Stoic Thinker

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

Idiot America. This is partly why Trump is so popular. Ignorant people do ignorant things.

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Populists of the left and right unite behind the politics of easy answers Ireland’s president-elect Catherine Connolly caught the anti-establishment tide

Populists of the left and right unite behind the politics of easy answers on.ft.com/4hCPhbl | opinion

Millions must go hungry so a few hundred can have unimaginable wealth. It’s downright evil.

Inflatable Halloween costumes are really more of a long-term investment this year given how effective they are in fighting fascism.

Speaker Johnson officially announces another week off for the House. That means 20 work days in 18 weeks since July 4. The House is currently scheduled to be out the week of Nov. 10. It's not clear if that will change.

Vote. Them. Out. Of. Office.

Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage compared Beppe Severgnini, an Italian journalist, on the power and the fury of two of Europe’s right-wing populist leaders

Before she was in power, Italy’s prime minister was as virulent as the Reform UK leader is being on immigration. But now she has to govern, she has changed her tune

Give me centrists any day. Often, the most extreme are the most dangerous.

What about the rich?

Best treat of the night.

#HappierHAMILLWEEN 🎃 😋

In my life experience, the most ignorant tend to be the most arrogant and the most intolerant.

In the richest country in the world there is food insecurity.

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

“They think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.”

--Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

I'll be on MSNBC's @chrislhayes.bsky.social momentarily!

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

I voted YES on Prop 50 because we cannot let anyone silence the will of the people.

California is fighting fire with fire and standing up for democracy everywhere. Vote yes on Prop 50 by mail or in person on Election Day, this Tuesday, November 4.

Bless This Church For Defying Greg Abbott Dear Humans,

Bless This Church For Defying Greg Abbott
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

The Trump administration engages in concealment and falsification to further their objectives. Does anybody care?

Exit poll suggests Dutch election too close to call, with center-left party slightly ahead An exit poll published immediately after voting ended Wednesday in the Netherlands' general election suggested the result is too close to call, with the center-left D66 narrowly ahead of the far-right party of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders and tough...

An exit poll published after voting ended in the Netherlands’ general election suggested the result is too close to call, with the center-left D66 narrowly ahead of the far-right party of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders and tough coalition talks likely to follow. https://to.pbs.org/4nq2KnZ

Denying climate change and shredding USAID soft power will only heighten anger at US belligerence. US could help but it's not.

They are not protecting Americans. By destroying the ACA, they are committing war on millions of Americans.

Not first degree? He had a history of violence.

Accused of doing the right thing?