Daniel Foote, the top United States diplomat to Haiti, resigned his position citing the administration’s treatment of Haitian migrants along the southern border in Texas, calling the actions “inhumane,” NBC News reports.

“With deep disappointment and apologies to those seeking crucial changes, I resign from my position as Special Envoy for Haiti, effective immediately,” he said in his resignation letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday.

Foote’s resignation comes in reaction to the administration ordering the deportation of thousands of Haitians who traveled to the United States through Mexico.  The Biden Administration has chartered planes to carry thousands of people back to Haiti, which is still struggling with the effects of multiple hurricanes and earthquakes. 

AP: “Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that he is hopeful the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court created during his and President Donald Trump’s administration will soon overturn abortion rights in the United States. Pence spoke at a forum devoted to demographics and family values in Budapest, Hungary, where conservative leaders from central Europe expressed their anxieties about falling birthrates in the Western world and discussed ways to reverse the trend. ‘We see a crisis that brings us here today, a crisis that strikes at the very heart of civilization itself. The erosion of the nuclear family marked by declining marriage rates, rising divorce, widespread abortion and plummeting birth rates,’ Pence said.”

“The Budapest Demographic Summit, which was first held in 2015 and takes place every two years, has become a platform for leaders to denounce illegal migration and urge families to have more children. Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become a political model for right-wing leaders and commentators across the Western world who admire his hard-line opposition to illegal migration and his support for conservative social values.”

CNN selectively edited this portion of the Judiciary hearing yesterday, only showing their viewers the 3 Democrat witnesses. CNN did not show what the other two witnesses testified.

As Paul Harvey put it, here is the rest of the story: https://t.co/KqBCCXFjl1 pic.twitter.com/Nnuc68OKBj

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 23, 2021

“David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son Daniel Robinson who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23. Robinson, who lives in South Carolina, hired an independent investigator and assembled a volunteer search team when he says he felt the police weren’t making progress in the investigation. He also says he failed to get the amount of media coverage he believed the case needed. The case was reported by the local media as early as July 9. Robinson said he sympathizes with the family of Gabby Petito. Still, Robinson said it’s ‘hurtful’ to see a young White woman’s case met with more urgency and national attention than his son, who is Black.”

“‘You wish you lived in a world where everything was equal but it’s really not equal,’ Robinson told CNN. Robinson is among the Black and brown family members whose loved ones remain missing and say they have struggled to get fair attention on their cases. Some say they have grown frustrated with watching the search for missing White women like Petito being in the spotlight, while police appear to allow their cases to go cold or classify their loved one as a ‘runaway.’ Some experts say the nation faces ‘Missing White Women Syndrome,’ which is defined by the heavier media attention White women and girls receive when they go missing compared to anyone outside of those demographics, according to a study published by the Northwestern University School of Law in 2016. The study points out that missing Black people are less likely to garner media attention at the outset than other groups and when they do make the news and they receive a lower intensity of coverage” – CNN.

Daily Beast: “For months, Trump has been bleeding or discarding top legal talent, according to court records and various interviews. And this comes at a time when the ex-president and his inner sanctum are drowning in criminal investigations, and lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit. The reasons for some of the individual departures from the MAGA legal orbit remain unclear. Trump, who often detests paying his bills and legal fees, has a track record of essentially turning his back on former lawyers (including Rudy Giuliani), having tempestuous falling-outs with one-time confidants (such as Michael Cohen), and agressively turning on both US attorneys general who he had nominated.”

“During Trump’s time in the White House, his administration and his legal teams were known for a high turnover rate. In his first year out of power, the pattern appears to be holding. Earlier this month, Trump alerted New York state’s highest court that his longtime lawyer Marc Kasowitz was no longer acting as his attorney in a high-profile legal dispute between the former president and Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who is suing Trump for defamation after he denied her claims that he made unwanted sexual advances against her, including groping and kissing her without her consent in 2007. Kasowitz did not respond to requests for comment, and several people close to Trump couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say why Kasowitz was no longer repping Trump in that case, except to say he was ‘out’ or ‘gone,’ for now at least. (In fact, the earliest hint of the 36-year-old Habba’s new role as the former president’s latest legal champion came when the New Jersey attorney signed on to represent Trump in the lawsuit filed by Zervos, replacing Kasowitz.)”

The European Commission has proposed a new requirement that all devices – phones, cameras, tablets, and video game controllers – sold in the EU must use the USB-C charger, the Independent reports. This really kind of fucks things up for Apple and their proprietary Lighting cable used in iPhones, iPads, and that one mouse and likely means the change would be effected on future Apple devices sold worldwide and not just in those in the European Union.

Which is great because even though Lightning cables are ubiquitous now, it’d be even better if we could just stop having to keep separate ones handy for those of us in inter-mobile OS marriages. It also show how far we’ve come from the nightmarish era circa pre-2010 when every single flip phone model had its own different goddamned charger and you were screwed if you lost it.

