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[U: Paul Belches… Too!] Sure, John. Whatever… You Hypocritical Flip Flopping Liar.

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Donald Trump = Vlad Putin.

He said it pretty plainly today, that FCC should review (with a threat toward revoking) the broadcast licenses of networks that criticize him.

And updated: all the coward Paul Mirengoff can say is “he went too far”?! What a chickensh!t. How about this violates about a century of Supreme Court precedents? How about this is exactly what Paul annd his MAGA-handlers claimed (falsely!) was wrong with Obama and Biden and Harris?! No… Paul is an Tangerine-licking b!tch. End update.

And as the original piece — so it is, that Hinderaker claims he is a free speech absolutist. And he claims that Pam Bondi is in the wrong here.

But you can bet your very last dollar Hinderaker will not even mildly chastise Donald Trump for saying that broadcast TV networks that criticize Trump should have their licenses revoked from the FCC.

Charming. We will — as ever — peacefully — resist. Resist the trampling of our First Amendment rights.

Nearly 250 years of freedom now hang in the balance. Forget this loser, folks:

…President Trump said federal regulators should revoke broadcast licenses over late-night hosts who speak negatively about him, a day after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” after pressure from the Federal Communications Commission chairman….

“They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, after ABC suspended the late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live show. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away….”

Not on my watch you Manchurian Cantaloupe.

Nope.

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USDC Judge Timothy Kelly [A Trump 1.0 Appointee!] Agrees: Noem’s Acts Are “Patently Unlawful”. Guatemalan Kids Cannot Be Kidnapped Back To Abuse — Or Worse. Full Stop.

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His opinion is a searing indictment… of how utterly Un-American these goon squads are. Miller and Noem (and Tangerine, in allowing them to run wild!) are more brown shirts, than MAGA. None of this makes any America we might want to live in… “great“.

And so, as we posited, even Trump appointed federal judges (like Judge Kelly) have ruled this… beyond the pale. Here’s the fine 43 page order / opinion, and a bit — just published at lunchtime today:

…Just before midnight on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, several Executive Branch agencies began to implement a plan to expel from the United States certain unaccompanied alien children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services and send them back to their home country of Guatemala. Those agencies told the children’s caretakers, who were hearing about the plan for the first time, to have them ready for pickup in as little as two hours. The children were roused from their beds in the middle of the night and driven to an airport, where some were loaded onto planes.

Lawyers got wind of this hasty operation while it was unfolding and filed this lawsuit seeking emergency relief that Sunday at 1:00 a.m. The judge on emergency duty entered a temporary restraining order barring the agencies and their officials from removing or otherwise transporting the children from the United States. At a hearing later that day, counsel for Defendants explained why it was “fairly outrageous” for Plaintiffs to have sued: all Defendants wanted to do was reunify children with parents who had requested their return.

But that explanation crumbled like a house of cards about a week later. There is no evidence before the Court that the parents of these children sought their return. To the contrary, the Guatemalan Attorney General reports that officials could not even track down parents for most of the children whom Defendants found eligible for their “reunification” plan. And none of those that were located had asked for their children to come back to Guatemala….

[Thus,] the Court will provisionally certify the class described above and grant Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction…

Given the lack of representation that [Tangerine/Noemite] Defendants will sustain any monetary injury from an injunction, the self-evidently limited financial resources of Plaintiffs, and the important rights they seek to vindicate, the Court will impose a nominal bond of $1.00. See N. Am.’s Building Trades Unions v. Dep’t of Def., 783 F.
Supp. 3d 290, 315 (D.D.C. 2025) (defendants had “not sufficiently demonstrated any likelihood of suffering costs or damages if they are later found to have been wrongfully enjoined”)….

Onward. This regular, whole-sale and notorious open court lying — by agencies of what was once a mostly-honorable federal government… must end.

Use the ballot box in 2026 — and rid us (via a new House and Senate — ready for some real Congressional oversight!) of these… brownshirts. Out.

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Mirengoff: Just As With Comments Critical Of Israel After Oct. 7 [Mirengoff Stupidly Posits], America Needs… “Speech Codes”?! Hilarious!

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File this under… irony quotient: 1000!

Paul was all for “absolute” free speech… until he didn’t like the speech — or speaker. That was in the wake of October 7, 2023.

Over the ensuing months, he moderated his views a bit, allowing that some Palestinians have “a point” — but they (even completely peaceful Muslims) are not entitled to “any homeland” in the very land they’ve occupied for nearly 2,000 years. To be fair, for almost 900 years prior to that time — Jews lived on most of that land — like before 2,000 BC… if the Bible is to be believed.

