety Signal in Seniors Taking Pfizer’s COVID Booster, Then Pushed For Them to ‘Increase Uptake’, Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials Bring Rulings Against Meta, Other Tech Giants, Trump Says He’ll Sign Order Directing DHS to Pay TSA Workers, Tearing the Roots out of Trumpism – the Democrat Plan for 2029 Is Taking Shape, and Americans Can Have a Little Fascism, as a Treat – A Modest Proposal
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 27
Behind The Black: Ispace to replace engine on its lunar lander, delaying its NASA mission to 2030, War Department conducts classified suborbital missile test from Cape Canaveral, China launches “test satellite”, Neptune as seen by Voyager-2 in 1989, four days before closest approach, and March 27, 2026 Quick space links
Cafe Hayek: More on Trade and Mortality, also, Yet More on Trade and Traumatic Economic Change
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Voice of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference – Jeannette Davis of “Love Your Neighbor Maternity”
Dana Loesch: The Battle For The Soul of the Party Goes Global
Don Surber: Trump ends TSA hostage crisis
Elizabeth Nickson: Inside the criminal gangs trying to steal 2026
The Geller Report: “The Worst of the Worst”, NEARLY EVERY SINGLE Democrat Voted Against Simple, Scaled Down Voter Photo ID, DEMOCRATS CAUGHT RED-HANDED, Soros-Backed Far Left NY AG Letitia James Hit with More Criminal Referrals, and Development Plans for ‘Sharia City’ in Texas Terminated
Hollywood In Toto: Why Vince Vaughn’s Late-Night Critique Is a Game Changer, Why Bill Maher Is Perfect Choice for Mark Twain Prize, Andrew Garfield Takes Vile Stance Against J.K. Rowling, and Davies Brothers Deliver Double Smackdown to Woke Moby
Legal Insurrection: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin Effectively Ends CDLs for Illegal Immigrants, Children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel Vows To Shut Down ICE Facility, USC Canceled Gubernatorial Debate Because Only White Candidates Qualified, The Left has Planned Another ‘No Kings’ Protest This Weekend for Some Reason, and Senate GOP Capitulates Over DHS Funding, But Denies Democrats ICE Reforms
Nebraska Energy Observer: Bretton Woods
Outkick: Aaron Judge Takes Advantage Of ABS System, Yankees Dominate Giants & Set Franchise Record, Stephen A. Smith Doesn’t Know Anything About Sports, Reactions Pour In Following Tiger Woods’ Scary Rollover Crash In Florida, Tiger Woods Arrested On DUI Charge In Florida After Rollover Crash, and Grace Boor Goes For A Slow-Mo Run At The Beach, Taylor Mathis Leads Iowa To Victory & Kruk Wants Guys Oiled Up
Power Line: Ilhan Omar married her brother, This just in, Civilizational Suicide, The Imprimis experience, and Our Somali fraud scandal
Shark Tank: Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson Endorses Jay Collins For Governor
STUMP: Chicago Pension Watch – DROP Won’t Save The Pensions,
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Vietnam – What Next?
This Ain’t Hell: As long as we’re there, also, Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Libertarianism
Victory Girls: House Ethics Committee Finds Democrat Congresswoman Guilty
Watts Up With That: Starmer Says It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea, The “Renewables Are Cheap” Myth, Alberta Joins Solar/Wind Bust (uneconomic energy hits political risk), Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial, and The Conversation: “Why emotional resilience should be at the heart of climate change education”
The Federalist: Majority Of Voters Want Tighter Abortion Pill Safeguards, New Poll Shows, Americans Shouldn’t Need The House To Save Mass Deportations From Weak Senate Republicans, The Boozer Family Story Omits The Children They Sacrificed , Cocky Virginia Dems Starting To Sweat Over April’s Referendum On Rigged Political Maps, and New Document Shows Chief Judge Howell Privately Endorsed Jack Smith’s Get-Trump Lawfare
Mark Steyn: Criminalising Christianity

