Mr. Abrego Garcia Has Filed A “Killer” Habeas Update, Before USDC Judge Xinis In MD Overnight…

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Do go read it all — but the Trumpian/Todd Blanche lying we saw in Nashville, before USDC Judge Waverly Crenshaw (resulting in a dismissal of the purported “indictment”) was also underway, with thundering hooves, in Maryland, before the able USDC Jugde Xinis.

She will soon put an end to Blanche’s odious charade — but do consider these particularly egregious bits:

…The official whose conduct the court found initiated that “taint” was Todd Blanche — then Deputy Attorney General, now Acting Attorney General, and a named defendant here.

Blanche declared that the Government began investigating Abrego Garcia only after “a judge in Maryland ‘questioned’” the decision to remove him to El Salvador. Id. at *5. As the Tennessee court found, and the Government has failed to rebut, those statements “directly establish that the motivations for Abrego’s criminal charges stem from his exercise of his constitutional and statutory rights.” Id. The court concluded: “Blanche’s words directly confirm that the Executive Branch reopened the criminal investigation because the Judicial Branch required the Executive Branch to facilitate Abrego’s return from El Salvador….”

After the Court unsealed these papers and the Government’s assertions became public, Costa Rica confirmed its continued, unwavering, and unconditional commitment to accepting Abrego Garcia. ECF No. 110 at 14; ECF No. 108 at 1. That was the third foreign state to undermine the Government’s representations to this Court. ECF No. 110 at 14. At a November 20 hearing, the Government produced the declarant who had signed the submission claiming Costa Rica would not accept Abrego Garcia. He testified that he had no knowledge of Costa Rica’s position and could not explain the contents of his own declaration — ignorance the Court described as “planned and purposeful.” Id. at 13–14 (quoting ECF No. 107 at 26:8–27:12). Ultimately, the Court concluded that the Government had “affirmatively misled” the Court about Costa Rica’s willingness to accept Abrego Garcia….

Ahem. It seems this is all just “the worst of the worst“… doing their collective… worst. But soon, Abrego will be a free man (and paid box-car damages), either here in the States, or in Costa Rica — for this shocking misuse of governmental powers. Onward.

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Meanwhile, Tangerine Intends To Force US Citizens In DRC & Uganda Who Contract Ebola… Into Kenyan (As-Yet-Unbuilt) Facilities, For Treatment?!

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The US has already built, long vetted and fully-staffed, various highly specialized treatment facilities — for just these sorts of outbreaks. We used them in the 2012-14 outbreak, for physicians and nurses who fell ill, while working for Doctors Without Borders in DRC, Uganda and Liberia.

But we all remember, from Trump 1.0, this guy is well-known as a largely-irrational germ-a-phobe. So he is “constructing” a holding pen, essentially, in Kenya. [We also know, however, after 13 outbreaks, globally — that the Ebola virus is very likely transmitted only by close contact with blood or bodily fluids, from an acutely suffering (or already dead) viral host.] Certainly, American diplomats and doctors deserve better — from the government, they serve — than this:

…The American Foreign Service Association on Wednesday urged the State Department to authorize the departure of U.S. diplomats and family members from Congo, Uganda and South Sudan because of Ebola concerns.

The union in a statement cited reports about the Kenya facility, calling it a “stark departure from how every previous administration has handled Ebola exposure.”

“Foreign Service employees are there because the U.S. government sent them. They are entitled to the same standard of care that has always applied, including the right to come home,” the union said….

Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for National and Global Health Law and a professor of global health law at Georgetown University, said it’s “unprecedented” to quarantine Americans overseas without bringing them home.

“I think it’s potentially a life sentence for Americans,” Gostin said.

He noted that during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, two nurses at a Texas hospital who became infected while treating a patient were transferred to other specialized facilities, including the National Institutes of Health….

Onward, resolutely just the same.

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Over 535 Cases Of Mpox Clade 1b In The US This Year — With A New Cluster Of 5 — In Wisconsin…

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Do recall that a carefully reviewed study we mentioned about ten days ago points to the inference that something like 32 of each 33 cases in the US remain “hidden” — that is, undiagnosed as the sufferer does not seek treatment. And each of those may well infect… others.

In any event, here is the latest — from the Wisconsin public health authorities:

…The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) confirmed five mpox cases in the state this year, with a cluster identified in southeastern Wisconsin and cases in northern Wisconsin.

Although mpox has been circulating at low levels since 2022, DHS says current surveillance data show an uptick of infections nationwide in recent weeks. As of May 3, 535 cases have been confirmed across the United States….

