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Tangerine 2.0 Lawyers Just Appealed The Minneapolis Federal Mag. J. Order To Comply With Discovery, On Jurisdictional Issues…

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Many here will recall that the federal trial level courts have ordered MarkWayne Mullin to explain himself, relative to all the violations (including shooting fatalities) late last year, and into this early Spring by ICE/DHS agents, in and around Minneapolis. [Here is my June 23 prior backgrounder on this exact topic.]

Rather than comply with that clear order (text reset, again in blue below) — the Tangerine 2.0 lawyers today have appealed, essentially saying the actions of ICE/DHS are beyond review by the federal courts. Poppycock. I link that nonsense — for a complete record… but will not quote it.

…The parties are ordered to meet and confer before July 6, 2026 to develop a plan for limited discovery before the Motion to Dismiss (ECF No. 174) is resolved….

Early Discovery requests must be tailored to issues that might inform the parties’ positions in the Motion to Dismiss, and information with a high risk of dissipation over time….

The Early Discovery plan should identify, as to each request, a reasonable time scope and a narrowly targeted range of custodians from whom such discovery is sought. . . .

Failure by either party to negotiate Early Discovery in good faith will be construed as a waiver of arguments as to such discovery….

[Here is the full June 23 order, from which the above text was lifted.]

Almost to the last one of them, these Trumpian lawyers think the law is only to be applied to the little people. They think they are above it. Beyond it. That hallucination is coming to and end. Right quick. (Quick, at least in terms of legal proceedings. Heh.)

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[Power Alley Part II:] HSBC ALSO Boosts Gilead’s 12 Month Price Target Significantly. The House Calls It A “Buy”. That Is Correct.

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See the immediately prior one, for why you would be wise to trust this very long-standing institution’s financial calls. And know that, having personally dealt with the bank — on mulitple multi-billion dollar deals (representing multi-national life science and pharma concerns), it runs a very tight ship. In this 2020s world of crypo-bros, and morons buying SMELANIA meme-coins… that is a very distinguished mark, and brand.

So… without any additional ado [but do recall that we mentioned in January a $156 target, from Citi] — here is that ’34 Act registered securities pricing/trading update:

…HSBC upgraded Gilead Sciences to Buy from Hold on Monday and raised its price target to $155 from $133.

The firm said the market is too pessimistic on the HIV market following the introduction of dolutegravir generics. HSBC believes long-acting HIV therapies will improve adherence and help offset declines, supporting better-than-consensus HIV forecasts.

The analyst cited potential short-term upside from high-growth PrEP product Yeztugo and oncology catalysts including anito-cel and Trodelvy.

HSBC noted the recent share price correction has made the valuation attractive….

This is where the market is headed: safe, high cash flow names — in bio-science and pharma. Trust that, with chaos the only brand in DC, these next two and a half years.

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HSBC Securities Bumps Up Its “Buy” Rating On Merck — Significantly. Sees $150 A Share Soon, On NYSE… [Power Alley]

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This securities house was once known (for about a century and a quarter) as the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Co. (note the half-tone/gray coat of arms/shield in upper right quadrant of my graphic). It is over 160 years in operation, and its securities / research arm is quite well-respected around the globe. With Hong Kong now officially a PRC possession, it is good to see capitalistic (old British) entities doing quite well on the island.

All that said, I think the venerable house is right — about Rahway. Mr. Davis has Merck firing on all cylinders — and will likely have Keytruda as a juggernaut (on patenting tricks) well into the 2030s. Here’s that — (from an autobot / rag) but the graphic at right says it all:

…HSBC analyst Rajesh Kumar maintains Merck & Co., at a buy rating, and adjusts the target price from $120 to $150….

Now you know. Onward, grinning into the cool sunshine….

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Mpox Cases [Clade Unknown] Now Confirmed In Another Country: Guinea-Bissau. USAID Is Missing, As Outbreaks Proliferate…

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This bears repeating: the Trump Administration is willfully choosing excess deaths, and levels of illness — by continuing to defund USAID. It is doing so, at the moment, outside the US — but we all know viral vectors enter the US by jey travel, everyday.

