“An early and ominous sign” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and professor at RIT David Cay Johnston discusses new policy by the Fed starting Dec 10th of unlimited borrowing and cash infusions for big banks. $38 billion was infused over 10 days year-end 2025/early 2026.

On Jan 8th: no gas purchases for 24 hours to signal public resistance against executive overreach. When the U.S. is allowed to escalate abroad without transparent oversight, that precedent doesn’t stay contained, it gets used again #CutTheFuel bit.ly/strikethepump

How solar energy is helping countries keep energy infrastructure intact during conflicts and be independent of outside resources. It is also preventing wars in the first place since many battles are fought over access to fossil fuel resources substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Trump is using the US military as his personal military force and they didn't say no. There was no legal justification or authority for the Joint Chiefs of Staff to order this operation. But he still did it & everyone in Delta Force just followed their orders. We got problems." youtu.be/4M2eRbA-sTU

5 Calls: Stop the Military Escalation with Venezuela (Updated) 5calls.org/issue/trump-...

Two-Session Book Club: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Join us for a two-part discussion on recognizing and resisting authoritarianism, led by Dr. Andrew Stuart Bergerson, historian at UMKC. 🗓 Wednesdays | 6:30–8:00 PM Jan 21st+Feb 18th Registration required: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Those vying to bring TerraPower jobs to their communities might want to cool their enthusiasm long enough to consider the safety and security risks presented by natrium nuclear reactors kansasreflector.com/2025/11/02/h...

Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so. snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

Ready to learn about US history of interference south of the border? Under the Shadow is an amazing investigative podcast series documenting the US endless invasions, occupations, coups and sanctions in Latin America nacla.org/under-the-sh...

Johnson County, KS residents⬇️ Senator Moran - (202)224-6521 Senator Marshall - (202)224-4774 Rep Davids - (202)225-2865 Call and demand action against war. If you are in a different district or on the Missouri side please feel free to post contact info for your senators and reps in the comments.

“Donald Trump has launched an illegal and reckless regime change operation in Venezuela. This act of war violates both U.S. and international law, and follows nearly one hundred extrajudicial killings at sea on Trump’s orders. None of this use of military force has been authorized by Congress."

BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.

Grateful for these brave wonderings. May this wish for the new year be so. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Let 2026 be the start of our collective inhale...

Missouri’s referendum on minimum wage and paid sick leave last year won by a margin of 58 to 42 percent statewide. Under a proposal advanced by the GOP, it would have failed because it didn’t win more than 50 percent in every congressional district.

A special conversation with guests from "Burn Order" to discuss lessons we can learn from the fight against the race-based incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Fort Bliss is once again a vast, hastily constructed incarceration camp and more are being built. youtu.be/7meUE35Jrvk

In the last 2 months the President has pardoned/commuted the sentences of 6 people convicted of of wire and securities fraud and money laundering representing around $1.6 billion in defrauded funds. www.justice.gov/pardon/cleme...

RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH THE LAST 2025 POP UP PROTEST AND INDIVISIBLE KANSAS CITY BRIDGE BRIGADIERS Wednesday, December 31 3:30 – 5pm CST KCMO www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...

Investigation: Learn how this administration’s decision to withhold funding for the World Food Program in Kenya led children to starve and forced thousands of families to make impossible decisions. One of the groups hit hardest by the cuts was pregnant women. www.propublica.org/article/kaku...

ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

One hour for democracy, one bag for the hungry. Meet at 75th & Metcalf this Saturday, Jan 3rd, from 9:30-10:30am, with peanut butter & jelly for Peggy’s Pantry KC. 💙🌻🪧

Repair Cafe and Clothing Swap Saturday Jan 10, 2026 between 10 am and 2 pm at the Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch: ✅ Bikes ✅ Clothing/textiles ✅ Computers ✅ Electronics ✅ Jewelry ✅ Lamps ✅ Small appliances reusefull.org/events/repai...

"Two things can be true: You can be a proud American and want better for your country.” - Nezza ...bravery often feels like fear in the moment www.thebulwark.com/p/defiance-i...

