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FMJRA 2.0: Kiss .500 Goodbye

Posted on | June 29, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Kiss .500 Goodbye

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Even though we ended up 2-4 on the week, it actually went better than expected, since with our records against the A’s and Dodgers, I fully expected to go 0-6 on the week, Still, Blue Moon Odom vultured his fifth win in relief of David Clyde against Jim Palmer & the A’s and Carl Morton outdueled Don Sutton, winning a 1-0 shutout thanks to Eddie Brinkman’s eighth homer of the year. That leaves us at 70-83 with nine games left in the season, so even if we ran the table against the Red Sox, O’s, and Tribe we’d still be just 79-83, and we all know that’s not happening. Fortunately, we have a nice crop of rookies coming up next year (including the Human Rain Delay) so maybe we’ll be able to break through for another winning season.
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This week in Senators baseball…

The Worst News Network on the Planet Has Covered Itself in Shame This Week
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A View From The Beach
EBL
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NY Times on the Left’s Skrmetti Bungle: ‘Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb’
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EBL
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What the Heck Is Wrong With Florida?
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FMJRA 2.0: Before The Deluge
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EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: In The Sun
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In The Mailbox: 06.23.25
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EBL
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NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 06.27.25
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LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Month Update: Fugly Tranny Gets Tased in Portland ICE Riot

Posted on | June 28, 2025 | Comments Off on LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Month Update: Fugly Tranny Gets Tased in Portland ICE Riot

Christopher Hudson a/k/a ‘Julie Mikela Winters’

Ace of Spades does this thing where he reports some bad news for the gay community and then says, “During Pride Month?” And the whole idea of “Pride Month” has become a joke — basically it’s a corporate branding opportunity, with various companies doing promotional campaigns to demonstrate their “allyship” or commitment to “inclusion” or whatever.

Then again, did “Gay Pride” ever really make sense? It started with a riot — excuse me, I meant to say, mostly peaceful protest — at an unlicensed Greenwich Village gay bar run by the Genovese crime syndicate. Police obtained a warrant to shut it down and raided it in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969. The raid went down shortly after 1 a.m., and the crowd became so violent that it took three hours to clear them out. Somehow, this relatively minor event — fighting cops over the “right” to get drunk in an illegal Mafia-owned bar — has been inflated to world-historical signficance, the Bastille of sexual deviance as it were. And that, boys and girls, is why “Pride Month” is celebrated in June.

The actual facts of the 1969 Stonewall riots are less inspiring than the glorious narrative and, while I’m at it, why “Pride”? It’s all a bullying campaign to silence critics who don’t buy into the “rights” rhetoric which radical perverts stole from the black civil rights movement. As I’ve pointed out before, you’re not even allowed to use words like pervert, deviant or abnormal, no matter how outrageous or disgusting the behavior involved, because that’s “hate speech”:

“Deviant” is a word we don’t hear much anymore, for the simple reason that its meaning has become invalid or irrelevant or, as any Democrat would say, an expression of hate. America has in recent years gradually lost its vocabulary of moral judgment. “Deviant,” “abnormal,” “perverse,” “immoral” — each of these terms for sexual behavior that is wrong and bad implies the existence of an antonym for what is right and good. Anyone who cares to research the etymology of “deviant” and “perverse,” for example, will find that both of these words suggest a turning away from something. But from what have perverts like Anthony Weiner and deviants like Sydney Leathers turned away? We simply aren’t allowed to say it. Politically correctness forbids us to assert that any form of sexual behavior is more wholesome or more normal than any other. And no one in American public life dares use the word “sin” nowadays.

Well, I could continue in that vein for 1,500 words and not exhaust the topic, but there is news to be reported. Notice that I’ve used the most inclusive version of the ever-expanding acronym, LGBTQIA2S+ — including so-called “two-spirit” identity, with the plus sign designating whatever other kinky fetishes any freak might want to celebrate in June.

