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In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 28, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Former NIAID Adviser Pleads Guilty in COVID-19 Case
Doug Ross: Top 20 Suicidal Policies of the Last Democrat Administration
EBL: Irina Demick, Grilled Sardines, San Francisco 49ers Owner Jed York Arrest Video, “Too much fun with so many men…”, and “Slow Blues”
Twitchy: Ms. Rachel Said Black People Don’t Hang Themselves – Then The Cameras Rolled, Police Raid Apartment Of Ilhan Omar’s Son, Seize Guns, Make Arrest, and Jessica Tarlov Whines That Trump’s Tweets Make Her Cry
Louder With Crowder: Trump drops a new hilarious name for “Lake Ontario” with his latest bomb dropped in trade war with Canada, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has once again proves his racism,  bragging about lack of whites in government, Greg Bovino, Tucker Carlson Claims Are Wrong About Trump’s Immigration Enforcement, and Democrats’ newest socialist diva has meltdown while recreating scene from “Mean Girls”
Vox Popoli: The Response to the Retraction, The Great Bifurcation Advances, Never Bluff a Bluffer, and Progress Report 001
Cedar Sanderson: Transporting Ragnarok (Ch. 10), Lightly Toasted Marshmallow – Synchronized Schedules,
Jim McCoy: Tanager’s Fleet

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: PA Governor Josh Shapiro Accused of ‘Fearmongering,’, Armed Vet Arrested at Trump’s LA Golf Course Had Dossier With Melania’s Schedule, Info on Secret Service Personnel, State Department Institutes Sanctions Against Far-Left Transnational Terrorist Groups, Feds Say Chinese Hackers Broke Into DoJ, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and Meta Agrees to $18 Billion Settlement Over Claims Facebook, Instagram Harmed Children
American Thinker: Four Murderers and a Scapegoat, Why Are Liberal White Women So Angry? Cloward, Piven, And Zinn Told Us They Wanted To Bankrupt America, Making Children’s Programming Great Again, and ‘It Can’t Happen Here’? Are You Sure?
BattleSwarm: Paxton Pulls $1 Billion From Meta Over Child Safety, also, Austin Seeking Another Rail Boondoggle?
Behind The Black: Slope streaks in the Martian southern cratered highlands, ESA selects four European rocket startups for future launches, Musk’s other unstated reasons for shutting down Falcon 9 in Florida, SpaceX recovers floating Starship from test flight 13, and Spaceports: What works and what doesn’t
Cafe Hayek: Peter Navarro Is to Economics What Trofim Lysenko Is to Genetics, On U.S. Trade Deficits, as Well as on Manufacturing Jobs, and Bill Gates’s Imagination Is Not Reality
CDR Salamander: Kabul’s Child Sacrifice – Five Years On
Chicago Boyz: Branding Data Centers, also, New attack on pancreatic cancer
Da Tech Guy: Today’s Book Quote: The “Crusade” to Re-Write History
Don Surber: Hillbilly elegance
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an asshole to do things right, also, The problem isn’t mass incarceration
Flopping Aces: Abdul El-Sayed’s goals would end the US, also, El-Sayed teams up with Piker against Jews
Gates Of Vienna: So You Can Beat Up Women — That’s Brave, also, High-Spirited Hijinks in Heidelberg
The Geller Report: President Trump Says “I Would Absolutely Prohibit Sharia Law!”, More Than 100 UN Employees Referred for Taking Part in Hamas’ October 7 Atrocities, Marines Say CIA-trained Afghan Units ‘Executed’ Civilians to Clear Kabul Airport, Homeland Security Warns of Chinese parts in Election Machines, Will Require Paper Ballot Audits, and Trump Administration Honors Heroes of Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster – Abbey Gate
Hollywood In Toto: Why ‘Mary Sue’ Short Should Scare Hollywood Silly, Is How to Rob a Bank Really Hasan Piker: The Movie? Buddy Turns Barney Into Horror Movie Psychopath, and Colbert’s Replacement Beats Jelly Roll-led ‘Kimmel’ in Key Demo
Legal Insurrection: Meta Agrees to $17.1 Billion Multistate Settlement Over Alleged Harm to Young Users, California High-Speed Rail Route Blocked by 1,200-Home Development, Trump Admin Moves to Strip ABA of Law School Accreditation Power, Maryland Judge Blocks Democrat Redistricting Amendment From November Ballot, and Desperate Democrats Try Running Away From Hasan Piker as Controversies Grow
Nebraska Energy Observer: “I Will Always Love You”, also, Canada – Standing for Nothing, Falling for Everything
Outkick: Aliyah Boston addresses Caitlin Clark’s viral smile at Angel Reese during podcast, Tony Romo hit with new citations after DUI bust, Al Michaels stumbles through awkward Trump jab during TNF broadcast, Dodgers owner Mark Walters insists “There has been no fraud”, and Man in trouble for using Roomba to record wife’s affair/FWB lease up/Hall passes
Power Line: You’re a grand old flag, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb [Updated], On the National Stage, Justice Delayed, and Annals of Newspeak
Shark Tank: DeSantis Rips Reporter Over Leaked Grand Jury Report
Shot In The Dark: A Morality Play In One Act
STUMP: RIP Dolly Parton – Cancer & History
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Nature Rights, also, Organoids vs. A.I.: Will Catgirls Lead The Butlerian Jihad?
Victory Girls: Parents Sue Over Mosque Field Trip, also, Democrats: Are The Newspeak Buzzwords Working For Them?
Watts Up With That: Wrong, Reuters – An Early Champagne Harvest Isn’t Proof of Climate Change, Attorney General Hilgers Files Lawsuit Against First Street for Harming Nebraska Homeowners, Net Zero Is Dying, EU Decarbonization Is a Security Threat for the West, and Kathleen Stock is Right About UK’s Role in Climate – But Wrong About What’s Making Things Worse for Brits
The Federalist: Suburbs Import Policies That Ruined American Cities And Expect Different Results, Virginia AG Launches Office To Protect Illegals And Bureaucrats From Federal Accountability, Democrats’ Racial Grievances Are Just A Cynical Grift, Altadena’s Post-Fire Rebuild Proves You Can Have Woke Or Effective Leaders But Not Both, and Dolly Parton Proved Artists Don’t Need Vulgarity To Be Successful
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet – Wednesday August 26th, An American Dream, and They’re Baaaackkkkk

