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I’ve Lost The Link To Who First Posted This — But It Is Beyond Doubt… Correct.

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Please do not follow the advice in the RFK, Jr. “modified” / truncated rec’d. vaccines list.

I saw this, from a full-on medical doctor — on X-itter. But now I cannot find him, to credit him, for it. [If anyone knows — post it in comments, so I might give him credit — he looks to be (from a thumbnail image) a US-based white guy — looks to be in his mid 40s — short haircut — darkish hair; last name may have been… Stone.]

…One of the vaccines being DROPPED from the CDC schedule is for meningitis.

MENINGITIS

One of THE most horrific, deadly infections you would ever have the misfortune to see.

It can — and does — kill kids within hours.

Dropped.

To satisfy anti vaccine fantasies.

Sick….

Now you know. Do bettah, for your own babies and grand-babies — at least.

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A Hope-Filled Countdown Begins, In Ethiopia — For The End Of The 2025 Marburg Flare Up / Outbreak.

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If all holds as expected, and no new cases are seen in these next 21 days, as of Janaury 27, 2026… the outbreak will be officially at an end.

As we reported, this dread disease presents much like an Ebola infection. Tragically, it is fatal more than 60% of the time, as there are no approved therapeutics, and no approved vaccines. So — being on the end of this cycle is very good news. We will keep you posted, here — but this is the latest, locally — overnight:

…Addis Abeba: The Ministry of Health announced that no new cases of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) have been detected in Ethiopia over the past 21 days, signaling progress in containing the outbreak, though authorities warned that the outbreak will only be officially declared over after 42 consecutive days without new infections.

In a statement released on 5 January 2026, the Ministry said that since the outbreak was confirmed in the South Ethiopia Region on 14 November 2025, laboratory tests have been conducted for 3,800 people. Among these, 14 tested positive for the virus, resulting in nine deaths and five recoveries, according to the Ethiopian Public Health Institute….

Now you know… onward, smiling.

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NASA’s Hubble Scope Helps Resolve An Enduring Mystery: Why Does Betelgeuse Brighten And Dim, About Every 2,100 Days?

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The companion star, only a tiny fraction the size of the monster it closely orbits… has been dubbed Siwarha by the team who “discovered” her orbit.

The term derives from ancient Arabic — and translates as “her bracelet“. Especially fitting, since she carves a space-time ring — around the “wrist” of the massive Betelgeuse.

Do read go it all — as this always fires my imagination: the moment of revealing, of that new “undiscovered country” (per NASA):

…The team detected Siwarha’s wake by carefully tracking changes in the star’s light over nearly eight years. These changes show the effects of the previously unconfirmed companion as it plows through the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse. This discovery resolves one of the biggest mysteries about the giant star, helping scientists to explain how it behaves and evolves while opening new doors to understanding other massive stars nearing the end of their lives.

Located roughly 650 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Orion, Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star so large that more than 400 million Suns could fit inside. Because of its enormous size and proximity, Betelgeuse is one of the few stars whose surface and surrounding atmosphere can be directly observed by astronomers, making it an important and accessible laboratory for studying how giant stars age, lose mass, and eventually explode as supernovae….

Using NASA’s Hubble and ground-based telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, the team was able to see a pattern of changes in Betelgeuse, which provided clear evidence of a long-suspected companion star and its impact on the red supergiant’s outer atmosphere. Those include changes in the star’s spectrum, or the specific colors of light given off by different elements, and the speed and direction of gases in the outer atmosphere due to a trail of denser material, or wake. This trail appears just after the companion crosses in front of Betelgeuse every six years, or about 2,100 days, confirming theoretical models….

The scale of these events is just… staggering. Most of our frames of reference are sub-nanometer, by comparison. But what a sight it would be, if we could witness it, from about five or so light years off. Whoosh — a safe distance, so we wouldn’t burn up — but it would still fill most of our [at this point mythical] spacecraft’s forward viewing window.

Very cool — and, in the masthead below, our Sun would be less than 1/600,000th of a pixel in size!!

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Hilarious. “ICE-Barbie” Noem Is Just Now (Finally) Realizing… She’s Lost, In Nashville — Come The 28th. All Subsequent Trial Orders Stayed… Until That Dismissal Hearing Is Decided.

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To (sort of) channel T.S. Eliot, it comes “not with a bang. . . but a whimper.”

I’d put the probability around 90% — that the very capable USDC Judge Waverly Crenshaw will simply toss the goevernment’s case against Abrego, by (or shortly after) month’s end.

And he may seek to impose sanctions (for misconduct, and repeated misrepresentations to the court) against Messrs. McGuire and Boucek. And maybe even Noem and Bovino — we’ll wait to see (but these latter two would a stretch, in truth — as they held presss briefings, only). But Noem held one in Nashville in late Spring — where she repeatedly lied about the accused. So we shall see. Here’s the “game — set — match” admission, just filed this afternoon:

…COMES NOW the United States of America, by and through Braden Boucek, United States Attorney, and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire and moves this Court to stay any deadlines related to the jury trial in this case.