Andy Ngo identifies as a G in that acronym, but not the obnoxious radical kind, and it was Andy who popularized the label “Trantifa” to describe the (disproportionately large) contingent of Antifa thugs who identify as transgender. Note my use of the phrase “identify as,” because the whole idea of passing as the opposite sex has apparently been abandoned in recent years. The Implausible Tranny type is now the prevailing norm — ugly hulking brutes wearing dresses and pretending to be what they very obviously are not. We’re not allowed to point this out, of course, nor can we be permitted to mention the stark irrationality of such behavior.

Look, if you’re an ugly dude who can’t get laid, do you really think you’re gonna do better as an ugly woman? Is it not rather obvious that, far from being a solution to your unhappiness, your new transgender identity is likely to be the source of a whole new set of problems? But crazy is as crazy does, I guess, and that brings us to the case of Christopher Hudson, a/k/a “Julie Mikela Winters.” Last December, Hudson/“Winters” posted a GoFundMe trying to raise $10,000, claiming to be a victim of brutality by police in Portland, Oregon. It included this photo:

What Christopher/“Julie” wants you to notice about that picture is the bruises on his/“her” face, but notice something else? Yeah, the photo is cropped so that you can’t see his/“her” hairline, because the obvious case of male pattern baldness sort of undermines his credibility as a “her.”

Speaking of credibility, while Hudson/“Winters” claims to be the victim of brutality, Portland Police say that he/“she” is in fact the perpetrator of violence, and in December he/“she” was charged with felony assault on a public safety officer, as well as two misdemeanors. But it’s Portland, where criminals get turned loose in the revolving-door system, so Hudson/“Winters” was back on the streets pending trial on those December charges when he/“she” was arrested during a riot outside the Portland offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):

On Tuesday, June 24, federal authorities apprehended an armed subject who advanced on officers with a large knife outside the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. Julie Mikela Winters, 47, born Christopher Hudson, has been charged with felony attempted assault of a federal officer, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
The incident occurred during the ongoing Antifa occupation at the ICE facility located at 4310 SW Macadam Avenue, which has been under siege by black-clad militants for more than two consecutive weeks.
According to an FBI affidavit, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers observed Winters attempting to ignite an incendiary device next to the guard shack of the ICE building at 11:15 pm. When officers approached Winters, the defendant allegedly reached into his backpack and pulled out a large 1-foot knife with a curved blade.
Winters proceeded to advance on federal officers with the blade in hand. “As officers attempted to get tactically positioned, Winters threw the knife at one of the officers’ heads,” according to court documents. The targeted officer was able to dodge the attack.
The defendant proceeded to run away but was subdued by an officer who deployed a Taser. When federal agents attempted to place Winters in custody, Winters resisted arrest and allegedly reached toward his waist in an attempt to pull out a second deadly weapon. “One officer saw Winters grab another knife,” which resulted in the officer kicking the weapon away from Winters, according to the FBI affidavit. The second knife was described as a kitchen butcher knife.

You can go read the whole thing at Post Millenial, where Andy Ngo has video of Hudson/“Winters” getting tased and immediately face-planting into the concrete — during Pride Month!