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In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Early Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 27, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Call for Authors! 2026 BasedCon Based Books Sale!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The School Bus & The Mosque
EBL: To Barcelona, With Love, Agnez Mo, Tim Curry RIP, Nepal Mudslide, and Dolly Parton – “Hillbilly Heaven”
Twitchy: Ro Khanna Tries Trashing Former Bernie Jewish Staffer – Then The Staffer Shows Up, Mexican Illegal Thought It Would Be A Good Idea To Interfere With ICE – #FAFO, and Mehdi Hasan Flips Out On Dana Bash For Telling The Truth About Hasan Piker’s 10/7 Comments
Louder With Crowder: WNBA Player Natasha Cloud Mocks Christians, Demands You Support Illegal Immigration, Woman Claims She Loved Her Baby So Much, She Aborted Him, Moms for Liberty Files Federal Lawsuit Against School District That Secretly Transitioned Students, James Talarico brags about his legislation making schools teach DEI instead of things like math and reading and stuff, and TEXAS man goes viral attacking Texans, saying the state needs MORE Indians
Vox Popoli: When the Ships Aren’t Sunk, The Irrelevance of k = ? , and The War on US Farmers
Upstream Reviews: JR Handley’s Incomplete List of Epic Military SF (Part III)
The Abbey of Misrule: The Trap
Cedar Sanderson: It Couldn’t Be Done
John C. Wright: Atheism is Solipsism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Oh, A New Floating Dry Dock? I’ll Take Four More – To Start
Dana Loesch: The Pharisaitical Approach of False Shepherds Makes Modern Feminism Worse
Don Surber: A story the media won’t cover
Elizabeth Nickson: U.S. Median Income $90k, Canadian Median Income $60k – That’s All You Need To Know

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Did You Know That @ElonMusk Has Reinstated the @X Accounts of ‘Noted Neo-Nazis, Anti-Semites, and More’?

