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In The Mailbox: 02.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | February 4, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I posted about being a lifelong conservative Republican. Title courtesy of Kid Rock.
Hey, indie authors! It’s almost time for another Based Books sale!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Team Trump drives a wedge between Panama and China, The Day The Music Died, Presidential Medal of Freedom for Thomas Sowell, Anna Claire Howard and New York Magazine’s Cropped Cover Photo, and Andrew Breitbart
Twitchy: Holy Tone-Deaf, Batman! Brave #Resistance Fighter Leticia James Continues Lawfare Crusade Against Trump, and “Worse Than 9/11 For Democrats”
Louder With Crowder: Rep. Ilhan Omar Melts Down After Realization She Can No Longer Help Spend Your Tax Dollars On Foreign Aid, Chuck Schumer embarrasses himself with a Mexican beer trying to dunk on Donald Trump’s tariffs, Hakeem Jeffries makes violent threat against MAGA, promises to take his fight against Trump “to the streets”, Silly people are outraged at this ICE cream truck, think it’s meant to trick migrant kids into getting deported, and Meta employees DEMAND tampons be returned to the men’s bathrooms
Vox Popoli: Exit Sandman, From Free Trade to Forced Trade, The Pointlessness of Posturing, Testing the Free Trade Hypothesis, and A Desperation Move
Upstream Reviews: New Releases, also, The Icarus Needle
Stoic Observations: Say My Name, also, AI Don’t Dance
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: DOGE Follows The Money
Draw & Talk Comics: Comic Creator Scammed By AI?
Toni Airaksinen: UCincinnati Black Feminist Conference Prods Students To Fight For “Trans Rights, DEI Education”

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Don Surber: We Trumped you on that
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
STUMP: Pension Watch – January 2025, The Week In Meep, 

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‘Shrill and Hysterical’: Michael Bennett, Tulsi Gabbard and Edward Snowden

Posted on | February 4, 2025 | Comments Off on ‘Shrill and Hysterical’: Michael Bennett, Tulsi Gabbard and Edward Snowden

Everybody has commented on last week’s drama during the Senate confirmation hearing for Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence. Many of my readers are big fans of Tulsi on “Rule 5” grounds, but I hope you’ll forgive me for saying, “Meh.” Just not my type. I mean, don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends are Samoan, but . . . Well, best not to give more fodder to the SPLC, I suppose.

Anyway, my point is that my support of Gabbard’s nomination is objective, and not influenced by considerations of her alleged hotness. Her assignment from Trump, as I understand it, is to root out the Deep State corruption in the intelligence community (IC), and she was chosen for that task in large part because the Deep State went after her when she was challenging Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primaries. She was a target of the “spies who lie,” and is therefore highly motivated.

Trump II: Sweet Revenge, this administration would be called, if it were a blockbuster Hollywood adventure flick, and I’m totally down for this agenda, let the debris land where it may. A populist disruption of the bipartisan D.C. status quo is long overdue, and I probably shouldn’t be surprised by unexpected reactions to this, as the disruptive impact has shaken and shifted the coalitions which make up the two parties. People I have detested for years are now on “my” side, while others who I’d long considered my friends are now on the other side — despite the fact that I’m the same person I’ve always been. Going back to the earliest years of this blog, for example, we haven’t been exactly friendly toward Meghan McCain, to put it as mildly as possible. So it was with mixed emotions that I found myself nodding along with what she told Mark Halperin:

“Senator [Michael] Bennet’s behavior is an example of what Americans are sick of. It was designed for YouTube. . . . Like, I could see him looking for his camera angle. . . . No woman could scream at the top of her lungs, doing what he did, and not be called unhinged and shrill, and so I’m calling him unhinged and shrill.”

 

We are truly through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole, when I am favorably citing Meghan McCain. Now, as to the substance of Bennet’s histrionic performance, he kept demanding that Gabbard give a yes-or-no answer to the question, “Is Edward Snowden a traitor?” Well, the colloquial use of “traitor” is different than its constitutional definition, but I don’t know if semantics was the cause of Gabbard’s repeated refusal to answer “yes” to Bennet’s question.