Previously, this Court set deadlines as part of a global scheduling order (DE # 103) and also granted the Government an extension to file responses to the Defendant’s Motions in Limine which also extended the Defendant’s time to file any optional replies (DE # 256). The Court has since canceled the January 27, 2026, trial date, to be rescheduled after the Court rules on the Defendant’s pending motion to dismiss. (DE # 281.)

Therefore, the United States respectfully requests that the Court stay all trial-related deadlines pending further orders of this Court. The undersigned has conferred with defense counsel who has no opposition to this Motion….

Tune in on the 28th — as I’ve said, I’ll be there in person the night before — and live blogging at 9 AM inside Judge Crenshaw’s 3C Courtroom. Onward, goggled and grinning.

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New ’34 Act Onco-R&D-Co To Follow? Minn.’s Celcuity Apparently Bought Its Breast Cancer Candidate From Pfizer For ~$5 Million… Now Stock Up ~620%?

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Here on Sunday morning, Scott Johnson tooted his own horn — about his prior closeness to this Minneapolis area CEO [old school GOP, it would seem], so… here goes:

We will likely reserve any judgment on this name for a bit, here. While the Viktoria-1 topline data does look promising, it could be largely due to later stage breast cancer patients hopping into new therapies, when existing ones are not working, for their specific tumor types.

We do note in passing that the cum-laude Harvard educated CEO is making over $6.5 million a year, whilst issuing lots of dilutive new stock to the public, to fund the company — since it is a pure cash burn, no-revenue shop at the moment. That said, the CEO, Mr. Sullivan, has seen prior successes — in selling two prior companies he led, to large companies (JNJ and PNG, respectively — if memory serves), after developing the in-house assets — and one, even in the life sciences space.

So, in truth it bears… watching. The stock price may be a little ahead of itself, given the need to issue more shares — but in the world of onco-pharma CEOs, $6.5 million a year in pay is about mid-market — not excessive, at all… [and appears positively modest, when one considers that Bitcoin miner (money losing and perennially cash burning) Riot Platforms is paying over $35 million a year to its CEO, Jason Les].

Do your own diligence, but here is an October 2025 run-down on the company’s progress, in breast cancers — and a bit:

…Discussing the Viktoria-1 data, Dr. Alessandra Gennari of University of Piemonte Orientale welcomed gedato’s low rates of hyperglycaemia, but pointed to a 69% rate of stomatitis (19% at grade 3+), which is higher than seen with Piqray, Itovebi or Truqap.

Overall, however, this remains a decent result for Celcuity, especially as it had paid just $5m to license gedato from the project’s originator, Pfizer. Now the focus turns to regulatory filing, and data in PIK3CA-mutant cohort breast cancer….

Me? I might wait a tick(!), to see how the market digests the coming equity dilution — there may soon be a lower entry-point — on prices, for a patient set of long term holders, in 2026. [Onward — ignoring the latest Trumpian lunacy.]

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I Might Answer, With A Question Of My Own: “How Depraved… Is Hinderaker?”

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Tonight, late — John seeks to find fault with all “leftists” (and who knows whatever he might imagine that term encompasses), for having the temerity to question the lawfulness of “dear leader’s” actions, as well as the wisdom of the same.

What a putz.

Funny, I seemed to recall Hinderaker questioning on the daily almost everything either Mr. Obama or Mr. Biden ever did while in office. And in the main… they weren’t invading countries without informing the Senate Armed Services Committee.

They weren’t seizing oil — and the wives of presidents — and indicating that an opposition leader (who has won an actual Nobel Peace Prize) wasn’t “popular enough” (at 67% favorables) to serve her own country, and serve as a quickly elected replacement leader. [Here do recall that Trump is over 60% unfavorable, and has never been more than 51% favorable in either of his terms.]

He claims we went there to end “narco terrorism” (again, whatever that might mean?), and to restore elected democratic leadership. But he says while she’s “a nice lady”, she doesn’t “have what it takes” — to run her own country.

Why? Well (of course!) because she has a vagina. And who knows, she might… bleed or something.

So John hops right to the boot-licking, claiming that any editorial questioning his “dear leader” is tantamount to treason, or at least… unpatriotic. What I’m not clear about is how this is any of our business, John.

Power Alley ’26: Two Major Names Decided To In-License Oncology Candidates In December 2025…

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We have been particularly impressed with Gilead for the past several years, between Hep C and COVID related wins, but we’ve been a little more cautious about the Abbott spinoff called AbbVie.

I expect to be more bullish on AbbVie in 2026, as it continues to show both its R&D savvy, and deal-doing expertise. Here’s the latest from Fierce, on each of them:

…AbbVie and Gilead Sciences each used the holiday season to reward their pipelines with a new clinical-stage cancer drug.

Zejing Biopharmaceutical unwrapped a $100 million upfront payment from AbbVie in return for the option to license alveltamig, also known as ZG006, outside of China. Zejing has been evaluating the DLL3-targeting trispecific T-cell binder in late-stage trials for “cellular lung cancer and other DLL3-expressing malignancies,” according to Zejing’s filing with the Shanghai stock exchange….

Under the Dec. 30 agreement, AbbVie will hand over another $60 million if it takes up its ex-China license option, while milestone payments tied to the alveltamig program could potentially reach $1.07 billion….