Iowa is among 4 Republican states that have agreed to help the Trump administration gain access to state driver’s license data through a nationwide law enforcement computer network. Building a massive database of U.S. residents - what could go wrong? www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

After seven years of joyful service as a mindfulness and meditation center the Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness is coming to a close, but our community continues on mindfulness-alliance.org/2025/12/28/a...

Day after Christmas sunset and juniper berries

Boots on the Ground Midwest weekly protest at 75th and Metcalf in Overland Park, KS | Saturday 12.27.25 💙🪧🌻 (More photos in comments! ⬇️)

Protecting democracy in Johnson County Kansas on a Saturday after Christmas

"...America, thinking of you, on my rumble home, the anthem I used to sing along to, my hand finding my heart because I was young and yielded to most things. And, still, listen..." - Donika Kelly, excerpt What I Might Sing

We humanize each other.

Feeling overwhelmed by the season? Trade holiday stress for a protest sign. Join us this Saturday, 9:30-10:30am at 75th & Metcalf, and bring cereal to support Peggy’s Pantry KC. 💙🪧🌻

Keep on marching. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch. https://youtu.be/IjiLaLj1ZZE

A recent acquisition of the Nelson Atkins Museum: Until Ex parte Endo (Part 1) by Hank Willis Thomas. The title refers to the 1944 Supreme Court ruling on behalf of Mitsuye Endo making it illegal to detain citizens loyal to the US

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

On the watch list www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The federal government has proposed two new rules that could make it virtually impossible for transgender youth to get the health care they need - I just submitted my public comment and you can too act.hrc.org/page/183931/...

The government is accepting public comment on 2 proposed rules that would severely restrict access to gender affirming care for young Americans. These comments will be supportive of legal challenges aimed at blocking the new rules. Submit a public comment on the regime's new attacks on trans youth.

Moving then and now: "Don't Give Up On Me" with the PS22 Chorus: "And I will hold I′ll hold onto you No matter what this world'll throw It won't shake me loose... ′Cause I'm not givin′ up I'm not givin′ up, givin' up No not yet" youtu.be/KL9qp0FNEzU?...

13-minute segment of the 60-Minutes Special Inside CECOT: Hours before it was set to air, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast substack.com/home/post/p-...

Upstanders - Teenage brothers stepped up to the front lines to help a rapid-response network of volunteers youtu.be/-yKSgM0G1xQ?...

CBS cancelled 60-Minutes report but this 11 minute PBS Frontline + Propublica documentary is well worth your time youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...

"While some states have passed protections above those set by courts because of how easily police can coerce students into false confessions and wrongful convictions, Kansas is not among those states."

Good nonviolence news: "2025 was not a great year for authoritarians... In surprising contrast to many global movements, the anti-authoritarian struggle in the United States is decidedly multi-generational." nonviolencenews.org/2025/12/21/u...

SANTA IS WITH US! Neighborhood pop-up protest: Merry Resistmas Protest and IKC Bridge Brigadiers - bring your signs to promote democracy and fight fascism! 3:30 TO 5:30 pm Tuesday Dec. 23rd on the 15th and Walnut Bridge over 670 in downtown Kansas City www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...

Community for Deepening Practice Free New Years Retreat and Gratitude Gathering Friday, Jan. 2, 3–7 p.m. Pacific Saturday, Jan. 3, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Pacific Attend one or both 4-hour sessions us5.campaign-archive.com?e=[UNIQID]&u...

The stage of authoritarianism where people are turning each other in has begun - fortunately charges were dropped www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Kansas Department of Health and Environment is providing a public comment period for the Statements of Basis submitted for 12 sites within the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. Written comments will be accepted from December 18, 2025, to January 18, 2026. www.kdhe.ks.gov/m/newsflash/...

"It was a week. We have long since crossed the rubicon of constitutional and democratic crisis, and still last week seemed remarkable and uniquely chilling. We must not become numb to it." The great @sifill.bsky.social is especially great here. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...