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Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association 2.0: Illegal Immigrants Are the New Khmer Rouge or Something

Posted on | June 9, 2025 | 1 Comment

Dana Pico was thrashing Philadelphia Inquirer liberal columnist Will Bunch, who loves Kilmar Abrego Garcia more than he loves his own mother, and it got me thinking about the utterly reflexive nature of left-wing politics. Liberals see the world as a great dramatic conflict between the Forces of Evil (Republicans generally, and Donald Trump specifically) and the Innocent Victims of Oppression. This is the only explanation for why, after Democrats lost an election in which all polling showed the electorate tilting sharply right on the immigration issue, liberals have now embraced criminal foreigners as their beloved mascots.

Over there in their Bluesky echo chambers, liberals like Will Bunch are convinced they’re on “the right side of history,” and the fact that polls show a majority of voters support mass deportation of illegal immigrants — it was a crucial issue last November — doesn’t make a dent. They claim to be defending democracy, and yet when the president actually does what voters elected him to do, liberals scream “fascism.”

“War is peace,” “ignorance is strength,” democracy is fascism.

This kind of knee-jerk reaction could have devastating political consequences for Democrats, as NBC News observed in reporting on the recent human trafficking indictment of Abrego Garcia:

The apparent strength of the government’s case could reignite debate among Democrats about the risks of focusing on Abrego Garcia’s case. For weeks, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and other Democrats emphasized that their criticism targeted Trump’s decision to unilaterally deport Abrego Garcia without judicial oversight, not a defense of Abrego Garcia himself. . . .
Van Hollen defended his stance in a CNN interview. “You know, I will never apologize for defending the Constitution,” he said. “In fact, it’s the Trump administration and all his cronies who should apologize to the country for putting us through this unnecessary situation.”

Did you catch that? The Constitution is at stake, according to this eminent Democrat, because DHS made a paperwork error, loading the MS-13 gangster onto a deportation flight without taking notice of a judge’s 2019 grant of “protected” status for Abrego Garcia.

Anyone making a common-sense assessment would say, “So what?” It would probably be easy — although requiring a court hearing or two — to rescind the “protected” status, which appears to have been granted (a) entirely on the basis of Abrego Garcia’s assertion that he would be at risk of violence from rival gangs if he were returned to El Salvador and (b) without knowledge of his criminal activities in the United States. What is known now about Abrego Garcia was not known to the judge in 2019, and therefore Abrego Garcia’s “protected” status may be regarded as invalid, yet Chris Van Hollen seems to believe the entire Constitution depends upon this, and the lunatic Will Bunch is shouting “Free Kilmar” as if the wife-beating gang-banger were a heroic martyr.

Voters elected Donald Trump for a reason, and if Chris Van Hollen, Will Bunch or anyone else thinks they’re going to fool the electorate into sharing their sympathy for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they’re simply delusional. But we have often seen the Left enthralled by such delusions.

The Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association in 1978

Jan Myrdal, Marita Wikander, Gunnar Bergström and Hedvig Ekerwald were Swedish socialists who enthusiastically supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, a widespread sentiment in Sweden at the time:

The Indochinese revolutionary movements enjoyed widespread support in Swedish society, particularly among supporters of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh [in April 1975] and expelled its inhabitants, 15,000 Swedes greeted their victory by spontaneously celebrating in the center of Stockholm.

The arrival of Year Zero in Democratic Kampuchea was, as we now know, the beginning of one of the most murderous tyrannies in all human history. The best estimates are that Pol Pot’s communist regime killed about 1.5 million people, nearly 25% of the country’s population.

The first widely noticed account of the ongoing massacre in Cambodia was published by the Reader’s Digest in February 1977, and immediately sparked widespread controversy. The Left, having embraced the Communist regime in Cambodia, denounced the Reader’s Digest account as “propaganda.” To quote Wikipedia:

According to Joel Brinkley, “Khmer Rouge apologists [among Western academics] easily outnumbered those who believed a tragedy was under way.” . . .
[H]uman-rights activist David Hawk . . . claimed that the West was indifferent to the atrocities taking place in Cambodia due to “the influence of anti-war academics on the American left who obfuscated Khmer Rouge behavior, denigrated the post-1975 refugee reports, and denounced the journalists who got those stories.”