Now you know — off to the art museums here… out, into the sunshine. Grin — with my Oregon Ducks set to play Indiana in a week’s time. Woot!

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Jim “Gym” Jordan Released Some Depo About Some Six Year Old Events / Transcripts. Yawn.

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And Hinderaker would like us to pretend they mean… something… untoward. Or, anything… really.

They don’t.

Except that MAGA world is out of ideas — for its faux outrage machine.

It is… dying, as I type this. [Mayor Mamdani’s inaugural was local proof of it, today.]

At a rally the other night, Trump said inflation was “fake”. That prices were actually… “declining.”

No crowd applause. No shouts of agreement.

Just stony silence — from the small crowd.

An idle cough was heard — but that was it: his own idiotic base finally has had its fill of his narcissistic lies.

John reaches back to smear Jack Smith’s honorable, competent service… to blunt the Trumpian death rattles… from being heard.

But here’s what Jack Smith himself said, under oath (H/T to EmptyWheel):

…Mr. Smith: All of that is false, and I’ll say a few things.

The first is the evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit.

The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.

So in terms of why we would pursue a case against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was in any way meant to hamper him in the Presidential election…

Hinderaker’s high-jinks are… hilarious. But it won’t work, John.

Out.

Stephen Miller — A Study… In Self-Loathing. Ugh. New Years Eve Edition.

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By the time most privileged whyte kids with a conscience reach age 40, they begin to appreciate that the Sun doesn’t rise and set — due to their greatness. Not even in the least respect.

Not so, one Stephen Miller (a loathsome holdover from Tangerine 1.0). He decided, for the holidays, to let loose with all manner of ahistorical lies, to justify the fact that he is personally committing crimes against humanity daily, now — for years. [His great grandparents (themselves beneficiaries of Emma Lazarus’s fine prose, on Lady Liberty’s base) are… certainly covering their faces, and cowering in shame — at his hubris and wanton cruelty, now that billionaires have given him a lil’ power.] Here’s the summary of what he actually is up to:

…Stephen Miller’s rant about a “self-loathing” America was swamped by online backlash as critics lined up to credit immigrants with America’s biggest leaps.

Miller, 40, Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and hardliner immigration czar, fired off a late-night X post on Sunday, complaining that the modern world does not match “what our ancestors imagined” because America and the West supposedly spent generations in “a vast, consuming project of self-loathing, self-denigration and the redistribution of our national resources.”

Miller wrote: “Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Americans are the first to master the automobile, the first in flight, the first to harness the atom, the first to land on the moon — but just keep going and never open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years….”

[However,] Jon Favreau, Barack Obama’s former speechwriter and a host of Pod Save America, led the pile-on. “You’re only here because America decided to welcome your family when they were refugees fleeing poverty and violence,” he replied, before skewering Miller as a rich kid from California who rose through elite schools into an administration run by “insanely rich elites” who’ve “made themselves even richer” through “open corruption.”

[In fact,] Mr. Miller’s own cousin, Alisa Kasmer, condemned his anti-immigration crusade earlier this month, saying their Jewish great-grandparents had fled persecution and successfully rebuilt their lives in the United States. Kasmer accused him of “trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from.”

The Daily Beast has contacted Miller for comment….

He’s a malignant lil’ turd. Now you know — again. Onward, into a better 2026.

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The Mpox Outbreak Rumbles On, Into 2026 — Without USAID To Blunt It… Disappointing.

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Well, in a prior (Obama/Biden/Harris) age, this outbreak would have been halted by mid-2025, at the outside — with USAID putting boots on the ground, helping Doctors Without Borders — and the EU and WHO, inside Africa — and if needed, well beyond it.

[That said, I do understand that the US Treasury doesn’t have unlimited funds — but as between building a monstrous new ballroom at 1600 Penn, and arresting diseases that easily hop borders — and into the US, increasingly… I’d choose the latter “investment“. I think most Americans would, as well.] As it is, we will likely see cases through the end of 2026 — and perhaps beyond, inside the continent — and likely even beyond it.

That falls squarely at the feet of Musk, Kennedy and (of course)… the Manchurian Cantaloupe. This is from the island nation off the coast of Africa — with local, on the ground reporting:

…Madagascar confirmed five mpox cases Wednesday in the island nation’s northwestern city of Mahajanga.

In a statement, Minister of Public Health Monira Managna said the confirmation came after laboratory tests and that the public had been urged to remain vigilant and strictly adhere to preventive measures.

Government spokesperson Gascar Fenosoa said a response plan had been activated, including the provision of regular updates on national contingency plans and the mobilization of a coordination and surveillance team.

Fenosoa said an emergency public health operational center had been established in Mahajanga to search for more active cases and carry out patient isolation and treatment.

The center will also strengthen health checks at entry points such as ports and airports….

So borders are tightening, and people will die — in excess numbers. Most recently, from Anchorage, Alaska to Maine, the US has seen new cases of Clade 1b. All avoidable — and moreover, all “Heckuva’ job, there, you MAGA loons!”

But seriously, in what way is this making America great? Seriously. Out.

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