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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 27, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sometimes not even money buys you justice.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day The Sea Turned To Stone – Krakatoa 1883,
357 Magnum: A Comparison of Florida and New York State
Twitchy: The Economist Claims Soaring Number Of Canadian Muslim Schools Is Due To Islamophobia, Nashville NHL Team Unveils “Gay Predators” Logo & Becomes Butt Of Online Jokes, and Trans LOLyer Loses It In Court, Resists Arrest While Gasping “I Can’t Breathe”
Louder With Crowder: John Fetterman admits his Democrat party is willfully hurting the middle class by shutting down DHS, Welcome to Mamdani’s NY, where an 83-year-old veteran was killed by an illegal immigrant pushing him into subway tracks, Breaking Down the Insane Conspiracy that Trump Faked His Assassination Attempt, Sanity prevails as Olympic Committee bans men claiming to be women (aka “trans”) from competeing against women, and Chicago mayor refuses to let a female college student murdered by an illegal get in the way of his agenda to “Abolish ICE”
Vox Popoli: The Pipelines are Not the Police, THE CRUEL EQUATIONS, Arkhaven Nights, and Dimora and Ben Gurion
Cedar Sanderson: Backyard Chickens
Jim McCoy: Starfleet Academy
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Something about money (and cake)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Hegseth Says U.S. Is ‘Systematically Destroying’ Iranian Military Assets Paid for by Obama’s ‘Pallets of American Cash’, O’Keefe Catches Skid Row Fraudsters Paying Homeless People to FORGE Signatures on Ballots, Democrats Flip Florida State Seat in Trump’s Backyard, Failing California School District Spends Over $900K on DEI Programs, and Americans Replacing Americans: Fleeing Diversity and Threatening Regional Identities
BattleSwarm: Musk’s Terafab Is Half Possible, Half Pipe-Dream, also, Iran Strikes – Day 27
Behind The Black: Proteus, Neptune’s second largest moon, discovered by Voyager-2 in 1989, Astronomers detect the first comet whose nucleus’ reversed its rotation, The space station part of Isaacman’s new program is facing push back, from industry and Congress, All space stocks soar in anticipation of SpaceX’s impending IPO, and Webb and Hubble take a look at Saturn
Cafe Hayek: Wow! What a Book!! also, Did NAFTA Kill People?
CDR Salamander: Up-Arm The Fleet? With What?
Da Tech Guy: My Talk: “Why the Great Saints Considered Themselves Great Sinners”, also, Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Ed Conley of the Holy Family Retreat Center
Dana Loesch: The Trouble With X
Don Surber: ICE deports crime
Elizabeth Nickson: Is Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Owned By The Sinaloa Cartel?
First Street Journal: The rise of anti-Semitism by recent Catholic converts, also, Pennsylvania just became a little less safe
Gates Of Vienna: Expect Delays, Part IV
The Geller Report: ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH MURDER Of 83-year-old Veteran Shoved Onto NYC Subway Tracks, IRAN THREATENS NYC, Sickening Philly Protest Cheers Dead U.S. Troops, White House Warns Trump Will ‘Unleash Hell’ if Iran ‘Fails to Understand That They Have Been Defeated’, and TRUMP SCORES MAJOR WIN – Appeals Court Backs ICE, No Bail For Illegals
Hollywood In Toto: Bury Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice in Time Capsule, Mark Normand Forced Netflix to Admit This Inconvenient Truth, Vince Vaughn Slams ‘Agenda-Driven’ Late Night TV, New Broadway Play Puts Antisemitism Under Microscope, and Colbert’s Lord of the Rings Gig Reveals Ugly Hollywood Truth
Legal Insurrection: NASA Scraps Lunar Station, Directs $20 Billion to Moon Base and Mars Nuclear Push, Trump Directs DHS Secretary Mullin to Pay TSA Agents, Jimmy Kimmel Insults the Working Class While Trying to Mock Markwayne Mullin, Leftist Influencer Compares Mullin’s Cherokee Heritage to Liz Warren ‘Fauxcahontas’ Controversy, and Vance’s Anti-Fraud Task Force Suspends 70 Hospices in Los Angeles
Nebraska Energy Observer: Space Force, also, Federal Reserve
Outkick: Iowa Clinches Elite-Eight Berth Thanks To Disastrous Blunder By Nebraska In Final Minute, Philadelphia Phillies Star Alec Bohm Accuses Parents Of Stealing Millions Of Dollars In Wild Lawsuit, Bomani Jones Injects Himself And OutKick Into Stephen A. Smith–Whitlock Feud, Lane Kiffin’s Pleas For Patience Will Fall On Deaf Ears In Baton Rouge And Beyond, and Jennifer Lopez Goes Full Vegas Stripper In Fishnet Stockings, Racist Harry Potter & Nashville’s Gay Puck Night
Power Line: Did Ellison lie to Congress? Read the transcript, Too Good to Check, Looking back contemptuously, They’re On the Other Side, and Europe To Get Tougher On Immigration?
Shark Tank: State Sen. Shevrin Jones Endorses David Jolly For Governor
Shot In The Dark: Perish the Thought, also, Staying Connected
STUMP: Geeking Out – Were COVID Deaths Undercounted In The U.S.?
The Political Hat: Reflexive Propaganda
This Ain’t Hell: When you think you have had a bad day, Old Dominion cadets receive medals, Canada’s “buyback” redux, and Dismal State of Britain’s Military
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Direction In Space Policy, The Four Boxes Of Freedom, Recognition, and My “Smart” TV
Victory Girls: Chicago Politicians’ Shameful Silence About Sheridan Gorman’s Murder, Mouthy, Bully Reacher Actor Puts Needed Beatdown On Neighbor, and Kermit Gosnell Lived A Long Life, Too Bad His Victims Didn’t
Watts Up With That: BlackRock CEO Abandons Climate Delusion for Investor Needs, Climate Models Discover Yet Another Thing CO2 Can Do, Yet Another Reason Why Wind And Solar Electricity Generation Will Never Work To Run An Economy, , and
The Federalist: America Can’t Heal From The Russia Hoax Because Mueller And His Ilk Faced No Accountability, DOJ Charges Dominicans, Others In Alleged Benefit Fraud Schemes Totaling $1 Million, Politicians Think More Zoning Laws Will Fix Housing Prices, But The Data Says Otherwise , Exclusive: Watchdog Files Bar Complaint Against Christopher Wray Over Arctic Frost Lawfare, and Any Republican Promising To Pass SAVE Act Via Reconciliation Is Lying To You
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Week Four, Persian Mix, and Chill Out

