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In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 9, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yuval Kordov’s Orders of Magnitude is on sale this week for 99 cents. It’s a steal at that price.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Fall of the Minnesota DFL Fraud Machine
357 Magnum: Woman Beaten to Death in Her Own Home
EBL: Michael Reagan RIP, German Pickled Herring Recipe That Works Well For Other Fish, Minnesota Retarded, The First U.S. Governor of the Territory of Greenland, and Pretenders
Twitchy: Daily Wire Talks To Genius Minnesotan Who Quit Her Job To Protest ICE, Proud Socialist Served Up Brutal Dose Of Reality, and WaPo’s Front Page Video Analysis Claims ICE Agent Wasn’t In Vehicle’s Path
Louder With Crowder: GOP congressman shocks witness with facts after they claim Somalis make Minnesota “stronger”, We didn’t think it possible, but even MORE past extreme communist posts by Mamdani’s “tenants’ rights” advocate come to light, Karine Jean-Pierre quits the Democrat party, but not without dropping one last book that no one read, and Mamdani’s housing czar, who thinks owning a home is white supremacy? Her white mom owns a MANSION in Nashville
Vox Popoli: PROBABILITY ZERO, The Man Who Made John Scalzi, You Should Read This One, China Bans Exports to Japan, and Answering McCarthy
Cedar Sanderson: Find Reasons To Continue On
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Roast in Hell
Stoic Observations: Icy Minnesota
Postcards From Barsoom: The Caracasian Cut

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Pacific’s Hubs, Spokes, & ACEs
Dana Loesch: Call of Duty – Educated Predictions or Deliberate Planning? also, The Minneapolis ICE Shooting Is An Attempt To Distract From The Huge Somali Fraud Story
Don Surber: CEO saves Hilton
Matt Taibbi: The Unchecked Rise Of Crazy Race Theory In Academia
STUMP: A Tale of Two Mayors – Chicago & New York

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In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 8, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Just got home from Las Vegas. Time to catch up on the linkagery.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day At The First Presidential Assassination Attempt (1835), also, The Time Travel Series
357 Magnum: Those Oh-So-Tolerant People In Hollywood
EBL: Cutting 300lb MASSIVE FISH to Sell at Fish Market, John Rhys-Davies on being cast as Gimli, Feast of the Epiphany, The Odyssey, and How Americans are growing truffles and succeeding
Twitchy: “She Looks Ridiculous”, In A Time Of High Tension, RFK Jr & JD Vance Trolling Each Other Is The Break We Need, and Senate Votes To Block Further Military Action In Venezuela – Trump Furious
Louder With Crowder: Chicago Democrats voted to raise property taxes, so residents are protesting…Trump, Video exposes Hilton Hotel STILL not accepting ICE agents as guests, leading parent company to take drastic action, Zohran’s housing advocate offers hilarious advice to Dems, Scott Jennings lets Jake Tapper know how little CNN’s anti-Trump Venezuela poll means, and Mamdani’s housing czar – Hey, our public schools should totally be “sites of resistance” against the Trump Admin
Vox Popoli: PZ: The Technical Audit, Saving the Petrodollar, The Legal Legion Assembles, Atheist Integrity, and Is Venezuala the Prelude?
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 1
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Venezuela & (West) Taiwan
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Lack of Warmth of Collectivism
Stoic Observations: The Stoic Observer’s VZ Primer
Jim McCoy: Pixels
Based Book Sale: Top Twenty Based Science Fiction Books

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Unfortunate Greenland Kerfluffle
Dana Loesch: The Rubio Memes
Don Surber: America Feared Again

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Minneapolis Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | January 8, 2026 | No Comments

The late Renee Nicole Good

There are about a million things I could say about what happened Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, and the subsequent reaction, but before we get to the commentary, first let’s grab the news:

The woman gunned down by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who described herself as a mother, a wife and a poet.
Good was identified by her mom hours after she was shot and killed when she clipped an ICE agent with her car during a protest against the federal agents, the Star Tribune reported.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told the newspaper. . . .
Video appeared to show her Honda Pilot making contact with an ICE agent as he opened fire. President Trump and other officials have said Good’s killing was justified as the officer was acting in self-defense.
Good was the mom of a 6-year-old boy and had recently moved to the neighborhood with her wife and son, according to her distraught spouse and a neighbor who spoke to the Tribune. She was killed just blocks away from her home, the outlet reported.
Her young son was left an orphan by the shooting, according to his shaken grandfather.
The child’s father, a comedian Good was previously married to, died in 2023, also at age 37. . . .