At the time of Snowden’s data-dump of vast quantities of classified data he’d obtained while working as a contractor for the NSA, the Left generally hailed Snowden as a hero, much as they’d hailed Bradley Manning as a hero, and I was having none of that. Readers will recall how the whole “Anonymous” thing was originally linked to the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd, so that Julian Assange was beloved by the socialist scum, even after he was accused of raping one of his fangirls in Sweden.

The hero-worship of “leakers” and “hackers” always struck me as folly, even if — as has sometimes been the case — these leaks and hacks were politically beneficial to Republicans. (Hello, Hillary!)

The problem with Snowden, as with Manning, is that these were people holding a position of trust, given access to sensitive information as part of their jobs, and it offends my sense of honor and propriety whenever anyone in such a position betrays their duty. Some of my friends have security clearances, and are thus required to keep secrets, and when you’d getting paid to keep secrets, you ought to either (a) do your job or (b) quit. Here I will invoke the once-famous saying of Elbert Hubbard, that “an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”

To be entrusted with any secret as part of one’s employment is to accept the responsibility of protecting that secret as a moral duty. Notice that, in the Scout Law, “trustworthy” and “loyal” are the first qualities mentioned. This is not by accident. Snowden has said that his “breaking point” was “seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress” about domestic surveillance. We can all now agree, I believe, that Clapper is a wretched swine who ought to spend the rest of his life in Leavenworth, without endorsing what Snowden did.

What happened to those circa-2011 “Occupy” types, who once mentioned Snowden in the same worshipful tone that they praised Manning? What has happened in the past dozen years or so that Bennet is posturing like this — against a former Democratic congresswoman, I must point out — without any apparent fear that his party’s left-wing grassroots base will turn against him? When did Democrats become the party advocating domestic surveillance and defending federal spy agencies?

We live in strange times and, as I say, I’m the same person I’ve always been, just older and perhaps less prone to get excited over day-to-day battles of politics. Live long enough, you’ll see many situations like this, where the Democratic Party shifts en masse from one side of an issue to another, without ever acknowledging that they’ve changed their position. Of course, they went from being the party of Jim Crow to being the party of Black Lives Matter in roughly a half-century, and good luck trying to get any Democrat to provide an honest explanation of that trajectory.

Sometimes conservatives are accused of being similarly inconsistent, but I can answer that question simply: Conservatism is the opposition to liberalism, which is always the aggressor in the conflict. It has been pointed out — to me, directly, by friends who seem to think I’m in need of tutoring of the subject — that “liberalism” is a misnomer, adopted by Democrats in the 1930s as a way to escape the odium which attached itself to the “progressive” label that Woodrow Wilson had proudly worn. Over the past 20 years or so, the Left wing of the Democratic Party has tried to revive the “progressive” label, and some of them would even prefer to be known as “socialists.” My point, however, is that whatever they may call themselves at any time, liberals are always basically the same. Because they keep coming up with novel schemes to wreck the country (or sometimes re-branding their old schemes as “new”), liberals compel their opponents to shift their ground in order to defend the country from being wrecked. In this, then, conservatives resemble Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in 1864, constantly making flank marches southeastward, all the way from the Rappahannock to the James River, as Grant’s Union army shifted leftward in its attempt to get past Lee.

“Cthulhu may swim slowly. But he only swims left.”

What we are seeing now, if we can extend our military metaphor a bit further, is a counter-attack, an effort by conservatives to seize the strategic initiative, to push the progressive Cthulhu into a corner and keep hammering away at him until he’s finally defeated. In such a desperate struggle, we must take our allies where we find them, and accept that the tactical measures involved may be somewhat outside the Marquis of Queensbury’s rules. So I find myself nodding in agreement with Meghan McCain, and the army must keep marching.

Carry on, my fellow soldiers.