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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 26, 2026 | No Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Arctic Frost Trifecta
357 Magnum: Self-Defense is Legal in North Carolina
EBL: Lionfish Spines, Bridge on the River Kwai, Diamondback Squid, Augusta National, and What is Cream of Tartar?
Twitchy: Cambridge Woman Goes Viral For Hiring Illegals & Calling ICE, Try Not To Laugh At The Background Optics During Cory Booker’s “Trump Brought Chaos To The Airports” Rant, and Amy Siskind’s Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Anti-Trump Story About An Old Lady & Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Shortage Flops
Louder With Crowder: BLM leader once named “Bostonian of the Year” forced to pay back the money she stole from her charity, Man convicted of murder thinks Gavin Newsom would make an awesome president, would totally vote for him, Student newspaper forced to apologize after accurately calling an illegal immigrant who murdered a student an “illegal immigrant”, Woke, Soros-funded Philly DA THREATENS ICE agents helping at airports, and California cancels gubernatorial debate when, apparently, none of the “candidates of color” made the cut off
Vox Popoli: Now in Print, RIP John Bradley, A Fake Ceasefire Offer, and She Has This Sense
Upstream Reviews: Project Hail Mary Wins For Lord & Miller,
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Iran & The Axis of Evil
Cedar Sanderson: To Chloris
Stoic Observations: Who Are These Masked Men?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Missiles To Diego Garcia Subtext
Don Surber: Iran’s allies flee
Elizabeth Nickson: ALL Our Elections Are Stolen
Racket News: Iranian Ambassador Met With Russian Arms Maker For “Development of Cooperation”, also, Finally Good News – Free Speech Wins In Court

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Guess What Time It Is, ‘Iranian Leaders’?

