Theorem, Proved: Hinderaker Has Lost His Soul.

Rather than take any position at all on the fact that far more tech savvy hard right bloggers are making and posting clearly defamatory and false — as well as deeply racist and misogynist — AI and CGI infused videos that odiously purport to be one or more genuine opposition candidates speaking… John thinks it’s appropriate just to say “well this is the new age…” And so be it.

He even goes so far as to say the days of the Lincoln v. Douglas debate are long gone — all while wholly forgetting to mention that both he and the candidates have a responsibility to tell the truth.

He is indeed the nihilist’s nihilist. He only cares about what these despicable liars, and their lying tech, can do for “his side.”

He is (seemingly) hoping / believing that liberals will be more moral than his team is. [About that, he may actually be right.]

But… in this “hellscape” environment, I wouldn’t bet on it — and the videos that could be made of Trump in various states of depravity with Epstein should be something that would give him pause.

But it won’t — because he, and (I think) most of the nation believes that Trump’s base wouldn’t care.

After all, it’s essentially true that Trump is the most frequently mentioned prominent figure in all of the Epstein documents released thus far. And still his moron base doesn’t care. He is their kind of pervert.

All of which — as I say, establishes what I’ve long said: John’s lost his soul.

Out.

Bill Glahn Seems Unaware That Habeas Is A Constitutional RIGHT.

And soon, the Supremes will remind the rogue Fifth Circuit of this fact.

Bill is a stupid yutz — to call Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, and the Fourth Amendment… a “strange phenomenon”.

Here’s the well-argued Fifth Circuit dissent (see at page 35 and beyond); it will be the majority at the Supremes:

…Why [would] Congress… have preserved “one of the most significant advantages available for unlawful entrants” despite its general purpose of placing applicants seeking admission on equal footing with applicants already present in the country. Ante at 21. This “seems strange to suggest.” Id. at 20. Petitioners, the majority opines, offer “no commonsense explanation why, as a general matter, Congress would want to deny bond only to those lawfully seeking admission into the country.” Id. at 21. There are a few: (1) bond has always been available to detained noncitizens already present in the United States; (2) as this practice exemplifies, government intrusions have always been tolerated at the border that would be intolerable in the interior, for the obvious reason that citizens and noncitizens alike expect to be able to go about their business without having to show that they are “clearly and beyond doubt entitled to be admitted” if taken, or mistaken, for an otherwise inadmissible noncitizen; and (3) with only a little imagination, the government’s and the majority’s reading means that anyone present in this country at any time must carry the precise kinds of identification they would otherwise have only carried to the border for international travel, lest they be mistaken for an inadmissible noncitizen “seeking admission” into the country. [The Supremes have ruled repeatedly that that will never be the law.]

The majority seems to be unable to imagine what it might mean to be detained within the United States without the appropriate proof of admissibility, and, without a bond hearing, to require the services of a federal habeas corpus lawyer to show that one is entitled to release and deserves to see the outside of a detention center again.

This is not, or not just, a matter of human sympathy, but rather a matter of understanding one of the core distinctions in immigration law, and the very good reasons for it. See Zadvydas, 533 U.S. at 693.…

Confidential Note to Bill: if you’re going to report on legal matters, you probably should read some actual law.

I Won’t Spend Time (Or Pixels) Refuting Hinderaker’s “Racist’s Racist” Defense Tonight.

Nothing Hinderaker said makes any sense, nor does it deflect from the fact that Trump is openly lying about having personally posted the odious video. The Obamas as apes appear in the opening scene and he claims that he never saw it — that he stopped watching.

I guess “stupid is as stupid does” — in so far as lies and liars go.

So to switch it up, I will post an older picture, and a video, of what actual presidential behavior looks like.

Hint: Donald Trump is — in almost every detail — the opposite.

Out.

Power Alley: More FDA Good News, In Certain Lymphomas, For Kite/Gilead’s Yescarta®…

This is more very good news — for a public company I’ve long felt is and was very well run.

The ability to simply get full coverage from insurers, for very sick lymphoma patients, without weeks or months of haggling about off-label benefits, is worth its weight in gold, to Gilead and its Kite Pharma unit. Trust that. Here’s the latest, from Friday — [with earnings due next week]:

…Gilead’s Kite unit announced on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a label update for its CAR-T therapy Yescarta, removing a limitation that prevented its use in a subset of patients with a rare form of lymphoma.

The revised prescribing information removes Yescarta’s previously limited use in patients with relapsed or refractory ((R/R)) primary central nervous system lymphoma, a rare type of lymphoma that mainly affects the brain and spinal cord….