Posted on | August 27, 2026 | No Comments

Perhaps I should mention that I have friends and family members in the legal community, and it has not escaped my notice that the decade-long suspension of my @rsmccain Twitter account has certain negative implications constituting reputational damage to myself.

Something on Wednesday brought this to mind, but first let me remind you of what I wrote for The American Spectator in March 2016:

In an age of lies, the truth is dangerous. When Twitter announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council” last month, every intelligent observer understood that censorship would be the result.
The purpose was obvious in Twitter’s choice for members of this Orwellian-named “council,” which includes many left-wing activist organizations, but not a single conservative or libertarian group. Most ominous was Twitter’s decision to ally itself with radical feminism by making Anita Sarkeesian a member of this advisory group. Sarkeesian’s non-profit group Feminist Frequency, formed in 2014, is a tax-exempt vehicle to promote the 32-year-old’s “gender theory” attacks on the videogame industry. . . .
All of that is preamble to explaining why my Twitter account @rsmccain was shut down Feb. 19, and how this resulted in a protest against Twitter’s policies, using the #FreeStacy hashtag. . . . When I attempted to get my Twitter account reinstated, I received a cryptic message that I had been “participating in targeted abuse,” although no evidence was offered to support this accusation. Who was targeted? What was the abuse? How did I participate? No one will say. In a statement to Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle, Twitter officials cited “privacy” to justify this silence as to the nature of my alleged offense against Trust and Safety.

Whose “privacy” was being protected by this silence? More than a decade later, we still don’t know. My suspension in February 2016 was the first foreshadowing of a wave of Twitter banishments that followed, ultimately including President Donald Trump himself. In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter (subsequently renamed X) and began reinstating formerly banned accounts. How many once-banned accounts were restored? Many thousands, as Kyle Barr reported at Gizmodo in December 2022:

Twitter owner Elon Musk’s goal for “general amnesty” towards banned accounts is in full swing. Since taking over, the multi-billionaire owner has given thousands of once-banned users access to their accounts once again. His extreme laissez faire-attitude has attracted some of Twitter’s worst characters back to the social network.
Just how many accounts once-suspended or banned accounts are now back on Twitter? Germany-based software developer Travis Brown has been tracking and publishing the unique Twitter IDs and screen names of banned accounts on a public Github list. Brown’s list has close to 12,000 accounts reinstated since Oct. 27. Since Nov. 8, there have been several hundred account reinstatements every day. On Nov. 21 in particular, there were close to 2,500 accounts allowed back. . . .
A cursory look at some of the once-suspended accounts include several promoting vaccine misinformation (a kind of misinformation that Musk doesn’t have much time for anymore), obvious spam accounts, profiles that share copyrighted material, and adult content creators. . . . Twitter re-verified neo-Nazis Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler as part of Musk’s ill-fated expansion of subscriptions on the social network. . . .
White nationalist Patrick Casey is back on Twitter even though he once ran a major group that advocated for a white ethnostate, Identity Europa, and coined the notorious slogan “you will not replace us.”
Other subjects given a second chance on Twitter include Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi who has been running from a $14 million judgement made back in 2019 for leading a doxxing and harassment campaign against Jewish Montana residents.

At the time this was happening, when formerly banned accounts were being reinstated at the pace of thousands per day, I also applied for reinstatement of @rsmccain and was turned cold. Since then, I have occasionally repeated my appeal — denied, denied, denied.

People widely considered the vilest scum of the earth had their accounts reinstated, yet Elon Musk would not restore @rsmccain. Why? He has never explained. And what is most frustrating to me is that not a single one of my many alleged “friends” in the conservative journalism community will write a single word of protest against the continuation of this banishment, nor will they ask Elon Musk to answer for it. Is it wrong for me to feel butt-hurt over this? “Never let em see you sweat” has always been my mantra, as I would not wish to give any of my enemies the satisfaction of knowing what actual harm they have inflicted on me, but what about the neglect of friends? Over many years, I have striven for collegiality, trying to do favors for friends whenever such an opportunity presented itself, and it wounds my pride that I should have to actually solicit help when I am the one in need. Everyone has known how grievous this Twitter ban was to me, and knowing this, wouldn’t they voluntarily act on my behalf, without my having to ask? Yet after the initial uproar in February 2016, it seems my injury was forgotten, though I still suffered.