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In The Mailbox: 06.27.25

Posted on | June 28, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.27.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yesterday’s drive to Las Vegas was long and hot and exhausting. Today’s return was somewhat better.
And speaking of today
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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SCOTUS finally slaps down rogue district judges, and burns KBJ in the process.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: MV Celebrity Edge – A Maritime Mishap, also Attitude Counts in Self-Defense
EBL: Sad Federal Activist Trial Judges – No More National Injunctions, Queen Maxima at NATO Summit, Last Night of Fillmore East, MAGA Message to Leakers : Go To Prison, and Billy Joel – Miami 2017
Twitchy: Androgynous Dems On MSNBC Shaken By SCOTUS Siding With Trump, AG Bondi Reportedly Shows Three J6 Prosecutors The Door, and Stephen Miller Does Victory Lap After SCOTUS Scuttles Radical Judges
Louder With Crowder: Tom Homan blasts incoming socialist NYC Mayor, issues BLUNT warning when told The Zohran is gonna kick ICE out, Marvel’s Ironheart might be Disney’s worst (and wokest) failure of a show yet, Jasmine Crockett rants that you’re totally xenophobic if you call it a crime for illegal immigrants to be here illegally, Zohran Mamdani puts 50 Cent’s name in his mouth in an attack on successful people, the rapper fires back, and Disgraced former Democrat congressman makes insane claim that the n-word causes cancer and diabetes
Vox Popoli: Fake Space Program Winds Down, AI Text is Fair Use, Outsmarted, No More Universal Injunctions, and Trust WHAT Science?
According To Hoyt: The End of The Con, Oh When The Odds Go Marching In, Public Un-Safety, and Neither Nor
Upstream Reviews: The Words of the Night, Worldcon Shenanigans…Again! and Legends & Lattes,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Starquest Book Four Is Live!
Stoic Observations: The End of the Islamic Bomb

