ABC’s The View had a rare moment of actual debate on Wednesday as they clashed over school choice, with anti-Trump Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin getting into a contentious sparing matching with co-host Sunny Hostin about the effectiveness of school choice programs. Farah Griffin even called out Hostin’s hypocrisy in opposing the programs because her family sent her to a prestigious private school in Manhattan. Hostin obnoxiously parroted unnamed studies she claimed proved that voucher and other school choice systems didn’t work. Despite insisting “I’m not making this up,” she refused to share the sources she was citing: HOSTIN: And what happens with vouchers, the studies show very clearly that they fund students who are already attending private schools. So people with money, get those vouchers, use the vouchers to pay less for their private schools, and their kids go on to do well. Where do you get the money from vouchers? You pull those money from the poor schools. Those poor schools ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I don't see it -- HOSTIN: Let me just finish this. So, wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school voucher tax credits. I’m not making this up. This has been studied. FARAH GRIFFIN: Who’s that cited? Who’s the study – HOSTIN: In a 2020 – A 2020 study found that only about half of states with voucher programs required teachers to have a bachelor's degree, required teachers to have training, required teachers to have licensing. “If I may get in to make it a conversation,” Farah Griffin shot back because Hostin kept trying to dominate the conversation. Hostin tried to use her status as a mother as a cudgel in an attempt to shut Farah Griffin up; telling her to “wait because I have children and because I looked at private schools.” Seemingly fed up with Hostin’s arrogance, Farah Griffin called out her hypocrisy. “I went to public school. I believe you had to go to private school. You got to go to private school,” she jabbed.     The sniping back and forth occurred during heated crosstalk that was so chaotic that moderator Whoopi Goldberg had to shut it down and send the show to a commercial break. “Because no one can figure out what's being said here! There is no last thing right now! We're going to go to break and then we're going to come back,” she declared. Following the commercial break and Joy Behar’s meltdown about President-elect Trump, Farah Griffin dropped some truth bombs about the effectiveness of a school choice program she worked on when she was a staffer on Capitol Hill and the support for such programs nationwide: I personally worked on the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program when I was working in Congress. And that program alone, which is a charter school system, it experienced a 21 percent increase in graduation rates. There are conflicting statistics but according to Morning Consult, the majority of Americans support health savings account vouchers and the taxpayer money following the students. It is my belief as somebody who grew up in the public school system, believes in it and was grateful to be in a good school district. If you're in a school that’s falling behind and your parent wants to give you the opportunity to get a leg up your tax dollars should follow you. “But see, you went to a good school. I wasn’t in a good school district. That's the inequity,” Hostin argued. But Hostin was being misleading about her schooling and where she lived. According to a feature published in Westchester magazine, Hostin only lived and went to school in the Bronx for a few years in her early life. “Born Asunción Cummings, Hostin lived in the Bronx until she was 8 years old, when her family moved to Stuyvesant Town because ‘my parents then felt that I’d have a better life in Manhattan,’” Laurie Yarnell wrote. Stuy Town, as it’s known, is a very well-off, private neighborhood in the East Village. Hostin’s own website admits she “graduated from the Upper East Side’s prestigious Dominican Academy at 16.