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Moderna Chief Bancel Doesn’t Currently Plan To “Invest” — For New US Vaccines: Due To Tangerine 2.0 Anti-Science Stances. Ugh.

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This is wildly unfortunate — utterly avoidable; but understandable — given that RFK, Jr. is… irrationally hostile to modern mRNA vaccines. He is killing the American life-sciences… dream.

What an upside-down world it is, of late. Here are the details, via CIDRAP, then:

…Moderna chief executive officer Stephane Bancel said the company does not plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from health officials in the United States.

His comments were made last week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market,” Bancel told Bloomberg TV. He said the vaccine market in the United States is much smaller as more anti-vaccine guidelines have become the norm….

I agree, Mr. Bancel — if RFK is going to rig the US market against new vaccines, there is not enough revenue available — rest of world — to make it worthwhile, as a business. [Yep. Trump and his minions are a pack of feckless, malign idiots.] Out.

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“I Don’t Let Bullies Win”: US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., MN) — Kudos. Trump Is… A PIG.

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Tell me again, now — who is it, that encourages… violence? Making cruel jokes about serious attacks should be beneath the dignity of 1600 Penn. And it encourages others, by implication.

To be certain, she is brave. She is resolute. And she cannot be… intimidated. Per The Beeb:

…Minnesota congress- woman Ilhan Omar was attacked at an event she was hosting on Tuesday, when an audience member used a syringe to spray liquid at her, Minneapolis police said.

Omar was uninjured and continued to speak. “I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win,” she later wrote on X….

Onward, resolutely — but it seems that Trump’s comment may be “an inadvertent tell” — about his ketchup on the ear moment in Butler, PA. Heh.

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Heh. We Barely Knew Ya’ — You Pocket-Sized Goebbels, You.

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First, it was Renee Good — may she rest in power. Then several more unjustified shootings… and then… Alex Pretti. May he rest in power.

How many senseless, wanton, lawless, unjustified deaths — until this all ends? Well, it seems (once again, in small steps of progress) Greg Bovino — the cretin in charge on the ground, through all of the Minnesota Mayhem — is being run out of town, in Minneapolis. Just as eventually obtained in Chicago. And LA. Don’t let the gate smack your tiny flat butt, as you wander back to El Centro (CA), with no new assigned duties (other than desk duty).

Here’s the all the latest, from The Guardian (UK):

…Gregory Bovino, the commander of the Border Patrol, is expected to leave Minneapolis today following the weekend killing of Alex Pretti, the second civilian to be fatally gunned down in the streets by federal immigration agents this month.

Bovino, an aggressive promoter of Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, has become the public face of the administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota – and a lightning rod for criticism from Democrats and civil liberties activists.

An unnamed source told Reuters that Bovino had been stripped of his specially created title of “commander at large” of the Border Patrol….

Bit by bit. Day by day. We will reclaim… sanity. Trust that. Onward — with no new Abrego date yet scheduled.

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USDC Judges, Inundated With Habeas Cases, In MN — Are Bluntly Calling Out These Lawless ICE Tactics/Agents. And Promptly Releasing Hundreds Of Detainees. Excellent!

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ICE cannot lawfully pick up people in the street — just based on skin color, or accented English. It cannot grab people without a full judicial warrant, unless it sees (for example) a bank robbery in progress (i.e., not likely). So it is that (as was true in Chicago this summer when I was doing this same sort of appearances work) the vast majority of those grabbed are being set free, on individual habeas petitions, in and around Minneapolis.

Homan won’t change a thing. The Constitution is a constant bed-rock. If you are present on US soil, with or without papers, you may invoke its protections. Stand for your rights — always (and kudos to the many dozens of pro bono lawyers surging into Minnesota, to help out at the ACLU!). Here’s a taste of all this:

…The Trump administration’s current deportation push in Minneapolis has led to “hundreds of emergency lawsuits from immigrants targeted by ICE,” according to Politico. As a result, federal judges in the area have been “working weekends to manage the backlog and juggling a crush of individual cases….