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: You Can Be My Cowgirl

Posted on | February 3, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: You Can Be My Cowgirl

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I think this is from Rule 5 Texan, appropriately enough.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 250th Anniversary Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Marianne Faithful (RIP), Mary Queen of Scots, Velvet, MAGA Trump Tariffs, The Couple Next Door, Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Hearing, Namewee, Blue Lights, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Prime Target, Kazoo Day, The Newsreader, J.D. Vance on Deface The Nation, Granville Banlock, Tulsi Time, “Rio De Janeiro”, and Cimarron Roll On.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Veronica Bielik, Eat a Berry, Pay a Fee?, Marianne Faithfull, Jagger Muse, Dead at 78, Fish Pic Friday – Jasmine Hardie, Tattoo Thursday, British Navy Fooled by Whale Farts, The Wednesday Wetness, Bay Cold Snap Threatens Speckled Trout, It Was A Very Trumpy Weekend, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Gone Fishin’, Palm Sunday, Hegseth Confirmed, and Mass Deportations Begin

BACON TIME: Rule Five – The Weather Outside Is Frightful

FLAPPR: Is 2025 The Year Of The Bush?

 

 

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Scott Siskind Didn’t Start the Fire: Rationalism, NY Times and the Zizians

Posted on | February 2, 2025 | Comments Off on Scott Siskind Didn’t Start the Fire: Rationalism, NY Times and the Zizians

Scott Siskind

Many readers will recall how the New York Times decided to dox the blogger Scott Alexander, whose Slate Star Codex was enormously popular. He responded by deleting his blog (some archives still exist) and publicly outing himself as San Francisco Bay area psychiatrist Dr. Scott Suskind (who comes from a family of many eminent physicians).

You may wonder, what does this have to do with the Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult that I’ve been blogging about for the past week? Well, a guy known as @KenTheCowboy has compiled a “Zizian Facts” document that is quite useful to anyone following this saga.

Overnight, I watched (or more accurately, listened to) a YouTube interview that Ken did with Jessica Taylor, who was the first person to make the connection between the Zizians and the January 20 shootout in Vermont that killed a Border Patrol agent. Taylor actually knew Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt, and also knew Jack “Ziz” LaSota because of her former employment as a staffer at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Taylor warned Bauckholt about the Zizians, but obviously the warning was not heeded. Now Bauckholt’s dead, and his companion Teresa “Milo” Youngblut is being held without bail, as is Maximillian “Audere” Snyder. Ziz is a fugitive from justice, whereabouts unknown, as are his reputed followers, Jasper “Gwen” Danielson and Michelle “Jamie” Zajko (all of whom should be considered armed and dangerous, I hasten to add). Toward the end of the interview with Taylor, Ken mentions that he got a shoutout from Reason magazine, and when I went to check this out (lead item in Liz Wolfe’s Morning Roundup on Friday), I noted a reference to the Zizians being part of “the rationalist scene” and decided to see what else Reason might have on this topic.

Among the results — using “rationalist” as the keyword in the search window on Reason‘s site — was Robby Soave’s 2021 article, “What The New York Times’ Hit Piece on Slate Star Codex Says About Media Gatekeeping.” In the second paragraph of the NYT “hit piece,” Slate Star Codex is referred to as “the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists.” These dots are starting to connect, you see.

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like ‘I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive….’ And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. . . .”
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Tempted as I am to jump into my wife’s Mazda and drive to Vermont — nothing’s stopping you from hitting the tip jar — I’ll probably resist that reckless impulse at least for now, but my point is that if ever a story needed the Gonzo method of journalism, Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult is certainly that story. Yet sitting here in my home office, there was a distinct mental click when I saw Robbie’s article about what the NYT did to Slate Star Codex. Why did they dox a blogger? Because, with its open discussion of issues, including philosophical questions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), Scott Siskind’s blog was becoming influential among certain Silicon Valley bigwigs, and the NYT was worried that this discussion might be pushing the Big Tech barons in a right-wing direction — and this could not be permitted.

Somewhat ironically, Siskind had pushed back against the “rationalist” label for his blog (“Saying ‘rationalist community’ when you mean ‘SSC comments section’ or vice versa will leave everybody pretty confused”), and he himself is certainly not a right-winger. He voted for Elizabeth Warren (!!!) in the 2020 Democratic primary, and voted for Joe Biden in the subsequent election. But it is nowadays “right wing” to defend free speech against censorship, and that was apparently Siskind’s great sin.

