In The Mailbox: 12.19.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | December 19, 2025 | No Comments

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: More Improvised Weapons from Around the World
Director Blue: Racism Under The Banner Of DEI Is Still Racism, also, A Walking Tour Of Porkopolis
EBL: Classic Christmas Songs, also, Julie London – “I’d Like You For Christmas”
Twitchy: Try As Hard As They Might – NYT Can’t Find Evidence Implicating Trump In Epstein Files, Joe Concha Spots MSNOW’s 10-Year Ratings Brag Turning Into Another Democrat Self-Own, and SHOCKER – Tim Walz & “White Men For Harris” Actually Made The Democrats’ Man Problem WORSE
Louder With Crowder: Corrupt democrat DA freaks out at hearing, demands committee investigate how many times someone has called her a racial slur, also, Minneapolis police chief attempts to compare illegal immigrants to the birth of Jesus
Vox Popoli: Darwin and the Black Death, also, The EU Threatens DC
Gab: Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About Everything
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Joyous Noel Part 2

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Bad Texas Endorsement
Don Surber: Trump vs. BBC

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Claudio Neves-Valente Identified as Brown University Gunman, Found Dead

Posted on | December 19, 2025 | No Comments

Claudio Neves-Valente, seen on surveillance camera

It was a wild and sudden finish to a mysterious case Thursday night. A press conference had been scheduled in Providence, Rhode Island, after it was reported that police had finally identified a “person of interest” wanted in connection with last Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University. However, the press conference was then cancelled, as new developments in the case unfolded. Eventually, police descended on a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, where they found 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

It turns out that Neves-Valente, a native of Portugal, had formerly been a Ph.D. physics student at Brown, but withdrew in 2003 before completing his doctorate. Also, not coincidentally, Neves-Valente had previously attended the same physics program at a university Portugal as MIT physics Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who was shot to death Monday at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Neves-Valente had apparently planned these crimes for a while. He had been living in Miami, Florida, but arrived in Providence about two weeks ago and had been “casing” the campus. The motive of the Brown shooting is unclear, but he killed two students and wounded nine others on Saturday, before escaping to the Boston area, where police say he murdered Loureiro.

Somewhere along the way, Neves-Valente left behind an unfired bullet, and police got a DNA sample from that bullet that they were able to match to the gunman. Also, on the day of the Brown shooting, Neves-Valente had been encountered by a man who saw him behaving suspiciously and was able to give police a description of the vehicle with Florida plates that he was driving. Neves-Valente then apparently parked that vehicle at the storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, which is just over the state line from Massachusetts, about 35 miles north of Boston. Meanwhile, after police had focused on Neves-Valente as a suspect, they showed his photo to one of the surviving victims of the Brown shooting, who “quickly froze, physically pushed back, and became emotional . . . tearing up and shaking.” Then information from Flock license plate reader cameras was able to lead them to the Salem storage facility, where Neves-Valente was found. And thus the mystery is solved.

Whatever the motive turns out to be, it apparently had nothing to do with radicalism on the Brown University campus, which means that apologies are owed to the chubby Palestinian student whom many Internet sleuths had suspected as the gunman. Jew-hating douchebag? Yes. Killer? No.

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Finally: ‘Person of Interest’ Reportedly Identified in Brown University Shooting

Posted on | December 18, 2025 | No Comments

After six days of double-talk and obfuscation, at last authorities in Rhode Island claim to have gotten a clue about the killer:

Law enforcement is investigating possible connections between the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday afternoon and the targeted killing of an MIT professor two days later, sources tell CBS News.
Prior, multiple sources familiar with the investigation at Brown University told CBS News on Thursday that a person of interest has been identified in the deadly mass shooting.
Law enforcement has identified a person, and a search for that individual is underway, the sources said.
Two students were killed and nine more were wounded when the gunman opened fire Saturday afternoon inside a classroom on the Ivy League university’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island, authorities said. The shooting occurred in the school’s Barus & Holley engineering building during final exams.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police said a male suspect had managed to escape from the building. In the hours and days that followed, police and the FBI released images and videos of the man they described as a person of interest walking around a nearby neighborhood several hours before the first 911 calls reporting the shooting came in.