In the prevailing worldview of the intelligentsia, the Communists must be good, because America was bad. Therefore, reports about atrocities in Cambodia (based on accounts from those who had escaped) must be false or exaggerated. Such was the background of the August 1978 trip to Cambodia by Myrdal, Wikander, Bergström and Ekerwald as a delegation from the Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association (SKFA). They spent two weeks as guests of the Khmer Rouge, even having dinner with Pol Pot, and “returned to Sweden where they undertook a speaking tour and wrote articles in support of the Democratic Kampuchea regime.” Bergström expressed the belief that, under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia could become “a very special model for the third world … an ideal society with no oppressors.” And this, keep in mind, was a brutal regime that killed a higher percentage of their national population than any known dictatorship in all human history. Among the victims were Marita Wikander’s husband. She had married a Khmer Rouge diplomat, who returned to Cambodia in 1977. During the SKFA trip to Phnom Penh in 1978, she asked to see her husband. The request was denied. It wasn’t until years later that she learned he had been executed by the regime shortly after his return to Cambodia. Such an “ideal society“!

The analogy to current liberal politics is obvious enough. Viewing Trump as the Sum of All Evils, liberals reflexively attack any policy advocated by Trump. Therefore, if Trump wishes to deport criminal illegal aliens, liberals must defend criminal illegal aliens: “Free Kilmar!”

Yeah, now, about those so-called “peaceful protests” . . .



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Some Jeep Drivers Are Okay

Posted on | June 9, 2025 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This one at least looks good enough to be forgiven for the kind of crappy driving Jeep owners are prone to. Thanks to @kbdabear on X.
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The Thing That Never Happens Has Somehow Happened Once Again

Posted on | June 8, 2025 | Comments Off on The Thing That Never Happens Has Somehow Happened Once Again

All the experts have assured us that election fraud is impossible. No election is ever “rigged” or “stolen” in America, and anyone who says otherwise is emphatically denounced as a crypto-fascist threat to Democracy. Meanwhile, in south Georgia . . .

The mayor of a small southwest Georgia city and two former election officials are now free on bond after being indicted on multiple counts of election interference and conspiring to shut down a special election in November.
Camilla Mayor Kelvin Owens has been released on a bond of $6,000; City Clerk Cheryl Ford is free on a $10,000 bond; and former Election Superintendent Rhunette Williford posted a $7,000 bond, an official from the Mitchell County (Ga.) Sheriff’s Office told The Federalist Monday afternoon. The public officers face a combined 13 counts, including felony election interference charges, after being indicted by a Mitchell County grand jury last Wednesday.
The scandal, stemming from the attempted cancelation of a special city council election in which Owens’ political ally was disqualified from running has stunned the community of 5,000 people, located about 60 miles north of Tallahassee. Only the special election, held on Election Day, was interrupted; the Nov. 5 general election, including the presidential election, went on unmolested.
Owens, who is black, has blamed racial politics for the legal scuffles that led to the misconduct allegations. So have black community members and activists who see “systemic voter suppression” in the indictments. . . .

You can read the rest of that at The Federalist, and I wish to commend their senior elections correspondent Matt Kittle for attempting to make sense of this story, which still makes no sense at all. When I saw the first Associated Press version of the story last weekend, I immediately texted my friend Dianna Deeley, who lives in Valdosta, about 70 miles east of Camilla: “What the heck is going on in Camilla?”

Just a few choice bits from that AP story:

Chaos roiled special elections for a pair of city council seats in Camilla last November amid a long-running legal battle over local politics in the town, a farming community of about 5,000 people in rural southwest Georgia.
The case revolved around Venterra Pollard, a city council member removed from office last summer after a judge ruled he wasn’t a Camilla resident. Pollard ran to regain the position in the fall special election. Another judge ordered Pollard disqualified and ruled that votes for him should be discarded. In addition, the city was ordered to post signs saying votes for Pollard wouldn’t be counted.
On Nov. 4, the day before Election Day, both Williford and Ford quit as the city’s two top elections officials. Their joint resignation letter blamed “mental duress, stress and coercion experienced by recent court decisions regarding our role in elections.” . . .
The Georgia NAACP said in a statement on Facebook that it was “deeply alarmed” by the allegations of election interference as well as the arrests of Owens and the two former election officials, all of whom are Black.
“We were shocked that there were indictments,” said Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia NAACP. “We are still in a fact-finding mode to see what actually happened.”

