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In The Mailbox: 01.02.26

Posted on | January 3, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
As I suppose you all know by now, we had a problem with Cloudflare and its DNS servers yesterday, which meant I picked a bad week to slough off on New Year’s Eve. Spent the afternoon paying bills instead of catching up, so here we are. Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in December.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day With The Continental Army’s Secret Weapon – 1776, Top 20 Attacks On Nick Shirley To Shield Democrat Fraud, and A 2001-2026 Political Retrospective
357 Magnum: 2025 Self-Defense Shootings in the News, More Self-Defense in California, also Hollywood in 2025
EBL: Driftboat vs. Fishmonger Filet, The Ridiculously Extreme Lives of Swordfish, How The Swiss Fire In Crans-Montana Took Hold, Soup made with the rest of the fish, and Tournament of Roses Parade Royalty
Twitchy: Mamdani’s Non-Photo Op Photo Op, On Today’s Episode of “That’s Not How Money Works”, and Former Tea Partier Joe Walsh Wakes up In 2026 To Realize He’s Joined The Communist Party
Vox Popoli: The Lesson of Scott Adams, Taiwan > Okinawa, The Hallmark of Bad Writing, Replacement 3.0, and Welcome to 2026
According To Hoyt: Spit Out The Black Pill, Happy New Year, Attention in the Audience, Please, Bounce, and For This?
Cedar Sanderson: It Is Something, also, The Undaunted Phoenix
Stoic Observations: 3013 1/2

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump’s Iran Threats Endanger His Presidency and Movement, also, Two Cheers for Bari Weiss
American Greatness: DOJ Official Harmeet Dhillon Demands Docs From Minnesota’s Sec. of State on ‘Hinky’ Same Day Voting Registrations, House Oversight Committee Will Call Minnesota Reps, Governor, AG to Testify, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Sworn in on Quran at Midnight, Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists to Stop Investigating Somali Daycares, and HHS Says It’s Freezing Child Care Payments to Minnesota After Fraud Allegations
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Animal’s Friday Announcement
BattleSwarm: Railroaded APD Officer’s Conviction Overturned, Spielberg Schindler’s List Foundation Now Funds Anti-Israel Groups, Is Dan Crenshaw Pussing Out On Shawn Ryan? and LinkSwarm for January 2
Behind The Black: Many Martian mysteries in one spot, SpaceX doing trial runs of specialized barge for transporting Starship/Superheavy from Boca Chica to Florida, ESA funds Danish lunar orbiter, SpaceX to do a major orbital reconfiguration of its Starlink constellation, and Peter Schickele performs Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach
Cafe Hayek: Protectionism Is Economically Destructive, The Complexities Are Always Greater Than They Initially Seem, ‘We Support Free Trade, But….’, Perhaps Xi Has God-like Powers that Mao Didn’t, and There Ain’t No Such Thing As Free Expansion of Automobile Production
CDR Salamander: Who’s Planning For War And Who’s Preparing For The Next POM Cycle?, A New Year, A “New” Weapon, & An Old Tale, and Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Derek Chauvin Appeal, New Year’s Eve 2025, and An Army of Shirleys
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy 2025 Year in Review, also, January Indulgence Calendar & the last six days of double Plenary Indulgences
Don Surber: A reply to NYT, Shah back in 2026? and Reviewing the “year in review” stories
Gates Of Vienna: No Sharia in Austria, Laughing into 2026, Radical Extremism, or, Those Dastardly Political Islamists, and Culture-Enriching Ruction in the Piazza Duomo
The Geller Report: President Trump Warns Iran – Kill Protesters and America Will Strike, DAY SIX: IRANIANS FLOOD THE STREETS AS FREEDOM REVOLUTION SPREADS DESPITE AYATOLLAH REGIME’S LIVE FIRE, Communist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Declares War on Individualism, FBI Foils Another New Year’s Eve Islamic Terror Attack — in North Carolina, and How Will the Iranian Regime Collapse?
Glenn Reynolds: UBI For Me But Not For Thee
Hollywood In Toto: Veteran Actor Shares Horrors of Hollywood Blacklist 2.0, Sentimental Value Features Four Oscar-Worthy Turns, Late Night Won’t Touch Somali Scandal, Why George Clooney (and Hollywood) Should Fear Bari Weiss, and MCU Ditches Woke … for Fatherhood?
Legal Insurrection: Alberta’s Independence Push Continues as 2026 Referendum Drive Kicks into Gear, Legal Insurrection AI-Generated Covers for the New Year’s Fantasy Magazine Rack, Florida Legislation Would Expand Number of People Who Can Carry Guns on College Campuses, New Ohio Law Banning DEI Goes Into Effect in June, and Finnish Police Detain Russian Crew After Suspected Sabotage of Baltic Undersea Cable
Matt Taibbi: Five Craziest Things About The Epstein Case Part 2, also, Let’s Make A Happy New Year
Nebraska Energy Observer: Peace Through Strength, New Year thoughts, and The Beef Cartel
Outkick: “Why Not Us?”, Alabama Never Should Have Been In The Playoff; Rose Bowl Loss Hurts ESPN, SEC’s Reputation, Team USA GM Bill Guerin Explains His Reasoning Behind Head-Scratching Roster Decisions, Lane Kiffin Brutally Roasted After Ole Miss Stuns Georgia, and Tom Brady’s Firecracker New Girlfriend Stuns America, Kay Adams Takes A Bath & Lane Kiffin Is Just The Worst
Power Line: A Dose of Reality on the Minnesota Frauds, Men of the year, Shirley you jest, Today in Minnesota fraud, and Why Was 2023 So Warm?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Keeps Up The Hype As Miami Hurricanes Advance To CFB Semifinals
Shot In The Dark: Campaign 2026, also, The Minnesota Way
STUMP: Top Five STUMP Posts For 2025!, 
The Political Hat: Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, New Toys for the New Year, Good News for Vets in LA, Dem mayors in action, and California’s desire for increasing taxes on the rich would backfire
Transterrestrial Musings: Happy New Year To All, The Energy Infrastructure, What To Watch For In Space This Year, and Islamism
Victory Girls: Mamdani: Rugged Individualism OUT, Huggable Socialist Collectivism IN, also, America Is Trading Its Roots for Something Very Different
Watts Up With That: Surprise! A $600 Million Insect Protein Animal Feed Business Just Went Bankrupt, Trump Shook Up Energy Policy In 2025. Disaster Could Still Strike In 2026, They called me the “anti-Greta” so I was targeted, Met Office Blowing Hot & Cold, and Hochul must reveal the “ruinous cost” of the Climate Act
The Federalist: Here Are The 10 Biggest Media Hoaxes Of 2025, The Federalist Staff’s 2025 Winners And Losers Of The Year, It’s Time To Cancel Our Subscription Culture Once And For All, It’s Not Just Minnesota. The Vast Majority Of Daycare Is A Scam, and Here Are The Top Six Takeaways From Jack Smith’s Preposterous White-Hat Posturing
Mark Steyn: Welcome to 2026, End Game, Partying on the Precipice (cont), and “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”

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