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‘Crash Out Kylie’: How a Queer Feminist Became Famous (Not in a Good Way)

Posted on | May 24, 2026 | No Comments

Kylie Brewer a/k/a ‘Crash Out Kylie’

Because I don’t pay much attention to podcasts, I overlooked some delicious drama last year, when an Ivy League-educated “queer feminist” named Kylie Brewer went on the popular “Whatever” show, hosted by Brian Atlas. The show flew her out from Chicago to California for her spotlight appearance, where she was confronted by a well-known Christian debater, Andrew Wilson (he’s “controversial,” and good luck finding a biography of him). Wilson was well-prepared for this meeting, whereas Ms. Brewer had apparently never been in the situation of being confronted by an intelligent person who disagreed with her.

 

  • Question: How do people defend irrational beliefs?
  • Answer: With irrational defenses.

By early 2025, Kylie Brewer had developed a fairly large following on TikTok and Instagram, with an audience of tens of thousands for her short-form feminist videos. However, her audience as a drop in the bucket compared to the Whatever podcast, which has 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube. On her own TikTok/IG channels, Kylie occasionally had people leave rude comments, but these people were not skilled polemicists — knowledgeable and articulate, communications professionals capable of making persuasive arguments. As mentioned previously, I’ve been unable to find an online biography of Andrew Wilson, so I don’t know anything about his educational background or career experience, but it is obvious that he is highly skilled as a debater, and Kylie Brewer was not ready to meet such an antagonist.

She got embarrassed in front of an audience of millions, and it completely freaked her out. She had an episode of Bell’s palsy — partial paralysis of her facial muscles, almost certainly a stress response — and threatened a lawsuit against the “Whatever” podcast. That’s how she became notorious as “Crash Out Kylie,” and she’s been living with that notoriety ever since.

What happened to Kylie Brewer highlights what’s fundamentally wrong with contemporary elite education. A native of California, she was such a promising high school student that she was admitted to Brown University. Conservative faculty are extremely rare in Ivy League institutions. Studies have shown that academia, which was always tilted toward liberalism, has shifted even more leftward in the past 25 years.

The result is that most universities are now ideological cocoons, political echo chambers where only left-wing voices are heard. The only prominent conservative faculty member at Brown University is economics professor emeritus Glenn Loury, and I seriously doubt that Kylie Brewer — who majored in psychology and creative writing at Brown — had any interaction with Professor Loury. What kind of thinking does this educational experience encourage?

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Here you have Kylie Brewer declaring that there are four kinds of conservatives — (1) greedy, (2) racist, (3) ignorant or (4) apathetic. I would reply with a question: What does “conservative” mean?

Until the mid-1990s, I was a Democrat, born and bred, a fierce partisan loyalist who put a Clinton-Gore bumper sticker on my old Chevy in 1992. The first two years of the Clinton presidency were enough to cure me of that allegiance, permanently. It would take too long to cite every grievance that contributed to my disillusionment with the Democratic Party, or to provide a reading list of the books that I read during those years that led me to embrace a conservative worldview. The point is that I was a responsible adult — a married father of three, in my mid-30s — when my political opinions decisively shifted, whereas Kylie Brewer is a 24-year-old fresh out off college, presuming to lecture me (and everyone else) about who conservatives are, and caricaturing their motives in the most negative way. Ma’am, I’ve got T-shirts older than you.

What is conservatism?

The simple answer: Opposition to liberalism.

Intellectuals get hung up trying to define conservatism as some kind of coherent philosophy — “first principles” and all that — but it’s really nothing more than what happens when you look at liberalism in action and decide for yourself, “This sucks. I’m against it.”

Because the policy agenda and rhetorical message of liberalism changes over time, the conservative opposition also much shift its ground, defending society against new forms of liberal aggression.

Almost anyone who cares about preserving what is good about America must eventually join the ranks of conservatives. The fact that much of what my generation inherited from our parents’ generation had been built by New Deal liberalism does not in any way change that understanding of what conservatism is and what we strive to do.

The reality is that liberalism (or progressivism, or whatever else you might wish to call the agenda of the left wing of the Democratic Party) is not a stable set of policies. Liberalism always demands new initiatives, new programs, new classes of allegedly “oppressed” people to be made beneficiaries of taxpayer-funded boondoggles. You don’t have to denounce and repudiate the New Deal in order to oppose, e.g., providing “free” sex-change surgery to prison inmates. The fact that you supported some previous iteration of liberalism does not require you to support unlimited foreign immigration or subsidies for “green energy.”

A conservative might be a laissez-faire idealist — willing to rip apart the whole rotten structure of the Welfare State erected since the Wilson administration — but it is not necessary to be so inclined. Within the existing two-party system, all you have to do is recognize that the Democrats are never going to stop trying to expand the bureaucratic apparatus of government, seeking power of totalitarian proportions, in order to decide: “This sucks. I’m against it.” Welcome to the club.

Kylie Brewer’s biggest problem is that she’s so perilously young, and living in an era when people her age can talk into their iPhone cameras and have careers as “content creators” — influencers! When I was her age, I was playing in rock-and-roll bands, working as a nightclub DJ, driving a forklift, etc. Lecturing the world about politics at age 24? Never crossed my mind circa 1984, and I can’t imagine why Kylie Brewer or anyone else would imagine the world needs such lectures.

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Yes, you need a DEI dating agenda, Kylie says, and if you’re skeptical of that recommendation, you must be some kind of Nazi! Did I mention, by the way, that Kylie Brewer is a queer feminist? Not exactly sure what she means by that proclamation — “queer” is a sort of umbrella term, and I haven’t watched enough of her videos to know if she’s been very specific in this regard — but we can assume it to mean a repudiation of heterosexuality, per se. Just as it is wrong to date only members of your own race, according to Kylie, so it is also wrong to be exclusively heterosexual. You must date everybody, of every race and gender, or else you’re guilty of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and probably some other “-isms” and “-phobias” yet to be discovered.

