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America is something else, man. No way they appointed an actor to a government position. I’ve never seen a country that is this open to people from different professional backgrounds. Does anyone know how the public is reacting to this? Are people generally supportive or against the decision?

Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education. The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her. MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school." HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities." MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one." HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad." MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better." HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia." MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—" HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period." MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue." HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time." MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW." ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW." MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one." CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test. And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500. Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power. A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws. If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."

Democrats ran ads about ICE in the primary, but dropped them for the general election:

Haití 🇭🇹 agradeciendo a Bukele por su intervención con las pandillas.

Los Haitianos en las calles gritan “¡Viva Bukele!” en agradecimiento por liberarlos de las peligrosas pandillas que azotan al país. 🇸🇻🇭🇹 Mientras otros mandan discursos y misiones que no funcionan, Bukele mandó soldados y helicópteros contra las pandillas. Resultado: el pueblo haitiano lo celebra en la calle.

Ambassador Massinga underscored U.S. support for @EthioHRC’s detailed, transparent reporting on recent killings in Arsi and its efforts to facilitate prisoner releases earlier this year during discussions today with Commissioner Berhanu Adello.   The United States looks forward to EHRC’s continued work alongside the Ethiopian Government, particularly in conflict-affected areas like Tigray, to advance economic recovery, institution-building, restoration of judicial systems, democracy, and social reintegration.

"Mr. President, I want you to hear from Florida that we are still red." Byron Donalds gives a speech after winning Florida's gubernatorial race.

Jasmine Crockett used to think Republicans were the racists. Then she ran against a Democrat. She expected Republicans to spend millions on attack ads against her, but admits “their ads were fair.” What she didn’t expect was that the racist ones “were coming from the super PAC on behalf of [James Talarico].” The Left always accuses you of what they’re doing themselves.

Eritrea’s regime under Isaias Afwerki has gone far beyond ordinary repression. Reports describe people locked inside metal shipping containers in the desert heat and left there to die. It is one of the most extreme and inhumane forms of cruelty still being practiced.

teapawt.net/_PoliticsAddict/status… Apparently, Washington's missing strategy for the Horn begins with giving Ethiopia a bigger chair and arranging the region around it. This is a rather ludicrous proposition, particularly coming from a desperate PP leadership whose regional ambitions are increasingly exposed and whose once carefully cultivated Ethiopian halo is rapidly fading. External powers have too often mistaken #Ethiopia's manufactured "geopolitical indispensability" for a legitimate mandate to exercise regional primacy... The #Horn of #Africa is not #Ethiopia|s backyard, nor does it need a designated hegemon. It needs sovereign equality, mutual respect and adherence to international law. The Horn of Africa does not suffer from the absence of an Ethiopia-centered American strategy. It suffers from a longstanding tendency among external powers to mistake Ethiopia's demographic weight, geographic size and perceived geopolitical importance for a regional mandate. This persistent miscalculation has reinforced a political culture of exceptionalism in which #Ethiopia's aspirations are too often elevated above the sovereign rights and legitimate interests of its neighbors. #Ethiopia is neither the proprietor of the #Horn of #Africa nor the arbiter of its political, economic and security architecture. Its size does not confer primacy, nor does not establish entitlement; and its national interests cannot acquire precedence over the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states simply because external powers consider it indispensable to their own geopolitical calculations. History has repeatedly demonstrated the folly of elevating Ethiopia's perceived strategic indispensability above the sovereignty and legitimate interests of its neighbors. For decades, successive Ethiopian regimes benefited from a degree of international indulgence rooted in their perceived strategic utility, particularly in the calculations of Western powers. Yet this privileged treatment did not produce a more peaceful or stable neighborhood. On the contrary, the persistent failure to hold #Ethiopian governments to the same standards of international law and responsible state conduct expected of others has contributed to recurring regional insecurity. The current discourse surrounding Ethiopia's quest for #RedSea access illustrates the danger particularly well. Ethiopia's landlocked status is a geographical reality, and its interest in reliable, negotiated commercial access to maritime routes is entirely legitimate. But geography does not create sovereign rights over another country's coastline, ports, islands or territorial waters. Nor can economic aspirations, however important, justify coercion, threats of force or attempts to revise established territorial arrangements. Commercial access is negotiable; sovereignty is not. #Washington should therefore be wary of a policy framework that conflates Ethiopia's national aspirations with the broader strategic interests of the Horn of Africa. Such an approach risks converting a bilateral relationship into an instrument for legitimizing regional hierarchy, while inadvertently rewarding the very conduct that undermines regional stability. It would also send a troubling message to smaller states: that sovereignty and territorial integrity are inviolable in principle, but potentially negotiable when weighed against the strategic preferences of a powerful partner. A credible #American strategy must resist this logic. It should recognize the agency of every state in the region, engage them on the basis of sovereign equality, and reject the notion that regional stability requires a designated hegemon. Ethiopia can be engaged as a regional stakeholder, not elevated into a position of presumed regional entitlement. #Eritrea, #Djibouti, #Somalia, #Sudan and #SouthSudan are not peripheral considerations in an #Ethiopian-centered geopolitical equation; they are sovereign countries whose interests and security are integral to the regional order. Ultimately, #Horn’s stability cannot be engineered through external patronage, geopolitical favoritism or the accommodation of unilateral ambitions. It must rest on respect for internationally recognized borders, non-interference in the internal affairs of states, peaceful settlement of disputes, reciprocal obligations and the unequivocal rejection of the threat or use of force. These are not obstacles to American strategic interests; they are the indispensable foundations of a durable regional order. Washington's missing strategy should therefore begin not with Ethiopia, but with first principles. The question is not how to organize the #Horn around Ethiopia, but how to ensure that Ethiopia, like every other state, operates within an order governed by #sovereignequality, #internationallaw and mutual respect. The #Horn needs partners, not patrons; cooperation, not hierarchy; and a regional order founded on law, not on the presumed entitlement of the strongest...

.@EthMediaAuth suspended @EthioReporter newsapapers, one of the oldest surviving independent media outlet in #Ethiopia indefinitely on allegations of lack of professionalism and etc.

“I too am deeply concerned about recent reports of targeted killings of civilians in Arsi zone, Oromia region, Ethiopia. The United States condemns religious, ethnic, or political motivated violence. Such horrific attacks against any group must stop. The United States calls on the government of Ethiopia to investigate and to bring the perpetrators to justice.” - Ambassador Ervin J. Massinga

#Video_News: PM Abiy’s #Medemer gov’t senior leadership taking ‘military training’ at #Hurso center watch