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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“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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