Posted on | March 25, 2026 | No Comments

Do me a favor: Somebody translate this into Farsi, and bring it to the attention of the surviving “leadership” in Tehran, because they obviously don’t know what time it is — it’s time to quit, fellows:

The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
The unit is considered the Army’s emergency response force and can typically be deployed on short notice. The force would include a battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team as well as Maj. Gen. Brandon Tegtmeier, the division’s commander, and division staff, according to the people, who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans or private conversations.
It’s the latest addition of American troops to the Iran war effort after U.S. officials recently said thousands of Marines aboard several Navy ships will be heading to the region.
While the Marine units are trained in missions that include supporting U.S. embassies, evacuating civilians and disaster relief, the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne, based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, are trained to parachute into hostile or contested territory to secure key territory and airfields.

You have two choices, Iran: You can surrender, or you can die.

Do you realize that the 82nd Airborne is the best light infantry division on the planet? They can jump out of planes, or they can deploy on helicopters, but once they’re on the ground, they are just combat infantry, and the reason they are “considered the Army’s emergency response force” is because they are trained to a high state of readiness. Every morning begins with a two-mile run, and they do so much physical training, they’re like a team of professional athletes, except there are thousands of them, they carry guns, and every one is a skilled marksman.

Speaking of planes and helicopters and deployment, however, let’s ask a few questions: How many planes and helicopters does Iran’s military have left at this point? Pretty sure it’s close to zero. We’ve wiped out the Iranian air force and sunk the Iranian navy, and if the Iranian army now wishes to get in on the action, exactly how does Iran’s surviving military leadership propose to transport their troops into battle? What, they’re going to ride in trucks? And won’t those truck convoys of Iranian troops be easy targets, rolling down the road, observed in real time by our high-tech surveillance, ready to send bombs and missiles to blow them up?

See, 21st-century warfare isn’t just “boots on the ground.” It’s technology and logistics, and the current state of Iran’s military logistics is FUBAR. (Is there a Farsi synonym for FUBAR?) There is talk about the U.S. seizing Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, and I don’t know if that’s true, but suppose it is. Exactly how does Iran propose to defend Kharg Island? How many Iranian troops are on the island now? Are there enough troops on the island to withstand an assault by a Marine expeditionary force, backed up by a battalion from the 82nd Airborne, with the assistance of the 75th Ranger Regiment and whatever Special Forces commando teams might get involved in such an operation?

All told, we’re sending more than 5,000 troops — and perhaps twice that number — toward the Persian Gulf theater of operations, and the Iranian leadership must have some ballpark estimate of how many troops they’ve got on Kharg Island. Pretty sure it’s not enough to deal with all the firepower the U.S.A. could bring to bear on that location, but let’s not even think about that yet. Because, you see, troops have got to eat.

However many troops Iran has on Kharg Island, every one of them consumes a certain number of calories daily, and how much of a stockpile of food do they keep handy on that island? Remember, we sank the Iranian navy, which means that now there is no way that the Iranian regime can send any more food (or troops, weapons, supplies, etc.) to Kharg Island. Whatever the existing Iranian military presence is on that island, they’re not going to be able to get any help or reinforcement if, as it’s said we’re planning, U.S. troops show up to take the island by force.

Iranian demands for end to the war include the closure of all U.S. bases in the Gulf, guarantees of no further attacks, an end to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, the lifting of all sanctions on Iran, war damage reparations, and no restrictions on its missile program. – WSJ… pic.twitter.com/EtbPtvl1PB

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 25, 2026

Iran has demands? Are you kidding me with this?