Now you know. We’re headed to the Math Academy, and then park-play — with the grand-nieces tonight… may grill some lemon infused brats, for them as well (their favorite!)… then we’ll walk to get some Cold-Stone ice cream blends, after all that, at around sunset… smile. Almost-end of school year fun.

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I Was Wrong: Not $75K Bitcoin. Likely Sub-$73K, By Friday…

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This is hilarious.

It seems that most of the prediction narratives — for this coming week’s end (on Friday morning US time) were all too optimistic — relative to a quadruple witching hour that will befall Bitcoin derivatives in about 28 hours.

…[A] $2,000 plunge below… $75,000 remains a real risk [Ed. Note: now a realized FACT] heading into the May 29 settlement….

Tim Sun, senior researcher at HashKey Group, told CoinDesk “The bigger problem, is macro: investors are de-risking as long-term yields rise, oil and inflation risks remain in focus, and there is currently no compelling reason for new capital to enter the market….

Disclosure: I hold long dated out of the money puts on stocks that trade in tandem with Bitcoin, so I enjoy the down-bubbles in BTC. G’night, all of good will… smile.

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The SPLC Has Moved To Dismiss The Purely Political, And Thus Vindictive US DoJ “Indictment”. It Will End This Malign Idiocy.

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It may take a few months, but this is highly likely to result in a dismissal. [My prior backgrounder here.]

The entire process was fundamentally flawed — infected with impermissible political biases (masquerading as supposed misdemeanor violations of law, at best), and makes entirely false claims about the organization’s workings — and whether the same is… lawful (as will be established in discovery, should we get that far). Here’s the well-reasoned motion to dismiss — and a bit of it:

…President Trump [made false and defamatory statements about the SPLC].. on April 24, 2026, three days after an indictment was unsealed against the Southern Poverty Law Center (“the SPLC”), [in] the latest manifestation of a top-down, retributive campaign in which he directed his Justice Department to go after those individuals and groups he deemed his political enemies, including the SPLC.

To carry out the President’s directive, others in the Administration targeted the SPLC, which now faces criminal charges for exercising its First Amendment right to identify, report on, and criticize extremist hate groups. The Administration has falsely accused the SPLC of being “anti-Christian,” of aiding the Biden Administration’s “weaponization” of the Department of Justice, of participating in political violence, and, most recently, of helping to “rig” the 2020 election against President Donald Trump… These examples of this Administration’s animus over the past year culminated in the criminal charges against the SPLC — an indictment premised on conclusory accusations but devoid of provable facts or a proper statement of the law. . . .

[Trump] publicly proclaimed the improper political motive behind the case, branding the SPLC a “Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue and many others” and claimed that when the allegations are proven “the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect!” President Trump doubled down on these farcical claims on a nationally televised 60 Minutes interview a few days later. He falsely proclaimed that the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia “was all funded by the Southern [Poverty] Law [Center].” President Trump asserted that the SPLC had funded this “total fake” event “to make me look bad….”

But he said — of the very same “Unite the Right” rally, in real time — that there “were very fine people on all sides.”

That scarcely sounds like he ever thought it was a false-flag operation. What a lying putz. This indictment will end just as the ones against Jim Comey have — and Mr. Abrego Garcia, as well: dumped out of court, for lies — by the US DoJ.

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UPDATE: NASA’s Ultra High Altitude “Zero Pressure” Balloon Instruments Have Been Recovered, Near McMurdo Station — On The Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica…

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We now have seen news that the team has recovered the payloads, from late last year — on the ice shelf at the bottom of the world.

Here’s that, from NASA and NSF:

…The first of NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers missions to launch, PUEO took off Dec. 20, 2025, from NASA’s Long Duration Balloon Facility near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and flew for 23 days before landing approximately 120 miles (200 km) from the South Pole. The full payload has been recovered, including the data drives. The PUEO team is currently analyzing the data collected—an undertaking that may take up to a year due to the complex nature of the task….

To improve sensitivity to extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays and potentially neutrinos, PUEO incorporated a new low-frequency instrument that deployed once the payload reached float altitude (it would have been much too large to fit in the allowable launch volume in its flight configuration). This new low-frequency instrument incorporated antennas that are sensitive down to 50 MHz, and extended PUEOs sensitivity to air showers….

Now you know. All as the Russians are spacewalking on NASA+, live at the ISS this late morning. Onward, grinning.

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As Uganda (Unwisely) Shuts Its Formal, Monitored Borders With DRC — Known Cases Rise, To Well Over 1,000 Afflicted With Bundibugyo Ebola… And Over 220 Deaths.

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Overnight, the Ugandan government has closed its borders to DRC travelers. The nation has cut off overland crossings, and will not accept air-travel from DRC. This, as well over 1,000 are now ill in this the thirteenth Ebola outbreak in Africa — and well over 252 are considered fatalities from it.