All this uproar, including a lawsuit that was appealed all the way to the state Supreme Court, over a city council seat in a podunk town? I was as confused as Joe Biden in a national security briefing, and so I’ve spent hours digging into this story over the past few days. Pour another cup of coffee and grab a seat, folks, because it’s a long story.

Mitchell County, Georgia, may not be exactly in the middle of nowhere, but it’s not far away from it. The whole county’s population is 27,755. Pecans are a major crop in southwest Georgia, and driving through the region you’ll see many beautiful groves of pecan trees. Other agricultural products include soybeans, peanuts, cotton and cattle, and my brother Kirby — a truck driver who did a lot of hauling in our native Georgia — informs me that there’s also lots of tomato farming down that way.

There are two high schools in the county, Pelham High and Mitchell County High, each of which has fewer than 400 students. Folks live and die for football in Georgia, and the Mitchell County Eagles had an outstanding season last year, going 8-2 and qualifying for the state playoffs, where they beat Hancock Central 47-12 in the first round before falling to Lincoln County, 49-7, in the second round, to finish with 9-3 record. Meanwhile, the Pelham Hornets endured a miserable 3-8 season, including a 52-34 loss to Mitchell County. Football would have been on everybody’s mind in Mitchell County last November, had it not been for the election. Donald Trump carried Mitchell County by a 16-point margin, with 58% to 42% for Kamala Harris. And that would have been it, except for what the latest episode in what the Albany (Ga.) Herald called the “Kerfuffle in Camilla.” The story really began in October 2017:

A recent college graduate in Camilla was running for a position on the city council, but the election superintendent said his residency disqualifies him.
Corey Morgan, 22, went before the election superintendent last week to answer questions about the status of his residency.
A councilwoman accused him of not living in the city during the year leading up to the election.
During the hearing, it was revealed Morgan had switched his voter [registration] to Troup County, where he was a student at LaGrange College.
Monday, officials determined that since Morgan had not been living in Mitchell County for the required one-year period leading up to the election, he was unqualified to run during this year’s election cycle.

That’s understandable, right? But two years later, Morgan qualified to run and, at age 24, won election to the city council in Camilla.

Did I mention that folks in Georgia are crazy about football? Because it so happens that Corey Morgan played football for LaGrange College, as a defensive lineman. And his roster page informs us that in high school, Morgan played at Pelham High. Wait a minute — if Corey Morgan is from Camilla, which is where Mitchell County High School is located, why did he attend high school in Pelham, 10 miles down the road? Never mind. We’ll get to that later, meanwhile, in 2017, Venterra Pollard was elected to the Camilla City Council, and it was the attempt to elect Pollard again in 2024 that resulted in the current charges against Mayor Owens and his two co-defendants who suffered such “mental duress” during the election.

Venterra Pollard (left) and Corey Morgan (right)

What was Venterra Pollard’s occupation before he got elected to the city council? Good luck finding an answer to that question, because I wasted an hour trying to turn up an answer with Google searches, to no avail.

By the way, what do they pay city council members in Camilla? A town of barely 5,000 residents probably wouldn’t have a lot of money to pay elected officials, and this is part of the mystery underlying this whole saga — why such a big fight over municipal offices in this tiny town, given the fact that the salaries for these positions aren’t really lucrative?

In January 2024, after a judge ordered them removed from office, Morgan and Pollard described themselves as members of “a progressive majority that believes in equity, inclusion, and diversity both socially and economically.” Also, maybe there was some money to be made? But now we’re getting ahead of the story. It was Joe Bostick, chairman of the Mitchell County Development Authority (MCDA) board, and MCDA board member David Cooper, who in 2022 filed a lawsuit accusing Morgan and Pollard of violating the residency requirement.

