[U] Of Course Hinderaker Knows He’s Lying. Again.

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Updated: as of Saturday, most of the sensible USDC judges in Minneapolis agree: people cannot be arrested for protesting policies they disagree with in public places, even if they do so and rude and offensive terms.

No arrests. Get that John? Nothing more than misdemeanor disturbing the peace — if it was even that. End update.

As John well knows (but intentionally prevaricates) houses of worship are public gathering places when they are holding an “all comers” Sunday worship service. There can be no trespass, John — unless it grows… violent. It did not. And you know it.

So here he is again, trying to invent felonies out of thin air — essentially thought crimes…

It may be rude to heckle the pastor (who moonlights as an ICE “chaplain”), but it is certainly First Amendment protected so long as there is no violence. And if the church members really dislike it, they can ask security to escort for the protesters out of the church, which is what happened here.

These are all matters of very substantial public concern. And John should just shut his yap. Out.

Congrats, And Heart-Felt Thanks Go Out To Suni Williams — Deep Blue American Hero — On Her Retirement, From NASA.

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This is no surprise. We all knew that was quite possibly her last ride — even before the Starliner problems. [Butch retired last year as well — in fact.]

And to be certain, she has well-earned a languid, grin-inducing victory lap — or about 62 of them! Here’s the latest, from NASA:

…After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight records throughout her career.

“Suni Williams has been a trailblazer in human spaceflight, shaping the future of exploration through her leadership aboard the space station and paving the way for commercial missions to low Earth orbit,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “Her work advancing science and technology has laid the foundation for Artemis missions to the Moon and advancing toward Mars, and her extraordinary achievements will continue to inspire generations to dream big and push the boundaries of what’s possible. Congratulations on your well-deserved retirement, and thank you for your service to NASA and our nation.”

Williams logged 608 days in space — second on the list of cumulative time in space by a NASA astronaut. She ranks sixth on the list of longest single spaceflight by an American, tied with NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, both logging 286 days during NASA’s Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew-9 missions. Williams also completed nine spacewalks, totaling 62 hours and 6 minutes, ranking as the most spacewalk time by a woman and fourth-most on the all-time cumulative spacewalk duration list….

Enjoy a glorious retirement! We are all so, so proud — that you chose to serve America, for us all!

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No Paul — Tangerine’s “Peace Board” Is A Cruel, Idiotic… Farce.

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All I need to say about it is that he has asked Vlad Putin to join that board…

Believing that you can run a Gaza like a real estate investment company with the Board of Directors is absolutely the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

There is no chance it was ever going to succeed, and that is by design… His end goal is to own beachfront local real estate — nope, not ever to find Mideast peace.

But you persist in your silly notions, Paul it is your calling.

Out.

A ~50% Improvement, In Melanoma Five Year Survival Rate Is… Pretty Darn Impressive!

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Merck, and its development partner Moderna are quite rightly taking a deep bow, on this one. When coupled to pembrolizumab therapy, the combo sees a 50% improvement in five year survival odds for people living with various melanoma diagnoses. Wow!

Here’s the latest — from Fierce Biotech:

…Adding Merck & Co. and Moderna’s vaccine candidate to Keytruda has continued to cut the risk of cancer recurrence or death across five years of follow-up, boosting the companies’ prospects as they close in on phase 3 data.

The five-year results come from a phase 2b study that tested intismeran autogene in combination with Merck’s Keytruda in people with high-risk melanoma after complete resection. Compared to single-agent Keytruda, the combination cut the risk of recurrence or death by 44% after two years and by 49% after three years.

Tuesday, Merck and Moderna said the risk reduction after five years was 49%. The partners have yet to share data on other endpoints, such as the risk of distant metastasis or death, that were included in the earlier analyses….

Onward, grinning — to catch a jet to the High Rockies now.

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Look At The Real World Results — Of Letting Non-Scientific Loons — Mind The US Public Health Policies. Damn — Trump 2.0’s Year One, With Measles.

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This is… reprehensible. The US is now on the verge of no longer being designated by UN health authorities and the WHO… as a nation that has ended the measles virus, on the ground. What is wrong with us?

And it is all — without doubt — utterly… avoidable. Just vaccinate your kids, people. But let us look down now (one year on), upon how “great” these jamokes are making… mostly Red / MAGA American states:

…On inauguration day a year ago, a small town in Gaines County, on the western edge of Texas, reported a cluster of measles cases.

“There’s a feeling this is going to be more and more common,” an infectious disease expert told The New York Times at the time.

That feeling turned out to be right. Within a few weeks, the case count had jumped to 24. Then to more than a hundred. And over the 12 months that followed, measles sickened more than 2,200 people across 45 states, making 2025 the worst year for measles in the United States in more than two decades….

