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In The Mailbox: 05.08.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 8, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Versus Physics – Part 2
EBL: Kashmir, Trump Ends Medical Torture of Beagles, Why The Last Of Us Is Falling Apart, and Ksenia Kareline thanks Donald Trump for getting her released from Russia
Twitchy: 911? We’d Like To Report That DataRepublican Just Wrecked Tim Walz Over The Trans Troop Issue, Trump Taps Judge Jeannine Pirro For Acting DC US Attorney, and James Carville Says Ilhan Omar Needs To Learn To Shut Up
Louder With Crowder: NYC erects this 12-foot statue of a “plus-sized” woman of color meant to symbolize representation or something, Female fencer who wouldn’t let herself be bullied into getting maimed by trans opponent gives powerful Congressional testimony, Joe Biden’s “The View” interview is such a trainwreck, Pet Raccoon Caught By Officers Trying To Smoke Meth Pipe During Traffic Stop, and Is Hallmark raising its AMERICAN MADE prices due to tariffs?
Vox Popoli: EU = Elective Unaliving, Houthis 3, US Navy 0, It Was Never His, and White Smoke
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Question Everything
Gab: A Nation’s Forgotten Sons
Cedar Sanderson: The Retired Assassin’s Guide To Country Gardening
Stoic Observations: XR Barriers To Agreement

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Pope Leo XIV Crowned as First American Pontiff
American Greatness: Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces PELOSI Act to Stop Insider Trading, RFK Jr Says HHS Became a ‘Collaborator in Child Trafficking’ Under Biden, The Trump Counterrevolution and the Moral Ledger, SCOTUS Hears Case on LGBTQ Books Forced on Little Ones, and Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable?
American Thinker: DOGE Is Doing the Clean-Up Leftists Can’t Stand, Hillary May Have Unlocked Our Government’s Digital Door, Donald Trump’s Lost Honeymoon, Houdini in a Robe – Judge Dugan’s Courthouse Escape Plan, and The Hamas Masquerade
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Alcatraz News, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Trump’s Not The Only One Slapping Tariffs On China, Six In Frio County Arrested For Voting Fraud, Paxton Sues Austin ISD Over CRT, Trump Wins In Court, and Craziest Police Videos
Behind The Black: SpaceX gets approval to sell Starlink in India, Russia signs space agreement with Venezuela, Update on Vast’s space station plans, Europe and India sign agreement to work together on manned space flight, and Bright material on the high points of a Martian mountain
Cafe Hayek: Tariff Work-arounds Are Costly, On Joe Nocera’s Mistaken Take on Trade and Economics, GDP?C+I+G+X-M, Ten Minus Two Never Equals Anything Other Than Eight, and FedEx Began With Imported Aircraft
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Seth Barrett Tillman – Some Personal Reflections on the Recent Litigation involving Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, At the Movies, The Books of Montgomery County, Part 2, and Back!
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Thoughts Under the Fedora, also, I’m Old Enough to Remember When the Idea of Mississippi Schools Being Top Notch Would Be a Joke
Don Surber: The riot wasn’t Columbia’s worst news on Wednesday
First Street Journal: Leaping before they looked, Harvard admits to anti-Semitism on campus, and You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Murder in Castelfranco, Bringing the Jihad Back Home, Yet Another Vehicle Runs Amok in Munich, The Gestapo Always Rings Twice, and Jihadis In Our Midst at US Mosques
The Geller Report: Federal Judge Decides Democrat Wins NC High Court Race Despite Thousands Of Ineligible Ballots, EU to Provide $11 Million to Highlight the Contribution of the Qur’an and Islam to European Civilization, Macron Welcomes ISIS Leader in Paris, Violent Muslims and Leftists Storm Columbia Library During Finals, and Biden Judge Orders Trump Administration to Accept 12,000 Refugees
Hollywood In Toto: Late-Night Lunacy Reaches Staggering New Levels, Literally Anything Goes in Dizzying Fight or Flight’, Why Horror Fans Need Clown in a Cornfield, ‘American Dirt’s’ Jeanine Cummins Gets Best Revenge Possible, and Hollywood Reporter & Spike Lee Whine Trump Is Silencing His Critics!
The Lid: We Already Have a Supreme Court Case to Shield Trump from all this Lawfare, It’s Just being Ignored, Hegseth Is About To Waffle-Stomp The Pentagon’s Top-Heavy Establishment, and Why Are We Devolving America’s Western Culture? Can We Save Ourselves?
Legal Insurrection: Trump’s 2026 Budget Pulls Plug on Biden’s Green Energy Scams, FBI Opens Case Against Letitia James for Alleged Mortgage Fraud, Chinese Academic Espionage Allegedly Happening at Stanford University, Verbal Smackdown: Kash Patel Turns Tables on House Democrat in Fiery Testimony, and Audit Finds U. Wisconsin System Spent Tens of Millions of Dollars on DEI Activities
Matt Taibbi: Private Equity & Hospitals – Have They Finally Gone Too Far?
Outkick: Charles Barkley Loves Auburn, But He’s Not Wasting His Own Money On NIL, Transgender High School Softball Pitcher Dominates As Battle Over Biological Men In Women’s Sports Rages, Virginia Tech Fans Cause Literal Earthquake As Metallica Plays ‘Enter Sandman’, Paul Pierce’s Faith In Boston Celtics Lands Him In A Wheelchair, and Internet Defends Topless Sunbather After She Makes Sister-In-Law Leave For Being Upset She Had Boobs Out
Power Line: Germany’s Survival On the Line, Let’s Make a Deal, UK Edition, and Uses of the passive voice
Shark Tank: Dunn Spearheads Bipartisan Joint Bill Easing Birth Defect Treatment Coverage
Shot In The Dark: Domino, Payback, The Devil Is In The Details, It’s Sort Of Berg’s Seventh Law, and To Paraphrase Whitney Houston
The Political Hat: Drag Queens, MAPs, and a County Commissioner, The Scientific March Towards Bioroid Catgirls, The Gramscian Right, and Quick Takes – Woke Courses In Academia
This Ain’t Hell: Biden’s Gaza Pier Doomed to Fail, Another Hornet in Davy Jones’ Locker, VA- Bureaucracy in Disarray, Supreme Court OK Transgender Ban, and Then they came for the Generals
Transterrestrial Musings: Getting History Right, AI, The Climate Apocalypse, and An Amusing Scam
Victory Girls: Pete Hegseth – “Less Generals, More GIs Policy”, Michelle Obama Is Tired Of Being Michelle Obama, Again, and Victory In Europe Day 80 Years Later
Watts Up With That: ‘Absolute Silliness’: DOE Delays Biden-Era Rule On Emissions, Energy Consumption in 2024 and the Spanish Power Failure, Google Accused of Greenwashing Massive AI Energy Consumption, and Hottest Start To May?
The Federalist: Filing: Smartmatic Hid Meeting With Dem Megadonor Who Financed Its Suit Against 2020 Election Reporting, House Committees, DOJ Turn Up The Heat On Dems’ ActBlue, Trump Announces U.K. Trade Deal Hours After Media Predict Failure, New Audio Reveals Planned Parenthoods Hand Out Cross-Sex Hormones To Kids Like Candy, and What Is The Point Of Having A GOP Congress?
Mark Steyn: Anniversary Songs, Truth, Myth or Both? Getting History Right in Battle of Britain, Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob, War of 1812: The Rematch, and Eight Speech

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