Look, I know for a fact that Trump did not — and still does not — want to have to order ground troops into combat in Iran. He sincerely doesn’t want a “forever war” and using ground troops will almost certainly involve casualties more numerous than the handful of unfortunate losses we have suffered so far. Even a one-sided victory over whatever force the Iranians might have on Kharg Island would likely involve dozens of U.S. casualties, and Trump doesn’t want that if he can avoid it.

But the Iranian leadership has demands? We’ve already killed so many of their leaders, we’re dealing with third-string Shiite fanatics at this point and, like I said, Iran’s also lost its air force and navy, so the idea that they’re in any position to make demands is downright insulting. Operation Epic Fury is now in Day 27, and we’ve struck something like 9,000 targets in Iran so far. We’ve blown up so much of their stuff that we’re at risk of running out of targets. The guys running the Pentagon obviously have some very detailed plans for what the Army and Marines can do in Iran — a hunch tells me it’s probably more than just taking Kharg Island — but the Commander-in-Chief would prefer to avoid that, if the Iranian leaders would just decide they don’t want to be the next guy with a mug shot and the word “ELIMINATED” next to it.

Death From Above is coming for you, fellows. And the only way you can stop it is two words — unconditional surrender. Do the right thing.

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In The Mailbox: 03.24.26

Posted on | March 25, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Illegal Alien Executes Loyola Student, also Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0
EBL: The Breakfast Club, Breaking Down Bluefin, “Take Me To Church”, Wuthering Heights, and Soccer Time
Twitchy: Retired USAF Colonel Grumps “America Is A Joke” After Mullin Confirmed As SecDHS, Gov. Hairgel Asks X If He Resembles A Famous Movie Character & Gets Rekt, and NYC Mayor Tells Federal Agents Where They Don’t Belong
Louder With Crowder: LAPD Plants Fake Pedestrian To Trick Drivers, Maryland Dems fight for “appropriately sized” feminine hygiene products in all public men’s bathrooms, Dallas man gets arrested attempting to repaint a rainbow Pride mural, Gov. Tubby lashes out, says it’s Trump’s fault an illegal murdered a female college student in Chicago, and Democrat calls out his party being too “afraid of the base” to care another illegal killed another woman in another sanctuary city
Vox Popoli: The Ultimatum That Wasn’t, SANSHIR? by Natsume S?seki, Arkhaven Goes Wide, The Blame Game Begins, and Schrödinger’s Airport
Incensepunk Magazine: Interview with Andrew D. Meredith
Weird Catholic: Mary’s Way of the Cross
Mazelit Airaksinen: Atlanta “Anti-Racist” Therapist Says “White Jews” Have No Right to Israel
Stoic Observations: A Job Aggregator for You