Whatever happened to liberals being “tolerant”? Some of us are old enough to remember when “tolerance” was a rallying cry for liberals, and yet nowadays they’re all about bossing us around, telling us what we can and cannot do, arrogating to themselves the authority of Thought Police to censor anyone who disagrees with them: “RAAAAACIST!”

If you needed any further incentive to vote Republican in the November midterms, now you have it — if Democrats win, the Kylie Brewer agenda could become federal law, and we’ll all be sent to Maoist re-education camps to endure “struggle sessions,” under the supervision of 24-year-old Ivy League graduates as our latter-day Red Guards.

Kylie Brewer is very young, and probably doesn’t know the first thing about Maoist China, or the Cold War, the Soviet Union, the Khmer Rouge, etc. She wasn’t even born when 9/11 happened, and was only 14 when Hillary lost to Donald Trump, so that her frame of reference for politics is a tiny slice of very recent history. Whereas I was born during the Eisenhower administration, and am old enough to remember seeing JFK’s funeral on our black-and-white TV when I was four years old. The Vietnam War played out on the nightly news during my childhood and I was 14 when Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal.

Having an extra four decades of direct experience of political history gives me a much different perspective on current politics than Kylie Brewer possesses, and as much as I lament the necessity of invoking seniority, how did we reach this weird cultural moment where kids fresh out of college think we are in need of their tutelage? Probably goes back to an impertinent young Yale alumnus, with that book of his in 1951 . . .

Buckley was just 26 when God and Man at Yale was published, but he was an old 26. He’d been commissioned an Army lieutenant at 19, after completing Officer Candidate School amid World War II, then served two years in the OSS/CIA before matriculating at Yale. Rather than lecturing his elders about their faults and shortcomings, what Buckley did was to expose to the outside world what was actually transpiring on the Yale campus which then had the reputation as a bastion of conservatism. In fact, as Buckley demonstrated, liberalism had crept into the curriculum — he particularly focused on what students were taught about religion and economics — and this exposure had quite an extraordinary effect, coming as it did at a time when America was just beginning its “long twilight struggle” against the worldwide Communist menace. Buckley found himself denounced by eminent Yale alumni (McGeorge Bundy among them), even as he became the hero of conservatives nationwide.

According to Kylie Brewer’s definition, Buckley was either greedy, racist, ignorant or apathetic — although perhaps some combination of all four — and she considers herself qualified to deliver this verdict without ever having read a single paragraph Buckley ever wrote.

Well, having expended more than 1,500 words on “Crash Out Kylie,” I’ll leave you with this: Time itself is “white supremacy.”



 

Category: Feminism, Intellectuals, The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

Why Would Two Jew-Hating Teenage Incels Shoot Up a Mosque in San Diego?

Posted on | May 24, 2026 | No Comments

Well, what else do we expect of murderous weirdos, huh? If what you’re looking for is logic and rationality, homicidal adolescents probably aren’t the first place you’d look. Monday’s shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego was perpetrated by Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, who fled the scene in a BMW and were both found dead inside the car, from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. They left behind a “manifesto” that was getting partially quoted in the media which, however, would not provide the actual manifesto itself. Because this is not my first trip to the rodeo, I knew exactly where to find it: KiwiFarms. Never has a more useful online resource had such a bad reputation. If there is some newsworthy information that the media establishment is eager to suppress (e.g., the “dead name” of a transgender freakazoid), KiwiFarms is where you look.

Click here to see the “Sons of Tarrant” manifesto, the title of which is a major clue: Clark and Vazquez meant the title as a tribute to Brenton Tarrant, who in 2019 killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand (“Like ‘Call of Duty’ IRL: Aussie Gunman Massacres Muslims at NZ Mosque,” March 15, 2019). Tarrant himself modeled his attack on that committed in Norway by Anders Brevik in 2011, which produced 77 dead and more than 300 injured. In summary, Tarrant was a copycat of Brevik and these two weirdos in San Diego were trying to copycat Tarrant, but they failed miserably in terms of body count.

In terms of graphic design, the “manifesto” authors did a creditable job, but we’re not here for art criticism. The “Sons of Tarrant” wished to justify their murderous rampage, which ended after only three killings, although they may have had further targets planned. And what was their argument? The core of it from Page 4 of their “manifesto”:

The Universal Enemy
Everyone has their own idea of who is to blame for all the wrong in the world, they will say its the government, the elite, the rich, the politicians, the 1%, the left, the right, the capitalists, the communists, the illuminati, the fags and trannies, the immigrants, and many more. All of them can be traced back to be or be caused by one group, the jews.

IT’S THE JEWS
IT’S THE JEWS
IT’S THE JEWS
IT’S THE JEWS

The Jews across all of time have been behind an EXTREMELY disproportionate amount of the world’s problems, whether that be from war, famine, exploitation of children, rise in degeneracy, infighting of peoples, political killings, the separation of family, the departure from the Church, the White race’s replacement, mass immigration, central banking systems, and so on, it has always been and always will be, the Jews. There is no moderate option to this problem, they’ll always rise back to power or do the same again wherever you exile them to, for any sane man seeing all this the only logical solution would be to just kill them all.

Recall the KISS Principle: Keep It Simple Stupid.

This one-factor explanation of “all the wrong in the world” certainly meets that metric of effective messaging, but it violates basic logic — the cause is insufficient to the claimed consequence. Whatever sinister intent you attribute to “THE JEWS,” they are too small a minority to account for “all the wrong in the world.” Furthermore, it could be demonstrated, this simplistic view attributes to Jews many wrongs that they could not possibly have caused, and which prominent Jews have in fact opposed.