Now — with howls from inside his own camp, for a “crackdown” on all liberal groups — Paul again chooses the coward’s path.

He suggests that people working in machine shops can be fired for decrying the hate that Kirk spewed — and saying “good riddance!”… but they shouldn’t be CRIMINALLY prosecuted (without an actual violent act). Gee — that’s magnanimous, Paulie!

Kirk is dead. That was a crime. It is being prosecuted, appropriately so. It was actual violence.

Even so, I say: “may his wrong headed rhetoric too soon pass from this Earth, despite his widow’s need for clicks and likes.”

No employer will have a say… in what I write. Or say. Or think. I am my own keeper — and in need of no funds — forever.

Get used to people… telling you (in very public places!) “you are full of crap Paul and John.” Because both of you… are.

Out.

UPDATE On Mr. Khalil’s Matter: Will Challenge Admin. Law / Immigration Judge’s Specious Ruling That Noem Had “Separate Grounds” To Remove Him…

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Much of my theme over the past two weeks has revolved around the current mal-administration’s lawless attempts to silence dissent — and/or speech they do not favor. That is at the core of this Khalil development.

He peacefully mediated and advocated, on Columbia University’s campus last year. [Whether one agrees or disagrees with him, he had the right to do so — just as Charlie Kirk had the right to spew his bile, in a free America.] But for that, by Mr. Khalil, Noem / Miller / Tangerine 2.0 threw him into a hell-hole in Jena, LA for four months. [He missed the birth of his first child, in the process, in NYC.]

He is free now — living with his young family and US Citizen wife. But the immigration admin. judges have ruled that Noem may label him “deportable” — based on incomplete information in a packet of papers, about his whereabouts, more than a decade ago. Here’s the ACLU explaining what the order of filings will be, as they await word from the Appeals Court, on the overall matter [Mr. Khalil did win out, at trial, against Trump]:

…Following the Trump administration’s latest effort to weaponize the immigration system to silence Mahmoud Khalil for his advocacy in support of Palestinian human rights, Mr. Khalil’s legal team today submitted a letter to the federal court in New Jersey overseeing his civil rights case. The letter to Judge Michael Farbiarz explains that Mr. Khalil will challenge a Sept. 12 decision made by the immigration judge in Louisiana that denied Mr. Khalil a waiver of removability, bringing him one step closer to a final order of removal, because of baseless, pretextual “misrepresentation” charges the government added after his detention.

As the letter notes, the immigration judge rushed to a decision without providing a hearing on the evidence as due process requires, engaging in multiple procedural irregularities, and choosing to believe the false charges made after the fact by the government. The letter also states how rare it is for an immigration judge to deny a waiver against a lawful permanent resident with a U.S. spouse and child, and no criminal record….

Kimmel and Colbert are not aberrations — they are the playbook. Dammit people — wake up! Onward, resolutely just the same.

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NASA Wins [Another] Webby Award, For Compelling Content — And Advancement Of The “Free Marketplace” Of… Ideas.

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Since at least the early 1990s, NASA has been well ahead of all other US federal agencies, in serving up free and compelling content, on the web, as a “dividend” for the world, from our tax dollars.

As of April 2025, NASA had won a total of 116 Webby Awards since 1998. [It was, in fact, the NASA animations of the Shoemaker-Levy comet impacts on Jupiter that first hooked me on this web-address.] I think, based solely on a quick “GTS” search (urban dictionary for “google that sh!t”), no other single organization has ever won more than 40, life to date (since 1996). Here’s to the fine science-teams — and creative teams — at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (and here’s the news, from NASA on the latest Webby 30)!

…NASA has earned a spot on The Webby 30, a curated list celebrating 30 companies and organizations that have shaped the digital landscape.

“This honor reflects the talent of NASA’s communications professionals who bring our story to life,” said Will Boyington, associate administrator for the Office of Communications at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Being recognized shows that America’s leadership in space and NASA’s innovative messaging resonate with the public as we share our missions that inspire the world.”

The Webby awards recognize companies across technology, media, entertainment, and social media that have consistently demonstrated creativity and innovation on their digital platforms. NASA’s inclusion in the list underscores the agency’s long-standing commitment to sharing its awe-inspiring missions, discoveries, and educational resources with audiences around the globe.

“Singling out NASA as one of the most iconic and innovative brands shows a government agency can compete on the global digital stage,” said Brittany Brown, head of digital communications at NASA Headquarters in Washington….

