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In The Mailbox: 05.02.25

Posted on | May 3, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Doug Hagin’s fundraiser is almost to 80%. Chip in if you can.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Court Takes a Battering Ram to Apple’s Walled Garden
EBL: MAGA Switch-A-Roo, The Hudson Bay Company, You Would Do It Too : Tú También Lo Harías, Chairman Xi signals that the Chinese want to parley with the Trump Administration, and Trump Cuts
Twitchy: Check Out The Mother Of All DataRepublican Threads On George Soros’ Evil Playbook, Car Speeds Under New Holland Crop Sprayer In Wild Video, and Scott Jennings Explains How “Something Amazing” Happens When You Ask Democrats About Taxes As Only He Can
Louder With Crowder: ‘Big Balls’ leads infuriating DOGE roundtable about uncovered fraud…including at a heavily armed “Institute For Peace”, Tim Walz’s daughter claims running is “political,” and somehow that’s NOT the dumbest thing she says, Democrat party leader Jasmine Crockett claims she “never questioned Biden’s mental acuity,” which tells you all about her mental acuity, and New footage shows “Maryland man” trafficking humans (allegedly), and JD Vance wants to know where Democrats are now
Vox Popoli: A Turquoise Tide, also, An Easy Way Out
According To Hoyt: I Definitely Flaked Out, The Special Ones, Why, Yes, Revisiting Student Loans again, and Victims of Communism Day
Monster Hunter Nation: The Moral Equivalence Police
Upstream Reviews: Beyond The Crimson Haze
Toni Airaksinen: Brown University Student Reporter Under Fire For DOGE-Like E-Mail – “What Have You Accomplished This Week?”
Postcards From Barsoom: Stripping The Word Of Its Power
Jim McCoy: SF & Fantasy’s Top Ten Villains

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: U.S. Withdraws from Ukraine–Russia Peace Negotiations
American Greatness: How America Funded China’s Rise, also, We Don’t Need an Executive Order to Bar Illegals from Social Security—We Need a Government That Obeys the Law
American Thinker: Diluting Hitler: How the Left is Creating a Pale Ghost of the Real Adolf Hitler…and Turning Off Voters, also, Hitler had Goebbels, China has the US Legacy Media
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Eleventh Annual Commencement Speech Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 2
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites, Rocket startup Radian now also building commercial reentry capsule, Ursa Major wins contract for hypersonic test flight of its Draper rocket engine, FAA okays increase in SpaceX launches from Vandenberg from 36 to 50 per year, and Trump bypasses Boeing to get an newly refurbished 747 Air Force One
Cafe Hayek: The Economy Is Being Distorted by Trump’s Tariffs and Not By Efforts to Minimize the Tariffs’ Effects, also, On the So-called “Twin Deficits”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech: Technology in 1925–Transportation, also, The Books of Montgomery County, Part 1
Don Surber: Actually, Trump is bringing immigrant families together
Gates Of Vienna: The Islamization of Germany Proceeds Apace, also, The AfD is Now Officially Doubleplus Ungood
The Geller Report: Israel Launches Attack in Syria to Protect Druze Minority, President Trump Stripping Harvard of Tax Exempt Status for Continued Violation of Civil Rights, President Trump Ends Federal Funding for Far-Left NPR and the PBS, Islamic Onslaught Threatens Texas Heartland, and Hegseth Sends Strong Message to Iran and Houthis
Glenn Reynolds: Government & Externalities
Hollywood In Toto: Winston Marshall Brutally Shames Music Industry, First Look: ‘The Chosen’ Season 5, and ‘Laugh-in’ Fave Ruth Buzzi Dies at 88
The Lid: Another Victory: Trump Cancels Tax Dollars Transferred to PBS and NPR
Legal Insurrection: New York Times Headline Sanitizes Musical Performer Disinvited From Cornell, KBJ Lashes Out At Critics of the Judiciary, Harvard Law Review Gives $65K Fellowship to Student Charged With Assaulting Jewish Colleague, Trump Wants to Revoke Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status, and Conservative Activist Robby Starbuck Suing Meta After Their AI Falsely Labels Him as an Extremist and J6er
Outkick: Donald Trump Considering An Executive Order On NIL After Meeting With Nick Saban, During DWI Bust, Texas Lineman Nick Brooks Confesses Plans To Take Prospects To Strip Club, Dale Earnhardt’s Wicked Widow Just Got One Step Closer To Erasing His Legacy, Go-Fund-Me Set Up For Pirates Fan In Critical Condition After Shocking Fall, and Major League Baseball Owners Are Purposefully Making Their Teams Worse
Power Line: Beshear ‘considers’ 2028 run, Tucker calls on the Israeli government, Day 102, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Haridopolos Says “Big Beautiful Bill” Will Be Ready By Memorial Day But GOP Must Win On Messaging
Shot In The Dark: The Questions You Should Be Asking Right About Now, also, They Were Doing So Well
This Ain’t Hell: CBP Offficial busted for fraud, Valor Friday, President Trump signs executive order ending taxpayer subsidy of NPR and PBS, and President Trump plans to rename Veterans Day to ‘Victory Day for World War I’
Transterrestrial Musings: The Hammer Drops, also, “I Don’t Mean To Brag”
Victory Girls: What DOGE Reveals, What Legacy Media Ignores
Watts Up With That: Global Climate Database Fed with Junk Data from RAF Base, Connecticut Lawmakers Devise Plan To Saddle Taxpayers with Soaring Energy Prices, More Climate Litigation Silliness From Academia, Bloomberg’s $87 Trillion Carbon Fantasy, and Brink Of Extinction – More And More Companies Rejecting Costly Hydrogen Technology
The Federalist: DHS & DOGE Work Together To Track Down Election Fraudsters, 3 Questions Angry Democrats Need To Answer About Illegal Alien Deportations, Colorado Democrats Push Trans Bill That Was Too Radical For California, Media Blackout On Abortion Pill Study Proves They Never Cared About Amber Thurman’s Death, and Newly Released Emails Show Politicized FBI Targeting Trump Officials For Obeying The Law
Mark Steyn: The Age of Endarkenment, also, Following the Science

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