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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“El Condor, Pasa”: Travel Well, And Travel Light… Mr. Redford. [He Was The Original “Condor”.]

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He [was] the Condor. It is a very fine movie — Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway — directed by Sidney Pollack; in a Dino De Laurentis picture (from the novel Six Days of the Condor, by James Grady). … Just click on the video, above — or, better yet, go rent the movie. You won’t regret it. I promise.

“Boy! — What is it with you people? Do you think not getting caught in a lie, is the same thing as telling the TRUTH?… Do you?“

That one line, from the closing [at 2:20, on the counter], above, sums up my whole mission, here.

Do fly well, you Sundance founder — and former Colorado Buff, you….

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“Let’s Roll The Tape” Shall We?: Kirk Said It, Hinderaker!

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Tonight, Hinderaker tries to cover up the FACT that Charlie Kirk said Michelle Obama (and others) “didn’t have the intellectual horsepower” to achieve as a law firm senior partner — or First Lady. That she used the crutch of DEI.

Hey John-John… see about 30 seconds into this YouTube clip.

Are you claiming the below is a “deep fake”?! Please enlighten us. He does ALSO say that the ladies have said it “about themselves” — then Kirk adds the “horsepower” metaphor.

Again — John & Charlie: telling their shared racists’ lies.

See below:



Out.

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“Out Of The Mouths Of Babes”: Mirengoff Edition. On Red State Crime Rates…

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So — Paul (I guess?) set out (lamely) to defend what Tangerine 2.0 is doing — by federalizing certain city police efforts (almost exclusively in blue states). But he… failed.

His comes down to… “who cares what the US Constitution provides?” Who cares that we specifically overthrew martial law, in 1776? Who cares?! “Crime might go down by shooting people on sight…” too, bro. Um… Cool story, bro.

Here is the truth Mirengoff tries to hide, but cannot — from his own keyboard:

…[An independent, non-partisan] analysis found that even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12 percent higher than in Biden-voting states during the past 21 years, and were higher in 18 of those years….

And… just now (this past weekend), Trump sez he will roll the National Guard into Memphis [a Red State (Tennessee), with a few blue cities, like Memphis, there]. But Paul DOES NOT cite it. We know why. Two clearly obvious reasons:

(1) Nashville also in Tennessee has a similar crime rate. But Trump won’t roll into Nashville, because the Red Governor won’t allow it — there would be huge protests — a bad look, for a Red State, against Manchurian Cantaloupe. And. . . .

(2) Name even one city — in any red or blue state — that Trump has rolled into… that DID NOT have a Black Mayor.

I’ll wait… Yep — Nashville has a Whyte Mayor. Game over, for Tangerine.

Nope — this is all about trying to delegitimize Black self-rule. Seriously — it cannot be done; not like this. But he will try to boil the ocean with his Zippo lighter.

And Paul knows it.

KKK Trump knows it too. Disgusting.

Out.

In Probationaries’ Firings Class Action: Final Judgment From The Capable USDC Judge Alsup, In SF…

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The plaintiffs won out — got summary judgment in their favor, in almost all respects.

Now the final order is entered — and of course, it has been appealed by Tangerine. So we wait now for the Ninth Circuit to weigh in:

…Final judgment is hereby entered against Defendants and in favor of Plaintiffs to the extent stated in the summary judgment order (but otherwise denied).

Final injunctive relief was ordered against all Relief Defendants except, as set out in the summary judgment order, the Department of State, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, and these three agencies’ respective agency heads in their official capacities.

The Court retains jurisdiction to enforce the final injunction and to award ancillary relief.

The Clerk shall close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED

/s/ WILLIAM ALSUP | UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
San Francisco, California | September 13, 2025….

Now you know. Onward, resolutely.

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There Is No “Trend” Of “Only Radical Left” Violence. None. Trump And Bannon And Hinderaker And Mirengoff And Candace Owens Are… Liars.

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So, okay — they haven’t even held the memorial for Mr. Kirk yet. And yet, these lies (spread far and wide) cannot be left unchallenged. These are outright willful, knowing fabrications, from the far right. These odious loons ask us to disbelieve our own eyes. And ears. [Hinderaker’s unctous belchings are here; Mirengoff’s are here — and these Facebook videos contain Owens’.]

Yes, this was horrific. But as ever, Trump relies on his “instant outrage cycles” — to make his base forget about… all other rational thoughts — and lived experiences. [Do recall that multiple Democratic Minn. state legislators, including the maority leader — were gunned down just in June 2025. Their spouses were shot as well. Two dead, three injured in a very well-planned multi-stop assassination run. The shooter was plainly pro-MAGA; and ex-military. But Trump will never cop to ANY of that.]

