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Well… Both This Thursday, In Maryland — And On The 16th, In Nashville — Will Be Barn-Burners… Regarding Abrego Garcia.

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The able USDC Judge Xinis held a hearing today. It seems the Noemites are saying (as they said in Nashville, last week) that they think they possess some Supra-Fourteenth Amendment right — one that allows them. . .to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia (again!) prior to a trial that they CHOSE to bring — in Nashville.

If (as KBJ said, in her dissent last week) our Constitution is to mean… anything — it is to mean this: we do not abduct humans on our soil prior to trial. Ever. Not where WE’VE already chosen to put them on trial (as Noem / Miller / Rubio / Trump have, here). Damn. Here’s the full text of it — and the operative parts of paragraphs one and two:

…For the reasons stated on the record during today’s motions hearing, and in connection with Plaintiffs’ Emergency Motion (ECF No. 203), it is hereby ORDERED that:

1. Defendants shall designate one or more individuals who have personal knowledge, or will acquire such knowledge based on information reasonably available to Defendants, to testify on their behalf regarding the legal bases for their intended detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (“Abrego Garcia”) and anticipated efforts to remove him to a third country or to seek termination of his withholding of removal to El Salvador, if he is released from U.S. Marshal custody in United States v. Abrego Garcia, No. 3:25-cr-00115 (M.D. Tenn.). The testimony shall address, among other topics, the asserted lawful bases for detention, the nature and timing of any notice to be provided to Abrego Garcia, the location of any proposed custody or transfer, and the procedural steps Defendants intend to pursue….

2. The Court will hold a hearing on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 1:00 PM, during which the designated representative(s) shall appear for sworn testimony and be subject to examination by Plaintiffs, Defendants, and the Court. By no later than 9:00 AM on the same day, Defendants shall advise the Court and Plaintiffs as to whom they expect to call as witnesses….

So Ordered: July 7, 2025 | /s/ Hon. Paula Xinis | United States District Judge

These monsters wallow daily in an egregious sty of befouled pig-slop. Time to clean the pen — come next Tuesday. Damn.

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Hardly Worth Mentioning: More Noem Obfuscation, In Maryland, Over Abrego…

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It is all just so predictable.

These clowns think that since they brought him stateside — after three months in a hellhole, that he has no justifiable complaint.

Yikes.

The hearing (at 1 pm Central, on the Sixteenth) will set out all the evidence of Noem’s bad faith — but that will be held in… Music City. Where he is detained.

I’ll be there.

But solely for a complete record, here is this morning’s Maryland filing — with a hearing later today, before USDC Judge Xinis.

Onward.

So… In The “Elect A Clown — Expect… A Circus” Dept.: Tariffs Now Put On Hold To August 2. What A Senseless Bunch Of Yutzes.

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We are… not… amused.

This level of chaotic non-statesmanship… is embarrassing, before the sentient world.

…”President Trump’s going to be sending letters to some of our trading partners saying that if you don’t move things along, then on August 1 you will boomerang back to your April 2 tariff level. So I think we’re going to see a lot of deals very quickly,” Bessent told CNN….

What an utterly… useless pack — of reprobates. Ugh.

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Mirengoff Thinks Barrett Got The Better Of The Argument, Last Week. Not A Chance.

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Welp. I get that the frothy hard right only sees invective as “owning the libs“. And Paul today plays true — to that stupid canard.

Barrett won’t soon admit that the plain text of the Fourteenth Amendment is beyond clear on its face. [This, in much the same way that she herself repeatedly entered nation-wide injunctions when sitting in the federal courts of Indiana and on the Seventh Circuit. Damn.]

She won’t — because she’s a sycophant, for the race-baiting hard right.

All the rest of us know that this has been clear since the end of Dred Scott. Even Scalia would [from the grave] admit that these words mean… what they mean. [These six black-robed monsters cannot insert a “not” in the middle of the text of the Fourteenth!]

So yes, Paul — you and Amy prove too much, by half — in denouncing KBJ.

You prove yourselves… racist liars.

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Hilarious! Bessent Telling Musk (Only Now?!) To “Shut Up And Dribble?!”

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This sort of irony is never, ever in short supply when Team Tangerine is involved.

This morning, the purported Treasury Secretary Bessent tells Elon Musk that his own board of directors would prefer that he stay out of politics and stick to making electric vehicles.

Charming.

This from a man (Bessent) who defends Trump’s inability to understand economics… as “strategic uncertainty“?! [The mind boggles at how many boots these sycophants must lick, just to stay near the faux-throne.] Bessent knows that he is no more than the idiot’s… idiot here — and yet he downs Musk — for saying the Emperor has no clothes?!

Bessent was fine with spending ~$360 million of Musk’s money to back Trumpie… but now?

Just shut up and dribble, he shouts.

Yep.

These jamokes are as stupid as the day as long.

And I love it when evil misanthropes tear each other apart!

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Nearly 30 Years Ago… Dolly.

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Well, it seems just the other day.

But it will be three full decades, next year:

…Dolly was a female domestic sheep, and the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by lan Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics, based near Edinburgh. The funding for Dolly’s cloning was provided by PPL Therapeutics and the Ministry of Agriculture. She was born on 5 July 1996 and died from a progressive lung disease 5 months before her seventh birthday….

Now you know.

