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Tangent: Mr. Mulleady’s Next Miami Dade Felony Hearing / Presentment Will Be On October 6, 2025.

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While I was off-grid in the high Colorado Rockies, apparently a May 30 hearing was held — down in the Miami/Dade felony courts. [My prior backgrounder here, as I am now back in the saddle — in full — in the City of Big Shoulders.]

Again, the Miami/Dade records are not as internet accessible as in the federal criminal system, but it seems that he’s been granted some sort of house arrest / ankle monitor set up, after posting bail/bond.

And it seems he’s going to provide alibi evidence, and plead not guilty.

It does seem that it was more than just old Mr. Martin Shkreli he had threatened.

I’ll refrain from speculating any further, but clearly his cheese must have slid off his cracker.

Throwing your life away, to make “mafioso” threats against former business partners… just isn’t a good look.

To be certain, no one ever looks their best in a felony booking photo, but the two images at above right sure look like he’s had some sort of mental breakdown.

I don’t discount that that he might also be a very evil person — but he looks pretty wild-eyed, after being caught either in email or on voicemails… (allegedly) making credible threats of violence against former business associates and (supposed) friends.

So… in any event, mark October 6 as the next date on your calendar, for an update — on this admittedly crazy potential epilogue.

Onward.

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Told Ya’! Tangerine Is No King; Take A Seat, Son.

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I am mostly off-grid, but had to laugh here, that a panel of federal judges just tonight ruled Tangerine 2.0’s highest tariffs are wildly outside his authority to act alone, without comprehensive new Acts of Congress. Ones he will never secure.

Just as we said two weeks ago. Stick a fork in him; he’s done:

…Congress [has] reformed the President’s emergency powers. As part of this reform, Congress cabined the President’s powers under TWEA to wartime. See Amendments to the Trading with the Enemy Act, Pub. L. No. 95-223, § 101-03, 91 Stat. 1625, 1625-26 (1977) (“[TWEA] is amended by striking out ‘or during any other period of national emergency declared by the President’ in the text preceding subparagraph (A).”). Congress also enacted a new statute, IEEPA, to confer “upon the President a new set of authorities for use in time of national emergency which are both more limited in scope than those of [TWEA] and subject to more procedural limitations, including those of the National Emergencies Act.” Comm. on Int’l Rels., Trading with the Enemy Act Reform Legislation, H.R. Rep. No. 95-459, at 2 (1977); see also International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Pub. L. No. 95-223, § 201-08, 91 Stat. 1625, 1626-29 (1977) (codified as amended at 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701-10). Congress drew much of the relevant language in IEEPA from TWEA, including language authorizing the President to “regulate. . . importation. . . of. . . any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest by any person… subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. . .” 50 U.S.C. § 1702(a)(I)(B)….

The court concludes. . . that the question of the scope of § 1701 is (1) a justiciable question of statutory construction that (2) resolves in favor of Plaintiffs’ contention that the Trafficking Tariff Orders do not “deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat.” 50 U.S.C. § 1701(b). Those Orders thus lie outside the bounds of Congress’s delegation of authority to the executive branch….

Geez — what an incompetently malignant yutz. Onward — he has appealed will appeal — and will lose. The law is crystal clear, since the time of Nixon.

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Starship 9: Sorry Elon, Mars Is TWO Decades Away, Now…

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Just a quick blurb, here from the mountains:

These repeated catastrophic malfunctions push any crewed Mars mission out two decades, minimum, in our opinion.

…Starship’s two stages separated as planned on Flight 9, and the upper stage even reached space, which was an improvement over the giant vehicle’s most recent two flights. But SpaceX ended up losing both stages before they could accomplish their full flight goals.

“Starship made it to the scheduled ship engine cutoff, so big improvement over last flight!” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on social media after the flight.

“Leaks caused loss of main tank pressure during the coast and re-entry phase….

In fact the capsule spun into the Indian Ocean in a fireball and was a total loss. This does not inspire confidence — for the idea of a crewed Barsoom mission.

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As I Write This — Tangerine/Rubio/Noem Continue To Defy The Plain English Order Of Supremes To Bring Abrego Garcia Home To Maryland…

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I just genuinely wonder… what will it take, for people of good will — who might have voted for Tangerine in 2024… to realize that this is not what they meant, by making the nation “great”?

A guy who, on Memorial Day ’25, claimed credit for war wins he never had a hand in, and calls federal judges “monsters” — for ruling against his lawlessness. And is planning to throw a $45 million military parade birthday party, for himself? Here’s the latest, on his polling weaknesses (only 42% of Americans approve of the job he is doing, while 53% disapprove):

…A new Marquette University Law School Poll has revealed that 79 percent of Americans believe presidents must obey federal court rulings, with even stronger support — 84 percent — for compliance with Supreme Court decisions.

The national survey, conducted May 5-15, 2025, interviewed 1,004 adults with a margin of error of +/-3.6 percentage points. The poll gains heightened significance after President Donald Trump’s Memorial Day attack on federal judges, whom he called “monsters” who want the United States “to go to hell….”