It has been noticed, by the way, that once the identity of the San Diego killers was determined, their background examined, and the contents of their “manifesto” widely available for scrutiny, the mainstream media lost interest in this story. The 24/7 coverage on CNN ended abruptly, without explanation. A full understanding of the factors involved simply doesn’t fit the preferred narrative. The demented deadly duo disavowed any ordinary “right-wing” classification, with Caleb Vasquez writing, “I am certainly not left wing, nor am I right wing especially not with Maga or Trump, politically I’d call myself a Third Positionist specifically aligning most with Nationalist Socialism and Eco Fascism.” Irrational nihilism — destruction for the sake of destruction, murder for the sake of murder.

Beyond that, however, is the possibility that mandatory “ethnic studies” courses in high school may have played a role in radicalizing these weirdos. Last year, San Diego journalist Amy Reichert interviewed Cain Clark’s mother who “said her son was mandated to take an Ethnic Studies class to graduate from [high school]”:

According to the mother, the first two weeks focused on “whiteness” and “white privilege.” She said Cain, who is mixed race with Indonesian heritage on his father’s side, felt uncomfortable in the class and believed it was teaching him to view himself and his white family members negatively.

There is no doubt in my mind that the identity-obsessed worldview promoted by this kind of “woke” curriculum is toxic. Although most kids aren’t going to become mass murderers as a consequence, it is certainly not harmless to lecture teenagers about “white privilege,” etc.

There was some “incel” rhetoric about “foids” in the killers’ manifesto, but isn’t that to be expected? If you could get laid, you wouldn’t be engaging in this homicide-suicide spree, would you? And the parents tried to get help for their lunatic kids, but it didn’t work:

Caleb Vazquez, one of two teens responsible for the mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, was on the autism spectrum and influenced by hateful rhetoric online, his family explained in a heartfelt apology.
“Over the last several days, our family has been trying to process the horrific actions carried out by our son against the Islamic Center San Diego Community,” the 18-year-old’s family said in a statement released by attorney Colin Rudolph. . . .
Vazquez and 17-year-old Cain Clark stormed the mosque, opening fire and killing the three Monday before fleeing in a white BMW. The teen terrorists livestreamed their entire attack.
At the encouragement of Vazquez, Clark, sitting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, shot Vazquez in the head twice with a pistol, killing him. Clark then turned the weapon on himself.
The family recognized the attack caused devastating and irreversible pain for the victims, their loved ones and the broader Muslim community, adding that no apology could ever make up for the loss and trauma inflicted by Vazquez.
“We reject hatred, extremism, bigotry, and violence in every form. We stand firmly against the ideology and actions that led to this tragedy. These actions do not reflect the values we raised our family with or the beliefs we hold in our hearts,” Vazquez’s family said. . . .
“Our son was on the autism spectrum, and it is painfully clear to us now that he struggled not only with accepting parts of his own identity but also grew to resent them,” they said. . . .
“We believe this, combined with exposure to hateful rhetoric, extremist content, and propaganda spread across parts of the internet, social media, and other online platforms, contributed to his descent into radicalized ideologies and violent beliefs. While there is no excuse for his actions, we have come to recognize how dangerous online spaces are that normalize hatred,” the statement continued.
The family said they tried many times to help Vazquez through his “mental instability,” though they admitted, “We will forever live with the burden of wondering whether there was more we could have done to help prevent this senseless tragedy.”

Do you know what “5150” means in California?

Fifteen months before Caleb Liam Vazquez gunned down three men at the San Diego Islamic Center, Chula Vista police got a court order to remove his father’s numerous firearms.
Vazquez, 18, was undergoing mental health treatment in the days before Monday’s deadly attack, having been previously involuntarily hospitalized by authorities. . . .
Vazquez came onto authorities’ radar in January 2025, when concerns about his mental health arose. Chula Vista police filed a gun violence emergency protective order against his father, Marco Vazquez, with a police officer writing the teenager “was involved in suspicious behavior idolizing Nazis and mass shooters.”
Police had acted after being alerted to the teenager’s writings on social media . . .
According to the San Diego Superior Court records, the officer noted that Caleb Vazquez “was placed on a 5150 hold” — where a person is deemed a danger to themselves or others and involuntarily detained for 72 hours — and that his father, who had 12 registered guns, refused to “allow officers to confirm if firearms were stored properly.” . . .
According to a law enforcement source, the FBI was alerted to Vazquez’s behavior — something that happens regularly in thousands of such incidents nationwide.

Yet another mass murderer who was on the FBI’s radar ahead of time. It’s almost as if there’s no point bothering to call the cops at all:

The two hours before Monday’s deadly attack at the San Diego Islamic Center were marked by a series of frantic calls by the mother of one of the attackers as short-staffed police struggled to assess the seriousness of the threat and scramble officers to find the gunmen.
The mother of 17-year-old Cain Lee Clark first called police at 9:42 a.m., about two hours before the first reports of an active shooter at the center. Police did not arrive at her home to speak to her until 11:10 a.m., according to sources with access to call logs.
In between that time, the mother had called at least two more times, with greater levels of concern, the sources said. Those calls were enough for police to elevate the incident, more than an hour after the initial call.
It’s unclear exactly what the mother told police during the first call, but police officials have said it came in as a “runaway juvenile,” and was classified as a “Priority 2,” one of the two law enforcement sources said.
Multiple law enforcement officials said the waiting time between the mother’s first call and when an officer was dispatched was on par with similarly classified calls.
According to data recently released by the city in a public records request, the average response time for the department for a Priority 2 was more than two hours as recently as March. The San Diego Police Department had been dealing with staffing shortages, which emerged as an issue earlier this month amid budget talks.
The mother provided more details about her son in the subsequent calls, the sources said, and that prompted police to elevate the case to a Priority 1 call.
A terrorism liaison officer was brought into the case at 10:54 a.m., the sources said, sparking a scramble to find Clark. When the call was upgraded, a patrol car with two officers was sent to the mother’s home. They arrived at 11:10 a.m., the sources said.
By that time, one of the law enforcement sources said, officials at Clark’s school were alerted and data from license plate readers were being scanned for any sign of the stolen car. Police received two hits for the license plate — both prior to the shooting, including one at the Fashion Valley mall about six miles away from Clark’s home. The car was not there by the time an officer arrived, the sources said.
According to recordings of dispatch audio from San Diego police reviewed by The Times, dispatchers told officers in the field at approximately 11:05 a.m. to be on the lookout for a “possible terroristic threat.” The dispatcher reported that a 17-year-old boy named Cain Clark left at 6:30 a.m. from his parents’ house with another teen.
He took a shotgun and additional guns out of his parents’ gun safe, according to dispatch records. “He wrote a note on the computer saying ‘I’m too far gone and this is going to happen anyways,’” the dispatcher said. The teen left in a white BMW X1 and turned his location off on his phone, the recording said.
Clark was described as wearing a camo baseball cap, a camo jacket, black pants and black boots. The second suspect was said to be wearing an army green baseball cap, camo jacket and army green camo cargo pants.
Police officers were interviewing Clark’s mother when the first reports of a shooting at the Islamic center came in at 11:42 a.m.

So the police were short-staffed because of the city budget, and it took more than an hour for the police to understand that this wasn’t just some routine “runaway teenager” call, and while the cops were still interviewing the mom, her son and his autistic buddy were already shooting up the mosque. Just a total clusterfuck.

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Category: California, Crime, Terrorism

FMJRA 2.0: Writing Until Dawn

Posted on | May 24, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I wrote a thing. Maybe not as good as Ralts Bloodthorne’s Behold! Humanity (and certainly not as long) but you may find it entertaining. As the post title says, it kept me up until dawn for most of last week.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
‘There Is No Truth … Only Power’
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FMJRA 2.0: Marking Time
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What’s the Over/Under on How Soon Barrett Brown Gets Arrested Again?
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Rule 5 Monday: Everything Stops For Tea
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In The Mailbox: 05.18.26
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In The Mailbox: 05.19.26
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In The Mailbox: 05.21.26
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In The Mailbox: 05.22.26
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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

 

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In The Mailbox: 05.22.26

Posted on | May 23, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With Alvin York in the Argonne Forest (1918),
357 Magnum: Florida AG Smacks HOA Over Firearms Ban
EBL: Alaska Salmon Bake, The Rainmakers : “The Battle of the Roses”, and Iron Maiden : “Alexander the Great”
Twitchy: Let’s Compare Other Hosts’ Finale Numbers To Those Colbert’s Fans Are Celebrating, FCC Chair Asks For Public Comment On ABC’s “Bona Fide News Program”, and Ilhan Omar Tries To Lecture Trump On The Importance Of Family Weddings And YIKES
Louder With Crowder: Taxpayer-funded NGO employee arrested just ONE DAY after Spencer Pratt exposed them handing out needles, Trans activist attacks parents at a school board meeting, claiming their kids don’t belong to them, Democrat gubernatorial candidate keeps saying quiet part out loud, Karen Bass sounds like she thinks letting illegals vote is exactly what Los Angeles needs, and Sunny Hostin thinks eggs cost $10, yet lashes out at Kevin O’Leary being “out of touch” over Gen Z’s dumb spending habits
Vox Popoli: Rethinking University, CBS News Radio (1927-2026), Monday Night Football is Back, and Homelander’s Humiliation
According To Hoyt: Sick of the Jewish Hate – by Jon LaForce, Words of Power, Please forgive me, I Felt The Earth Move Under My Feet, and How Can You Miss Me, If I won’t go AWAY?
Based Book Sale: Ark Press To Release Travis Corcoran’s Red State Mars
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Semi of Culture Cannot Turn on a Dime
Jim McCoy: Holding The Line
Stoic Observations: AI & The Citizen’s Challenge
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Enoch Powell