MCDA Chairman Joe Bostick

As the lawsuit demonstrated, Bostick and Cooper had done their homework, hiring a private investigator to conduct surveillance:

During the investigation, a private investigator performed 75 days of video surveillance of the 70 Dogwood St. residence in Camilla where Pollard has claimed to reside and the 74 Sunset Circle residence where Morgan has claimed he lives, Cohilas said. During that time neither council member spent a night in Camilla.
According to court documents, Pollard was served with the lawsuit at that Albany residence and threw the paperwork on the ground. Morgan was not served at the Camilla address but picked up his copy of the lawsuit at City Hall in Camilla.
Both also have been surveilled driving to and from Camilla for council meetings, in Pollard’s case to and from Westover Place apartments in Albany, and for Morgan a Pelham residence, according to court filings. Neither has a lease for a Camila residence or pays property tax on residential property in the city.

In fact, the apartment in Albany where Pollard was living offers Secton 8 subsidized rent. Pollard claimed to be living at his sister’s house in Camilla, while Morgan claimed to be living with his grandmother there, but were unable to provide evidence substantiating these arrangements.

The judge ordered both Morgan and Pollard removed from the city council, but they continued to attend meetings and vote while appealing the verdict. When the state court of appeals upheld the verdict in December 2023, the attorney for Cooper and Bostick, Chris Cohilas, called the ruling a “tremendous victory” for the residents of Camilla, “who have lived under the tyranny of a pattern of corrupt decisions.” Indeed, these men were voting on how taxpayer money was spent while they themselves didn’t pay a nickel of taxes in Camilla, where neither of them resided. Despite this, Owens and two city election officials tried to claim Pollard had “requalified” for the council and tried to put him back on the ballot in a 2024 special election. Cohilas said in October 2024: “This is exactly what happens whenever you have corruption in government, is that the first thing you try, the first thing that a corrupt government will always try to manipulate is the election.” But . . . why?

That’s the big mystery here. My friend Dianna Deeley took a look at the Camilla City budget and, incredible as it may seem, this town of 5,000 people had $13 million in revenue during the fiscal year 2024. According to Dianna, much of that revenue came from the city’s airport and I’m sure many readers are saying the same thing I said: “What? The city owns an airport? That generates millions of dollars of revenue annually?”

Yes, it’s true: Camilla-Mitchell County Airport has a 5,000-foot runway, which means it’s big enough to handle small private jets, and here’s an interesting detail:

Prominent area businesses generate a significant amount of corporate air traffic throughout the year. Considered a hunting destination, Camilla-Mitchell County is home to some of the finest, world renowned quail hunting plantations in southwest Georgia. Hunters from across the nation fly in to the Camilla-Mitchell County Airport to enjoy quality hunting experiences, relaxed and refined accommodations, and Southern hospitality at its best.

“World renowned quail hunting plantations”? Never would have guessed that corporate jets were flying in hunters “from across the nation” to hunt quail in Mitchell County. Five such plantations are listed on the county’s web site, including CoveyRise:

CoveyRise Plantation is located on the banks of the Flint River in game rich Southwest Georgia. We are a family run, full service lodge dedicated to bringing you “The ultimate quail hunting experience”. We hunt where the quail are plentiful and where every possible preparation is made to ensure an enjoyable stay and a successful hunt.

How much do hunters pay for that experience? Lots. And guess what? It’s good for the environment, because the owners maintaining quality habitat for quail are the only reason these thousands of acres aren’t being farmed by some gigantic agribusiness conglomerate.

Well, quail hunting probably has nothing to do with this mess in Camilla, except for the fact that the city owns the airport, and might we suspect that the council’s “progressive majority that believes in equity, inclusion, and diversity,” also believes in getting a slice of the action?

Mind you, I have seen no evidence of any kind of graft or kickbacks involving the Camilla City Council, but doesn’t it seem suspicious that Mayor Owens and his allies are so determined to control the council that they would bring in a couple of non-residents to put them on the council, if there was no financial benefit to them? After examining the city budget, Dianna Deeley says roughly a third of municipal revenue comes from the airport, so if there’s any financial corruption in Camilla — which again, I have no evidence of such — it probably involves the airport.

