Tangent: In Which Elizabeth Holmes Apparently Taunts A Victim Of Her Fraud — From Prison. Seems Like She’ll Do The Full Boat Of Time…

Actually, I suspect Billy is writing her replies.

And actually, I think they are going in for the “Shkreli bad boy” online following / fascination thing.

In a X-itter post, she lamented missing “her babies”, in prison [with the image, at right — but not modified], thus:

Before I surrendered I did not sleep in the nights. I would just hold our babies against my chest, kissing their fuzzy heads, softly rubbing their tiny backs, memorizing every curve, the cadence of their breath, the synchronicity of our heartbeats. Here the only moments of peace at night are when my sweatshirt is bundled against my heart just as their little heads were, and I can hold it, my arms wrapped around it, just as I held them. I travel to them….

Then in reply, a user on X-itter said that two years of bad health decisions, by the victim’s medical professionals, due to having “relied” on her Theranos device, were in error — and damaged the victim — due to Elizabeth’s fraud. [Or so the claim reads.]

Billy/Elizabeth then replied “Well then, for two years you were given the lowest cost most accurate tests on the planet….

I think he/she means to refer to the two years of free medical monitoring ordered for all victims, as a part of the settlement, in the Walgreen’s class action / civil cases.

But it came off as though she was taunting this fraud victim.

She has learned absolutely nothing in her time inside.

She should not be given any chance at early parole, at this point.

That’s my current experienced opinion. She shows zero genuine remorse, except insofar as it relates to her own loss of freedoms. Damn.

Hey John: Albert Einstein, Nickola Tesla, Jonas Salk? Really?! “Enemies”!?

Tonight — in astonishingly stupid fashion, John Hinderaker wrote:

It seems that one can best explain America’s immigration policies with the supposition that they were crafted by our enemies to do as much harm as possible….

Riiiiight:

Albert Einstein (Nobel in physics), Nikola Tesla (electric power), Katalin Karikó (mRNA / vaccine tech), Enrico Fermi (Nobel in physics) and computer scientist Sergey Brin (founded Google)… do any of those ring a bell, John?

Each of them… were… That’s right! Immigrants to the United States.

“Crafted by our enemies?”

How utterly jingoistic — and clueless can you be?

Don’t bother answering that… I already know — based on 25 years of experience. Thousands and thousands of your odious posts.

Maybe you should go to confession — before you go to Easter mass tomorrow.

And on his smaller point, I wonder if he would be willing to answer for every sin of his father.

He ascribes all the sins of the father (and a world away, in Iran), to the father’s then very young daughter. [Would he answer for his father’s sins?]

He seems to want to attribute the sins of an Iranian leader to his young daughter. [But in point of fact, all he really wanted to do was run pictures of a fetching young Iranian woman — without much clothing on — and then vainly try to humiliate her.] He makes false assumptions about her actual views, it seems.

What a pig.

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The “Shake-Out/Trouble Shooting” Run, To The Moon… Is Revealing A Need To Boost The Output Of Internal Heaters, And Slow Down The Cooling Fans, Inside Orion/Artemis II…

This is a new ship — one that has never carried a crewed mission to deep space / the Moon, before. So it is expected that a chunk of the mission will include fiddling with the nobs and twiddly bits — to get all the creature comfort kinks worked out.

But live on YouTube streaming yesterday, the crew pointed out that they were working with Houston to slow the speed of fan/blower cycling… and boost the [presumably electric] heater coils’ output — to take into account that the skin of Orion gets chilled to below minus 220 degrees Fahrenheit. [Think of this like a jet’s cold air flow, flying trans-Atlantic — but vastly amplified; not negative 50 — negative 220.] That would certainly make for a chilly night, in space.

In the mean time, everyone is definitely wearing their… woolies.

Even so, Astronaut Victor Glover went so far as to suggest, for the next crewed mission, that the sleeping bags be more like “Himalayan grade” down-fill, rather than the lighter poly-filled ones presently onboard.

This is what shake-out missions are for, indeed. Godspeed, Artemis!

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Had He Lived, This Would Be Dr. King’s Ongoing Fight — As Well. Judge Cummings Excoriates ICE — In Chicago Federal Court, Overnight.

I won’t summarize this in any detail, but the ICE-lawyers were just admonished by USDC Judge Cummings, in Chicago — for “repeated defiance” of the court’s orders, while Bovino was in charge.