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump’s Iran Bombing Is the Latest in Presidential Absolutism, also, The New York City Mayor Race Is Wide Open
American Greatness: Feds Crush Violent Antifa Uprising Outside Portland ICE Facilty, Gov. Hochul: ‘New York Is Providing $50 million to Cover Legal Services’ For Illegal Aliens, DOJ Sues Kentucky For Granting In-State College Tuition Rates to Illegal Aliens, SCOTUS Says Lower Courts Likely Exceeded Their Authority By Issuing Nationwide Injunctions, and House Oversight Chair James Comer Issues Subpoena to Jill Biden’s ‘Work Husband’ Anthony Bernal After He Bails on Scheduled Deposition
American Thinker: The Real Threat Is Inside – Why Trump Is Right to Purge Politicized Intel Agencies, The Danger Of A Successful Society – Absurdity, and, Why the American Left Is in Big Trouble
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Rule Five Cautioning New Yorkers Friday
BattleSwarm: Harris County Jails Kill 2.5 Times As Many People As Texas Executes, also, LinkSwarm For June 27
Behind The Black: European Union proposes new space law to supersede national space rules, OSHA investigating the collapse of a crane at SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility, Rocket Lab launches four radio surveillance satellites, The sagging flank of one of Mars’ giant volcanoes, and Another blacklisted professor wins big in court
Cafe Hayek: Mark Meadows Complains That Canadians Put America First, also, Super-markets
CDR Salamander: What Is A War College? also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Novel Way, Retrotech 1925 – Domestic Technologies and Municipal Infrastructure, and The Mamdani Ascendancy
Don Surber: Income up eight times inflation, also, Keep Natasha, Fire CNN
First Street Journal: The urban heat island effect drives climate change
Gates Of Vienna: The Ikhwan in Belgium, Part Three, Ephraïm Herrera: “European Society Does Not Want to Fight”, Jihad in Sarthe, and A Knifeman for the Islamic State
The Geller Report: Sniveling Schumer Congratulates Jihadi Mamdani for Presumed NYC Mayoral Primary Win, CNN is forced to report that the US Stock Market Nearing All-Time RECORD HIGH Under Trump, Muslim California State Employee Arrested In Islamic State Plot, Luxury Real-Estate Brokers say Wealthy New Yorkers are Looking to Flee after Mamdani’s Primary Win, and Obama-Appointed Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Major Changes in Big Beautiful Bill
Hollywood In Toto: How CNN & Colbert Combine to Spread Fake News, Can Disney Hire Patton Oswalt for Ratatouille 2? and Is Mel Brooks Torching His Legacy in Real Time?
The Lid: New York Commie Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Wants to Tax White People More, also, Teen Lies about Sister Being Deported, Media Eat Up Her False Claims
Legal Insurrection: Forget the Panic-cons, Trump is right on Iran, Cockroach Milk Is Not a ‘Super-Food’ Replacement for Red Meat, Dairy, or Fish, Of Course the GOP Will Make Zohran Mamdani the New Face of the Democratic Party, Hunter Biden Sued by Law Firm Over $50,000 of Unpaid Legal Fees, and New 2028 Polls Show a Clear Frontrunner on the Right, Chaos on the Left
Matt Taibbi: A Pause To Chuckle at the Democrats’ Tortured Mamdani Wigout
Outkick: That’s It? Fans React To Learning What Banned White Sox Fan Said To Ketel Marte, MLB Trying To Stop Tampa Bay Rays From Embarrassing The League In Playoff Games, The Islanders Select Matthew Schaefer With The First Pick In The NHL Draft And It Got Emotional, Mystics’ Jade Melbourne Chips Tooth In Gruesome Injury After Getting Elbowed By Aces’ Chelsea Gray, and MAGA Bikini Congresswoman Has Capitol Hill Buzzing, Maggie Sajak’s Golf Selfie & Halloween At Cracker Barrel?
Power Line: The Mehran Makari Saheli backstory, Penetrate this, Big, beautiful lawsuit, and Whither Maryland Man?
Shark Tank: Environmental Groups Sue Over “Alligator Alcatraz”
Shot In The Dark: Whither Klink? also, Groceries
STUMP: Lightning Safety Week 2025 – Some Safety Tips & Recent News
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Marxist Methodology: The Woke Spiral; Maoist Mass Line; The Issue Is The Revolution, also, Firing Line Friday – Women against Pornography
This Ain’t Hell: IDF Chief on Israeli Commandos & Iran’s Nuke Program, Socialists slapped two out of three, Ft. Lee to become Ft. Lee, Valor Friday, and More on the Midnight Hammer raid
Transterrestrial Musings: The Global Baby Bust, also, Heading Home
Victory Girls: Thwap! Amy Coney Barrett Smacks Ketanji Brown Jackson
Watts Up With That: Gardi Sugdub’s ‘Climate Exodus’ Myth, UK Pulls Plug on £24 Billion Desert Power Fantasy, Three Big Projects Offer Hope That Our Energy Nightmare Is Ending, Biden-Appointed Judge Orders Trump To Keep Throwing Money at EV Chargers, and BBC Celebrates Sales of Heat Pumps Rising From Near Zero to Near Zero
The Federalist: WI Leftist-Led Supreme Court Rejects Dems’ ‘Overtly Political’ Scheme, University Of Virginia’s DEI-Obsessed President Resigns In Disgrace, House Committees Hand Out Subpoenas As ActBlue Clams Up, Justice Barrett Takes A Flamethrower To KBJ’s Reality-Challenged Dissent In Birthright Citizenship Case, and Supreme Court Nukes Nationwide Injunctions Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
Mark Steyn: Mayor Zohran!

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The Worst News Network on the Planet Has Covered Itself in Shame This Week

Posted on | June 26, 2025 | Comments Off on The Worst News Network on the Planet Has Covered Itself in Shame This Week

For the past couple of days, I’ve been watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and — dear merciful God! — there are no words to describe how awful it is. On the other hand, the attempt to describe it gave me an excuse to beat that dead dog again with a 1,300-word opus:

Among the errors to which journalists are prone, none is so common as the delusion of instant expertise. Assign a reporter to do an article about theoretical physics, and by the time he files his story, he’ll be convinced he’s Stephen Hawking. You see this sort of phony expertise everywhere in the media nowadays, including sports, where every ESPN panelist offers his predictions with rock-solid confidence, and never acknowledges his mistake when the team he’d picked to win ends up on the wrong side of a lopsided blowout.
Trafficking in fake expertise is routine practice at CNN, where their dwindling audience is now expected to believe that such personalities as Kasie Hunt and Erin Burnett know more about the effectiveness of U.S. military weapons than does Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It’s worth noting in this context that CNN invested heavily in the idea that Hegseth was not qualified to be in charge of the Pentagon, despite his experience as an officer in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq.
Scarcely had the B-2 bombers returned from their bombing mission against Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility than CNN went to work to prove that the Air Force mission was a failure. . . .

