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In The Mailbox: 12.17.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 18, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Walking Tour Of Manhattan’s Lower West Side During The Great Depression
EBL: Swordfish Cut, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”, and Who is Brown University’s Mustapha Karbouch?
Twitchy: The Body Language Of Fani Willis’ Lawyer Says EVERYTHING, Katie Couric Tells Jennifer Welch That Legacy Media Are “Trying” To Adhere To Facts, and NEA Has Idea On How We Should Refer To America
Louder With Crowder: Ilhan Omar Claims ICE Racially Profiled Her Son, ICE Responds By Saying That Never Happened, Karen Lashes Out At Target Employee Wearing Charlie Kirk Shirt, Patriots Rally To Her Defense, and Jennifer Welch, the new icon of toxic Democrats, won’t calm down about other people’s “toxicity” in politics
Vox Popoli: One Additional Week, America is for Everyone, and A Historic Honor
Cedar Sanderson: Where Does The West Begin?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Joyous Noel!
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Blessing Angels
Gab: The Menorah on the Lawn
Toni Airaksinen: Jewish Man Stabbed In Crown Heights – Perp Wanted Another Holocaust

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Norman Podhoretz, Friend and Foe
American Greatness: SecEd McMahon Urges Tampon Timmy to Resign Over Fraud Scandal, Unhinged Left-Wing Karen Facing Police Investigation After Verbally Abusing Elderly Target Employee, Appeals Court Allows Florida to Enforce Law Banning Children from Drag Shows, House Oversight Report Shows D.C. Police Chief Pressured Staff to ‘Cook the Books’, and It’s Affordability, Stupid?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 68 – Double Feature, and Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Dan Crenshaw Threatens To Sue Shawn Ryan, Ken Paxton Sues MyChart, Ken Paxton Sues Smart TV Makers, Ukraine Sinks Another Russian Sub, and 5,000 FPS?
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab launches a set of technology test satellites for Space Force, Jared Isaacman confirmed as NASA administrator, European sea-level satellite releases first data, Two new NASA science spacecraft achieve “first light”, and Three launches and one scrub overnight
Cafe Hayek: Trump Holds Americans Hostage to Improve the Well-Being of Non-Americans, Protectionism’s Language is Loaded, Service-Sector Workers Want Other People to Work in the Manufacturing Sector, and How Smart Are Beijing’s Thugs?
CDR Salamander: How Do You Fight If You Can’t Go Green?
Da Tech Guy: Five Thoughts and Observations Under the Fedora
Don Surber: The U.S. coin story CNN failed to tell
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Editorial Board Attacks 77,302,580 Good American Voters, The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Perhaps we should start telling the unvarnished truth instead of hiding behind euphemisms
Gates Of Vienna: Perpetual War Descends on Germany, Lack of Pushback Guarantees Islam’s Abuse of Women Will Expand, Culture-Enriching Stabbing at the Christmas Market in Herford, Vehicular Jihad Thwarted at a Bavarian Christmas Market, and Death to Geert Wilders!
The Geller Report: Top MIT Nuclear Scientist Shot Dead in Brookline, Massachusetts Home, San Francisco Hillel Set Aflame – Building Destroyed, Shabbat and Chanukah Events Canceled, US Imposes Travel Ban on Palestinians, Brown University Scrubs Muslim Student’s Profile As Search for Suspect intensifies, and Western Leaders Performative Grief Without Consequence or Action
Hollywood In Toto: The Sheltering Sky Still a Gorgeous, Maddening Affair, How Henry & June Made The Most of Its NC-17 Label, Why SNL Won’t Touch Crazy Candace Or Troubled Tucker, Jay Kelly Gives Hollywood an Unflattering Closeup, and Awards Shows to Conservative Artists: Go Away Now!
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Kennedy Reveals Damning Minnesota AG Office Memo on Somali Fraud, Tennessee $7.4 Billion Smelter Deal Aims to Break China’s Grip on Critical Minerals, Conservative Icon Norman Podhoretz Passes Away at 95, European Union Surrenders to Reality on 2035 Ban on Gas-Powered Cars, and Documents Reveal That, for AG Garland, Probable Cause for Mar-a-Lago Raid was Optional
Matt Taibbi: Are White Men A “Lost Generation”?
Nebraska Energy Observer: A City Upon a Hill, Eye on SeeBS (Minnesota Edition), and Common Sense from Canada
Outkick: College Hoops Coach Wears All-Time Great Ugly Christmas Sweater, Tua Tagovailoa Benching Is Seismic Move By Miami Dolphins That Speaks To Franchise Failure, New Sworn Testimony Reveals What Sherrone Moore Did At Staffer’s Home After Firing, Reflective And Thoughtful Joe Burrow Continues To Deliver Mixed Message About His Future, and CBS Reporter Jenny Dell Has Sailors Howling, MAGA Bikini Congresswoman Tells The Truth About Karoline & CHAOS!
Power Line: A Mystery at Brown, Who ya gonna believe, Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Mohamed, Norman Podhoretz, RIP, and Get Trump!
Shark Tank: Renner Launches Coalition To Mobilize Female Vote
Shot In The Dark: An Observation, Return Policy, and Meatheads All Around
STUMP: Alternative Assets In Public Pension Funds – December 2025 Update
The Political Hat: Violence & Speech, 12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 1), (Day 2), (Day 3), and Happy Bill of Rights Day!
This Ain’t Hell: US group rescues “Most wanted woman”, Kelly ‘serious misconduct’ Under Command Investigation, Bondi Update, John Fetterman slams Democrats for Palestinian statehood stance in wake of shooting, and Muslim scholar states “We did not come to coexist… America is a cancer”
Transterrestrial Musings: An AI-Powered Bionic Hand, Answering Elon’s Question, John Varley, and 122 Years
Victory Girls: Mamdani Math Does Not Add Up, Trump Response To Reiner Murders Was Unnecessary And Awful, and Bondi Beach Was Not a Surprise – It Was Permission
Watts Up With That: Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Ban Data Centers, Europe’s ‘Green’ Emperor Is Naked and Cold, Don’t Throw Out the Supercomputer with the Climate Models, Ford takes $20bn hit to reverse course on electric cars, and Time to build reactors fueled by nuclear waste
The Federalist: The West’s Embrace Of Mass Third-World Migration Is Civilizational Suicide, Fulton County: ‘We Don’t Dispute’ 315,000 Votes Lacking Poll Workers’ Signatures Were Counted In 2020, There’s No Evidence Australia’s Strict Gun Control Laws Are Effective, Poll Shows Americans Want Pro-Family Policies Including Abortion Limits, Mifepristone Safeguards, and State-Sanctioned Suicide Is The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In Canada
Mark Steyn: Knowing What Time It Is, Out of Place – Jean Arthur in The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Eutopia vs Eurabia, O Tannenbaum, and A Lot of “Randomness” About

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