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: DNI Tulsi Gabbard Submits Resignation Citing Husband’s Cancer Diagnosis, Dept. of Education Launches Investigation Into Loudoun County Public Schools Over Trans Bathroom Peeper, Trump Says US Will Deploy 5,000 More Troops to Poland, Reversing Planned Cuts, Singham Network Mobilizes to Defend Raúl Castro after DOJ Indictment, and Democrats, GOP Defectors Block Women’s History Museum Bill after ‘Biological Women’ Language Added
Battleswarm Blog: LinkSwarm for May 22
Behind The Black: SpaceX completes a largely successful 12th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy, Isaacman rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic of NASA, Starlab gets another investor, Using Webb astronomers think they have detected daily weather changes on exoplanet, and Zvezda module on ISS is leaking once again
Cafe Hayek: Pettis Is Wrong
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Dana Loesch: Tulsi Resigns!,
Don Surber: Thune joins the Resistance
First Street Journal: I’m waiting on yet another effort by the left to censor things they don’t like
Flopping Aces: Massie, McConnell’s Machine And Raffensperger All Got The Same Memo
Gates Of Vienna: Justice, Belgian-Style
The Geller Report: BRUTALLY BEATEN TO AN INCH OF HIS LIFE FOR TRUMP SIGNS, Tulsi Gabbard Resigns As Director Of National Intelligence, Bloodthirsty and Brutal Islamic Jihad Murderer Could Soon Be Freed, and Iran Mocks Trump Over Strike Delay Amid Tense Talks
Glenn Reynolds: And Away We Go!
Hollywood In Toto: I Love Boosters – Weird, Wonderful and Fearlessly Original, also, Fellow Comics Roast ‘Offended’ Chelsea Handler
Legal Insurrection: Elite Israeli Unit Continues Hunt for Every Last October 7 Perpetrator, Ebola’s Real Risks Get Lost in Media’s Rush to Panic and Politicize, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen Blasts University Transgender Training as ‘Woke Indoctrination’, Debbie Wasserman Schultz Under Fire for Running in a Florida Majority-Minority District, and New York State Passes Sanctuary State Bill, Blocks Police From Cooperating With ICE
Nebraska Energy Observer: B1G-SEC
Outkick: Nikki Bella Challenges Caitlin Clark & Sophie Cunningham To WWE Tag Match, Russian hockey team wins second straight Gagarin Cup – goalie immediately drops trophy, For second straight year Wienie 500 electrifies a hungry nation, Maine initiative barring boys from girls’ locker rooms in danger of being blocked, and Sophie Cunningham has heads spinning with pregame outfit – Colbert’s final jab – Lessons from Kyle Busch
Power Line: The Dems Are Hurting For ’28, Minnesota Pays Murderer $4.5 Million, Douglas Murray comes to town, A chamber of horrors, and Is There a Based Approach to the Law?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Signals Support Of Gas Tax Holiday Despite Skeptics
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Poverty: Hopeful or Hopeless?
This Ain’t Hell: Nobody to blame but me… sorry seems inadequate
Victory Girls: Democrats Killed The Women’s Museum The Minute Biology Entered The Chat
Watts Up With That: Spot On, New York Post, Billions Have Been Wasted Based on Fake Climate Science, Waste of the Day: Radioactive Wasted Money, Time to End the Injustice of ‘Environmental Justice’, CERES Albedo, and Driving Up The Cost Of Energy While Claiming To Promote “Affordability”
The Federalist: More Brewpubs And Museums Won’t Revive Cities Like Dallas, But Better Schools And More Cops Will, Gabbard To Step Down As DNI Following Husband’s ‘Rare’ Bone Cancer Diagnosis, The Left’s Assassination Cult Welcomes The Fangirls Of Accused Killer Luigi Mangione, Senators Fight Harder Against Restitution For DOJ Weaponization Than Against Weaponization Itself, and A California Rancher’s Legal Crisis Shows What’s Wrong With The American Beef Market
Mark Steyn: A Monster and his Suck-Ups

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In The Mailbox: 05.21.26

Posted on | May 22, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Want something to read?
I’m starting to worry a bit. The site got hacked over the weekend, and I haven’t seen any comments since Saturday. I reinstalled the Disqus plugin – are you folks not seeing the place for comments? E-mail me at the link above and put [TOM COMMENTS] in the subject line.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Recently in the Yookay…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Self-Defense in Philadelphia
EBL: DNC Harris Walz Post Election Autopsy, Tuna Salad, Justice for Henry Nowak, Amelia Earhart, and Lucky Lindbergh
Twitchy: Democrat Insists Trump Didn’t Win Those Swing States – Blames Musk & Malware, Foolhardy Flashback, and Candace Owens Melts Down After Being Fact-Checked By Guest Who Brought Receipts
Louder With Crowder: Foreigners are Taking Over American Government and Nancy Mace Has a Plan to Stop It, Jasmine Crockett insists on going out with a bang, demands hearing on something she calls “white supremacy”, Congresswoman goes all in on reparations, claiming without evidence that “every bit of prosperity” was built by black people, Alleged “comedian” Chelsea Handler lashes out at “racist” Kevin Hart roast, but Shane Gillis gets the last laugh, and “I’m not MAGA, but…”
Vox Popoli: Running Out of Steam, Based Books Day 1, Arkhaven Nights, and The Ceasefire Holds
Ammo.com: Stolen Gun Statistics
Twilight Patriot: Tears from Iron,
Jim McCoy: Galaxy’s Most Wanted
Cedar Sanderson: Sale, New Book, and More!
Upstream Reviews: Schooled in Magic

