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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a new memo Friday seeking to cancel the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” border policy that helped solve the previous migrant surge. The move comes even as Mr. Mayorkas is trying to restart the program under a federal judge’s injunction. In a lengthy memo, the Department of Homeland Security said the U.S. cannot assure the safety of people it pushes back across the border under the policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, and the government doesn’t want to spend the money needed to improve conditions in Mexico.(Snip)“MPP had endemic flaws, imposed unjustifiable human costs, pulled resources and personnel away
New York Daily News,
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Karu F. Daniels
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Ice Cube is out in the cold after refusing to be vaccinated.
The rapper, actor and entrepreneur has walked away from a new movie due to COVID-19 protocols. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ice Cube (whose given name is O’Shea Jackson) has reportedly exited Sony’s upcoming comedy, “Oh Hell No,” after declining a request from producers to get vaccinated. The film studio, and representatives for the former NWA member declined to comment to the industry trade outlet.(Snip)Ice Cube, who has starred in and produced the “Friday,” “Barbershop” and “Ride Along” franchises, also exited “Flint Strong,” a boxing drama written by “Moonlight” filmmaker Barry Jenkins, for reasons unknown.
Daily Mail (UK),
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George Stark
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Captain Mark Howard from Below Deck: Mediterranean has died at 65.
Hi co-star Tiffany Jones confirmed the news on Twitter Friday saying: 'RIP Captain Mark Howard. You were a joy to be around.'
The former reality show star is said to have passed away 'suddenly' at his home in Florida this week. There are currently no further details surrounding his death, TMZ reports. A biography for Howard from Bravo state that he was born and raised on a lake in Michigan and had been a yacht captain for just under 30 years. He was an experienced captain, having sailed to the South Pacific and the Mediterranean and Caribbean
Washington Times,
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Dave Boyer
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The State Department sought to redact “wholesale” public reports by the U.S. inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction during the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Kabul, the watchdog said Friday. Special Inspector General John Sopko said the State Department requested on Aug. 19 that his office remove 2,400 items from publicly available reports “based on unspecified privacy concerns.” The list included such information as the name of former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and a reference in one report to “Chattanooga, Tennessee.”(Snip)He called the administration’s requests “a cautionary tale of why oversight agencies need to question an all-too-common impulse to remove information from congressional and public view
New York Post,
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Jackie Salo
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The parents of a Pennsylvania woman who died of 20 stab wounds are taking the medical examiner’s office to court for declaring her death a suicide. Ellen Greenberg’s parents have been granted a non-jury trial in their lawsuit against the coroner’s office over her January 2011 death in her Philadelphia apartment, CBS Philly reported.(Snip)On the day of her death, Ellen, 27, had returned home to her apartment early from her first-grade teaching job on account of a snowstorm. She was later discovered dead on the kitchen floor by her fiance, Sam Goldberg, when he returned home from the gym.
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
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Mary Murphy
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East Elmhurst, Queens—When you see the women on certain street corners along Roosevelt Avenue in East Elmhurst, wearing mini skirts and sometimes schoolgirl skirts, you notice they’re often scanning their cellphones. Law enforcement believes that’s because they’re making contact with customers who find the women’s “massage” services on a website called Bedpage, or they’re simply steering them off the street.(Snip)“I don’t believe that getting sick was one of their concerns,” said Miguel Collazo, special agent in charge of the Human Trafficking Task Force, Group 2, which looks at victims shuttled from China, Eurasia, and Russia, and then coerced into sex work.
New York Post,
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Joshua Rhett Miller
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is warning of an “imminent threat to public safety” and a “pandemic of chaos” because of staffing shortages caused by the city’s vaccine mandate.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who has said he won’t enforce the county’s order that took effect Oct. 1, said Thursday that up to 30 percent of the department’s 18,000 employees are “no longer available” to provide service following the Board of Supervisors mandate for all 110,000 employees. “We are experiencing an increase in unscheduled retirements, worker compensation claims, employees quitting, and a reduction in qualified applicants,” Villanueva said in a statement obtained by The Post. “As a result, homicide rates
WTOP-TV [Washington, DC],
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Kristi King
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The number of people coming down with COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated against the coronavirus is on the rise in Maryland. Overall, 30.3% of cases over the past month are “breakthrough cases” compared to just 5.9% in May. So what’s going on? Health officials in Maryland point to evidence of weakening levels of vaccine protection over time—especially for people with compromised immune systems or other health conditions.(Snip)“However, the data we now have clearly does show that the level of protection does begin to wane over time, beginning after five or six months, especially for those who are immunocompromised, have comorbidities, and are most vulnerable.
WTOP-TV [Washington, DC],
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Kate Ryan
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School’s been in session for just over two months, and already, Montgomery County, Maryland, teachers say they are exhausted.
Jennifer Martin, president of the Montgomery County Education Association which represents teachers and substitutes, said that under “normal” circumstances, a teacher’s day is packed.(Snip)But this year has been especially stressful, with teachers and even administrators being called upon to cover classes. The problem is the hundreds of vacancies across the school system.(Snip)“We’re really concerned that this will be a time of the ‘Great Resignation.’ A lot of folks are saying to me, ‘I’m looking to see, you know, can I retire yet?'” Martin said.
New York Post,
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Jackie Salo
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A professor at New Jersey’s Rutgers University said she believes that white people are historically “committed to being villains”—and that her unfiltered solution to addressing white supremacy would be to “take them out.” Brittney Cooper, a professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies, addressed the history of colonialism during a discussion last month about critical race theory with the Root Institute.(Snip)“White people’s birth rates are going down… because they literally cannot afford to put their children, newer generations, into the middle class… It’s super perverse, and also they kind of deserve it,” she said.
Washington Times,
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Valerie Richardson
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The number of songs called “Let’s Go Brandon” rising to the top of the charts has doubled in a matter of days. As of Thursday, there were four anti-Biden rap anthems called “Let’s Go Brandon” on the iTunes top 10 U.S. music chart, as shown on PopVortex, twice the number of Brandon-themed songs that had reached the top 10 on Monday. “Let’s Go Brandon” by Bryson Gray (featuring Tyson James & Chandler Crump) kept its lock on the number-one spot, while three versions linked to rapper Loza Alexander held the second, fifth and sixth slots on the iTunes Top 10 Music Charts USA. At number two was
Daily Mail (UK),
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Harriet Alexander
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White employees of AT&T have been told to read an article saying that they are racist, are told to confess to their 'white privilege' and acknowledge 'systemic racism,' and must engage with set texts or else they will be penalized in their performance reviews.(Snip)Most employees are not forced to engage with the Listen Understand Act program, but managers at AT&T are now assessed annually on diversity issues—with mandatory participation in programs such as discussion groups, book clubs, mentorship programs, and race reeducation exercises, according to Rufo's source. The source told Rufo that employees are asked to sign a loyalty pledge to 'keep pushing
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Can people share this information on Twitter, or is this a conspiracy theory that should be suppressed as anti-socialist disinformation seeing how the esteemed Secretary Janet and Chairman Jerome, who are the key drivers of the inflation, say otherwise?