The Economist, on the other hand (unlike Trump’s DoJ), has collected an impressive array of independent studies. All fairly recent. All backing the same conclusion — either the violence is about equally distributed among left- and right-… or it tips slightly toward more violence (if non-lethal) coming from the far right.

Do read it all, in The Economist ($$, subs. req.)

…President Donald Trump, who has himself been the target of gunmen, pinned the blame on rhetoric from the “radical left”. Assessing political violence in America is inherently subjective: analysts must determine which forms of violence count as political and assign ideological labels to attackers or victims. But the studies and datasets available… largely suggest that the killing of Mr. Kirk is not representative of broader trends….

Based on the best available evidence, right-wing political actors appear to commit more of the modern political violence in the U.S., and their acts tend to be more lethal, compared with left-wing actors. That doesn’t mean the left never commits political violence — there are cases — but in aggregate, frequency and severity are higher on the right in many recent datasets….

And that is all before we look carefully… at the events of January 6, 2021.

That was a thousands-strong far right insurrection mob, attacking police — and our Capitol, itself. Thwarting the peaceful transfer of power.

Trump cannot pardon or commute away… what we all saw — and what was captured on video-tape, and admitted into evidence in hundreds of felony trials. He cannot erase history, try as he might. Out — I wish only a peaceful memorial for the Kirk family (including toddlers). But after that, we will put the lie to all she too spouts. [She may well be the more violent hard right frother of that couple, indeed.]

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In The Guatemalan Teens’ Putative Federal Class Action Suit, Noem / Miller / Rubio And Tangerine Are Reminded: “Don’t Try To Move (Or Remove) Any Guatemalan Teen [Or Toddler]”.

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It is… unfortunate, that federal trial court judges now feel the need to re-iterate injunctive orders, when new judges are assigned — but that is the case, with this version of the federal government — as its “new normal” is to violate clearly applicable orders they don’t like, and then feign ignorance. Or claim they saw “ambiguities”.

So, on a Saturday — likely while watching college football weekend two unfold, the able USDC Judge Timothy Kelly in DC took time to RE-ENTER the standing TRO, and make it even clearer to the Noemites, thus:

…MINUTE ORDER:

The judge handling this case on an emergency basis, in response to rapidly unfolding circumstances, entered a temporary restraining order on August 31, 2025, at 12:37 p.m. that ordered Defendants not to “transfer, repatriate, remove, or otherwise facilitate the transport of any Plaintiff or member of the putative class from the United States.” The case was not assigned to this Court until a few days later.

Since then, including during the hearing on September 10, the factual record, the representations of the parties, and the relief requested by the Plaintiffs have continued to evolve.

Thus, to allow the Court to fully consider these developments, the Court finds that “good cause,” see Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b)(2), supports a brief extension of the temporary restraining order entered on August 31, 2025, at 12:37 p.m. Thus, it is hereby ORDERED that the temporary restraining order entered on August 31, 2025, at 12:37 p.m. is hereby EXTENDED through September 16, 2025.

Defendants remain under the same obligations until that time. To be clear: it is ORDERED that Defendants “shall not transfer, repatriate, remove, or otherwise facilitate the transport of any Plaintiff or member of the putative class from the United States” until after 11:59 p.m. on September 16, 2025, absent further order of the Court.

Signed by Judge Timothy J. Kelly on 9/13/2025….

No you know — onward, to likely watch the Bears lose(?) (yet again) to the Detroit Kitties. Grin….

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Good News For Liberians: The Turkish Boat / Traveler Who Died At Sea… Was NOT An Ebola Or Marburg Case…

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From 2014 through 2016, Liberia endured a rather severe outbreak of the dread Ebola virus. And now, with DRC reporting exploding case numbers, public health officials in many African nations are once again… “on edge“.

While there is an effective vaccine (Merck/New Link) — even this time around — peoples’ travel is largely unmonitored inside central Africa, for migratory work. So, a “hot-spot” anywhere can become a hot-spot in another country — often before the first spot is even… definitively identifed. Here’s the latest, from on the ground reporting, in Monrovia, Liberia:

…According to the Nimba County Health Team, the Turkish national, whose identity has not yet been disclosed, was a crew member who reportedly died suddenly at sea near Maryland County….

Those quarantined include workers at Gompa Funeral Home, passengers in the taxi that transported the body, and the funeral home’s owner, David Mulbeh. Military officers from the Gbarnga Regional Hub were deployed in Ganta to enforce compliance and prevent any possible spread of infection. Specimens from the deceased were subsequently sent to Monrovia for laboratory analysis….

“To date (10th September 2025 at 21:00 Hrs GMT), all specimens received and tested by the molecular PCR method at the National Reference Laboratory of the NPHIL have demonstrated ‘NEGATIVE’ for Ebola and Marburg. This NEGATIVE-TEST RESULT thereby rules out any of the indicated VHF infections in said biological specimens,” said NPHIL Director General, Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan….

