DHS seeks contractor to run migrant detention facility at Gitmo, guards who speak Haitian Creole
Guantanamo has long included a DHS immigration holding facility, which has previously used to hold Haitian migrants.
Guantanamo has long included a DHS immigration holding facility, which has previously used to hold Haitian migrants.
“…WASHINGTON, D.C.—Members of The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) voted this week to make major changes to the Hippocratic Oath for the first time since the 1960’s. Specifically, the Oath for new doctors is being adjusted to exclude both the unborn and the unvaccinated…”

“…NEW YORK, NY—In an effort to circumvent the city’s vaccine passport regulations, a midtown eatery has installed a voting booth and designated itself as a polling place so it can allow in anyone without any ID at all.
Mikey’s Eats did a brisk business on the day, as the front of the restaurant was crowded by protestors for/against vaccines, for/against vaccine mandates, and for/against vote fraud. The protestors frequently lost track of who they wanted to yell at, changed sides, and dejectedly walked into the restaurant to console themselves with the chef’s special avocado burger.
A lawyer for the ACLU was also present. He spent the day alternating between threatening the restaurant with lawsuits, congratulating them for their commitment to democracy, and openly weeping.
Owner Mikey DeCarlo said, “A guy from [Mayor] de Blasio’s office came by and said he was going to shut us down, except for the voting booth part which he said he would defend to the death. Then he asked if he could get an avocado burger in the voting booth. He was crying a lot.”…”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1440672432222703625
Harris is calling for an investigation into US Border Patrol for “attacking” and rounding up Haitian migrants at the southern border.
Haitian migrants camped in a Texas border town are being released in the United States on a "very, very large scale," undercutting the Biden administration's public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion, U.S. officials say. https://t.co/pyJox0PxQH
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 22, 2021
We will see. I reject Liz Cheney completely. She has displayed bad judgement for months. She is not reliable. This is an important internal contest for conservatives. Do we look back 20 years for guidance?
The congresswoman’s comments come after Democrat leaders removed funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system from a government funding bill.
Kamala Harris Hoping Her Unlikability Will Distract From Her Terrible Job Fixing The Border https://t.co/xKMCnmi6Ij
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 21, 2021
It’s worth starting with @CNN. They brought on James Clapper to call the scoop – confirmed today by Politico – “textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft.” @brianstelter had a program about how it was obviously fake. @apbenven had an “anatomy” of it.
Where’s the follow up, guys? pic.twitter.com/SxMB18Cy7P
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
@MSNBC went all in on this. They had a member of Congress, @CongressmanRaja, on to spread misinformation about it being a “Russian influence operation.”@JoyAnnReid called it a “Russian hatchet-job”@kylegriffin1 said it “appears to contain disinformation”
All lies. pic.twitter.com/S8ZIX4aKJE
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
Might be a good time to update this fact check, @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/I5AgToXJEk
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
There were a ton of the usual suspects pushing this false narrative. I don’t have room for all of them but I wanted to point out some of the more egregious ones.@joelockhart and @ThePlumLineGS, anything more from you guys? Still convinced it’s Russian disinformation? pic.twitter.com/p9IFZU4DJU
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
And you, @McFaul? Do you still stand by your belief that this is a “hit piece so false that Twitter won’t even post it”? Or might there be something else afoot?
And I suspect @tvietor08 is right that folks haven’t learned the lessons of 2016, just wrong about what the lesson is. pic.twitter.com/V6C1pAxtY1
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
And this from @kurteichenwald is unhinged, even for him. pic.twitter.com/y5LXsXvLcm
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
WATCH: White House staff cut off UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the middle of speaking to herd question-eager reporters out of the room. https://t.co/T09JAQxiLm
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 21, 2021
This is quite something. https://t.co/dwVSjgDfFl
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) September 21, 2021
This resulted in a formal complaint from the intrepid and very brave White House Press Pool:
The White House press pool lodged a formal complaint with @PressSec today over coverage of Biden's meeting with PM Boris Johnson.
They asked Psaki for a press conference with Biden as restitution and she replied that Biden takes questions several times a week. https://t.co/DjRKWNsgf1
— Amber Duke (Athey) (@ambermarieduke) September 21, 2021
I have not seen this before. For the White House comms team to interrupt a head of stare mid sentence is unreal. https://t.co/WNQyB8RFF2
— Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) September 21, 2021
Maybe Ben Williamson has caught on to something?
It isn’t just that Biden shoos away American press after Boris Johnson took questions in the Oval Office—embarrassing enough. It’s that 3 days ago Biden’s Pentagon was caught misleading about killing ISIS leaders, and fired no one. Biden has a lot to answer for and keeps hiding.
— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) September 21, 2021
MAX GREENWOOD:
“…President Biden and former President Trump are statistically tied when it comes to their favorability among U.S. voters, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey shared exclusively with The Hill on Monday.
Forty-eight percent of respondents say they have a positive view of Trump compared to 46 percent who say they have a favorable opinion of his successor. Biden’s favorability is slightly underwater, however: 49 percent of those surveyed said they have an unfavorable view of the current president, while slightly less — 47 percent — report an unfavorable opinion of Trump.
The findings are a remarkable shift for Biden, who repeatedly outperformed Trump’s favorability numbers throughout the early months of his presidency.
But multiple crises, including a surge in new COVID-19 infections in recent months and the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, have bruised public perceptions of Biden.
Fifty-one percent of respondents now say Trump was a better president than Biden, while 49 percent prefer the White House’s current occupant, the poll shows.
“The mounting issues on all fronts have led to the surprise conclusion that Trump is now seen as good a president as Biden, suggesting the honeymoon is being replaced now with buyer’s remorse,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, said.