Well, enough with my personal feelings, about which no one cares. When this crossed my mind Wednesday, I logged on and once again appealed the suspension of @rsmccain, then sent this email:

Dear Sirs:
While I am by no means certain that any human being is actually reading this, permit me to repeat what I just wrote in an appeal today for the reinstatement of my account (@rsmccain):

In February 2016, my account was banned. It made headlines at the time, e.g.:

https://thefederalist.com/2016/02/24/the-freestacy-twitter-exodus-has-begun/

There was no adequate explanation. I was informed that I had been “found to be violating … our rules around participating in targeted abuse,” although they never did tell me (a) who had been “targeted,” (b) how they were “abused,” or (c) how I had been “participating” in this alleged abuse.
No specifics were given, nor was any opportunity offered to remedy whatever may have caused this inexplicable decision. Despite repeated appeals by me since the site changed ownership, nothing has been done by the new management to rectify this unexplained suspension.
Isn’t it time, after more than a decade, to do the right thing?

After Mr. Musk purchased the site in 2022, I dared hope that he would act promptly to end the censorship regime that had preceded his ownership. I was heartened to see some other banned accounts restored (more than 12,000 it was reported), and yet my account remains suspended, which by implication suggests that I am a worse person than the “noted neo-Nazis, anti-semites, and more,” as Gizmodo said of the accounts restored in December 2022. While it has never been my habit to suggest litigation as a solution to disagreements, it occurs to me that the continuation of this suspension might be construed as defamatory in nature, and that every day that @rsmccain remains suspended, the defamatory implication is effectively repeated.
Having once again gone through the appeals process, and having reiterated my appeal by email, please inform me what else I can or should do to fix this unfortunate problem. I include my phone number, and would be pleased to discuss this with you at any time, as I desire ever to remain,
Your most humble and obedient servant,
Robert Stacy McCain
[ phone number redacted ]

Note the extreme courtesy of the closing. When I conclude a letter with the “humble and obedient servant” phrasing of a 19th-century gentleman, you know it’s serious. They may consider themselves given due notice.



 

Category: Elon Musk

In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 26, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Good night, sweet princess.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