Please read the rest of my latest American Spectator column. When I sent it to Dianna Deeley, she complained that I’d started the Paw Patrol theme song playing in her head. We’re on a roll!

"You're gutless losers," Trump said about CNN. https://t.co/MXSTKWXB8W pic.twitter.com/ytNUq7NoPy

— The American Spectator (@amspectator) June 26, 2025

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In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 26, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The weekend, summarized

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Free immigration & welfare, Bobby Sherman RIP, Communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani Wins Democrat Nomination for Mayor of New York, New York Embraces Class Equity, and Jugging on the Rise
Twitchy: CNN’s Dana Bash Loses It Over Hegseth & Trump Calling Network Out On Its Lies, Army Vet Breaks Down The Destructive Power Of Strike On Iran, and Manhunt Underway For Teens Who Tore Pride Flags In Possible “Hate Crime”
Louder With Crowder: AOC claims she’ll beat up Trump because she’s “from the Bronx,” then her yearbook photo exposes where she’s REALLY from, JD Vance can’t wait to hop on BlueSky, trolls leftists now that an Islamic Socialist’s become the new leader of the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett goes on BIZARRE rant that she’s the one who gets to decide to bomb Iran, Female beauty queen stripped of crown because she opposes men (pretending to be girls) in the competition, and Joe Rogan busts Bernie Sanders, fact checks him on the alleged climate change “experts”
Vox Popoli: Abandon the Platforms, NATO Takes Aim at China, A Failed Modus Operandi, The Vanished Six Inches, and Con Inc. Discovers Math
Cedar Sanderson: Up to the Glory of the Stars
Defending The Wood Perilous: Revenge is Mine, saith the Lord
Jim McCoy: The Advanced RPG Beginners Guide to Becoming A Dungeon Master
Toni Airaksinen: Hospital Silent After Doctor Calls To “Delete Zionists” and “Level Tel Aviv”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Threads the Needle on Iran
American Greatness: Muslim Democrat Socialist Wins Dem NY Mayoral Primary, Former Biden Aide Tells House Oversight Committee She Was Authorized to Use Autopen, Trump Says ‘This Is Ridiculous’ After Iran and Israel Exchange Missile Fire But Ceasefire Remains ‘In Effect’, DOJ Accuses Biden-Appointed Judge of ‘Unprecedented Defiance’ After Defying SCOTUS Ruling , and Martial Law in Mascara: How FDR Hijacked the Constitution and No One Told You
American Thinker: Iran Effectively Surrenders to the United States, President Trump’s Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Sites Did Not And Will Not Start A War, The War Powers Narrative Is False—And the Constitution Proves It, The Left Has an Authoritarian Problem, and Should We Deplorables have a ‘No Walmart Day?’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Alaska Burning News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Counting Up Texas Gun Rights Wins, also, NYC Democrats Vote For Self Destruction
Behind The Black: Astronomers look at the Andromeda Galaxy in many wavelengths, SpaceX launches 27 more Starlink satellites, German rocket startup Isar Aerospace secures $174 million in financing, Another permanently shadowed crater on the Moon shows no obvious ice, and A graceful spiral galaxy
Cafe Hayek: The Real Emergency Is the Abuse of Delegated Powers to Address Emergencies, Trump’s Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Will Cause Economic Harm to America, and Has Free(r) Trade “Hollowed Out” America’s Industrial Economy and Her Middle Class?
CDR Salamander: A Tale of Two Conferences
Chicago Boyz: Seth Barrett Tillman: “A Phenomenon in Search of a Theory/Recent Citations to Michael Bellesiles’ Publications”
Dana Loesch: Trump Gets A Ceasefire
Don Surber: CNN lies for Iran
First Street Journal: He threw his life away, also, Was Yahya Sinwar actually insane?
Gates Of Vienna: Rawa Majid, Iran’s Hit Man in Sweden, also, Britain to Open Long-Overdue National Inquiry Into Grooming Gangs
The Geller Report: 9/11’s FINAL BLOW – NYC Mayor Primary Election – Islamic Terrorist Operative Zohran Mamdani Takes The Lead, Iranian General Assets “We’ll Chop Off Trump’s Hand, Annihilate Israel”, Iran Breaks Ceasefire, Despite “Total Obliteration,” CNN Claims US Strikes on Iran Did Not Destroy Nuclear Sites, and THE BREAKDOWN: Lower Income Overwhelmingly Voted for Cuomo, Majority of College Educated Vote For Jihadi Mamdani
Hollywood In Toto: Sovereign – Parks & Rec’s Ron Swanson Gone Wild, These Stars Slammed Trump Voters, Not Just Trump, and M3GAN 2.0 Does Not Compute
The Lid: This is Your ‘Higher Education’: Georgetown Prof. Wishes for Iranian Strike on U.S.A., also, L.A. Area Vice Mayor Urges Street Gangs to Assassinate ICE Officers
Legal Insurrection: RFK Jr Secures Pledge from Insurers to Streamline Prior Authorization Practices, Climate Activists Block the Road as Man Rushes Home to Pregnant Wife, Georgetown Prof Walks Back Statement That Iran Should Perform ‘Symbolic’ Strike on US Base, Zohran Mamdani is the Red-Green Alliance, and New Ohio Higher Ed Law Banning DEI Policies and Faculty Strikes Takes Effect This Week
Matt Taibbi: Socialism Wins Its American Normandy, also, What Am I For?
Outkick: Switzerland Women’s National Soccer Team Got Smoked By U15 Boys Team, Dan Le Batard Says Shannon Sharpe’s Career At ESPN Is Over, We Aren’t As Certain, MLB All-Star Hilariously Announces Retirement, Oilers Already Hard At Work After Stanley Cup Disappointment, and Cooper Flagg Goes No. 1 To Dallas Mavericks In Draft, Perhaps NBA Planned It That Way?
Power Line: Their man in St. Paul, Walz underwater in statewide poll, and Why So Many Rich Socialists?
Shark Tank: Floridians Can Count On Senator Ashley Moody
Shot In The Dark: History Is Blank Verse, also, A Policy Proposal
The Political Hat: The Trump Tram Ride
This Ain’t Hell: Illegal alien charged with attempted murder after attacking federal agent, Refineries closing, BDAs not looking good, Iran’s nuclear program set back years by strikes: President Trump would hit them again if they get rebuilt, and Twenty-four years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York may end up with Muslim mayor
Transterrestrial Musings: Terry Savage, We Knew It, and Unconditional Surrender
Victory Girls: Goodbye New York: Radical Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Primary
Watts Up With That: Heatwaves and Excess Deaths–The Facts, South Africa Embraces Green Hydrogen Exports as the Solution to their Economic Woes, Professor Judith Curry – Climate Science Has Become Pseudo Science, Multi-state lawsuit to stop wind-stopping executive order inches ahead, and Good Laugh For Today: New York State Says It Will Build A New Nuclear Power Plant
The Federalist: Florida Moves Forward With ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ ICE Detention Center Over Objections From Democrat Mayor, Key Biden Adviser Refuses To Testify About Former President’s Cognitive Decline, America Will Be Better Off, And More Self-Reliant, Without Illegal Immigrant Labor, Biden Staffer Directing Autopen Didn’t Know Who Final Authorization Came From, and The New York Times Is Mad Transportation Secretary Duffy Raised A Big, Happy Family
Mark Steyn: Things That Don’t Change, Harmony and Understanding, and Live Around the Planet: Blessed Is The Peacemaker