Matt Vespa at Townhall is understandably skeptical:

Of course, the suspect isn’t identified, so we’re going on ‘trust us, bro’ from the police.
“I don’t know” was often said, along with word salad, and, at times, anger that some questions, like why a student assistant at Brown was being scrubbed from the websites during this probe, were being asked. . . .
[G]iven this week, prepare for the circus to continue, as no one in Rhode Island seems to know what they’re doing.
We have a university president, Christina Paxson, who’s a deer in the headlights, being incapable of providing direct and clear answers on various lines of inquiry, specifically and camera system and the use of the school’s alert system, a police chief who couldn’t seem to find any leads, and a state attorney general, Peter Neronha, who was equally useless. The mayor, Brett Smiley, whined about being tired. It’s a mess.

There’s supposed to be a press conference soon, and I may come back to update if this involves actual news. Big “if” there.

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In The Mailbox: 12.17.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 18, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Walking Tour Of Manhattan’s Lower West Side During The Great Depression,
EBL: Swordfish Cut, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”, and Who is Brown University’s Mustapha Karbouch?
Twitchy: The Body Language Of Fani Willis’ Lawyer Says EVERYTHING, Katie Couric Tells Jennifer Welch That Legacy Media Are “Trying” To Adhere To Facts, and NEA Has Idea On How We Should Refer To America
Louder With Crowder: Ilhan Omar Claims ICE Racially Profiled Her Son, ICE Responds By Saying That Never Happened, Karen Lashes Out At Target Employee Wearing Charlie Kirk Shirt, Patriots Rally To Her Defense, and Jennifer Welch, the new icon of toxic Democrats, won’t calm down about other people’s “toxicity” in politics
Vox Popoli: One Additional Week, America is for Everyone, and A Historic Honor
Cedar Sanderson: Where Does The West Begin?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Joyous Noel!
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Blessing Angels
Gab: The Menorah on the Lawn
Toni Airaksinen: Jewish Man Stabbed In Crown Heights – Perp Wanted Another Holocaust