“The District Attorney in Somerset County is being accused of sexual assault and Jeffrey Thomas’s lawyer spoke exclusively with KDKA and he says there should not be a rush to judgment. ‘Jeffrey is an innocent person, and I just remind everybody of that,’ Ryan Tutera, the lawyer representing Thomas said. ‘I’m sure he is surprised. I’m sure he is shocked. I’m surprised. I’m shocked but we look forward to having our day in court and fighting these charges.’ Thomas began serving as Somerset’s district attorney last year. Now, he is facing charges of rape and other assault charges. However, Thomas and his lawyer say these are allegations and deny there’s any truth behind them.”

“‘Right now, all we are dealing with is a mere allegation from an accuser maybe having a motive of some sort to make these accusations,’ Tutera said. ‘We don’t know.’ According to the criminal complaint, the victim knew Thomas through her employer, and for years he made advances toward her and she declined. Then, on September 18, Thomas sent her a message through Snapchat saying he was coming over and she said no. He came over anyway and entered her home uninvited. The victim then asked Thomas to leave and then the two got into a fight. According to police, that’s when he got the upper hand and raped her. All of this happened while the victim’s daughter was inside the home. ‘We will get to the bottom of this,’ Tutera said. ‘To the public – treat him in a fair way, in a fair manner. He still is the district attorney, at this point'” KDKA reports.

Though KDKA does not mention Thomas’s affiliation, TribLive.com says he’s a Republican on an article from earlier this year about completely unrelated charges of harassment and disorderly conduct against him being dismissed. Thomas is not to be confused with Chad Salsman, the Republican DA of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, who in May pleaded guilty to coercing female criminal defense clients into sex acts prior to taking office.

Axios: “If the FBI data released next week shows what’s expected – that 2020 saw the highest single-year spike in U.S. murders in at least six decades – experts say the sudden job losses, fears and other jolts to society at the start of COVID-19 will likely have been the overwhelming drivers. Many Democrats already feared that rising crime could hurt their party in the 2022 midterms.”

“Even with such a spike, the murder rate would remain far lower than it was through much of the 1980s and 1990s. But a historic single-year spike in the same year that some Democrats called to redirect police funding because of the killing of George Floyd and other examples of systemic racism could be an easy, if misleading, campaign argument for Republicans to make. The New York Times first reported Wednesday that the FBI’s early data shows a 29% spike in murders last year. That would be the biggest single-year increase since national record-keeping began, in 1960.”

“I spent virtually no time with Senators Mike Lee of Utah, or Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, talking about the 2020 Presidential Election Scam or, as it is viewed by many, the ‘Crime of the Century.’ Lindsey and Mike should be ashamed of themselves for not putting up the fight necessary to win. Look at the facts that are coming out in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other States. If this were Schumer and the Democrats, with the evidence we have of Election Fraud (especially newly revealed evidence), they would have never voted to approve Biden as President, and had they not, all of the mistakes that were made over the last month, which are destroying our Country, would not have happened. Mike Lee, Lindsey Graham, and all of the other Republicans who were unwilling to fight for the Presidency of the United States, which would have included at least an additional four Republican Senators, two in Georgia, one in Michigan, one in Arizona, are letting the Dems get away with the greatest Election Hoax in history-a total con job!”

“We are losing our Country! The Democrats are vicious and fight like hell, and the Republicans do nothing about it. RINOs fight harder against Republicans than they do against Democrats. They want to be so politically correct, even if that means losing our Country, which is happening now. The evidence on determinative and wide-ranging Election Fraud is staggering. Your Republican Presidential candidate won in a landslide, but has so little backing from Republican ‘leadership.’ They should be ashamed of themselves. Why don’t they have hearings? Or even if just Republicans had open public sessions, we would all hear the irrefutable facts! Remember, the Fake News Media does not report the truth!” – Statement from the Orange Pharaoh.

Purdue University scientists have created a paint so white, it could lead to reduced use of air conditioning because of its heat reflective properties, the Des Moines Register reports.  The white is so white, it’s made the Guinness Book of World Records as the whitest white ever produced.

Purdue researchers were looking to develop a white paint that could reduce the amount of sunlight absorbed by buildings in a way that didn’t require power, thereby lowering the need for air conditioning within the structure.  According to the scientists, The paint reflects 98.1% of solar radiation while also emitting infrared heat.

Researchers believe that if the paint was used to cover a 1,000 square foot roof, it could result in a 10 kilowatt reduction in power usage in the structure, more than consumed by air conditioners in most homes.  “When we started this project about seven years ago, we had saving energy and fighting climate change in mind,” said Xiulin Ruan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue.

In a United Nations address, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared humanity to a petulant 16-year-old — “just old enough to get ourselves into serious trouble”–and that humankind must stop trashing the planet and address climate change, the Associated Press reports.

“We have come to that fateful age when we know roughly how to drive and we know how to unlock the drinks cabinet and to engage in all sorts of activity that is not only potentially embarrassing but also terminal,” Johnson said.  “We believe that someone else will clear up the mess we make, because that is what someone else has always done,” he added. “We trash our habitats again and again with the inductive reasoning that we have got away with it so far, and therefore we will get away with it again.”