How does this connect to the Zizian cult? Well, after graduating from the Fairbanks campus of the University of Alaska with a computer engineering degree in 2013, Jack “Ziz” LaSota next enrolled in a master’s degree program at the University of Illinois, but subsequently dropped out and headed to Berkeley, California:

It is unclear when exactly LaSota arrived in the Bay Area, but according to the Center for Applied Rationality co-founder Anna Salamon, they [sic] attended a 5-day residency workshop organized by the nonprofit in July 2014. Salamon said the purpose of the workshop was to teach critical thinking skills and techniques to enhance and understand human decision-making — key aspects of the Rationalist movement.

CFAR is a spinoff of MIRI, and “the Rationalist movement” originated with MIRI founder Eliezer Yudkowsky’s concern that AI could pose an “existential threat” to humanity: “Over the years, Yudkowsky found that people struggled to think clearly about A.I. risk and were often dismissive of it. In 2011, Salamon, who had been working at MIRI since 2008, volunteered to figure out how to overcome that problem.” Salamon became director of CFAR, which operates programs to promote “rationalism” and, as I explained on Tuesday, these programs have become kind of an “AI Doomer Cool Kids Club.” Any ambitious young person in the West Coast tech world wants to get into the MIRI/CFAR network, which is seen as a pathway to their Big Tech dream job.

The influence of the “Rationalist movement” in Silicon Valley not only explains why the New York Times decided to dox Scott Siskind (for fear that Slate Star Codex was pushing Big Tech rightward), but also explains why Jack “Ziz” LaSota became enraged when Anna Salamon rejected him for a fellowship in the MIRI/CFAR summer AI program. He believed he had been blacklisted because of his transgender identity, and organized a bizarre protest against CFAR in November 2019. With flyers that accused Salamon of being a “trans-exclusive radical feminist” (TERF), Ziz and three associates — Amir “Emma” Borhanian, Jasper “Gwen” Danielson and Alexander “Somni” Leatham — donned hooded black “Sith” robes and Guy Fawkes masks and took over a Sonoma County campground that was hosting a CFAR alumni reunion. This led to a confrontation with law enforcement and felony charges. If Ziz hadn’t been blacklisted before that protest, certainly he was blacklisted afterwards, which no doubt partly explains why this cult ended up living in box trucks on the property of Curtis Lind in Vallejo. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a moratorium on evictions, so the Zizians stopped paying rent. When the moratorium was finally lifted in 2022, Lind was getting ready to evict these freaks if they didn’t pay up on more than $60,000 in back rent they owed him.

Curtis Lind

In November 2022, the Zizians then ambushed Lind, impaling him with a samurai sword among other injuries. Lind defended himself with a pistol, wounding Leatham and killing Borhanian. Leatham was arrested, along with a third participant in the attack, Suri Dao, but for some reason Ziz — who was reported by police to be at the scene, despite having faked his own death three months earlier, and still facing the Sonoma County charges from 2019 — was not taken into custody. Two months later, Zajko’s elderly parents were murdered in Pennsylvania and, when police served a search warrant at a motel where Zajko was staying, they learned that her Vermont roommate, Daniel Blank, was staying in another room. They searched that room and found not only Blank, but also “Ziz” LaSota — yet LaSota was again released from custody. Then in January of this year, police say, Lind was stabbed to death by Snyder, to prevent Lind from testifying against the Zizians who had attacked him. Three days after Lind’s murder, the Vermont shootout happened.

