Whom Does The Dolt Hinderaker Imagine Might Control… The White House, And Both Chambers Of The Congress? Whom?!

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This is just so, so precious.

John tonight has read that LAX was closed for part of the day — enduring a ground stop — due to TRUMP failing to pay the salaries of the Air Traffic Controllers — and consequently, not enough of these “forced labor” professionals were willing to show up for an undesireable Sunday shift, entirely pro bono.

Hilarious — John seems unaware that it was HIS PARTY that engineered, and then effectively voted FOR a shutdown. One ordered by Trump himself. The GOP needs at least seven Democrats — i.e., needs to offer at least a few compromises… in order to end the shut-down.

But make no mistake: this is Trump’s shutdown. He could tell the GOP in Congress to return to work — and order that they add a provision that continues funding for Obamacare through year end 2027… and the shut-down could be over tonight.

But he will not meet with, or compromise with… any Democratic delegation.

So — in a very real sense — this is Hinderaker’s OWN shutdown.

And all of a sudden — realizing he may not be able to fly the friendly skies as freely… he lashes out to blame everyone — but himself.

He continually voted for these MAGA clowns.

Own it — you shriveled up, old pussy, you.

Own it.

No Surprise. Noemites Stone-Walling — Again, In Long-Running Ms. L. Class Action In LA: About Info On “Missing Undocumented Children”. Children?!? Damn.

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It does not take a law degree (or even any trade school / law enforcement course-work) to know, as a self-evident truth — that kidnapping, and then hiding children, keeping them away from loving parents or other guardians (regardless of papers)… IS WRONG.

But in two class action cases: one in San Diego (Flores — ever since 1985) and one in LA (Ms. L. — since 2018)… this is what both senior- and low level- federal law officers / employees are doing. In our names.

They are taking children — and keeping them away from their families of origin (in direct violation of numerous federal statutes and appellate court orders — from the Ninth Circuit). And they are refusing to even provide information on the whereabouts of these… yes, I’ll say it: kidnapped kids. [When you take any child inside the US, by unlawful means… that is kidnapping, in the US — and class counsel is allowed to meet with, and represent them. But the able class counsel must first *find* them, in the byzanntine federal detention systems.] Dammit — here’s the latest:

…Plaintiffs respectfully request a Court order for Defendants to provide necessary information as to detained Class Members and qualifying additional family members.

Plaintiffs have repeatedly asked Defendants in recent weeks for information about seven class members or qualifying additional family members (“QAFMs”) that are in immigration detention:

➣ E.A.P.P., 1 a QAFM with valid parole;

➣ M.I.L., a class member separated child with valid parole;

➣ A.G.L.D., a class member separated child with a parole-in-place application pending;

➣ A.R.A., a QAFM with a parole-in-place application pending;

➣ Y.R.B.I., a QAFM with valid parole;

➣ E.L.T., a class member separated child; and

➣ F.A.M.C., a class member separated child with a re-parole application pending. . . .

Plaintiffs have also learned from advocates that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) has instructed a family of class members and QAFMS to buy plane tickets and self-deport. This family includes:

➣ Y.M.M.C., a class member separated child with valid parole;

➣ F.I.C.C, a QAFM with valid parole;

➣ A.E.M.C., a 16-year old QAFM;

➣ M.L.M.C., a 10-year old QAFM; and

➣ L.Y.M.C., a United States citizen child. [What the actual HELL?!?!?]

Plaintiffs’ counsel has repeatedly asked Defendants to confirm whether ICE officers have instructed this family to self-deport and have asked that ICE cease issuing such instructions. Defendants have not provided any substantive response….

Again, in the 2016 national election cycle, HRC (clearly!) was not wrong — to call these people — almost to a person — “deplorables”. They prove it accurate — day by awful day. Onward resolutely, just the same.

