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In The Mailbox: 04.04.25

Posted on | April 5, 2025 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Last night’s linkagery came to naught since Boulder Station’s wifi network took offense to something about my laptop.
Next time I’ll just stay at the Cannery or the Stratosphere.
Meanwhile, the usual weekly deadlines are in effect for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

If Stacy had written the script for Zulu…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Texans Are Still Armed, also, Disney Hates Strong Women
Director Blue: Clinton Cash – The Graphic Novel
EBL: Val Kilmer RIP, Dems Are Trying To Buy Elections (and rain is known to be wet), MAGA Liberation Day : Make America Wealthy Again, The Saint, and Top Secret!
Twitchy: CNN Complains Bombing Houthis Is Too Expensive. Trump Disagrees & BOOM Go The Houthis, Mayoral Candidate Pushes Poll That “Proves” NYC Residents Want Government-Run Grocery Stores, and DNC Chair Announces Unelected “People’s Cabinet” Of Experts To Fight Trump
Louder With Crowder: Liam Neeson is remaking the 80s classic The Naked Gun, and God help us, this actually looks hilarious, House Democrats would rather STORM OFF than vote to end “gender affirming care” for troons, They tried forcing a female fencer to compete against a (trans) man, but she took this brave stance instead, The Media Wants You To Believe Trump Deported A Loving Father – They’re Lying, and Scott Jennings shuts down CNN libs who claim there is buyer’s remorse for voting Trump
Vox Popoli: Russell Brand Arrested, An Echo of Eco, China Hits Back, It’s Just the Opening Bid, and Shall We Step Into the Narrative?
According To Hoyt: The Green Man of Greypec — reading the future of the past, April Fools, On Being An Example, and A snippet from 9 AD: The Crossing of the Rhine by Tom Kratman
Stoic Observations: Small Steps Towards WWID
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The “My Bad” $20, also, We Promised To Publish Boys’ Adventure Books
Jim McCoy: Sunrise On The Reaping
Upstream Reviews: Beyond The Shallow Grave