All of this deadly craziness, you understand, came out of the “Rationalist” movement, and perhaps I’m not the only one who smiles at this grim irony. Scott Siskind is not to blame, but he’s a psychiatrist, which is why I’m sure he’ll agree with my conclusion: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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FMJRA 2.0: Back In The Cellar

Posted on | February 2, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Back In The Cellar

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apparently everyone is really digging the Radical Transgender Vegan Death Cult News. 
It was a bad week to be at RFK if you were a Senators fan. We lost two out of three to the Cubs and then got swept by the A’s, which means we’re siting at 13-19…but we’re just four games behind division-leading Boston. Maybe we’ll pick up some wins against the Twins this Tuesday.
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In The Mailbox: 01.31.25
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Real Murders, Fake Suicides: ‘Zizian’ Death Cult Fugitives Still at Large

Posted on | February 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Real Murders, Fake Suicides: ‘Zizian’ Death Cult Fugitives Still at Large

Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota (left); Jasper ‘Gwen’ Danielson (right)

There are layers and layers to the story of the radical vegan transgender death cult known as “Zizians,” whose existence became newsworthy after two reputed associates of the cult, Teresa “Milo” Youngblut and Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt, got into a shootout in Vermont that killed a Border Patrol agent on Jan. 20. In the first few days after the shootout, in which Bauckholt was also killed, the news accounts were mysterious. What were Youngblut, a Seattle native, and Bauckholt, a German citizen in the U.S. on a work visa, doing up in Vermont near the Canadian border?

Jessica Taylor (@jessi_cata), who knew Bauckholt in New York City circa 2022 and tried to warn him about the cult following of Jack “Ziz” LaSota, connected the dots early, but it was Andy Ngo who was the first journalist to follow up on Taylor’s information.

Note that it took Andy three days — from Friday, Jan. 24, to Monday, Jan. 27 — to get from his first X post about the case to having a full story at the Post Millennial. That’s a lot of work and, as I say, when I first saw Andy’s Jan. 27 headline, I was like, “You gotta be kidding me.” Here we are, five days later, and now the Zizian death cult story is making headlines in Canada’s National Post:

An already bizarre shootout that killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent and a suspect on a highway near the Canadian border is unfurling into a sprawling investigation encompassing four other killings allegedly linked to an odd cabal of young math and computer whizzes sharing a passion for artificial intelligence, veganism, fringe philosophy and gender fluidity.

You can read the whole thing, which is a pretty good summary of the case for those not yet acquainted with it. Now that more reporters are paying attention to the cult angle, we’re starting to get some of the holes in the story filled in, like how “Ziz” LaSota faked his own death in 2022:

According to [defense attorney Jerold] Friedman, he received a phone call in August 2022 from LaSota’s defense attorney in a separate criminal case. That attorney told Friedman that LaSota fell from a boat in San Francisco Bay and was likely dead. When Friedman reached out to LaSota’s mother, she also “confirmed that Jack LaSota died.”
Friedman obtained the U.S. Coast Guard report on LaSota’s apparent drowning, which was submitted in evidence to the court. According to the Coast Guard, LaSota went overboard at approximately 11 p.m. on Aug. 19, 2022. . . . Despite hours of searching — and calm seas, clear weather and a 60-degree night — no trace of LaSota was found. An obituary posted to Legacy.com appeared not long after . . .
Less than three months later, Friedman said he was forwarded an email from the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office. “I just wanted to reach out and let you know that Jack Lasota was contacted by police in Vallejo this weekend,” it read. “Lasota was on scene, alive and well.”
Soon, LaSota would be confirmed alive by another police department. In early January 2023, Pennsylvania State Police troopers descended on the Candlewood Suites in Chester City. In hand, they had a search warrant for a room being occupied by Michelle Zajko, whose parents, Richard and Rita Zajko, had been shot and killed in their home on Dec. 31, 2022. One of the troopers testified in court that they believed the weapon in the killing, a 9 mm Smith and Wesson, was in Zajko’s possession.
During their search, the trooper said Zajko indicated she had companions in another hotel room. Upon searching that room, the trooper testified that they found LaSota, who was identified through fingerprints — 17 months after LaSota apparently died in San Francisco Bay. LaSota was charged with obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct and released from custody.

This is very important for three reasons, first, confirming that “Ziz” LaSota definitely had faked his own death, second, that he was in Vallejo at the time of the November 2022 attack on Curtis Lind, and third, that Ziz was associating with Zajko, whose parents had just been murdered — almost certainly not a coincidence. Andy Ngo has now followed up to report that a longtime associate of Ziz, known as “Gwen” Danielson, is a transgender Spokane native whose name was Jasper Danielson. “Gwen”/Jasper was one of those arrested along with Ziz at a 2019 protest against the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR). “In 2022, Danielson likely faked his death to avoid accountability in an ongoing criminal case in Sonoma County, Calif. . . . There is a bench warrant for Danielson’s arrest, like there is for ‘Ziz’ LaSota, who faked his death that same year.”