Onward — with a wide grin: the whole of the Universe lies ahead — if we are curious enough to go learn about it. Yep!

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Now 73 Cases, And 27 Dead, In DRC Ebola Outbreak ’25; Co-infections Also Are A Daunting Challenge — As Is The Remoteness Of The Hotspots, By Road-Routes…

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Once again, it may well turn out, when historians look back on this time — some decades from now — that Trump’s most indelible legacy with be the hundreds of thousands of humans globally who’ve died largely needlessly, from diseases we know how to arrest — but for which he simply refused to spend the money, to abate. Damn him.

With USAID still sidelined, almost all these excess deaths are the direct result of his fecklessness. Here’s the latest situation report on DRC Ebola ’25 — in the Bulape, Mweka, Mushenge, Kanzala and Tshikapa health districts — and a bit:

…As of the 14 September reporting cycle, 30 cases have been confirmed and 27 deaths have been reported, including four health workers. There are 43 suspected cases across four districts including Bulape, Mweka, Mushenge and Kanzala, and contacts have been traced to Tshikapa, reflecting ongoing investigations and data consolidation.

Operational constraints are significant. Road access from Kinshasa can take up to three days and the nearest isolation unit has roughly 15 beds, well below current needs. Surveillance, contact tracing and Safe and Dignified Burials (SDB) must scale up quickly as well to interrupt transmission chains. Currently, 2,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine are pre-positioned in Kinshasa for ring vaccination of contacts and frontline workers….

There are concurrent outbreaks of cholera and mpox, and chronic vulnerabilities, such as limited Infection Prevention & Control (IPC)/Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) in healthcare facilities, as well as mistrust among the community. Traditional funerary practices also elevate risk of spread, particularly around Bulape and Mweka, and along movement corridors toward Tshikapa….

Onward, now for meetings (about the people allegedly without papers grabbed by ICE in Pilsen and West Town yesterday) — off, into the steel and glass canyons, on an otherwise perfectly sunny morning, for a bit… sad smile.

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Potentially Over Half The Guatemalan Kids That The Noemites Said They “Lawfully Screened…” And Were Then Set For Deportation, Exhibited Evidence Of Trafficking And Abuse — But Noem Would Summarily Deport Them Back Into That Situation, Anyway… Damn.

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On September 6, 2025 (as we highlighted, here) a supervising ORR/ICE agent named Angie Salazar swore that she had checked all the data-bases to be sure the kids she was attempting to dump, unaccompanied — in Guatemala… were not sexually trafficked in or out of Guatemala, and that their parents or guardians had not physically abused them. That’s what she swore to. To state the obvious, our treaties and federal law… prohibit this sort of abusive deportation. Dammit.

Via an inside-agency whistleblowers’ complaint to Congress, we are reading tonight that she likely made false statements — about at least 30 of the sampled 50 kids. This is… deplorable. Could she really have made “innocent” mistakes about over half of them?!

Read the whole thing — but here is the most operative bit:

. . .Government Accountability Project represents whistleblowers who reasonably believe representations made by Acting Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Angie Salazar, to U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly on September 6, 2025 in L.G.M.L v. Noem, a lawsuit filed to halt planned flights to return hundreds of children to Guatemala, were inaccurate. Specifically, Salazar stated that 327 children identified for return to Guatemala had been screened according to a list of criteria that ensured, among other things, the children would not be subject to child abuse and neglect, including human trafficking, torture and other forms of violence, upon return to Guatemala….

These whistleblowers reasonably believe, based on information available in ORR’s database for tracking unaccompanied children, that at least 30 and possibly more children who were deemed eligible for imminent return to Guatemala, have indicators of being a victim of child abuse, including death threats, gang violence, human trafficking and/or have expressed fear of return to Guatemala, including in some cases concern for harm and threats from their parents. Additionally, because the information upon which whistleblowers base their reasonable belief is from ORR’s database, the whistleblowers reasonably believe Acting Director Salazar knew or should have known of the inaccuracies in her declaration….

The whistleblowers obtained information they reasonably believe demonstrates that many children identified for repatriation do not in fact meet the eligibility criteria based on ORR’s data; if confirmed, this would render this evidence provided to the court inaccurate. By September 5, 2025, the day before Ms. Salazar’s declaration, at least thirty total, including 20% of a sample size of approximately fifty cases reviewed, had indicators of being ineligible for repatriation based on the excluding criteria. This data was noted and present in ORR’s database at the time of Ms. Salazar’s declaration….