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American Greatness: Somali Daycare Fraudster Featured in Nick Shirley Video Hit with Wire Fraud and Conspiracy Charges, Las Vegas Student Sues School District After Being Expelled for Displaying Pro-ICE Signs, Former DOJ Attorney Charged with Stealing Confidential Trump Investigation Documents, Democrats to Block Trump’s $1.776 Billion ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund, and Progressive Mayors Push to Keep ‘Free Cash’ Programs Alive After Federal COVID Funds Run Out
BattleSwarm: Austin Spree Shooter Is Illegal Alien
Behind The Black: Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed at T-40 seconds, An amoeba in space more than a light year in size, A Martian wormlike dune field on the floor of a triple crater, Starfish finally gets a docking target for its Otter Pup 2 orbital tug demo, and Space Force study says it needs a third spaceport besides Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg
Cafe Hayek: I Repeat Myself Only Because Economic Error Repeats Itself
CDR Salamander: Carrier Capable Unmanned Aircraft Take II
Chicago Boyz: Pratt Summer?
Da Tech Guy: Random Photo of the Week: The initial Buds
Don Surber: Why Democrats embrace Graham “Cracker” Plattner
Flopping Aces: Historians Have Debunked The 1619 Project And There’s Nothing Left
Gates Of Vienna: “Show No Mercy. Kill Them All.”
The Geller Report: Justice at Last: Cuban Communist Dictator Raul Castro Indicted for Killing American Humanitarian Pilots, also Nazi Tattooed Democrat Candidate Graham Plattner Mocked ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle
Hollywood In Toto: Media Swooning Over Colbert’s Farewell Says … Everything, also, This Little ‘View’ Distortion Is Peak Cringe
Legal Insurrection: Green Energy Cultists Meltdown Over Proposed EV Road-Use Fees, HHS Discrimination Complaint Against Oregon Health and Science Univ Filed By Equal Protection Project, Medical Schools Have Been Trying to Use DEI to Solve a Much Bigger Problem, Sandy Fire Becomes Flashpoint in California Leadership and Fire Policy Debate, and Another Illegal Alien Truck Driver Released Under Biden Involved in Deadly Crash
Nebraska Energy Observer: St Peters and St Pauls Pickering
Outkick: Texas Tech booster claps back at Steve Sarkisian, Caitlin Clark passes LeBron James in jersey sales, exposing WNBA’s marketing problem, Florida coach Jon Sumrall reveals early career struggles, NY Giants reward Joe Schoen with new contract despite little proof rebuild is working, and Selena Gomez reportedly bringing her talents to award-winning director’s 4-hour X-rated film
Power Line: Mr. Blanche comes to Minneapolis, Dr. Oz makes a house call, About the New Minnesota Fraud Prosecutions, Cuba Libre? and Dems Lying About Taxes: What Else Is New?
Shark Tank: Paul Renner Launches “Parents for Renner” Coalition Promoting Educational Freedom
Shot In The Dark: If This State Were My Screenplay
Transterrestrial Musings: Scrub
Victory Girls: Tom Kean Jr.’s Absence Highlights Washington’s Ghosting Problem
Watts Up With That: Greenwishing: Shiny Promises Fall Short, GOOD: NEWS: NOAA predicts a below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, RCP 8.5: When the Spherical Cows Escape the Barn, The US AI Rebellion is Gaining Momentum, and Labour Considers Making it Illegal to Work When it is “Too Hot”
The Federalist: Alex Cooper’s Baby News Exposes The Feminist Lie She Sold Millions Of Women, Stephen Colbert Wasn’t Funny. Even Worse, He Wasn’t Interesting, A Culture Of Defamation Breeds A Culture Of Political Assassinations, The Democrat Party Correctly Rejects Its Useless 2024 Post-Mortem, and More Voter Fraud Charges Scream For The Senate To Pass The SAVE America Act
Mark Steyn: “Stop Hucking My Tshaynik”

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In The Mailbox: 05.20.2026

Posted on | May 21, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Prints of today’s meme are available from @GPrime85 on X or Etsy. Throw some money at an artist who doesn’t hate you!
Also, the Summer Based Books Sale is on!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The romance of Elon and Mars-chan

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NY Post Can’t Call a Felon a Felon, also How Should a Woman Defend Herself?
Doug Ross: Time-Surfing Manhattan Island
EBL: Gallrein beats Massie in Kentucky House race, “Forever In Blue Jeans”, Baked Calamari,  and Can Democrat James Talarico win in Texas?
Twitchy: “You Are Not Alone”, Roseanne Says This Dan Bongino Post Added 15 Years To Her Life, and Ratchet Crockett’s Party Dumped Her For A White Boy, But She Whines About GOP “White Supremacy”
Louder With Crowder: Stacey Abrams is back, admitting Democrats are WEAK while claiming without evidence where they’re “strongest”, Trump granted this former drug dealer clemency; here’s how he’s turning his life around as a result, Woke city council shuts down gunshot detection software, a week after an active shooter, because…, Ms. Rachel calls on her “adult” fans to color and make paper dolls to take a stand against ICE, and A 7th grader’s teacher BANNED her from reading her “offensive” pro-life poem, and the brave student is speaking out
Vox Popoli: An Explanation for Declining Fertility, Arsenal Takes the Title, They Were Better Back Then, Excising the Corporate Cancer, and Based Books 2026
Upstream Reviews: Seize What’s Held Dear
Cedar Sanderson: In Search of Eldorado
Postcards From Barsoom: When The Experimenter Fails The Marshmallow Test