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In Ms. L. Class Action Litigation (Since 2018)… Noem / Rubio / Miller Must Now REHIRE Pro-Bono Legal Service Providers For People In Custody At The Southern Border.

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Despite an explicit written term/covenant, in the final settlement order, for the Ms. L. litigation (USDC SD CA No. 18-cv-428) — now almost six years ago, Noem decided to fire the lawyers she’s required to keep hired, and paid. That legal services bill still runs about $4 million a year — due to Tangerine 1.0 malfeasance at the border.

This coming week, the able USDC Judge Sabraw is very likely, in San Diego, to order Noem to simply rehire the lawyers at Acacia. Stupidly, her minions aver that this cannot be done — primarily because they. don’t. want. to. Want has nothing to do with it. This is a final federal settlement order, enforeceable in accordance with its terms (and completely affirmed on appeals, all the way to the Supremes, last go ’round). Full stop. Here’s her nonsense:

…On June 10, 2025, this Court issued an Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement Regarding Provision of Legal Services, instructing the Government “to reinstate their LASRF task order with Acacia.” 17-18, ECF No. 795.

The Government, however [lies here under oath, and sez it], is unable to “reinstate” per se the LASRF Task Order with Acacia, as the Task Order expired on April 30, 2025.

To contract with Acacia, the Government would have to enter into an entirely new Task Order with Acacia. [Completely false: court orders supercede silly admin. procurement regs., chucklehead.] This would require the Government and Acacia to mutually agree on terms for a new Task Order, including a Statement of Work and cost of services.

Without an existing Task Order, the Government is preparing a Request for Information and a Statement of Work that will allow the Government to collect written information about the capabilities of vendors in the marketplace to offer immigration legal services for the LASRF Program. A single contract or multiple contract awards are possible.

The Government will continue to provide [Sure sure: “I’m from ICE; I’m here to. . . help?!“] personnel and resources for group orientations, self-help workshops, pro bono recruitment, and outreach to Class Members and
Qualifying Additional Family Members….

What a pack of lying “Bo-Bo the clown” fools these people are — to a person. Out.

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A Dire Need For New Mpox Vaccine Funding, In Africa, Now — And, Likely To Come Mostly From The EU — US Is Burying Its Head In The Sand…

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With USAID placed largely out of commission, by Musk/Trump design… there are innocent, ill, malnourished children dying, daily — all across the globe. That is no exaggeration, at all. And perhaps the emergency is no more acute than in DRC, Uganda and Sierra Leone, at the moment.

Here’s CIDRAP — of just about 40 hours ago, on it all — it is a decidedly fluid situation, there:

. . .Yap Boum, PhD, MPH, deputy incident manager for Africa CDC’s mpox response, said the case positivity in Sierra Leone last week showed a slight downward trend, a sign that the involvement of more community healthcare workers is having some success at identifying infections occurring outside of hospital settings. He also noted that Sierra Leone is having success pairing contact tracing with mpox vaccination, which he said is very efficient.

Meanwhile, Uganda has reported a slight rise in the past 3 weeks, which Boum said is expected given that the country is providing greater support for contact tracers.

Over the past week, infections in Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Zambia made up 88% of confirmed cases in Africa….

[While] Bavarian Nordic mpox vaccine is available for purchase [on the ground, Africa wide], there are no funds for UNICEF and other providers to buy more doses to allocate to countries….

What Tangerine has directly wrought — is the deaths of hundreds of thousands, overall — over the next three years, and perhaps into the millions. What an awful, vain, short-sighted… evil, nearly 80 year old man-child. Out.

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Mirengoff / Trump / Putin: Zero Principles; Just A Casino — In Ukraine.

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Not surprising – but infinitely sad.

Paul approves here of the Trump / Putin world order: might is the sole right.

For Paul and for Trump and for Putin, none of them care what is right. The only question is what can be taken.

How deplorable the United States “policies” have become in particular.

And do recall that Donald Trump was going to end all of this in his first hour in office.

What a deplorable set of reprobates.

Out.

SPHEREx Is Now Mapping The Sky — And Making All The Data Public Domain — From A Low Earth Orbit…

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This is a unique time in the history of humanity. Nearly daily, we are pushing backward the dark night of ignorance, about how all things… actually work. And how we came… to be. So too, here — as we map the very early primordial Universe in detail for perhaps the first time.

And instead of hoarding the data — we will give it away to the world, for additional studies. That is gratifying (don’t let anyone tell Tangerine 2.0 — he will try to. . . sell it!) Here’s the latest from NASA — followed by a video expainer of what all it is doing:

…NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive on a weekly basis, allowing anyone to use the data to probe the secrets of the cosmos….

The SPHEREx science team will also use the mission’s data to study the physics that drove the universe’s expansion following the big bang, and to measure the amount of light emitted by all the galaxies in the universe over time. Releasing SPHEREx data in a public archive encourages far more astronomical studies than the team could do on their own.

“By making the data public, we enable the whole astronomy community to use SPHEREx data to work on all these other areas of science,” Akeson said.

NASA is committed to the sharing of scientific data, promoting transparency and efficiency in scientific research. In line with this commitment, data from SPHEREx appears in the public archive within 60 days after the telescope collects each observation. The short delay allows the SPHEREx team to process the raw data to remove or flag artifacts, account for detector effects, and align the images to the correct astronomical coordinates. . . .

Onward… grinning into the sunshine — be excellent to one another.

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