Johnson will host a UN climate meeting in Glasgow, Scotland in November when leaders will review the climate crisis worldwide.  Calling the United Kingdom “the Saudi Arabia of wind,” Johnson has led the effort in his nation to have net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

“I’ve spent 18 years active duty service,” former Lt. Col. Doug Hague tells Fox News host and actualized Flintstones character Sean Hannity, explaining why he’s resigning his commission rather than getting the coronavirus vaccine mandated by the military.  “I’ve got two years until I’m eligible to pull my retirement, um, but I’m, I don’t want the COVID vaccine and, uh, I don’t plan on getting it.  But I’ve had all the other, um, Army vaccines.  I’ve had eight anthrax shot.  I’ve had the smallpox vaccination.  I’ve had ’em all, s-so it’s really not about if I’ll get the shot, but this is really about, um, the freedom of the American people, the right to choose your own medical procedures, the right to decide, y’know, what’s gonna be, uh, injected into your, your body and what’s not.  Those are, um, that’s a natural human right, y’know we can’t take away from people.”

To recap:  the guy who got eight anthrax shots won’t get the coronavirus vaccine mandated by the military (to which you give control of your body when you enlist) because something something civilians something freedom.

“Trump’s lawyers told a federal court tonight that Twitter’s forum-selection agreement — which requires that he sue the company in California (not Florida, where he sued) — does not apply to him ‘as the 45th President of the United States.’ … Trump’s argument seems to be that his Twitter account was actually operated on behalf of the government, inasmuch as he made announcements about policy. And Twitter’s TOS don’t apply to government entities that cannot accept venue limitations. … But if the court accepts the argument that Trump’s Twitter account became a thing operated by and for the U.S. government, that would seem to open up the big question of why Trump, a private citizen, would have standing to sue over it.” —Brad Heath of Reuters

Saying that Ohio State University failed the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of a doctor for sports teams and “today, legal system also fails [the] Plaintiffs,” a federal judge on Wednesday dismissed dozens of lawsuits against the university because the statute of limitations for the claims has expired, the Associated Press reports.

Ohio State has settled hundreds of cases brought by the male victims of sexual assault by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss when he was affiliated with the school from 1979 to 2018.  The allegations against Strauss have led to claims that Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, an assistant coach for the school’s wrestling team from 1987 to 1995, knew about the abuse and ignored the plight of the students.

“For decades, many at Ohio State tasked with protecting and training students and young athletes instead turned a blind eye to Strauss’s exploitation,” U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson wrote in one ruling. “From 1979 to 2018, Ohio State utterly failed these victims. Plaintiffs beseech this Court to hold Ohio State accountable, but today, the legal system also fails Plaintiffs.”

“This is a simple meme you would find on the internet but this meme is very real,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) claims pointing to a taxpayer-paid enlargement of a cartoon character.

The Trump Unity Bridge, a 30-foot long parade float, was involved in a three-car accident in Flint, Michigan, with the privately-owned former ambulance hauling it crashing into a light pole, MLive reports.  The display, owned by Livonia resident Rob Cortis, features slogans affiliated with Donald Trump such as “All Lives Matter,” “Build the Wall,” and “Keeping America Great.”  Cortis said he was involved in the crash while returning from a protest against masks in schools.  No one was seriously hurt in the crash.

A third dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a booster for elderly patients and those with existing health conditions and other severe illnesses, NBC News reports.

Boosters are recommended to be administered at least six months after the patient received the second dose of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine regimen.  An advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is holding a two-day meeting during which they will decide what conditions qualifies for the recommended third dose.

Known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the CDC panel will provide final approval for the booster shot.  An FDA panel last week declined to approve a general rule for booster shots for all people currently qualified for vaccines, those 12 years old and older because of a lack of clinical data, but it did approve Pfizer boosters for those 65 and older.

The French government has promised to restore its ambassador to the United States after President Joe Biden phoned French President Emmanuel Macron Wednesday afternoon to address French concerns about an Australian submarine program, the Associated Press reports.

The United States entered into an agreement with Australia to build new nuclear submarines for the Australian navy as part of an Indo-Pacific defense pact with Britain.  The arrangement prompted the Australian government to cancel a previous deal with France to build diesel-electric submarines, a contract worth billions.

Biden talked to Macron to reinforce the alliance between their two nations, the longest-held alliance in American history.  After the half-hour call, the White House released a photo of Biden smiling during the conversation and called the call “friendly.”

Just had a great meeting with Mini Mike to discuss the importance of protecting the 2nd Amendment! pic.twitter.com/UEA7XotiV8

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 22, 2021

A new monument dedicated to the abolition of slavery was dedicated in Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday, CNN reports. The 12 foot tall bronze statue depicts a Black Virginian family celebrating their liberation from being treated like farm animals by the ideological forebears (and often the actual ancestors) of members of the modern Republican Party. The site of the new Emancipation and Freedom Monument is roughly two miles away from where the Robert E Lee participation trophy stood until recently. Why the new monument was not placed at former Lee site or what the city’s plans are for it was not elaborated upon in CNN’s article, so we’ll keep an eye out for any updates. The Lee statue itself was scrapped and its parts mothballed at a Virginia women’s prison.