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In The Mailbox: 06.27.25

Posted on | June 28, 2025 | No Comments

— 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.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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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