“Since Trump lost the popular vote by 5 points, Trump getting 51 percent as a better president is actually an improvement from Election Day.”
The latest Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey also shows Biden’s overall approval rating under water for the first time since he took office. Forty-eight percent of those surveyed say they approve of the job he’s doing in the White House, while 50 percent disapprove.
That follows on the heels of a July Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey that showed his approval rating sinking to 52 percent from 62 percent in June.
In a sign that the debacle in Afghanistan may be the biggest factor influencing views of his presidency, Biden saw his biggest drops in approval on his handling of foreign affairs and his administration’s efforts to combat terrorism. In both matters, his approval dropped 13 points since July.
Other members of Biden’s administration aren’t faring any better than Biden in the public eye, according to the poll.
Fifty-five percent of those surveyed say that Mike Pence was a better vice president than his successor, current Vice President Harris. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performs even worse, with 63 percent of respondents saying that his predecessor, Mike Pompeo, was the better secretary of State.
Penn said that for Blinken, in particular, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has proved particularly tough.
“People see Pence as a better VP by 10 points and overwhelmingly see Pompeo as far better than Blinken, who has been out front on Afghanistan,” Penn said.
The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey of 1,578 registered voters was conducted from Sept. 15 to 16. It is a collaboration of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and The Harris Poll.
Full poll results will be posted online later this week. Respondents are recruited via voter panel providers on a randomized basis, and their responses are then weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative poll conducted online, it does not report a probability confidence interval…”
STACEY LENNOX:
“…The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently issued a statement about how doctors must communicate with patients about COVID-19 vaccines. The FSMB is a non-profit organization that represents the medical boards of the individual states and territories. The state boards license medical doctors, investigate complaints, and mete out disciplinary action. The statement is an astonishing bit of medical authoritarianism that should terrify patients expecting to receive informed consent and have an honest discussion with their doctors about COVID-19 (emphasis added).
Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license. Due to their specialized knowledge and training, licensed physicians possess a high degree of public trust and therefore have a powerful platform in society, whether they recognize it or not. They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health. Spreading inaccurate COVID-19 vaccine information contradicts that responsibility, threatens to further erode public trust in the medical profession and puts all patients at risk.
Which facts? Suppose a doctor listened to the discussion about boosters and heard Doran Fink, M.D., deputy director of the clinical side of the FDA’s Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications, discuss cardiac-related risks post-vaccination. When Dr. Arnold Monto, the acting committee chair, asked Fink if it was possible to determine at what age the side effect ceased to be a problem, Fink answered:
“If you look at the healthcare claims data, you see that there is evidence of some attributable risk at all age groups, although, the older you get, the higher the risk of complications from COVID that offset the risk of myocarditis,” he said. “So, when you look at the balances of risk versus benefit, what we really start to see is risk of myocarditis being higher [than COVID-19] in males under age 40.”
Fink also told the advisory committee that the risk of myocarditis was 1:5000 according to medical claims data. Say a doctor is counseling a 24-year-old male with healthy body weight and no pre-existing conditions. Understanding the current data, he tells his patient that the vaccine’s risk of cardiac side effects is more significant than risks related to COVID-19. Would he be putting his license at risk for misinformation? The physician would be quoting an FDA official but deviating from the narrative that everyone must be vaccinated.
Looking again at the statement, what exactly is “scientifically grounded” information? There are at least 15 studies that confirm natural immunity provides durable protection from infection with COVID-19. Suppose a doctor read the Emory study, which demonstrated broad-based, long-lasting immunity in recovered patients after eight months. He also read the Israeli population study showing a symptomatic reinfection rate of less than 1% in recovered patients without a vaccine.
Then the doctor sees a preprint indicating a small sample of recovered patients showed declining immune response six months after the Pfizer vaccine. The Emory study of unvaccinated participants did not show a similar decline. If the physician told a 35-year-old patient who recovered from COVID-19 in August of 2021 that current scientific research shows he has a strong natural immune response and a vaccine is not necessary at this point, would the state medical board mount an investigation? It is scientifically grounded but opposes the advice of the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“Consensus-driven” is the chilling and authoritarian addition. Here’s a newsflash. Doctors disagree. Even the best doctors in the same field will have different opinions about treatment for a particular disease or disability. This reality is why getting a second opinion is part of the American medical system. Patients deserve to fully understand and agree with a course of treatment and know all of their options.
Consensus also has no place in the scientific method. It indicates that the state medical boards view science as an institution. Is Dr. Rochelle Walensky an authoritative voice simply because she holds a political appointment? It would be fair to wager that there are more capable scientists in other private and public institutions whose input and conclusions we should take at least as seriously. The genuinely alarming trend in this pandemic is treating highly regarded practitioners and researchers as heretics for dissenting from the preferred narrative.
Also, which consensus? Dr. Anthony Fauci told America that a third mRNA vaccine was the appropriate dose to provide more durable immunity against COVID-19. The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee disagreed after reviewing data from Pfizer and Israel. The World Health Organization opposed boosters also.
The chilling effects of top-down medical authoritarianism are real. The FSMB provides no guidance on what qualifies as vaccine misinformation and leaves no room for the practice of medicine based on a doctor’s clinical experience. If this continues, the quality and safety of American healthcare will decline. Unfortunately, the authoritarians never see the errors of their ways until they are staring at the destruction of the system they governed…”
"This is a bad poll for Joe Biden, and it's playing out in everything that he touches right now,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer. President Joe Biden’s job approval rating has plummeted to 31%. https://t.co/Heog3eSb3J
— Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) September 21, 2021