If you’re keeping score at home, that means there at least three fugitives — Ziz LaSota, Gwen Danielson and Michelle Zajko — currently at large and suspected in this interstate crime spree. Oh, and I neglected to mention this interesting sidenote earlier:

It’s a gigantic pancake stack of weirdness, covered in insanity syrup, and while the manhunt for these dangerous fugitives continues, I expect still further information about the Zizian death cult to emerge.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! This is my fourth post on this subject in five days, because how often in my career am I gonna get a chance to cover a RADICAL VEGAN TRANSGENDER DEATH CULT?

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In The Mailbox: 01.31.25

Posted on | February 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.31.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. We’ll see if I can do them in a timely manner to kick off February.
Book 16 of Ralts Bloodthorne’s Behold! Humanity! epic, The War In Heaven, is out. Highly recommended.
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Recommended reading.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
EBL: MAGA Trump Tariffs, Velvet, and Crash Over the Potomac: What happened?
Twitchy: White House Records Angel Moms’ Response to Weepy Selena Gomez Illegals Video, Cable News Vet Grills Karoline Leavitt Over Trump’s Swearing, and “Anti-Violence” Columbia Prof Gets Spanked for Quoting Bloodthirsty Psycho Che Guevara
Louder With Crowder: As the RFK Jr hearings wrap up, here’s how bought and paid for his Democrat haters are by Big Pharma, Democrat congresswoman gets sworn in, immediately suggests Trump voters are all white supremacists, In case you think Dems learned their lesson, every DNC candidate blames racism and sexism for Kamala Harris losing, and Woke Chicago Mayor defends illegal immigrants while…blasting dead slave owners?!
Vox Popoli: 37-Zip, Forbes on The Folio Society, Fireball in Philadelphia, and Is Blake Lively Playing a Lawyer?
According To Hoyt: As the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen, Thank G-d Almighty, Free At Last, and Attack On the West
Monster Hunter Nation: Physical Fantom & The Heart Of The Mountain, also, A Note About Me Writing For Multiple Publishing Houses
Toni Airaksinen: Study Claims Objectivity & Rationalism Now “Signs Of White Supremacy”

