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BREAKING: FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON LAUNCHES PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN - LITERALLY AS HIS NEPHEW, JEREMY HUTCHINSON, IS SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON FOR FEDERAL PROGRAM BRIBERY
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-arkansas-state-senator-sentenced-role-bribery-scheme
French President Emmanuel Macron is now travelling around France with his own electric generator as protesting French unions keep cutting off power during his regional visits, a report claims.
Under massive pressure as a result of his controversial pension reforms, Macron is currently undertaking a public-relations blitz in France in the hopes of rallying the general public to his side.
However, his whistle-stop tours of various regions across the country have not been going well, with the President’s visits often being met with protesters noisily banging pots and pans in the hopes of derailing the PR stunt.
To make matters worse, trade unionists with access to the country’s national grid have also taken to cutting the power in areas where Macron is stopping in an effort to cause even further chaos for the head of state.
Such a scheme appears to be working, with French Broadcaster TF1Info reporting the President and his entourage as now bringing along a truck-mounted diesel electric generator when visiting an area, seemingly in an attempt to circumvent the cuts.
The fossil fuel-burning generator was spotted during the President’s latest visit to the town of Vendôme, with one journalist with the broadcaster claiming it was there to “avoid” disruptions that occurred during previous outings. Video footage from the location showed the generator running, and thick power cables running from it to a building the President was visiting.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/26/running-on-fumes-macron-forced-to-travel-with-generator-truck-as-unions-literally-cut-off-his-power/
my mom passed away on feb 2, 2023
so, this will be a difficult mother's day
planning to go to beach with friends/fam that day, stay there all day
my mom was a wonderful mother
i was so blessed to have her as my mom
yes, i know she is in heaven and she is filled with joy
she was a life long democrat, but she voted for Donald Trump in 2020 due mainly to her strong opposition to abortion
On Wednesday, AFT President Randi Weingarten has a lot to answer for when she testifies before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Because of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by Americans for Public Trust, we revealed that in February 2021 Weingarten and her union were not only given an advanced copy of the long-awaited school reopening guidance but were also allowed to make line-by-line edits.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten speaks to the audience at the annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers Friday, July 13, 2018 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ((Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images))
Weingarten will likely try to dodge these facts during her testimony. The fact that she hired a defense attorney has raised eyebrows and suggests she is geared up to evade these credible arguments, but the AFT’s email correspondence made public through our FOIA tells the real story.
The truth is that Weingarten’s AFT dictated CDC policy. Back and forth emails between the AFT and the CDC show the union had a highly inappropriate level of coziness. AFT thanked the supposedly science-based agency “so much for [their] responsiveness to the suggestions made by Randi [Weingarten],” and were a self-described “thought partner” in the shaping of the guidance.
Suggestions offered by Weingarten’s union were adopted nearly verbatim into the final text of the CDC document. Email correspondence further verifies that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the AFT’s suggestions were being worked into the school guidance “with just a few small tweaks.”
Parents were granted just one 30-minute session with Dr. Walensky, while teachers‘ unions had constant and unfettered access, with Weingarten and Walensky even speaking on the phone just days before the guidance was finalized. We may never know what was said on that call, or how much additional pressure was put on the CDC by the AFT, but Weingarten should certainly be asked by committee members the extent to which she successfully influenced policy.
While parents should still be infuriated with the level of access unions were granted, sadly none of this should come as a shock. Teachers unions spent over $40 million to help elect President Biden and liberal candidates in 2020. Well, they got their money’s worth. In a triumph of politics over science, they strongarmed the CDC directly, and American children were needlessly forced to suffer the lasting consequences of remote education.
There is no doubt that an entire generation of students were harmed by the AFT’s crusade against in-person learning. Students lost 35 percent of a standard school year’s worth of learning when they stopped in-person attendance during the pandemic. Even worse, school closures had a detrimental effect on children from the poorest 20 percent of neighborhoods in America and exacerbated education inequality across the nation.
These closures also contributed to “multiple physical and mental health issues and even crises among students at all levels,” and the National Assessment of Educational Progress just found that student test scores declined to their lowest point in two decades following the pandemic. There’s no telling how long it could take students to catch up.
But today, Weingarten must finally answer for her role in playing politics with children’s education.
https://finnoexpert.com/2023/04/26/randi-weingartens-unchecked-cdc-access-harmed-our-kids-education-america-needs-accountability/
no silly, 4/26/1970 is her birthdate