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[U] So Once Again, We See That Chaos Is The “Defining Feature” — Of Trump’s “Brand”. There Will Be Excess Mortality Among Very Young Americans. Mark My Words.

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I won’t bother to make a new graphic here. UPDATE: the guy is so like a “know-nuthin’ Mayor of Munchkinland”… I’ve decided to update the graphics. But we are ALL… trapped now — in his “know-nothing-ness“. Damn. End, updated portion.

Regular readers will recall that making a Hep B vaccine in bulk is a very delicate bio-science affair. So, from time to time, stock outs would occur — when an entire bulk run would not fully “yeast-rise” or congeal, if one uses the imperfect analogy of baking a [forty foot high!] “soufflé”. And back in the time when evidence-based human health science ruled the day (1928-2024), that was cause for concern — because the fear was that there would not be enough Hep B vaccine for all the newborns in the US that year.

Just ten years on now, we (under Tangerine 2.0 / Kennedy / Prasad) have reached a point where excess infant deaths may arrive, not for stock outs — but for. . . brain-failures: these idiots are reducing the wide recommendation for moms to have their newborns get the Hep B vaccine. And perhaps a decade from now, we will look back and wonder why so many more babies and toddlers in the richest nation on Earth… have… died. That — more than anything else, will be Trump’s lasting legacy. Here’s a bit, of the awful news today, from the NYT:

…The divisiveness and dysfunction surrounding the decision raised questions about the reliability of the process — and the future of the C.D.C….

For many public health experts, the vote also marked the end of trust in the C.D.C. and its vaccine advisers.

“Today is a defining moment for our country,” Michael Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota, said. “We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”

In a statement, Dr. Richard Besser, president and chief executive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a former acting director of the agency, said “policymakers, physicians, and families must turn to reputable medical and public health groups for guidance, and health insurers should do the same for informing what vaccines they will cover….”

“We know it’s safe, and we know it’s very effective,” Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, said on Friday, and he warned that if the vote passed, “we will see more children and adolescents and adults infected with hepatitis B….”

Stoooopid is — as stupid does. Damnation — an ugly Friday morning, indeed. Out.

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Colossally Stupid — And Clearly… Mindlessly… Evil: Hinderaker’s Latest Lies, Re J6.

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So — tonight, John opines [for the umpteenth time!] — like a burping warthog, that the J6 arrestees were mostly tourists and grandmas, who ‘wandered into’ the wrong place, at exactly the wrong time.

Y A W N.

His lies are so… tedious. There were dozens of local DC police officers beaten — and Ashley Babbitt (Ex-USAF)… she decided to charge through a locked but glass-paned interior door, toward the House floor — after repeatedly being ordered to stand down, or shots would be fired.

She died instantly, taking a bullet to the heart. She was ex-Air Force — she knew what that meant. To be clear, she did not “wander in” there inadvertently. No, she filmed herself driving across the country — hoping an insurrection could be triggered — and won. She boasted of it.

And yes — almost 1,600 were charged [and over 1,250 were convicted by juries of their peers — of felonies!], including Stewart Rhodes — the disbarred Yale lawyer who largely organized the attacks.

He was to serve 18 years, but [shocker!] Tangerine 2.0 has pardoned him. See at upper right.

And yes, John — it is good that there’s been an arrest in the ATTEMPTED pipe bombing case.

But if this guy is the one, he did not detonate… anything. No one is dead — by his hand. I don’t give a rat’s ass about his politics. He’s a criminal — if it was indeed his handiwork, and the government can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. But I’ll wait to see — unlike Hinderaker, who wants to paint him as a “leftist“. The pipe bombs were left outside both the GOP offices, and Democratic ones — so, it is, to a rational observer — not prone to leaping to conclusions — hard to see how Hinderaker gets there five hours after he’s been ID-ed. But whatever, John.

Clearly, the DC officers remain the injured parties here. Equally clearly, Ashley Babbitt is still dead — due to her own insurrectionist choices. And the officer who put her down, will likely have nightmares for the rest of his life, about having to take a life, in the line of duty.

But he swore an oath to protect the Capitol — and the system of ordered liberty. One that until 2021, has always transferred Presidential power in a peaceful manner.

What of that, you bloviating butthead, John?

What of that?

Take a seat son. You are not fit for adult conversations.

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Update — Of Course, In Chicago (25-cv-12173), The Press / Intervenors Must Still Be Allowed To See All The Body Cam Footage — Despite The Suit’s Resolution: Basic First Amendment Law.