As might be expected, accusations of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — have ensued since Mayor Owens and his two alleged accomplices were indicted, but I think this story is actually much more complex. It seems to me that citizens of Camilla ought to ask the state Attorney General’s office to investigate the city finances, just to be on the safe side. Experts might dismiss my suspicion as a “conspiracy theory,” but then again, the experts said there was no such thing as election fraud, and how’d that turn out?

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FMJRA 2.0: Marginal Victory

Posted on | June 8, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Marginal Victory

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, that week turned out very differently than I expected. First, we swept the two-game series against the Angels against whom we were 3-5, with Blue Moon Odom notching his second win in relief (vice Jim Kaat) and Spaceman Lee taking Game Two for his fourteenth win. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to repeat our earlier sweep of the Day Traders; Odom got his third relief win in Game One as our boys staged a late rally against Ed Sprague for a 2-1 squeaker. Unfortunately, we then had to face Phil Niekro and Steve Carlton, and we just got pounded. So we ended the week 3-2, which is better than .500; this brings us to 64-71, half a game behind the Twins (who we’ll face again on Friday) and thirteen games behind Pete’s Brewers. Our Tuesday opponents are the Hated Yankees, against whom we are 5-4, and then the Twins (3-6). I think we’re still in the hunt for a wild-card playoff slot.
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The Mainstream Media’s Memory Hole Has Swallowed Deadly Attacks on Jews

Posted on | June 7, 2025 | 5 Comments

Barely two weeks have elapsed since left-wing activist Elias Rodriguez murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C., and it was only last Sunday that an Egyptian illegal alien, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, firebombed pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, leaving eight people injured, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor.

This is an obvious (and ominous) trend — radical terrorists are acting on the Left’s rhetoric about “globalizing the Intifada.” A mere 10 days separated these two attacks, and you might think that journalists would have some sense of civic duty to alert the public to the heightened level of danger this trend represents. Yet coverage of these incidents has swiftly disappeared from the nightly news on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS, and from the MSNBC and CNN cable channels. Why? Because these attacks do not fit the Democratic Party’s propaganda narrative.

Democrats and their media allies have spent years hyping up the threat of “white supremacy” and “Christian nationalism,” messages intended to convince American Jews that the only threat to them is from “right-wing” (i.e., Republican) antisemites, with Donald Trump being the alleged manifestation of this existential menace. This propaganda narrative is contradicted when the people actually trying to kill Jews are a radical from Chicago named Rodriguez and an Egyptian named Mohamed.

It is from the New York Post — and not from the Times — that we learn about the organized support for anti-Jewish terrorism:

A rabid anti-Israel hate group accused of helping to incite a Columbia University library takeover is now praising alleged DC Jewish Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez’s heinous crime as an act of “love.”
The notorious radical Unity of Fields also touted and provided a link to Rodriguez’s reported hate-fueled manifesto titled, “ESCALATE FOR GAZA, BRING THE WAR HOME.’’
“What Elias Rodriguez did was an act of solidarity and love for the Palestinian people,’’ the extreme lefty organization wrote on X [May 23].
“If this seems crazy and unhinged to you, ask yourself why you are so well adjusted to a constant stream of disemboweled and starving children — made possible by the country in which you reside.” . . .
“We don’t condemn armed resistance,’’ it wrote. “We don’t condemn direct action. We back the left and want this energy to be more organized as opposed to shunned and isolated.”
In touting Rodriguez’s purported manifesto, the group posted a section of the suspect’s twisted screed:
“Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen. But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human.”
Unity of Fields is the same group that put out fliers lionizing a Palestinian terrorist — leaflets that were passed around as anti-Israel protesters stormed Columbia’s Butler Library on May 7.

There are actual organizations involved in promoting “armed resistance” against Jews, so that the so-called “lone wolf” attackers are not actually alone, and copycat attacks are incited: “ESCALATE FOR GAZA!”

In their role as “Democratic operatives as bylines,” journalists must ignore this reality. They ignore the clear connections between the Chinese Communist Party, Neville Singham and anti-Israel activism.

The radical slogan “no enemies to the left” (pas d’ennemis à gauche) has effectively become part of the news media’s handbook. Even when left-wingers are murdering Jews, the media will not interpret this as evidence that the Left may be generally problematic, and the quicker they can shove such a story down the Memory Hole, the better.