Do read all six pages, as this is the latest in a federal class action pending here since 2018 — and the time of Trump 1.0:

…[D]efendants (until their recent defiance of the Court’s Order and the filing of this motion for clarification) have acted consistently with their understanding that the Broadcast applied nationwide. In particular, “on June 11, 2025, ICE’s Principal Legal Advisor ‘unequivocal[ly]’ dictated to all ICE officers nationwide that the Broadcast ‘remains terminated’ and has been ‘rescind[ed].’” Escobar Molina v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 811 F.Supp.3d 1, 48 (D.D.C. 2025), quoting Castanon Nava v. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 806 F.Supp.3d 823, 860 (N.D.Ill. 2025) (emphasis added). After this Court ordered that the Broadcast be reissued to ICE officers nationwide with the instruction that it should remain in effect until February 2, 2026, Nava, 806 F.Supp.3d at 863, defendants complied with this order and filed a certification of compliance with no request for clarification. (Dckt. #224).

[C]ounsel for defendants in other litigation outside of the Chicago Area of Responsibility have represented to other federal district courts that the Broadcast was the policy governing warrantless arrest for ICE officers in their jurisdictions. See, e.g., Ramirez Ovando v. Noem, No. 1:25-CV-03183-RBJ, 2025 WL 32923467, at *2–4 (D.Colo. Nov. 25, 2025)….

Now you know — and, this would all be Dr. King’s daily work, had he lived on to a ripe old age. You and I both know it.

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Once Again — In Maryland — Abrego Garcia’s Legal Team Is Busting The Federales’ — And Their Lies In Court…

Mr. Abrego Garcia’s legal team pretty much has the DHS/ICE team pinned, in the Maryland federal trial courts — on habeas.

Overnight, the team asked USDC Judge Xinis to order limited document production, and discovery — into proving that (once again!) the Trumpians have filed false sworn statements in court, to try to dissolve her injunction and deport Mr. Abrego Garcia to. . . Liberia. Someplace he faces torture and starvation — and a place with which he has no connection.

In addition, the team could thereby prove that the Trumpians are/were lying under oath, about (the supposed non-existence of) Costa Rica’s existing “open arms” policy (as to Abrego Garcia, at least) — a place Abrego and his family could decamp to, until the Tangerine regime is at an end.

Here’s that — and a bit, of the sharp end of the spear:

…The Government now asks this Court to dissolve its injunction based on a memorandum and a declaration that rest on the same types of inconsistent and uncorroborated factual statements that have proven false in earlier phases of this litigation. Good cause therefore exists to take discovery to test the veracity of the factual assertions in the Lyons Memorandum and the Schultz Declaration.

Petitioner’s proposed discovery is closely calibrated to the specific factual claims the Government has placed at issue through its own submissions. It is limited to a discrete set of materials and testimony needed to evaluate those claims—namely, the facts underlying the Lyons Memorandum and the Schultz Declaration relating to Petitioner’s removability to Costa Rica and Liberia.

Responding to the document requests will not require searches of electronic communications across ICE, DHS, or the State Department generally. Rather, these materials are readily known to and held by specific agency officials who have already been identified in this litigation.
Any legitimate concerns regarding purportedly sensitive diplomatic information can be addressed through protective orders and by closing the courtroom for any sensitive testimony, as has been done previously in this litigation….

Now you know — onward, resolutely — and do root for the underdog, Illinois, tonight!

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With Trump Going After What He Falsely Calls “Woke” Governmental And Private Programs… It Is Important Tomorrow To Remember… Dr. King Literally Gave His Life For Them.

The NYT is running a story tonight, on Trump’s renewed effort to attack anything that might let less fortunate people get even a toe-hold — in our economy… still by far, the most vibrant, and strongest — on the planet.

It is important to note that everything Trump says about what he calls “woke”… is a bold-faced lie.

It is important to note that, at base — it is simply his thin veneer… to dress up his openly racist-, and misogynistic- world views. We must… peacefully… resist.

That is what Dr. King would have urged — and that is ultimately, what got him killed — seeking a toe-hold, for brown and Black garbage pickers, in Memphis — simply seeking living wages. Do not buy Trump’s ugly lies. Here’s some of the NYT‘s coverage:

…Trump used his proposed budget for next year to continue his aggressive targeting of federal programs aimed at promoting diversity, helping Black and Hispanic students, and boosting minority-owned businesses, all initiatives the president derides as “woke.”

In section after section of his budget request, Mr. Trump sought to cut programs he connects to diversity, equity and inclusion programs…. The proposed cuts, which are tiny compared with the $1.5 trillion budget he suggested for the military, reflect the president’s focus on stamping out federal initiatives created to support disadvantaged groups….

The small gains won, by Dr. King, in short, as well. To honor his legacy — do go out and resist this.

All as he seeks $1.5 trillion, with a “T” — for warring, and wishes to cut all aid programs by another 10% across the board.

Damn. Onward, resolutely — just the same.

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In Reply, I Might Ask Hinderaker… “How Dumb Is Your Preznit/MAGA”?!

John caught a typo in one of today’s headlines, at the NYT. Good boy, John — you figured out that it is “Atlantic” not “American”. You get a gold star, in third grade — at least.

