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[U: Order — For More Filings] If An Agency TRULY Meant To Withdraw An Unlawful Action, Why Would That Agency Need To Appeal… Its Own Withdrawal?! These Guys Make Zero Sense!

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UPDATED @ 10 PM EST: the able USDC Judge just entered an order — contemplating that both sides will make daily filings — on the next two successive days:

..MINUTE ORDER: In light of Defendants’ Motion… and given the urgency of this matter, it is hereby

ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall file a response to the motion by 5:00 p.m. on January 31, 2025, and Defendants shall file a reply, if any, by 5:00 p.m. on February 1, 2025. [Ed. Note: that’s a Saturday, for Trump.]

Signed by Judge Loren L. AliKhan on 1/30/2025….

This makes it clear that she intends to dispose of the matter by next Friday at the very outside. Either Team Tangerine means it surrendered — or she will “surrender them” — come next Friday. That is my experienced conjecture. Onward; end update.

So… Team Tangerine 2.0 thinks it may need to appeal(?!), from its own rescinding of its freeze memo(?!). Really?!

That’s a new — and as goofy — a position as I’ve ever seen any federal agency try to take — after failing to comply with the APA/CFR rules on agency actions, and notice and comment periods — for final rule-makings.

In any event, here’s the silly Shumate memo — just the sake of a complete record. Whatever, dudes.

Off now to have fun with my two lil’ ladies! Out, grinning.

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The Blackhawk Had Turned Off Radar/Collision Detection Warnings…

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Tangerine 2.0 today was (likely in error) already blaming DEI, and Air Traffic Controllers — at Reagan (and almost tragi-comically, Messrs. Obama and Biden!) for the loss of 67 lives. Disgusting lies, each and all.

But Hegseth’s team (US Defense) has already confirmed the military chopper had intentionally turned off its radar warning systems — so it was invisible to the commercial airliner.

Of course, Hinderaker fails to mention that (very damming) fact — but does suggest he believes the fault lies with the military’s chopper pilot and crew.

He would do better to say the fault lies with the choice to fly “incognito”.

Will Hegseth or the new Secy. Of Transportation step up — and tell the truth, to the Tangerine idiot?

Don’t hold your breath.

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Surprising No One (Who Pays Attention), Wa Po Reports Elon Musk “Went Rogue” On That Nonsense “Six Months Of Severance” Proposal To Over 2.2 Million Federal Employees.

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Yes. Chaos is… the brand. And this is much like his speech to Twitter team members the day he bought it: “start right now, obeying my every goofy whim — or get the hell out!” There’s only one minor problem with that approach in federal government, Elon.

You see, these federal workers — almost all of them… have what amounts to property rights in their jobs. They may only be let go for very clear, written and well-documented “cause“. [And any employee’s First Amendment activities cannot be that “cause“.] In short, Elon and his goon squad have no idea how different this is, from a private enterprise “at will” workforce.

And the cherry on the top of all this — is that according to the Wa Po‘s reporting — his brute squad didn’t bother to inform Tangerine 2.0 or his team members that he was running a raid on the federal HR offices. Damn. The “bromance” may be over — even before February is:

…The [Musk-led] proposal, emailed late in the day to many of the nation’s 2.3 million federal workers, blindsided some advisers to President Donald Trump, including officials in the budget office and agencies that typically would be consulted in advance of such monumental changes to personnel and spending policies, the people said.

Since Trump took office, Musk has moved quickly to exert control over the Office of Personnel Management, the small independent agency that acts as a kind of human resources department for the federal government, issuing policy for agencies to implement. Musk personally visited the OPM’s offices Friday, [along with] several of his longtime surrogates — including Anthony Armstrong, who helped Musk buy Twitter….

These clowns deserve one another. But our able, even handed non-partisan federal workforce certainly deserved — and deserves — much better from the supposed leader of the free world. [In a subsequent post we will detail how it violates our treaty obligations (and likely the Geneva Conventions, if Tangerine preposterously claims this is any form of “enemy invasion”) to even consider… housing putative deportees, at Gitmo. Damn.]

Onward, resolutely.

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Scott Johnson Seems Unaware That Tangerine 2.0 Is Again “Net Unfavorable”.

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Yep — he’s willfully obfuscating… about which party is more trusted.

Even so, for about one week(!) immediately after the inaugural, Trump was more favorably viewed, at 47% — to 45% UN-favorable.

But with the chaos of this week — flip flopping on multiple Unconstitutional “orders” and memos — and being enjoined in at least three federal courts, for trying to be a tin-pot despot… that has flipped:

Trump is 47% UN-favorable, to only 45% favorable, now.

[And his boy, Elon Musk is now over 55% UN-favorable — a gap of nearly 11%. Hilarious!]

Tell the whole truth, Scotty — this silly word-smithing you’re undertaking… is… unbecoming.

Out.

Merck Stops PAH Clinical Trial Early, To Give All Participants Winrevair™ — Efficacy Well Established; Ethical Protocols Invoked.

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The HYPERION Phase III clinical trial has now been stopped early, citing efficacy data in two other Merck PAH trials. This is very good news for people suffering with PAH. And it is the moral imperative — making sure no patient is getting a placebo.

In passing, I’d also mention that Merck has made an FDA approvable filing, and is about mid-course, on a separate Welireg™ clinical trial, assessing yet another adrenal gland oncological application — and that one looks very promising as well.

Here’s the latest, on the HYPERION study stoppage:

…[Merck will] stop a late-stage study testing its drug to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) ahead of time based on strong efficacy shown in previous studies, the drugmaker said on Thursday.

The therapy, branded Winrevair™, is already approved for treating the rare condition which causes high blood pressure in the lungs, leading to symptoms such as shortness of breath, chest pain and dizziness….

Analysts expect Winrevair to become a multi-billion-dollar product for Merck…. Merck’s decision was partly based on interim data from another late-stage study, named ZENITH, in which Winrevair helped significantly reduce the risk of death in PAH patients….

Onward, keeping those families who had loved ones among the 67 onboard the two crafts last night into Reagan, in our meditations. The last US airline disaster was in 2009 — so a remarkable safety record for the industry overall. . . but none of that matters to these families, now. Just… awful.

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Full Preliminary Injunction Motion — In Western Washington’s Federal District Courts… Now On File! Trump Is… Utterly DOA, On Birthright Citizenship.

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As promised, here it is — the motion for next week, February 6 — on birthright citizenship. This is the muscular banger that will bury Tangerine 2.0’s lawless — and petty — fever dreams.

Here it is — and a bit:

…[We] ask the Court to enjoin implementation of a flagrantly unconstitutional executive order that purports to reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and strip persons born in the United States of citizenship by “mere executive fiat.” Sterling v. Constantin, 287 U.S. 378, 400 (1932). Plaintiffs Delmy Franco, Cherly Norales, and Alicia Chavarria are expectant mothers whose anticipated due date is on or after February 19, 2025. Because neither they nor the fathers of their children are lawful permanent residents (LPRs) or citizens of the United States, their children, once born — and despite being born in the United States — will not be recognized as U.S. citizens by operation of an executive order that President Trump signed shortly after his inauguration on January 20, 2025….

Plaintiffs and putative class members face irreparable harm if the Court does not enjoin this EO. The order’s directive to strip persons of birthright citizenship amounts to “the total destruction of the individual’s status in organized society” and constitutes “a form of punishment more primitive than torture.” Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101 (1958). As the Supreme Court has recognized time and again, “[c]itizenship is a most precious right,” Kennedy v. MendozaMartinez, 372 U.S. 144, 159 (1963), whose “value and importance” is “difficult to exaggerate,” Schneiderman v. United States, 320 U.S. 118, 122 (1943). Without the protection of citizenship, the babies that will be born to Plaintiffs — and others similarly targeted by the EO — will lack any legal immigration status and accordingly will face the threat of removal and separation from family….

Furthermore, by rendering Plaintiffs’ children undocumented, the EO threatens to deprive the children of access to federally-funded public benefits that are critical to their well-being and stability. Only “qualified” noncitizens enumerated under 8 U.S.C. § 1641(b) are eligible to receive “any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided… by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States.” Id. § 1611(c)(1)(B)….

Onward — to the complete obliteration, of Tangerine’s lawless agenda — from stem to stern. Woot!

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Hinderaker Claims J6 Pardon Holders Are “Good Guys”. Huh.

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I guess Hinderaker is not capable of doing so, or at least no longer actually reads… any of the US newspapers… before popping off — in idiotic fashion.

One of the J6 commutation recipients was immediately picked up and re-arrested on gun charges… being a felon in possession.

Another one was picked up a couple days ago for soliciting a clearly underage girl for sexual contact.

And — in proving it crosses both genders, a woman pardoned by Trump had since killed at least one other driver, while driving drunk in 2022 — and just received a NEW ten year prison sentence. Ugh.

Yep, these are only “the best and brightest”, John. [He “doubts” any of them “will ever” face arrest again. Oops. It’s only been ten days… geez!] I can almost guarantee that cretins like Stewart Rhodes (Oath Keeper honcho) will be involved in some kind of future felony violence — in the United States.

Yikes.

You sir, are despicable.

The Solar System’s Most Volcanic Moon (Io) Just Erupted With A South Pole Lake Of Lava, The Size Of Our Lake Superior!

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Io is a violent little world — stretched and squeezed regularly — by the massive Jovian gravitational forces, and bombarded by its punishing radiation.

The scale of this lava flow/volcano is astonishing: the whole orb is only about one-sixth the size of Earth (about like our Moon), so that Lake Superior sized flow covers an area proportionately equal to Texas, on our home world. That’s… just… surreal. Here’s the scoop:

…Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme.

Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have discovered a volcanic hot spot in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter’s moon Io. The hot spot is not only larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also belches out eruptions six times the total energy of all the world’s power plants. The discovery of this massive feature comes courtesy of Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument, contributed by the Italian Space Agency….

…About the size of Earth’s Moon, Io is extremely close to the mammoth gas giant [Jupiter], and its elliptical orbit whips it around Jupiter once every 42.5 hours. As the distance varies, so does the planet’s gravitational pull, which leads to the moon being relentlessly squeezed. The result: immense energy from frictional heating that melts portions of Io’s interior, resulting in a seemingly endless series of lava plumes and ash venting into its atmosphere from the estimated 400 volcanoes that riddle its surface….

[All of this jaw-slacking celestial science is the product of NASA’s vision, in extending the Juno mission.]

To be certain, that’s one baking hot spot, then! Wow… and by 2030 or so, ESA’s Europa Clipper will be circling another moon out there, looking for water lakes / life — under its ice-shelves. So both extremes — and all in one neighborhood. Grin. Onward.

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Mirengoff Thinks That Maybe Since Colombia Isn’t “Too Bad”…

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…The US shouldn’t have to comply with its treaties.

Damn.

What a malignant putz.

The idea that because Trump is in office (again), we should all just ignore 75 years of legal obligations… to let him do what he wants to do… is exactly what Paul Mirengoff swore he would not do, when he took his oath — as a member of the state and federal bars, now over 48 years ago.

But I guess times changed. Maybe… for him.

For me, they have not.

Out.

Hinderaker Knows Nothing Of “Polite Society’s Views” — And Even Less, About NY Criminal Law.

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As ever, Hinderaker clutches at straws — in the hope that middle America will forget Tangerine’s 50 year crime spree.

Hilarious.

Hinderaker thinks because someone from Big Law… is willing to be paid around $2,200 an hour to handle Tangerine’s NY appeal of 34 felonies… that means “polite society” loves Trump again.

John should… lay off the Ketamine.

What a delusional, and wacky idea that is!

Out.