Kindergarten in the US (at least in some places) has been converted into rigorous training that most children can't handle, and teachers can't bear to make them suffer.

The article talks about "standards" that require this. I am curious where those standards come from. If from government, is it the US government, some state governments, some cities, what?

Biden and Buttigieg keep misrepresenting Medicare for All in order to attack it. This goes well beyond a mere difference of opinion: it is dishonest, and makes them unfit to be president.

Sanders or Warren for president!

*Greta Thunberg: Davos leaders ignored climate activists' demands.*

London thugs will set up face recognition systems on streets, to check the face of each person that passes by.

They say that each system will have a specific list of suspects' faces to look for. However, today's face recognition systems are inaccurate. If a suspect in the list is black, the system is likely to trigger on other blacks who resemble the suspect. The thugs will stop them and identify them, and determine that they are not that suspect. This does not imply they will be allowed to proceed down the street. They could be searched, arrested, whatever.

In effect, these systems can provide an excuse to stop large numbers of people "for cause".

It doesn't go all the way to China, but it takes a big step in that direction.

*Over 200,000 Iraqis protested against the U.S. military presence in their country on Friday, demanding American forces leave.*

The US forces should leave. They are not doing Iraqis any good, now. Having betrayed the Syrian Kurds, they cannot be very effective against PISSI. The Iraqi Army could not face PISSI in 2014, but maybe it has learned how to do so.