A sign from God that Dolly made it.
(h/t @SwedishCanary on X)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Police Officer Abusing Flock Cameras
Doug Ross: The Day The British Left New York City (1783)
EBL: Dolly Parton RIP, Cheapest vs Most Expensive Fish, Social Security: 62, 67, or 70, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, and Abdul El Sayed -Are You Circumcised?
Twitchy: ABC News Interviews Alex Pretti’s Grieving Family, Active Duty AF Major Who Called For Trumps Impeachment On Capital Steps Charged Under UCMJ, and Mayor Agrees With Don Lemon That Gary IN Is Being Neglected Because It’s Black & Working-Class
Louder With Crowder: New York Governor announces new law proving she cares more about illegal immigrants than any NYer born in America, Charles Barkley unloads on NBA/WNBA commissioners too cowardly to just say the ‘w’ stands for women, Canada Responds to Trump Tariffs, But Of Course Not Without A Land Acknowledgment First, Minnesota official left begging Somali gangs to, if they would please, not turn the State Fair into a violent mess, and Blackpillers down bad when they see these latest Trump wins
Vox Popoli: Fact Check, Not NATO – Middle East Edition, Foreign Affairs Throws in the Towel, THE CRUMBLING ABYSS, and The NFL and CTE
Defending The Wood Perilous: Divine Canon – Who Is The Custodian?,
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow – Flower Princess,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Trump Orders Flags to be Lowered to Half Staff to Honor Dolly Parton, Florida Becomes First State to Ban Use of EBT Cards to Purchase ‘Inappropriate’ Non-Essential Items, Justice Department Unveils New National Fraud Detection Center, Supreme Court Allows Trump Election Integrity Order to Take Effect, and Trump Administration to Revoke Visas of Foreigners Who Seek Asylum
American Thinker: Limousine Liberals and Country Club Conservatives are Destroying America’s Moderates, The Fake Populist Spawn of the Educated and the Privileged, AI Data Centers are America First in Action, The Mohammunist Manifesto—Surveillance, Informants, And Social Enforcement Networks, and The Cost of Belonging
BattleSwarm: Ungodly Doings In Godley, Paramount Moving To Austin? VDH – America Dominates Tech, and Why Isn’t The Muslim Brotherhood A Designated Terrorist Organization?
Behind The Black: NASA cuts ribbon on new Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Side cracks in the crack that almost split Mars, SpaceX confirms its purchase of Pecan Island launch site in Louisiana, Two launches, by China and SpaceX, and A tour of a mock-up of the interior of Voyager’s Starlab space station
Cafe Hayek: U.S. Tariffs are Paid Overwhelmingly by Americans, also, Worse than Lipstick on a Pig
CDR Salamander: Saildrone’s Spectre – Making Sub Chasers Great Again?
Chicago Boyz: StarMind, Trump Administration To Strip ABA Of Law School Oversight, USA 250 – Inventions, Innovations, & Infrastructure, and Cost centers & the space race
Da Tech Guy: Today’s Book Quote: Reading (was) fundamental, New Dynasty Waivers Rules for 1975 (And general draft rules for all my future leagues), and 100 Word Fan Fiction: Seizing Home Field Advantage
Dana Loesch: Operation Economic Outcast – An Economic D-Day For Iran, also, Post-Liberalism 101
Don Surber: Mocking Trump bores people
First Street Journal: The WNBA is different from the NBA in more ways than one, also, Killadelphia
Flopping Aces: The Week in Radical Leftism, Hasan Piker jumps the shark, and The Yin and Yang of American Prosperity – Freedom and Entrepreneurship
Gates Of Vienna: Dhimmi Media Roundup, Ceuta Today, A German-Led Invasion of Italy, and Kashmir is…Whose?
The Geller Report: TRUMP VICTORY: ALL IRANIAN MINES CLEARED From Strait of Hormuz, ISLAMIC TERROR BLITZ IN THAILAND, Girl Scouts Offers Muslim Faith Awards To Be Earned by Learning Pillars of Islam, Trump Admin to Rescind 200,000 Visas in the Largest Mass Revocation Ever, and MASSIVE WIN – Supreme Court Upholds Trump Administration Effort to Overhaul Mail-in Ballots
Hollywood In Toto: Pop Culture Puts Antisemitism on Blast (Finally), Summer’s Super Box Office Winners, Losers, Colony – These Zombies Get Smarter—and Deadlier, New Comedy Rules? Fat Jokes A-OK (If Aimed at Trump), and The Dog Stars Loses Post-Apocalyptic Plot
Legal Insurrection: Darlene Graham Wins South Carolina Republican Senate Nomination, HUD To Investigate UMass-Amherst and U. Nevada-Reno Over Race-Focused Dorms, Abdul El-Sayed Tries to Compare Gender Transitioning of Children to Circumcision, Canada Fires Back With Tariffs on Variety of U.S. Items, and Iran Threatens U.S. With ‘Seismic’ Attack as Trump Admin Launches ‘Operation Economic Outcast’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Why Canada Did Not Get a Trade Deal, Root, Root, Root for the Home Team, Sea Lines of Communication, and What Voter Fraud?
Outkick: College Athletics Latest Mess, Falcons Starting QB Spot Is Michael Penix Jr’s To Lose As Tua Struggles, Timbermutts’ LaMelo Ball Hires Driver After Reckless Driving Incidents, Freedom 250 Race In DC Pulls Massive Ratings, and Serial Shitter On The Loose In Tulsa
Power Line: Dolly passes, Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Order Goes Forward, Banned from Texas [Updated: no MN charges], A Twit streamer’s threat, and America’s Weirdest Politician?
Racket News: Karen Attiah & The Right To Suck,
Shark Tank: Florida Voters Overwhelmingly Back Updated Flu Vaccine Approval
The Political Hat: Socialism By Any Other Name, also, Towards A Weaker Dollar
Transterrestrial Musings: Therapy, Off The Air, Solid Rocket Motors, and A Sad Day
Victory Girls: Log Cabin Republicans Remove Support For Transgender Movement, Hasan Piker “Lowers” The Temperature By Mocking Charlie Kirk, Socialists Or Deadbeats? One And The Same, and WNBA Reportedly Will Not Let Freedom And White Enter The Draft
Watts Up With That: California Lawmakers Chase Unicorns While Real Crises Mount, Net zero grid upgrade costs spiralling out of control, Desperate Climate Crisis Cultists Turn to OnlyFans for ‘Sexy’ Messaging, Western water fight also impacts power generation, and Now That’s (Public) Service!
The Federalist: Treasury Dept. Closes More Loopholes That Gave Illegal Aliens Your Tax Dollars, Dolly Parton’s Catalog Is More Than Just Catchy Tunes, Declassified Docs Show Deep State Letting Chinese Espionage Slide If It Helps Democrats, We Chased A California Paper Trail To Show What Happens A Few Years Before A Nick Shirley Moment, and How Leftist Nonprofits Connected To Republicans And Judges Enable Crime Sprees In Red States Like Oklahoma
Mark Steyn: “All of Me”, Make Rome Great Again, and Lake America