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.06.25

Posted on | June 7, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Jim McCoy: The Chosen One’s Apprentice

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In The Mailbox: 06.05.25

Posted on | June 6, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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EBL: Colonel Bagshot – Six Day War, also, MAGA Musk Thermonuclear Meme War
Twitchy: JD Vance Shows Why He’s The Best VP Ever With Perfect Tension-Breaker, Jessica Tarlov Lies About Why ICE Agents Are Masking Up, and Is This What You Voted For?
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk Loses His Mind on Trump, Woke socialist mayoral candidate promises taxpayer-funded “free” stuff…while speaking in Hindi, and Remember that Democrat official caught on video assaulting an ICE officer? ARRESTED!
Vox Popoli: Because You Wanted It, The Modes of Persuasion, Omni-Narrational Skepticism Confirmed, and Belligerence Has Consequences
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Gun Rights Cake
Stoic Observations: Joyful Things
Jim McCoy: Forgemaster

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Might Not Be Able to Skirt Iran’s Red Line
American Greatness: Joe Biden Claims He Made All the Decisions in the White House; Says Any Suggestion He Didn’t is ‘Ridiculous and False’, NC High School Student Suspended for Saying ‘Illegal Alien’ Will Receive Public Apology, and Biden’s Border Nihilism Will Live Long After He Is Gone
American Thinker: The Nuremberg Code And The Vaccine Mandate For Service Members, also, The Tide Has Finally Turned Against Scientific Atheism
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Feds Sue Texas Over Illegal Alien Tuition
Behind The Black: Ispace confirms that its Resilience lunar lander has failed, apparently crashing on the Moon, China launches another set of satellites for one of its giant internet constellations, Scientists discover another exoplanet that theories say should not exist, and Scientists release the first year’s data from the Pace orbiter
Cafe Hayek: Protectionism Isn’t Justified During Downturns
CDR Salamander: Mold Builds Character & Thin Walls Enhance Lethality
Da Tech Guy: Elon Musk Obviously Wasn’t Paying Attention to the Epstein Story in May of 2016, but I WAS or He Wouldn’t Have Tweeted What He Did About Trump
Dana Loesch: Judge Blocks Deportation of Terrorist’s Family, also, The Season Finale of MAGA
Don Surber: The art of the deportation
First Street Journal: Legally enforced helicopter parenting, also, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: What We Need Is More Coffee-Colored Swedes
The Geller Report: ICE Arrests Illegal With Ties to Al Qaeda, Education Department Says Columbia University No Longer Meets Standards for Accreditation, AGROTERRORISM – This Was Not The First Time, and AGROTERRORISM – Chinese Bio-Terrorists Who Smuggled Dangerous Pathogen Worked in Laboratory Funded By Federal Government
Hollywood In Toto: Armed Rabbi Embraces Second Amendment in Guns & Moses, also, Dangerous Animals Takes Shark Horror to New Level
The Lid: Trump Approval Ratings Higher Now than Obama’s and Bush’s at the Same Time in Their Terms
Legal Insurrection: Federal Government Moves to Cut Funding for California High-Speed Rail, Democrats Want to Unmask ICE Agents But Not Anti-Israel Campus Protesters, Columbia Protester Allegedly Has Direct Link to Hamas, Antisemitism Case Against UPenn Dismissed Without Prejudice, and Supreme Court Rules Wisconsin Unconstitutionally Discriminated Against Catholic Charities
Matt Taibbi: Nothing Stops Goldman Sachs
Outkick: Both Key Figures In Nike-Funded Transgender Athlete Study Decline To Speak With OutKick, Lane Kiffin Tried Almost Everything To Steal AJ McCarron From Nick Saban, Even Sneaking Around Jeremy Pruitt, ‘Comeback’ Pacers Upset Thunder in Game 1 With Haliburton Game Winner, Red Sox Icon Kevin Youkilis Exposes Hate He’s Received After FOX Interview on Fighting Antisemitism, and Nancy Mace Is America’s Hottest Waffle House Waitress, Pride Balls Are Here & Elon’s Pissing Contest Vs. Trump
Power Line: Silence please [With Comment by John], More Fraud Than We Imagined, and Whites Need Not Apply?
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Charges Osceola County Sheriff In Illegal Gambling Operation
Shot In The Dark: Taco Tuesday
STUMP: Great News! U.S. Homicides Way Down in 2025!
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Euthanasia Expanding Everywhere: Extreme Laws In France; A Human Right In Estonia; MAID For Kids in Manitoba
This Ain’t Hell: Ukrainians get some, Valor Friday, Donald Trump orders autopen investigation – Joe Biden insists he made the decisions, SecNav Shocked and Dismayed at Enlisted Living Conditions, and The US Supreme Court rules against Mexico and in favor of US gun makers
Victory Girls: AOC Endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor—and That Should Worry Everyone
Watts Up With That: The Guardian’s Climate Cult – Fiona Harvey’s Latest Sermon on COP30, Failure Was an Option – Sunnova’s Taxpayer-Funded Solar Flop, Axios Misleads on Hot Summers, and Trump’s Attack on Harvard Could be a Turning Point in the Battle Against the Climate Cult
The Federalist: Media, Democrats Breathlessly Defend Having Naval Ship Named After Gay Pederast, Duo Arrested In Belgium For Signs Defying Transgenderism, Nearly One-Quarter Of U.S. Public School Enrollment Could Be Anchor Babies, Trump Launches Investigation Into Autopen, Whether Biden Was Actually President, and How Long Will Trump Let Rogue Judges Break The Law To Help Gangsters And Terrorists?
Mark Steyn: Heaven on Earth