And in all but a handful of cases, those judges have ruled that the Trump administration violated the law, sometimes flagrantly.” These cases are part of a broader wave of lawsuits over “the Trump administration’s bid to lock up nearly everyone it is targeting for deportation,” rather than only “those deemed dangerous or likely to flee.” Politico noted that the “emergency nature of the cases has so far stymied efforts to get appeals courts or the Supreme Court to weigh in on the policy….”

Onward — gratified to see the people, rising up, to protect their brothers and sisters — from a repressive megalomaniac. Out.

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Hinderaker Ignores That The Supremes Held State Laws Like MN’s Must Be Respected.

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This is a refresher for the morons in the back: by which I mean, John Hinderaker.

In Tangerine 1.0, a statute that is the nearly identical twin statute — to Minneapolis’s — that was and is in force in Illinois and in Chicago (a so-called sanctuary city ordinance), was upheld by the United States Supreme Court, 6-3, as being perfectly Constitutional, and a local law that the federal government was and is duty bound to obey, as well.

Tonight, the idiot John Hinderaker simply pretends that history does not exist. He says “almost all other” states are cooperating with these blitzkrieg operations. That is false. Texas cooperates, but it has seen no surge in activity. Parts of Louisiana cooperated when it saw a small surge. There have been surges in almost no red states / districts. And it is crystal clear that California, New York and Illinois all actively enforced their sanctuary measures. They did not cooperate — and ensuing litigation prevented Noem / Bovino from doing further harm.

So again, John lies.

He tells his followers that Trump has the right to tell the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota… That he will bring hellfire down on them, for simply complying with the constitutional law.

Surprising no one, John continues to simply lie about things that he doesn’t like.

But make no mistake — Bovino and Noem may both be headed toward contempt hearings in Minnesota or Chicago, either or both of which could lead to jail time for them.

We increasingly see Trump as a lame duck, and perhaps even a delusional one — as he loses his former grip on practically every level of government that he once enjoyed sway over.

And I am here for all of it. But I’m especially here for watching John Hinderaker be made out to be a fool — again. And again.

Out.

USDC Judge Menendez Is Absolutely… Cooking… Bovino And Noem Now.

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The best sign of the weekend is captured in my graphic, at right. Were we a just society (reflective of international opinions, at least) — that would be in the cards for Bovino, and Noem.

Until that day, though — these rulings will have to suffice. Here’s the latest, out of Minneapolis:

…To ensure that the Court has provided all parties a full opportunity to be heard on the issues raised in connection with Plaintiffs’ motion for temporary injunctive relief (Dkt. 5), the Court instructs [Noem / Bovino / Trump] Defendants to file a supplemental memorandum.

In the supplemental memorandum, Defendants shall address Plaintiffs’ assertion that the purpose of Operation Metro Surge is to punish Plaintiffs for adopting sanctuary laws and policies; coerce Plaintiffs into changing state and local law; compel Plaintiffs to direct state and local resources to facilitate information sharing to aid federal immigration enforcement; and cause Plaintiffs to direct more state and local resources towards holding immigration targets in detention for longer periods of time than otherwise allowed. (See Dkt. 60 at 9– 13; see also id. at 16–19.) The Court finds that additional briefing on this issue is necessary because it was explored most clearly in the Reply, in light of recent factual developments….

Defendants’ supplemental memorandum shall address the factual basis for Plaintiffs’ assertion and discuss their impact on the legal analysis relevant to Plaintiffs’ claims.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT Defendants shall file a supplemental brief not to exceed 3,000 words, on or before Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., addressing the issues identified….

Onward, to Nashville, tomorrow evening — resolutely.

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The US Sophistry In Nashville — Continues, Ad Nauseum… It will End, On Wednesday — In Courtroom 3D.