And it is a near certainty that within a year or so, we will see excess deaths here stateside, due to his fecklessly unscientific and corrupt administration. Here’s the latest from the WHO — but millions are needed — and missing, in Africa to fight this, and Ebola… in a pair of overlapping outbreaks:

…The Minister of Public Health of Guinea-Bissau officially declared the confirmation of one mpox case in the country during a press conference held in the presence of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative.

Laboratory confirmation was carried out by the Laboratory of the National Institute of Public Health (INASA) and submitted for external quality control to the Department of Virology of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, which confirmed the same result. The genotyping process is ongoing….

Following confirmation of the case, the Ministry of Public Health activated the national response mechanisms, in accordance with the International Health Regulations (IHR-2005) and WHO recommendations. The measures include epidemiological investigation, contact tracing, strengthened surveillance, infection prevention and control in health facilities, community awareness-raising, and coordination with technical and financial partners….

Now you know — with more World Cup excitement in the park, on the Jumbotron again tonight.

And as much as I want the US team to win — I do think the straight red card on our guy Balogun was appropriate — and rightly earned a one match suspension. Of course, we might well win out against Belgium without him, but now we will never know. And, of course, Tangerine 2.0’s likely intervention with the FIFA head is… yep, both corrupt and inappropriate.

Damn — if the US wins tonight, the team will live with an asterisk (for something they did not even ask for) in the record books, forever — due to his venality. If they lose it will matter little — but again, Trump embarrasses good Americans, in front of an appalled… and largely united world (against corruption, in sport), in this matter.

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“Patriotism” Never Is Co-Terminus With Lawlessness, John (And Steve).

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Once again — knowing, willful prevarication is the boys’ stock in trade.

Guys, it is not that patriotism has become political… in the Democratic Party. Nothing has changed here, it is just that the Democratic Party very sensibly disfavors lawlessness.

Each of the GOP administrations the two boys named… ended up losing United States Supreme Court cases — on the issue of whether their administration was violating fundamental laws of the United States.

They were.

It is not whether the Democrats are “in power”, that drives patriotism, for them — it is whether the current administration is abiding by the law — or is not doing so.

Over 20 years of concrete examples — as proof — here in my archives.

Now you know.

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A Bit Of Ebola Related Good News — The Doctor From France Has Been Discharged From Isolation, And Is Resting At Home — Now Symptom Free…

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This is good news — and in world-class health care settings, we do see that affliction with the Ebola virus is survivable. People will, and do… recover, completely.

It likely helped that, as an MD, he immediately knew he might be carrying the virus, and got prompt medical intervention — likely including the experimental human protien therapies. In any event, here is that feel good story — the French MD has recovered, and gone home:

…A doctor who had tested positive for Ebola in the first such case on French territory has recovered and left the hospital, France’s health minister said on Saturday.

he humanitariandoctor tested positive after flying to France on 23 June from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak of the deadly disease.

According to Health Minister Stéphanie Rist, “after two negative PCR tests, the patient is now recovered and has been able to return home safely”. The doctor flew to France from DRC on an Air France flight and except for headaches was “almost asymptomatic.”

Five other passengers on the flight had been identified as possible contacts and put in isolation as a precaution….

Now you know. Much cooler and cloudier here today — but again looking forward to USA v. Belgium in the park tomorrow evening at 7 pm. Smile….

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At The End Of The Fourth — John Extolls “The Pursuit Of Happiness”… Ironic, Again.

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Hinderaker is correct, insofar as he points out that virtually no other governmental founding documents (on Earth) lead with the phrase “and the pursuit of happiness”. But ours… does.

He highlights self determination as the primary value (meaning capitalistic business endeavors, in the main) animating that phrase.

I might also highlight the right to be left alone. So long as I am with consenting adults, I am free to do whatever I would like to do — that does not unduly injure the rights of any another.

That is, in America, we are free to pursue happiness as we see it – love who we love, live with whomever, and wherever, we prefer — and not have repressive MAGA morons trying to tell us that we must espouse false histories — or any X-tian “god” — in order to be “real” Americans.

In sum, I think John gets the import of the phrase… precisely backward.

