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In The Mailbox: 07.03.26

Posted on | July 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Happy Independence Day!

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With Captain Kidd’s Treasure (1699),
357 Magnum: Hollywood Still Blaming the Fans
EBL: “Gettysburg” – The Glorious Burden – Iced Earth, Gettysburg : Day 3, The Great Awakening, Don’t over complicate it, and A meal for the 4th of July?
Twitchy: Oligarch Ro Khanna Says Fauxcahontas’ Ultra-Millionaire Tax Is The Ultra-Moral Way To Cancel Student Debt, Patti LuPone Furious After Her Gay Cruise Banned From Turkey, and Colorado DSA Candidate Shares Secret Socialist Solution To All America’s Problems
Louder With Crowder: DSA Co-Chair, who admits out loud is “goal is Communism,” names the Democrat he wants to run for President, Woke mayor calls for trans “refugees” to move to Seattle,  and Hillary Clinton still won’t calm down about Trump whipping her butt in 2016, demands changes to the Constitution
Vox Popoli: Nothing to Fight With
According To Hoyt: Postponement and the feeding of Hoyts, Back From Liberty con, Stop Rending your garments, Toss A Coin To Your Blogger, Oh Readers of Plenty, and Quick Request for the Huns and Hoydens
Monster Hunter Nation: So where should I start with your books?
Upstream Reviews: Heartlanders
Stoic Observations: The Blickity Black Impulse

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Video Footage Showing White Teen Getting Arrested Right After Being Assaulted Sparks Outrage in Britain, New York City Appropriates $7 Million for ‘Trans Equity,’ Drag Queen Story Hours, LEGO Faces Backlash Over Pride-Themed Content Aimed at Kids, CFPB Orders Remote Employees to Relocate to Washington or Lose Jobs, and Backlash After Columbus, Ohio Announces It Will Raise the Flag of Somalia at City Hall
BattleSwarm: RAM Cartel? I Seriously Doubt It, Hey Universities, You Can Take Money From The ChiComs, Or From Uncle Sam, But Not Both, Russia Update: Gas Shortages, Plane Shortages, Crimea’s Collapse, and LinkSwarm for July 3
Behind The Black: Skyroot announces launch window for 1st launch of Vikram-1 rocket, Sunspot update: The ramp down to solar minimum continued to stall in June, Katalyst’s Link rescue spacecraft launched successfully, German rocket startup Isar wins another launch contract, and Corroding glacial debris inside Martian crater
Cafe Hayek: On Alexander Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday – the 250th Edition
Chicago Boyz: Shall It Be Sustained?
Don Surber: Defining MAGA
First Street Journal: The ‘transgendered’ would find their lives far simpler if they’d stop trying to make their beliefs other people’s business
Flopping Aces: Democrats Built A Socialist Monster To Terrorize Republicans – Now  It’s Eating Their Safe Seats First
The Geller Report: California Democrats Push to Make Muslim Holy Days State Holidays, Orthodox Jewish Man Ordered to Get Permit to Host Prayers at Home, Over 1,900 Non-Citizens Arrested in Trump Administration on Terror-Related Charges During Biden Years, America-Hating DSA Expands Congressional Beachhead , and TRUMP BY FREEDOM TRAIN
Hollywood In Toto: Obsession Remains Hollywood’s Biggest Mystery of 2026, The Invite Takes Hilarious Look at Marital Miscommunication, Citizen Vigilante Shoots to No. 1 on Prime Video Chart, Legacy Media Mourns Supergirl’s Box Office Collapse, and Does THIS Explain Taylor Swift’s Massive Charity Gift?
Legal Insurrection: Explosive Diarrhea Parasite Spreads Across America Ahead of Independence Day, Men in Women’s Bathrooms – CriticalRace.org Report Highlights Coming Title IX Battles, Alexis Podesta Wore FBI Wire in Investigation of Newsom’s Former Chief of Staff, Donny Deutsch of MSNOW Sounds Alarm for Democrats Over DSA Takeover, and Mamdani Trashes America, Trump in Speech Marking Country’s 250th Birthday
Nebraska Energy Observer: Drones? Eff yeah, Loud, Proud, and Rowdy, and on a Mission, Jefferson, and What’s in a Flag?
Outkick: Sports world turns out for Taylor Swift’s MSG wedding, USA’s Folarin Balogun criticizes ref’s red card, ESPN makes right decision in removing Rich Eisen, Flyers make stunning offer for Ducks star, and Matthew McConaughey fires up Americans with patriotic speech
Power Line: Gratitude, A Funeral for the Ayatollah, The Suicide Charge that Saved America, The “Democratic Socialist” agenda, and Unprecedented Heat Wave?
Shark Tank: Palm Beach PBA Endorses Belinda Keiser In FL-22
STUMP: Preliminary 2025 Mortality – Deaths Down Again!,
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The People’s Bicentennial as Spoilsports
Transterrestrial Musings: The Democrat Civil War, The Corruption In Sacramento, The College “Educated”, The Real Deep State, and The Revolution
Victory Girls: America’s 250th Not Ruined By Trump Or Any Human
Watts Up With That: Air Conditioning vs. Climate Activism: UK/EU Face the Music, The Times May Be A-Changin’, Closer to the Fire – Increasing Tropical Sunlight, Europe’s “Soaring Climate Damage” Narrative Runs Into an Inconvenient Dataset, and Meet the Climate Activist Shortlist of Candidates to be Next UN Secretary General
The Federalist: Why All Patriots Should Watch The Patriot On America’s 250th Birthday, The Best And Worst Pavilions At The Great American State Fair, Awe-Struck World Cup Tourists Should Remind Us What Makes America So Great, Mamdani Is Telling A Brazen Lie About ‘Capitalist Mismanagement’ Of New York, and 5 Easy Homemade Staples I’m Bringing To The July 4 BBQ (And You Should Too)
Mark Steyn: A Top-down Willed Failure, Live Around the Planet, A Heart That Listens, Girl Power, and The Full Homer

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