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In The Mailbox: 05.08.26

Posted on | May 9, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Spanberger’s Lobster is dead. Post F in the replies to pay respects.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day Custer Rode Into The Trap (1876),  
357 Magnum: Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process
EBL: Fish Fry Friday, MAGA: Trump Strikes Back in Indiana, The Fevered Dream of Hernando De Soto, and The Black Plague
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Just Needed Two Words To Finish Off A Months-Long Feud With Va. State Senator L. Louise Lucas, Commie Hasan Piker Quotes JFK To Justify Violence After Virginia Supremes Rule – Forget JFK Hated Commies, and Anonymous House Dems Spill To Axios How Disastrous The Virginia Redistricting Debacle Is
Louder With Crowder: Democrat governor is all in on letting his son mutilate his genitals if it’s what he really wants, What The Red Pill Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong: Ash Wednesday with Jake Rattlesnake, , , and A cross-dressing squatter in a pink thong is terrorizing horrified tenants. Yes, in NYC. How did you guess?
Vox Popoli: Wipeout UK, The Pedo Factory, and The Naval Non-War
According To Hoyt: Ill That Comes For Good, Nerfed, IT’S THE BEST OF A BAD BASKET, Unhinged Biography, and Maybe It’s Not Your Fault?
Monster Hunter Nation: Magic & Bullets, Academy of Outcasts Book 2, releases this week
Upstream Reviews: Spacers 1
Stoic Observations: Truth, Justice, Or The American Way
Weird Catholic: D (for Disclosure) Day
Cedar Sanderson: Slightly Unhinged Bio

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Susie Wiles: ‘We’re Going to Find Out’ Trump ‘Actually Did Win’ 2020 Swing States, Virginia Supremes Strike Down Democrats’ Redistricting Plan, Tech Giant Meta Asks Judge to Overturn Landmark Social Media Addiction Verdict, Declining Birthrates, Immigration Drive Enrollment Crisis in US Public Schools, and Tennessee Lawmakers Eliminate Gerrymandered Majority-Black District from Congressional Map
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 8
Behind The Black: Rover startup Lunar Outpost raises $30 million in investment capital, Rocket Lab gets big launch contract for both its Electron and new Neutron rocket, Louisiana state senator: Two unnamed aerospace companies are bidding for major land purchase, Testing new high speed rotors for the next generation of Mars helicopters, and Paraguay becomes the 67th nation to sign Artemis Accords
Cafe Hayek: Stiglitz Gets History Wrong
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Unemployed Again or a Practical Comparison of the Obama and the Trump Economies
Don Surber: Trump saved Indiana in 2016
First Street Journal: The journolism of NBC News
Flopping Aces: The Week In Radical Leftism – The Washington Post Is Still Dying In Darkness!
The Geller Report: BOOM: Economy Roars Past Expectations With Massive April Jobs Beat, Crushing Forecasts, Virginia Supremes Slam Democrats, Strike Down Redistricting, TRUMP RIPS FOUL ABC REPORTER – ‘You Can Understand Dirt’, Curbing Antisemitic Pro-Terror Protests Now Labeled “McCarthyism”, and US Strikes Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas
Hollywood In Toto: The Actress-to-OnlyFans Pipeline Heats Up, also, Goodbye, Stephen Colbert – ‘The Vax Scene’ Cringe-fest
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Conducts Retaliatory Strikes Against Iran as Diplomatic Talks Continue, “Intersectionality” Ideology Is Driving People To Lose Their Minds, Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat, Utah Supreme Court Justice Resigns Amid Affair Allegations With Redistricting Lawyer, and DOJ Investigating Fairfax County DA Over Deals With Illegal Aliens
Nebraska Energy Observer: Templars and Freedom
Outkick: Some viewers disliked Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show so much they complained to the FCC, Sixers fan comes up with diabolical plan to block Knicks fans from attending Game 4, CFP & NCAA tourney expansions draw fire but one’s definitely worse, The WNBA won’t grow this season if mean girls and racist bullies refuse to accept Caitlin Clark, and Mallory Edens sizzles on the beach while Aaron Rodgers contemplates return
Power Line: S&P 7400, Big win for UK Reform, Virginia surprise – Spanberger, Obama hardest hit, Federal government employment down again, and The filth this time
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Galvanizes Cuban-American Vote In Miami-Dade
STUMP: A Compendium of Fraud on STUMP
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools-Part I
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, White House Reveals Counterterrorism Strategy, and Virginia Supremes strike down Virginia Democrat redistricting push
Victory Girls: John Fetterman Is Staying With The Democrat Party: “I’d Be A Terrible Republican”
Watts Up With That: Catfish Farmers, Undertakers, Miners Helped Bring About Major EPA Deregulation, Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat, U.S. Fossil Fuel Environmentalism: EPA Air Quality Statistics, No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy, and Alarmist Fussing at NYT Climate Reporting
The Federalist: Stop Telling Women They’ll Only Enjoy Motherhood When They Aren’t Watching Their Kids, With Gerrymandering Backfire, VA Dems Have Done More For GOP Than Indiana Republicans, This Mother’s Day, Meet The Nuns Who Pray For Weary Moms At Midnight, Democrats Are Trying To Repeal Trump Admin’s College Affordability Protections, and Meet The Left-Wing Activists Behind The Guide Meant To Advise Judges On ‘Climate Science’
Mark Steyn: The Future Shows Up

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