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American Greatness: Dem Senate Candidate Graham Plattner Viciously Mocked US Soldier Who Was Shot Four Times in Clash with Taliban, Trump Rages Against Senate GOP for Allowing Obama-Appointed Senate Parliamentarian to ‘Stay in Power and Brutalize Us’, Report: Teachers Union Boss Used $1.4 Million In Union Resources to Write ‘Manifesto’ Book, Obamacare Enrollment Expected to Drop by Nearly Five Million as Costs Surge, and Trump-Backed Ed Gallrein Defeats Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky GOP Primary
BattleSwarm: Rape Dogs? No. Spy Dolphins? Maybe
Behind The Black: Frost on Mars, Vast unveils new high powered satellite bus to support the expected boom in satellite construction, Sri Lanka’s government to formulate a space policy, SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites, and Psyche completes its Mars fly-by
Cafe Hayek: Vernon Smith on Protectionism, Unsung Economist Heroes, and More Beating of a Wildly Galloping Balance-of-Payments Horse
CDR Salamander: Are we on the cusp of a maritime renaissance in time to beat Red China?
Chicago Boyz: You can’t know what you won’t know, Pruning and growing, Steve Hayward, Postmodernism, & Language,
Don Surber: Democrats are blowing it
First Street Journal: Amy McGrath Henderson goes 0-for-3!
Flopping Aces: Trump’s Shadow Doctrine
Gates Of Vienna: Children of the Black Sun
The Geller Report: Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo Pledges to Imprison ‘American Zionists’ at Internment Camps, President Trump Endorses Ken Paxton Over RINO Cornyn in Texas Senate Race, Georgia’s Election Rigger Brad Raffensperger LOSES BADLY in Primary Race, 21 Trump Endorsed Candidates WON Tuesday’s Primaries, and Massie Says He Had to FInd Primary Winner ‘in Tel Aviv’ to Concede Race
Hollywood In Toto: Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: Bringing ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax Back, Mandalorian and Grogu Sinks ‘Star Wars’ to Kiddie-Level Lows, ‘Censored’ Artists Can’t Stop Slamming Trump, Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The End of ‘Cheap Fakes’ Lie, and A-list Director to Tackle U.S. Rescue of Downed Pilots in Iran
Legal Insurrection: NAACP Demanding College Sports Boycotts Over Changes to Congressional Maps, Former DOJ Attorney on Jack Smith Mar-a-Lago Team Charged With Stealing Sealed Report, Hundreds of Strangers in Massachusetts Attend Funeral for WWII Veteran With No Relatives, Former Cuban Dictator Raúl Castro Indicted for 1996 Attack on Brothers to the Rescue Aircraft, and Hakeem Jeffries Urges Democrats to ‘Break’ MAGA’s Spirit
Nebraska Energy Observer: Buff the Magic Airplane
Outkick: Thunder Hold Off Wembayanma As SGA Puts HIs Stamp On Game 2, Geaux Tigahs Again, Former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer survives nasty car wreck while chasing MLB comeback, Caitlin Clark scratched from Fever lineup at last minute, and Show Tiffany Stratton some respect – a boob job doesn’t mean she’s made of plastic
Power Line: After last night, America’s Worst Senate Candidate, A Shameful NAACP Boycott, and Bad Ideas Never Die
Shark Tank: Florida Lawmakers Claim Victory As DOJ Indicts Raul Castro
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Pushing Euthanasia
Victory Girls: The Dictator Democrats Warned Us About Looks More Like Maureen Galindo
Watts Up With That: Infrastructure Week – The Real Story Is Underground, About That “Super El Niño”, ASEAN Nations Return to Fossil Fuels, Back Away From Net Zero Plans, and America’s Energy Comeback is Leaving Green Fantasies Behind
The Federalist: Why Thomas Massie Lost, The Media Can’t See The Populist Vote Clearly To Save Their Lives, National Sovereignty Is At Stake In Imminent Supreme Court Ruling, RINO Crash Out Over Trump’s Paxton Endorsement Shows How Much The GOP Hates Its Voters, and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Increasingly Looks Like An Epic Disaster
Mark Steyn: Britain on the Brink (Part Deux), Live Around the Planet, and Live Around the Planet (Literally)

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In The Mailbox: 05.19.26

Posted on | May 20, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

a note to the Maine DSA

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day Hiroshima Was Erased (1945), also, A Day in the Trenches at the Somme (1916)
357 Magnum: Licenses Delayed = Rights Denied, also Australians Are Trying to Take Back Self-Defense
EBL: Devil’s Food Cake, Soft Shelled Clams, Tarpon at the Dock, Maldives Disaster: Italian tourists bodies found, and Bari My Heart at 57th Street?
Twitchy: MAGA Vs. Massie, Rep. Ro Khanna Flirts With Antisemitism, Welcoming Cambridge Residents Testify Against “Racist” Gunshot Detection Service
Louder With Crowder: Senator Warnock Calls For Packing SCOTUS If The Left Gets Power, Shock Report Proves Over Half Of Homeless In LA Are From Outside City, MSNBC Host Is Shocked, And Somewhat Offended, That Speaker Mike Johnson Puts God Before Her Government, Woman To Plead Guilty For Registering Homeless People To Vote In California, and Kevin O’Leary triggers zoomers because he thinks their spending $28 a day on lunch is stupid
Vox Popoli: The Memory Police, The Gatekeeper’s Confession, THE COURT OF CARLOS IV, Smells Like a False Flag, and The Turning Point
Cedar Sanderson: Cookie Crumb Motivations, also, The Groundskeeper – Fen Dead (Chapter 3)
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Sir Charles Napier
Ammo.com: How Loud is a Gunshot?
Postcards From Barsoom: The Sons of the Knife

