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In The Mailbox: 07.02.25

Posted on | July 3, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hopefully today’s note on Gettysburg won’t accidentally enrage the boss like yesterday’s…anyway, just about everyone knows about Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine’s stand at Little Round Top. Less well known is the suicidal charge of the 1st Minnesota into the teeth of Wilcox’s brigades attacking Cemetery Ridge, ordered by General Hancock to buy time for reinforcements to come up. Colonel Colvill and his 262 men charged without hesitation, and within five minutes 215 Minnesotans were dead or wounded…but they bought the time needed. The 82% casualty rate stands as the largest loss by any surviving U.S military unit in a single day’s engagement ever; the regimental colors are still displayed at the state capitol in St. Paul.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“The First Minnesota”, by Don Troiani

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Not What I Would Want to Do
Director Blue: CIA Declassifies Indictment Of CIA
EBL: Cha Cha Real Smooth, A Freako is not a R.I.C.O., and SIXTY MINUTES/CBS/PARAMOUNT PAYING MILLIONS TO DONALD TRUMP FOR BIASED REPORTING DURING THE 2024 CAMPAIGN
Twitchy: Etsy Threatened With Boycott For Alligator Alcatraz Merchandise, Boulder Terror Suspecr’s Wife Struggles With Modesty In ICE Detention, and Turns Out Pope Francis’ Ban On The Latin Mass Was Based On A Lie
Louder With Crowder: UPenn erases Lia Thomas, gives “her” titles to the girls they should have gone to, Scott Jennings nukes Democrat hack Paul Begala with truth bomb on Medicaid “cuts”, Drag queen lashes out at Donald Trump, proclaiming it’s better to “be a f***** than a fascist”, and Tim Walz’s daughter goes on a BANANAS rant over “Alligator Alcatraz”
Vox Popoli: They Tell You It’s Not Real, Self-Determination, JD vs VD, It’s Really Not a Flex, and Shipbuilding is Naval Power
Upstream Reviews: My Dragon Awards Ballot
Cedar Sanderson: Twofer
The Bugscuffle Gazette: So, Iran (Part 2)
JIm McCoy: Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, & Onyx Storm
Gab: Our Faith Is Not A Suicide Pact

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: SCOTUS Finds No ‘Right’ to Medical Care From Planned Parenthood
American Thinker: The Life Cycle of a Mail-In Ballot, also, BBB – Congressional Democrats Turn on Blue-Collar Workers and Retirees
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Xi Out?
Behind The Black: Methane climate satellite fails, Astronomers discover supernovae that apparently exploded twice, Another interstellar object identified entering the solar system, New data: the ozone hole occurs mostly because of the sunspot cycle and cosmic rays, not CFC pollution, and Senate reconciliation budget bill includes Cruz’s big spending additions to NASA
Cafe Hayek: “America Firsters,” Of All People, Should Welcome Subsidized Imports
Don Surber: Trump sets tariff revenue record
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: A Deadly Incident in the Dorsten Forest
The Geller Report: Poll Says Only 36% Of Democrats Are Proud To Be American, BDS (Boycott the Jews) Movement Defeat; $9.3B raised marks strongest half for Israeli startups since 2022, Head of Virginia School Kenneth Nysmith Glorifies Hitler, Kicked Jewish Children Out of His School After They’re Bullied, Major Victory – Senate Passes Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’, and CORRUPT USAID OFFICIALLY CLOSED, FBI To Move Into USAID Building
Hollywood In Toto: Can Trump Make Hollywood Great Again?
The Lid: Waffle House the Latest Proof of Trump’s Success
Legal Insurrection: Senate Hearing Reveals CCP-Linked Organization’s Influence on Climate Lawfare to Harm US Energy, Denaturalizing Citizenship For Immigration Fraud Comes Into DOJ Focus, Pro-Trump Legal Group Launches Website Tracking the Hundreds of Lawsuits Blocking Trump’s Agenda, Eco-Cult Website ‘Climate.gov’ Being Shuffled Off to a New NOAA Webpage, and Let’s Celebrate Deborah Harry’s 80th Birthday With These Classic ‘Blondie’ Songs
Matt Taibbi: Welcome Back, Wells Fargo!
Outkick: NHL Makes It Officially Official That Players Are Headed Back To The Olympics, Dodgers Pitcher Clayton Kershaw Powers to 3,000 Strikeouts, Joining MLB’s Elite Group, Paul Finebaum Thinks Arch Manning Could Be The Best College QB Since Tim Tebow, Lakers Add Former Top Draft Pick Deandre Ayton Who’s Rumored To Have Behavior Issues, and Nancy Mace Rattles The Swamp In Just Her Pajamas, CBS Golf Girl Amanda Balionis & Alligator Alcatraz Reviews!
Shark Tank: DeSantis Mocks Mamdani – “Makes DiBlasio Look Like Reagan”
Shot In The Dark: Glaucoma
STUMP: Social Security Insolvency Gets Closer…Again
This Ain’t Hell: Cannibal illegal alien reportedly started eating himself after being seated on a deportation flight, Better late than never, Bad Form, That, and DOGE Should Look at the Fed
Transterrestrial Musings: Light Blogging
Victory Girls: Columbia Acting President Shipman Has Some Explaining To Do
Watts Up With That: Ted Cruz Demolishes Activist’s “Climate H*micide” Claims, Solar Tax Credits: 1978–2025 (never enough), Natural Gas to the Rescue…Again, Burning Trash for Energy, People and Planet , and Decline of the Great North American Decarbonization Charade
The Federalist: You Can’t Celebrate 1776 While Ignoring The Invasion We’re Dealing With In 2025, CIA Review Blasts John Brennan’s Role In Launching Russian Collusion Hoax, Documents Show Burbank Unified School District Pushes Segregation, Transing Kids Behind Parents’ Backs, Ketanji Brown Jackson Was Appointed To Be A Political Activist, Not A Judge, and Numbers Behind Trump’s Biggest Win Could Doom Dying Democratic Party
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – La Donna E Immobile, also, Happy Dominion Day!

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