Gonna pause there a minute, because in none of the news accounts I’ve read is this explained: She was from Colorado Springs. The father of her child, Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., spent 14 years in the Air Force then tried to become a comedian before his death at age 36 (not 37). Less than three years later, the widow is living in Minneapolis with a lesbian “wife” and participating in radical protests? How does this happen? It’s hardly your typical Hallmark Channel movie plot. Back to the news:

In addition to being a mom, Good was a “writer and poet” who graduated from Old Dominion University, where she studied creative writing. She was originally from Colorado Springs.
“Wife and mom and sh–ty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis,” read her Instagram bio, which was accompanied by a pride flag and she/her pronouns.
She was killed in a middle-class neighborhood in south Minneapolis where ICE agents were carrying out an immigration operation Wednesday.
Good recently moved to the neighborhood with her partner and lived just a few blocks away from where she was fatally shot, the outlet reported. . . .
Good was among several people who allegedly blocked the street with their vehicles to prevent the agents from moving, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Agents got out of their blocked truck and ordered the woman to move her SUV, at which point she sped toward one of the officers, pushing him with her vehicle, feds alleged. As he spun toward the driver’s seat window, he fired three shots into the car, footage from numerous angles shows
She was shot at least once in the head, and later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The Department of Homeland Security called her a domestic terrorist who attempted to kill federal agents.
“One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X.
Good’s mother was baffled by the idea of her being involved in an ICE protest, however, saying she was “not part of anything like that at all.” . . .
Footage taken near the scene appeared to show a distraught woman who identified herself as Good’s wife – who sobbed as she said the shooting was “her fault” and that she had a young child at school.
“They shot her in the head. I have a 6 year old in school,” she appeared to say, telling a bystander that they were new to the area and she didn’t know who to call.
“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” she said. “They just shot my wife.”

At some point in the next few days, some reporter is going to get more biographical detail that can help explain this situation. Renee Good was not from Minneapolis, and it does not appear that her lesbian wife was, either. What does the grieving lesbian mean by, “I made her come down here”? What does the grieving mother mean that her late daughter was “not part of anything like that at all”? Obviously she was part of something like that, but you can understand that joining a radical terrorist group is maybe something you don’t tell your mom about.

The deadly chaos in Minneapolis happened two days after the state’s governor, embroiled in a fraud scandal, announced he would not seek reelection. The rhetorical escalation Wednesday was immediate:

OK, so the governor declares war against the United States, and the mayor tells federal agents to “get the f–k out” of his city, and what is the President of the United States supposed to do? America’s immigration laws are almost entirely the work of Democrats, beginning with the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act. Ted Kennedy was the leading advocate for passage of that measure in the Senate, at a time when Democrats had a 66-seat filibuster-proof Senate majority. These are the laws that ICE is enforcing. Why are Democrats so determined to prevent their own laws from being enforced? Good luck getting any kind of honest and coherent explanation about this enigma; Democrats are so far gone in Trump Derangement Syndrome that they can do little more than yelling obscenities.



 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Minnesota

New York City Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | January 7, 2026 | No Comments

If it is your misfortune to live in New York City, my advice is leave now, in the kind of haste with which Lot fled Sodom. As I said after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor, New Yorkers have forgotten how bad it could be, and Mamdani’s tenure at Gracie Mansion is likely to be worse even than the David Dinkins era. Mamdani’s appointment of Cea Weaver as Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants is an omen of doom for the city. Who is Cea Weaver? Her mother was the co-founder of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership at the University of Rochester. It is scarcely an exaggeration to call Cea Weaver a Communist:

An affiliate of the US Communist Party has been playing an outsized role in the debate over “good cause” eviction currently roiling state budget negotiations.
Housing Justice For All, an advocacy organization at the heart of the fight and with deep ties to far-left lawmakers like Comptroller Brad Lander, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is an “active partner” of the New York Young Communist League. . . .
Cea Weaver, a campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, has spent years publicly advocating unabashed Marxism on her personal Twitter account.
“Elect more Communists,” she posted in a tweet from December 2017. “Seize private property,” she added in June 2018.
“Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” Weaver wrote in August 2019. . . .
Housing Justice For All for all began in 2017 and has been in cahoots with the state Communist party since at least 2018, social media postings show. . . .
The group has developed years-long financial ties with far-left billionaire financier George Soros.
Housing Justice For All is a statewide campaign of the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance, which in turn is “fiscally sponsored” by the nonprofit VOCAL-NY.
That nonprofit has received eight grants worth more than $1.1 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2017 and 2021, according to its website.
At least one $100,000 cash infusion went directly to Housing Justice For All, according to the grant description.
Despite their openly Communist ties, Weaver and Housing Justice for All have made deep inroads among the city’s most powerful progressives.

That New York Post article is from April 2023. Mamdani has now made Weaver the de facto Housing Commissar of New York City. She openly advocates for the abolition of private property:

In a 2021 op-ed, she argued the state can “further de-commodify housing and land” by cancelling rents and shuttering eviction courts.
“And, as landlords exit the market, using state action to acquire properties and leverage disinvestment to convert thousands of homes into publicly and democratically controlled land/housing,” she wrote in the New Labor Forum.

As omens of doom go, this is the raven croaking “Nevermore.”

Get out now, and don’t look back.



 

Category: New York

In The Mailbox: 01.06.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 6, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Whipping this out before I head for Las Vegas; should be back Thursday. We’ll see how much posting I get done.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Modified from a wonderfully dark cartoon by @CenturiiC on X

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day At The Boston Tea Party 1773, States With No Voter ID Pay 16 Times More Welfare For Illegals, and The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, 
357 Magnum: Which Is More Disturbing, A Deliberate Attack or Crumbling Infrastructure? also More Than 1,000 Cars Burned in France
EBL: Americana, Poor Man’s Lobster, Venezuelans Celebrate Maduro Arrest, The “Biological Cost” of Ozempic and Mounjaro, and “As with gladness men of old”
Twitchy: Gov. Hochul & Mayor Mamdani Literally Chased Off After YMCA Press Conference, We’ve Got Mamdani’s Tenant Director’s Old Tweets And YIKES, and Harmeet Dhillion Officially Puts Mamdani On Notice Regarding Discrimination
Louder With Crowder: AWFL TikToker melts down over Trump’s Venezuela “war”, Tampon Tim Walz drops out 0f Governor’s race, says it’s all Trump and a YouTuber’s fault, Republicans seize on Margaret Brennan’s face as she barely hides her disdain for Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, and Mamdani’s new housing executive demands private property be seized, calls home ownership “white supremacy”
Vox Popoli: The Five Sigmas, Another Year, Another War, About the KOKORO Translation, A Novel and Vital Contribution, and The EU is Monitoring
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Maduro Adios?, also, Yes It Is (Partly) About The Oil
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 4, also, Noise Pollution
Stoic Observations: Whose Hemisphere? Not Worrying About China, and The Limits of Principle
Postcards From Barsoom: The Domes of Calrathia
Upstream Reviews: Herd Immunity
Ammo.com: Why Do Americans Own Guns?
The Abbey of Misrule: Going Under & Coming Up

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Venezuelan Raid – On Midrats, also, The Maduro Raid – Early Reports & Cautions
Dana Loesch: Starting 2026 With A Bang, also, Trump Invades Venezuela & Captures Maduro
Don Surber: The Three Hour War In Venezuela, also, Enjoying The Three Hour War
Elizabeth Nickson: Remigration NOW
Glenn Reynolds: Trump, Maduro, & What’s Next
Matt Taibbi: Note on a Lawsuit
STUMP: The New Year In Meep!