Yes, this is what Elon’s — and Donald’s — handiwork looks like, as it comes to ripened fruition — about a year later. Here is the latest, from Vox (news summary and analysis):

…Shortly after brandishing his infamous chainsaw on a conservative conference stage last February, Elon Musk attended a Cabinet meeting where, giggling slyly, he admitted to having “accidentally canceled” Ebola prevention in his haste to obliterate the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

“We restored the Ebola prevention immediately,” he added coolly at the time, “and there was no interruption.” That claim has since proven to be disastrously, profoundly untrue.

On May 17, the World Health Organization declared a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern….”

[For its part, the WHO strongly disfavors closed borders. Here’s that:] “No country should close its borders or place any restrictions on travel and trade. Such measures are usually implemented out of fear and have no basis in science,” the World Health Organization said in its declaration of this outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern, while acknowledging that neighboring countries are at high risk.

The WHO added: “They push the movement of people and goods to informal border crossings that are not monitored, thus increasing the chances of the spread of disease.”

It said infected people or those who have been in contact with them should not undertake international travel unless it’s a medical evacuation….

What a supremely unscientific — and evil — cabal these folks represent. Damn. Time for a sunny warm ride by the glassy lake, I guess… smile.

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In At Least One Case, Hinderaker Is Dead Wrong.

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Tonight John claims that most of the opposition to vast AI data centers is coming from well organized communist China.

I don’t know chapter and verse about all of these initiatives, but I have followed one in particular — very closely — over the last five years.

Without any doubt, the opposition to the very large AI center proposed for Corsicana, Texas, in dusty, hot rural West Texas — being built by Riot Platforms… has encountered spirited local opposition, which has been repeatedly documented in the Dallas newspapers. That spirited opposition is absolutely, positively, local homegrown, American political action against both environmental and moral debauchery.

Five years of well sourced Dallas morning news stories lay out all of this.

So it is again, Hinderaker is caught in lies, the likes of which he’s not even smart enough to make sound plausible.

To be sure, this is how it is (again) — with almost all things MAGA.

Out.

Who On Earth ARE These… Awful Reprobates — This Is Some 1980-85 “Ronald Reagan-Level” Suppression, Of Targeted Public Health Information…

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This is so… deplorable — and yet, so… unsurprising: Trump’s G*d Squadders are removing US CDC public health web-explainers — ones that were aimed at helping the higher risk communities stay safe, in the time of Clade 1b Mpox.

Damn these evil, and malign false x-tains. This is unscientific, unsafe — and perhaps most of all — means all taxpayers will foot larger public health bills, for people who come down with severe Mpox Clade 1b. Insane — but here is LGBTQNation, on it all tonight:

…The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed a page from its website that featured guidance on how to avoid contracting mpox that spoke implicitly to the LGBTQ+ community….

The removal has sparked outrage among public health experts and LGBTQ+ advocates, who say the page was deleted for political reasons and represents a further erosion of trust in public health information under the Trump administration, particularly in the LGBTQ+ community….

What a disgusting crew of small, bitter, and clearly… evil people, these are. Out.

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Encouraging Bundibugyo / Ebola Vaccine Candidate News, Out Of Oxford University… While I Think Moderna Is A Few Steps Ahead Here, Already…

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Both the Moderna and Oxford / Astra approach rely on mRNA vaccine tech, which proved both safe and effective in COVID-19. For its part, Oxford is today saying it will start animal models shortly, but since Moderna has been working on it since 2023, I am given to understand that their animal models already turned out well — showed no safety signal.

So I think Moderna may already in Phase I/II in humans. That’s about a year ahead of Oxford, if accurate. Either way, it is very good news that the “bigs” are targeting a Bundibugyo species with an mRNA vaccine candidate. This is the wave of the future — for both speed and reliability, in very large scale production. The mRNA approach need not rely on growing up a live virus, in an egg proteins culture, which is — at scale — as hard as making a perfectly rising soufflé. So mRNA just isolates a dead section of the virus genetic code, and replicates it over and over, to cause a human anti-body response, when the purified version is injected. Here’s the Oxford news, in any event:

…Production of an experimental Ebola vaccine from the developers of a Covid-19 shot is expected to begin soon, with animal studies underway as researchers race to bring a much-needed tool to the spiraling outbreak….

Clinical trials for the shot could begin in two to three months, said Teresa Lambe, head of vaccine immunology, at the University of Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute. “We are cautiously optimistic around that timing,” she said at a briefing. Animal studies, which are required for a vaccine to be tested in humans, have begun and more will get underway soon….

The more shots on goal… the better, me thinks! Onward, smiling in the hazy heat here.

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