Another sign Hochul is destroying New York. She has taken NY off a cliff. She will continue to graduate illiterates.
.@KathyHochul and Albany just killed the Regents exam requirement.
Starting in 2028, kids can graduate without passing a single standardized test, one of the only real checks we have on whether students are actually learning what they need to know.
Now districts will be able to set their own standards and grade their own students. That means less accountability and a greater chance that kids get pushed through the system without being prepared for college, a career, or life after graduation.
That should concern every parent in New York.
We already spend about $41,000 per student. Our kids deserve better than politicians lowering expectations and pretending the problem is solved.
If Kathy Hochul really cared about our kids, she would be fighting to make our schools better, not making it easier to hide when they fail them.
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Much appreciation to the State of Israel and the IDF for bringing justice to the Hamas terrorist that abducted the body of New Yorker Omer Neutra, who was killed on October 7. I welcome @KathyHochul and @ZohranKMamdani to join me in thanking Israel for bringing Omer’s killer to justice. Omer was an American from Nassau County, and his murder struck close to home for all of us.
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Every time you pay your electric bill, Albany takes a cut and funnels it into NYSERDA’s Climate Investment Account.
Now, including utility escrow accounts, nearly $3 BILLION of ratepayer money is sitting there, $2.05 billion at NYSERDA and another $770 million in utility escrow.
Meanwhile, NYSERDA spent $83.1 million on salaries and benefits in a single year.
That’s roughly $400 for every New York ratepayer sitting in these accounts while families struggle with some of the highest energy costs in America.
Enough.
I’m demanding a full, independent forensic audit of these funds, every dollar collected, every dollar spent, every contract, every payroll expense, and every dollar still sitting in an account.
Then return any unnecessary surplus to the people who paid it.
@KathyHochul: New Yorkers aren’t your piggy bank.
Give ratepayers their damn money back.
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Downtown number 6 platform has four homeless sleepers. Stench is po we earful. #MTA
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The Hudson Valley deserves answers.
Cait Conley says, “We need data centers,” while she’s been paid more than $328,000 by two AI companies.
Who is she really fighting for—the families of the Hudson Valley or the companies cutting her checks?
I’ll always stand with our communities.
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Mary Anne Marks, Harvard’s valedictorian in 2010, is now a Catholic nun with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is remembered for delivering her Harvard commencement address entirely in Latin.
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Bill Clinton says he authorized the CIA to take out bin Laden when they had him in their sights in February 1999 -- but the CIA killed the operation.
Guess who was CIA director? George Tenet.
Guess who he met in Saudi Arabia who advised him not to go ahead? John Brennan, then station chief in Riyadh, soon to be Tenet's chief of staff.
"I was mad [on 9/11] because we tried to get him before, and the CIA at the last minute killed the plan that I think might well have succeeded,” Clinton said.
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has reportedly admitted in closed-door conversations that Iran is in a desperate situation, saying U.S. economic pressure is working, the currency is collapsing, inflation is high, money is running out and the regime is increasingly struggling to control the population.
Ghalibaf is quoted as making an extraordinary admission while discussing the regime’s financial crisis: “We all stole billions, but we can no longer keep the people under control for much longer.”
According to an exclusive Channel 14 report citing sources close to Ghalibaf, he reached the conclusion after discussions with Iran’s central bank governor, government ministers and Revolutionary Guards officials that “Iran cannot survive like this much longer.” He reportedly believes damage from the war is now almost impossible to repair.
According to the sources, Ghalibaf believes Iran has effectively lost control of the Strait of Hormuz and has almost no meaningful bargaining chips left against Washington. He reportedly hopes any renewed confrontation would come closer to the U.S. midterm elections, calculating that Donald Trump could lose control of Congress, become politically weaker and eventually be forced back to negotiations.
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🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Seattle after a 21-year-old who was SH0T 3 TIMES trying to STOP A ROBBERY walked 2 blocks BLEEDING TO DE*TH, begging for help...
...and a 7-Eleven LOCKED THE DOORS on him and people stood around FILMING him instead of helping.
He had to TEXT 911 by himself, alone.
Yes, you read that right... ZERO bystanders helped him and he had doors locked in his face while he was bleeding to DE*TH!!!