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View November 20, 2024 11:08:41 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: And what happens with vouchers, the studies show very clearly that they fund students who are already attending private schools. So people with money, get those vouchers, use the vouchers to pay less for their private schools, and their kids go on to do well. Where do you get the money from vouchers? You pull those money from the poor schools. Those poor schools ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I don't see it -- HOSTIN: Let me just finish this. So, wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school voucher tax credits. I’m not making this up. This has been studied. FARAH GRIFFIN: Who’s that cited? Who’s the study – HOSTIN: In a 2020 – A 2020 study found that only about half of states with voucher programs required teachers to have a bachelor's degree, required teachers to have training, required teachers to have licensing. FARAH GRIFFIN: So, that's just not my experience. HOSTIN: Required participating schools FARAH GRIFFIN: If I may get in to make it a conversation. HOSTIN: Wait, because I have children and because I looked at private schools. JOY BEHAR: Oh, is that what this is? FARAH GRIFFIN: I went to public school. I believe you had to go to private school. HOSTIN: There are zero statistics - FARAH GRIFFIN: You got to go to private school. [Crosstalk] WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Because no one can figure out what's being said here! HOSTIN: One last thing. GOLDBERG: There is no last thing right now! We're going to go to break and then we're going to come back. HOSTIN: Yes. GOLDBERG: You can't -- what's happening is no one can hear anything anyone is saying so everybody has -- FARAH GRIFFIN: [Inaudible] so we can talk. GOLDBERG: Well, you know. JOY BEHAR: Well, that goes for you, too. FARAH GRIFFIN: I haven’t gotten a word in. She's been talking for three minutes. HOSTIN: You talked the first three minutes. [Goes to a commercial break] (…) 11:16:45 a.m. Eastern FARAH GRIFFIN: I personally worked on the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program when I was working in Congress. And that program alone, which is a charter school system, it experienced a 21 percent increase in graduation rates. There are conflicting statistics but according to Morning Consult, the majority of Americans support health savings account vouchers and the taxpayer money following the students. It is my belief as somebody who grew up in the public school system, believes in it and was grateful to be in a good school district. If you're in a school that’s falling behind and your parent wants to give you the opportunity to get a leg up your tax dollars should follow you. [Crosstalk] SARA HAINES: One question Alyssa cause you’re a school charter person. This is the part I don't understand. Doesn't it come down less to the result and more the choice of the par – isn't the fight for the parents to say they choose it? Is that what most people are supporting? HOSTIN: No. FARAH GRIFFIN: It's simply a parent should be able to make the best choice for their student. But I also think that there are schools that are falling behind. It doesn't mean they don't deserve education but I don’t think students should be victims of the falling behind at school. Their life is at stake is at stake in it, their future, their earning potential. [Crosstalk] BEHAR: Let Whoopi talk. HOSTIN: But see, you went to a good school. I wasn’t in a good school district. That's the inequity. FARAH GRIFFIN: Where did you go to school? HOSTIN: In the south – I had to start school in the South Bronx Projects. BEHAR: Just jump in Whoopi. FARAH GRIFFIN: But didn't you get to go to a private school? HOSTIN: Yes. GOLDBERG: Here's what's interesting right now. [Crosstalk] FARAH GRIFFIN: And look at how good. You’re an example-- GOLDBERG: Because – Don't make me shut this bad boy down again! (…)