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Trump Says Iran is ‘Wiped Out;’ U.S. Has ‘Won This War’, House Republicans Launch Probe Into California’s ‘Rampant’ Hospice Fraud, Supreme Court May Restrict States with Mail-In Ballot Laws Ahead of November Midterms, Senate Confirms Sen. Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary, and Civics War
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 80 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: This Day Eaten By Dogs, “The Shocking State Of Britain’s Navy In 2026”, Iran Strikes: Day 25, and Has Microsoft Finally Gotten The MicroSlop Message?
Behind The Black: Lunar Gateway dead as NASA announces major changes to its plans, Satellite repair startup Katalyst awards Arianespace and its Ariane-6 rocket a launch contract, Russia launches the first 16 satellites in its own internet satellite constellation, Progress docks with ISS, and The battle of Gettysburg as seen by those who lived it
Cafe Hayek: Protectionists Need No Further Flimsy Excuses, Price Ceilings Are Unhealthy, StatisNostics, and What About the “Farm-mechanization Shock”?
CDR Salamander: A Sober Royal Navy Update
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Adam, enrolled in OCIA, Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Dennis of “Adopt a Student”, and Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Evangeline Brennan of EMERGE
Don Surber: Iran, the headless chicken
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: We Love Our Prophet, Ramadan in Turin, Expect Delays Part III, Geert Wilders: “Our Country is Unrecognizable”, and Happy Vernal Equinox!
The Geller Report: Mamdani’s Garbage Wife’s Use of “N*gga, F*ggot” and Praise for “Suicide Bombers and Plane Hijackers” Hailed as Art By CNN, Pounding Iran, Starmer Calls for More Muslims to Become MP, SCOTUS Poised to CRUSH Late Ballots—No More Counting After Election Day, and President Trump Restoring Idea of the American Hero
Glenn Reynolds: A Coda to the “Big Arch” Review
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Media Sinks to Predictable New Low, A Scanner Darkly Predicted Our Paranoid Age, 5 Burning Questions Tied to Spade/Von Comedy Busboys, 15 Days Will Make You Furious at Teachers Unions, and Carell’s Rooster Mocks Woke College Students (Or Does It?)
Legal Insurrection: From TED Talk to Total Flop – The Rise and Fall of the Insect Farming Boom, House Oversight Investigating California Hospice Fraud, Claims Newsom Knew for Years, Arizona State U. Has Paid More Than $100,000 to an Anti-Trump News Site, Abortionist /Convicted Murderer Kermit Gosnell, Dies in Prison at 85, and SAVE America Act Fearmongering vs. Reality: Woman Replaced 3 Key Documents in 5 Days for $19
Nebraska Energy Observer: Westphalia Restored, Sunday Matinee, Telephony – New and Old, and Anatomy of a Train Wreck
Outkick: ‘Good Riddance’: Landon Donovan Goes Off On Dual-National Star For Hesitating On US Soccer, Puka Nacua Lands In More Trouble With Biting Allegations, New Antisemitism Accusation, Elizabeth Eddy Knew Speaking Out Could Cost Her Soccer Career, But She Did It Anyway, The Rockies Have To Be Better Than Last Year, Right? Not So Fast, and Molly Sims Adds To Her Bikini Model Legacy As She Returns To SI Swimsuit For The Eighth Time
Power Line: AfD gains in state election, There’s Something Happening Here, Naked Anti-Semitism, The People They Care About the Most, and Has Britain already fallen?
Racket News: Go Outside
Shark Tank: Nathan Upsets Tomkow In SD-14 Election
Shot In The Dark: Bring Me The Head of Diego Garcia
The Political Hat: California Legislature Trying To Legalize Discrimination…Yet Again
This Ain’t Hell: Eating their own, Iran targets Diego Garcia, A gun topic or two, Virtue Signalers Arrive in Cuba, and NIMBY NATO?
Transterrestrial Musings: The Bond Between Civilians And Military, also, X Troubles?
Victory Girls: The SAVE Act Is Indispensable For The Future of the U.S., Tone-Deaf Leftist Activists Party In Cuba During Power Grid Collapse, and The Curious Case of Dress Codes and Narratives
Watts Up With That: New York Approaches The Green Energy Cliff With Morons In Charge, Wyoming wind power needs a Programmatic Environmental Impact Assessment, The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Shows the World Still Runs on Fossil Fuels, There’s Nothing “Voluntary” About a Smart Meter, and Is Public Stupidity Behind Climate Change Apathy?
The Federalist: Democrats’ Fraud-Friendly Election Rules Destroy Public Trust, Cleveland – Jack Smith And His Lawfare Team ‘Must Be Held Accountable’, Republicans’ Vision For America Won’t Win Unless They Show Voters Why It Should, Left-Wing Propagandists Send Virginians Fake ‘Newspaper’ Promoting Democrat Gerrymander, and James Talarico Is Just The Latest Of The Media’s Pathetic Cardboard Heroes
Mark Steyn: On the Town – A Quiet Thing, Life at the Bottom – Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street, “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most”, The Deadline Looms, and Who’s Calling Whom?

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Why Is Lindy West Getting Cancelled?