There seems to be no bottom, to the depths of depravity these miscreants will stoop to. Damnation.

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[U: Hinderaker… Flubs It!] The “Dunce In Chief”… Burps (Impotently!) Again, Against The NYT… Y A W N.

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Updated: 09.17.2025 @ 6 pm EDT: Predictably enough, Hinderaker has weighed in with a truly insipid take on this story. He very conveniently forgets that Donald Trump has been convicted of 32 felonies involving both tax and bank fraud. He opines that Trump could win the suit in Florida, if he gets a favorable judge and a favorable jury… Riiiiiiight…

Meanwhile, back in the land of reality — producing a 32 count felony indictment and conviction sheet… out of Manhattan rather definitively forecloses any claim against the New York Times for reporting that he’s a felon — for fraud in fact.

End of story. But of course, the Powerline kiddies will lap up all the nonsense that Hinderaker lays down.

Honestly, I don’t care. End of update.

I am loathe to give this any more oxygen — but the NYT is correct, and it deserves a very vibrant defense — of a free press and free speech — in America, even in the time of Trump 2.0.

That is, as we all know, the Manchurian Cantaloupe… has terrible taste in lawyers.

He (mostly) picks Liberty U. grads from the bottom quarter of the class — who know little actual law.

And of course, he himself has shown (for forty plus years!) that he doesn’t understand anything about the US legal system.

So this is all Exhibit A, for that. The Times is right about it: this is a fetid pile of dung, on paper — it is all DOA:

“…It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting” the newspaper company said. “The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics.

We will continue to pursue the facts without fear or favor and stand up for journalists’ First Amendment right to ask questions on behalf of the American people….“

He thinks he can sue because the Times has made the FACTUAL point that most of his fortune comes from fraud. [I just renewed my $240/year subscription to the paper!] As the old saying goes, “you can’t liable garbage by saying it stinks….”

He stinks. To high heaven — he may well be the only individual US citizen ever, with more than 10,000 (life-time) civil lawsuits brought against him. He is certainly the only preznit ever to be found guilty of felonies, for lying about his NY tax obligations, and his borrowing/lending representations.

Out.

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Mirengoff Clearly Thinks Only Brown And Poor People Will Be Abused — If Our Constitution Is Tossed Out The Window. In Sum, He Cares… NOT.

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Welp.

No surprise.

Mirengoff (again) thinks the Constitution’s protections are only optional “guidelines“, if one is brown, or poor — and the feds, or the local police are running lawless… sweeps.

Whatever Paul. You best hope your wife is not accidentally grabbed in one of the raids. . . at a market.

You’ve sold your… very soul.

If you ever had one.

The Government’s Response, In Nashville — To Mr. Abrego Garcia’s Charge Of Selective And Retaliatory Prosecution… Is Notable Primarily For What It Fails To Say…

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Well… I will link but not quote… both the prosecutor’s six page sworn statement — and the 35 page response to motion… from the Noemites.

Each recites a long and winding (more or less irrelevant) narrative — as neither of them actually grapples with the gravamen of the motion to dismiss (for selective prosecution). Specifically, while it may be true that Mr. Mcguire didn’t start work on this “case” until April 27, 2025 — that simply ignores that the federales brought it to him, pre-packaged — after the Supremes had told Noem that she had egregiously violated Abrego’s due process rights. It is no answer to say (as a paper-shuffling functionary) “I did not chase him”… when the rest of the federal government (under Noem / Miller / Tangerine 2.0)… did.

That is, the government utterly neglects to compare Abrego Garcia’s case… to any other, being brought in Tennessee, putatively on a three year old, only minutes-long highway traffic stop — where no tickets were issued, and which was dismissed by Tennessee state police, the same night it occurred.

Yet somehow, in mid-2025, this (and only this one local, rural Tennessee traffic stop!) became a federal felony, under Kristi Noem. Apparently, not one other case in Tennessee… has ever even remotely approached this level of vindictive prosecution, in an immigration matter — by the prosecutors’ own admission.

If this had been a run of the mill, regular immigration / gang crimes unit indictment — the Noemites would have attached a list of dozens of largely identical cases, where — on similar factual predicates — it had brought the same sort of charges. It does not — because Noem… cannot.

Nope, she clearly went after him (with extreme prejudice), when the world found out she had just kidnapped him from Maryland, and dumped him in a torture prison — without ANY process — in early Spring of 2025. That is what the law of classic selective prosecution is all about: ending these abuses.

Abrego’s lawyers should win on this clearly meritorious motion. Out.

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