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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Vandalizes J.D. Vance’s Ohio Home

Posted on | January 6, 2026 | No Comments

William (or is it ‘Julia’?) DeFoor

Among the facts I was able to ascertain about William DeFoor was that in 2018, he was named a National Merit Scholar finalist his senior year at a prestigious Catholic school, Summit Country Day School. However, I’m still skeptical of reports that DeFoor is transgender and goes by the name “Julia,” because these reports appear to be based on very thin online evidence. Transgender or not, though, DeFoor is definitely crazy:

The deranged hammer-wielding vandal who busted several windows at Vice President JD Vance’s home in Cincinnati is allegedly the son of a prominent millionaire family — and appears to have been going by “Julia” in recent weeks.
William DeFoor, 26, was arrested early Monday after allegedly shattering four windows at Vance’s home. Police said that DeFoor was attempting to break into the home around midnight.
The Vances, who moved into the vice president’s official residence in Washington, DC, after the inauguration, were not in Ohio at the time.
It’s unclear whether DeFoor identifies as transgender or nonbinary, but he recently appeared to be posting under the name Julia DeFoor. Cops listed the suspect’s name as William, and his gender as male.
In his mugshot, DeFoor has an unkempt, matted mullet – and a dead-eyed stare.
DeFoor’s father, also named William, is a successful Harvard University graduate.
He boasts a decades-long history as a pediatric urologist in Cincinnati and works as a professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine.
The family lives in a $1.3 million house in the city’s wealthy Hyde Park neighborhood.
The elder DeFoor donated thousands to Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign in 2024 after years of small contributions to a PAC that lobbied for urologists, according to federal records.
He is also a longtime Democratic supporter, according to his public contributions. He donated upwards of $5,000 to former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ respective campaigns in 2020 and 2024.
He also previously backed a federal assault weapons ban in the wake of the Uvalde Elementary School shooting, according to his Facebook.
The younger DeFoor appeared to have a fall from grace after graduating from the Summit Country Day School in 2018, where he was hailed as a candidate for the US Presidential Scholars Program.
He had a brief two-year stint at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, but appeared to drop out in 2020, according to his Facebook. He said earlier this year he was attending Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.
The alleged vandal has a tricky mental health history, including a 2024 sentence for two counts of vandalism at a local interior design company.
Instead of a standard conviction, DeFoor was sentenced to two years of mandatory mental health treatment, which is still ongoing, according to court documents . . .
In April 2023, DeFoor was charged with trespassing at the UC Health psychiatric and emergency services. He was originally held on a $10,000 bond — but a judge determined he was not mentally competent to stand trial and the counts were dismissed in a Nov. 8 filing that year.
DeFoor is charged with obstructing official business, criminal damaging or endangering, criminal trespass, and vandalism, according to Hamilton County jail records.
His first court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday.

So, it “appears” that DeFoor has been using the online alias “Julia” lately, but we don’t know much more than that. What we do know is that DeFoor was a top achiever in high school, but dropped out around age 20 and has since been arrested at least twice and, in one of those cases, was found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial. Going to score that as transgender, maybe; crazy, for sure. And I’m sure regular readers don’t need to be reminded that Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime, J.D. Vance, Ohio

Rule 5 Sunday: Old Trucks & Young Girls

Posted on | January 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another fine young lady thanks to @kbdabear on X. I’m occasionally tempted to run the trucks by Iowahawk, but I don’t think they’re old enough to interest him.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Animal’s Friday Announcement

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Iran Protests, “Auld Lang Syne”, Tournament of Roses Parade Royalty, One Battle After Another, A New Year’s Eve Imagined In The 1960s, Zooey Deschanel, “Mambo Italiano”, Giulia Falcone, Frankenstein, 6-7, RIP Brigitte Bardot, and “Last Christmas”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Marona Tanner, Fish Pic Friday – Yulla’s Life on the Bank, Happy New Year!, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, RIP: Brigitte Bardot, In the News Dessert, and Palm Sunday 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Butt It’s Friday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: On An Even Keel

Posted on | January 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, it could have been worse – we could have spent another week in the ruts. As it was, we lost two of three to the Angels in Anaheim, one of them a heartbreaking 7-3 loss in which Charlie Hough blew the lead and the game by horking up six runs in the bottom of the eighth. Then we came home and bested the Royals; it would have been a sweep but the bats weren’t swinging for Jim Kaat in Game Two, and the Nats went down 5-3. So that leaves us at 3-3 for the week, 28-38 on the season, three games behind the Brewers and six games out of first. Next up, we’re facing the Cardinals (38-25) on Tuesday followed by the Tribe (34-32) on Friday. This will be our first tilt against St. Louis; we lost our previous series against Cleveland, but that was back at the beginning of the season when nothing was working.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

FMJRA 2.0: Stuck In The Ruts
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Probably Not Mrs. Santa
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Game of the Year!
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Madison Cornbread’ Update
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.02.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

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