Posted on | March 24, 2026 | No Comments

Most people — even people who follow politics closely — never figured out that the Great Feminist Boom of 2014-2017 was not a coincidence. All the institutions of academia and media did not suddenly decide to the embrace and promote #feminist brand by accident. No, that cultural moment was organized to support the Right Side of History™ crusade to make Hillary Clinton America’s First Female President.

Having examined the reasons for the failure of her 2008 presidential bid, Team Hillary recognized that being identified as a feminist was a net negative for her and, in war-gaming her 2016 campaign — a process that began as soon was Obama got reelected in 2012 — they saw the importance of creating an “Astroturf” project to make it seem as if feminism was a mainstream grassroots movement. Young women who were targeted by this effort were generally too naïve to comprehend the cynical partisan calculatIons behind it, and sincerely believed that they were part of a spontaneous emergence of feminist consciousness, a belief that was much more flattering to their egos than to recognize they were pawns of a multimillion-dollar P.R. operation in service to the selfish political ambitions of one very wealthy and powerful woman.

All of which is to say that only a fool would have thought it was a coincidence when, in September 2015, Guardian columnist Lindy West “encouraged other women to share positive abortion experiences online using the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion in order to ‘denounce the stigma surrounding abortion.'” Nor was any intelligent person surprised when, a few months later in May 2016, Lindy West published Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, which was universally praised in the liberal media and immediately became a bestseller. The TV rights to Shrill were then bought by Hulu, which turned it into a 22-episode series.

Pro-abortion hashtag, book contract, TV deal — all these things occurred in the span of a few short months that just happened to coincide with the presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton. While I am not prepared to claim that Lindy West’s sudden ascent to fame and fortune was funded by the Clinton campaign (or perhaps that it was a clandestine CIA agitprop operation), neither do I think it was coincidental.

All of that is preamble to the latest turn of events, in which Lindy West has published a new book, and liberal women are trashing it.

Like everything Lindy West has ever written, Adult Braces is an exercise in solipsism, a song with one note — “Me! Me! Me!” — and while she was able to get a New York Times bestseller and a TV series out of this shtick 10 years ago, her target audience doesn’t seem eager to consume another installment of the “my-life-as-feminist-metaphor” saga.

West’s new book got completely dismantled in The Atlantic, with English feminist Helen Lewis calling it “the tombstone for Millennial Feminism.”

What killed Millennial Feminism was the gap between what its high priestesses demanded and what they were able to endure themselves. If you insist that accepting polyamory is the price of being a good person, and then write a book about your throuple where the front cover shows you with mascara-streaked tears running down your face, people will spot the dissonance. . . .
It isn’t social conservatism that has seen so many readers disbelieve West’s rapid-onset bisexuality. Millennial Feminism failed because it was suffocating, immiserating, and often at odds with observable facts about human nature.
Today, very few traces of it remain. Jezebel was sold off and closed. Tumblr has withered. The viral internet no longer reliably delivers traffic to epic takedowns of problematic figures, so hungry young freelancers have largely stopped pitching them. The publishing industry’s lust for jeremiads about “white feminism” is over. No one has used the word girlboss unironically in years. A key feminist legal precedent, Roe v. Wade, fell in part because Ruth Bader Ginsburg refused to retire, a fact that makes me wince every time I remember that one of the most-lauded books of Millennial Feminism was Irin Carmon’s Notorious RBG.

What she is saying is that, in retrospect, maybe the kind of feminism Lindy West represented wasn’t good feminism, i.e., the kind of feminism that is consistent with Democrats winning elections. Anyone could see at the time that, for example, Lindy West’s beliefs were “often at odds with observable facts about human nature,” but feminists (including Helen Lewis) were willing to tolerate that until it resulted in Donald Trump twice being elected to the White House. Lindy West was a highly praised bestselling author, and then Trump beat Hillary. Four tumultuous years later, the elderly white man Joe Biden managed to “win” the 2020 election, but was compelled by the terms under which he obtained the Democratic nomination to make Kamala Harris his running mate. Then when Joe’s brain short-circuited in a June 2024 debate, he got kicked off the ticket and Harris was anointed as the Democratic standard-bearer — losing to Trump even worse than Hillary lost to Trump.