Now you know. The man is a very dangerous… monster. US children will die (and have died), in excess numbers, because of this lunacy. And we all pay the price, with increased (mostly) public aid hospitalizations, nationwide. Be certain of that. Onward.

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Imperial College Of London’s New Ebola | Lassa | Marburg Vaccine Approach: “saRNA Rapid Scaling” — EML Vac Phase I/II Study Now Enrolling…

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This is excellent. And note that while this is only a smaller “safety testing” study, among healthy 18 to 50 year olds who volunteer to get jabbed, in and around London, it is a very encouraging step forward.

Fighting viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks is a vital mission — both in Africa, and increasingly, in the rest of the world. Here’s the latest on it all — Cheerio!

…The collaboration between Imperial College London and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will deliver a first-in-human (FIH) clinical trial of three new vaccines targeting Ebola, Marburg and Lassa fever – viruses that can cause severe, often fatal illness and trigger devastating outbreaks.

The study, known as EML-Vac, is being led by Professor Robin Shattock, Chair in Mucosal Infection and Immunity in the Department of Infectious Disease, and Dr Marta Boffito, Consultant Physician and Clinical Director at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. . . .

The vaccines being tested in EML-Vac use a new technology called self-amplifying RNA (saRNA). Unlike traditional vaccines, which can take years to develop and manufacture, saRNA vaccines can be designed and produced much more quickly – a crucial advantage when new outbreaks emerge.

These vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make harmless pieces of the virus, allowing the immune system to learn to recognise and fight the real infection if it is encountered in the future.

The three vaccines have been designed to target the glycoproteins of the Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses and are delivered inside tiny fat-based particles, known as lipid nanoparticles….

This sort of highly-novel, cutting edge vaccine science… will increasingly be undertaken outside the USA, given out current Luddite leadership, in federal positions. Damn. But here’s to cheering our cousins, across the pond. Well done! Be like Rev. Dr. King! [But be entirely not like… the faux orange one.]

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Hinderaker Would Like To Re-Label “A Decrepit Sociopath’s Megalomania” — As Simply… Unforced Errors.

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John Hinderaker has forever been a Trump boot-licker — at lease since 2016. All of this time, rather than admit to what we all see — that the dozens of pattern-behaviors (on display for decades, over and over) ones that make the whole world cringe… might be evidence of a sociopath’s tendencies… John today (again) calls them “unforced errors“ — hoping that, by lying, he can magically make them isolated and random, in his viewers’ perception — or at least in his own mind.

He suggests this is like a split second thing, like… say, overthrowing first on a double-play ball, in triple A. Nope. Tangerine stews about his lunacy for months on end. And then acts every bit the lunatic, willfully.

John — Greenland / Denmark (and specifically, his threats)… are just the latest clear evidence of a… sociopath.

His stealing of trophies, any gold bobble that is not nailed down… and filchinig secret documents — thinking he “is owed” everything: is all deeply delusional.

His remarks about people with disabilities — his remarks about his own [current] wife — his remarks about Jimmy Kimmel, Whoopi Goldberg, George Clooney and Morning Joe… his ACTIONS in Venezuela; his actions in Chicago, LA, Portland and now Minneapolis… his keeping close company with avowed well-known Klanners and Neo-Nazis…

His threatening NY State prosecutors with a baseball bat (thinking he’s a latter day Capone)…

And that’s all BEFORE we mention… his forcible sexual assaults — of at least ten different women — and maybe even some girls who were underage… as well…

Yep. This is… a sociopath.

These are not “mistakes“.

This is who he is. This is who he’s always been — and his nearly 80 years of life, are making him ever more… demented, and detached from the reality of the way the world sees him.

It’s past-time you admitted this emperor has no clothes.

Just wanton chaos, as his reason for existing.

Give it up John — Damn.

Power Alley: When Is A Generic’s FDA Label… “Skinny” Enough? New Cert. Granted, On The Issue, At US Supremes…

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So — back to an old topic: how to be certain that the reforms wrought about 40 years ago now, by Hatch-Waxman (to more readily encourage lower priced but safe generics to reach US shelves sooner). . . remain the effective law of our land — even as branded manufacturers try to chip away at such competition — in the courts around the nation?

This latest case (out of the erroneous ruling on appeal in the Federal Circuit) was just granted a review on this past Friday — by the Supremes. We will now follow it closely, as it will without a doubt potentially impact tens of billions of dollars in savings, on genrics, to US consumers — in the years ahead, if correctly resolved in favor of the generics, here:

…This case offers another chance to review the Federal Circuit’s erosion of section viii and § 271(b) — with a much better vehicle than GSK, where the Federal Circuit credited alleged evidence that the generic drugmaker’s “partial label instructed the method of use claimed.” 7 F.4th at 1328. Here, it is undisputed that Hikma’s label is “skinny enough.” App. 13a, 17a.

