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Stephen Miller: Contradicting Hinderaker (More Deeply Corrupt!), On Theories Of Power — In Minneapolis…

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Thanks go out to Marcy Wheeler, for all of this. She’s had him dead to rights, on all of it — from Day One.

Without any additional ado, then — here’s hers:

…Remember the claimed progression:

Right wingers discovered fraud implicating the largely-US citizen Somali community in Minnesota, fraud already exposed by Joe Biden’s DOJ, Inspectors General Trump fired, and local journalists. Propagandist Nick Shirley created content that led nutjobs to believe fraud was being ignored; his content soon fizzled, but not the ardor of those hoping to pursue brown people in Minnesota. And that fraud served as the pretext to surge immigration resources to a state with fewer undocumented people among its immigrant population than other states. Between the disproportional numbers of troops, the inclusion of newly-hired poorly-trained ICE goons, and relaxed rules on snatches and unlawful entries, a great many lawful residents got kidnapped. First Renee Good and then Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis got shot. Miller’s response to the shooting of a white Christian mother coming home from dropping her kid off at school was to surge still more resources, an attempt to prove that power always wins.

When the blowback started, Miller claimed the expanded surge was about force protection….

DAMNATION. And all 100% accurate — despite Hinderaker’s endless lies. Onward.

[U: Payment Sent!] Friday Morning’s Update, In The Second Cir. — Hudson Tunnel “Naming” Litigation — About Two More Weeks…

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Updated: it is a temporary order, from the status conference this afternoon, but it is an order nonetheless. USDC Judge Vargas has ordered that the government pay the contractors by the end of business today, New York time. Which will be in about eight minutes. In the coming weeks, the Second Circuit may or may not change this, but for tonight, the money is sent. End update.

Ahem, just as we said: the Second Circuit in Manhattan will rule pretty expeditiously, given that he companies are owed over $220 million from Tangerine 2.0 at this point.

Here’s the latest text only order:

…Appellants move for a stay of the district court’s February 6, 2026 order.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion is REFERRED to a motions panel sitting as early as the week of February 23, 2026….

Onward, resolutely.

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Ahem. Paul Is Getting Just About The Governance… He Deserves — Good And Hard.

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Yes, you by now well-know he and Hinderaker regularly use that old Mencken bon mot — but only in times of Democratic occupation of 1600 Penn.

This morning, Paul Mirengoff is getting (from Pam Bondi) EXACTLY the governance he deserves.

She, the malignly idiotic fake lawyer who responded to a question on the Hill, at a sworn hearing on sexual predators / Epstein… by belching out, in full throat that “we should all be talking about how well the stock market is doing.” WTAF?!?

Yep — she’s Tangerine’s lil’ b!tch.

And that is exactly what Paul voted for — three times now.

Shut up, Paul. Impeach her — and Trump — if you think have the sack for that.

Otherwise, sit down and shut up.

This Is, In Many Respects, A “Return To Home Base” — At Sanofi, For Belén Garijo, M.D., Ph.D…

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To be clear, this is the (no relation) German Merck — and its transitionings.

We do follow it, though — because a clearly multi-billion dollar Lanham Act trial will take place later this year, in New Jersey’s federal courts — over which of these behemoths properly owns the right to use the name “Merck”. [And yes, it has been going on since the Treaty of Versailles in 1917 — you can find over 100 posts on that topic here by searching in the upper left.]

In any event, here is the estimable FiercePharma, with the latest — and a bit:

…Garijo will bring “increased rigor” to implementing the company’s strategy, Sanofi explained in an early-morning press release. Garijo’s priority will be to strengthen the productivity, governance and innovation capacity for R&D, the Paris-based pharma added….

Garijo joined French pharmaceutical company Rhône-Poulenc Rorer in 1996, moved to Aventis after the companies merged and ended up at Sanofi as the result of another takeover. Sanofi said Garijo led the integration of Genzyme before leaving to join Merck KGaA in 2011. Garijo was born in 1960, and Sanofi will need to change its articles of association to raise its CEO age limit upon appointment before she takes the post.