From this typo — as ever — he vastly overstates his supposed conclusion: that all “liberals” (whatever that might mean to him, and him, alone)… are dumb.

Funny.

I might ask — who was it (i.e., the purported leader of the Free World — to the extent that term has any meaning, either any longer — after “confeve“… “Despite the constant negative press confeve [sic]….”) that just this week went on a five minute word salad, about Black Sharpies?! [More on that, in a sec.]

Right — the nearly octogenarian Adderall addict, with the keys to the nuclear football.

Who said “We will just bomb our little hearts out”?!

Who said “The moon is a very important part of… Mars“?

Who could not identify Alabama on a map?

Who made up the name of an entirely fictional country in Africa — mangling a name that starts with “T” and and ends in ‘zania‘?! [He added like six more syllables to the made up name.]

And who — during a Cabinet meeting on the war he is prosecuting… took five minutes to tell a loopy (mostly fictional) story about the supposed virtues of Black Sharpies?!

There is a story — about pots and kettles — also involving the color “black“. John should reflect — at length — on it, here at 3 PM on Good Friday. As he might be the one… justifiably crucified.

A junior copy editor at the NYT (maybe only 25 years of age) may be forgiven, this one slip-up.

But the occupant of 1600 Penn.?! Arguably the most powerful elected leader on the planet?!

We must — and John should — expect… better, from him.

Just how dumb / incontinent is… Trump?!

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More People Without Papers To Be Added To The Ms. L Class Action — And To Be Released From ICE Custody, In San Diego — By USDC Judge Sabraw

It does seem… somehow appropriate — to post this on a Good Friday, 2026. The able USDC Judge Sabraw has repeatedly insisted that Tangerine 1.0 and 2.0 respect the rule of law — insofar as it applies to all people present on US soil. I commend him for this — history will write him, and Judges Gee and Tigar, down as both patriots, and heros. [My backgrounders (probably 30 of them on this litigation, over the last eight years — use the search box for “Ms. L”) include this one, here — of five years ago.]

Now, we await the briefs — on this next phase — over these eight years, of rumbling federal class action litigation:

…The Court is in receipt of Plaintiffs’ motion to release Class Members and Qualifying Additional Family Members.

After reviewing the motion, the Court orders Defendants to file a response on or before April 9, 2026. If Plaintiffs wish to file a reply they shall do so on or before April 13, 2026.

In the briefing, the parties should address whether the individuals at issue in the motion have filed habeas petitions challenging their detention, and if so, the outcome of those proceedings. Oral argument, if any, shall be set after the Court has reviewed the parties’ briefs.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 2, 2026….

Onward resolutely, into a gray and quiet Good Friday afternoon. Smile.

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Bloomberg Reports That Singapore Has Seen Two “Hybrid” Cases Of Mpox — But The Portion Of The RNA Emblematic Of Clade 1b… Is Mostly Of Concern…

We just keep banging this drum: without USAID to help track, trace and arrest this latest hybrid… the whole world will soon be at risk, as it spreads. And it will… spread.

That is what viral vectors… do. Here’s the latest from a paper in Southeat Asia / Singapore [but it was Bloomberg ($$ subs. req.) that first identified these cases as stemming from the “hybrid” variant.]

…Singapore has confirmed its first locally transmitted cases of mpox, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Thursday, April 2, 2026.

The two cases — both men aged 30 and 34 — are also the country’s first reported infections of the more serious clade 1b variant, but also showed positive test results, bearing some RNA from the older Clade 2 strain, as well….

Both are believed to have been infected through sexual contact and are in stable condition.

“As mpox is predominantly transmitted through intimate or prolonged physical contact, including sexual contact, the risk to the general public is currently low,” CDA said in a media release….

The first man developed symptoms on Mar 26 and sought medical care on Mar 31. His infection was confirmed on Apr 1. He has been placed on home isolation until Apr 21.

“Investigations and contact tracing are ongoing for both cases,” said CDA.

“Their close contacts have been advised to monitor their health and seek medical care if they are unwell. High-risk contacts will be recommended mpox vaccination as post-exposure prophylaxis….”

Now you know — and here’s to hoping that the four members of the Artemis II crew enjoy a sweet (event free) ride — to the moon and back — over the next nine or so days… smile.

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It Turns Out That The Engine Running The Artemis II Capsule Now, Was Contributed By… The European Space Agency. Cool. [With A Digression.]

And… after a warning light on the capsule’s toilet this morning, all is back to normal bio-ops, inside.

It apparently was just a software glitch (all resolved), but it allows me to run a favorite ‘Xmas Vacation‘ gif, at right.

Please forgive me the middle-school vulgarity. Ahem.

Anyhoo — here is more serious, and more sober science — from ESA:

Onward — grinning.

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