But who on Earth thinks this is worthwhile — as public policy / field of employment? The politco / true beleivers are beyond redemption — but… at BP, and ICE, and DHS… there are lower level line workers. I get that these line level workers need paychecks (likely to support their own families) — but at what cost to their sense of humanity — of self-worth?

Damn. RE-think your lives — get another job (ANY other job!)… detaining tons of “missing children” — and then actively obscuring their whereabouts… That is… yup… deplorable. Out.

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CVS Applies Its System-Wide Pricing Clout / Muscle — To Try To Drop Gilead’s Yeztugo® (Lenacapavir) US List Prices… Is That… Cricket?

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While it is true that the new bio-therapy can be sourced in parts of the still-developing world for $40/year while it lists for $28,000/year in the US… that doesn’t really tell the whole story.

Gilead has authorized generic companies (primarily out of India — think Dr. Reddy’s, here), by license, to manufacture it — and sell it — but at an overall loss per patient — for Gilead. It is simply not true that the new HIV med called Yeztugo® (lenacapavir) can be made today for under $40 per year of dosing. [Not for many years, yet — into teh future, perhaps a decade on — until all the cap ex to build out the plants has been recovered.]

Thus in some ways, the CVS CMO’s position (and rhetoric) is… dishonest. She clearly knows what it takes to bring a new class of therapy on this scale (in a high burden disease) to market. And she well knows that it is humanitarian instincts that lead to developing world loss-leader pricing of $40 a year (which is still out of reach for much of those local populations) — and that the involved companies are taking a real loss on it, to help humanitarian efforts in Africa, parts of India, Southeast Asia and Central and South America — among other geographies.

And so, CVS as an entity is presently resisting pressure — from AIDS patient activist groups, here in the US, to like-wise help absorb / cover some of the financial losses — and list Gilead’s Yeztugo at well-under the $28,000 retail quoted price. She may genuinely believe — as many do — that $28,000 is too much (allows for too rapid a recovery of invested cap ex at Gilead), but this sort of passing the buck… is essentially a form of unseemly attempted profiteering — inside CVS. Blame-shifting helps… no one, least of all the patients in need of these therapies. And yes, there are now several alternatives on market in the US — but mostly, this is proof of our broken, fragmented non-system for health care delivery in the US.

In any event, here’s the latest:

…CVS Health has not added Yeztugo to its list of recommended PrEP therapies, but the company will cover alternatives, according to Gourdine.

“In increasingly crowded therapy classes of highly effective options, a generics-first policy remains the best approach for affordability and, by extension, health outcomes,” Guardine wrote. “We will continue to urge Gilead to lower the U.S. price for Yeztugo.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September issued guidelines allowing twice-a-year injections for Yeztugo, and found near 100 percent effectiveness in trials for patients remaining HIV negative. Gilead has touted the drug as a major medical advance….

Now you know — and I’ll leave for another day… a discussion of the possibility — of an antitrust complaint — (by Gilead) about a powerful distributor (CVS) trying to control retail prices, at a manufacturer (also, Gilead). Smile. Now… onward, grinning, with my eldest flying back in, from Istanbul, tomorrow. Woot!

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Trumpy (Still) Has A Mad-On, Re Canada. Y A W N.

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So, even though the Ontario Premier / honcho (and conservative — somewhat in the style of Trump), one Mr. Doug Ford — has agreed to suspend the running of the TRUTHFUL Reagan TV ad — in order to ease tensions and improve Canada’s trade negotiation position. . .

Tangerine 2.0 — this afternoon — announced a new 10% tariff on specified Canadian goods. As ever, we will have to wait and see if he actually tries to enforce such a tariff — because approximately 80% of all the tariffs he has announced have never gone into effect. His brand is simply… trade chaos.

Here is the latest — out of Detroit:

…President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.

The ad used the words of former President Ronald Reagan to criticize U.S. tariffs, angering Trump who said he would end trade talks with Canada. Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford said he would pull the ad after the weekend, and it ran Friday night during the first game of the World Series….