Now you know — and my favorite exotic chocolates tasting season is upon us…. starting Monday, I will frequent the best bespoke chocolatiers of this fine city, and bring home nightly treasures — to try, with hot coffee or ice-cold milk. Grin!

नमस्ते

Welp — It’s Probably Time For NASA To Officially Declare The Mars MAVEN Mission… At End Of Life.

I think the time — for reconnecting — has come… and gone.

I am not happy about it, but the craft served admirably, for well over a decade.

If it is in fact tumbling erratically, its solar panels have been unable to completely charge the spacecraft’s batteries.

That state of affairs has been true — since about December 6, 2025.

Two months of drain on the batteries is probably beyond its ability to recover and send a signal home, by radio. Thus — “travel well, but travel light, oh Maven.”

Onward, resolutely.

नमस्ते

Tangent | Denouement: Just As We Said — The Able USDC Judge Chen Has Ruled Martin Shkreli’s Latest Claims “Non-Suited”. Heh.

Just four elapsed days later — Mr. Shkreli’s supposed “counter-claims” against various Wu- parties… are DOA. In Brooklyn, USDC Judge Chen has saved PleasrDAO the wasted time of responding to them.

Just as we said. Under the federal rules of civil procedure, one cannot bring “counterclaims” against non-parties. Here’s that — Martin is utterly… out of runway:

…ORDER:

The Court is in receipt of Defendant Shkreli’s [63] Answer. The Court notes that Shkreli raises purported “counterclaims” against Robert “RZA” Diggs and Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh. However, counterclaims can only be asserted against an opposing party — here, the only one is PleasrDao. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 13(a)–(b).

Furthermore, to the extent Shkreli intended to assert cross-claims, those can only made as to co-defendants, of which there are none here. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 13(g) (“A pleading may state as a crossclaim any claim by one party against a coparty….”).

Ordered by Judge Pamela K. Chen on 2/6/2026….

I predict Martin will never take the time and money to file an entirely new suit against the Wu parties. He knows it is a loser, no matter what. He transferred all he ever had and all he ever will have, under that old purchase agreement to the US Marshals when he failed to pay his criminal fines and restitution amounts.

It is gone — as a matter of black letter law, Martin.

O U T.

Crew-12 To ISS No Earlier Than Next Wed… Do Stay Tuned…

Here’s the latest, from NASA:

…NASA will stream live coverage of the upcoming prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.

Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 6:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The targeted docking time is approximately 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 12.

Watch agency launch coverage on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Individual events on YouTube will have their own stream closer to their start time. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media….

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, to the orbiting laboratory for a science mission. This is NASA’s 12th crew rotation mission and the 13th human spaceflight mission to the space station supported by the Dragon spacecraft since 2020, as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program….

Onward grinning — with baby girls here, tonight… heh!

नमस्ते

USDC Judge Rules Trump Cannot Withhold Hudson Tunnel Project Funds — To Force It To Be RE-Named For… HIM. Damn.

Welp — this is the caliber of bull-crap Hinderaker licks up after.

Trump tried to stop the project, unless Sen. Schumer (D., NY) and others would vote to rename the tunnel as the Trump Tunnel.

What a useless, vain — full of crap loser he is.

Here’s the latest from InnerCityPress, who was in the well, when it happened, this evening:

…On the day that Federal funding of the Hudson Tunnel was to end, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jeannette A. Vargas heard arguments for a Temporary Restraining Order continuing funding – and granted it….

This is — without doubt — the worst ever occupant of 1600 Penn. Ever. Yikes.

UPDATE | February 12, 2026: That’s When Noem Must Answer In Minneapolis, Now… Sorry, Bill Glahn. You Understand… Very Little.

The pace of this litigation is… positively Formula One-level [Hamiltonian — but not that one!], given the urgency of the need for relief.

This order should simply allow a few days for the USDC Judge, and her Magistrate to fully digest these complex, and precedent setting legal principles. No prior occupant of 1600 Penn has ever tried such brown shirted overreaches, in non-consenting states. Do stay tuned, one and all — this was entered earlier this very morning:

…ORDER.

Given the complex nature of the issues involved and Court’s need for careful and thoughtful briefing, Plaintiffs’ request for an expedited briefing schedule with respect to their Motion for Expedited Discovery [138] is DENIED. Pursuant to L.R. 7.1, Defendants’ Response to the Motion shall be due February 12, 2026.

Ordered by Magistrate Judge Dulce J. Foster on 2/6/2026….

Do watch and learn young Bill. Damn, son.