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In The Mailbox: 02.02.2026

Posted on | February 3, 2026 | No Comments

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Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in January.
Call for Writers!
Annual February birthday fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day When The City of Halifax Exploded (1917), The Democrat Smurfs, A Day With John Wilkes Booth (1865), The Distinguished Andrew McCabe Of George Mason University
357 Magnum: Euthanasia as Practiced in Canada Is Horrifying, also Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
EBL: The Smashing Machine, Ultimate Bouillabaisse , “Groundhog’s Day”, Federal Court Rules – ICE WINS! MN LOSES! PLUS Federal ID Order, and French fish!
Twitchy: CNN Staff Annoyed Scott Jennings Calls Illegal Aliens “Illegal Aliens”, Nurse Says Hospitals Can’t Have MAGA Nurses Treating Patients, and Ana Navarro & The View Suddenly Sour On The Judgement Of Grand Juries 
Louder With Crowder: Add Ben Stiller to the list of anti-immigration law celebrities lashing out with these comments attacking ICE, Lady Gaga cries to a foreign audience about how mean it is for Trump, ICE to enforce immigration laws, Based internet troll gets unsuspecting leftist to realize she’s the actual fascist, Elie Mystal claims Don Lemon getting arrested for violating a church’s First Amendment rights is totally the same thing as slavery, and Comedian summarizes the obnoxious anti-Trump, anti-ICE Grammy Awards with a single perfect tweet
Vox Popoli: WhatsApp is Not Secure, MITTENS and the Monkeys, Oh no! Anyway, Wartime Powers, and Richard Dawkins’s Running Shoes
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 8, Empty Nest Considerations – Meals, and 2025 Retrospective
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Bunny Hunting, Keys Aren’t Defense Tools, and The Reactionary Gap
The Abbey of Misrule: How to build a goddess
Born Lucky: Two Flavors of the Same Poison
Upstream Reviews: Ship of Spells
Defending The Wood Perilous: Rachel Is Recruited!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Sets Course for Regime Change in Cuba, also, Commander-in-Tired
American Greatness: Indoctrination 101 – Teachers Lead Student Walkouts & Protests Over Immigration Enforcement, The Left’s Revolutionary Confusion, The War on Terror Came Home, The Tragedy of Alex Pretti, and Democrats Using Shutdown Threat To Rewrite Immigration Enforcement
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 73 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: Austin City Council Tries Sneaking $2 Million AI Camera Contract Onto Meeting Agenda Again, MQ-25 Stingray – A Carrier Based Refueling Drone, and Ian McCollum On SHOT Show Vaporware
Behind The Black: Fuel leaks cause Artemis-2 dress rehearsal countdown to terminate at T-5:15, several minutes early, Musk merges xAI with SpaceX, A galaxy’s swirling dust lanes, SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites; uses 1st stage for 31st time, and Blue Origin shuts down New Shepard suborbital tourist flights
Cafe Hayek: Bogged Down In Bad Justifications for Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Budgets, Ships, & The CBO – On Midrats,  also, So – How Bad Do You Really Want A Battleship?
Chicago Boyz: When Your Primary Skill Becomes Obsolescent (or Worse), also, Random Thoughts (15): The Democrats’ Digital Devilry
Dana Loesch: Rent Moratorium…Because of ICE?
Don Surber: Lawsuits will end the trans fad, also, America shrugged
Elizabeth Nickson: I Didn’t Hear An Apology From The World Economic Forum. Did You?
First Street Journal: Please, leave the government out of trying to ‘fix’ the ‘affordable housing’ problem
Gates Of Vienna: Protesting a Plastic Pig in Padua, Murder/Suicide by Train, Dan Eriksson: “What Do We Call This, If Not Evil?”, and “These Are Not Demonstrators. They Are Guerrillas.”
The Geller Report: IMMINENT COLLAPSE: Trump’s Boycott Leaves UN ‘on Brink of Bankruptcy’, Says Secretary-General, In Iran The Mosques Are Burning—and So Is the Lie of the Islamic State, Lying Mamdani Invents Budget Emergency to Justify Massive Tax Hikes, The Danger of Leftist (and Muslim) Medical Professionals, and STAGGERING CALIF-FRAUD: Almost 20% of ALL U.S. Home Health Activity Comes From Just One Place: Los Angeles
Hollywood In Toto: Mel Brooks Does Shocking 180 on Blazing Saddles, Feminists Silent as Media, Critics Savage Melania &  FLOTUS, Grammy Nominee Shames Singers for Ignoring Iranian Protesters, and Film Critic Torches Melania – Admits He Didn’t See It
Legal Insurrection: NH Lawmaker Pushing Campus Carry is Also a Student at UNH, New York Times Flips Out Over Supposed New Supreme Court NDAs, Agents Arrest Two More in Connection With Minnesota Church Ambush, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Asks Police to Surveil ICE, Report Them For Prosecution, and Judge Temporarily Blocks DHS Rules for Congressional Visits to Detention Centers
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday Ramblin’, Sunday Miscellany, and An outsider’s view?
Outkick: Roger Goodell Suggests Bad Bunny Won’t Use Super Bowl Stage For Activism, Black Coaches Shut Out Of Hiring Cycle And Enraged Media Will Make Goodell Answer For It As A Result, White Sox New Addition To Clubhouse Could Change The Game, Kid Rock Headlines Turning Point USA Alternative Super Bowl Halftime Show Lineup, and Sydney Sweeney Does Yard Work In Lingerie, Tosses Bra Out The Window In Her Latest All-Out Assault On Industry
Power Line: The Havoc Wrought By Illegal Aliens, Inside the fraud, Trade Deal With India, A fair trade, and AP McLovin Star Tribune
Shark Tank: Associated Industries of Florida Endorses Ingoglia For CFO
STUMP: U.S. Finalized Mortality 2024 – Highlights, also, The Week In Meep – Winter Is Deadly
This Ain’t Hell: Elon Cancels Putin’s Starlink Account, Washington Crash Report, and Demond Wilson passes
Transterrestrial Musings: The Second Amendment, No, LA Times, Catherine O’Hara, and Ameliamentum
Victory Girls: Nurses Union Holds Secret Training Sessions To Combat ICE, Melania Was Supposed To Flop And It Didn’t, and How Guilt Politics Turned Gullible White Liberals Into Activists
Watts Up With That: Aussie Green Radicals In Despair at Media Ignoring Their Warnings, Biden’s Push for Renewables Funding Trump’s Push To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’, Re-evaluating the Concern of Climate Change, Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage Systems, and Poor nations won’t follow Europe, UN in economic suicide
The Federalist: Here Are 10 Great Justice Alito Quotes To Mark His 20 Years On The Supreme Court, Poll Shows Likely 2026 Midterm Voters Support Deporting Illegal Aliens By 2:1 Margin, Here’s How To Cook Good Food On $15 A Day Or Less , Media Silent On KBJ Attending Anti-ICE Grammys After Inventing ‘Scandals’ About Her Colleagues, and Senate GOP Can Fix Elections, Boost Trump, And Wreck Dems With The SAVE Act
Mark Steyn: On the Town: What a Day This Has Been, Tortured – Doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, Paedos All the Way Down, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine

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