His name is Matthew Lanske, he's a construction worker in Seattle.
Last Saturday night, he and his friends had just finished dinner in Belltown when they walked into one of those "street takeovers."
His family says a man and two women tried to rob one of Matthew's friends at gunpoint.
Matthew tried to stop the gunman and for his trouble, he was SH0T THREE TIMES.
Twice in the stomach and a third bullet shattered his pelvis and tore through a major artery.
He should have passed away right there on the sidewalk.
Instead, this man got up and WALKED two blocks while bleeding out.
He was begging for people to help him, no one did.
He made it to a 7-Eleven and they locked the doors in his face:
Later he said he told his mother:
"Mom, they wouldn't let me in. They locked the doors. I begged them to let me, and there was so much blood coming out of my stomach, I thought I was going to die."
His mother's said that he begged BYSTANDERS for help and instead... they filmed him:
"While my son was fighting for his life, people were standing around filming him, taking pictures instead of helping him."
So Matthew sat down on the ground, alone, and did the only thing left.
He texted 911 and then he texted his girlfriend.
Police eventually found him... he has spent 2 days on life support.
He has had two surgeries so far and has two more to go.
It'll be MONTHS before he can work again.
Please pray for Matthew... you won't hear his story in the mainstream media, it doesn't fit the narrative.
Oh, and not a single person has been arrested...
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!
Lindsay Clancy juror says the mostly-female jury viewed the case as an important opportunity to advance feminism: “We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…”
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I am beyond humbled by endorsement from New Castle Town Councilwoman Ally Chemtob, a registered Democrat who has served on the Town Board for the past five years.
We have been able to work together across the aisle to deliver real results for this district. We are in a moment where moral clarity is needed now more than ever, when people have to stand tall and make clear who they stand with. I will always stand with the Jewish community throughout my district and throughout our country.
I want to thank Ally for her leadership and her courage in crossing the aisle to support me in this election. It shows that she is the type of person who, above all else, cares about serving the community and getting the job done.
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Powerful ad for Michigan’s Senate race featuring the brother of one of the pilots of the planes that was hijacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11.
Share this everywhere.
If Abdul El-Sayed wins his Senate race, America is over and we will be worse than the UK in 3 years.
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Your electric bill is hiding things and so is the Governor.
New York pays 29.49 cents per kilowatt-hour. Texas and Florida pay about half that.
That's a result of years of policy choices in Albany.
Look at where your money actually goes: 43% pays for the wires and poles that bring power to your house. Fair enough.
But another 14% is a hidden property tax on utility equipment, it's baked into your bill, but you'll never see it listed anywhere.
Add in state mandates, surcharges, and sales tax, and by Con Edison's own numbers, taxes and fees eat up nearly a third of what you pay every month.
You're paying for the power. You're also quietly paying Albany's tax bill.
Now @GovKathyHochul wants to hand you a one-time $200 check, 50 days before an election.
It's nice. It's also nowhere near enough. It doesn't touch the hidden tax. It doesn't lower your delivery costs. It doesn't fix New York's reliance on natural gas, which sends prices soaring every winter.
New Yorkers don't need a check right before Election Day. We need our bills fixed, for good.
A Massachusetts family says the state took custody of their teenage daughter after they refused to affirm her as a boy, citing their Catholic faith.
The parents allege a school counselor socially transitioned their daughter without their knowledge, then reported them to the Department of Children and Families.
Now the state has guardianship, and a restraining order prevents the teen's parents and older brother from contacting her.
A judge has temporarily blocked the state from administering high-dose testosterone as the family fights the case. The next court hearing is set for Oct. 29. | @LaurenGreenFox @AmericaNewsroom
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This classless, despicable disrespectful jerk literally walked out early as the names of those lost were being read.
I hugged families today who are still carrying the pain of September 11. I saw children who never got to know the grandparents they lost.
And I was reminded of what New Yorkers are capable of at our very best.
We showed up for strangers. We carried each other through unimaginable pain. We came together as one.
That spirit of unity is worth rekindling today.
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Meet Shelly Kates Headen, a Democrat candidate for NC House.
She hoped for an attack on U.S. soil targeting red states
She should drop out immediately. She doesn’t belong anywhere public office
Psychotic behavior