This case [if not corrected at teh Supremes, by a cert. petition] thus confirms what the dissent in GSK predicted: “a generic can be deemed liable for inducement for saying that its product is a ‘generic version’” — “a drastic holding” that “makes little sense.” 7 F.4th at 1353 (Prost, J., dissenting)….

In short, the decision below is an imminent threat to generic competition, which is critically important to the U.S. healthcare system. And the “very permissive pleading standard for induced infringement” that the decision creates will dramatically expand the risk of inducement liability, even “outside of just the pharmaceutical context….”

We will — of course — now keep you posted. Onward, smiling — and do note: the experimental theater last evening was at once wildly maddening, moving, and inspiring… so, we will be thinking, and acting… on it, for many months to come, indeed.

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NASA’s Ultra High Altitude “Zero Pressure” Balloon Flights — Have Concluded, At McMurdo Station — On The Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica…

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This was some very cool (literally), cutting edge balloon tech.

And it worked… flawlessly. Here’s the story — and you’ll recall that we covered the lead-up (and launches), last month:

…NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has completed four successful Antarctica flights during a long-duration campaign that began in early December. The balloons launched from the agency’s facility located near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf.

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon lifted off Dec. 15. The GAPS payload is an experiment designed to detect anti-matter particles entering Earth’s atmosphere to help reveal the origin of dark matter — an invisible form of matter that’s estimated to make up more than 80% of the total matter in the universe. The GAPS mission flew for a total of 25 days, 2 hours, and 53 minutes before returning to the ice Jan. 9.

The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) launched Dec. 19 and flew a total of 23 days, 8 hours, and 52 minutes, returning to the ice Jan. 12. The PUEO payload is designed to detect signals from neutrinos, high-energy particles that travel across the universe undisturbed, carrying information about events billions of light-years away. This was the first mission to launch through NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, which supports compelling astrophysics science at lower cost….

Onward, grinning — with lil’ ladies here shortly, then dinner out and a new experimental/journalistic “living documentary” theatre production tonight, based on the various experiences of people without papers here in the City of Big Shoulders — called “Sanctuary Stories“. Will report manana.

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While Not As Sweeping As The Chicago Orders, Minneapolis Is Now Covered By A Prelim. Inj., Against Bovino/Noem Lawlessness. First Amend. Rights Prevail.

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This is a good start — the larger suit is now scheduled for a hearing shortly on a much broader preliminary injunction — as we mentioned earlier in the week.

But this one plainly prohibits the use of lethal force against people in their cars, or observers, unless they are trying to mow down ICE agents. It also prevents tear gas against protesters who are not violently assaulting federel agents. That’s enough for the moment. Here’s the 83 page federal court order, in full — and a bit:

…Some nonparty declarants have described disturbing conduct of agents during and after these stops, including: threatening to arrest and detain them despite knowing that they were citizens; threatening to break the driver’s windows; waiting for the witnesses outside their homes; following them to their homes or to an address where their vehicles are registered; and telling the witnesses that they know where they live. (Rudolph Leon Decl. ¶¶ 24–26; Jackson Decl. ¶ 8; Levy Decl. ¶ 12; Smith Decl. 2 ¶ 4; Kellermeyer Decl. ¶ 4.) Ms. Salm describes having her phone seized from her hands while recording agents; being choked by the collar of her shirt… and being threatened with “a fucking bullet in [her] skull.” (Salm Decl. ¶¶ 9–23.)….

Defendants have not provided declarations or other evidence regarding the circumstances of the stops of Plaintiffs Webb, Biestman, and Lee, nor have they provided evidence to refute the accounts provided by the nonparty witnesses who were stopped by immigration officers….

[Witness] Crenshaw entered the restaurant, he saw “two agents… violently slamming a young black man against the wall.” (Id. ¶ 4.) The man was “yelling in pain and saying that he was a U.S. citizen,” but the agents “didn’t seem to care” and “dragged [the man] outside,” even though he continued to tell them he is a citizen. (Id.) When Crenshaw and other observers followed the agents outside, one of the agents “slammed the door on [them]” and appeared to be “frustrated with [them] being there and filming them and telling them that what they were doing was wrong[.]” (Id. ¶ 5.) Once Crenshaw was outside the restaurant, he saw the agents “violently push the young man into the snow for no apparent reason” and “put him in handcuffs” and into a car with “black windows” and a Florida license plate….

This is not conduct befitting… American law enforcement — at all. Moreover, the stupidly evil DoJ “investigation” into Tim Walz and the Mayor of Minneapolis — is not worthy of any real comment. So… I won’t. It’s a dead letter. Onward.

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