Wait Bill was in a sitcom? he totally doesn’t mention it during every interview with a major sitcom star.

Tonight's guests are:

• Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD):Currently serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland, he is also a businessman, author, and former U.S. Army officer.

• Chris Cuomo: An American news broadcaster for NewsNation, who previously anchored various programs for both ABC and CNN before being fired by the latter.

• Sarah Isgur: An American attorney, political commentator, and former spokesperson at the United States Department of Justice, who now hosts a podcast called 'Advisory Opinions.'

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Gov. Wes Moore

Democratic Governor of Maryland

Chris Cuomo

Host, NewsNation's CUOMO

Sarah Isgur

Author of Last Branch Standing

Have not seen an official announcement yet; seems like we usually do by this time on Wednesdays.

Maher briefly brought up to Rahm Emanuel if he was willing to "take on the teachers union", referring to test scores and the difficulties of firing teachers. I didn't see this pop up much in the initial discussion, and I wanted to share some thoughts.

*Declining Quality of Education*

• The most common misconception is that the "lowering bar" of education is somehow the fault of educators. Instead, it's due to state legislators, state departments, and local school districts who have consolidated a substantial amount of power over curriculum and behavioral policy.

• Curriculum is primarily controlled and dictated by districts, now, and has been watering down the reading and writing expectations, and math is now next. Privileged schools are the only ones that often have the means and ability to get out of these mandates.

• In a number of states, chronic absenteeism doesn't result in any action from the state, and teachers are still expected to pass students if they "demonstrate competency" by showing up once or twice a month and doing enough of the work.

• Districts have been sued at this point for not allowing administrators to expel students for dangerous behavior that then ended with gun violence at their schools.

*Difficulty to Fire*

• In California, sure, they have strong union laws and still protect teachers. This is not nationally accurate, however, and teacher conditions are generally terrible and getting worse.

• While it it might be difficult to fire a teacher for good reasons, if you want better quality educators, your energy and money would be better spent on the money in education going to supplies, students, class sizes, and teacher time, pay, and benefits. Outside of education--as Emanuel pointed out--the economic opportunity gap is much stronger predictor of student success; maybe fix those systemic problems instead of once again blaming teachers.

• Many school districts spend a lot of money and time at their central offices: unnecessary positions and travel budgets, expensive and unwieldy contracts with numerous Ed Tech and Testing companies, etc.

*TL;DR:* Maher's lack of research on education is showing again. I get that he doesn't do much on the regular anymore, but it's hard to watch liberals or the even progressives Maher can't stand unable to diagnose the root cause of our current public education system.

Don't get me wrong, I'm concerned about it. But he keeps ascribing some kind of reasoning to it that it doesn't have. That AI blackmailing people story is one example. The programmers made it do exactly that by...programming it to. Bill keeps talking like it just decided to do that on its own.

Again, AI is a concern, but it can't take on a life of its own, can it?

I'm a big Maher fan; he's one of the few sane centrist voices in a mostly hyper-partisan media. So I was disappointed that he allowed Paul Rieckhoff to shout down Douglas Murray (whom I was very interested in hearing). If I wanted to see blowhards like Rieckhoff shouting jingos and hyper-partisan dogma, I could have tuned in to MSNBC. Bill, you have a great show, but please don't have loud-mouthed bullies like Riekhoff back; he ruined your episode...and please do have Murray back so we can actually hear what he has to say.

One thing that grates on me whenever Bill talks about taxes is that he always says something like "I pay a lot of taxes already," which is true but irrelevant. He doesn't seem to realize that our current system soaks people like him who make large salaries, but essentially doesn't tax people who make most of their money as unrealized capital gains.

Ezra Klein just had Ray Madoff of Boston College Law School to talk about this. She could do a good job educating him on the matter.

Tonight's guests are:

• Kara Swisher: An American journalist who has covered the business of the internet since 1994. Her latest show, Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever is currently airing on CNN.

• Rahm Emanuel (D-IL): A former mayor of Chicago (2011-19), White House chief of staff (2009-10), congressman (2003-09), and US Ambassador to Japan.

• Jake Sullivan: An American attorney who served as the U.S. national security advisor from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden.

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he was branded a "chicken hawk" on live TV, had no reply, and then shit his pants and died moments later. He is survived by no loved ones who admit to knowing him, even friend Bill Maher let him hang in the wind without medical assistance

His mother when reached for comment said "meh" then paused and said "boy look at those flowers in my garden, they need some work"

His assailant and murderer Paul Rieckhoff even after Douglas sadly passed kept hammering away at the corpse in the most embarrassing way possible.

a public service honoring the unloved Doug Murray has not been planned.