Within a year, there will be more than 1,500 new members of New York's Finest, thanks to an influx in funds that were previously intended to address the immigrant crisis, the New York Post reported.The next two classes of NYPD officers — set to graduate in January and April 2025, respectively — had been nixed last year amid major budget cuts meant to help address the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring into the city. Now, with more than $100 million restored to NYPD coffers, those two classes have been reinstated, meaning that 1,600 rookie cops will be out on the streets by next October, according to the Post, citing sources in City Hall.'We're making even MORE investments to public safety, affordability, and livability for working-class New Yorkers.'On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams (D) basically confirmed that report during a press conference to discuss the new budget cycle."The November plan adds two police academy classes, which will put 1,600 new officers on our streets by October 2025, increasing our uniformed force to nearly 34,000, getting back and reaching our goal of 35,000 officers patrolling our streets," Adams said at the press conference."That's a lot of officers," he continued, "who alongside all the civilian employees of the NYPD work day in and day out to keep us safe."The X post with a livestream of the press conference included the message: "We're making even MORE investments to public safety, affordability, and livability for working-class New Yorkers." — (@) During the press conference, Adams celebrated the reduced cost of addressing the immigrant crisis. According to a press release from his office, the city will save nearly $500 million over the next two fiscal years "primarily due to lower-than-expected number of asylum seekers entering the city's care since July 2024."Earlier this month — just days after President-elect Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris, largely on account of the border crisis — New York City decided to end a program which provided thousands of immigrants living at the Roosevelt Hotel with prepaid debit cards in lieu of boxed meals. One of the main reasons cited for ending the program was the dwindling number of new arrivals.Likewise during the press conference on Wednesday, Adams announced the appointment of Jessica Tisch as the new NYPD commissioner and referenced an officer who was shot in Queens on Tuesday night.Officer Rich Wong, a seven-year veteran of the force, was wounded during a shootout with a violent suspect who had reportedly committed several armed robberies in the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica. During the shootout, the suspect, 57-year-old Gary Worthy, managed to shoot Wong in the thigh. Wong returned fire, fatally striking Worthy in the face.Thankfully, Wong has already been discharged from the hospital. An innocent bystander was also wounded in the incident but is expected to survive, the Post reported.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An elderly Massachusetts woman was mauled to death by her own dog, according to investigators. The Boston woman's husband and two police officers also were injured in the dog attack. Jeriline Brady-McGinnis — a 73-year-old from Roxbury — was attacked by her own pit bull in her home around 4:30 p.m. Monday.'She’s very close to her animals, almost like children ...'Investigators said the dog also attacked the victim's husband as he tried to save her, plus two Boston police officers responding to the pit bull attack. All four were rushed to a local hospital. However, Brady-McGinnis allegedly died in surgery.WFXT-TV reported that a pit bull named Deuce mauled Brady-McGinnis to death. The officers and the husband suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.Once the officers were attacked, another cop shot at the pit bull, according to WFXT. The outlet obtained surveillance video allegedly showing three shots being fired when police arrived on the scene.The dog was transported to Angell Animal Medical Center for treatment. But due to "his worsening condition and poor prognosis," officials decided to euthanize the dog, according to Boston Animal Control.Brady-McGinnis allegedly owned four dogs. The three other dogs reportedly were removed from the home. Neighbors told WBZ-TV they were scared of the dogs. WBZ-TV spoke to Jean McGuire — the landlord and close friend of Brady-McGinnis."She’s very close to her animals, almost like children, I think,” McGuire said. "She took good care of them. She walked them every day."McGuire — a 93-year-old civil rights pioneer and the first black woman elected to the Boston School Committee — said Brady-McGinnis was like a "sister" to her. “She’s a wonderful person. A very generous, a very loving person. Loved animals,” McGuire said of McGinnis. “I’ve lost my sister. She’s a sister.”The family of Brady-McGinnis remembered the elderly victim as having a "heart of gold."Brady-McGinnis' three children — Chris, Ronald, and Donald — told WBZ, "Our mother was a loving and caring mother. She put her children first. … The heart and soul of our family is gone."The family said Brady-McGinnis cooked dinner for her dogs every night.The Boston Police Department's Homicide Unit reportedly is investigating the dog attack. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here.

When the U.S. government sent the Tsukamoto family to an incarceration camp in 1942, one neighbor stepped up to save the farms they left behind, giving them something to come home to

Snowflake Capital of Social Media: Babylon Bee's Time on Bluesky Is Going EXACTLY As You'd Expect

Reports Leave Something Out of Headlines About Laken Riley's Killer (You Don't Despise Media Enough)

Absolutely DELUSIONAL Aaron Rupar Says Kamala Harris Didn't Campaign on Identity Politics (Seriously?!)

Nice of CBS to FINALLY Admit the Truth About How Laken's Former Classmates Feel After Her Murder

With so many players jumping into Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, people are bound to find issues. Quality Assurance departments put in hundreds of hours to find every issue they can, but nothing compares to thousands of fans all playing at once. QA can only do so much.

As of November 20th at 3:43 PM EST, Reddit is experiencing a significant outage, with over 47,000 user reports on Downdetector.com. When attempting to access the platform, users are encountering the error message: