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These Are The Awful Wages — Of Refusing To Accept Modern Vaccine Science, And Public Health Recommendations, From The CDC.

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It is also (in part) the foreseeable outcome, from destroying USAID in nations where these viral vectors are multi-year epidemics.

But here we are — Chicago saw cases last summer; SF as well. Then last week, a case appeared in NYC. Now Mizzou has seen… two. Welcome to the chaos theory of governing — as implemented by the federal public health authorities (thanks, Tangerine, and RFK, Jr.):

…The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said this is the first known case in Missouri and the 13th and 14th cases nationally. Both of the residents recently traveled internationally, where mpox is more prevalent. The two cases are unrelated and are not believed to be connected to any locally acquired mpox cases.

“While risk to the general public remains low, mpox is still active,” said Dr. George Turabelidze, state epidemiologist. “We recommend those who are at risk for mpox infection to get vaccinated and ensure they complete the 2-dose series.”

According to the health department, this type of mpox is more likely to cause severe illness and death, especially in those who are immunocompromised….

Now you know. Onward — into the sunshine and high 30s here.

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Team Abrego Has The Homan-ites By The Short Hairs, Now — In Maryland: A Sunday Afternoon Filing.

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Well, Mr. Hecker’s associated counsels / firms worked over the weekend — Sunday included — to make sure that Noem’s succcessor, Homan — and his Homan-ites won’t prevail here.

The able USDC Judge Xinis awaits a scheduling agreement, on the motion for sanctions against the government — and an amended complaint. She is going to be hot, that Homan decided to try to end run around the prior misconduct from Noem and Miller. Here’s the Team Abrego pleading, for tomorrow, Monday — and a bit:

…[O]n March 20, 2026 reached agreement on both a sanctions briefing schedule and, at Defendants’ request, a schedule for briefing on the amended complaint, with the intention of submitting both proposed schedules to the Court in a status report on Monday, March 23, 2026. See Exhibit A (March 20, 2026 Email from O. Horton to E. Molina agreeing on briefing schedules).

That same day, however, the Government filed a Motion to Dissolve Injunction Against Petitioner’s Detention (ECF 141) and Injunction Against Petitioner’s Removal (ECF 13) in the related habeas case, Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 8:25-cv-02780-PX (“Abrego Garcia II”). See Abrego Garcia II, ECF 142 (“Motion to Dissolve Injunctions”)….

Given the pressing deadlines, Plaintiffs attempted to contact the Government on Saturday, March 21, 2026, via email, see Exhibit A, and once more this afternoon by telephone, but received no response. Plaintiffs therefore file this motion without the benefit of the Government’s position. For these reasons, Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court temporarily stay all deadlines in this case relating to the amended complaint and the sanctions briefing pending resolution of the Motion to Dissolve Injunctions….

So — as I said this morning, Homan will lose here, and lose completely.

And, indeed — lots of upsets, in the Sweet 16 roadway, now. Sweet.

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Sunday Tangent: “Elect A Clown — Expect A Circus.” BTC Is Now The Ticket Price, To His “Dumb Show”…

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Bitcoin’s ongoing winter is driven at least in part by Tangerine 2.0’s wild and conflicting gyrations, as to what he’s doing in Iran. And that in turn is driven by his forgetfulness on his meds.

Bitcoin bros beware: he’s only too happy to throw you under the bus — whenever his morning Adderall dosages fail to level his delusions out.

See here:

…Friday… Trump said he was thinking about “winding down” the military operation.

Going from winding down to threatening civilian infrastructure in 24 hours whipsawed a market that had spent the previous week building confidence around de-escalation…

The Bitcoin Bros® [Musk plainly included, here]… ought to prepare for the Ice Age to last to November 2028. At least.

Hilarious — once again near $68,500, on Sunday morning — down from a “high” of $75,000 last week in a “relief mini-rally”.

Now no relief in sight.

Out.

A Truly Insipid Motion — To Dissolve An In-Force Injunction, So ICE/DHS Can Try To [Again!?] Snatch Abrego, Off To Liberia. It’s A Loser.

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In the Maryland federal trial courts, there are no fewer than five orders preventing the Homeland Security goons from grabbing Mr. Abrego Garcia. And I can think of two more, off the top of my head, in the federal trial courts in Nashville.

But the loons licking Tangerine 2.0’s boots — the same losers now in charge of DHS… want to keep trying to arrest and deport him, even after admitting they tried (and failed) to doctor a 2019 order, here in late 2025. That 2019 order did NOT grant them authority to remove him. They re-wrote it, via a third admin. law judge, in December 2025 — and claimed it gave them the right to dump him in. . . Sudan, Saudi Arabia or even Liberia. [All three are places he’d never been to, lived in, or had any connections with. And that general approach has already been ruled unlawful — by several appellate courts.]

The original 2019 ALJ order — as USDC Judge Xinis correctly ruled — actually prohibited removal, until all issues related to his potential persecution in El Salvador were finally resolved. That process, in addition to all the others, is still in play. So this will doubtless fail.

But Rubio or Homan or Miller or someone in Trump World feels embarrassed that they couldn’t just run rough-shod over the due process clause of the US Constitution. So they yell at the lawyers — get back in court and file some (specious) papers.

This 13 pager is a pure loser — so we won’t quote it — we have just linked it for a complete record, in Maryland, from Friday afternoon.

[I should note also that the the idiot Todd Lyons, acting in some dubious capacity for Tangerine (at some agency, as a bureaucrat), has filed a letter with the court — opposing Costa Rica, as a possible settlement / agreed position, per my earlier graphic at right. Yawn — they just hate the idea of Abrego “winning” — anything.]

Onward, resolutely.

This afternoon is… Sweet 16 Dance invite time!

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Fly Well, Robert S. Mueller III — You’ve Served Your Nation Quite Honorably.

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“Bobby Three Sticks” has passed — at age 81.

Donald Trump is a unctuous pig, as he is scathing in his diatribe against him only minutes after learning he has passed away. This petulant lil’ handed guy is less a statesman and more a monster — day by day. Per the NYT:

…Robert S. Mueller III, who led the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 12 tumultuous years, brought politically explosive indictments as a special counsel examining Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election, and then concluded that he could neither absolve nor accuse President Trump of a crime, died on Friday…

His family confirmed the death in a statement but did not say where he died or give the cause.

Mr. Trump remained unforgiving of Mr. Mueller’s investigation even after Mr. Mueller’s death. On learning of it on Saturday, he posted on Truth Social: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”….

Trump is about as far from innocent as anyone could possibly be over the last 30 years.

And just to remind everyone, Mueller was a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam [whilst Trump was feigning bone spurs, Mueller volunteered], Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, two Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republican of Vietnam Cross of Valor, as a partial listing. Damn.

That is all I’ve got as I get on the plane.

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Did John Show ANY “Humility” After Dylan Roof Killed Nine In APrayer Meeting — At Mother Emmanuel?!?

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Hinderaker’s racism and religious bigotry know no bounds.

Consider that today, he specifically said that all Muslims in Australia should show “humility“, after the Bondi Beach massacre:

…You might expect Australian Muslims to show a little humility following the Bondi Beach massacre, but no…

So… John professes to be a devout- to leaning- fundamentalist Christian.

Did John beg forgiveness for Dylan Roof? Timothy McVeigh?!

Was it religion that did the killing at Mother Emmanuel — you idiot, John?

Of course not.

Shut your malign pie-hole — at least until you show deep personal humility for the two above. Oh — and Kyle Rittenhouse, too.

And literally thousands of others your invariably race-baiting rhetoric is inflaming tonight.

Damn.

Out.

Mirengoff: Cluelessly Misinformed — Iran Edition

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Overnight Mirengoff complains that too many people are jumping to the conclusion that the Trump / Hegseth “war of idiocy” in Iran will fail to achieve any important objective.

Hmm.

Maybe not “any objective at all” — but it certainly looks as though they aren’t sure what they’re doing there. Other than destroying shit, of course. And changing the “what we want” day by day. And being told by NATO & Japan that this is the US mess to clean up — alone.

And as this retired general below points out quite cogently… That is the recipe for — that’s right — a quagmire:

…[Tangerine 2.0 has] gone to war against Iran with two assumptions: First, they assumed they could adjust their objectives as the war went on based on how much they thought they would accomplish; and second, they assumed that because the United States and Israel are, together, militarily superior to Iran, they would have complete control over the timing, intensity, domains, repercussions, and outcomes of the conflict, and they could determine the end of the conflict when they decided.

Those are dangerous assumptions. Just a few weeks into the war, they are being tested. While it’s common for war aims to shift over the course of a conflict, doing so is a complicated and delicate process that requires military leaders and politicians to balance political desires against military realities. This administration, which has repeatedly proven to be improvisatory in its approach to policy and rhetoric, has so far in this conflict not been able to manage that balance between political desires and military actions.

As for the second assumption—every soldier, sailor, marine, airman, and guardian knows and often repeats this truism: The enemy always gets a vote…

Paul never served in the military and Paul knows very little about war tactics and war strategy so he probably ought to sit down and listen to somebody who does.

What he will hear is sobering and in many ways depressing. Because “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth doesn’t know any of this — he’s just a testosterone monster. One who never made much out of his military career, other than being a talking head. On Fox. Out.

On Haiti — And Syria — And Removals, Attempted By Tangerine 2.0: At The Supremes

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There will be expedited briefing, and a one hour argument at the Supremes in April, to resolve whether Trump can avoid the lower courts’ rulings holding that he cannot, with a Sharpie alone, revoke the temporary protected status of asylum seekers from Syria and Haiti.

Do read all of this. It accurately sets out the black letter law. Trump will lose [the animation at right depicts the last major hurricane — Melissa — to strike Haiti]:

…The government will suffer no irreparable harm if the district court’s order remains in effect pending the government’s appeal of it. Haiti has been designated for Temporary Protected Status since 2010. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Haitian TPS holders have lived in and contributed to American communities across the country. The government identifies no emergency requiring their immediate expulsion….

Respondents, by contrast, will suffer irreparable — potentially fatal — injury if the district court’s order is stayed.

Respondents would be subject to immediate detention and removal to Haiti, “a maelstrom of disease, poverty, violence (including sexual violence) and death.” Indeed, the State Department (Editorial note: at least, as imagined by the MAGAts now in control of it) advises that you should not travel to Haiti for any reason but that if you nevertheless do, then you should “[l]eave DNA samples with your medical provider and dental records with your family in case it is necessary for your family to access them to identify your remains.”

It is, moreover, respondents rather than the government who are likely to prevail on the merits….

Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, armed gangs have gained control over much of [Haiti’s capital] Port-au-Prince, creating a power vacuum that has made governing a challenge and fueled further violence, homelessness and starvation. More than 5,600 people were killed and 1,400 were kidnapped amid gang conflicts last year, according to the United Nations. The violence has rendered 1 million people homeless in Haiti, forcing many into makeshift shelters and exacerbating the country’s economic challenges….

Onward, resolutely.

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Spreading The Time Between Ebola Vaccine Receipt, And Booster(s) Improves Overall Antibody Response…

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Just a quick Friday squib (since my men’s brackets are busted)… as I head down, out of the high mountains — to potentially 90 degree weather in Boulder tomorrow(!).

It comes from a well-respected source: The Journal of Nature — and we see that delaying the time for a booster of the Ebola vaccine improves the robustness of the human body’s antibody production — yes, this is power alley stuff. Do take a gander:

…Here, we elucidated the longitudinal humoral immune repertoire over 3 years following prime and boost rVSV∆G-ZEBOV-GP vaccinations administered 18 months apart in healthy adults compared to participants randomized to no boost. This delayed booster vaccination induced long-lasting EBOV-neutralizing antibodies that persisted up to 36 month at levels similar to peak titers after a single dose. Phage display libraries, expressing linear and conformational epitopes of EBOV glycoprotein (GP), demonstrated a highly diverse and durable antibody epitope repertoire following prime boost vaccination. Delayed booster vaccination recalled memory B cells, promoted anti-GP IgG class switching and induced antibodies specific to GP with Fcγ receptor interaction and functional antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity and phagocytosis.

The 18-month interval led to 13-fold higher antibody affinity maturation than a single dose, maintained up to 36 months. Overall, delayed rVSV∆G-ZEBOV-GP booster vaccination promoted a diverse, stronger, durable, predominant IgG, highly affinity-matured antibody response to GP….

Onward, grinning. And, here’s to hoping my CU Buffs’ women hoopsters are able to take down the mighty Illini, tomorrow night. Be excellent to one another.

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[U — 03.19.26 @ 8 AM Mountain] My Third (Mostly Trivial) Passion…

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Perhaps it is not as trivial as I might have initially thought, in so far as BHO 44 shows us that there is still much light, laughter and infectious joy — in this rather dark epoch — of Tangerine 2.0.

Second Update @ 10 PM on 3.19: It seems that my brackets are likely already busted — at the end of night one — since North Carolina lost — and the Badgers did too, to High Point (who?!) in pathetic fashion. Sadly, I had UNC to go on to beat Illinois.

Mr. Obama did not make that mistake. But he does have Mizzou to win over Miami tomorrow. Now, if I can take that one from him, I might still have a chance. Overall, though I am highly unlikely to win any of the pools I am in (six of them), since Wisconsin also lost. End second update.

Indeed, I’ve stayed up late working on my brackets in large part because Mr. Obama (the cad!) forever discloses his at the last moment — this time, coming after 6 PM Eastern time when brackets close at noon Eastern tomorrow. In now two long decades, I’ve only ever beaten him three times. Updated 8 am Mountain 03.19.26: Here are the final brackets; with my differences from Mr. Obama in green (click to embiggify):

[I suppose it would be more truthful to say that my mountain based charge here had fallen asleep — and so I was then free to work on it.] At the moment, I’m thinking Houston or Duke, while he sees Arizona as the men’s champion. Hmmm. We both agree it is UConn — on the women’s brackets. [I do think Colorado’s Lady Buffs might upset a power-packed Illini squad, while Mr. Obama makes a safe pick there and chooses Illinois.]

S M I L E — mine (the full braketology) will post mañana!

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