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In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 25, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Elbows up, LOL

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day In Ancient Rome (100 AD), Americastan, and  The Blackpilling of America – Escaping The Fear
357 Magnum: When Leftists Complain About US Passenger Trains, Bring Up Freight, also Cooperating With Criminals Is No Guarantee of Safety
EBL: PETA ?? Maine Lobster Festival , Vesuvius, Karmelo Anthony New Trial Denied, Mangrove Snapper, and Battle Of Bosworth
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Shreds Abdul El-Sayed For His Hasan Pike Bromance, Bill Melugin Fills In The Gaps In GOP Congressman’s Self-Deportation Sob Story,  and John Cleese May Finally Be Catching On
Louder With Crowder: Former NBA Player Kicked Out Of WNBA Game After Wearing Shirt That Defines What A Woman Is, AWFL Wisconsin TikToker is armed with a bow and arrows to rally an uprising for Lindsey Clancy, CNN sheds what’s left of its dignity “fact” checking RFK Jr’s cooking show, CNN sheds what’s left of its dignity “fact” checking RFK Jr’s cooking show, and James O’Keefe dressed up as a Muslim to expose voter fraud in Minnesota; now Islamic groups are demanding he be prosecuted
Vox Popoli: The Satanic Inversion of FROZEN, Byron AI Volunteers Wanted, Chalub and the Kimura Cancellation, and The Manufacture of Alzheimer’s
Cedar Sanderson: Witches Float, The Antarctica Cookbook, and Monday Mixtape – The Dryad’s Ball
John C. Wright: Windrose of Political Heresy, also, Not Tired of Winning Yet CCLX
Draw & Talk Comics: Where I’ve Been
Weird Catholic: The Skin of St. Bart

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Don’t Do This
CDR Salamander: Battle Damage Repair for Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers – On Midrats, also, NAVAIR’s Counter-Air Gets Back In The Range Game
Dana Loesch: Why Are We Celebrating Huey Long?
Don Surber: Handicapping the Senate races
Elizabeth Nickson: The Great Spitting Out Continues
STUMP: CTU Lawsuit Followup – Reactions
Mark Steyn: Dealing Aces, also, My Dinner with André: Stuck at a Table with You

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A Distraction From the Distraction

Posted on | August 24, 2026 | No Comments

Would you believe he’s a multi-millionaire?