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American Greatness: Trump Endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP Senate Primary, Tragedy in San Diego Must Not Become a Tool for Islamization, Chicago White Sox Drop ‘Country Music Night,’ Keep ‘Pride’ and ‘Homies’ Events in Lineup, Trump Creates $1.776 Billion Fund for Victims of Government Weaponization After IRS Settlement, and Trump Announces Expansion of TrumpRx With 600 New Generic Drugs
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 88 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: Ken Paxton To 130 “Cities”: No Tax Increases For You, Random Shooter Loose In Austin, Texas Criminal Court Of Appeals Place 3 Runoff, Abbott Seeks New Crime Fighting Tools, and Breaking: Trump Endorses Paxton Over Cornyn
Behind The Black: Several major American satellite companies release a joint guide on “orbital safety”, New fuel startup unveils rocket and jet fuels that it says are as much as 32% more efficient, Scientists say Europa’s theorized plumes of water vapor might simply be statistical noise, Astrolab’s Flip lunar rover will carry 4 NASA payloads, and France’s space agency CNES gives ESA 5-year extension at French Guiana spaceport
Cafe Hayek: Even in China, Economic Reality Isn’t Optional, They Don’t Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt, Trade and National Security, Protectionist Articles of Faith, and Deleting a Letter
CDR Salamander: If Iran Wants To Rule Rubble, Should We Let Them? also, Alas poor DDG(X)! I knew him, Shipmate..
Chicago Boyz: A Failure at 25?, Mideast Alternate History, Once You’re Gone, You Can Come Back, Skin in the Game, and Deconstructing Everything
Da Tech Guy: Five “A Week Without Work” Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Shooting At San Diego Islamic Center, The Problem With Massie, Kirk Trial Latest – Defense Loses Bid To Ban Cameras, and Massie Defeated,
Don Surber: The Donroe Doctrine reaps rewards, also, Billionaires made America great
First Street Journal: Our good friends on the left are ‘alarmed’ at the notion of a religious revival, also, Every bird, every reptile, and every mammal can tell the difference between males and females of their own species
Flopping Aces: “Democrat” – The New Protected Race
Gates Of Vienna: Knife and Vehicle Jihad in Modena, “This Wicked and Shocking Act”, Cry, the Beloved White Tears, Update on Salim El Koudri, and Who is Salim El Koudri?
The Geller Report: Catastrophic NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Press Corp Cheer, Celebrate CEO Assassination, Trump Creates $1.8 Billion Fund to Fight Weaponization In Exchange For Dropping His 10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS, Gov. Hairgel Says Democrats Will Circumvent Election Results, Terror Attack in Italy, and Unite The Kingdom Rally Shatters Records, Millions March
Hollywood In Toto: My Dinner with Andre Made Conversation Cinematic, Cate Blanchett Mourns MeToo’s End, Ignores Hollywood’s Role, Anne Hathaway’s Pop Star Pose Powers Polarizing Mother Mary, Bill Maher Did What No Late Night Comic Dared, and Wizard of the Kremlin – Year’s Biggest Disappointment So Far?
Legal Insurrection: New Wildfire Scorches 700 Acres Near Simi Valley as L.A. Mayoral Race Heats Up, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie Loses Primary to Trump-Backed Challenger, Michigan Gubernatorial Candidate Questioned Over Work For Southern Poverty Law Center, Civil Liberty Group Sues Illinois Over License Required to Buy Guns, Ammunition, and MSNOW Host Katy Tur Displays Stunning Ignorance on the God Given Rights of Americans
Nebraska Energy Observer: UK v Mississauga, From the Spectator, Unite the Kingdom II, and Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice
Outkick: Jason Kidd Fired Months After Signing Lucrative Deal As Masai Ujiri Demands New Direction For Mavericks, Andy Richter To Serve As “Commander In Beef’ For Second Annual “Wienie 500”,  Brewers Manager Pat Murphy Continues Insufferable Underdog Act, NFL owners approve 10 international games for 2027, and Annie Agar claps back at Ozempic accusations
Power Line: From Saint Paul to San Diego, All he is saying, ICE officer charged, The word from Aimee Bock, and Failure In Iran?
Shark Tank: Pinellas County Officials Endorse Byron Donalds For Governor
Shot In The Dark: Self-Help
STUMP: Congressional Morbidity – Two Representatives Are Missing
The Political Hat: Digital Leviathan: Canada Edition, Guidance Transparency Comes To Oklahoma, and Uncle Sam Going Big Brother On A.I.
This Ain’t Hell: Final LCS Commissioned. At Last, Samurai Squatter Solution, Skidmarks in the Sky, 250 year old Revolutionary War sketch just found hanging on a wall, and Money Monday
Transterrestrial Musings: “Starship Is Going Nowhere”
Victory Girls: Beating Back the Trans Industrial Complex One Detransition Clinic At a Time, Los Angeles’ Leftist Leaders Are Petty and Dangerous, AFT President Randi Weingarten Used Union Dues To Write Her Manifesto, and Media Says Rededicate 250 Is Icky Racist White Christian Nationalism
Watts Up With That: The United Arab Emirates Is Playing Its Own Game, ‘Climate Hushing’ – Pragmatism Demoting Exaggeration (McKibben fools himself), Oil Moves Our Machines, But Electricity Is the Cornerstone Of Our Quality Of Life, Wrong, Daily Mail, and Intellectual Yet Idiot: Ed Miliband and the Economic Illiteracy Driving Britain’s Energy Crisis
The Federalist: Here’s Why Your Hospital Bills Are So Big — And Why Congress Doesn’t Care, Vance Says U.S. Aims To Fend Off ‘Nuclear Arms Race’ ‘Domino’ Effect In Iran Negotiations, ‘Emergency In The Church’: Catholic Leaders Decry Vatican Report That Pushes Homosexuality, 23 State AGs Probe Federal Judicial Center’s Distribution Of ‘Biased’ Climate Guide To Judges,  and By Democrats’ Standards, Virginia Redistricting Lawyers Should Lose Their Jobs, Licenses, And Life Savings
Mark Steyn: Reflections on Trump Derangement Syndrome, The Canine Sinatra, Dumbfounded: Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, Transitioning to Truth, and Who’s Afraid of the Weeping Willow?

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In The Mailbox: 05.18.26

Posted on | May 19, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Tweet of the day
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day Aboard The Enola Gay (1945), 
EBL: Bluefish, The Odyssey Firestorm Gets Worse, “Molasses To Rum”, MAGA Julia Letlow defeats RINO Bill Cassidy, and Is This Thing On?
Twitchy: Anderson Cooper’s Tearful Farewell Blown Apart By One Image, TMZ Gets Roasted After Cooking Up another Story About Spencer Pratt, and View To A Shill
Louder With Crowder: Dude thought he could get away with abusing a seal because he was rich, but the DOJ had different plans, Bald Democrat lunatic clams The GOP, like, is totally bringing back slavery or something, Digital billboard cruises around LA to troll Karen Bass, Elderly Maxine Waters can’t say if being 100 years old is too old to be a member of Congress, and Self-driving cars take over a neighborhood as residents fear for the safety of their pets and kids
Vox Popoli: Who’s Locking Out Who? All Indicators, The Stupidity of Greed, The Speed of Human Mutation, and Science is Garbage
Upstream Reviews: Of All The Gin Joints in the Universe (2/4), also, Vertical Run
Cedar Sanderson: Reviews & Maturity, also, What’s Blooming?
Mazelit Airaksinen: Are American Jews an Oppressed People?
Born Lucky: Barrett Brown, Martyr In Exile

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Midrats Mid-May Free for All, 

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