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In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 25, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Call For Fantasy & SF Authors – Epic Indie Summer Books Sale!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Is Anything In Your Car Worth Your Life?
EBL: Flight Risk, DANCING PLAGUE, and CEASEFIRE BETWEEN IRAN AND ISRAEL?
Twitchy: Mary Katherine Ham’s Sarcastic Take on History’s Next “Perfect” Experiment, Stanford Swears They Never Did Troon Surgeries But They’ll Stop Now, and “According To CNN” Trends on X As Users Show How Much Trust They Have In Legacy Media
Louder With Crowder: Florida announces illegal immigrant detention center surrounded by gators, and of course it’s called “Alligator Alcatraz”, Woke Amazon worker has a nutty, isn’t sure how to do her job without “crashing out” over Trump bombing Iran, Elizabeth Warren goes on warpath about Donald Trump putting “lives at risk…” while she is speaking at Planned Parenthood, and Trump drops EPIC rant against Occasional Cortex, and someone turned it into the Star Wars theme
Vox Popoli: What an Odd Thing to Say, Another Nail in the Coffin, MIGA is Backpedaling Fast, US Begs China for Help, and More Kabuki
Stoic Observations: Transcendant Culture
Upstream Reviews: A Long, Fat Shadow, also, Freedom Express
Jim McCoy: Knights of Badassdom

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Sloops Of War – Now More Than Ever
Don Surber: Trump Always Confuses Opponents
Matt Taibbi: The SPAC Is Back!
Shark Tank: Miccosukee Tribe Requests Halt To “Alligator Alcatraz” Plans
Shot In The Dark: Back On Course, also, Of Note
STUMP: Deaths From Heat In The U.S. – Update To 2024

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NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe

Posted on | June 25, 2025 | Comments Off on NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe

Never go full Zimbabwe. You can order a $10 trillion Zimbabwe note online for under $25, which is still more than its actual value as currency, but rather reflects what it’s worth as a collector’s item, a memento of the kleptocratic regime of Robert Mugabe. New York City doesn’t issue its own currency, so we won’t be able to use that metric to judge the consequences of Zohran Mamdani being elected mayor, but a Zimbabwe-scale disaster probably can’t be avoided. Having won the Democratic primary, the socialist Mamdani is all but certain to become New York City’s next mayor. The bumbling incumbent Eric Adams is seeking re-election as an independent, Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate and the loser Andrew Cuomo may also run as an independent in the general election, but it’s difficult to see a scenario where any of them gets more votes than Mamdani in November. The writing is on the wall.

New York City is now doomed beyond hope of redemption.

Here’s two words for you: Capital flight.

Mamdani’s socialist agenda will inspire an irreversible exodus of investment from the city. It’s not just a matter of high-earning indviduals fleeing to avoid confiscatory taxation — although that will certainly happen, too — but the simple fact that Mandani’s anti-business policies will make it impossible for any company to operate profitably in the city.

New Yorkers just voted for this. Unreal. pic.twitter.com/agIbnRQyCF

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 25, 2025

New York will wither away. pic.twitter.com/uxhEXlXrQN

— ice (@icebergz99) June 24, 2025

Since Rudy Giuliani left office in 2001, every mayor of New York has been worse than his predecessor. Michael Bloomberg was awful, but Bill de Blasio was a catastrophe, and Eric Adams is a pathetic joke. The city is now prepared to elect a “charismatic” young radical who bids fair to make the David Dinkins era seem a mild annoyance by comparison.

There are some who say a Mamdani administration probably won’t be as bad as his campaign promises suggest. But my guess is that it will actually be much worse than most people now imagine. Which is to say, “this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions”:

Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Snake Plissken could not be reached for comment.