Trump is a sad… small clown, on a very big stage. There really is no other way to see this. As a reminder, heres the truthful ad:

Once again, Trump is trying to suppress free expression — solely because it expresses a truth he doesn’t like. Buckle up, buttercup.

Out.

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We Rarely Note FDA Product Recalls, But This Is A High Impact Generic — Millions Of Americans Take It, Daily — For High Cholesterol. So Do Check Your Vials.

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We return to a minor power alley item, on this sunny Fall Saturday morning, here:

Please check with all your senior / known high cholesterol relatives who might be on statins… and screen the bottles in the home — if they are taking the cheaper generics, of any brand. Better always, to be safe here, now — than… sorry, later, right? Right.

Here is one of dozens of stories on the recall, this morning (but very few are printing the specific lots involved):

…[Hundreds of] thousands of bottles of a popular and widely used cholesterol drug are being voluntarily recalled for “failed dissolution specifications,” which suggests the drugs did not properly dissolve at a standard rate and could lead to a reduction in the drug’s effectiveness.

According to an enforcement report from the Food and Drug Administration, 141,984 bottles of Atorvastatin Calcium Tablet — a generic for Lipitor — which were manufactured by Alkem Laboratories, were recalled by distributor Ascend Laboratories on Sept. 19.

On Oct 10, the recall was classified as a “Class II,” which means the product “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences….”

If you are on any generic version of Pfizer’s Lipitor® (or any statin — if you are uncertain), do check your lot numbers — against this grid in the image at upper right.

Namaste — and onward, smiling — still never taking any prescription medicine of any kind. [And, knock on wood — I will never need to. Exercise, and lucky genetics — life-long. My primary care guy says I’m the only patient (at my age) he sees who is on zero meds, of any kind. Hilarious!]

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No, Paul — The Phrase You Were Looking For Is Not “A Scandal” — It Is “Dozens of NEW Felonies”…

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Mirengoff is fearful of offending the Manchurian Cantaloupe.

We all know this.

But self-paying a $230 million “settlement“, without ever even filing a lawsuit — from the federal taxpayers’ coffers, to himself personally… is not a (potential) “scandal“.

It would be about 75 new felonies.

Do at least try to keep up, Paul.

But we both do agree that Tangerine 2.0’s decorating / remodeling tastes run toward the nouveau riche / cliché of gaudiness, without any lasting allure: “…Frankly, I think all the gold leaf at the White House makes it look less American and more like a French whore house….”

Yup — agree 💯. So there’s that.

Out.

Chicago BP Commander Gregory Bovino Must Appear In Person Before USDC Judge Ellis, On Tuesday. He May Only Leave In Cuffs, To Detention (For 48 Hours Or So).

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The supremely able USDC Judge Sara L. Ellis will question him, under oath.

Forget his coming five hour deposition (by opposing counsel) — this will feel like a week-long nightmare. She’s gonna’ find out (based on his answers, under oath) whether he ought to be held in contempt — and jailed for a day or two — to shake some sense into him — related to his dangerous and idiotic stunt (at right).

It plainly violated an in-force TRO — her TRO, more precisely — and one of his own lawyers had almost certainly read that TRO to him (as is the duty of government lawyers in such matters, under Chicago’s local rules), all just a few days earlier. Check it out:

…TEXT ORDER.

The Court sets a status hearing for 10/28/2025 at 10:00 AM.

The Court orders Defendants to produce Defendant Gregory Bovino, in person, for this hearing.

Signed by the Honorable Sara L. Ellis on 10/24/2025…

Bovino is about to meet… the sharp end of the federal court’s civil contempt spear, here in the City of Big Shoulders — on the 14th Floor of the majestic Dirksen Building, downtown — Tuesday afternoon. I may pop over for all of it. Excellent.