Liberals judge everything by whether or not it helps Democrats win elections, and the experience of the past 10 years is such that we might say feminism has been “weighed in the balance and found wanting.”

Did the decade-long failure of feminism — in terms of its utility as a partisan weapon for Democrats — result in this sudden outburst of criticism directed at Lindy West? It’s hard to say, but Helen Lewis’s takedown in The Atlantic set off a tsunami wave of Subtackers denouncing West’s brand of feminism. The bisexual “throuple” angle in West’s new book got Phoebe Maltz Bovy’s dander up:

For the last decade or so, there’s been a crossing of wires of sorts, wherein queer liberation and feminism are meant to be the same project. More specifically: the idea is that if women could simply abandon straightness, there, right there, is the feminist future. Abandon cisheteroland, and the feminism manifests.

As she explains, this is at the very least short-sighted, and results in harms that are perhaps not intended, but are entirely predictable.

In the context of analyzing Lindy West’s fat-feminist shtick, Kat Rosenfeld remarks about how “the same liberal communities which prided themselves on openness and tolerance also harbored an absolutely staggering contempt for the sensibilities and cultural practices of red America, and especially of the white working class, which they mocked mercilessly for being backwards and unenlightened . . . And one thing about the rural white working class: not always, but often, they’re fat.” Lindy West grew up as fat in deep-blue Seattle, where her size was socially coded as working-class, and the anti-fat prejudice she complains of is widespread among liberal snobs. However, as I explained in 2018, “Preferences Are Not Oppression”:

How is it that America (evidently unique among all nations) stands accused of a “monomanical fixation” with being thin, while at the same time we’re experiencing an obesity epidemic? And does Lindy West actually believe this “warps every single woman’s life”?
My daughters are not fat. My two daughters-in-law are not fat. My teenage sons’ girlfriends are not fat. If their lives are being “warped” by a “monomanical fixation,” they haven’t mentioned it. Some people are just naturally thin, more or less, and thus suffer no hardship because of the general preference for thinness. “Fat feminism” is a movement organized to convince us that our normal preferences are wrong. If you think a skinny woman is more attractive than Lindy West, your preference oppresses Lindy West, in much the same way (and for much the same reason) that she considers “stigma” against abortion oppressive.

The slow-motion approach to totalitarianism means that most people don’t realize how we have gone, in the space of about 40 or 50 years, from prohibiting certain beliefs as “racist,” to now attempting to prohibit other beliefs, attitudes and opinions for no reason except that some people’s feelings are hurt. The taboo on “racism” (which must be put in quotation marks because its definition has become increasingly vague) was based on the understanding that such attitudes motivated actual harm to black people. In the context of Jim Crow, lynching, etc., these harms were quite a bit more serious than mere hurt feelings, OK? But now the Left is trying to stifle free speech on the basis of a need to “de-stigmatize” various behaviors. What this means is that, for example, the practitioners of polyamory demand that they should be exempt from criticism, in the same way that Lindy West by denouncing “the stigma surrounding abortion” means that she should be exempt from criticism.

The Thought Police aspect of all this is what disturbs me most. I am fully capable of examining evidence and listening to arguments and making up my own mind without any external guidance, and I do not wish to prohibit people from publishing bad books full of wrong ideas, which is what Lindy West does. So long as we are free to criticize these bad ideas, without the Thought Police suppressing our criticism, other people are free to make up their own minds, just as I am. The totalitarian tendencies of those whom Helen Lewis calls the “high priestesses” of Millennial Feminism were obvious enough 10 years ago, but it wasn’t until Trump got elected and reelected that liberals began to have second thoughts about this movement. Lindy West getting cancelled is yet another reason I am proud that I voted for Donald Trump. So much winning . . .