Yes — we are sorely in need of some good news. And so, this will do — for today. Onward, resolutely.

[As an aside — did Charlie Kirk’s widow imagine instagramming from inside his open casket — showing his now waxy hands — and the tie he’s being buried in… was somehow akin to Mamie Till-Mobley having the world photograph and publish Emmett Till’s battered body, after being lynched?!

I am at a loss for words, here. I respect Mrs. Kirk’s need to grieve in her own way… but inside the casket?! Really? Her toddlers will now grow up, and this viral public footage will be recycled, endlessly… in their faces — by mostly-unkind people. What on Earth?! I’m baffled. Utterly… baffled.]

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A Much-Later Epilogue — On Chagas. We Covered The Travails, In The Early-Teens… Of Shkreli’s Attempt To Control, And Profit — From An[other] Old Drug.

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To be certain, the one known leading treatment for Chagas has seen a tortured 25 year history. The “tortured” aspect of the story was courtesy of Martin Shkreli’s end-games as he was flailing — and flaming out — in what turned out to be the last of his federal securities fraud schemes. He violated ownership disclosure rules to take control of a small company and then tried to wrest control of the drug from a non-profit. It had been made, nearly free, in Central and South America for decades at that point.

Then he went to jail, that company filed Chapter 11, and the drug-rights bounced around for the better part of 15 years. Even so, it is no cure. It is (at best) a 50-50 shot. [As an aside (and why I noticed this item), I worked in the 1990s for a brilliant scientist that discovered a better “cure” — but it never made it to market, because it turns out that it is wildly expensive to produce, and the eight million or so sufferers are almost all nearly indigent, and mostly live in geographies with not much in the way of public health funding. So the rights to make it sit, in an Indiana Jones-like virtual warehouse, somewhere — to this day.]

But it caught my eye that The UK Guardian has a story — on the possibility that the Governors in the Southern US, Florida, Texas and Louisiana, particularly… might be able to convince Tangerine 2.0 that Chagas ought to be treaed as an endemic disease (at least in the Southern US), and then far more affluent communities could be tapped for treatment — and reimbursements. Here’s that story, on this soggy, cool and rainy Saturday morning:

…Dr. Norman Beatty, who has studied the kissing bugs, said that like Valerie and Luna, most people in the US have not heard of Chagas, even though it is not just present south of the border but within the country….

[A]bout 20 to 30% of people infected can develop chronic issues later in life such as an enlarged heart and heart failure, or an enlarged esophagus or colon, leading to trouble eating or going to the bathroom… [a]bout 8 million people, including 280,000 in the United States, have the disease, according to the CDC….

The goal is to “detect early and treat early to avoid the chronic, often permanent damage that can occur”, Beatty explained.

The treatment took two months, during which Luna experienced side effects like hives and severe swelling in her hands and feet, she said.

While she is finished with the treatment, there is no definitive test to determine whether such patients will develop chronic Chagas symptoms, but it’s less likely, Beatty said.

“I hope the CDC takes it seriously,” Valerie said, “and that we can move forward and have good awareness, so that people want to be tested and get tested and get the treatment they need….”

Now you know — but I may ring up some of the science staff at that former employer, to alert them, that they still hold what might be very valuable rights to a new small molecule treatment. We shall see. But this could be a silver lining — from DeSantis’ and Abbott’s closeness to Tangerine — since it impacts their states pretty severely now (and yes, that’s a separate climate change story). Onward.

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Likely Ebola Cases In DRC Balloon To 68; Funeral Attendances In Part To Blame…

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This is discouraging news. The number of suspected cases has increased three-fold — in a week’s time.

To be sure, this is in part a delay in counting, since it took a week for the virus to bloom out, after the highly viral-loaded funerals for the first victims were held — all before the local people knew the victims had died of Ebola, and not any ordinary flu. Here’s the latest, from CIDRAP:

…As outbreak responders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to gauge the scope of a recently declared Ebola outbreak in Kasai province, 68 suspected cases have now been identified, 20 of them confirmed by lab tests, Ngashi Ngongo, MD, PhD, MPH, who leads incident management for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said today during a weekly health emergencies briefing.

The initial cases were reported from two health zones, mainly in Bulape but also in Mweka. Ngongo said suspected cases are now reported in two more health districts, Mushenge and Dekese….

Ngongo said the suspected cases include several people who died before the Ebola outbreak was identified. He added that many people attended their funerals, some traveling from other health zones, and may have been exposed to the virus….

Now you know. Off-grid for rest of a sunny morning — and the claim is that Kirk’s assassin is now in custody. We shall see.

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