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Norman Podhoretz, Friend and Foe
American Greatness: SecEd McMahon Urges Tampon Timmy to Resign Over Fraud Scandal, Unhinged Left-Wing Karen Facing Police Investigation After Verbally Abusing Elderly Target Employee, Appeals Court Allows Florida to Enforce Law Banning Children from Drag Shows, House Oversight Report Shows D.C. Police Chief Pressured Staff to ‘Cook the Books’, and It’s Affordability, Stupid?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 68 – Double Feature, and Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Dan Crenshaw Threatens To Sue Shawn Ryan, Ken Paxton Sues MyChart, Ken Paxton Sues Smart TV Makers, Ukraine Sinks Another Russian Sub, and 5,000 FPS?
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab launches a set of technology test satellites for Space Force, Jared Isaacman confirmed as NASA administrator, European sea-level satellite releases first data, Two new NASA science spacecraft achieve “first light”, and Three launches and one scrub overnight
Cafe Hayek: Trump Holds Americans Hostage to Improve the Well-Being of Non-Americans, Protectionism’s Language is Loaded, Service-Sector Workers Want Other People to Work in the Manufacturing Sector, and How Smart Are Beijing’s Thugs?
CDR Salamander: How Do You Fight If You Can’t Go Green?
Da Tech Guy: Five Thoughts and Observations Under the Fedora
Don Surber: The U.S. coin story CNN failed to tell
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Editorial Board Attacks 77,302,580 Good American Voters, The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Perhaps we should start telling the unvarnished truth instead of hiding behind euphemisms
Gates Of Vienna: Perpetual War Descends on Germany, Lack of Pushback Guarantees Islam’s Abuse of Women Will Expand, Culture-Enriching Stabbing at the Christmas Market in Herford, Vehicular Jihad Thwarted at a Bavarian Christmas Market, and Death to Geert Wilders!
The Geller Report: Top MIT Nuclear Scientist Shot Dead in Brookline, Massachusetts Home, San Francisco Hillel Set Aflame – Building Destroyed, Shabbat and Chanukah Events Canceled, US Imposes Travel Ban on Palestinians, Brown University Scrubs Muslim Student’s Profile As Search for Suspect intensifies, and Western Leaders Performative Grief Without Consequence or Action
Hollywood In Toto: The Sheltering Sky Still a Gorgeous, Maddening Affair, How Henry & June Made The Most of Its NC-17 Label, Why SNL Won’t Touch Crazy Candace Or Troubled Tucker, Jay Kelly Gives Hollywood an Unflattering Closeup, and Awards Shows to Conservative Artists: Go Away Now!
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Kennedy Reveals Damning Minnesota AG Office Memo on Somali Fraud, Tennessee $7.4 Billion Smelter Deal Aims to Break China’s Grip on Critical Minerals, Conservative Icon Norman Podhoretz Passes Away at 95, European Union Surrenders to Reality on 2035 Ban on Gas-Powered Cars, and Documents Reveal That, for AG Garland, Probable Cause for Mar-a-Lago Raid was Optional
Matt Taibbi: Are White Men A “Lost Generation”?
Nebraska Energy Observer: A City Upon a Hill, Eye on SeeBS (Minnesota Edition), and Common Sense from Canada
Outkick: College Hoops Coach Wears All-Time Great Ugly Christmas Sweater, Tua Tagovailoa Benching Is Seismic Move By Miami Dolphins That Speaks To Franchise Failure, New Sworn Testimony Reveals What Sherrone Moore Did At Staffer’s Home After Firing, Reflective And Thoughtful Joe Burrow Continues To Deliver Mixed Message About His Future, and CBS Reporter Jenny Dell Has Sailors Howling, MAGA Bikini Congresswoman Tells The Truth About Karoline & CHAOS!
Power Line: A Mystery at Brown, Who ya gonna believe, Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Mohamed, Norman Podhoretz, RIP, and Get Trump!
Shark Tank: Renner Launches Coalition To Mobilize Female Vote
Shot In The Dark: An Observation, Return Policy, and Meatheads All Around
STUMP: Alternative Assets In Public Pension Funds – December 2025 Update,
The Political Hat: Violence & Speech, 12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 1), (Day 2), (Day 3), and Happy Bill of Rights Day!
This Ain’t Hell: US group rescues “Most wanted woman”, Kelly ‘serious misconduct’ Under Command Investigation, Bondi Update, John Fetterman slams Democrats for Palestinian statehood stance in wake of shooting, and Muslim scholar states “We did not come to coexist… America is a cancer”
Transterrestrial Musings: An AI-Powered Bionic Hand, Answering Elon’s Question, John Varley, and 122 Years
Victory Girls: Mamdani Math Does Not Add Up, Trump Response To Reiner Murders Was Unnecessary And Awful, and Bondi Beach Was Not a Surprise – It Was Permission
Watts Up With That: Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Ban Data Centers, Europe’s ‘Green’ Emperor Is Naked and Cold, Don’t Throw Out the Supercomputer with the Climate Models, Ford takes $20bn hit to reverse course on electric cars, and Time to build reactors fueled by nuclear waste
The Federalist: The West’s Embrace Of Mass Third-World Migration Is Civilizational Suicide, Fulton County: ‘We Don’t Dispute’ 315,000 Votes Lacking Poll Workers’ Signatures Were Counted In 2020, There’s No Evidence Australia’s Strict Gun Control Laws Are Effective, Poll Shows Americans Want Pro-Family Policies Including Abortion Limits, Mifepristone Safeguards, and State-Sanctioned Suicide Is The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In Canada
Mark Steyn: Knowing What Time It Is, Out of Place – Jean Arthur in The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Eutopia vs Eurabia, O Tannenbaum, and A Lot of “Randomness” About