The poll also found that 70 percent of respondents oppose impeaching judges for ruling against presidential actions, despite escalating rhetoric from the Trump administration following a series of unfavorable court decisions on immigration policies….

Now you know — onward. In the high mountains for six days now — blogging may be light to non-existent. But the (very late) Spring snows call, as well as an aging but graceful mother… of nine. Always… smiling.

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Malawi Reports Three New Mpox Clade 1b Cases — Eleven Overall, Since April 2025…

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The drumbeat is… disheartening — but we must pay it heed: people are dying in Africa, due to Trumpian fecklessness.

This time it is Malawi — and involves young people — truly avoidable, with proper resources. We have a working vaccine — but Trump has hamstrug USAID. Dammit. Here’s The UK Guardian on it all:

…Malawi’s ministry of health has announced three new cases of mpox in the capital, Lilongwe, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 11 since the country’s first was reported in April.

Malawi is one of 16 countries in Africa reporting mpox outbreaks as health officials battle with vaccine shortages as well as limited testing and hospital capacity.

The Public Health Institute of Malawi said the patients were aged between 17 and 41. “Investigations are under way to establish the possible source of infection and trace contacts,” the department said in a statement last week.

The first cases in Malawi come after US government aid cuts to healthcare, including HIV programmes, badly hit the country and raised fears of an escalation of infectious diseases. HIV medication programmes have been severely depleted by the cuts….

It is candidly a struggle here, to avoid getting discouraged, by the loss of moral vision, in the US — when looking at our fellow world citizens. But onward, just the same.

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Monday’s Space Story Morning — What Will Dragonfly… Find, On Titan — Around 2030?!

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This is another (in a series of) palette cleansers — but please do keep our veterans’ sacrifices in your meditations today, and always. Thank you.

Here’s the latest on a second NASA engineered off-world chopper mission. . . almost a full blown mega-drone, at that. Do read on:

…“Dragonfly isn’t a mission to detect life — it’s a mission to investigate the chemistry that came before biology here on Earth,” said Zibi Turtle, principal investigator for Dragonfly and a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. “On Titan, we can explore the chemical processes that may have led to life on Earth without life complicating the picture.”

On Earth, life has reshaped nearly everything, burying its chemical forebears beneath eons of evolution. Even today’s microbes rely on a slew of reactions to keep squirming.

“You need to have gone from simple to complex chemistry before jumping to biology, but we don’t know all the steps,” Turtle said. “Titan allows us to uncover some of them.”

Titan is an untouched chemical laboratory where all the ingredients for known life — organics, liquid water and an energy source — have interacted in the past. What Dragonfly uncovers will illuminate a past since erased on Earth and refine our understanding of habitability and whether the chemistry that sparked life here is a universal rule — or a wondrous cosmic fluke….

Onward. Now you know. Grin — and thanks, to all the service-people we meet everyday, and never acknowledge.

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Paul Mirengoff Hasn’t Considered That What Was Acceptable 100 Years Ago… Might No Longer Be.

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Mirengoff intentionally omits the possibility that perhaps, just maybe, the moral arc of the universe should move forward — not backward.

To argue (as he does) that because it was acceptable in World War II — it should be acceptable now… is to forget that all sorts of things were considered normal then that now would be shocking to civilized people.

Would Paul argue that because Jim Crow was accepted throughout the South by White Society (almost to a person) during the period from 1939 through 1945 (and for over two centuries prior)… we should return to it?

The point is that he has no logically valid point, other than that he wants to defend the presently indefensible.

Now you know. Sit down, bitter old Paul.

Out.

“Policies”?! Nope. Nothing of The Sort! They Violate Positive Law…

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Hinderaker is twice precious, tonight.

First he says a TRO is a “judicial political veto” of Tangerine 2.0’s “policies”.

Nope. The use of the TRO… stops intentional violations of federal law — and in more than ten of his cases, now — the explicit provisions of the US Constitution. Cannot be “policies” at all.

Next Hinderaker “foresees” the end of the Democratic Party. Precious. Not remotely likely. How does John think “the working class” views tariffs? Tax cuts for billionaires?! $500 million pre bribes, from hostile nations — for softer treat ment… and sucking up, to Putin?!

Only bribe-accepting Tangerine lemmings would think these are virtues… so…

Watch 2026, son. You are going to be tidal waved, in blue. [Do tell your buddie Bill that even here in May 2025, over 300 US seniors a month (10 a day!) are still dying of COVID.] He’s an idiot. As are you…

Cheers!

This NYT Published Image… Is Staggering, In Its Greatness…

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For anyone paying attention, it tells the entire story… without a single word needed.

I want to credit Mr. Doug Mills; all I’ve done is crop and flip his sublime work. But here is the cover page blurb running with it, now:

…President Trump has monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback.

8 MIN READ….

That may be too gently-stated (fearing libel suits from the tangerine dotard?): in my experienced opinion, these are crimes.

Disgusting — onward, just the same — resolutely.

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