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: This Is What an Actually Effective Filibuster Looks Like, also, U.S. Economy Added 228,000 Jobs in March, Beating Expectations
American Greatness: Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Administration to Return Alleged MS-13 Gang Member to the U.S., Judge Considers Holding Trump Admin Officials in Contempt of Court Over Illegal Alien Deportations, Police Chief in Minnesota Refers to Tesla Vandal as ‘Victim’ of ‘Rhetoric’, Sen. Rand Paul on Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Taxes Should Not Be Enacted By One Person’, and Democrats File Lawsuit To Block Trump’s Executive Order Requiring U.S. Citizenship to Vote
American Thinker: Trump’s Tariffs Will Not Cause Inflation, Cory Booker and an MS-13 Massacre, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pronouns, Make IRS Sauce The Same For Both Citizen Goose and Politician Gander, and What’s the Real Target of the Assault on Tesla?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Deportation News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Queen of Word Salads Friday
BattleSwarm: Texas Not Taking EPIC City Sitting Down, Asmongold Watches Cop In Shootout Listening To Asmongold, Democrats Still All In On Transing Your Kids, DOGE Discovers Giant Social Security Fraud, and LinkSwarm For April 4
Behind The Black: China: samples from the near and far sides of the Moon are different, Engineers use simulated moon dust to make glass, White dwarf binary discovered only 150 light years away is a major supernova candidate in about 23 billion years, Fram2 private manned mission splashes down safely, and Another “What the heck?!” image on Mars
Cafe Hayek: Even Trump Doubts His Tariffs, Daniel Hannan on the Logical Contradictions in the Case for Trump’s Tariffs, More Economic Lockdowns, MAPA, and So Much Winning!
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Tariffs, Conclusion: The Secret Voyage of the Kofuku Maru, About That New York Times Article, Retrotech: Sending Photographs Under the Ocean in 1925, and The Tesla Takedown
Da Tech Guy: An AI Generated April Fool’s Carol, also, We Don’t Talk About Biden
Dana Loesch: Eric Adams’ Case Is Dismissed, 
Don Surber: Krugman v. Trump on tariffs, also, NYT reports on the resistance
First Street Journal: This is what winning looks like, #Hamas and the #Palestinians have told us who they are; why are so few people willing to believe them? Another Philly illegal immigration sob story, and The left want to control language – don’t let them!
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Wife-Killer Receives Justice in Padiglione di Osimo, The Grown-Ups Are Back In Charge of Anti-Jihad Policy, Marine Le Pen: “There Are Millions of French People Who Are Outraged”, Honor Killing in Lessebo, and End of the Line for Marine Le Pen?
The Geller Report: WINNING! Vile Anti-American Globalist WEF Founder Klaus Schwab Resigns, U.S. Govt Bans American Government Personnel From Any S*xual Relationships with Communist Chinese, The Good Guys Are Back In Charge of Anti-Jihad Policy, Hamas Deletes Thousands From Gaza Death List, Including Over 1,000 Children, and London’s Muslim Mayor Slams Jews in Eid al-Fitr Greeting to Muslims
Glenn Reynolds: Congress on Easy Mode
Hollywood In Toto: The Canceled TV Show That Refuses to Die, Val Kilmer Never Shined Brighter Than in The Doors, Bill Burr Executes Perfect ‘Clown Nose On’ Backpedal, A Minecraft Movie Misses the Whole Point, and September 5 Draws Powerful Distinction Between Good and Evil
The Lid: Trump Admin has Deported 100K Migrants Since Taking Office, White Track Star Stabbed During Match by Black Student, Media Silent, DOGE Uncovers Absurdly Wasteful $380K Monthly Contract for VA Website Maintenance, and Elon Musk and DOGE Discover Biden Gave 2.1 Million Social Security Numbers to Foreigners
Legal Insurrection: Trump Tells Harvard to Address Antisemitism or Lose Billions in Federal Funding, Supreme Court Stays MA Dist Court Order That Trump Disburse Education Grants, Over Chief Justice Roberts Objection, Hungary PM Orban Announces Withdrawal from ICC During Netanyahu Visit, Colorado Senator Blames California and New York for Democrats’ “Toxic” Brand, and Alleged Tesla Vandal Regrets Everything When Confronted by Owner
Nebraska Energy Observer: Not repeating myself, Why England Matters, Memories, Ms. Smith goes to Washington, and Scattershot Friday of the People
Outkick: Ben Joyce Talks Torpedo Bats, Fastest MLB Pitch And Being Led By His Faith With The Los Angeles Angels, Texas A&M Set To Hire Bucky McMillan As New Basketball Coach, Alex Ovechkin Ties Wayne Gretzky For NHL’s All-Time Goal-Scoring Lead After Two-Goal Night, US Fencing Won’t Comment On Males Having Physical Advantages Over Female Athletes, and Gracie Hunt Gives Life Lessons In Her Underwear, CBS’s Jenny Dell Has A Tiny New Dress & Inverse Jim Cramer!
Power Line: It’s a long way to temporary, Sue the Bastards, GATT’s Nine Lives, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: DeSantis Blasts “Liberal Trial Lawyer Enrichment Scheme”
Shot In The Dark: Sic Transit Gloria Radio, In Literary News, Compare & Contrast, In This House Of Cards, and Berg’s 18th Law – It’s Not Just For Spree Violence!
STUMP: Pension Watch – March 2025
The Political Hat: Britain vs. Ninjas, The Scientific Fork In The Road: Queer Genomes or Catgirls, Quick Takes – Presidential Apotheosis: Birthday National Holiday; International Airport; Mount Rushmore, and Firing Line Friday: Should We Choose Our Presidents Differently?
This Ain’t Hell: Democrats protested the firing of General Tim Haugh, Army Training: Focus on Warfighting, Valor Friday, The Sea Devil, and President Trump’s transgender ban threatens an Army major’s desire to continue family legacy
Transterrestrial Musings: Grifterism, Hypocrisy, America’s Leftist Librarians, The Average College Student Today, and More Bad Space Reporting
Victory Girls: The Left: “Our Violence is Speech And Your Speech is Violence”, Former Chinese Ambassador Banned Dangerous Liaisons, and Michigan Town Halts CCP Battery Plant with Grassroots Push
Watts Up With That: Study: Ancient Megafloods Dwarf Today’s Extremes — But You Won’t Hear That on the Evening News, Global Bankers: The Paris Climate Accord is Dead, US Military Exits Climate Change After a Decade of Waste, and When Hackers Target the Grid – The unseen threat to your energy supply
The Federalist: Democrats Are Terrified Of Trump’s Plan To Make Elections Secure, No, The Senate Shouldn’t Let Even More Unaccountable Bureaucrats Decide What The Law Says, Snow White Bombing Was The Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us, Colorado Democrat Bill Would Give Custody Of Kids To Parents Who Push Trans Mutilation, and Report: Medicaid Double Payments Cost Taxpayers $4.3 Billion In Three Years
Mark Steyn: A Hard One to Like: Mike Leigh’s Naked, Body and Soul, Democracy Dies in Plain Sight, Live Around the Planet: Corruption Everywhere, and The Lies We Tell Ourselves

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