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In The Mailbox: 12.17.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 17, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Walking Tour Of The Lower East Side – December 15 1925, also, A Walking Tour of Philadelphia – December 16 1775
357 Magnum: After 20 Minutes of Doing Nothing
EBL: Stop Floundering Around, “Little Drummer Boy”, “Angels We Have Heard On High”, and Lower Your Standards
Twitchy: Sen. Markey Whines Trump’s Travel Ban Is “Racism Disguised As Security”, Sen. John Kennedy Nukes Claims Hegseth/Rubio Briefing Didn’t Justify Drug Boat Strikes, and Texas Senate Candidate Claims “You Can’t Love God And Abuse The Immigrant”
Louder With Crowder: Ilhan Omar freaks out on “sick” GOP for making an issue out of her – allegedly – marrying her brother, JD Vance unloads on reporter after being called a “conspiracy theorist” in Vanity Fair hit piece, Shocking report makes it clear companies STOPPED hiring white millennial men, GOP Senator shares infuriating detail about Dems ignoring Somali fraud, and Grinch ‘prank’ goes horribly wrong when lil’ man starts throwing hands to save his presents
Vox Popoli: A Little Late for That, One Last Chance, The EU in the Bunker, Don’t Blame the Zoomers, and Cucking Never Saves You
Cedar Sanderson: Garden Musings
Gab: The Choice You Cannot Avoid
Stoic Observations: The Value of Discernment
Weird Catholic: The Peculiar Christmas Custom of the Boy Bishops
Jim McCoy: Jimbo’s 2025 In Review
Upstream Reviews: The Top Ten Christmas Classics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Can You Make Existential War Bend To Pragmatism?,
Dana Loesch: Chick-Fil-A Caves On DEI,
Don Surber: Why I Am Defending Trump,

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In The Mailbox: 12.16.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 16, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The fact that it falls on Tuesday this week just makes it worse.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Naughty Santa – An AI Taste Test, also, A Walking Tour Through Boston – December 14 1775
357 Magnum: If Hollywood Doesn’t Care, Why Should We?, also The Battle of Lanzerath Ridge
EBL: Yellowjack, Civilian hero, Ahmed al Ahmed stops Bondi Beach terror attack, Death of Washington, December 14, 1799, Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner dead of stab wounds, and Latkes Hanukkah
Twitchy: Rep. Raskin Introducing Legislation To Protect Against White House’s “Marie Antoinette” Ballroom, Linda McMahon Levels Tampon Timmy From The Top Rope, and Hold Her Beer Jay Jones
Louder With Crowder: Trump Classifies Fentanyl As Weapon Of Mass Destruction, No, the Australia shooting is not about the guns…it’s about Islam, Best. News. Ever! Kamala Harris hints toward running for president again, Taylor Sheridan’s “Landman” destroys the shrill harpies from “The View,” compares them to a fart in church, and This may shock you, but a Black Lives Matter leader was charged with money laundering
Vox Popoli: Belgium Resists EU-Assisted Suicide, The Logistics of Tolkien, An Interview with The Legend, No Democracy, No Law, and On Feminist Reason
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 1
Bugscuffle Gazette: When I Became A Man, also, When You Outsource Your Security To The Government
Upstream Reviews: Give The Gift Of Reviews This Christmas
Stoic Observations: ISTD vs Medallion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Waiting For Our Frigate To Come In
Dana Loesch: Weekend Evil – Multiple Terrorist Attacks & A School Shooting,
Don Surber: Police malpractice in shootings
Elizabeth Nickson: Magic Is Alive – Unfortunately, Witchcraft Is Invoking The Unseen World
Glenn Reynolds: Hospital Tips & More, also, More Hospital Tips
Matt Taibbi: Activism Uncensored – Border Patrol Operations In New Orleans, also, Flurry Of Weekend Shootings & Violence Shows Fourth Estate In Disarray
STUMP: The Week In Meep – I SAID REJOICE!,

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Rule 5 Sunday: More Like Sparking Ramp, Amirite?

Posted on | December 15, 2025 | No Comments

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This week’s appetizer courtesy of @kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Physical Media Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Media Pushback, Katherine Jenkins, Rachel Hardy, Hannah Gill, Pachelbel’s Canon, Ewelina Stanczyk, “Joy To The World”, Destiny’s Child, and Gwen Stefani

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: In the Loop with April Rose, Fish Pic Friday – Sway Moray, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, Great White Passes Chesapeake Bay, Turns up Nose, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Gone Fishin’, Palm Sunday and The War on the Secretary of War

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Yes, I Will Have a Beer

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Red States, Blue Cities: Minnesota, Somalia and ‘The Great Replacement’

Posted on | December 14, 2025 | No Comments

In an appearance Friday on Fox News, Trump strategist Stephen Miller said the Somali welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota could end up “being the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history.” The complete scale of this fraud has yet to be fully calculated, but the total amount certainly appears to be in the billions of dollars. The underlying question is why and how the situation in Minnesota developed, and was allowed to continue for so long, and the basic answer is Democrats — or, as they call themselves in Minnesota, the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL).