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To be clear, the below is from the Noemites’ own latest filing. Despite being ordered to do so by the sitting USDC trial judge, Waverly Crenshaw, the government now says… “nah, WE ourselves earlier misread the law” — so your prior order must be… wrong — and we won’t comply.

Specifically, we won’t show our witnesses’ (prior lying) statements (for cross examination purposes) to Mr. Hecker, until the moment our witness(es) take the stand for us.

Of course, this will not do — but USDC Judge Crenshaw is likely to rule at the end of the hearing that the government loses and the felony case is dismissed immediately — due to US misconduct here. Here’s the nonsense, just for a complete record:

…Previously, [AUSA] Mr. McGuire indicated to the Court that he believed that either 18 U.S.C. § 3500 (commonly known as the Jencks Act) or Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 26.2 may apply to some materials related to potential witnesses the United States expected to call at the upcoming evidentiary hearing….

Mr. McGuire’s prior statement concerning the application of the Jencks Act or Rule 26.2 to the upcoming evidentiary hearing has no bearing on the correct application of relevant federal law and does not create a right to materials that otherwise does not exist in federal law….

[T]he Court ordered the production of “documents that are relevant to the narrow issue of whether the government’s new decision to prosecute Abrego, after deciding not to do so, ‘was tainted by improper motivation’ arising from Abrego’s success in the Maryland civil case.” (DE #241, #260). Accordingly, the Court has already ordered the production of all records that would arguably qualify as Jencks for purposes of this hearing and it is not necessary for the Government to provide the defendant with a privilege log delineating the records reviewed in camera by the Court pursuant to these proceedings….

These are positively the most undeservingly high-handed — and arrogant US Attorneys I’ve ever encountered in 30 plus years. Damn. But Judge Crenshaw will fix their little red wagon, come Wednesday. See you then, boys. Out.

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Not A Word Of Hinderaker’s “Fiction” — Re The Senseless Shooting Of Mr. Alex Pretti Will Hold Water.

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Hinderaker is one dumb monkey.

Usually an irrationally vibrant Second Amendment nut, suddenly Hinderaker, when confronted with a protester with a concealed carry license in Minneapolis, who also happens to be a nurse, and who is also a federal employee… is gunned down after ICE agents lawlessly took away his firearm, wrestled him to the ground, and then (not so inadvertently) fired his own firearm into the air… so that they would have a plausible reason to shoot him to death… then claiming that he fired at them, even where all the video shows they took the gun away from him, and then the agents fired it themselves…

Well — John’s lies upon lies are… tragically comical.

Not a word of what he wrote has been backed up by any video evidence. And every bit of the available video evidence directly contradicts the story that ICE told, Bovino added ugly lies to, then Noem repeated, and Trump has greatly amplified.

This looks like another Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis case.

And John well knows it.

The tide has turned. Tangerine’s cruel ICE gambit has failed. And America is going to tell him so at the ballot box in 2026.

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“Old Age?!” No, Paul — You And John Voted For… EXACTLY This: Three Times, No Less. Sit Down.

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This merits only a few kilobytes / pixels:

Paul Mirengoff (and John and the boys) would only now tell us that Tangerine 2.0’s problem is… that he is getting “too old” for the job.

Nope. Each of you malign idiots voted for every bit of this — three times. You all saw it in his first term. He’s just saying the soft part loud(er) now.

He’s always been a lying sociopathic mobster — and a stupid one. And that’s WHY you voted for him.

But now that he very openly speaks like a toddler on crystal meth: “give me the Nobel, or I’ll invade Greenland”(!?)…

Only now, will you idiots complain that his age makes him “too (mentally) frail” to be President. [And comparison to Joe Biden is preposterous. He invaded no one, as he slowed down.]

Nope. Trump is who he always was — only more so, now.

You need to profusely, and in public, apologize to all real Americans: every bit of this lunacy is on YOUR hands.

Out.