But that too is the beauty of America: he can believe whatever chuckle-headed nonsense he likes.

The only time it will become important (to me) is when he tries to impose it upon me.

Then I will see him — and his fellow miscreants — in court.

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[Unintentionally] Hilarious July 4 ’26 Post — From John Hinderaker…

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John is spot on, here. [Bet you’d never expect me to have written that, right?!] Heh.

Except that… he has mis-identified the movement presenting a dire threat to our fragile but beautiful experiment in democracy — here 250 years on.

The ‘250 celebration’ is largely “muted“, John… because an incoherent, evil and now largely demented 80 year old is trying to force Aemrica backward, into a mold of the early 1940s… [and it is one that only existed in 1950s mythology for over one half of all Americans].

John’s idiotic conclusion, edited lightly — for accuracy:

…America is at a crossroads, the most critical, in my opinion, since 1861. Never before have we had a major party dedicated to the overthrow of our constitutional system and of our founding principles. And that party commands the loyalty of something approaching one fourth half of our people….

Whether the Republic can survive the current crisis intact remains to be seen….

Of course we will survive, John. The US survived “Reaganomics”. It too approached an idiotic extremists’ view of the nation.

We survived the admittedly slightly-too-peace-loving inclinations… of Jimmy Carter. We survived Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon. We will survive Trumpism, too. Trust that.

Even as Trump 2.0 engages in graft-corrupted construction (demolition, actually) in our capital, and builds monuments to nothing, essentially… ones no one, not even his faithful… wish to visit. [Compare unfavorably, to the record crowds at the Obama Center — all summer!]

But he, Trump, is the cancer.

And progressive policies — Yes, we can! — will be the cure.

Trust that. Out.

The Annual Reports Of [Non-] Compliance With Flores Settlement — Both ICE And Border Patrol — Are Now On File In LA: Accelerated/Continued Lawlessness.

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As we have documented, children continue to be subjected to conditions that violate the Geneva Conventions, to say nothing of the regular federal laws, under the Flores, East Bay Sanctuary and Ms. L. class action settlements. [Trump 1.0 was a party to those last two California federal court settlements, by the way.]

The annual report of ICE is here. And the Border Patrol one is here. In the past 12 or so years, the agents have beome more adept at making the text portions virtual PR kits — extolling their respective virtues. But the charts do not lie: hundreds of children are being held in entirely inhumane, inappropriate pens, or windowless hotel rooms — more than ocassionally for months on end — without access to the things that basic human rights would require. That is a fact. And it is Tangerine 2.0 (via Stephen Miller) directing all this lawless cruelty:

Were he alive today, Frederick Douglass would be offering his Fourth of July critique in front of the Dilley Detention Center. Trust that.

We as a nation, have in general been blessed with ethical leadership for the vast majority of our 250 years. But not so, in the last two of three. This too is a simple… fact. Out — a quiet evening ahead (my flag is flying upside down today — we are a nation in distress due to corruption in DC).

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Local Coverage — Of The Evanston Response To The Nonsense Tangerine 2.0 Motion To Intervene — In A Nonsense Private Federal Suit, In Chicago…

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This is what leadership, in the face of specious partisan/MAGA legal wrangling, looks like.

The Trumpians and the Fitton shills will be bounced out of court in the coming months — as I’ve long said. Bank on it. Here is the latest, from our home-town University / J-sudents-run newspaper:

…The Evanston Reparations Committee met Thursday, responding to the federal government’s move to join a lawsuit challenging the city’s reparations program….

Committee member and former Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said she believes the lawsuit is a “threat” to prevent Evanston from setting a precedent and inspiring other cities to create similar reparations programs.

“I’m not afraid of Donald Trump and the Department of Justice, and I’ve been well prepared for these types of attacks,” Simmons said.

For fiscal year 2026, the committee distributed funds to 44 eligible individuals, totalling to about $7,334,646.71 in disbursements so far. No changes have been made to the city’s disbursement plan at this time, according to a statement from its legal department read aloud during Thursday’s meeting….

Now you know — onward, resolutely — to barbecues, then fireworks tonight. Tomorrow will be our… quieter night. Smile….

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