The one thing we know about Democrats is that they crave political power like a junkie craves heroin. They have no actual principles other than winning elections. If winning an election requires them to appear “moderate,” Democratic candidates will espouse middle-of-the-road views, and even position themselves to the right of their Republican opponents. Such was the case, for example, during much of Joe Biden’s career; seeing which way the political winds were blowing in the 1990s, Biden vehemently expressed “tough-on-crime” views that make Donald Trump seem soft by comparison. Biden also talked tough on immigration back in the day, and this brings us to the question of why Democrats are now rallying in defense of illegal aliens, including millions who flooded into the country during Biden’s failed White House tenure. Quite simply, this was about Democrats importing future Democratic voters.

This is the presidential election map of Minnesota in 2020, when Biden got about 1.7 million votes (52%) to Trump’s approximately 1.5 million votes (45%). Biden won 13 counties, while Trump won 74 counties. And the important point is that Biden’s winning margin came entirely from Minneapolis-St. Paul. The official statewide vote total was 3,277,171 and nearly one-third of those votes (1,051,946) came from Hennepin County (Minneapolis) and Ramsey County (St. Paul). Biden got more than 70% of the vote in those two counties, with 532,623 votes in Hennepin and 211,620 votes in Ramsey — a combined 744,243 votes in the Twin Cities. These votes were 43% of Biden’s statewide total, and his total vote in Hennepin/Ramsey was more than three times larger than his statewide margin (233,012 votes) over Trump. Outside of Hennepin and Ramsey counties, there were 2,225,225 voters cast; in the non-Twin Cities counties, Trump got 1,200,716 votes (54%) to Biden’s 972,834 (44%). Even winning the rest of the state by a 10-point margin isn’t enough to overcome the Democratic urban vote in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

What is true in Minnesota is true of many other similar states, including all the “blue wall” states (Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin) where Trump edged out Kamala Harris in 2024. Philadelphia dominates statewide politics in Pennsylvania, as Detroit does Michigan and Milwaukee does Wisconsin. In almost any other state where Democrats are at least competitive at the statewide level, their hopes for victory rest on racking up lopsided margins in urban areas, sufficient to overcome the Republican advantage among suburban and rural voters.

Red States, Blue Cities — that’s the fundamental reality of politics in America today, and it explains why Democrats have dug in their heels to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants. Because liberals have lower birth rates than do conservatives, Democrat-controlled jurisdictions would be losing population (and hence, political influence) compared to Republican-controlled jurisdictions. Because immigrant voters historically favor Democrats, the importation of masses of foreigners helps Democrats overcome the advantage Republicans hold among native-born Americans. Because the presidency and the Senate are both determined by statewide votes, and because the census redistributes House seats (and thus, Electoral College votes) every 10 years according to the population of states, demographics is destiny in American politics.

Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the U.S., with recent estimates placing the number of Somali residents around 80,000 to over 100,000, primarily concentrated in the Twin Cities area, making it a significant cultural and political force in the state.

That’s the AI summary from Google, and while 80,000 may seem a trifling number in a state where more than 3 million votes are cast in presidential election years, their numbers are sufficient to ensure Rep. Ilhan Omar’s election to Congress. The revelation that Somalis in Minnesota were engaged in a gigantic fraud — potentially “the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history,” as Miller said — casts a new light on the policy and politics of immigration. As I wrote about the next mayor of New York City last week for The American Spectator:

Analysis of polls in the mayoral election showed a curious anomaly. Among those born in the United States, only 31 percent supported Mamdani, who was favored by 62 percent of immigrant voters. After Mamdani won, exit polls showed that he got only 34 percent of the vote among those who had been born in New York City, but 83 percent among those who had lived in the city for five years or less. It’s said that “The Great Replacement” is a racist conspiracy theory, but in New York, it’s an accurate description of the Democratic Party strategy for victory — drive out the native-born population and replace them with immigrants who vote for Democrats.

In other words, just because it’s a “racist conspiracy theory” doesn’t mean it’s not actually happening. The nature of American politics, where Democrats use urban votes to obtain power in ways that negate the political influence of non-urban voters, makes this a legitimate concern when Democrats then use immigration policy to add to their urban constituency. The fact that these new-minted Democratic voters may also be swindling billions of dollars from taxpayers is just toxic icing on the poisonous cake, and there are still five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!”