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As We Said — Nov. 4, In Nashville… Is Gonna’ Be A Banger, For Mr. Abrego Garcia’s Side — And The Side… Of Regular Due Process, Of Law.

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Be unafraid. Be… resolute.

That is the central message, here. The federal courts are bringing these rogue agents… to heel. Here’s Mr. Hecker’s latest eight page scorcher, in Music City — of this morning (and a bit):

…The government’s attempt to circumvent this Court’s previous order should be rejected. If it will not produce appropriate discovery, then the case must be dismissed.

The Court held “that there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution against [Mr. Abrego] may be vindictive,” and he “is therefore entitled to discovery and a hearing.” (Dkt. 138 at 9). The Court also noted that senior officials’ public statements “come close to establishing actual vindictiveness,” a conclusion driven, in part, by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s “remarkable statements” that “could directly establish that the motivations for Abrego’s criminal charges stem from his exercise of his constitutional and statutory rights.” (Id. at 7-8).

The government bears the burden of rebutting Mr. Abrego’s prima facie showing of vindictiveness.

And it must produce discovery relevant to that showing. Evidently unwilling to do so, the government is left in the untenable position of defending itself from allegations of “stonewalling” (Dkt. 178 at 7) while… stonewalling.

The reason to stonewall is clear enough: the government confesses that discovery into the communications of officials senior to Mr. McGuire would be “highly damaging.” (Id. at 8)….

Now you know. Grinning — ever… grinning.

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Hey, Hinderaker: See Image At Right (For Your Answer)! Chicago ICE Command On Video, Intentionally Violating TROs Edition. [That’s A Felony, Son.]

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This morning, Hinderaker complaints that Nancy Pelosi said that California might start arresting “rogue” ICE agents. Pro Tip: Chicago may, as well — after yesterday, in Little Village.

In our case, the “rogue” agent is a command level ICE leader, here. Gregory Bovino. He will be deposed in the next week or two — for FIVE hours — about, in addition to other matters, why he intentionally lobbed two tear gas cannisters yesterday morning at peaceful protesters. He was well-aware that the capable USDC Judge Ellis had specifically made all that verboten, in her TRO of late last week. [Cowardly, indeed — Bogino threw them whilst hiding behind a front line of masked ICE agents, on the march — figuring no one could see who specifically threw them. What a putz!]

Yet there is… video. He’s a cooked… lil’ spud.

Yep — he’s toast — and ought to be jailed for a bit by the USDC Judge — and cuffed by the US Marshals, for criminal contempt, in a few weeks — after the hearing on sanctions.

And PREPOSTEROUSLY, Hinderaker bleats about Pelosi and wonders what his ICE boys could ever do, to get arrested?

See at upper right, you moron.

We the people… will remain unbowed — and will march on.

Trust that, John.

Paul Mirengoff — Again Telling Truths — About Tangerine 2.0’s Failure To Win Any Peace, For Israel. Some “Noble” Nominee, Eh?!

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Yes. That’s right — Trump fails to even spell the award he lusts after… correctly, when he posts about it — generally, late at night — on his stupidly waifish social media platform.

But to win a Nobel on the other hand, Mr. Trump — one needs to have achieved some… lasting peace… some-where.

As Mirengoff again points out, that he clearly has NOT done. In fact, the power vaccum he’s created in Gaza… is clearly making an already horrendous situation… worse.

From Paul’s then (a guy who’s repeatedly voted for Trump):

…President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza looks like the farce some of us thought it would be….

Neither the liberal media nor some precincts of conservative media wants to report honestly about the situation…. Parts of conservative media want to downplay Hamas’ non-compliance in order to make Trump’s plan look like a success, or at least viable….

Yes. These Powerline and Ringside boys… increasingly cluck-cluck (not even one full year in!) about how bad Trump is — but they ignore that they themselves well knew who he’d be, in 2.0 — and they affirmatively chose chaos and hatred over solid governance.

Ride the lightning with the rest of us… son.

Out.