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In The Mailbox: 05.09.25

Posted on | May 10, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Via Small Dead Animals: Half in Alberta & Saskatchewan Call For Vote On Independence

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: 18-year-old Killed for TikTok Challenge
EBL: Robert Francis Prevost now Pope Leo XIV, also, Biden’s Broke?
Twitchy: It’s Not A Circus Without The Clowns, British MP Who’s “Uncomfortable With Racism” Finds Out What Uncomfortable Really Means, and Ben Dreyfuss Tries To Rewrite History To Make Dems The Hero Of Biden’s Ouster
Louder With Crowder: Bill Gates makes unhinged accusation that Elon Musk is literally killing people with his DOGE cuts, Democrat thought leader Jasmine Crocket would rather play ‘Trump or Trans’ than do her job, and Colorado passes radical new law outlawing “deadnaming” of trans people
Vox Popoli: The Controlled Opposition, Go With the Flow, and They Won’t Protect You
According To Hoyt: All The Trouble In The World, Meeting The Impossible, Check Things Up, and This, That, And Making The Assistant Happy
Monster Hunter Nation: Archangel: Fallen
Upstream Reviews: The Last Iota

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: TAC Right Now: How Strong Is Anti-War Conservatism?
American Greatness: Trump Appoints Fox News Host Judge Jeanine Pirro as Interim US Attorney, Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation Into New York AG Letitia James, FBI Reportedly Reassigns Agents Who Took a Knee at George Floyd-BLM Tributes, and AG Bondi Says FBI Is Reviewing Tens of Thousands of Epstein Videos With Hundreds of Child Victims
American Thinker: The Death of the Good Life in Minnesota
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Papal Election Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 9
Behind The Black: Crash prediction for Soviet-era Venus probe narrows, Rocket Lab’s as-yet unlaunched new Neutron rocket gets military contract, China hints that it is moving forward with expansion of Tiangong-3 space station, and Academics in space community scheme to continue their racist DEI policies
Cafe Hayek: Protective Tariffs Are Punitive Taxes Imposed by Governments on Their Own Citizens
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: How Did This Building Figure in a Supreme Court Case? also, Thinking, Memorizing, and AI
Da Tech Guy: Pro Tip on the Catholic Faith
Don Surber: Call Off Your Dogs, Chief Justice
First Street Journal: As always, the credentialed media report on an individual point, and miss the real story, also, When Will Bunch refers to a prelate as Archbishop Rush Limbaugh, you know that prelate must be a good one!
Gates Of Vienna: Nature Provided a Not-So-Auspicious Omen About the New Pope, also, She’s a Real Threat to Herself
The Geller Report: President Trump Appoints Judge Jeanine Pirro interim Head of the DC US Attorney’s Office, Syrian Muslim Fighters Kidnap, Rape, Forcibly Convert, Sexually Enslave Young Female Victims, GOP Speaker Cancels Vote That Would Have Slashed $9.3 Billion in Wasteful Spending, FBI Opens Formal Criminal Probe into Corrupt New York AG Letitia James, and Trump Appoints Ed Martin As Special Counsel to Root Out Political Corruption in D.C.
Hollywood In Toto: Why New Trump Biopic Could Be Doomed to Fail, Take Two – Clown in a Cornfield, and Nonnas – Now, That’s Italian!
The Lid: Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders Says He is Too Important to Wait in Line at Airports
Legal Insurrection: Plastic Surgeon Calls ‘Gender Affirming’ Surgery a Scam, Measles Outbreak the Worst in 25 Years With Over 1,000 Cases, Asian American Group Files Complaint Alleging Yale Still Discriminates on Basis of Race, Newark, NJ, Mayor Arrested After Storming ICE Facility, and NYPD Raids Anti-Israel Encampment at Brooklyn College in Chaotic Scene
Matt Taibbi: How I Almost Went To The Clink Over One Letter
Outkick: North Carolina Shoots Down Story That Bill Belichick’s GF Is Banned From Football Facilities, Red Sox Ownership Forced To Meet With Difficult Star Rafael Devers After Public Complaints, The First Ticket Packages For The 2026 World Cup Are Ungodly Expensive, A KFC In Winnipeg Re-Branded In Honor Of Jets Forward Kyle “F–king” Connor, and Alina Habba In A Tiny Red Dress Has MAGA Barking, AT&T Lily In Fatigues & Surprise, A Race-Baiting NBA Lib!
Power Line: Crooks found in P.D. lobby, The missing recession, The long arm of the law, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Fla. Budget In Shambles As War Between Senate & House Heats Up
Shot In The Dark: No Evidence At All, also, Welcome To The Party Pal
STUMP: Habemus Papam! On Retirement Planning And Pope Leo XIV
The Political Hat:Firing Line Friday: What Are Our Young Novelists Up To?
This Ain’t Hell: Baseball shooting report “butchered” by FBI, Valor Friday, and Fund Drive Time- Once Again Into the Breach
Victory Girls: Democrats’ Shock Troops Gear Up for ‘Protest Summer 2025’
Watts Up With That: Drax Pull Cruachan 2, In Another Blow To Mad Miliband’s Net Zero Plans, Grauniad Bleats “… Urgent Theatre … the key to tackling climate change”, Net Zero Fades As the Deluded Cling to Its Fantasy, and The Graph That Lied
The Federalist: Whistleblower Documents Implicate NARA In Second Get-Trump Criminal Case, NY Court Greenlights Even-Year Voting Law That Republicans Say Rigs Elections Against Them, Texas Indicts 5 County Officials In Voter Fraud Investigation, Dear Justice Sotomayor, Your Left-Wing Partisanship Is Showing, and How Greg Abbott Took On RINOs And Teachers Unions To Pass The Country’s Best School Choice Bill
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – One Over The Eight, Kashmiri Songs, Free and Unfree, and Conclave Watch: We Have A Pope!

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