Democratic Governor Roy Cooper (NC) has declared a “State of Emergency” because the GOP-led legislature is about to pass school choice amongst other conservative measures that fight back against radical emergency.

What exactly does a “state of emergency” over public education entail? It’s unclear, but Cooper thought it enough of a crisis to give a press conference and run this banner across governor.nc.gov:

https://t.co/8Wp6Cp1jwJ right now: pic.twitter.com/qaJ0Sdbqli

— Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) May 22, 2023

“It’s clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education. I’m declaring this a state of emergency because you need to know what’s happening. If you care about public schools in North Carolina, it’s time to take immediate action and tell them to stop the damage that will set back our schools for a generation,” Cooper said in a press release.

Last week, the North Carolina bill passed a bill that would expand private school vouchers by $400 million, according to WRAL News.

As explained by bill sponsor Representative Tricia Cotham (R-Mecklenberg), all this bill would do is allow parents to send a child to the school that best fits their needs.

“Maybe a kid says they hate school,” Cotham told WRAL. “It’s just not the place, maybe the school is too large, maybe it’s the type of curriculum, maybe they have dyslexia and need another location for them. So this would give families, parents, the opportunity because they know their child the best to say where their child should go to school.”

Many states have similar voucher programs — and a big advocate of those programs is Corey A. DeAngelis.

DeAngelis often proclaims, “Fund students, not systems.”

On Monday, DeAngelis called Cooper a “hypocrite.”

“This hypocrite sent his own kid to a private school,” he tweeted. “We’re freeing families from the clutches of the teachers unions once and for all & there’s nothing he can do about it.”

“We now have a Democrat Governor declaring school choice a ‘State of Emergency,'”  DeAngelis said. “They’re losing control over the minds of other people’s children and they can’t handle it. Good. Cry harder, @RoyCooperNC”

we now have a Democrat Governor declaring school choice a "State of Emergency."

they're losing control over the minds of other people's children and they can't handle it. good.

cry harder, @RoyCooperNC.

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) May 22, 2023

DeAngelis seemed confident that school choice would pass — even in spite of Cooper.

“North Carolina families will get school choice this year and there’s nothing their hypocrite Governor can do about it,” he tweeted.

North Carolina families will get school choice this year and there's nothing their hypocrite Governor can do about it.

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) May 22, 2023

For his part, Cooper’s plan to block the legislation includes encouraging North Carolinians to call their representatives to oppose a slew of proposed bills.

The GOP has a supermajority in the legislature of North Carolina. So, to Democrats, GOP officials using legal authority to enact plans that their voters sent them to the office to enact constitutes an “emergency” that requires an official declaration.

That sums it all up. Any person, political body, or media outlet that threatens Democrats’ power is treated as an extreme danger that must be thwarted. The North Carolina GOP should wear this declaration as a badge of honor.

The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

President Joe Biden is moving closer to allowing Ukraine to have F-16 fighter jets, an about-face after pushing off similar requests earlier this year.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked the United States and Europe for months to supply his besieged military with F-16 fighter jets to counter Russian control of the skies over Ukraine. Biden rejected the request earlier this year, saying that the Ukrainian military did not need the fighter jets at that point. U.S. officials have also considered giving Ukraine fighter jets too escalatory in the war with Russia.

Biden seems to have reconsidered his prior stance, saying over the weekend that he had received assurances from Zelensky that, should Ukraine receive F-16s, the jets would not be used over Russian soil. Zelensky promised that the fighter jets would be used “wherever Russian troops are within Ukraine and the area,” Biden said, according to Reuters.

On Friday, Biden said that Ukrainian pilots could train on how to operate the American fighter jet in the U.S. — Biden’s change of mind came less than a week after the U.K. gave Ukraine a similar offer.

The U.S. has held out on approving F-16s for Ukraine against lobbying from Ukraine as well as European countries that support the idea. The United States is not the only country with F-16s, but because other countries received their jets from the United States, giving Ukraine the planes requires U.S. approval.

Moscow has warned against providing Ukraine F-16s, saying that such escalation would be a “colossal risk.”

“We see that western countries are still adhering to the escalation scenario. It involves colossal risks for themselves. In any case, this will be taken into account in all our plans, and we have all the necessary means to achieve the goals we have set,” said Alexander Grushko, Russia’s deputy foreign minister.

Following Biden’s decision to allow Ukrainian pilots to train on the F-16 in the United States, Zelensky issued a statement thanking the U.S. president.

“I welcome the historic decision of the United States and @POTUS to support an international fighter jet coalition. This will greatly enhance our army in the sky,” Zelensky said on Twitter.

I welcome the historic decision of the United States and @POTUS to support an international fighter jet coalition. This will greatly enhance our army in the sky. I count on discussing the practical implementation of this decision at the #G7 summit in Hiroshima.

— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) May 19, 2023

Russia claimed to have captured the Eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut over the weekend, the site of some of the heaviest combat of the Ukraine-Russia war. Ukrainian Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy appeared to confirm the reports from Russia until Zelensky later denied the reports at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

On Monday, Russia said that a group of Ukrainian commandos crossed into Russian territory in its Belgorod region. Ukraine said the force was acting independently and did not enter Russian territory on orders from Kiev, according to The Wall Street Journal.