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American Greatness: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: Congress Should Focus on ‘Reparations’ Not Sanctuary Cities, John Brennan’s Protest of President Trump Lifting his Security Clearances Is Absurd, Left-Wing Nonprofit with $769M Immigration Contract Defends Mass Immigration, Mike Pence’s Evil Alliance with Big Pharma Won’t Stop RFK’s Confirmation, and Report: Multiple Top FBI Officials Ordered to Hit the Bricks
American Thinker: Boy, Did We Dodge a Bullet 
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five 250th Anniversary Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 31
Behind The Black: The crew and passengers for Axiom’s fourth tourist flight to ISS, Ispace posts first picture taken by its Resilience lunar lander, SpaceX and Vast jointly request research proposals for first mission to Vast’s Haven-1 space station, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) now demands “forced mandatory vaccinations”, and NASA’s useless safety panel makes another useless announcement about Starliner
Cafe Hayek: MAGAnomics
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Of Window Frames and Air Traffic Controllers, also, Should President Trump Abolish FEMA?
Da Tech Guy: Five Trump Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: FJB made the fringe mainstream
First Street Journal: Too old? Our 78-year-old President is getting things done, and done in a hurry
Gates Of Vienna: Canan Karatay: Bill Gates Wrote the Pandemic Scenario, also, Robert Habeck on “Family Reunification”
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Hollywood In Toto: Colorful ‘Dog Man’ Movie Guaranteed to Woo Fans, Green and Gold Shines Spotlight on Heartland Values, Shrewd Heart Eyes Delivers Laughs, Scares and Romance, and Could Cancel Culture Crush Karla Sofia Gascon’s Oscar Hopes?
The Lid: Analysis: How the Right Retooled and Started Winning the Culture Wars
Legal Insurrection: LA Mayor Karen Bass Hires ‘Outside Consultant’ to Rebuild after Historic Wildfire, DEI Is A “Manmade Disaster…. We’re Now Seeing The ‘Sudden’ Part of The Collapse That Has Been Coming”, Ibram Kendi’s ‘Center for Antiracist Research’ Shutting Down at Boston University, He’s Moving to DC, Anti-Israel Protest Groups Sued over Washington, D.C. Traffic Blockage, and University in England Puts Trigger Warning on Classics of Greek Mythology
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Big Ten Teams Are Losing Millions, Despite College Football Realignment, Trump Administration Officially Ends Biden’s Title IX Rewrite, Andy Reid Says That The Chiefs Aren’t Focused On Three-Peating, Pistons Isaiah Stewart Is Suspended And Will Now Miss His Own Bobblehead Night, and Paulina Gretzky Confronts Taylor Swift In Her Own House, ‘World’s Sexiest Softballer’ Cools Off & Woke HOA!
Power Line: Top Democrat Vows Street Violence, The Fall of Minneapolis Continues, Trump’s comeback, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Broward College Appoints Former County Commissioner Torey Alston As President
Shot In The Dark: Failure To Unpack, also, Short On The Delivery
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Integrity and Journalism
This Ain’t Hell: WWII Darby’s Ranger ID’ed, Failed Marine program, Valor Friday, and Iron Dome over the United States
Transterrestrial Musings: Your Feel-Good Thread Of The Week
Victory Girls: Irony, Like Reality, is Dead to the Democrats
Watts Up With That: Yet Another Lithium Battery Fire, Reliable Electricity Is at Risk in Connecticut, Legal Appeal: Climate Clowns “did what they did out of sacrifice”, and ‘Revolving Door’: Biden’s Ocean Energy Chief Went To Work For Major Offshore Wind Company After Admin Boosted Industry
The Federalist: Senate Confirms Burgum To Usher In America’s Golden Age Of Land Management, Trump Eradicates Gender Ideology From Federal Government, Team Trump Is Winning The Media Battle By Treating Left-Wing Press As The Propagandists They Are, The Violent Dems Turning Up The Heat In Escalating War On Trump, and ‘Zizian’ Trans Cult Connected To Multiple Killings, Including Death Of Border Patrol Agent

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In The Mailbox: 01.30.25

Posted on | January 31, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.30.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: 3D Printed Semi Automatic Pistols Are Everywhere, also Brett Cooper Takes on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
EBL: BREAKING NEWS: Plane crash at Reagan National Airport, Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing for FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard DNI Confirmation Hearing, and The Couple Next Door
Twitchy: “Abortion Laws, Not Personal Ego Or Narcissism Are Why I’m Single Now”, Bernie Sanders Posts Sel-Own During RFK Jr. Questioning, and Texas Democrat Gets Major History Lesson After Dumping On Robert E. Lee
Louder With Crowder: Kash Patel’s clapback at Amy Klobuchar rant that sent her into a hysterical tailspin, Did RFK Jr pop a Zyn while being berated by shrill Democrat senators? Round 2! RFK Jr goes scorched Earth on Bernie Sanders being a sellout to Big Pharma, Why Trump is the most PRO-woman President ever, and Belligerent councilmember goes off on police officer after getting pulled over
Vox Popoli: Little Black House on the Prairie, Conspiracy Theory: Presidential Model, Peter Thiel Guts Baen Books, and Cathedra – One More Day
Bugscuffle Gazette: Throwback Thursday
Cedar Sanderson: My Land
Jim McCoy: Rex Regis
Toni Airaksinen: Star of David – The Shocking History Of Judaism’s Preeminent Symbol