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In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Mother Defends Her Daughter
EBL: Chinese spies/saboteurs bring harmful fungi to US, Supreme Court Significantly Narrows NEPA Environmental Reviews, Blue Cheese, Decker Sisters Murdered, and Comrade Brennan worried about Trump coming after him
Twitchy: Charges Dropped Against Deputy Who Punched A “Woman” He Met At A Club, CNN Mocks Republicans Wanting To Investigate Biden Because “It’s A Very Backward-Looking Exercise”, and Meep! Meep! DeSantis Drops ACME Anvil – Congress Should Strip Deportation-Hindering Courts’ Power
Louder With Crowder: Teen who was suspended from school for calling illegal aliens “illegal aliens” now has a sizable settlement and a public apology, 13-year-old secret service agent honored by Trump gets bad news, but he’s still more concerned with helping other kids, Nothing to see here, just the Democrat Minority Leader THREATENING to dox ICE officials for enforcing the law, Democrat Congresswoman demands we stop deporting illegal immigrants because we need them to, quote, “wipe our @$$es”, and Remember that female Olympic boxer who people claimed wasn’t a man?
Vox Popoli: There is No Joe Biden, From Kill Chain to Kill Web, Civilian Infrastructure is Fair Game, RIP Jim Marshall, and US Intelligence Reportedly Backed Kiev Strikes
Cedar Sanderson: A Mother’s Duty
Stoic Observations: Negative Liberty In Stoic Marriage
Toni Airaksinen: How Columbia University Hamas Supporters Led Me To Convert To Judaism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Greasy Pole – The Get off the Internet episode
American Conservative: Where Is Netanyahu’s Blame for Hamas?
American Greatness: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Threatens ICE Agents with Doxxing Over Immigration Enforcement, How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class, Riley Gaines Calls Out Male Pitcher Who Dominated Minnesota [Girls] Softball State Championship, Paxton Smokes Cornyn 50-28 Percent in Latest 2026 GOP Primary Poll, and ‘Genocide in Gaza’ Is a Blood Libel Lie, and the People Spreading It Are Encouraging Terror Attacks in the USA
American Thinker: The Maturing of Defense Secretary Hegseth, also, The Media’s Catch-22: Exposing Joe Biden Would Have Assured Trump’s Re-election
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Terrorist Dirtbag News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Hits Kerch Strait Bridge Again, also, Choke Point Choked Out?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, Two giant clusters of galaxies on target for second collision, Japanese lunar lander startup Ispace signs deal to build lander for ESA, Orbital tug startup Impulse raises $300 million in private investment capital, and Understanding Trump’s proposed NASA cuts, in the larger context of the overall federal budget
Cafe Hayek: Michael Shermer Talks With Phil Gramm and Me, also, An American Enterprise Institute Discussion of “The Triumph of Economic Freedom”
CDR Salamander: Increase Navy Accountability With One Simple Trick
Chicago Boyz: An Event from the End of History
Don Surber: How the Pride war was won
First Street Journal: Another Park Slope liberal cannot see what is right in front of her
Gates Of Vienna: Cabinet Schoof Has Resigned, also, Judgment in Düsseldorf
The Geller Report: BOULDER Firebombing Muslim’s Terrorist Declaration, Congress Nears Move To Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization, Colorado Muslim Terrorist’s Family Detained for Deportation, ‘AGROTERRORISM’: DOJ Charges Chinese Nationals With Smuggling Dangerous Pathogen into US, and President Trump Confirms US Nuclear Agreement with Iran WON’T Allow Any Uranium Enrichment
Hollywood In Toto: SHOCK: Orwell’s ‘1984’ Slapped with Trigger Warning, ‘Daily Show’ Owes Megyn Kelly Huge Apology, The Phoenician Scheme Is Exactly What You Expect, Why the Fiery But Not So Peaceful Ballerina Rocks, and Did Mountainhead Eerily Predict Boulder Terrorist Attack?
The Lid: Financial Giant Citi Finally Ending Discrimination and De-Banking of Conservatives
Legal Insurrection: In 8-0 Ruling, Supreme Court Significantly Narrows NEPA Environmental Reviews, Dept. Education: Columbia “fails to meet the standards for accreditation”, Penn Medicine Will No Longer Perform ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Surgeries on Minors, Colorado Judge Blocks Trump From Deporting Terror Suspect’s Family, and Grassley Releases Documents Regarding FBI Targeting Catholics Under Biden
Matt Taibbi: The Memory-Holing Of Everything, Even George Orwell
Outkick: Parents Call Out Unfairness As Trans Pitcher Throws Shutout In Minnesota Softball State Quarterfinals, Chipper Jones Has Turned Into The College Baseball Fun Police During The NCAA Tourney, Ex-NHL Star Theo Fleury Rips The State Of The Canadian Government, Thanks Elon Musk For Saving Free Speech, Hooters Begins Closing Stores Across The United States, Including The Legendary Tallahassee Location, and Oilers Boob Flasher Is Ready For Game 1, Kelly Stafford Stuffed In A Dress & Fake Outrage At Wake’s Coach
Power Line: Dutch elections, Reimagine there’s no Star Tribune, Hudson’s Bay closes after 355 years, and Mass Murder at USAID?
Shark Tank: Santa Ono Rejected As UF President
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins – Year 5, Twin Cities Left – Bring Back The Good Old Days, In Defense of the Brain, Opportunity Knocks
The Political Hat: Washington State’s War On Clergy, also, Blowing Up The Rules
This Ain’t Hell: Seattle church event “swarmed” by protesters, so Mayor blames Christians, SECDEF to rename USNS Harvey Milk, Supremes get gutless…again, Army Recruiting Soars, and Arizona governor vetoes anti-CCP bill aimed at protecting US bases
Victory Girls: The Intifada Is Here And The Left Is Becoming The Joke, also, Fungus Among Us – Thank China
Watts Up With That: Ed Miliband STRIKES Again | Plans For “Net Zero Tax” On Household Gas Bills SLAMMED, Trump Admin Walks Back Biden Rule ‘Smothering’ Alaskan Oil, Permian Basin – The Energizer Bunny of Oil, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Releases Report Exposing No Viable Path Forward for California’s High-Speed Rail Boondoggle, and Heat Hysteria In Germany: Authorities Recommend No Beer, Barbecues On Hot Days!
The Federalist: Turn This New York Times Immigration Story Inside Out And It’s Perfect, ABC News Uses Antisemitic Attack To Parrot Hamas Front Group’s Talking Points On ‘Islamophobia’, WI Judge Charged With Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE Has A Case Of Judicial Privilege, 100 Years Ago, The Supreme Court Recognized Parental Rights. They Need To Do The Same Today, and Christopher Wray Lied To Congress Over Extent Of FBI’s Anti-Catholic Surveillance
Mark Steyn: Molotov Man Meets Awareness-Raisers, also, War: What For? 

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