Freeing up Garijo to take the top Sanofi post is the separate leadership transition taking place at Merck KGaA. In September, the German healthcare and electronics conglomerate announced that Garijo would conclude her five-year tenure as chief executive at the end of April, as planned. Kai Beckmann, who is currently the company’s CEO of electronics, will take over as Merck KGaA’s new group CEO May 1….

That’s probably the end of power alley stuff for today. Smile — as now, chocolates await, with fresh deeply-red cherries and piping hot coffee!

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About An Hour And A Half Ago, Crew-12 Left The Cape… Docking At ISS Tomorrow Around 3 PM EST.

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Excellent — and a clean ride — into orbit!

Now its chosen trajectory will, by Valentine’s afternoon, let it “kiss” the ISS, and start a planned nine month stay:

…Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission launched at 5:15 a.m. EST Friday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled a Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The spacecraft will dock autonomously to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at approximately 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14….

Onward, as a much needed Homeland Security zero budget shutdown looms. [Karma is. . . a wheel, to be sure.]

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Good Riddance — And As Gov. Walz Just Said “You Must Pay, To Fix What You… Broke.” ICE, Out — Of Minnesota, Now.

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I’ve been detained in the courts today, but I am certain most of you have already seen this. Homan is turning tail (just as Bovino & Noem did, at the end of September, in Chicago)… and running away.

But that will not be the end of it — the feckless and lawless federal government agencies (and the agents who committed crimes) will be embroiled in litigation now, for years — here in Minneapolis and in Chicago. Here’s the latest, via CNN:

…A bitterly divided Washington is headed for its third government funding lapse of President Donald Trump’s second term — this time, a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security over the issue of federal immigration enforcement.

With lawmakers leaving town Thursday, funding for the department is set to expire Friday at midnight.

GOP leaders sent their members home after the two parties made no concrete progress toward a deal that Democrats are demanding must rein in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations after last month’s fatal shootings by federal agents of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota….

What a horribly tragic episode this all has been, in our nation’s history. It dishonors the legacy of the Lady in The Harbor, to be certain. Onward, resolutely — just the same. Onward — to find more chocolates… smile.

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I Deeply Hope That 84-Year-Old Mrs. Guthrie Is Returned Home, Safely… And I Do Wonder About… Nearly 95,000 “Missing” Young Black Girls In America…

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I absolutely understand why the public becomes fixated, when a relative of a celebrity goes missing. And certainly, this one has been full of dramatic twists and turns — and involves a deeply-sympathetic 84 year old mom of outstanding character. I fervently hope she is returned home, safely. [But candidly, the statistics would sadly say that each day now that she remains unfound… increases the odds that she is never found — at least not… alive.]

And… I think we all should take a breath, and realize there are probably now over 100,000 young Black and brown women who’ve also “disappeared” in America (just since 2022) — and we do not even know their names, let alone their stories. And in point of fact, far fewer resources are moving toward finding any of them. [There are also over 200,000 white women (most of limited means) similarly missing, too — and none of us know even 1% of those names… and stories.]

I want these faceless ones to matter, too. We all do. And we need to allocate AWAY from ICE interdiction slush funds, and deploy those billions to finding the missing women and children. That is what a humane society would do. Here’s a now-rather-dated Biden era explainer from the DoJ. Trump hasn’t bothered to update anything like this, since taking office (as it doesn’t fit into his narrative of imagined other-ness and divisiveness):

…[A]ccording to a recent study published in the peer-reviewed general medical journal The Lancet, Black women are six times more likely to be murdered than their white peers. These stark and tragic statistics reveal and underscore systemic issues of bias, neglect, and a lack of resources that hinder effective responses to this crisis….

According to the National Crime Information Center, in 2022, of the 271,493 girls and women reported missing, 97,924, or over 36 percent, were Black, despite the fact that Black women and girls comprised only 14 percent of the U.S. female population at the time….