Y’all know football season is almost here, right? The college football season kicks off Saturday, and the NFL season begins September 9. Even though I know many readers don’t care for football, it’s important for me as a way to distract myself from the endless craziness of politics. Following my favorite quarterback, Alabama alumnus Mac Jones, now with the San Francisco 49ers, has helped keep me sane amid all the swirling insanity of the past few years. Even though Mac is now the backup in San Francisco behind Brock Purdy, it’s still something to give me a rooting interest in the Niners. Mac looked great in his preseason debut last week, and all the fans in San Francisco are excited about rookie wide receiver De’Zhaun Stribling. The big worries for 49ers fans involve the left guard position on the offensive line, and whether edge rusher Nick Bosa will be back 100% after his injury. Or, at least, those were the big worries, until the team owner made headlines:

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York — whose family is worth an estimated $8.5 billion — was arrested on Sunday at 9:35 a.m. for trying to pay just $140 for sex in a Ohio trailer park, according to court documents obtained by the California Post.
York responded to an advertisement on Sunday from a known prostitution website in Columbiana County, Ohio and “arranged to have sexual activity with the female in exchange for $140.”
However, when York was on the way to a meeting [at] a trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio, he was taken into custody by an agent from the Mahoning Valley Human trafficking Task Force, who had orchestrated the sting operation. . . .

(Pause to note that, not only is he trying to score with a cheap trailer park hooker, he’s too dumb to realize it’s a police sting operation.)

The trailer park, Wheat Hill MHP, later claimed on Facebook that York was arrested there because that’s where he was pulled over, not that the police were using one of the homes as part of their sting operation.
York had “in his possession his cellular device which was used to arrange the criminal act,” according to the court documents.
The documents show York was booked into county jail on two separate charges — one count of engaging in prostitution and one count of possessing criminal tools.
On Monday, however, York cut a plea deal with prosecutors, according to Columbiana County Municipal Court records.
York, who was initially released on $5,000 bond, pled no contest to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct as well as no contest to one count of possessing criminal tools, the records show.

Kind of hard to focus on football when the owner’s getting busted in an Ohio trailer park trying to hookup with a whore for $140. And the whole thing makes no sense at all. You’re a big-shot NFL executive, worth more than $100 million personally, not to mention being heir to a share of your family’s multi-billion-dollar fortune, and you’re trolling for hookers in a trailer park? Like, you couldn’t have a sugar baby mistress on your payroll, put her up in a nice apartment, etc.? Instead you’re responding to ads for $140 whores in Columbiana County, Ohio? This is crazy.

Anyway, I’ve told my kids what I want for Christmas is an official Mac Jones jersey, which costs more than the team owner was willing to spend on a hooker. But I ain’t going near no Ohio trailer parks.



 

Category: Crime, Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee Time

Posted on | August 24, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Pretty sure this young lady is from @Rule5Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Gates of Buda, Primavera, The End of Oak Street, MAGA Trump Calls Out Pee Wee Ossoff, Mikayla Demaiter, Nigella Turmeric Fish Curry, Hayden Panettiere RIP, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Normal, and The King Is Gone

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Devon Windsor, Fish Pic Friday – Stace Lee, My Dog, The Wednesday Wetness, Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning, Tattoo Tuesday, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and The Great Barrier Reef is Doing Just Fine, Thanks

BACON TIME: Rule Five: Nice Melons

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FMJRA 2.0: A Better Start Than Last Year

Posted on | August 22, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Started the week going 2-1 against Pete’s Brewers, but then went to the Polo Grounds to face the Giants, which was almost as bad as the Red Sox at Fenway, except we hung on in Game #2 to force extra innings: Len Randle got a single off Ron Schueler in the top of the 11th, and two groundouts & a double from Jim Sundberg later it was 10-9 Senators. and Steve Foucault came in to shut down the Giants in the bottom of the inning for his third game. The Giants have some tough starters, and if Nolan Ryan hadn’t pulled his groin or something in Game 2, we might well have gone 0-3. Next up are the Angels; we’re playing them tomorrow afternoon at home in RFK, so that ought to turn few gopher balls into long fly outs instead. Meanwhile, we’re 5-7, a game behind Boston and Milwaukee and just 1.5 games behind Minnesota. It’s April in 1975, and we think we have a good shot at the playoffs this year.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Weirdo Charged With Defacing WWII Memorial
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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Rule 5 Sunday: Nice Flex
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 08.18.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Florida Primaries: Vindman Loses, Jews Win, Very Bad Night for Hasan Piker
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.18.26 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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