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Vice President Kamala Harris’ staff on Sunday insisted that the "main drivers" of the migrant surge to the southern border are climate and the economy — as Harris arrived in Guatemala and after the Guatemalan president blamed the change in U.S. administrations for the crisis.

Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders told reporters that climate and the economy were among the "main drivers" of the surge in migrants that saw more than 178,000 migrants hit the border in April alone, a number that continued a spike in February and March.
Officials also emphasized the role corruption plays in forcing migrants to make the journey north.

"We see corruption as one of the most important root causes to be dealt with," special envoy Richard Zuniga said.

Harris is in Guatemala as part of a two-day trip to the region. On Monday, she will meet with President Alejandro Giammattei, with whom her office says she will discuss increasing economic opportunities and strengthening the rule of law, and deeper bilateral law enforcement cooperation, among other issues. After that meeting and others with community leaders and business owners, she will travel to Mexico.


But, in an interview aired Sunday, Giammattei said he and Harris "are not on the same side of the coin" on the issue, and blamed what he saw as a more welcoming message to migrants by the new administration for the surge.

"The message changed too: ‘We’re going to reunite families, we’re going to reunite children,’" he told CBS News. "The very next day, the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States."

"We asked the United States government to send more of a clear message to prevent more people from leaving," he said.

They arrested the man over the weekend. He couldn't fit in the squad car so he was hauled to jail in a dump truck

This part is true.^^^^ The second sentence was my attempt at humor

Even if the cops arrest him, George Gascon will let him go, send the thug to anger management. Both Gascon and Boudin are idiots, take away their protection give the thugs their home address.

I heard the people are trying to recall them both, just like our fearless leader Newscum

I love living here...

Molly Spearman, the South Carolina superintendent of education, tweeted Thursday, “Now more than ever, we must remain focused on our mission to ensure every graduate is prepared for success and not be hindered by any ideologies or agendas that seek to distract us.”

Spearman believes CRT has no place in South Carolina schools.

“The South Carolina Department of Education has no current or proposed standards that include CRT concepts and will not be adopting any CRT standards nor applying for or accepting any funding that requires incentivizes the adoption of these concepts in our classrooms,” Spearman said in the tweet.

A woman with a backbone. You won't see that happening here

The Education Secretary has slammed the 'absurd' cancelling of the Queen by Oxford students, who voted to taken down a portrait of the monarch from their common room as it may make some feel 'unwelcome' because she 'represents recent colonial history'.

Members of the Middle Common Room (MCR) at Magdalen College - which is made up of graduates - passed the measure by a substantial majority, with one student commenting that 'patriotism and colonialism are not really separable'.

The committee will now explore replacing the portrait with 'art by or of other influential and inspirational people' and subject any future depictions of the Royal Family to a vote.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has evidently had enough of the increasing criticism being pointed his way — particularly from the political right.

In what became a fiery rant on MSNBC’s MTP: Daily Wednesday, Fauci — speaking with host Chuck Todd — blasted those attacking him on a variety of subjects ranging from his mask advocacy to the question of whether the National Institute of Health (NIH) funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The impetus for Fauci’s screed on Wednesday was a video from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who floated a conspiracy theory that the infectious disease expert was colluding with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on a narrative about Covid-19.

“Dr. Fauci was emailing with Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, trying to create that narrative,” Blackburn said. “Cherrypicking information so that you would only know what they wanted you to know, and there would be a narrative that would fit with this cherrypicked information.”

“I don’t have a clue what she just said,” Fauci said, curtly. “I don’t have a clue of what she’s talking about. … And I’m sorry, I don’t want to be pejorative against a united States senator but I have no idea what she’s talking about. And you know Chuck, if you go through each and every one of the points which are so ridiculous, just painfully ridiculous, if you go through each and every one of them, you can explain and debunk it immediately.”

Fauci then directed his comments more broadly — towards not just Blackburn but all of his critics;

“It’s very dangerous, Chuck, because a lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science. Because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science. Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people, and there was pushback against me.

So if you are trying to get at me as a public health official and scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science. And anybody that looks at what is going on clearly sees that. You have to be asleep not to see that.”


Yet:

An epidemiologist and professor at Stanford University said Friday that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s credibility "is entirely shot" after revelations from his emails show a reversal on the subject of mask wearing to prevent COVID-19.



"I think he's been all over the place on masks," Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford said on "The Ingraham Angle." "There are emails you can find in the treasure trove of emails that have been released where he acknowledged the virus has been aerosolized -- well the cloth masks people have been recommending, they're not particularly effective against aerosolized viruses. "I really don't understand his back and forth and his answer made absolutely no sense," he said.

A trove of Fauci’s emails were released via Freedom of Information Act requests this week, which include a February email in which he advised someone not to wear a mask to the airport
"Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material," he said, in one of the emails obtained by BuzzFeed News. "It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you. I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a vey (sic) low risk location."

Fauci and other experts later reversed their stances, and mask mandates became common across much of America throughout 2020 and into 2021. Fauci has defended himself, saying his position has changed as the science has changed. "If we knew then that a substantial amount of transmission was asymptomatic people, if we knew then that the data show that masks outside of a hospital setting actually do work when we didn’t know it then, of course people would have done it, that’s so obvious," he said on CNN.

But Bhattacharya was skeptical, saying that the facts did not change "a ton."

"Yes you should change your mind when the science changes, what is that science that changed that convinced him that masks are the most effective way?" he asked. "The CDC Director Robert Redfield said masks were more effective than vaccines and Dr. Fauci did not contradict him when Dr. Scott Atlas said that was nonsense, which it was," he said.

"I think his credibility is entirely shot," he added.

What has become of this country?

Wag the dog:

The Wall Street Journal editorial board argued the leaker of IRS data containing tax return information on many of America's wealthiest individuals wants to "serve the left's agenda" on tax legislation.

In a Tuesday editorial, the board wrote the leaker to ProPublica sought to influence the debate over taxes in Congress, and to coincide with the left wing of the Democratic Party's push for increased taxes on the wealthy, including the implementation of a wealth tax.
"The ProPublica story is a long argument that somehow the rich don’t pay enough. The timing here is no coincidence, comrade," the board wrote. "Someone at the IRS—or someone who hacked the IRS—leaked the documents to influence the debate in Congress."

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, opened his Tuesday committee hearing by mentioning the data dump, the same day the ProPublica article was published. "Right on time," the board wrote, noting Wyden's stated commitment to coming up with a proposal to make sure the rich are "paying their fair share."

The board also noted there was no evidence of illegality in the published data, and that ProPublica was attempting to manufacture a scandal by calculating a "true tax rate" by comparing gains in wealth versus the amount of income tax paid.
"But wealth and income are different, and what Americans pay is a tax on income, not wealth," the board wrote, before explaining that preferential tax rates for capital gains and dividends have been long supported by bipartisan majorities.

"This has changed as the political left has risen in the Democratic Party, and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders ran for President calling for a new tax on wealth," it continued. "The political point is that Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders lost. Mr. Biden didn’t run on a wealth tax."

"This still leaves the real scandal, which is that someone leaked confidential IRS information about individuals to serve a political agenda," the board wrote. "This is also the same IRS that Democrats now want to infuse with $80 billion more to chase a fanciful amount of uncollected taxes. As part of this effort, Mr. Biden wants the IRS to collect ‘gross inflows and outflows on all business and personal accounts from financial institutions.’ Why? So the information can be leaked to ProPublica?"

Where's the FBI and DOJ 

As my grandmother used to say it's going to "Hell in a handbasket, I tell ya"

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