Tell the Congress — that money we are going to allocate AWAY from ICE — ought to go, at least in part, to these efforts. And to feeding the one in five Americans who regularly go hungry, here in this privileged society. Onward.

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Look — All Mass Shootings Are Horrible. But Actual *Facts* Still Matter, Hinderaker.

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Hinderaker is yet again trying to speciously blame “most” school shootings on the fact that some of the shooters were either trans-, or transitioning, in the last few years.

So… I feel compelled to note that — far and away — the mass murderers, in these highly-targeted multi-victim shootings… are Whyte males.

And far and away, even the trans- ones… were Whyte — and assigned the gender of male, at birth.

I might add that a majority of them… also come from military backgrounds.

And still — no matter does the shooting — one… is one too many.

But the deplorable way Hinderaker rushes to lie about the facts — to drive his own awful wedge issue agenda… is sickening.

Here endeth my sermon.

And eat sh!t, John.

As We Said, On Monday… Gilead Is A Very Fine Company: Up 5% On NASDAQ, After Solid Q4 Print…

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And Needham has now posted a near term $170 price target for the maker of what is effectively an AIDS cure.

This is all great news — and yes, this is power alley stuff, for us. In any event, here’s the latest:

…While late-stage, big-ticket acquisitions remain possibilities for Gilead, the pharma is not as pressed as its peers to ink major deals to beef up its product pipeline.

“We may not have the urgency of other companies in this sector,” CEO Daniel O’Day told investors in a call Tuesday afternoon to present the company’s full-year 2025 earnings results. But, he added, “we’re very proactive and disciplined.”

However, the pharma isn’t completely closing its doors on takeovers. O’Day noted that Gilead will “continue to add to our pipeline with appropriate M&A over the course of the coming years.”

Analysts at BMO Capital Markets echoed the sentiment, stating in a note to investors Wednesday morning that M&A for Gilead would be “nice to have” but not a necessity. If M&A were on the table, the analysts would look for activity “in core areas: liver disease, oncology, and inflammation….”

Onward, smiling into a warming sunshine… be excellent to one another.

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[U: For Hinderaker’s Lies] Pirro’s Latest Farce — Against Free Speech — Was “No Billed” Tonight.

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Updated: a day later, John Hinderaker claims the result here is proof that all of New York is biased against Trump and (whatever he might mean by) “the rule of law.”

He would prefer to claim — and pretend to see — a vast well organized left wing conspiracy to prevent Trump from achieving his autocratic goals, than to admit what we all know: the unanimous “no bills” are the result of a careful application of the law by a well seasoned prosecutor explaining it to the thoughtful grand jury. Peaceful dissent against the policies of an administration one opposes can never be a crime. Period. Suck that John — end update.

This result (no indictments — inaminously, against six people, in an attempt to criminalize peaceful but dissenting speech) is not remotely surprising to anyone who understands the United States Constitution. And not, to anyone who understands that the federal criminal justice system is not a political tool to be weilded by a psychopath — at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

These are dark times — but the system of checks and balances is — in general — working. Tangerine 2.0 is increasingly being shown for the petulant sociopath he is. Moreover, no one he is seeking retribution against is ever gonna’ go to jail. [But he still might, after 2028.] Here’s the latest:

…Sen. Kelly denounced the administration’s repeated efforts to target him and his colleagues.

“This is an outrageous abuse of power by Donald Trump and his lackeys,” he said in a statement. “Donald Trump wants every American to be too scared to speak out against him. The most patriotic thing any of us can do is not back down.”

Time and again, the Justice Department under Mr. Trump has brought questionable criminal cases against foes of the president — among them, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general.

Even though many of these cases have been weak, the department has apparently determined that it may be better to fail in court rather than push back against Mr. Trump’s well-known desire for revenge….

Geez — what a waste of skin that codger is. Out.

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