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The press parties have weighed in on USDC Judge Ellis’ docket, to remind that these are the peoples’ courts — and Bovino’s [and his officers’] body cam footage is presumptively a court filed document. And after a short period, it must be made available — to a free press, for reporting and opinion commentary.

This is the clear teaching of [most recently] Courthouse News Serv. v. Planet, No. CV 11-08083 SJO (FFMx), 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105197. An earlier case holding much the same is Oregonian Publ’g Co. v. U.S. Dist. Ct., 920 F.2d 1462 (9th Cir. 1990).

I know that the able Judge Ellis will adhere to the law, but just in case — the older but highly relevant Supremes’ case on press access to court filings is. . . New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971). [This litigation forced the release of the so-called Pentagon Papers, during Nixon’s era.]

Now you know. Onward, resolutely. Bovino can run — but he cannot… hide. Grin. And if the public shames and shuns him — and his goon squads, for their repugnant conduct — all as captured on video cams they wore… so be it. That is the central function of a free press, in a free society — like ours.

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Well… This Is Just SILLY. Noem / Bovino Lawyers Claim Future Lawless Acts May Never Be Complained About, Again — In Chicago…

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This is not just incompetent grand-standing, by the Noemite lawyers. This is an intentional attempt to mislead class members about the contours of the coming dismissal.

Shumate et al., here preposterously imply that if Bovino returns, and cracks skulls again in Little Village or Evanston, that these same people — who protested this Summer and Fall in Chicagoland… will be prevented from suing for their ENTIRELY NEW injuries. That is obviously a false statement.

The claims from the prior period are gone — but this is not a “hall pass” to come back and cock-up, again for Bovino. What a bunch of losers / dead enders these folks are:

…After months of litigation, and just weeks after securing a sweeping preliminary injunction and a 233-page opinion justifying it… Plaintiffs are seeking to throw in the towel. This is transparent procedural gamesmanship. To be sure, if Plaintiffs want to stop litigating and this Court grants their motion for dismissal with prejudice, that is beyond Defendants’ control. But this gambit should be seen for what it is….

“A dismissal with prejudice is a ruling on the merits, because it carries with it a preclusive effect that prevents the plaintiffs from relitigating — in any court, ever again — [Ed. Note: this is true, under well-settled law, ONLY AS TO the specific acts of lawlessness by Bovino, et al., from the Mid-Spring of 2025 to November 18, 2025] any claim encompassed by the suit”; Phillips v. Shannon, 445 F.2d 460, 462 (7th Cir. 1971) (“A dismissal with prejudice is as conclusive of the rights of the parties as an adverse judgment after trial, being res judicata of all questions which might have been litigated in the suit[.]”) (internal quotations omitted).

This includes those members of the certified class who “will in the future non-violently demonstrate, protest, observe, document, or record at Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement and removal operations in the Northern District of Illinois….”

Now you know — sheesh. Don’t fall for this. At bottom, the Noemite lawyers are just butt-sore that they been out maneuvered, at every important turn.

Yet significantly, in this way, any GOP/MAGA judges on the random three judge panel in the Seventh Circuit are foreclosed from making rulings that might hurt other pending lawsuits, and litigants, in other Circuits — since Chicago activists have already peacefully run the Bovino “brute squad” out of town. [Fully 7/8ths of the some 6,700 people Bovino arrested around Chicago have already been set free (without anything more than a nominal $1 bond!), due to Bovino’s utter failure — to secure the required Fourth Amendment judicial warrants — and similar infirmities.] Onward!

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I’m “Shocked — Shocked, I Tell You”… That An Anti-Masker / Anti-Vaxer Is Now The FIFTH Head (In Just 2025) Of FDA’s CDER. Chaos Is The Whole Brand.

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The sooner 2026 mid-terms arrive, in earnest — the better. The utter lack of rigor in all these people, save Padzur… is maddening.

I am not surprised that Padzur, a great guy — has decided he cannot continue in the likely-to-be-lethal farce under Prasad and Kennedy. He’s retired, after 25 years in, at the agency (and less than a month as head of CDER), being essentially strong-armed into the job, after Tidmarsh resigned in disgrace.

Here’s the latest on the revolving door at FDA’s CDER, from Clinical Trials Arena:

…Høeg’s appointment to director of CDER follows a turbulent period for the department, which recently saw the retirement of former head, Richard Padzur….

Høeg’s appointment closely follows the sudden retirement of longtime FDA employee and previous Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) director, Richard Padzur, who only took the helm at the division less than a month ago.

Padzur was originally encouraged to take charge of CDER by FDA Commissioner Marty Makary after previous leader, George Tidmarsh, resigned following an investigation into his personal conduct revealing “serious concerns….”

During her short time at the agency, Høeg has voiced her scepticism towards the safety and value of Covid vaccines — specifically focusing on mask mandates, as well as the approval of booster jabs for use in children.

Before her CDER appointment, Høeg was in the headlines for exactly this reason, as the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) leader, Vinay Prasad, claimed that research she headed had uncovered 10 children’s deaths [Ed. Note: falsely, it turns out] linked to Covid vaccines….

This is complete… madness — and (confidential note to MAGA!) even US-born children will die, in excess numbers, because of it. Mark my words.

And, in a fun (but unrelated) Martin Shkreli footnote — he is mentioned in an AI / auto-generated financial rag story, as wanting a seat at a public company (as CEO, no less!) that is investigating optical computing. The story rather wryly notes that this would require White House intervention — not mentioning that it would take a full pardon, of his felony convictions for fraud… in order for him to ever be a ’34 Act registered CEO again.

Hilarious. Out.

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Martin Shkreli’s December 3, 2025: Short Call — REKT. Co’s Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Candidate Looks Promising…

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For a change, I now think / suspect he actually had a cash position on — betting on a decline in CAPR stock.

He guessed wrong, on the clinical trial that the company was/is running — preposterously thinking that he understood more organic chemistry — in the form of cardiosphere-derived cells, or CDCs, which is an endogenous population of stromal cells derived from cells of healthy human hearts — than the company’s Johns Hopkins credentialed / Ph.D. leadership. Yep, he was wiped out — as the the stock leapt over 370 percent today (see at right) — on excellent interim trial results.

In a word, he looked… positively rekt.

And if you want to see him burping, incessantly — in a bout of panicked indigestion, this morning — here’s that live stream, from his YouTube channel.

He still has a baby to feed — and Christmas is almost here.

My best bet is that he is penniless — again.

We shall see.

But people who follow him, based on his supposed bio-science / pharma-science chops… are uniformly… idiots.

Onward, and out [yep, this is power-alley stuff]….

Here On Wed. Night, The Able USDC Judge Waverly Crenshaw Has — By Sealed Order — Likely Now Made The Emails Of Some High Officers / Politicos Of ICE/DHS [Noem / Miller / Rubio / Hegseth(?)] Available To Mr. Hecker.

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And thus, it is highly likely that the hearing for Monday morning, to Tuesday afternoon, of next week… will go forward.

And you may bet that these high officers were openly discussing punishing Mr. Abrego Garcia, for simply insisting on his rights. That will be a dismissal order, in due course. Of course, I’ll be there first thing Monday, having caught somethin’ smokin’ — as of Sunday evening, down to the Union. Here is all that is visible on the docket at the moment:

…SEALED ORDER as to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

Signed by District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr on 12/3/2025. (Emailed to counsel of record.) (jm)….

Excellent — now you know. And time to… shovel (again). Heh.

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More Now, On The Baikonur Mishap: This Is Out In A Very Remote Section Of Kazakhstan… ~700 Miles, To Truck In Very Heavy Replacement Parts [Likely From A… Museum?!] — Or Rebuild, On Site(?)

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Well, the good news is that Russia’s launch tech is very well-vetted (or very. . . old, if you prefer — with earlier item, here). It is being said by people with knowlege of the
matter that the Gagarin Museum houses what may be a working version of the damaged equipment — and, in any event that might be speedier than trying to rebuild, from scratch, off of perhaps 68 year old blueprints… in an area reachable only by semi trucks, over dirt roads, after a perhaps 700 mile drive. And that, after a long jet ride (for any newly-constructed assemblies).

The story will be very gratifying, here — to Russian national pride, though — if some of the now-ancient Yuri Gagarin first flight equipment is pressed back into service — here, in the 21st Century. Not so much a mishap story — as a redemptive, and historical one. [“The old Soviet engineers built things… to last.“]

We will have to wait — and see. Here’s the latest, from insiders:

…[A] drone flying around the launch complex showed Site 31/6’s mobile maintenance cabin lying upside down in the flame trench….

The main issue with the structure collapse is that it puts Site 31/6 — the only Russian launch site capable of launching crew and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) — out of service until the structure is fixed. There are other Soyuz 2 rocket launch pads, but they are either located at an unsuitable latitude, like Plesetsk, or not certified for crewed flights, like Vostochny, or decommissioned and transferred to a museum, like Gagarin’s Start at Baikonur….

When the rocket launched, a pressure difference was created between the space under the rocket, where gases from running engines are discharged, and the nook where the maintenance cabin was located. The resulting pressure difference pulled the service cabin out of the nook and threw it into the flame trench, where it fell upside down from a height of 20 meters.

Photos of the accident showed significant damage to the maintenance cabin, which, according to experts, is too extensive to allow for repairs. The only way to resume launches from Site 31/6 is to install a spare maintenance cabin or construct a new one….

This is a significant set-back, and yet ironically, it may make Musk’s rockets the newly primary way — to get crewed missions to and from the ISS — for perhaps the next 12 to 18 months. [Semi-serious Q.: is it possible that Musk paid some low level worker, at the site, to “let” this mishap occur? Only the equipment was damaged — and it makes him a monopolist, for now. Hmm.] We shall see. Onward.

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Lilly’s Smart Move — To Drop Prices — And Ramp Up Volumes, In The US Weight Loss Markets… Future Is Very Bright For The Indiana Drug-Maker.

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To be clear, this has next to nothing to do with Lilly’s “pen-form” dosings of a different formulation for diabetes / weight loss, one that will see list prices reduced NEXT YEAR (if ever) under a supposed Trump negotiated agreement.

No, this is a separate “make up on volume” what you drop in price VOLUNTARY marketing effort. And it will — I am sure — pay off handsomely for Lilly. [To be fair, if the pen form drops price in 2026 — it too will likely make it all back, on US volumes.]

Disclosure: I have long held a substantial Lilly position, since it was $560 or so, and it is now over… $1,030. But this entry point is also a fine one, as many analysts have the 12 month target above $1,200.

I admit that I’ve long believed sensible eating — along with vigorous exercise — are the best means to control weight. But given that diabetes (much of it related to obesity, in truth) has become a very high burden US disease, this fleet of drugs is absolutely going to sell into the mid-$30 billion of dollars per year, in the coming years. And that will (sort of sadly) persist, into the 2040s. So hop this train while you still might make a killing, on even modestly-invested dollars. [The risk of losing it all is only a smidge higher than a US government default on its own bonds.] Here’s the latest from CNBC.com:

…Starting Monday, cash-paying patients with a valid prescription can get the starting dose of Zepbound vials for as low as $299 per month on LillyDirect, down from a previous price of $349 per month. They can also access the next dose, 5 milligrams, for $399 per month and all other doses for $449 per month, down from $499 per month across those sizes.

Zepbound carries a list price of roughly $1,086 per month. That price point, and spotty insurance coverage for weight loss drugs in the U.S., have been significant barriers to access for some patients….

Eli Lilly’s stock… has climbed more than 36% this year…. Its meteoric rise due to the success of Zepbound and its diabetes injection Mounjaro vaulted it to becoming the first health-care company to hit a $1 trillion market value last month….

Onward, now you know — Lilly once again played “rope-a-dope” on Tangerine. [Yes, this is my “power alley“.] And it all comes, as large lazy flakes are wheeling down now, almost in slow motion, on the updrafts — landing atop the foot of white stuff we already have down, here. Looks like the heavy metal shovel is in my future, once more, later this evening. Heh.

[Of course, as to all of the above, you should do your own due diligence. Out.]

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Both Chris Williams And Jonny Kim Recently Hopped Soyuz Rockets To The ISS — But It Looks Like The Baikonur Cosmodrome Facility Is Out Of Commission For A Few Months, Now…

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Chris Williams and his fellow crew mates safely arrived at the ISS, last week — but on liftoff, the Kazakhstan launch facility took some serious damage [it was plainly some ground level malfunction — and likely, a fairly large. . . explosion, of some sort].

Here’s the latest, with a NASA comment, at the end:

…While the Soyuz MS-28 crew on board the rocket, including cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev, as well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, safely made it to the International Space Station, the launch pad was heavily damaged in the process. Drone footage shows the platform’s mobile maintenance cabin lying upside down inside the flame trench, with experts telling NASASpaceflight that it could take months if not years to be repaired.

It’s a significant setback, because the damaged pad is Russia’s only certified launch site for crewed missions to space….

Drone footage shows the platform’s mobile maintenance cabin lying upside down inside the flame trench, with experts telling NASASpaceflight that it could take months if not years to be repaired….

“NASA is aware Roscosmos is inspecting Launch Pad 6 at Site 31 following launch of the Soyuz MS-28 on November 27 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,” a NASA spokesperson told Futurism in a statement. “NASA coordinates closely with its international partners, including Roscosmos, for the safe operations of the International Space Station and its crew members….”

For its part, the government head of Russia’s space efforts says that nation is committed to supporting ISS flights through 2028. But that was before this significant cock-up. We shall see. Onward.

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