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: End the Aid Charade
American Greatness: President Trump Signs Executive Order That Would Enable Deportation of Anti-Semitic Rioters, Trump Blames Biden Regime’s DEI Policies For DC Plane Crash, Tulsi Gabbard: ‘I Have No Love For Assad or Any Dictator–I just hate al-Qaeda’, Daily Illegal Alien Encounters Plummet by 93% Under Trump, and Former New Jersey Senator Asks for Delay of Prison Sentence
American Thinker: Democrats for Infanticide
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Fort Worth ISD Has A “Literacy Crisis”
Behind The Black: Ariane-6 gets more launch contracts, Update on upcoming Starship/Superheavy test flights, Samples from the asteroid Bennu reshape entirely our understanding of the solar system’s early make-up, and A big crack on Mars
Cafe Hayek: Gramm’s and Summers’s Open Letter in Opposition to Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Unhinged Left Attacks Trump Over Plane Crash
Don Surber: Cry harder
First Street Journal: Our #FreedomOfSpeech is different from that of other countries, and we thank the Lord for that! also, President Trump is doing what the American people want him to do
Gates Of Vienna: Making Austria Less Attractive for Asylum Seekers, Islam Does Not Willingly Coexist With Other Religions, The Assassination of Salwan Momika, and Rasmus Paludan: “Islam Will Never Live in Harmony in Our Countries”
The Geller Report: George Soros-Owned Radio Station Doxes Undercover ICE Agents, also, Suspect Accused of Plot to Kill Trump Officials Is Transgender
Hollywood In Toto: Anthony Mackie Goes Full Rachel Zegler, Emilia Perez – 13 Nominations. No Oscar Bounce? Why Tyler Fischer Couldn’t Wait to Flee NYC, Cancel Reservations to See You’re Cordially Invited, and HUGE: ‘Gutfeld!’ Scores Massive Ratings in Trump 2.0
The Lid: JD Vance Says Biden Admin. Knew Exactly Where Criminal Illegals Were & Refused to Pick Them Up
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Reports First Outbreak of Rare Bird Flu Strain on California Duck Farm, Anti-Israel Campus Protesters Demand Special Privileges Then Play Victim, ‘Murderous’ Gaza Mob Jeers as Hamas Releases Three More Israeli Hostages, FAA: Reagan Airport Air Control Tower Staffing ‘Not Normal’ Night of Crash, and Patel Promises to Find Those in FBI Responsible for Targeting Parents at School Meetings
Nebraska Energy Observer: Feasting on their hatred
Outkick: Philadelphia Eagles Invite Survivor of New Orleans Terror Attack as Special Guest at Super Bowl, Denver Nuggets Coach Michael Malone Calls Out NBA For Considering Shortening Games, Utah Hockey Club Calls An Audible After First Night Of Having Fans Vote On Permanent Name, Why Are The San Diego Padres Looking To Trade Star Pitchers? and WNBA Star Angel Reese Gets Her Own McDonald’s Meal
Power Line: Dems down so low, Schumer’s Unintended Confession, and On Confirmations, the Rubber Hits the Road
Shark Tank: DeSantis Warns Potential 2026 Gubernatorial Candidates About Backing “Weak” Illegal Immigration Bill
Shot In The Dark: Bob Richardson, also, Rigged
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Good Policy Is Good Even If Coincidental: Affirmative Action; Ending DEI; Ending Non-Deportation Of Illegals
This Ain’t Hell: Beetlejuice report issued, Pelosi, Military Black Hawk collides with American Airlines jet midair, and Pete Hegseth pushes to make promotion color blind, based on merit
Victory Girls: Media And Left Sink To New Lows To Blame Trump For Air Collision
Watts Up With That: It’s Time To Purge The Climate Scam From The Federal Websites, Citigroup Claims “Trump Can’t Stop Energy Transition”, End Federally Funded “Net-Zero” Building Codes, and Trump Admin Moves To Toss Out Biden’s Fuel Economy Rules
The Federalist: It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power, Dems Worry Kash Patel Could Weaponize FBI Against Political Enemies Like They Did, 5 Military Officials Whose Damaging Left-Wing Antics Must Be Accounted For, Gabbard’s Senate Critics Are More Interested In Protecting America’s Spy Agencies Than Fixing Them, and Polls Show Majorities Of Americans Support Trump’s Mass Deportations
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Flood The Zone, Energy in the Executive, and Trump 2.0

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